1991 Chowan Opener 15
Awards Day honors outstanding students each year
Chowan students received awards for
citizenship, service, academic and ath
letic achievement during Awards Day,
May 7 in the Helms Center.
The 1991 Chowan Annual,
CHOWANOKA, was dedicated to
Warren Sexton, chairman of the
department of social science, who has
been a professor at Chowan since 1959.
Dr. Jerry F. Jackson, president of the
college, presented the awards assisted by
Dr. B. Franklin Lowe Jr., vice president
for academic affairs. Awards included an
engraved plaque or certificate and many
also included scholarships for the fol
lowing year of study.
Gary Wade Robinson, a sophomore
from Aurora, N.C., was named the Best
All Around Student and was also named
Most Outstanding Resident Assistant
(Male).
Richard Dwayne Gibson, sophomore
from Greensboro, N.C., received the
Superior Citizenship Award as voted on
by faculty and staff and presented to
exemplary students. He also was
presented the Alpha Mu Gamma
Foreign Language Award (Spanish) and
was named to the Order of the Silver
Feather, an honorary service order of
outstanding students (five named each
year) at Chowan.
Other students named to the Order of
the Silver Feather were Andrea Kay
Hines, Hillsborough, N.C.; Jill
Derautha Overton, Ahoskie, N.C.;
Charlotte Sophia Pitt, Nassau,
Bahamas; and Reginald Taylor, Princc
George, Va.
Reginald Taylor also rcccivcd the
Superior Citizenship Award. Andrea
Hines also received the award for Most
Outstanding Female Resident Assistant.
The Merit Award was presented to
Susan Joyner Harmon, Aulander, N.C.;
Amy Melissa Underwood, Franklin, Va.
received the Highest Scholastic Average
(Sophomore) Award. Jason Chad Drake,
Ahoskie, N.C. and Stephen Craig
While, Eure, N.C. received the Highest
Scholastic Freshman Awards.
Maria Jose Puente, a student from
Pichincha, Ecuador, captured the In
ternational Student Award.
The Mary Pierce Music Award was
presented to Noriko Otani, from
Hamada, Japan, and Natalie Candice
Taylor, from Eure, N.C. The Fine Arts
DcparUnent also presented music awards
to Kyoko Kikuno, Japan, from
Outstanding Student in the Stage Band
and to Susan Collins Jacobs, Virginia
Beach, Va. who was named Outstanding
Chorus Member.
The Mathematics Award went to
Chak Yan Tong from Hong Kong, and
the Alpa Beta Gamma Award was
presented to Naoya Tsuruoka from
Japan.
John Thurmond Falls, from
Earlysville, Va. was presented the Alpha
Mu Gamma Foreign Language Award
for French. Richard Dwayne Gibson
received the Alpha Mu Gamma Foreign
Language Award for Spanish.
Donald P. Nash, of Abcrden, MS,
was awarded the Bernice Kelly Harris
Creative Writing Scholarship. Alicia
Juanita Dean, from Freeport Bahamas,
was named outstanding Freshman in
English.
Stephen Craig White, Eure, N.C.,
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Professor Warren Sexton was surprised with the dedication of the
yearbook Chowanoka on Awards Day.
received the Raymond Memorial Science
Scholarship. David Tyrone Perry, from
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The Krueger School of Graphic
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