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It pays to check on requirements before transferring
Chowan students James Martin, left,
of Richmond, Va., and Harrison Green
law of Fredericksburg, Va., check cat
alogs of four-year institutions to which
they plan to transfer after completing
work at Chowan. The catalogs are
available in the Admissions Office.
Similar to Daytona
New speedway planned
DALLAS, Tex. (AP) — De
troit financier Lawrence LoPat
in has announced plans to do in
Texas what he s already don-
in Michigan—construct a $6 mil
lion major league-type auto rac
ing facility.
LoPatin, president of the
Michigan International Speed
way, Inc., told a luncheon Tues
day that Texas International
Speedway would be completed
in time for a Texas-size opening
Dec. 7 with a 500 mile grand na
tional championship race.
William France Sr., president
of National Association for
Stock Car Auto Racing, attend
ed a news conference announc
ing the speedway and confirmed
plans for the NASCAR sanc
tioned event.
“Since this will be the final
race of the 1969 NASCAR Grant
National Series, it should cli
max an exciting year of both
driver and manufacturer com
petition and could decide the
1969 champions,' France said.
LoPatin said Texas Interna
tional is negotiating a long term
Students perform
at several
area meetings
By PAULINE ROBINSON
The annual supervisors ban
quet for the Union Camp Corp.,
was held Jan. 31 at Franklin
Armory in Virginia. Paula
Welch, Howard Harrison and
Jack Nelson performed.
The corporation invited the
three students^ to entertain them.
Paula and Jack, as a team,
sang a number of folk songs
accompanying themselves on the
guitar. A very talented piano
player, Howard played for the
banquet.
Chowan s Alumni Chapter met
January 30 for dinner at Cypress
Cool Country Club in Franklin,
Va. The meeting was for or
ganizational purposes and Carl
Wimbish, Alumni Director, gave
a talk on “What Chowan Can
Do for Alumni and What Alum
ni Can Do for Chowan. There
was also a panel discussion with
alumni sponsors and Bonita
Treadway, student representa
tive, on the panel.
Entertainment was provided
by three Chowan students. Bon
ita Treadway and Marsha Alls-
brook sang together accompan
led on the piano by Don Phil
lips.
SPORTS WRITER REPLACED
With the post of sports edi
tor being vacated on the Smoke
Signals staff by Phil Edwards,
a search was made for some
one to fill it. George “Speedy”
Skinner was appointed. George
worked on the paper staff last
semester and is an active mem
ber of Chowan s track team.
agreement with NASCAR that
guarantees the final event of
each Grand National season
would be at the Texas Facility.
LoPatin said 2,600 acres of
land already have been acquired
and actual construction will be
gin in four to six weeks. He said
Michigan International Speed
way had invested $1 million in
the project and woiild be the
principal stockholder.
All forms of auto racing com
petition will be accommodated
on the speedway s four circuits,
including', a two-mile, 18-degree
banked high speed D-shaped
track; a 2.75-mile grand prix
road racing course; an infield
road circuit designed for inter
national driving instruction and
testing; and a fourth road
course of about two miles in
length.
LoPatin said Texas Interna
jtional will have five major rac
ing events each year. He said
two grand national racing events
would be stages, in addition to
the United States Auto Club
races and one Sports Car Club
of America sanctioned event.
“I m sure that with the back
ground these people have, Texas
will wind up with the finest rac
ing facility that can be built,
France said.
LoPatin got Michigan Interna
tional off the ground last Oct. 13
with a 250-mile United States
“T/ic Voice of Chowan”
Volume 2—Number 9 Wednesday. February 5, 1969
Murfreesboro, N. C.
A traumatic spring
Transfer student and his problem
Auto Club race, with an atten
dance of 55,000 at the inaugural.
C. H. Moneypenny, who de
signed the Daytona Internation
al Speedway, has been retained
to design the oval and road cir
cuits for Texas International.
Harvey Harris
resigns post
at Chowan
By PAULINE ROBINSON
Former director of college re
lations, Harvey W. Harris, re
signed and plans to devote full
time to news reporting, free
lance writing and other writing
Harris has been director of
college relations since 1965. He
prepared the “Chowanian’ , a
news and alumni magazine and
also co-ordinated church pulpit
supply speakers. Having won
many national awards for news
features and alumni magazines
he has served as a former news
paper editor and reporter.
A Baptist pastor, Harris also
filled the post as chaplain to
delinquents in Louisville, Ky. He
is a veteran of the Golden Gloves
fighter, and he has written many
dramas, poems, and short stor
ies which have been published.
As of now, no one has been
hired to replace Mr. Harris.
Spanish Club speaker
Marie (iamio, an exchange student from Lima, Peru,
was a recent speaker to the Cliowan College Spanish
Club. Marie is currently studying at Gates County High
School.
By D. H. NICHOLSON
Because Spring can be a rat
her traumatic experience for the
prospective transfer student, it
has been decided that an article
originally written for the Novem
ber 22, 1968 issue of ■ SMOKE
SIGNAL, in part, be re published
in the hope that any student
attempting to transfer to a 4
year school may have some in
formation which will address it
self to one salient question on
his mind; How can I find that
school which will be best for
me?
Since approximately 80 per
cent of our enrollment here at
Chowan College anticipates g&
ing on to four-year schools for
the baccalaureate, to attempt to
crystallize an answer for the
above is to direct ourselves to
some of the problems involved
with transferring.
One subject with which we may
wish to begin, and a subject
probably most important at this
early point in our discussion,
is the necessity of completing
work already started at Chowan
College. When an applicant is
considered for admission to Cho
wan, it is automatically assumed
by the Director of Admissions
and the Admissions Committee
that the prospective student in
tends to pursue work in a cur
riculum which leads to a degree
or a diploma. Of course, whether
or not the new student does this
is primarily his own decision,
however, we, as members of the
faculty and the administration
of Chowan College, strongly re
commend that a student stay in
a program and complete tho
reqtilrehients for the associates
degree before he actually trans
fers. We recommend this because
we know that, increasingly, four
year schools are requiring that
transfer-students from both the
junior colleges and the commun
ity colleges hold the associates
degree before they are admitted
to junior status.
Accordingly, we may see this
as growing trend in the ad
missions offices of the senior
colleges and the universities. For
instance. North Carolina State
University at Raleigh now strong
ly recommends that a transfer
er from a two-year school holds
the associates degree as an add
ed advantage over the transfer
Garrison has
high hopes for
1969 golf team
The 1969 golf team, coached
by Jim Garrison, has the
to win the conference and place
high in team standing in the
nation.
The team, comprised of seven
players, has four returning
They are Alex Phillips of
Va., Tom Pickin of Virginia
Beach, Tom Pickus of Richmond,
and Lewis Tripp from Ayden,
N.C. The team has depth with
freshman Jeff Scholl, J.
C. Sullivan, John Sobito, and
Phillips capable of shooting in
the 70‘s.
The 1967 golf team finished
eighth in the nation at Miami,
Fla. while the 1968 team
ninth in New Mexico. With good
Steady playing this year Coach
Garrison predicted another year
in the top ten.
The 1969 golf team has the
potential to be the best team
ever fielded by Chowan College.
With the additional freshmen
the team should go all the way.
Alex Phillips, an All American
as a freshman, won the honor
by shooting 74 , 73 , 68, and 72
on a par 71 course. He had no
double Bougies and finished
medalist.
There are ten matches
this year five home five away.
Joins Army
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP)
— Eddie Hodges of Hattiesburg,
who gained fame as a Broad
way and motion picture child
star, was sworn into the Army
Thursday night.
er without such a degree ac
complishment. There is also
another emerging advantage of
having the two-year degree,
many four-year schools are be
ginning to consider accepting
“D s in transfer providing the
transferer has an over all “C
on all work attempted. For ex
amples, Radford College in Vir
ginia and Catawba College in
North Carolina will accept “D s
in transfer if the transferer has
an over all “C average on all
work attempted and the as
sociates degree. Although At
lantic Christian and Camp
bell College do not necessarily
require the two-year degree but
recommend it, they do, in fact,
accept “D s providing the pros
pective transfer student has an
over all “C ' average on all work
attempted. For the young ladies
of Chowan, Meredith College of
Raleigh offers some possibilities
along this line. For instance,
Meredith will accept “D's in
transfer providing there is a
“C average on work attempted.
Another interesting point about
Meredith is that students may
repeat courses with only the first
hours attempted counting. In
other words, Meredith is still
using a system with repeat hours
which Chowan discontinued with
its entering freshmen this last
Fall semester.
With the preceding discussion
in mind, one major consideration
of the prospective transfer stu
dent is how he will fair in the
transfer, i. e. will all of his
credits from the first school be
fully accepted by the second?
What will be his status when
he enters? Will he be put on
probation for his first semester
in residence, after which it will
be determined just what credit
he will get for his previous work?
How will he come out on “D
courses? Perhaps the best answer
to any of the above questions
is also the best answer to the
that salient question in every
prospective transfer students
mind. He should write directly
to the admissions officers of the
various colleges and universities
which are of interest to him and
get what information and bul
lentins they may have for mail
ing. In short, only the admissions
officials themselves are in the
best position to speak concern
ing the admissions requirements
of their respective schools.
There is little doubt as to the
high positive correlation between
educational attainment and oc
cupational achievement-from the
point of view of the status of
the job and the amount of in
come it produces. Some type of
college educational experience
has become an absolute prere
quisite for better jobs with
higher incomes. It is, therefore,
essential that every junior col
lege student put himself in the
best possible situation for fur
thering his education. What may
be the “best possible situation
for one person may not be the
best possible situation for some
one else. This is the reason why
the prospective transferer must
keep in close contact with the
various schools to acquire as
many options as he can in order
to be in a position to make a
meaningful decision regarding
his future.
In the next issue of the SMOKE
SIGNAL, we might look at the
following subject; The confiden
tial nature of your records here
at Chowan College. We should
try to answer such questions
as the following'. Just who has
access to your records here at
Chowan College and under what
conditions? What about your re
cords as an aid to employment?
What about your records and
governmental agencies, finance
companies, and other invest!
gating groups or agencies?
please . . don’t run
over my little girl!
(Editor’s Note: A timely bit of news from a
column by Charles Craven known as “Byways
of the news” in the Jan. 30 Raleigh News and
Observer. Each of us should note and remem
ber.)
S Capt. Cecil Price of the Uniformed Division
S of the Raleigh Police Department, the other |
•i;; day got this letter, the author of which is un- jji
known to the officer.
g “Dear Drivers:
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S years old, started to school as usual. She wore ;i|:
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s; sat on the front porch and whined his canine
belief in the folly of education, as she waved j:
jj goodbye, and started off to the hall of learning,
;S “Tonight, we talked about school. She told me ji;
about the girl who sits in front of her—the girl ::|:
jiji with the yellow curls—and the boy across the
jij: aisle who makes funny faces.
Iji: “She told me about her teacher—who has ji;
eyes in the back of her head—and the trees in g
the school yard . . . We talked about a lot of g
jj: things and then we studied spelling, reading,
S arithmetic—and ten to bed. S
S “She’s back there now—back in her room— ;|
ji; sound asleep with ‘Princess Elizabeth’ (that’s
::i; a doll) cuddled in her right arm.
?: “You guys wouldn’t hurt her, would you?
S You see I’m her daddy. When her doll is bro- S
jij; ken, or when her finger is cut, or when her Ji;
g head gets bumped, I can fix it—but when she
starts to school—when she walks across the
>;•: street—then she’s in your hands. :ii|:
S “She’s a nice kid. She can run like a deer
and darts about like a chipmunk. She likes to >:•:
S ride horses, and swim, and hike with me on S
jj: Sunday afternoons. ii:
“But I can't be with her all the time. I have :ii|
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S tion. %
S “So please help me look out for her. Please
jij: drive slowly past the school intersections—and ::j:
vi please remember that children run from behind ;i:|
parked cars. S
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I'll have to take some more math
Harrison S. Greenlaw gets a bit of help from Clifton
S. Collins, director of guidance and counseling, as he
plans for transferring to a senior college following
graduation at Chowan.
Student unrest
is under-estimated
WASHINGTON (AP) — Act
ing President S. I. Haya'kawa of
embattled San Francisco State
College testified today the cur
rent danger to the nation and to
higher education demonstrated
by student unrest “has been
vastly underestimated.
Hayakawa, the linguistic
scholar who took over the riot
rocked San Francisco campus
eight weeks ago, defended his
prompt and massive use of po
lice force—but he also told a
House education subcommittee
that massive efforts are needed
to remove the root causes of
some of the student protests.
“I believe that I have intro
duced something new to this
1,204 students
enrolled for
spring term
The spring semester at Cho
wan College is underway with
a total full time enrollment of
1,204, according to a report by
Darrell H. Nicholson, registrar,
Nicholson has irtdicated that
sophomores account for 432 and
freshmen 737. Also 12 students
are in their final year of the
colleges 33 month Nursing
program nine are covleting
medical secretarial programs
in hospitals and there are 23
special students for a full
time equivalent of 14. Approx
imately 165 students are com
muters.
The comparable full time
enrollment for the spring, 1968,
was 1,155.
The Chowan student body
will face a full calendar of aca
demic, cultural, religious and
athletic events before the final
day of graduation, set for May
8. Examples are; the spring
dramatic productions, March
5, 6 and 7; mid term exams,
March 14; religious emphasis
week, March 17 ; spring
holidays; April 2 8; visiting
lecturer. Dr. John Bright, on
April 23; spring festival on
April 26 and honors day on
May 8. A full schedule of
intramural athletics and
varsity baseball, track, golf
and Icnnis arc interspersed.
business of preserving order on
campuses, Hayakawa said.
He said at most institutions
police qere called in as late as
possible and in small numbers.
But, he continued, “I went the
other way. I had ample force
available and demonstrated a
willingness to use it quickly to
protect people and property
from attack.
“The opposition has received
my message. . .
“What we have succeeded in
doing is to move the action from
the classroom to the space be
tween buildings and from there
to the streets surrounding the
campus. For weeks, now, the
classrooms and the inner cam
pus have been quite and safe.
As an overflow audience
largely of young people jammed
the committee room and lined
up outside in hopes of getting in
later, Hayawa told the commit
tee, “In a sense, the issues be
hind most present troubled are
valid.
He said the country is com
mitted to education but still
tolerates great numbers of low
er school systems “that are
crippling the poor and the mi
norities educationally.
If we were dealing with hun
ger instead of education, you
can imagine what would happen
if we had a walled city in which
the citizens had all the food they
need while outside there were
hordes of starving people, he
said. “We would have to be pre
pared to open the gates wide
and admit everyone, or be pre
pared for a riot. That is the situ
ation now with higher educa
tion.
Notice
In the January 29th issue of
the Smoke Signals, a poem was
printed called “Don t Fall in
Love. With several comments
from the student body as to the
origin of the poem as to the-
author, this editor researched
and found that the poem is
found in a collection of love
poems by a noted author. With
this, the editor would like to
print an apology to anyone who
may have been affended by the
misrepresentation of the correct
author.