(Progress, Lxponsion continues
In Music, Art, Drama Areas
Three years ago, Chowan’s
music program received a
“new look” when it moved
into newly-constructed Daniel
Hall.
The “new look” transcends
the modern facilities of Daniel
Hall, however. Progress and
expansion have been con
tinuous.
Where only courses in music
were offered, now courses are
available in art and drama as
well. A fine arts department
has been established to en
compass the three fields of
music, art and drama.
Presiding over the progress
has been James CTiamblee,
chairman of the department of
fine arts who also heads the
Daniel School of Music.
Classroom courses, applied
music and ensembles are the
three categories related to the
music program. Introductory
courses include notation,
sight-singing and dictation,
harmony and music ap
preciation. In addition, ad
vanced courses are offered in
all except music appreciation.
Introductory Courses
Also available, primarily
for the music education
major, are the courses of
introduction to music
literature and, new this year,
class methods in strings,
brass and woodwinds.
Courses in applied music
are open to any student in the
college. The general
prerequisite for credit in
applied music is a basic
knowledge of the instrument
to be studied.
The courses in applied
music combine private
lessons with practice sessions.
The courses are: voice, piano.
DRAMA PRODUCTION—Plays are
presented each semester by the
students of the drama department.
and each production is viewed by a
“packed house” of students,
faculty, and friends of the college.
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FAIR TIME AT CHOWAN—Each
Spring Chowan’s main campus is
transformed into a “Campus
Carnival” with games, en
tertainment and refreshments
enjoyed by students, parents and
friends. It’s part of the Spring
Festival celebration.
LANGUAGE LABORATORY— well-equipped language laboratory.
Housed in Robert Marks Hall which is under the supervision of
classroom building is a modern, Dr. Morris E. Carson.
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organ, woodwind, brass,
percussion and strings. There
are eight practice rooms for
piano and one for organ.
Chamblee also pointed out
that the collection of stereo
recordings has grown to ex
ceed 1,000. Also in the music
library are several hundred
full scores of works and
listening equipment for tapes
and recordings.
Popular With Students
The college ensembles are
popular with students and
include the chapel choir,
touring choir and college
band. The chapel choir’s
performance include fall,
Christmas and spring con
certs. Each spring, the touring
choir is involved in an ex
tensive tour. The choir taped a
program of sacred and
secular music in the spring
and it has been used widely on
television stations in North
Carolina and Virginia.
Directing the choirs is
Professor Jefferson Ishee.
The college band, directed by
Robert Brown, presents music
at all home football games.
The faculty this year in
cludes Dr. Robert Carter,
formerly a professor in the
music department at East
Carolina University, who is
teaching piano during the
absence of Trelles Case, on
a one-year leave. Carter is
well-known nationally. Ser
ving part-time are Paul
Topper, head of string in
struments at East Carolina,
and Mrs. Sharon Irwin, organ.
In addition to the above
opportunities, the Daniel
School of Music sponsors the
communiy chorus and or
chestra which presents a fall
and a spring concert each
year. Members include
students and musicians from a
two-state area. Chamblee is
the director. The school also
sponsors student and faculty
recitals.
Art and Drama
The fine arts department
also offers growing op
portunities in art and drama.
Directing the division of art,
initiated last year, is J. Craig
Greene. He is assisted by
Douglas E. Eubank, a new
faculty member. A full
schedule of exhibitions will be
offered in the Chowan Art
Gallery.
Professor Stev3 Brannon,
who also teaches English,
heads the drama program
following the retirement of
Mrs. Edith Larson. Plays will
be presented each semester
and the children’s theater will
tour with a drama in the
spring. In addition to the
course, drama workshop, a
new course, drama ap
preciation, are offered. For
the first time, two curriculum
in drama are offered. They
are the associate in arts
leading to a bachelor of art
with a major in drama and the
AA leading to a bachelor of
science in education with a
major in drama. Two
curriculum are also offered in
art and three in music.
A course in modern dance
with Mrs. Helen Bridgers of
Conway as instructor is also
offered. Students selecting
this course receive credit in
physical education, Chamblee
explained.
Keeping pace with the ex
pansion and progress in the
area of tine arts has been the
establishment of a scholarship
program which offers for
incoming freshmen two $250
scholarships in keyboard,
voice and band-orchestra. A
similar scholarship is
available in the field of art. All
are for one year and are
renewable. In addition, two
grants-in-aid of $75 per
semester are offered for choir
accompanist and student
librarian.
Chamblee explained that
they are awarded primarily
on the basis of audition.
Locotion
Chowan College is located in
the rich agricultural section of
northeastern North Carolina.
Murfreesboro, with its
population of 3,500 is college-
oriented and is rich in heritage
and tradition dating from the
18th century.
Direct transportation
connection is available
through the Trailways Bus
System and U. S. Highways
158 and 258 juncture at
Murfreesboro.
Raleigh, and Richmond,
Virginia, are a mere two hour
drive with Norfolk, Virginia,
being located 55 miles north of
the college.
Commercial airline con
nections are available to
Raleigh and Rocky Mount,
Richmond, and Norfolk with
bus services to Murfreesboro.
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McSweeney Hall.. Home of School of Graphic Arts
Graphic Arts
Keeps Abreast
With Technology
Electronic Color Scanner
Teletypesetter Operation
The School of Graphic Arts at Chowan
College in Murfreesboro, N. C., is moving
into the new decade in step with what may
well be termed the computer age.
At the beginning of the Fall semester,
the school announced an enrollment of 102
students, seven of whom are young women
who plan a career in graphic com
munications.
Chowan’s School of Graphic Arts was
started in 1952 with a small platen press
and an old, donated Linotype from the
RALEIGH NEWS AND OBSERVER.
Today, the school boasts a $Vi-million
plant completely equipped with some of
the finest equipment available for training
young men and women in challenging and
rewarding careers.
During 1969, through the assistance of
Fairchild Graphic Equipment, the school
installed a Fairchild Scan-A-Color, the
electronic scanner designed to produce
color separations for process-color
reproduction. As a result, graphic arts
students not only learn conventional color-
separation methods, but they are also
being taught the techniques of electronic
separation.
This is just one phase of the curriculum
offered to graphic arts students. During
the two-year program leading to an A.A.
degree in printing technology, they are
trained in both hot and cold-type com
position, advertising and newspaper
layout and design, and other aspects of
commercial printing.
Equipment in the composition area
includes Elektrons, Linotypes, the
Linofilm Quick and perforator, Com-
pugraphic CG 2961, 7200, Photon 713, and
Fairchild PTS for photosetting, a
Morisawa phototypesetter, TTS per
forators, Ludlow, Elrod, and AP wire
service.
Facilities also include a number of
presses, both letterpress and offset and the
school is operating its own Fairchild web-
fed offset newspaper press, acquired in
1967.
There are a fully equipped process
darkroom and platemaking facilities, as
well as a photographic darkroom for
processing all photographic work required
by the college and the school.
Graphic arts students gain valuable
experience as they participate in
producing all the printing needs of the
college, including the catalog, annual,
brochures, a monthly news magazine,
THE CHOW ANIAN, and a weekly student
newspaper, SMOKE SIGNALS.
In addition to graphic arts curriculum,
students are required to take almost half
of their prescribed 60 credit hours in
liberal arts, and students who transfer to
senior institutions find all their Chowan
credits accepted and enter with full Junior
status. The curriculum was designed for
this purpose.
Today, almost 90 per cent of the school’s
graphic arts graduates move on to senior
institutions to obtain their degrees, and
they find their work at these senior in
stitutions “easy” because of the training
they received at Chowan College, ac
cording to officials of the college.
More information on the curriculum can
be obtained from the Director, Chowan
College School of Graphic Arts, P.O. Box
37, Murfreesboro, N. C. 27855,
Modern Hot Metal Typesetter
Operating One of
School’s Five
Photo Typesetters