PAGE TWO—Smoke Signals, Wednesday, September 15, 1971
Nicholson Publishes Book
On College Transferring
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The ease with which junior or
community college students may
transfer to senior colleges is the
subject of a book that will be
released in September by
Qiowan Ck>Uege.
Entitled, A STEP AHEAD,the
booic is the result of replies to
questionnaires mailed by
Chowan’s registrar, Darrell
Hatfield Nicholson, to 200
colleges and universities. Listed
are the transfer policies of each
responding institution.
According to Chowan’s dean of
the college, Dr. B. Franklin
Lowe, Jr., the book “represents
original research into an area of
increasing importance in higher
education today.”
Chowan’s president, Dr. Bruce
E. Whitaker, voiced the opinion
that “counselors, prospective
students and their parents, and
others will find the information
both informative and helpful.”
Dr. Whitaker added, “The book
sheds light on the all stated
HAPPY SECRETARY—AAiss Janie Davis, secretary to
the Department of Development, looks happy and ex
cited as she greets a photographer. The Department of
Development Is one of the busiest places on campus now
as the college has entered a $1,000,000 campaign for the
nev^ science-engineering facility.
fallacy that one “loses credit” or
‘grades are lowered’ when
transferring from the two year to
the four year institution.”
Complimentary copies of the
book, printed by Chowan’s School
of Graphic Arts, will be
distributed to high school
counselors and prospective
college students. Additional
copies can be secured from the
registrar’s office at Chowan for
$2 per copy.
Figures indicate that some 85
per cent of Chowan’s student
tx)dy transfers to a senior in
stitution. Through the School of
Graphic Arts, secretarial and
other programs Chowan also
offers courses leading to em
ployment which account for the
majority of the remaining
students.
Nicholson holds degrees firom
the University of Illinois,
Southern Illinois University, and
the University of Louisville. He is
the co-author of reference text on
the first draft lottery in 1970. His
poetry has appeared in
periodicals and journals in
cluding recently in the “Long
View Journal” of North Carolina
and the “Fine Arts Discovery
Journal” of Kansas. One of his
poems has been selected to ap
pear in an anthology to be
published this fall in Boston,
Mass.
Nicholson is a member of a
number of professional
associations. He has also been
selected to appear in “Out
standing Educators of America”
for 1971. He is married to the
former Carole Fuller of Hen
derson. They have one daughter,
Ann, 6.
It Takes Two
After four years of digging and
building, the contractors finally
have completed the three-
basement substructure of the
mammoth 102-miIlion dollar
headquarters building for the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
in Washington.
Three sub-basements? Ap
parently it takes alot of un
derground to catch up with the
underworld. - Memphis (Tenn.)
Commercial Appeal
STUDENT RECEPTION—Dr. Bruce E. Whitaker,
President of Chowan, greets a freshman student during
a reception at the President's home. Also speaking with
the new coed is Clayton Lewis, Dean of Students.
Chowan to Benefit
From IBM Donation
1 97 1 -72 CHEERLEADERS —
Cheerleaders for 1971-72 are, left to
right, Pat Twlsdale, Henderson; Linda
Hill, Newport News, Va.; Carol
Henderson, Hopewell, Va.; Donna
Smith, Onancock, Va.; Connie Brown,
Virginia Beach Va.; Susan Holton,
Chesapeake, Va.; Debbie AAatzen,
Captain, Vlrglna Beach, Va.; and Jan
Herman, Co-captaIn, Virginia Beach,
Chowan College is one of 542
colleges in the United States
which will benefit from a gift of
$140,000 provided by the In
ternational Business Machines
Corporation to member colleges
and universities of the 40 state
associations affiliated in the
Independent College Funds of
America (ICFA).
This is the ninth consecutive
year that IBM has provided
financial support for these in
dependent institutions which
have a total undergraduate
enrollment of more than 650,000
students. Chowan’s enrollment in
the fall of 1970 was just under
1500.
In addition to these grants.
Writing Class
Offered Again
A creative writing class, which
has produced a number of
authors of published books and
magazine and newspaper ar
ticles, will again be sponsored by
Chowan College during the 1971-
72 academic year.
According to Dr. B. Franklin
Lowe, Jr., dean of the college, the
noncredit course, to be taught by
Dr. Bernice Kelly Harris of
Seaboard, is open to the public.
The cost is $25 per semester. The
class will meet Tuesday at 7 p.m.
in room 118 of Marks Hall.
The class has authored
collectively two published books,
including the recently released
STRANGE THINGS HAPPEN,
and launched writing careers for
a number of residents of the area.
In discussing plans for the
class, Dr. Harris noted she is
looking forward to“a climactic
year.” The objective, hhe ex
plained, “is to publish a collec
tion of stories, narratives,
autobiographies and perhaps
poems in a single book as well as
the works of individuals.”
She announced that novels by
two long-standing members of
the class will soon be published.
Dr. Harris extended an invitation
to others who are talented or
interested in writing to join ttie
class.
1971-72 BRAVETTES—Members of the Richmond, Va.; Susan Shafer, Win-
1971-72 Bravettes are, left to right.
Penny Thompson, Virginia Beach,
Va.; Becky Jones, Alexandria, Va.;
Becky Nutter, Alexandria, Va.
Debbie Olphin, AAechanicsville, Va.;
Debra Giles. Charlotte; Hilary Dako,
Chester, Va.; Rita Daniel, Alberta,
Va.; Brenda Smith, Wilmington, Del.;
Jeannie AAcAdams, Winston-Salem,
Captain and Hilda Escobedo, Fayet
teville, co-captain.
Which
Picture
Do You
See?
There are two very different people to be seen
in this drawing. One picture is the profile of a
hook-nosed old woman. The other picture
transposed within the drawing shows the left side
and back of the head of a lovely young girl. This
picture-puzzle was taken from Len Sullivan’s
column in the Mooresville Tribune. He says what
a man first sees in the picture reveals his ap
preciation of, and interest in, the other sex. Most
young guys who have seen it before printing, see
the young girl right off. You don’t have to turn
the picture around . . . just keep looking long
enough and you’ll see the two different persons.
Literary
M usings
By PROF. ROBERT G. MULDER giiij
IBM is providing $60,000 an
nually for their memljer colleges,
and since 1948 corporations have
invested nearly $200 million in
these institutions through the
state associations.
The North Carolina Foundation
of Church-Related Colleges’
share of the IBM controbution is
$4,900. The North Carolina
Foundation has distributed more
than $7.6 million to its member
colleges during the past seven
teen years. The twenty six
member colleges of the North
Carolina Foundation are:
Atlantic Christian, Belmont,
Abbey, Brevard, Campbell,
Catawba, Chowan, Elon, Gard-
ner-Webb, Greensboro, Guilford,
High Point, Lees-McRae, Lenoir
Rhyne, Louisburg, Mars Hill,
Meredith, Montreat Anderson,
Mount Olive, N. C. Wesleyan,
Pfeiffer, Queens, St. Andrews, St.
Mary’s, Salem, Warren Wilson
and Wingate.
Cross Elected
As Director
Of 'Planners"
Bobby S. Cross, director of
development, at Chowan College,
•was recently elected a member of
the board of directors of the
Association of North Carolina
Planners.
The Association was organized
this year in Raleigh to promote
sound planning practices in
North Carolina and to promote
the sharing of information on
education and job opportunities.
Cross and a majority of the
membership are graduates of the
North Carolina Planner Training
Program.
Cross has served as planning
consultant to Hertford County,
Carteret County and the town of
Edenton prior to coming to
Chowan. At the college, Cross
continues to utilize his planning
experience working with the
Long Ranges Planning Com
mittee of the college and in other
development activities.
Henry David Thoreau (last name
properly accented on the first syllable)
was a remarkable man. In his writing
he is inspiring and irritating by turns,
and he can shift his point of view
almost as rapidly as Lord Byron does
in "Don Juan."
In one place he can say that the
Fitchburg Railroad rides on the
citizens of Massachusetts, not the
citizens on the railroad; then he can
praise the same railroad for its speed
in bringing the farmer's produce to
market before it spoiled. An I must
admit that I love him for his in
consistency.
Above all, I love him for his writings
about nature. His genuine interest and
curiosity made it impossible for him to
be dull. No matter whether he was
taking a leisurely boating trip on the
Concord and Merrimack Rivers or a
walking tour on the southern shore of
Cape Cod or a visit to the Maine woods,
he always kept his eyes nad ears open
and was able to record experiences and
impressions so vividly that readers to
this day find his journals fascinating.
I am displaying no critical
originality when I give my opinion that
Walden was the product of his finest
hours. Here is a cabin that he con
structed himself from the materials of
an old hut. He lived next to nature for a
bit more than two years in reading,
meditation and observation of fish,
loons and ants. He was not inhospitable
when human visitors turned up, but he
was inclined to entertain them on
stumps outside the cabin and he was
not given to encouraging their in
trusions upon his sylvan peace.
IN THESE FAST-MOVING days of
ours when one finds so little time to
rejoice about his surroundings, I
reflect upon the privilege that was‘‘“
mine in having read Walden when I
still lived on a farm that was far from
the encroachment of Megalopolis. I
still recall taking my copy down to the
creek running through our woods.
Perhaps I shouldn't have gone through
it so rapidly, but I was then fascinated.
I began to notice things I had never
paid much attention to before—the
crawfish in the shallows, the tadpoles
in the mud hole, the graceful eel that
swam in the spring and the killdeers
that cried against the rocky hill.
These things haunt me even yet. No
one city-born and city-bred can ever
grasp the fu 11 ness of them all; yet, they
may catch a glimpse of them
vicariously from Walden.
A few years ago. Dr. Ball, a
professor friend of mine, introduced
me to a valuable volume: The
Variorum Walden and the Variorum
Civil Disobedience (Washington
Square Press, 369 pp., 60 cents,
paperback).
This edition is a cheaper reprint of
the hardbound one issued in 1962. It is
fully annotated according to Thoreau's
own notes with subsequent research
and critical commentary by Walter
Harding, secretary of the Thoreau
Society.
Because the notes are placed at the
end, the reader need not consult them
unless he wants to; they do not intrude
at the bottom of the page. They are,
however, most helpful in un
derstanding the text of a work that is
more profound and complex than the
casual reader may think in his in
nocence. I wish I could have had access
to them when I was first introduced to
Thoreau.
DOWN WITH SMUT
My association with the Salvation
Army has been not tto distant over the
past few years. I almost never pass by
one of their tambourine ladies with the
sailor hats but what I donate a quarter.
What's more, while I was teaching in
Greenville, a club I sponsored
organized a garment campaign and we
spent the best part of one December
collecting clothing for their Christmas
effort.
Fortunately for the Army, my
grandfather had just died and we
strengthened the campaign con
siderably with the fruits of his war
drobe. (This is what he would have
wanted, because in his latter years his
sole delight with the fairer sex came on
Saturdays when these ladies made
their weekly collection in Potecasi.)
Today the Army is warring against
pornographic literature, particularly
that with nude pictures. One thousand
of them recently swept into old Times
Square, New York's crudest and most
pornographic tourist trap. Habitues
and tourists alike did double-takes as
the silent, serious marchers—men in
ties and coats, women in knee-length
skirts—marched by.
They marched to protest the displays
there of sex books and magazines,
movie marquees, and peep shows. The
cadets carried signs reading: "Por
nography Poisons," "Filth Isn't Fun,"
and "Youth Protests Pornography."
Only time will tell how effective their
march was. I venture to say that not
may trends have been changed . . .
perhaps for the better, though.
How colorless the newstands would
be if everything sensuous were thusly
removed. Perhaps it would, however,
cure some of my comrades of the eye
strain they receive each month when
the PLAYBOY train slithers into
Murfreesboro.
RECEPTION—Professor Rachel
Pitman pours punch for freshmen
students during a recent reception held
at the home of President and Mrs.
Bruce E. Whitaker.