Volume 8 Number 2
Monday. September 27. 1976
Trustees Approve Record Budget
OOPS—Tommy Wright of Baltimore Community College can't seem to find the handle. His
teammates also had trouble holding on to the Chowan College Braves. Chowan beat
Baltimore 41 -0. (Photo by Will McIntyre)
Internationals Study in U.S.
Iranians Comprise
Largest Group
According to a news article
appearing in the September 13
edition of The Wall Street
Journal, the number of Iranians
studing as college students in the
United States last yeeu- reached a
total of 25,000. Experts in the
college admissions field have
indicated that this number is
likely to increase when totals are
tabulated for the current
academic year, with the total
expected to reach 35,000.
The American Embassy in
Tehran receives an increasing
number of visa applications from
Iranians who desire to study in
the United States, and it is
reported that long lines of
prospective students stretch
along streets near the entrance to
the U.S. visa office. Some
students use sleeping bags and
camp on walks and street curbs
overnight to insure being among
the first in line for processing the
following day. The visa office
observes the normal work-day
of 8:00 a. m., until 5:00 p. m.
Officials indicated that 10,200
student visas were issued last
year to Iranians who desired to
continue their education in the
United States, and expectations
point to this number doubling
during 1976-77.
Iranians comprise the largest
international group studying in
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American colleges and univer
sities this year, and, in fact, more
students from Iran enroll for
college courses in the United
States than from the entire
continent of Europe. Until
recently, the largest number of
international students in the
United States came from India.
College officials in the United
States relate that the language
barriers between professors and
Iranian students are becoming
much less a problem in recent
years, since English is now
considered to be the second
language of Iran, with French at
the third.
Rowland S. Pruette serves as
advisor to international students
at Chowan College, and in
formation from his office earlier
this week indicated that 66
Iranians are currently enrolled in
Chowan courses of study.
Qayton Lewis, Dean of Students,
points out that “this number is
expected to increase with the
opening of the spring semester in
January.”
Chowan College’s Board of
Trustees approved a budget of
$3,085,000 for the 1976-77
academic year and adopted a
goal of $75,000 for the Annual
Giving Fund at its semi-annual
meeting, Sept. 13, in the office of
President Bruce E. Whitaker.
Chowan’s budget for the 1975-76
year was $2,692,500. Dr. Whitaker
said the 1976-77 budget provides
for “modest salary increases,
retirement benefit improvements
for faculty and staff, additional
student activities, program
enrichment, the rise in tie cost of
food purchases for students, and
more financial aid to students.”
He said over $1 million is
budgeted for faculty and staff
salaries and another $1 million
for academic expenditures.
Almost $200,000 is budgeted for
scholarships and grants.
In discussing the Annual
Giving Program, Dr. Whitaker
reminded the trustees, who met
jointly with members of the
Board of Advisors, chaired by Dr.
H. Melvin Kunkle of Portsmouth,
Va., that the success of the 1975-
76 program was a main reason
the college had again operated in
the black for the 18th straight
year.
Under the leadership of E. L.
HoUowell of Edenton, Chowan
topped its 1975-76 goal of $67,500.
Dr. Whitaker presented HoUowell
a distinguished service award for
his efforts in directing the
campaign.
President Whitaker announced
that H. L. Evans, Jr. of Mur
freesboro will head the 1976-77
drive.
Chowan’s endowment program
also received attention with Dr.
Whitaker announcing that the
general endowment and
designated endowment funds
have reached and exceeded the $1
million mark. He said the college
is seeking to reach a $5 million
goal by 1980.
Dr. Whitaker said Chowan will
be involved during 1976-77 in a
“program of intensive im
plementation, promotion and
solicitation of planned gifts
through wills and trusts,” under
the direction of the General
Endowment Committee chaired
by Gilbert W. Francis of Boykins,
Va.
Trustees and advisors heard
several matters related to
Chowan’s sponsoring agency, the
Baptist State Convention of North
Carolina. Dr. T. Robert MuUinax,
executive secretary-treasurer of
the Convention’s Council on
Christian Higher Education,
spoke about the program of the
Baptist State Convention of 1977.
After hearing a report from
Chowan’s chaplain, Dr. Hargus
Taylor, trustees expressed ap
preciation for the Cooperative
Program of the Baptist State
Convention of North Carolina.
The Cooperative Program
channels financial support from
North Carolina Baptist churches
to Baptist mission causes and
institutions, including Chowan
Trustees pledged continuing
efforts to support and strengthen
the Cooperative Program.
Dean of Students Clayton Lewis
told the trustees and advisors
Chowan’s enrollment increased
for the fall semester over last
year. He said the full-time
equivalent enrollment of 1,048 is
an increase of 33 over the 1975 fall
semester.
Trustees heard a report from
the Long Range Planning
Committee which is preparing a
five-year revision of toe college’s
long range plans.
Dr. B. Franklin Lowe, Jr., dean
of the college, reported on the
involvement of the faculty and
staff in an institutional self-study
leading to reaffirmation of ac
creditation from the Southern
Association of Colleges and
Schools.
In conjunction with the self-
study, trustees approved a
statement of purpose which had
been adopted by the faculty and
staff, subject to the approval of
the Board of Trustees.
Dean Lowe also reported that
the college completed prior to
July, 1976, its required self-
evaluation with respect to Title
IX of the Education Am-
mendments of 1972. He said the
college has filed necessary
assurances with the appropriate
officials within the Department
of Health, Education and
Welfare.
In other action, the Board of
Trustees and Board of Advisors,
acting on a recommendation of
the committee on development
and finance, authorized the
employment of an architect and
beginning of preliminary plans
leading to the establishment of a
timetable and possible future
campaign for a gymnasium-
physical education center.
Trustee chairman, the Rev. J.
Felix Arnold of Enfield, said the
new gymnasium-phpical
education center is “critically
needed.”
Trustees presented a resolution
of appreciation to E. Lee Fagan,
member of the Board of Advisors
from Stanardsville, Va. It cited
his support of Chowan including
“his participation in and con
tribution to the Annual Planning
Conferences, his support of the
capital needs campaigns, and his
efforts in directing students to
Chowan College.”
EXPERIENCED LEADERSHIP—Discussing the new academic year, Chowan College's
129th, and the responsibilities each has to perform, are President Bruce E. Whitaker and
five members of the administration, from left, Clayton Lewis, dean of the students; Hargus
Taylor, chaplain; Ben Sutton, business manager; Bobby Cross, director of development; and
Dr. B. Franklin Lowe, Jr., academic dean. These six men have served Chowan a combined
total of 75 years. Dr. Whitaker, in his 20th year as president, tops the list, followed by
Sutton, who has served 16 years; Dr. Taylor, 14 years; Dr. Lowe, 12 years; Lewis, eight
years; and Cross six years.
Orvil Reid Jogging
To Campus Thursday
Orvil Reid is 68 years young.
He has just retired after more
than a quarter-century of ser
vice as a missionary in Mexico.
He has reached the age when
most of us would be quite ready to
“take life easy” for the
remainder of our days.
But Reid is celebrating his
retirement in an unusual way. He
departed Atlanta, Georgia-home
of the Home Mission Board of the
Southern Baptist Convention-on
September 3, with plans to arrive
in Richmond,Virginia-home of
the Foreign Mission Board-by
October 11. WHAT MAKES
THAT TRIP UNUSUAL IS THAT
REID IS JOGGING FROM
ATLANTA TO RICHMOND-20
MILES PER DAY. Of course he
has scheduled “rest stops” along
the way. But even these are not
your usual periods of rest and
relaxation.
Billing his journey from
Atlanta to Richmond as a “Run
for Fun-Health-Life,” Reid is
conducting rallies along his
route - rallies demonstrating his
unusual stamina. Some of his
feats of unusual strength include:
two automobiles try to pull
his clasped hands, an 18 pound
hammer is used to break a large
rock placed on his stomach, an
auto or van drives over his
stomach. He challenges anyone
in his audience to pin him, and to
hit him in the abdomen.
His rallies will feature a
challenge for people to accept
Christ as Savior, to commit
themselves to Christian service,
and to adopt clean habits of ph-
hysical fitness. As a demon
stration of his own concern for
service to others, Reid plans to
give $1,000 of his severance pay
from the Home Mission Board to
World Hunger and Disaster
Relief. He will challenge those
who watch his demonstrations of
physical prowess to donate also.
Orvil Reid will give a
demonstration of his concern for
and commitment to physical
fitness and Christian service in
the Chowan College Stadium on
Thursday, September 30, at 7:30
P.M. Don’t miss the opportunity
to see this outstanding “young”
man when he jogs to Chowan on
September 30! The rally is being
sponsored jointly by the
Brotherhood of the West Chowan
Baptist Association, the Baptist
Student Union- Campus Christian
Fellowship, and the Fellowships
of Christian Athletes throughout
the Roanoke-Chowan region.
Camp Cole Retreat Site
By LINDA STEECE
It was very unfortunate that
more people didn’t go on the
BSU—CCF retreat at Camp Cale.
With such things as swimming,
ping-pong canoeing, monopoly,
and otter activities we became
relaxed with one another.
In fact we discussed problems
and activities we ought to do in
the on coming year. The first
night the Chaplain of East
Carolina University came and
lead a good discussion on
leadership. Saturday we par
ticipated in a leadership program
and discussed what should
be done this year, Some
suggestions were retreats,
a musical, a dramatic group,
ministry at a rest home, and a no
talent show.
Chowan
College
Faculty
and
Staff
1976 - 77
Photo by
McIntyre
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