Volume 13, Numbers
Chowan College. Murfreesboro, NC 27855
February 5, 1982
Whitaker
Honors
Planned
By JENNIFER WICKER
President Bruce E. Whitaker will be
honored for his 25 years of continuous
service to Chowan College at a convoca
tion on February 22.
Whitaker is one of the few college
presidents in the country to have served
at the same institution for this long. For
the ceremony, the faculty will be in
caps and gowns.
The Reverend J. Felix Arnold, Chair
man of the Chowan College Board of
Trustees, will preside at the convoca
tion, and will present a gift of apprecia
tion to President Whitaker.
Dr. Cecil Ray, Executive Secretary
Treasurer of the Baptist State Conven
tion of North Carolina will give the in
vocation, and T. Robert Mullinax will
give the principal address, he is the ex
ecutive secretary of the Council on
Christian Higher Education of the Bap
tist State Convention of North Carolina.
Showing their appreciation and
greetings for President Whitaker will
be: Mr. Bill Shelton, on behalf of the
Chowan College Student Body; Mr.
Dudley Neal, on behalf of the alumni;
Mrs. Daisy Ix)u Mixon on behalf of the
faculty; Di^n B. Franklin Lowe Jr., on
behalf of the administration.
Dr. Herman Melvin Kunkle, Chair
man, Board of Advisors; Mrs. James T
Chestnutt, President of the Council on
Christian Higher Education, and Dr.
Frank Campbell, president of the Bap
tist State Convention of North Carolina,
will also speak at the convocation.
The Chowan College Choir and Stage
Band are scheduled to perform. The
benediction will be given by Dr. Ben C.
Fisher of Murfreesboro.
A number of presidents of other
academic institutions will be attending,
and be involved in the procession.
G.C Center
Construction
To Start Soon
A jumble of logs from trees felled to provide open space and some piles of dirt where stumps have been pulled
show the site of the new Graphics Communication Center on the Union Street edge of the campus. (Photo by
Karen Gurty)
Thirty-three Chowan Students
Tapped for Juco "Who's Who”
By LINDA CHERRY
“Who’s Who Among Students In
American Junior Colleges,” is an an
nual directory honoring outstanding
students since 1934. Phil Royce, direc
tor of college relations, has released the
1982 edition.
33 Chowan College students were
selected as being some of the country’s
most outstanding campus leaders.
Campus committees and editors of
the directory nominated these students
for their academic achievement, ser
vice to the communiuty. leadership in
extra-curricular activities and future
potential.
They join an elite group of students
selected from more than 1,300 institu-
College Lobbyists Fear Worst
From New Student Aid Budget
WASHINGTON D.C. (CPS)-ItwiU
be “devastating.”
At least that’s what Gerald
Roschwalb, a leasing college lobbyist in
Washington, D.C., thinks the student
aid section of the adminstration’s still-
secret 1983 federal budget proprosal
will be.
The sense of foreboding is
widespread here as rumors fly of what
President Reagan will recommend for
higher education when he presents his
budget proposals next week.
Though no one outside the ad
ministration knows exactly what the
education budget will be, the outlines
presented in David Stockman’s
December budget suggestions and then
in budget “compromises” leaked to the
press have most college lobbyists here
busily predicting doom for all federal
student aid programs.
In Stockman’s proposals, two of the
three campus-based student aid pro
grams — Supplemental Educational
Opportunity Grants (SEOGs) and Na
tional Direct Student Loans (NDSLs) —
would be eliminated entirely.
The third compus-based program —
College Work-Study — would suffer a
$150 million cut from the 1982 ap
propriations.
The State Student Incentive Grants
program would also be ended under the
Stockman proposals.
(dongress last year agreed to cancel
Social Security benefits to students not
enrolled in college by May 1,1982.)
The two most popular aid programs
— Guarenteed Student Loans (GSLs)
and Pell grants — would also be
changed, with appropriations cut by
more than half.
Administration budget chief
Stockman also wants to end interest
subsidies for GSLs, raise the loan
origination fee from five to ten percent,
and drop grad students from the pro
gram. All other students would repay
their loans at current market rates two
years after leaving school.
In all, Stockman proposed a $8 billion
Department of Education budget, com
pared to the $8.4 billion Secretary Ter
rel Bell wanted.
Under Congress’ continuing budget
resolutions, the Education Department
1982 budget is $12.9 billion.
Immediately after Stockman releas
ed his proposals. Bell asked education
lobbyists to help him to persuade the
president to request more money in the
administration’s final 1983 budget pro
posal to Congress, which is due
February 8.
Reagan reportedly agreed to in
crease funding in some areas. Sources
estimate the White House will agree to
a 20-30 percent slash in Pell Grant Fun
ding, versus the 56 percent in the
Stockman proposal.
The White House also reportedly
agreed to save NDSlfi and SEOGs in
some form.
The truth won’t be known until the ad
ministration delivers the proposals to
Congress, but the rumors are enough to
inspire forecasts of doom among col
lege lobbyists.
The budget, even after the reported
White House compromises, would
clearly be a disaster for American
higher education,” the American Coun
cil on Education asserted in a recent
letter requesting lobbying help from
college presidents.
The National Coalition of Indepen
dent College and University Students
called the budget proposals an “attack
on the future of American higher educa
tion.”
Reagan, says Roschwald, who is lob-
bist for the National Association of
State Universities and Land-Grant Col
leges, is playing a “ brilliant game” of
politics by threatening such low funding
that any increases gained in the Con
gress will “seem like a great conquest,
when in fact they are stiU enormous
defeats.”
He likens it to the thugs threatening
to destroy a home and rape the oc
cupants, but who “only steal your
television, so you got off easy.”
Even without the next round of aid
cuts, colleges are still trying to cope
with the cuts Congress has already ap
proved. Dallas Martin of the National
Association of Student Financial Aid
Administrators is most concerned
about the end of student Social Security
benefits.
Ending the program “will only serve
to enlarge the pool of students eligible
for other programs, a pot that’s being
reduced as well.”
tions of higher learning in all 50 states,
the District of Columbia and several
foreign nations.
Outstanding students have been
honored in the annual directory since it
was first published in 1934.
Among the 33 Chowan students are 14
from North Carolina: Winfred
Basnight, Jr. of Moyock; Jonsthon
Thomas Batchelor, Murfreesboro;
Carol Lynn Creech, Raleigh; Felix An
thony Futrell, Woodland; Jerri Lynn
Hawkins, Murfreesboro; Simuel Ward
Hodges, Murfreestwro; MoUie Lou
Hopkins, Pinetown; Denise Louise
Larsen, New Bern; Vance Allen Marsh,
Hope Mills; John Thomas Odom, Wilm-
in^on; Mary Dwight Parker, Mur
freesboro; Micheal Brown Pruden,
Woodland; Julia Rebecca Riddick,
Gates; Virginia Estelle Taylor, Cor-
apeake;
Twelve students are from Virginia:
Dean Perry Agee, Jr., Louisa;
(See Who’s on Page 21
By LYNETTE FARRELL
The construction of a new Graphic
Communications Center is planned to
begin as soon as the weather breaks,
according to Superintendent of
Buildings and Ground Jack Hassell.
Because of crowding, the college is in
definite need of a new building. McS-
weeney HaU, the present Graphic Com
munications building, according to Her
man Gatewood, chairman of Graphic
Communications Department, lacks
the space needed to do the job ade
quately. Some machinery is in storage
now because there is not enough room
in McSweeney to use it.
Also, the roof of the building is in poor
condition and has leaked for years, he
said.
Hassell said that because of the way
it is constructed, it would not be prac
tical to renovate the old building and
have the space needed.
The new building, which will be call
ed the Graphic Communications
Center, will be located behind Carrie
Savage Camp Hall on Union Street. It
will be 200 feet long and 70 feet wide.
The entire construction will hold a base
ment 135 ft. X 50 ft., a press room 95ft. x
37ft., an offset room Mft. x 31ft., and a
composing room 52ft. x 31ft.
Also the facility will contain 10 of
fices, a newsroom, two classrooms, a
studio, production darkroom, and other
photography areas. A student lounge
with individual lockers for students to
put their coats and books will be a need
ed and convenient accomodation.
“We've been hoping for a new
building for years. It’s hard to believe
we’ll finally get a new building design
ed for our purpose and adequate for our
equipment,” said Gatewood,
“The present photographic darkroom
was supposed to be a storage room,”
Gatewood added. Now modem and ade
quate facilities will soon be available in
all parts of the department as well.
According to Hassell, the total cost of
the Graphic Communications Center
will be approximately half a million
dollars. Six thousand square feet were
added to the original plans because it
was needed, and the first estimated
price rose.
One half the cost of construction will
be raised by the Chowan Graphic Arts
Foundation, stated Gatewood. The
foundation consists of newspaper ex
ecutives in North Carolina which will
contribute donations through state
newspapers.
The other half of the cost of construc
tion will come from donations by other
sources.
Construction of the shell of the
building will be contracted, said
Hassell. Finishing of office areas,
carpeting and landscaping will lie done
by Chowan’s maintenance department,
thus saving money.
Kodak is planning to help with floor
plans for darkroom, preparatory offset
and printing technology facilities.
The Graphic Arts Technology Foun
dation in Pittsburgh, Pa. will provide
floor plans for placement of machinery
in the composing room, press room and
newsroom.
Replacing the" inflexible” McS
weeney Hall with the new Graphic
Conununications Center will be the best
addition to the school since Lakeside
Student Center, concluded Hassell.
The building is scheduled to be com
plete in December.
Columns, Belk
Tied for Cup
By WANDA BISHOP
A tie exists between Belk and
McDowell Columns for the President’s
Cup going into the Spring semester.
Columns leads in only one area-
Attendance at College Sponsored
Events; Belk holds no firsts. Both held
steadily near the top in all units enabl
ing them to stay ahead.
Day students Organization holds its
usual first in Academics and Prora
tions. College Street ranks first in Par
ticipation in Intramural Sports. First in
Programming is held by Jenkins.
The cumulative rankings at this time
show Belk and Columns tied for first
with 31.5 points. Parker holds third with
30.0 points. College Street is fourth
with 27.0 points. Jenkins holds fifth
with 25.5. Day students are sixth with
22.5. West holds a close seventh with
22.0 points. East stands at eight with
19.0. Mixon holds ninth place with 16.0
points.
Interesting People on Campus
Shy Child Who Hated School
Found His Motivation in Piano
By BRIAN CLEMENTS
Music seemed to be the right career
for Hugh Middleton who could hum on
pitch before he could talk.
Dr. Middleton has been a professor at
Chowan for the past six years. “I came
here because 1 felt this environment
would be meaningful and I was in-
Honor Roll for Fall 1981
Rises 25% Over '80
HASSELL
of
Hassell Takes
Council Seat
Jack Hassell, superintendent
buildings and grounds, is now a
member of the Murfreesboro Town
Council.
Hassell, who has been chairman of
the Murfreesboro Planning Board for
the past few years, was unanimously
appointed by the council on January 21
to fill the unexpired term of Coun
cilman Stanley Dixon.
By WANDA BISHOP
The Honor Roll for the Fall semester
has picked up 25.7 percent over last
year 1978, and 1979 after the slump in
1980.
The role contains a total of 171
students this semester compared to the
136 of last year. Figures for the
previous two years were 174 and 177.
The President’s List, however is the
lowest it has been in five years with on
ly six students. It is a definite drop from
the 11 students of 1980 and the high of 14
in 1979.
The Dean’s List has picked up to the
historical average with 53 students.
That is more than 100 increase over the
26 students of 1980.
The Honors List remains steady with
112 students . This compares with 99 of
80,102 of '79,113 of ’78 and 99 of ’77.
To make the Honor Roll, a student
must have a certain grade point
average. The President’s List requires
a 4.0 average, which is straight A’s. To
make the Pean’s List, a 3.50 to a 3.99
average must be attained. The Honor’s
List carries a 3.0 to a 3.49 average. No
grade below a C will be accepted and an
unsatisfactory in assembly bars a stu
dent from making the list.
The following students made the
Honor Roll for the Fall semester of
1980:
President’s List
Clyburn, Gail L.; Farrenkopf, Laura
L.; Harris, John M.; Kefalas,
Augustos; Sakis, Rebecca V.; Waring,
JillM.
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Middleton at Keyboard
terested in this part of the country.” he
explained. He is a native of Mississippi.
Middleton said as a child he want^ to
be a Baptist preacher. He recalled with
a small smile, “I remember baptising
stuffed animals in the bathtub, and
preaching in my bathrobe.”
Always very serious, Middleton said
that he was a shy child and frequently
sick. “I didn’t enjoy school and loathed
having to go.”
He decided to go into music in his last
year of middle school. As a high school
student he attended Interlochen Music
Camp in Michigan, an internationally
acclaimed gathering of musicians on
the high school and college level.
“Interlochen was an eye-openening
experience for me because I was in the
midst of many great musicians of my
ige” Middleton emphasized. “It gave
me great insight to where I stood in the
world of music.”
Middleton’s parents each had some
musical experience. His mother had
seven years of piano. His father would
go with him when he played in various
competitions around the country.
“While not understanding many of
my technical aspects, he had a great
sense about my playing which allowed
him to offer criticism,” Middleton said.
He believes that music is becoming
more important in today’s educational
system.
“I fear for its life because it seems
when a program is cut, the arts are the
first to go”, he said as he leaned back in
his chair, a tense look on his face.
Middleton closed his eyes and said,
“We see directions from time to time
but really don’t know where they are
going. Society and trends in music
seem to come together but don’t last
long. This is representative of our con
temporary society.”
While many seek relaxation through
music, Middleton says he enjoys the
Dallas Cowboys, because they are a
symbol to him of achievement on the
highest level in their field.