Fall Examination Schedule Published
A future coach
Aboard one of the Homecoming Parade entries was Mac Wilson, who
practiced for his future "coaching" days by mimicing Head Football
Coach and Athletic Director Jim Garrison. The photo above was made
prior to the parade as Mac practiced his "routine".
Ken Powell is busy
as SGA President
Reprinted from
The Suffolk Sun
SUFFOLK (VA)-Ken Powell likes to
keep busy, and he has no problem doing
it.
He is president of the Student Govern
ment Association, which plans enter
tainment at Chowan College. The 20-
year-old sophomore from Madison,
N.C., sees to it that boredom finds little
space on campus.
"It’s a lot more work than I ex
pected," he .said of his leadership
role,"but if I could, I’d do it over
again.”
Dr. Wolfskill
speaker for
faculty forum
Professor Ci. Kenneth Wolfskill,
chairman of the English Department,
addressed the subject of the small farm
as it is represented in American
literature at the college’s Forum-
Lyceuni in Marks Hall auditorium Oct
25.
The F'orum-Lyceum is a monthly
function to provide the community free
and open programs and discussion con
cerning a variety of subjects.
"Usually it is an economist or
sociologist wtio analyzes the plight of
the small farmer," Dr. Wolfskill notes,
"and fiction or poetry seems removed
from the practical matters of changes
on the farm due to technological and
econonuc advancements. But there is
an impressive amount of literature that
reflects these changes and suggests the
loss of many fundamental American
values with the loss of the small farm.
"So I think the implications of
American literature are important,
especially as they point to the seeming
inevitability of our losing what has been
a very warm American institution."
Working with other students, he plans
pizza parties, dances, movies, special
events, festivals and trips."We need a
lot of cooperation because we handle
every major event,” he said.
Powell also handles complaints from
a few students who, he said, "claim
there’s nothing to do. ”
“They’re the ones who sit around and
do nothing,’’said Kathy Borrelli of
Goose Creek, S.C. "The school has rac-
, quetball, volleyball, a park, swimming,
tennis, a game room, a skating arena,
dancing, clubs...”
The SGA has carte blanche on ac
tivities it pains,"as long as we use com
mon sense,” Powell said.
The school, affiliated with the North
Carolina Baptist Convention, once
frowned on the idea of dancing on cam
pus. These days it is one of the most
popular activities.
There is no prob'em, either, with the
movies the SGA schedules.“We show R-
rated films,” Powell said. “Most every
good film has that rating..."We won’t
show anything that’s vulgar.”
The films are well received, but the
SGA’s most popular events are the piz
za parties. The food is a quarter a slice,
beverages are free, and a deejay plays
records.
Powell hopes to attend either Elon or
Catawba College next year. "I like a
small school,” he said. "Everybody’s
close. It’s like a tight-knit family. We
know each other. The professors know
us by name.”
Just about everyone knows Powell.
As SGA president, he has his own of
fice.
That’s where he is when he is not in
class, or studying. The telephone and
paperwork are as much a part of his life
as textbooks and tests-choice ex
perience for a student majoring in
business administration.
When he is not occupied on campus,
Powell serves with the Murfressboro
Rescue Squad.
Friday, November 16, 1984
Volume 14
Number 2
^ STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF CHOWAN COLLEGE
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Jill Well crowned Homecoming
Queen; Kris McKay is Princess
A pair of attractions—the Fall
Festival of Marching Bands and the
football game featuring the crowning of
Miss Jill Wells as Queen-highlighted
Chowans’s Homecoming on Saturday,
October 27.
As a part of the annual celebration,
activities began on Thursday evening
at 6:00 p.m., with the traditional
Homecoming Parade. The parade
group departed from Helms Center and
proceeded down the Main Street of
Murfreesboro, returning to the campus
by the main gate. Entries included the
Cheerleaders, Bravettes, College Stage
Band, and representatives of various
clubs and organizations. Dr. Bruce E.
Whitaker, and other college officials,
also were in the parade.
A bonfire and pep rally followed the
parade, with a mock funeral, near the
softball field.
Marching Band
Ten area high school bands perform
ed in the college stadium on Saturday
morning for the 1984 Fall Festival of
Marching Bands, sponsored by the
Division of Music, Department of Fine
Arts. Professor Bob Brown served as
director of the annual event.
Competing in two divisions according
to sizes of the schools, the bands
represented included Ahoskie, Mur
freesboro, Gates County, Northampton
East, Manteo, John A. Holmes, Apex,
Perquimans, Bertie Senior and
Nasemond-Suffolk.
Winning first place honors and
declared "Band of the Day”, Bertie
Senior High School’s Marching Band
was awarded $500.00, donated by the
Belk-Tyler Stores of eastern North
Carolina. The Band performed at
halftime of the football game.
Alumni activities for Homecoming in
cluded a morning reception on the brick
plaza by McDowell Columns and in the
faculty lounge of McDowell following
the football game. A luncheon was also
held for the returning alumni in the
President’s Dining Room of Thomas
Cafeteria. The Classes of 1958 and 1959,
holding a joint reunion during the
weekend, were guests at the luncheon.
In the afternoon football classic, the
Chowan Braves pounded the Cata
mounts of Potomac State, 33-0, before
an overflow crowd and in beautiful,
unseasonably warm fall weather.
President Bruce E. Whitaker crown
ed Miss Jill Wells, a sophomore art ma-
The 1984 Queen and Princess
Miss Jill Wells, left, Chowan's Homecoming Queen, is escorted from the field by Kevin Whitt, one of the
co-captains for the Homecoming football classic. At right, Milton Gore, co-captain, escorts Miss Kris McKay,
Freshman Princess. Dr. Whitaker, center, crowned the Queen and presented the Princess a bouquet of
flowers during the halftime ceremonies.
jor, as 1985 Homecoming Queen. She
received the crown and traditional kiss
from the President following the an
nouncement by Vint Tilson, Associate
Director of Development for Alumni.
Crowned Homecoming Princess was
Miss Kris McKay, a freshman physical
education major from Morehead City,
who received a bouquet of roses from
the President.
Homecoming Court
The Homecoming Court, selected by
vote of the student body, included
sophomores Jenny Burgess, Courtland,
Va.; Jeanne Norfleet, Roxobel; and
Anne Nicholson, Murfreesboro.
Freshmen members were Kathy Bor
relli, Goose Creek, S.C.; I^ne Win
dham, I^exington, S.C.; and Becky
Hawkins, Murfreesboro.
Homecoming activities concluded
Saturday night with a dance held in
I-akeside Student Center.
Homecoming Parade Entry
Residents of West Hall enjoyed the traditional Homecoming Parade and was one of many entries in the
caravan which toured Murfeesboro's Main Street. The parade was held prior to the bonfire and mock funeral,
conducted on the rear campus.
A Second Time Around!
"If I go on academic probation or have what I feel is a
poor showing for my first semester at Chowan Col
lege, why should I come back for a second.."
By D. H. NICHOLSON, Registrar
I am asked the preceding often by first
semester Chowan College students,
and my answer is generally an empha
tic yes for two important reasons. The
first is that a student has to see "going
off to college" as a chance to get away
from a relatively sheltered environment
into one where he is pretty much on his
own. The first semester at college com
presses an awfully lot of life and learn
ing into a very short period of time.
From the ego-bruising in the classroom
to the humiliation of folding of his own
underwear in the laundryroom, to the
new "greenie," the first semester at col
lege is a rude awakening to the rites of
adulthood. Besides learning how to live
with the new freedom to move about
anytime day or night, besides adjusting
to having to share his room with some
one else for the first time, besides dis
covering new members of the opposite
sex and biology, the first semester stu
dent also learns about the need to
budget his time and money to survive
the college experience. Getting away
from home and coming to college are
like nothing else that has ever hap
pened to him.
The second reason is that a poor first
semester does not automatically mean
a poor second semester. A student has
to give college a chance to "sink in." The
adjustment to a totally new learning
experience is a hard one to make for all
of us. Most students continue to make
such an adjustment throughout their en
tire college career. The hard work,
however, of such an adjustment is well
worth it in the sense of self- confidence.
The student who succeeds in college
knows that he has been tested under
fire and that he has been tempered by
the experience. That student is better
for having survived. He has more to
offer in the relationships which will be a
part of his personal and professional
life as a productive, responsible person
in an increasingly complex and de
manding world. To return for a second
semester after a poor first one is like
taking a second step after a stumbling
first one .. the second can let him get his
balance.