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FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1985
VOLUME 14
Number 3
» STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF CHOWAN COLLEGE
Lady Braves make history;
play in National Tournament
PRAISES FOR THE COACH—Coach McKeel, left,i is greeted with cheers
from her team as the group entered Helms Center for the welcome home
celebration last week.
Faculty members attend
ECU business conference
Members of Chowan’s Business
Department attended the Atlantic
Coast Business and Distributive Educa
tion Conference at the Sheraton Inn in
Greenville, February 22-23.
Members of the faculty attending
were: Mrs. Dorothy A. Wallace, chair
man; Professors Hope Qark, Lee
Deavours, Andrea Eason, Cynthia
Grady, Hattie Jones, L. M. Wallace and
Thomas E. Ruffin, Jr. Professor
George Hazelton, who teaches in both
the Business and Science departments,
also attended the conference.
Sponsored by ECU
The educational session is sponsored
annually by the Business Education
and Administrave Services department
of the School of Technology, East
Carolina University, and is designed to
provide insights on improving the in
struction and learning of students for
and about business.
The conference program was
developed around the theme
Short leads
Religious
Emphasis
Robert Short, a Chicago, Illinois
author, teacher, theologian was the
featured speaker during annual
Religious Emphasis Week, March
11-15.
Short made presentations before the
student body during the chapel-
assembly hours on Monday, March 11
and Wednesday, March 13. In addition
to the appearances before the entire
campus community. Short gave slide-
lecture presentations on Monday and
Tuesday evenings, March 11 and 12.
A native of Texas, Robert Short has
worked as a professional actor with the
Margo Jones Theater in Dallas. He was
a director in the production department
of WFAA-TV in Dallas, and later served
as the Director of Radio and Television
for the Dallas Council of Churches.
While a graduate student at Southern
Methodist University, he directed the
Wesley Players acting group.
Receiving his B.A. from Oklahoma
University, he holds the Master of
Divinity degree from Perkins School of
Theology, Southern Methodist Univer
sity. After work on his degree in
Religious Studies in Theology and
Literature at the Divinity School of the
University of Chicago, he has com
pleted considerable work toward his
PH. D. in Theology at Garrett
Evangelical Seminary in Evanston, IL.
Robert Short is the author of “The
Gospel According to Peanuts,” the No.
1 non-fiction best seller in 1965 and one
of the top ten all-time religious best
sellers in the United States. Constantly
, continuing to break sales records, and
now translated into eight foreign
languages, this unique book has
become one of the most popular modem
religious books throughout the world.
Subsequent writing, including “The
Parables of Peanuts” (1968), “A Time
To Be Bom - A Time To Die” (1973),
and “Something To Believe In" (1978),
have also attracted wide favorable at
tention because of their unusual and
creative approaches to the Christian
faith.
“Strategies for Excellence in Business
and Distributive Education.”
Topics fori presentation and discus
sion included “The Impact of Elec
tronic Infohnation Systems on the
Business Curriculum,” “Marketing or
Business Simulation—CORPLAN
(hand on),”' “Methods of Improving
Typewriting and Keyboarding Ac
curacy,” “Placement, Content and
Purpose of the Keyboarding Course,”
“Keyboarding in the Computer Aye,"
“Using Worstar on the Microcom
puter,” “‘Introduction to LOTUS 1-2-3:
Graphics, 'Data Base and Spread
sheet,” and “Business Instructional
Software.”
Experts Speak
Other session topics included
“Teaching Entrepreneurship, Free
Enterprise and Economics,”
“Marketing Your MPE Program Effec
tively,” and “Small Business in the
Year 2000.”
Experts from North Carolina, South
Carolina, and from states as far away
as Wisconsin, Michigan, Texas, New
York, New Jersey and Ohio worked
with teachers *0 make it possible for
them to do their jobs better and more
efficiently.
These experts were brought to the
conference because they are “on the
leading edge” of what business, in
dustry, government, and other employ
ing agencies and organizations expect
individuals to know and to be able to do
to begin working in business,
marketing, and office careers im
mediately upon gradi^tion from a
secondary or postsecondary school.
They are also experts in curriculum
development in business education and
methods of teaching.
Claim titles
in conference,
Region X
Valerie Boyd came off the bench with
less than two minutes left in the NJCAA
Region X Junior College Womens'
Tournament and scored the last six
points for Chowan College to pave the
way for a 59-57 win over Mt. Olive and a
first ever trip to the womens’ junior
college tournament for the l^Ay
Braves.
The Lady Braves made history by
winning for the first time the con
ference regular season championship,
the conference tournament champion
ship and the the Region X champion
ship.
Boyd’s three-for-three performance
put the Lady Braves up by two points
after trailing by four points, 57-53, with
1:50 remaining. The sparkplug for
Chowan drove for the go ahead basket
with 19 seconds left in the game to give
Chowan a 59-57 win. Boyd’s six points
came off of two 15 foot jumpers and the
drive down the lane.
A last second shot by Mt. Olive’s
Angie Anthony would not fall for the
Trojans.
Chowan posted a six point lead at the
half and increased their lead to eight
points in the opening minutes of the se
cond half. Mt. Olive put together a rally
on their home court and pulled ahead
57-53 at the 1 ;50 to go mark.
Boyd’s ballhandling also kept the
Trojans at bay for a while, but Mt. Olive
came up with a steal with five seconds
showing on the clock. Anthony’s shot
fell short and Chowan left the floor with
the win and a trip to the national finals.
Brown All-Toumament
All-Tournament team selection
Matisha Brown paced the Chowan scor
ing with 15 points and was aided by Kel
ly Myers’ and Sharon Gillard’s 12 points
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CH«unnN«tiip
G/FTS FOR THE TEAM—Athletic Director James Garrison, right, presents
Coach Belinda McKeel a tee shirt from the NJCAA Women's National
Tournament, and announced that each member of the team would
receive a similar gift.
each. Brown picked off 12 rebounds and
Myers and Gillard added 10 rebounds
each, Willy McClease handed out eight
assists.
Gillard was chosen the tournament’s
MVP.
Chowan had beaten Brevard B4-63 in
the opening round of the Region X
tourney to advance to the championship
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ARRIVING FROM MISSISSIPPI—The Lady Braves,
escorted by Murfreesboro police, arrived at Helms
Center to be greeted by students, faculty and fans.
The group was returning from national basketball
tournament competition in Senotobla, Mississippi, the
first time ever a Chowan team was represented.
game against Mt. Olive. In the opening
round, Chowan jumped out to an 11-3
lead over Brevard, but Brevard had
closed within two, 29-27 at the half.
Scores in Last 5 Seconds
The final period was mostly a basket
trading parade and Brevard was able to
pull out to a 55-51 advantage with 5
minutes left in the game. With 5
seconds remaining in the game and
Chowan down by one point, Matisha
Brown sunk a basket for a 64-63 Chowan
lead.
After a Brevard time out, Chowan
deflected the inbounds pass and
Brevard called a second time out with
five seconds on the clock. Brevard lost
the ball out of bounds as time ran out.
Brown led the Braves’ scoring with 20
points and hauled in 14 rebounds.
Brown, McClease and Gillard were
tabbed as All-Conference team
members. (3iowan was only team to
place three players on the All-
Conference team. Brown was named to
the All-Tournament team.
Coach of the Year
Coach Belinda McKeel was named
Coach of the Year in the Eastern
Tarheel Conference.
McKeel says Boyd has ‘come
through for us in five or six games in
that fashion.”
Boyd, says McKeel, is good enough to
start, but has been used mostly as a
“safety valve.”
“She can make it happen,” explains
the Chowan coach. Also cited by
McKeel were Gillard, McClease and
Brown. McKeel says it has been a total
team effort which has made the season
as successful as it has been this year,
NJCAA competition
After jumping to a 16-2 margin in the
first seven minutes of their opening
game, Chowan’s Lady Braves rode to a
29 point performance by center Matisha
Brown to an 89-51 runaway win over
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Large crowd
welcomes
team home
The Chowan Lady Braves, with
Coach McKeel, were greeted with
thundering cheers and applause last
Wednesday night as they returned from
their first trip ever to the National
NJCAA Women’s tournament in
Senatobia, Mississippi.
The Lady Braves, escorted by local
police officers, arrived at Helms Center
for the “welcome home” program
which was broadcast live on
Mufreesboro's radio station.
McKeel’s squad gained entrance to
the national tournament by winning the
conference regular season title, the
conference tournament championship
and the Region X crown. The Lsdy
Braves had little difficulty in defeating
Orange County Community College in
the opening round of the national
classic, but suffered defeat at the hands
of the much taller Crowder Community
College team the following night.
Members of the 1984-85 Lady Braves
were: Valerie Boyd, Matisha Brown,
Lisa Cristian, Glenda Dailey, Beth
Dodge, Andrea Gilliam, Sharon
Gillard, Tersa Hinton, Wanda Liver-
man, Wilahema McClease, Ava Karen
McCluire, Sue Morrison, Kelly Myers,
Cleo Roberson.
Mayor Speaks
Dr. Hargus Taylor, Chaplain to the
College, presided at the welcome home
celebration. The Honorable Billy Hill,
Mayor of Mufreesboro, praised the
team for the significant ac
complishments made during the
season, and expressed genuine ap
preciation for the Lady Braves “putting
CJiowan and Mufreesboro on the map”
and gaining national recognition.
Dr. Bruce E. Whitaker, President of
the College, thanked the team and
coach for a job “well done”, and added
that the performance and ac
complishments of the Lady Braves
would serve only to “further strengthen
the athletic programs at Chowan Col
lege.”
Coach is Praised
Athletic Director James Garrison
praised Coach McKeel, who is com
pleting her first year of coaching
responsibilities at the college. Garrison
pointed out that McKeel began her
duties sometime after the opening of
school last August, and said that she
had “done a magnificent job” in taking
over the team and guiding the squad to
the national tournament.
Garrison presented the coach and
each of the players and managers a
printed tee shirt signifying their com
petition on the national level.
C^ch McKeel expressed apprecia
tion for the “welcome home” celebra
tion and introduced the members of the
squad. She told of the player’s deter
mination to win and cited the many oc
casions when individual players would
not allow personal injuries to put them
on the sidelines. McKeel related the
disappointment experienced in losing
the second game to Oowder College,
but said the team would like to reflect
upon “the accomplishments of the
season”.
In closing moments of the celebra
tion, Dr. Taylor cited the championship
banners obtained by the men’s basket
ball squad, and which are on display in
Helms Onter. He said that the college
community is proud that banners won
by the women’s team will now be proud
ly displayed.