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Rotary District Govonor M. Wade "Andy" Jackson (right) met
with Chowan College Rotaract President Gregory Allen
Wright and later spoke to members of the Chowan Student
body about PolioPlus.
Members of the Chowan College Rotaract Club, an affiliate
of Rotary International ond sponsored by the Murfreesboro
Rotary Club, want to raise $1,000 for PolioPlus during the
1987-88 term.
Rotarians all over the world have launched a fund-raising
goal of $120,000,000 to finance PolioPlus. A gift of $1 will
Immunize 12 children against polio.
Returning
in the
Fall?
A $100.00 deposit is
due by April 1, 1988
to pre-register for
classes and to
secure dormatory
room requests.
Chowan College
Operating under sound conditions
Chowan College trustees reelected
Robert B. Spivey of Windsor as chair
man and Miss Emma Gay Stephenson
of Pendleton as vice chairman and
heard reports on the progress of finan
cial campaigns and the institutional
self-study in the office of President
Bruce E. Whitaker.
E. L. HoUowell of Edenton was
reelected chairman and Mike H.
Johnson of Hamilton was elected vice
chairman of the Executive Committee
during the semi-annual meeting also at
tended by the advisors. Other Ex
ecutive Committee members, in addi
tion to Spivey and Stephenson, are J. E.
Ferebee, Camden; Thomas M. Mc
Crary, Raleigh; Walter Frank Rose,
Jr., Ahoskie; H. Douglas White, Rocky
Mount; and Edwin L. Williams,
Kinston.
Dr. Whitaker reported that the col
lege is headed toward operating in the
black for the 30th straight year. He
stressed “the sound financial condition
of the college.” Whitaker will begin his
32nd year as Chowan’s chief ad
ministrator in May.
He emphasized the importance of the
“financial support and encourage
ment” given by North Carolina Bap
tists and the Baptist State Convention of
North Carolina. He said the college is
scheduled to receive over. $950,000
under the budget of the Baptist State
Convention in 1988, subject to the con
vention meeting its budget.
In other financial matters, Spivey
reported that Chowan has received
over $2.5 million in pledges and gifts in
its campaign to raise $4 million. Spivey,
campaign chairman, said the funds will
provide additional student aid- scholar
ships, endowment for teaching and ad
ministration, program development,
and the renovation of facilities.
Spivey thanked advisor Mrs. Robert
F. (Texie Cfunp) Marks of Boykins,
Va., who is the honorary chairman, and
the other members of the campaign
committee for their leadership.
Spivey stressed the importance of
“successfully completing the camg^ign
to provide the college and its students
the resources and support they need.”
He said he was confident that, with the
assistance of the trustees and advisors,
Chowan would reach its goal.
Staff member Vint Tilson reported
that over $70,000 has been raised in
pledges and gifts toward the 1987-88 An
nual Giving Program goal of $125,000.
He said this includes over $26,000 from
the Alumni Loyalty Fund and over
$44,000 from the Annual Giving Fund.
He challenged the trustees and advisors
to continue their efforts to help the col
lege reach its goal.
After hearing a report from Business
Manager Ben Suttoh, the trustees ap
proved a $300 increase in tuition, room
and board and fees for the 1989-90 year.
Sutton explained that North Carolina
residents will receive a $1,000
legislative tuition grant that the
General Assembly provides in-state
students to attend one of North
Carolina’s private colleges.
Dean of the College B. Franklin
Lowe, Jr. reported on the progress of
the institutional self-study which each
accredited college must undergo every
ten years leading to the reaffirmation
of its accreditation.
Dr. Lowe said Chowan’s accredita
tion was last reaffirmed in 1978. He said
the reaffirmation committee from the
Southern Association of Colleges and
Schools visited the campus for four
days to evaluate all phases of the opera
tion of the college.
Lowe said the visit of the committee
climaxed a two and one-half year in
stitutional self-study by Chowan. He
said that at the end of their four-day
visit, the committee had given Chowan
a “very complimentary report.” He
said the report was “positive and objec
tive.”
He said the college is on schedule to
receive reaffirmation of its accredita
tion in December.
Whitaker reported on the college’s
endowed scholarships. He said they in
clude general, athletics, business,
English, fine arts, graphic communica
tions, ministerial/church related,
science, and social sciences.
Whitaker said Chowan has made
“great progress” in receiving endowed
scholarship funding from alumni and
other friends. “Many deserving young
men and women, both from within
North Carolina and without, would not
be able to attend Chowan if it were not
for these scholarships. We are ap
preciative of all of the individuals and
groups who have provided these funds
to help young people.” Whitaker said
the total value of the endowed scholar
ships is $2.5 million.
Tilson reported on three new endow
ed scholarships proposed by Mr. and
Mrs. Charles W. Ripley, Sr. of
Festival
Saturday
April 23,1988
Everyone’s invited!
Come one, come all!
Greensboro, and Chowan alumni, Mr.
and Mrs. Lawrence W. Myers of
Ahoskie and Mr. and Mrs. Ben Ussery
of Richmond. At the recommendation
of Dr. Whitaker, trustees approved the
establishment of the scholarships.
In other action, trustees approved
resolutions to the memory of former
trustees George E. Gibbs, formerly of
Murfreesboro, and Ethel Lillie Knott
Smith of Benson; and resolutions of ap
preciation for Bobby Shelton Cross.
Gibbs, who served Chowan for over
four decades as a volunteer leader and
supporter, died July 20,1987. Beginning
in 1944, he served four terms as a
trustee including chairman of the Ex
ecutive Committee.
The resolutions emphasized, “Ge
nuine concern for the well-being of the
college was also evidenced through his
service as chairman of a local commit
tee soliciting funds to reopen the col
lege, following suspension of operations
in 1943; membership on the Building
and Grounds Committee; and his per
sonal benevolence towards achieving
both the capital needs and the endow
ment of goals of Chowan College.”
The resolutions commended his
“devotion of the mission of Christian
higher education” and “his example of
Christian stewardship.”
Mrs. Smith served two terms on the
Board of Trustees including service as
vice chariman. She was also an advisor
the past two years. The resolutions
stated, “Our departed colleague
devoted over a quarter-century of ser
vice to the cause of Christian higher
education as teacher, librarian,
trustee, advisor, and a genuine friend of
all facets of those educational pro
grams which have been designed for
the intellectual, spiritual, and social
well- being of college youth.”
She was commended for “the record
of her service to Christian higher
education,” which was called “a model
of that kind of devotion which is re
quisite to the success of any educational
institution.” Mrs. Smith died on Feb. 7.
Due to ill health, Bobby Cross, who is
completing his 18th year as Director of
Development, was absent. The resolu
tions stated,, “Chowan has experienced
substantial growth and advancement
among those programs of institutional
concern over which he has exercised a
primary administrative responsibility,
including growth and advancement
through fund raising, alumni relations,
and general college relations with her
several constituencies during the
course of his tenure as director of
development.
'“Untiring diligence and zeal have
characterized his approach to all
aspects of his professional duties and
responsibilities.”
Continued the resolution, “Current ill
health is necessitating a curtailment of
his energies at a time when he would
most wish to continue about the
business of furthering that institutional
development to which he has commit
ted so much of his time and talent; his
heart and soul.”
Upon the recommendation of Dr.
Whitaker, trustees named Vint Tilson,
presently associate director of develop
ment, acting director of development.
Trustees who have completed their
four-year terms of service received cer
tificates of appreciation. They include:
Mrs. Grady P. Davis, Sr., Conway; M.
Frank Edwards, Jr., Rocky Mount;
Joseph C. Edwards, Jr., Pendleton;
Shelby M. Freeman, Morehead City;
Walter Monroe Gardner, Warrenton;
James A. Hunter, Hertford; Mrs. Nan
cy T. Lewis, Gatesville; Sen. Vernon E.
White, Winterville; and Dr. J. L.
Wilson, Winston-Salem.
Welcomed were new trustees: Mrs.
Kate Mackie Allen, Weldon; The Rev.
J. Felix Arnold, Enfield; L. M.
Brinkley, Sr., Ahoskie; A. Hartwell
Campbell, Raleigh; M. Frank Ed
wards, Jr., Rocky Mount; Bob F. Hill,
Sr., Murfreesboro; Mrs. Elizabeth H.
Maddrey, Eden; Charles L. Revelle,
ni, Murfreesboro; and M.E. Valentine,
Sr., Raleigh.
Arnold, who serves as advisor chair
man, recognized the new advisors:
Mrs. Grady P. Davis, Sr., Conway; Ed
win R. Evans, Jr., Ahoskie; Shelby M.
Freeman, Morehead City; Mrs. Mary
D. Kunkle, Portsmouth, Va.; Mrs. Nan
cy T. Lewis, Gatesville; Mrs. Mary
Alice Matthews, Williamston; Sen. Ver-
n.,.1 E. White, Winterville; and J.L.
Wilson, Winston-Salem.
Chairman Spivey called attention to
important spring semester events in
cluding Spring Parents Day, Feb. 20;
Baptist College Day, Feb. 21; Math/
Science Day, Mar. 11; Religious Em
phasis Week Mar. 14-18; Easter break,
Apr. 1-11; Spring Festival, April 23;
Honors Day, Apr. 29 and Commence
ment, May 15.
College receives
unrestricted grant
Chowan College has received an $800
unrestricted grant from the Sears-
Roebuck Foundation. The college is one
of 38 privately supported colleges and
universities in North Carolina to
receive unrestricted grants, totaling
more than $50,000.
The North Carolina colleges and
universities are amoung 934 private
accredited two and four year in
stitutions across the country which are
sharing in $1.75 million in Sears
Foundation funds for the 1987-88
academic year. Funds may be used as
the colleges and universities deem
necessary.
In addition to its unrestricted grant
program. The Sears-Roebuck Foun
dation each year conducts a variety of
other programs in elementary,
secondary, and higher education.
Altogether, the Foundation had ex
penditures of more than $3.5 million in
1988 for its education activities.
Stated Chowan President Bruce E.
Whitaker, “In behalf of the Chowan
College community, to include mem
bers of the Board of Trustees and Board
of Advisors, I express our genuine
appreciation and sincere gratitude for
this gift. We will use it to help needy and
deserving students on our campus this
year who need assistance in order to be
able to attend college.”
Easter Vacation
Happy
Begins:
Friday, April 1
at conclusion of classes.
Classes Resume:
Monday, April 11
at 8:00 a.m.