Chowan College
April, 1989
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Volume 17
Number 5
A Week of Fun
Spring Festival Is Here
Spring Festival ’89 — It all began
on April 16th and does not end until
April 22nd. The Spring Festival
looks like a very promising event
with all of the activities that have
been set up for usi This is a time for
us all to drop down from the serious
side of college and have a little fun
and relaxation. So let’s all go out
there and have a great and safe Spr
ing Festival. After all, we really
deserve it for all the hard work we
have done.
Summer Projects
Offered in Africa,
Caribbean
Operation Crossroads Africa, Inc.
a non-profit organization focusing
on international development and
cross-cultural exchange, is entering
its 31st year of voluntary service
throughout Africa and the Carib
bean. In 1988, its 18 projects in 9
African countries included medical
relief assistance in Ghana, and
Sierra Leone as well as agricultural,
construction and anthropology pro
jects in Kenya, Tanzania, Senegal,
The Gambia, Cote d’Ivoire,
Bostwana and Lesotho. In the Carib
bean, projects in construction,
education, and agriculture took
place in 7 Caribbean nations, in
cluding: Jamaica, Anguilla, Bar
bados, Costa Rica, St. Lucia, An
tigua, and Grenada.
Founded over thirty years ago by
Dr. James H. Robinson, Crossroads
whose example inspired the creation
of the Peace Corps, has sent more
than 8,000 volunteers to 34 African
countries and 1600 high school par
ticipants to 18 Caribbean islands
and the newly independent Central
American country of Belize. This
unique experience provides a brief,
but intense immersion into societies
with traditional and modern in
fluences and forces individuals to
reexamine basic attitudes, stan
dards, and beliefs in relation to peo
ple with contrasting values and life
styles.
Crossroads is actively seeking high
school and college-age students to
participate in this year’s community
development programs in rural
Caribbean and African villages. The
seven week projects in Africa which
are sponsored jointly by Crossroads
and the governments of the different
African countries will involve
specialized projects in medicine,
nursing, community development,
archaeology, architectural
photography, and agriculture. In the
Caribbean, Crossroads sponsors
high school-age students to assist
villagers in rural locations on
English-, French-, Spanish-, and
Dutch-speaking islands.
Both volunteer and leader posi
tions are open. Persons interested in
applying should contact Crossroads
Africa, 150 Fifth Avenue, Suite 310,
New York, New York 10011, phone
(212)242-8550 or (800)242-AFRICA.
Spring Festival Schedule of Events
Sunday, April 16, 1989
8;00p.m. ■ ll:00p.m Movie, Free popcorn and
pepsi, Lakeside Student Center
Monday, April 17, 1989
5:00 p.m. Scavenger Hunt, Squirrel Park
6:00 p.m Queen’s Banquet, President’s Room
8:00 p.m Game Night, Lakeside Student Center
Tuesday, April 18, 1989
3:00 p.m Jello Fight, TEA
8:00 p.m Talent Show, Turner Auditorium
Wednesday, April 19, 1989
3:00 p.m. . . . Softball Game (Freshmen/Sophomores)
TEA
Thursday, April 20, 1989
7:00 p.m Pizza Night. Lakeside Student Center
8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m 20/20, Lakeside Student
Center
Friday, April 21, 1989
4:00 p.m Dinner in the Park
5:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m Concert. Savannah
Saturday, April 22, 1989
2:45 p.m Coronation, TEA
3:15 p.m Ice Cream, TEA
4:30 p.m Dinner in the Park
8:00 p.m. - 12:00 p.m Dance (outside)
Band, Redymix
Monday, April 17, 1989; Dr.
Michael Sternberg spoke at the
freshman assembly.
Dr. Michael Sternberg is an op
tometrist in Williamsburg, 'Virginia.
He graduated from Chowan in 1972.
He was an honor student and Presi
dent of the SGA. He was also named
to Who’s Who Among Students in
Junior Colleges.
After graduating-Jrom Chowjin
with the associate degree in pre
optometry, he was accepted for study
at Southern College of Optometry in
Memphis, Tennessee, where he
earned his degree in Optometry.
Dr. Sternberg met his wife at
Chowan. She was working with the
college as secretary to Dean Lewis.
Dr. and Mrs. Sternberg have two
children; Matthew, age 5 and Sierra,
age 6 months.
Dr. Sternberg has been in private
practice in Williamsburg for 13
years.
Wednesday, April 19, 1989; Ben
nie E. Hudson spoke for the
sophomore assembly.
Randy Bratton:
Lakeside Worker
For Eight Years
By Zachary Wilson
Randy Bratton has been working
in the student center for 8 years.
Randy is originally from Reidsville,
N.C. Mr. Bratton is a graduate of
the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, class of 1980. He is a
teacher at Hertford County High
School. He teaches foreign language
(french & spanish ). Randy says that
he enjoys working here even though
teaching is different at school. Ran
dy finds students easy to get along
with.
After serving four years in the
U.S. Air Force, Hudson enrolled at
Chowan. In 1976 he graduated with
the associates degree in business ad
ministration. While at Chowan, he
earned a grade point average of
3.240. In 1977 he received the B.S.
degree in business adminstration
from Atlantic Christian College in
Wilson.
Since graduating from Atlantic
Christian College, Mr. Hudson has
been employed with banks and
credit unions except for a three-year
period when he was with Hardee’s
Food Systems as Lead Distribution
Plant Accountant.
Since 1987, Mr. Hudson has been
Vice President of Duke University
Federal Credit Union in Durham.
Alpha Beta Gamma
Holds Initiation
Beta Tau Chapter of Alpha Beta
Gamma held its Annual Initiation
on March 13, 1989 in Robert Marks
Hall auditorium. To be eligible for
membership in Alpha Beta Gamma,
a student must be enrolled in a
business curriculum in a junior or
community college or a two year ac
credited program within a college or
university. The student must have
completed 15 credit hours with at
least 12 hours of his/her work being
in courses leading to a degree
recognized by his/her institution. In
addition to these requirements, a
student must also be of good moral
character, must possess recognized
qualities of citizenship, and must
have established academic ex
cellence of a 3.0 GPA or its
equivalent in business courses as well
as a 3.0 overall average.
Beta Tau Chapter current
members are William Calvin Burns,
Trillis N. Campbell, Karen Anne
Davis, Matthew Lane Gunn, Jac
queline Rae Head, Donna Jo
Phillips, Edna Annie Ruffin, Gor
don Lee Saunders, Jr., Jennifer Rae
Stephens.
Beta Tau Chapter initiates were
Gary Duane Campbell, Beverly Ann
Deloatch, Norman Robert Foster,
Kevin Lydell Johnson, Lori Patricia
Jones, Janerose Waniiku Kinyaniui,
Robin Michelle Lee, Lisa Hope
Mizelle, Sean Douglas Mullaly,
Suwong Saekim, Gena Margarette
Salmon, Robert Wilson Stewart.
Sponsors of the organization are
Renee Drake and Pat Edwards.
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Former Chowan Students
Speak at Assemblies
Karen Anne Davis
Karen Davis
Receives Scholarship
A Chowan College sophomore
Karen Anne Davis has received the
Tidewater Chapter Data Processing
Management Association (DPMA)
Scholarship.
She is the daughter of Southern
Baptist missionaries, the Rev.
Donald L. and Mary Anne Davis.
When she was five, her family lived
in Costa Rica for a year of Spanish
studies. They moved to Uruguay
where she attended schools. Karen
graduated from Phoebus High
School in Hampton, VA., while her
parents were on furlough. She came
to Chowan in the fall of 1987.
As a freshman, she served on the
Jenkins Hall Dorm Council. Her
other campus activities include
Alpha Beta Gamma, Phi Theta Kap
pa, Student Admissions Represen
tative, and North Carolina State In
ternational Committee for Student
Ministries. She serves as president of
the Baptist Student Union/Campus
Christian Fellowship and DPMA.
Karen Davis plans to transfer to
Campbell University to seek a dou
ble major ih Computer Information
Systems and Spanish. “I would like
to combine computer and language
skills in my future career,” she com
mented. Her sister, Sharon, is a
32 Chowan Students
Selected for Who’s Who
Maintenance T ruck
Goes Under Water
Thursday night March 23, some
person(s) decided to have some so-
called fun. This so-called fun was to
push one of the maintenance trucks
into Lake Vann. The barriers that
are behind the vehicles to keep
this from hapf>ening were of no use,
because the culprit(s) pushed the
vehicle forward and around a
backhoe. From here they proceeded
to push it into the lake. Evidently no
traces concerning who/whom did
this were left behind, because no one
was apprehended.
Housing plans on pulling the
truck out of the lake as soon as the
weather permits them to do so. Ac
cording to Mr. Hassel the body of
the truck is no good. He also said
that the clutch was no use. Although
the body and clutch are shot the
motor is still in good shape.
If anyone who knows any informa
tion that can help lead to the ap
prehension of the person(s) involved
in this immature act, their help
would be greatly appreciated.
According to Dean Lewis the
pushing of a vehicle into Lake Vann
was last done about three to four
years ago. Also the event has not
been forgotten and they will still look
for the perpetrator(s).
The 1989 edition of WHO’S WHO
AMONG STUDENTS IN
AMERICAN JUNIOR COLLEGES
will include the names of 32 students
from Chowan who have been selected
as national outstanding campus
leaders.
Campus nominating committees and
editors of the annual directory have
included the names of these students
based on their academic achievement,
service to the community, leadership
in extracurricular activities and
potential for continued success.
They join an elite group of students
selected from more than 1,400 in
stitutions of higher learning in all 50
states, the District of Columbia and
several foreign countries.
Outstanding students have been
honored In the annual directory since
it was first published in 1934.
Students named this year, their
hometowns and the high schools they
graduated from, are; Martin Aubre
Agee, Louisa, Va., Louisa County
High School; Kristen D. Bair,
Wilmington, Del., Wilmington;
Stephen C. Baker, Jr., Charlotte,
Indpendence; William C. Bridgers,
Murfreesboro, and William Calvin
Burns, Como, both from Mur
freesboro High School; Gary Duane
Campbell, Norge, Va., Lafayette;
Karen Ann Davis and Sharon Rose
Davis, both of Uruquay, Pheobus;
David William Edwards and Yolanda
Kay Faile, both of Murfreesboro and
Ridgecroft School.
Jennifer Grooters, Virginia Beach,
Va., Frank W. Cox; John Marshall
Hazelton, Murfreesboro, Ridgecroft;
Jonathan Roy Hoggard, Lewiston,
Bertie; Christina Lynn King, Cary,
Apex Senior; Kevin Scott Matheson,
Lenoir, West Caldwell; Dar.iel Keith
McGinnis, King George, Va., King
George; Lisa Hope Mizelle,
Harrellsville, Ridgecroft; Pamela
Ann Mullins, Cary, Apex Senior;
Carla Ruth Osborne, Creston,
Northwest Ashe; Donna Jo Phillips,
Murfreesboro; Robert E. Prince, II,
Fuquay-Varina, Fuquay; Edna Annie
Ruffm, Ahoskie, Ridgecroft.
Also David Hardy Sanders,
Raleigh, Athens Drive; Gordon Lee
Saunders, Jr., Smithfield, Va., Isle of
Wight Academy; Richard Jeffery
Seymour, Elizabeth City, Nor
theastern; Carol Renee Stansbury,
Roanoke Rapids, Murfreesboro;
Robert Wilson Stewart, Woodland,
Socastee; Danielle Marie White,
Raleigh, Millbrook Senior; Corey
Percell Winston, Montpelier, Va.,
Louisa County; Sonja Carol Woods,
Hurdle Mills, Orange; John Edward
Wooten, Murfreesboro, Mur
freesboro; and Jonathan Mark Wynns,
Columbia, Columbia.
third-year art student at Chowan.
She thanked the Chowan DPMA
and its sponsor, Mrs. Hattie Jones,
for their support in giving her the op
portunity to apply and compete for
the scholarship. She called the
scholarship “an honor.”
Concerning her student days at
Chowan she exclaimed, “To me,
Chowan will always be my ‘home
away from home.’ I have made'many
friends here, whom I will always
remember. My two years at Chowan
have prepared me for transfer to
Campbell University where I plan to
pursue the B.A. degree.”
Waiting List
For Private Rooms
No loans will be made from the
Keiji Iwamoto Emergency Loan
Fund after Friday, April 14. All
loans must be paid no later than
May 1st.
Applications for financial aid for
next year and summer school should
already be filed. If you have not filed
and wish to be considered for aid for
1989-90, you must come by the
Financial Planning Office and
discuss your situation with us. You
are expected to turn in your Federal
Student Aid Reports (several green
sheets and one white) before you
leave campus for the summer. You
also need to complete and turn in
your Stafford Loan (Guaranteed
Student Loan) application before go
ing home.
If you are transferring, you will
need to have a Financial Aid
Transcript sent to the college you
will attend.
Important
Financial Aid
Information
The deadlines for the advance
payment of $100 is April 1, 1989.
You do not need the $100 to sign up
for your room. Those who want
private rooms are put on a waiting
list. Due to increasing applications,
rooms will not be assigned until the
summer. Calls will be made to your
home to notify you of your private
rooms. The approximate count of
students next semester prior to
March 14 for freshman and retim
ing is 372. This is up by 69 students
or a 22.7% increase. Pre-registration
will begin April 17.