Alexander Heads program
A former youth work
experience prbgram
director for Harlem high
school dropouts has been
employed by College of The
Albemarle to coordinate a
new program for disad
vantaged students.
Dr. E. Curtis Alexander
Dr. E. Curtis Alexander
'"will initiate the Bridges
Program, a Human
Resources Development
look-alike plan which has
the goal of preparing
disadvantaged students for
additional education or job
training.
It is funded by a CETA
Title 11, Governor’s Special
Project Award grant. The
program will be conducted
under the auspices of COA’s
Continuing Education
Division.
Alexander said his first
concern will be to assemble
a staff. The program will
use the services of three
part-time employees, in
cluding an instructor, a
counselor, and a secretary.
The coordinator explained
that the program will
consist of three, eight-week
cycles, with a total of 15
students in each segment.
He said students who are
. engaged in on-going CETA
programs within COA’s
service area will be selected
to participate.
The first cycle will begin
« February 1, 1982. A com
pletion date of September 30
b has been established for Uie
' program.
Three main objectives'
have been set. The first is
directed toward leading
, students who have not
completed high school to
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enroll in the college’s
General Education
Development (GED)
program, And those who
show potential for further
vocational training or
regular college work will be
encouraged to pursue those
ends, Alexander said.
He emphasized that the
main thrust of the Bridges
Program will be to develop
employment-positive at
titudes through individual
orientation and personal
development. Testing and
counseling services are
designed to assist students
to establish clear job goals,
based on each individuars
potential.
Clayton Morrisette,
continuing education
director, said Alexander has
accumulated an impressive
list of teaching and ad
ministrative credits. His
classroom experience
ranges from kindergarten
through the college
graduate level, Morrisette
said, and he has ad
ministered several in
novative educational
programs.
Alexander is a 1967,
graduate from Norfolk State
University with a bachelor’s
degree in sociology. He
earned his master of science
degree in education from
Bank Street College of
Education in New York City
in 1971, and received a
second master’s degree and
his doctorate from
Teacher’s College at
Columbia University.
Since 1967, Alexander has
been engaged in a number of
post graduate studies in
both the United States and
abroad. He participated in
summer studies at
universities in three African
nations as well as a study
tour of Russia.
He is the author of
numerous published ar
ticles, and has received a
number of awards in
recognition of his leadership
and community service
activities.
Alexander resides in
Chesapeake, Ya,, with his
wife, Barbara, who taught
business education at COA
during the 1977.-78 aca
demic year. The couple
are the parents of
four children.
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GRANT ANNOUNCED Dr. J. Parker Chesson, Jr., College of The Albemarle
president, and J. Stanley Peel, vice president and city executive at Wachovia Bank and
Trust Company’s Elizabeth City office, discuss the benefits to be gained from the $250,000
Wachovia Technical Scholarship Program endowment which was initiated throughout the
state’s community college system today. COA will be one of 37 institutions to receive an
annual grant for technical students. (COA Photo)
Mrs. Nellie Dowd, 80, Taken In Death
SPRINGFIELD, Mass.
Mrs. Nellie Griffin Dowd,
80, of Springfield, Mass.,
mother of the late Larry M.
Dowd of Edenton, died
Friday in a Springfield
hospital.
A native of Ireland, she
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was the widow of Timothy
Dowd and was a Catholic.
She is survived by a
daughter, Mrs. Cecilia
O’Shea of Chicopee, Mass.;
a daughter-in-law, Mrs.
Jennette Dowd of Edenton;
and nine grandchildren.
Name Omitted
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Four local youths were
given suspended sentences
in Chowan County District
Court on the charge of
firelighting deer. Judge
Richard Parker of Manteo
sentenced each to 90 days,
suspended for two years
upon payment of $250 fine
and costs. They were or
dered not to go hunting in
1981 and 1982. Among those
involved in the case was
William Alfred Whichard,
Jr., whose name was ac
cidentially omitted from the
story which appeared in the
December 10 edition of The
Chowan Herald.
Edenton, North Carolina, Thursday, December 17, 1981
four of whom live in the
Edenton area.
A funeral mass was
celebrated Monday at 10
A.M. in Springfield.
Information was supplied
by Swindell-Bass Funeral
Home.
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COA Sharing Endowment
College of The Albemarle
will be one of 37 institutions
in the state’s community
college system to share a
$250,000 endowment to
support scholarships for
technical training which
was established Friday by
Wachovia Bank and Trust
Company.
Announcement of the gift,
a first in the system’s
history, was made
simultaneously by Gov.
James B. Hunt, Jr. at
Forsyth Technical Institute
in Winston-Salem, and J.
Stanley Peel, Wachovia vice
president and city executive
in Elizabeth City.
“For more than 20 years.
College of The Albemarle
has aggressively served the
technical and job-training
needs of Pasquotank
citizens as well as those in
six neighboring Albemarle
Area counties,” Peel said
this morning. “Being a
participant in the Wachovia
Technical Scholarship
Program will allow the
college to meet these needs
more fully.”
He said income from the
$250,000 grant will provide
50 scholarships, valued at
SSOO each, for the 37 schools
in the bank’s service areas.
Thirteen remaining
scholarships will be
allocated according to
enrollment in technical
training programs at the
participating institutions.
Peel explained that one of
the primary considerations
of his firm in initiating the
gift is its concern over the
problem of unemployment
and underemployment in
North Carolina.
“It became apparent to
Wachovia that many
desirable jobs are going
unfilled because there are
not enough people with the
necessary technical skills,”
he said. “On the other hand,
the state has a unique
system of community
colleges and technical in
stitutes which are eager and
prepared to train people to
fill these jobs.”
The first scholarship will
be awarded in the fall of
1982, to a second-year
student enrolled in one of the
right technical programs
offered at COA. The SSOO
grant is anticipated to cover
the cost of tuition, books,
and transportation.
Students will be selected
on the basis of need and
individual performance
during their first year of
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training. A committee
composed of Andrew H.
Williams, current COA
board chairman, Peel, and
one area citizen to be named
by them, will determine the
recipient of the scholarship.
Dr. J. Parker Chesson, Jr.,
COA president, will serve as
ex-officio member.
At a news conference in
Winston-Salem this mor
ning, Gov. Hunt said, “This
statewide scholarship
program will give a
significant boost to our high
skill training efforts.
Wachovia is to be com
mended for making it
possible for more students
to earn degrees in technical
fields.”
Hunt said the establish
ment of the financial
assistance program is
“exactly the kind of help our
community colleges need
from the business com
munity as they train more
citizens for the high-paying
jobs we are bringing to the
state ”
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