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THE CHOWANU CHOWAN COLLEGE, MURFREESBORO, N. C.
Thursday, June Id, 1924.
Letters Received At Chowan Indicate A
Growing Interest In Success Of College
Cape Charles, Va., May 12, 1924.
Dear Eunice: Love for my Alma
Mater has never waned. I feel very
proud of dear old Chowan, and es
pecially enjoy the “Chowanian.” En
closed you will find check (2.00.) One
is the subscription price for the
“Chowanian,” and the other is a
small contribution to the library fund.
My heart is in the cause, and I wish
I could give something really worth
while. j
Heartily and lovingly,
ORELIA B. P. WILLIAMS.
Virginia Beach, Va., May 30, 1924.
Dear Dr. Weaver: My trip to that
dear place at the recent commence
ment will surely prolong my life
many years, if happiness counts for
anything, for I enjoyed every minute
I was there.
Oh! It was such a joy to be there,
to see that dear old place again, and
to meet the “old girls.” If I just
had lots of money to help out, I would
be happier. I want to congratulate
you on the wonderful things you have
done, since you have been there.
There are many changes, but I liked
them, and if things continue as you
have started them, it surely will be
“the greatest little woman’s college
in the world.”
Thanking you so much for letting
us come and with best wishes.
Sincerely,
*ELIA JACKSON SIMPSON.
Wake Forst, N. C., May 21, 1924.
Dear Mrs. Weaver: Waverly and I
both had such a good time! You were
all so good to us, how could we help
it? Waverly lost his heart to the
place in general. I lost mine years
ago and found it again.
It just did m; good to see my Alma
Mater forging to the front and it's all
due to Dr. Weaver and dear Miss
Eunice. I have talked “Chowan”
ever since I came home and shall
continue to do so.
Please give my love to everybody,
especially Miss Eunice who hovered
over us “girls” as if we had been her
very own babies.
Again thanking you for your boun
tiful hospitality.
MARY W. DICKSON.
while at Dear Old Chowan. I am
sure there are many changes since
1878 as there are at the college. I
was very glad to seen in the Chowan
ian your success in getting the quota
of Library Books, and I am enclosing
check for $20.00 to add a few more,
with which, please purchase the books
and present them for me. I know
you feel very proud of the library and
your fine success. I enjoy reading
the Chowanian for it is a splendid
paper with improvement in every is
sue. In looking through the Chow
anian I saw the name of a classmate,
while attending a preparatory school
in Gates county, Prof. H. H. Williams
of the University of North Carolina,
Horace as I knew him, and the nice
number of books he donated to the
library. I also saw my father’s name
mentioned with the others for their
act of generosity for Chowan College,
and its progress since then. I wish
you much success in the future.
Sincerely,
MELISSA GREGORY.
Hickory^ Va., May 6, 1924.
Dear Eunice: The book of views
received and I appreciate so much
your kindness in sending it. Some of
them are very familiar and are a gen
tle reminder of my happy school days
Littleton, N. C., May 29, 1924.
“Dear Miss McDowell: Let me say
I am sorry to have been delayed in
writing you, after having enjoyed to
the fullfest your hospitality while at
my Alma Mater. I enjoyed every
minute of my stay and I appreciate
your every thought and kindness.
There are no words to express my
appreciation of you. To know that
Chowan has so loyal a daughter, is to
know that there will be no failure.
And I rejoice in your life and the
noble work you have done. It will
be a monument to you through the
ages. It is such lives as yours that
count—a life of service and sacrifice.
Having seen and known you shall be
a great inspiration to me, whereever
I am, and whatever I do. And as I
grow in years, may I, as you, grow
in .sacrifices, service and love. I have
found that true happiness Is in ser
vice. Again let me say that I rejoice
in every improvement. It did my
heart and soul good to see what is
going on. Please extend also to Dr.
Weaver my pleasure of having been
at Chowan again, my appreciation of
him also—for I believe he is the right
man in the right place. And with
two noble heads and hearts busy in
the work, I believe Chowan will be the
“Greatest Little College in the
World.”
“With the best of wishes and the
best of love.
DAISIE B. BOWERS.”
From Footing the Flat
“And how, my dear Sherlock, did
you discover that the culprit resided
in an apartment?”
“Easily,” responded the great man,
yawing. “Upon examining the foot
prints, I saw that he was flat-footed.”
—Juggler.
BITS OF KNOWLEDGE
An excellent and valuable pulp-
wood is being made from the ailan-
thus tree, known to the Chinese as the
“tree of heaven,” and imported from
China into Pennsylvania and New
York, where it is rapidly becoming a
weed.
Fridjof Nansen gives it as his opin
ion that the inhabitated parts of
Greenland coast by right belong to
neither Norway nor Denmark, but
to the Eskimoes, and that their well
being should be the .first considera
tion. He declares that perhaps it
would be best for foreigners to stay
away and let the Eskimos live in
peace.
Lunch is served every Friday noon
at 44 John street. New York, the old
est Methodist church in America, for
the convenience of the 800 business
men and women who attend the noon
day services.
NEWS RECEIVED OF
DOCTOR KING’S DEATH
Outstanding Figure In Director
Voice Culture; Visited Chow
an Last Session
A letter addressed to Miss Ger
trude Knott and forwarded to Miss
Elsie Gordon brings the sad informa
tion that Dr. Byron W. King, head
and founder of the famous King
School of Oratory, Pittsburg, Pa., who
delivered a splendid course of lectures
and assisted in the presentation of
the “Merchant of Venice”, here last
winter is dead.
The letter to Miss Knott, who is one
of Dr. King’s graduates did not state
the date of his death. The letter fol
lows:
My Dear Miss Knott: No doubt
you have heard before this of our
deep sorrow. It was a terrible shock
and even yet we can hardly believe
that Dr. King will not be with us
again. It is a crisis that every school
must pass through at some stage of its
existence for no founder can stay
with his work forever. The school
seems to have returned to normal
conditions again and everything goes
on as if we expected Dr. King’s re
turn at any moment. People are com
ing as usual to the Summer Session
and are writing for arrangements
next year. Of course it. is very grati
fying for Dr. King would have been
heartbroken had he ever suspected
that his school would deteriorate or
weaken after his death. We have all
been with him so long and have been
sq entirely trained in his methods and
ideals that we would not know any
thing else than to do as he had plan
ned we should do some day—but we
never dreamed that “some day” was
so near at hand.
Yours very sincerely,
BERTHA FUHRER.
FACTS WORTH KNOWING
John Bryan, of Riverside, Ohio,
swore that the great trees which for
ested his estate of 500 acres should
never fall the victim of man’s greed
for money. To make certain of this
he had his trees heavily rifted with
spikes that would bring grief to the
best steel saw made.
In the recent Italian election Mus
solini polled 4,600,000 votes to 2,-
500,000 votes recorded for all other
groups combined, and 379 Fascisti
have been elected to the Italian Cham
ber against 160 members of non-
Fascisti parties.
In the rural sections of America—
notably the East and South—the av
erage age of the physicians ranges
from fifty upward, while almost no
young men are coming in to take the
places of those who are passing away.
“Almighty God, we make our ear
nest prayer that Thou wilt keep the
United States in Thy holy protection;
that Thou wilt incline the hearts of
the citizens to cultivate a spirit of
subordination and obedience to gov
ernment, and to entertain a brotherly
affection and love for one another and
for their fellow citizens of the United
States at large.”—Part of Washing
ton’s prayer for the United States.
A memorial window designed es
pecially in honor of Joseph Jefferson,
the actor, will soon be placed in a wall
on the sunny side of “The Little
Church Around the Corner” in New
York City.
NEW DIRECTOR OF MUSIC
HAS A WIDE EXPERIENCE
Professor Edward D. Naff, Bas-
so-Cantante, Elected To Posi
tion In Faculty
Professor Edward D. Naff, Basso-
Cantante, has been elected Director of
music and teacher of voice in Chowan
College for next year. He was edu
cated at Bridgewater College, Bridge
water, Virginia; Peabody Conserva
tory of Music, Baltimore, Maryland;
and in private studios in Baltimore,
New York and Chicago. He has been
a student in voice under the follow
ing: W. Edward Heimendahl, Pietro
Minetti and Robert Weigster and of
Otis B. Boise in Theory and Composi
tion; he has also been a student at
the Northwestern University Summer
School at Chicago.
Proff. Naff has had wide experience
as a teacher. He has taught at the
following institutions: Maryland Col
legiate Institute, Union Bridge, Mary
land; Alabama Central Female Col
lege, Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Virginia
College for Women, Roanoke, Vir
ginia; Brandon Institute for Women,
Basis, Virginia; Daleville College,
Daleville, Virginia; Wesley College,
Grand Forks, North Dakota; Okla
homa Baptist University, Shawnee,
Oklahoma and has conducted a pri
vate studio in Roanoke, Virginia.
Prof. Naif was formerly Director
of the College of Fine Arts and teach
er of voice, theory and ensemble play
ing at the Oklahoma Baptist Univer
sity, Shawnee, Oklahoma; Conductor
of Men’s Glee Club; Conductor of
Ladies’ Glee Club; Conductor of
Choral Association; Conductor of
choir of First Baptist Church of
Shawnee, Oklahoma; and State Chor
al Conductor of Federated Music
Clubs of Oklahoma.
The following press comments in
dicate something of the quality of
Professor Naff’s work:
“—broadest musician I have
known.”
“A rich baritone voice of marked
culture.”
“The Pirate song was encored again
and again.”
“He gave the Pro Peccatis with
authority and finish.”
“—displayed discriminate skill in
the German and Italian art songs.”
“perfect artistry—his versatility
in interpreting different songs is
most remarkable.”
“—excells in execution, doing runs
and coloratura work in a manner
so easy as to be the envy of many a
soprano.”
In addition to teaching voice Prof.
Naff will have charge of the glee glub
and will also direct the choir of the
Murfreesboro Baptist church. He is
the author of an opera and numerous
songs. His wife, Mary Clay Naff, is
a dramatic soprano and Prof. Naff
and his wife give frequent concerts
together.
A newspaper 144 years old has been
found among some possessions inheri
ted from his ancestors by an Orange
County, New York, man. The paper
is the New York Packet and Adver
tiser bearing the date of October 14,
1779. It was printed in Fishkill,
New York, during the Revolutionary
War.