THE CHOWANIAN
Volume 1 — Number 4
Murfreesboro, N. C., April 1954
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Press Convention Meets Here In May
Graphic Arts
Building Will
Be Dedicated
TO BE DEDICATED AT PRESS MEETING—The graphic arts building, housing the Roy Parker School of Printing at Chowan
College, will be decicated at the Spi'ing meeting of the Eastern North Carolina Press Association to be held in Murfreesboro,
on Friday and Saturday, May 7 and 8. The school, named in honor ofJ. Roy Parker, (inset) Ahoskie publisher and former
professor of journalism at the University of North Carolina, has been approved by resolution by both the Easern and North
Carolina Press Associations. The building, pictured above, was completed last summer. Many North Carolina newspaper
publishers will attend the dedication exercises on Saturday, May 8. (Chowan College News Bureau Photo)
Business Dept. Makes
Classroom Changes ;
Adds New Equipment
The Department of Business Eda
cation has not been idle during the
past few weeks. Due to the large
classos in salesmanship and busl-
nes law, it has been necessary to
rearrange sonne classrooms. The'
installation of additional mach
inery has required a change in the
location of the machines room.
The department has recently ac
quired an electric mimeograph and
a ditto process duplicating ma
chine. In addition, an electric type
writer has been added to the
equipment available for training
and instruction.
The typewriting students are all
earnestly working to improve their
skill. Several have already quali
fied for awards offered by the Greg
Publishing Company for speed
and accuracy in typewriting.
The following students have
received awards: Faye Barkley,
Gwenn Cooper, Roselyn Hamill,
Patricia Hoggard, Leora Holland,
Anne Long, Joyce Miller, Jean
Parker, Myra Phelps, Wilmina
Ruez, Elsie Takesian, Helen Pratt,
Ethelene Sim^pkins, Jean Sykes,
Meredith White, Eva Wrenn Wil
liams, Myrilyn Turner, Phyllis
Underwood, Marjorie Davis, Betty
Flythe and Kathleen Stilley.
Of these, the three last named
have the highest records: Marjorie
Davis has a pin for 60 net words
per minute for 10 minutes, with
one error; Betty Flythe, 64 net
words per minute, with two errors;
and Kathleen Stilley, 79 net words
per minute, with three errors.
The awards are “Competent
Typits Certificates” for 30 to 49
net words per minute for 10 mi
nutes, with not more than five
errors, and pins for 50 net words
per minute on up. The three girls
named above and perhaps some
others are expected to be qualify
ing for a 100 net words per minute
pin or higher by the time school is
out. The certificates are given in
recognition of outstanding work.
Freshmen Honor Students
Make Up Chowanian’s Staff
The staff of The Chowanian will
be selected from the honor students
of the Freshman class and assume
their duties the last quarter in
each year, according to an announ
cement by Dean of Instruction Rob
ert Grogan.
The new policy for selecting the
newspaper’s staff will make it
possible for the outgoing editors
and reporters to assist in guiding
the new group into the routine of
getting out the publication.
The staff responsible for issuing
the April and May issues will be
headed by Barbara Thorne of
Wilson, as editor-in-chief. Other
members are Bill Sowell of Page-
land, S. C., assistant editor; Don
Lucas of Nas'hville, sports editor;
Pat Holt of Swansboro, business
manager; Nancy Taylor of Mur
freesboro, advertising manager; J.
D. Tilley of Greensboro, assistant
advertising manager; Lula Pearl
White of Harrellsville, Religious
editor; Tommie Ruth Worrell of
Colerain, assistant Religious editor.
Reporters appointed to the staff
because of their scholastic ratings
are, Betty Ruth Boyd of Monroe;
Sue Godwi.i of £i,lma; Mildred
Wheeler of Jackson; Phyllis Coley
of Stem; Jean Sykes of Conway,
Josh Wallace oi wasnington.
Editor-in-chief Thorne has an
nounced that a meeting of the en
tire staff will be held in the class
room of the graphic arts building
on each Wednesday afternoon at
4 o’clock. The purpose of the meet
ing is to discuss sources for stories,
features and pictures, and to advise
each staff member on planning and
preparing a good news story.
Advisors to the staff will be Roy
Parker, Jr., of the Hertford Coimty
Herald, and John McSweeney, head
of the graphic arts school.
Faculty members at the college
are being asked to contribute arti
cles on varied subjects of their own
choosing, some of which will be in
the form of columns. Other feat
ures and regular departments are
being planned to make The Chow
anian a newspaper of interest not
only to the student body but to the
parents and other friendis of
Chowan College.
Chowan Chorus Gives
Musical Program At
Severn Baptist Church
The Chowan College Chorus
presented a musical program at
the Severn Baptist Church on Sun
day night, April 4. The group,
under the direction of Mrs. Rose
Goodwin Pool and Miss Virginia
McQueen, rendered selections of
praise, devotion, thanksgiving, con
secration, and joy.
The congregation listened at
tentively as the chorus blended
their voices in the melodious st
rains of “All Praise to Thee My
God” by Sallis Canon; “Jubilate
Deo” by Purvis; “Alleluia” by
Mozart; “Break Forth O Beauteous
Heavenly Light”, “Thee With Ten
der Care”, and “How Lovely is the
Hand of God” by Bach; “God So
Loved The World” by Strainer;
“God in Heaven Keep Us Ever
Mindful of Thy Love” by Eldred;
“God That Madest Earth and
Heaven” by Welch Melody; “O
Saviour Hear Us” by Gluck;
“Thanks Be to God” by Del Riego;
“Because of The Great Bounty”
by Hoffmeister; “Faith of our
Fathers” by Hemy; “I Heard the
Voice of Jesus Say” by Dykes;
“Beautiful Saviour” by Christ-
CHORUS, Page 4)
(See
Murfreesboro and Chowan Col
lege will be hosts to members of
the Eastern North Carolina Press
Association at its Spring meet
ing on Friday and Sa:uruay,
May 7-8, when the Roy Parker
School of Printing at Chowan
College will be dedicated as a
ieature of an interesting pro
gram.
Other highlights on the pro
gram include an address on Fri
day evening by Lenoir M. Cham
bers, editor of the Norfolk Vir-
ginian-pilot and a former nat
ive of North Carolina; addresses
on Saturday by Congressman L.
H. Fountain of Torboro, and
Jord H. Jordan of Charlotte,
who will represent the commer
cial printing organization, PICA.
The Friday evening banquet
and program will be held in the
Red Apple restaurant. Members
and guests will convene Satur
day morning for breakfast at
the college, where all of Satur
day’s program takes place.
'The dedication exercises, sche
duled at 2:00 o'clock Saturday,
will take place at the Roy Parker
School of Printing building, with
members of the Board of Trus
tees and others participating.
Some 90 newspaper publishers,
members of the association, are
expected to attend the meeting,
and the Murfreesboro (Chamber
of Commerce, as well as the
college, is planning for enter
tainment features such as a
boat ride on the Meherrin river
and a historical tour of inter
esting Murfreesboro.
The students in printing, as
well as the entire student body,
welcome to Chowan College the
newspaper publishers of North
Carolina and their guests.
The program for the two-day
meeting has been completed.
Here it is in full detail:
Banquet, Red Apple Restaur
ant, 7:00 o’clock —
Mrs. E. F. McCulloch, pres
ident, Elizabethtown, presiding.
Invocation, Dr. F. O. Mixon,
Chaplain.
Musical Program: Miss Nancy
Rainey, student Chowan College,
Soloist; Miss Virginia McQueen,
Professor Music Department,
Pianoist.
Address of Welcome, Senator
J. William Copeland, Murfrees
boro.
Response, Henry A. Dennis,
Henderson Daily Reporter.
Recognition of Guests.
Appointment of Committeees.
Introduction of Speaker, J.
Roy Parker, Ahoskie.
(See GRAPHIC ARTS, Page 4)
Baptist Student Union Election Held; Paul New President
Gi7'ls in Printing
By JEAN SYKES
No more clean hands for ihe
girls that have now enrolled in
printing. The class is very small
consisting of three girls: Betty
Flythe, Imogene Finch, and Jean
Sykes, but they are enjoying it
very much.
As yet they have printed their
personal stationery and envelopes.
They are now setting type by hard.
They have also been operating the
job press.
This course was designed es
pecially for the girls who plan to
work with the newspaper upon
completing their teletypesetter
course. Mr. McSweeney says that
it enables the student to have ,i
better understanding of the work
which they plan to do.
Charles Paul, rising sophomore
won the election conducted to
select the 1954-55 Baptist Stud
ent Union president at Chowan
College.
The other newly elected of
ficers are Dan Page, 1st vice-
president; Patricia Guthrie, 2nd
vice-president; Tommie Ruth
Worrell, 3rd vice-president, and
vesper chairman ; Barbara
Thorne, secretary; Mildred
Wheller, treasurer; Lula Pearl
White, publicity director; Mar
ilyn Turner, literary chairman,
and Josh Wallace, music chair
man. Lula Pearl White was nom
inated as our junior college re
presentative on the state execu
tive council.
A nominating committee con
sisting of sophomores was ap
pointed by the present president
of B. S. U., James Stewart, to
make nominations for the 1954-55
B. S. U. officers. The committee
met March 3, and appointed
nominees which they presented
to the greater B. S. U. council
Wednesday night, March 10,
These candidates were accepted
by the B. S. U. council, and the
slate was presented to the stud
ent body after chapel service on
Tuesday, March 16 with a rec
ommendation that these stud
ents be chosen because of their
qualifications and experience.
Thus these candidates were
(See B. S. U., Page 4)
'MTT'w R IT OFFTCF.RS Here are the new ly elected and installed Baptist Student Union
Srs' Varies Paul (se^ed) p?elident, of Davis; front row, left to right; Miss Frances
White counselor, Boykins, Va.; Lrbara Thorne, secretary Wilson; Dan Page, vice-president
riarkton* Marilyn Turner, literature chairman, Castalia. Back row, Joshue Wallace, rnusic
chairman Wasinfiton' Pauline Hardee, pianist, Knfield; Lula Pearl Wlute, publicity chair
man Harrellsville' Mildred Wheeler, treasurer, Jackson; and Tommie Ruth WorrelU vesper
rogr'am Chl!rrin,’c“n1 Not present when picture was taken .Meredith Whit^, chorister.
Windsor- Patricia Guthrie, social chairman, Belhaven; and Ella Jane Smith, Y. W, A. repre
sentative. Rose Hill. (Chowan College News Bureau Photo)