FabgcuazT/ 1958
THE CHOWANIAN
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Introducing
A Staunch
Chowan Friend
There lives on West Johnson
Street in Raleigh an “unforget
table character”, who is one of
Chowan’s most loyal alumnae and
supporters. You would never be
lieve it, but on Tuesday, February
18, she celebrated her 80th birth
day, and her interest in Chowan
covers at least 65 years of this
period.
As a young woman she entered
Chowan College as a fulfillment of
a childhood dream to "get an ed
ucation”, but the sudden death of
her mother left a small half-sister
to be reared. Lola Mae Penny, in
a manner which has characterized
her life of unselfishness, left school
to make a home for the young child.
However, her love for the college
of her choice continued, as evi
denced by generous gifts on several
occasions to its enlargement pro
grams.
Mrs. Penny leads a busy life as
an active member of The First
Baptist Church of Raleigh, the
Fnendship Service Club, the Y. W.
C. A. International Club, the Golden
Age Club, and the Chowan Alumnae
Chapter. Of the Golden Age Club,
Mrs. Penny, with a twinkle in her
brown eyes, says, “I always go be
cause those older women need me
to cheer them up-I don’t feel old
myself!” And she isn’t old!
When asked about her hobbies,
she replied, "Needlework and trav
eling!” At 78 she went to Europe
and Palestine, and her fellow tour
ists testify that when others were
limp from fatigue, Mrs. Penny was
still ready and anxious to go. She
has another hobby she didn’t men
tion—entertaining Chowan College
personnel in her home, of whom the
most welcomed is our college presi
dent!
Therefore, Chowan College sa
lutes you, Mrs. Penny, on your 80th
birthday and welcomes you as a
new member of the Board of
Trustees. May you have many more
years of useful and devot^ ser
vice to an institution that greatly
appreciates your loyal support!
—Daisy Lou Mixon.
Books Available to
Outside Readers
At a recent faculty meeting it
was voted to make available to
citizens outside the college family
certain books in the college library.
Certain types of books required
for student reference work would
not be permitted to be taken from
the library. Books available to the
public would be selected by the
Ubrarians. who are Mrs. Neva
Campbell and Mrs. Lois Cadle.
Recent Visitors
The following are visitors who
have recently been guests on our
campus: Miss Mary Bland Josey,
Public Relations of Meredith Col
lege: Rev. and Mrs. Kenneth Byrd,
Hopewell, Va.; Rev. Ben Ussery,
pastor of Boykins Baptist Church,
Boykins, Va.; Dean A. R. Berkot,
Campbell College, representative
of Student Government and Student
Affairs Committee.
The difference between a long-term
and short-term investment is simt-
lar to that between a proposal and
a proposition.
KING BOWLING IS CROWNED — Harold Smith, King of 1957, is shown crowning William Bowling as 1958 King of Hearts
at the Valentine party in Chowan’s gym. Queen of Hearts, Miss Faye Adams, is on her throne at the right. The court
attendants and others look on with smiling faces.
Honor Students Named By Dean
According to a recent announce
ment from the office of J. Irving
Brodcs. Chowan Cdlege Dean of
Instnictioi^ two ^ups of students
have received official recognition
from the mrilege because cd their
academic achievement during the
fall semester of the present school
year.
Ten students were listed on the
Honor Roll as having done superior
academic work. To gain this honor,
the students had to make at least
two and one-half quality points per
credit hour on all work taken.
Twenty-two other Chowan Col
lege students made the Dean’s List
which indicates that their academic
work was well above average. To
achieve this recognition these stu
dents made at least two quality
|»i^ per credit hour on all work
HONOR ROLL
liberal Arts and Business: Betty
Jane Everett, Harrellsville; Betty
Jean Oliver, Harrdlsville; Frank
Fortescue, Toners; Willie Lee Har-
New Students
Some 25 new students are enrol
led this term at Chowan, making
a record-breaking 330 students en
rolled for the academic year, an
increase of 100 over the previous
year. The new students did not
quite offset the withdrawals after
the first semester partly because
of agricultural reverses.
Sixty-one courses of study are
being offered for the spring semes
ter at Chowan, including ten sub
jects not taught during the fall
term. Actually, 77 different classes
will be meeting, as many of the
subjects are offered in more than
one class.
Chowan students will follow a
steady schedule of classes nntil the
Easter holiday period when school
wiU be suspended for six days,
April 3 to April 9.
The 1957-58 academic year is
scheduled to end with graduation
exercises on May 26th.
Miss Carter Sings
Miss Lillian Clair Carter, soprano
soloist in the Chowan A Capella
Choir, sang recently at a meeting
of the Murfreesboro Rotary Club.
She was accompanied at the piano
by her mother, Mrs. Judson J. Car
ter, of Woodland.
Miss Carter’s selections were
“Summertime”, by George Gersh
win; “Strange Voices”, by Edwin
Lester; and “Let My Song Fill
Your Heart”, by Ernest Charles.
Mr. McCready, chairman of the
Department of English and a mem
ber of the Rotary Club, was in
charge of the program.
ris, Elizabeth City; Treena Koun-
tree, Corapeake.
Graidiic Arts: William AUigood,
Windsor: Grover Edwards, Rocky
Mount; Tim Jones, Red Oak; Wil
liam O’neal, Manteo; WiUian Kel-
ton Ray, Raleigh.
DEAN’S LIST
Liberal Arts and Business: Lil
lian Clair Carter, Woodland; Robert
Lee Darden, Broadway; Patsy Ed
wards, Murfreesboro; George Hais-
lip, Hamilton; Janet Harlow, Lit
tleton; Willie Joe Hasty. Roanoke
Rapids: John D. Hemingway, Cora
peake; Michael Henry Johns»i,
Hamilton; Timothy Otis Langston,
Eure; Bettye Jo Lassiter, Ahoskie;
Norman Glenn Phillips. Sanford;
Wade Hampton Privette, Black
Creek; Mills Arthur Pruden. Suf
folk, Va.; John Leo Riggs, Mavs-
ville; Norma Rountree, mbbsviUe;
James Robert Taylor, Enfield; Mel
vin Howell Vinson, Murfreesboro;
Linda Carol Watson. Conway;Char-
lie Thomas Whitley, Murfreesboro;
Gene Wesley Williams, Capron,
Va.; Robert Earl Williamson, Cerro
Gordo; John Lee Beach, Oak City.
Graidiic Arts: Robert Johnson.
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A WORTHY REPRESENTATIVE — The lovely Miss Sarah
Burrus, a Chowan freshman from Hatteras, represented the
Chowan basketball team at the North Carolina Junior College
Tournament at Campbell College in Buies Creek, February 13.
Chowan Queen
of Valentine
is Faye Adams
Miss Faye McAdams, of New
Bern, and William Bowling, of
Broadway, were crowned Queen
and King of Hearts in a ceremony
held in the college auditorium on
Tuesday, February 11. Harold
Smith, last years King, crowned
the new King and Queen. At the
B. S. U. sponsored valentine party,
their majesties and court presid^
at festivities held in the gym, where
refreshments were served.
The attendants to the King and
Queen were Russel Harrington,
Rich Square and Audrey Adams,
Durham; Jessie .Mansfield, Hert
ford and Barbara Russel, Hert
ford; Wallace Riddick, Hobbsville
and Sandra Liverman, Woodland;
Salvadore Thompson, Clarksville,
Va. and Betty Jo Lassiter, Ahoskie;
Bill Byrum, WinfaU and Janet Har
low, Littleton; Carol Green, New
Bern and Vivian Pugh, Great
Bridge, Va; Bob Wainwright,
Hampton, Va., and Judy Ta^or,
Enfield.
Like Franklin
J. Mayon Parker of Ahoskie,
head of a firm which publishes
several newspapers in Eastern
North Carolina, has adopted the
style of Benjamin Franklin. Mr.
Parker’s business stationery
reads simply: “J. Mayon Parl^
er, Printer.
Like Franklin, Mr. Parker
was a printer before he was an
editor or a publisher, and the
North Carolina man is proud
of that calling—just as Franklin
was although the latter was an
Ambassador and a Postmaster
General as well as editor and
publisher.
The machine age has robbed
the printing art of much of its
individuality. But printing is
important one. The printing is
still an honorable caling and an
important one. The printing
trade is the better for men,
some of whom are obscure, who
take the same pride in their
craftmanship as Parker does
and as Franklin did.
—News and Observer.
Guest Speaker
Rev. John D. McCready, who
heads the Department of English
at Chowan, supplied the pulpit of
the Cashie Baptist Church of Wind
sor, on Sunday morning, February
2nd. The pastor of the church. Rev.
Charles W. Duling, was away at
tending a denominational meeting
in New Orleans.
Mr. McCready, before coming to
Chowan, was pastor of the First
Baptist Church of Morganton, N. C.