Honor Roll—Dean’s List
MISS LOIS BEECHAM
" . . . they were trusting in God and I've trusted Him."
No Stopping Lois
Fifteen students of Chowan
College made the Honor Roll
for the first semester of the
1960-61 school year. To be eli
gible for the highest scholastic
honors, the student must attain
a 2.5 average during the course
of one semester.
The following students were
included on the list released
from the office of the Dean:
Judith Ann Askew of Conway;
Dorothy Belle Avent of Empor
ia, Virginia; Allen Jay Cas
ey, Jr., of Rocky Mount; Nan
nie Belle Dickens of Halifax;
Elizabeth Ann Dilday of Ahos-
kie; Mrs. Elsie Griggs Hollow-
ell of Point Harbor; Margaret
Sue Johnson of Severn; Forrest
Emmett Murphy of Norfolk,
Virginia; Pansy Beronica Ray
of Lumberton; Faye NaDeane
Rose of Norlina; Annie Sue Ruf
fin of Ahoskie; Patricia Eliza
beth Watson of Franklinton;
Becky Jo Overton of Ahoskie;
Judith Lane Owens of Skip
pers, Virginia; and Phillip
Morris Scarboro of Zebulon.
Approximately 35 students
made the Dean’s List for the
first semester. A student must
have a 2.0 average at the end
of one semester’s work to
make the Dean’s List.
DEAN'S LIST
The following students were
included on the list released
from the office of the Dean:
Herman Allen Autry of Beau
fort; Sidney Vereen Baker of
Franklin, Virginia; Sam Tall
Beale of Boykins, Virginia;
Barry Clinton Bowers of Alex-
Southeastern Baptist Theolog
ical Seminary is sponsoring a
missions conference March 3,
4, and 5 to be held at the Semi
nary in Wake Forest. Mission
aries, theological professors,
and missionary administrators
will take part in the confer
ence.
A special feature is an in
formal party to be held on
Friday night with students,
faculty, missionaries, and
friends invited. On Saturday
night small informal discus
sions will be held with faculty
and program personnel.
Students are to send in regis
tration forms with one dollar
registration fee. The registra
tion forms can be obtained
from the Chaplin’s office. Stu
dents should register in the
andria, Virginia; Ann Gail
Britt of Portsmouth, Virginia;
Audrey Emagene Butler of
Goldsboro; Mrs. Dorothy By
rum of Gatesville; Wilkie Wil
lie Chaffin of Victoria, Vir
ginia; Eleanor Rodgers Coley
of Macon; Joseph Samuel
Cross of Hampton, Virginia;
Fran Meredith Dicks of Rich
mond, Virginia; Beatrice Lee
Edwards of Aurora; Sandra
Ann Gatling of Murfreesboro.
Ann Horton Gerry of Ports
mouth, Virginia; Della Jane
Gurkin of Williamston; Linda
Faye Hardy of Macon; Har
riet Hughes Harned of Eliza
beth City; Barry Eugene Hor
ner of Salisbury; Paul Alexan
der Iwanik of Alexandria, Vir
ginia; Lissa Marjatta Keski-
Luopa of Keuruu, Central Fin
land; Betty Craft Matthews of
Clinton; Romer Clarence Nic
hols of Wilson; William Eugene
Patterson of Scotland Neck;
Calvin Columbus Reynolds of
Columbia; Walter Phillip Rus-
nak of Disputanta, Virginia;
Mrs. Margaret L. Stevenson
of Como; David Edmund Sum-
ler of Newington, Virginia;
Betsy Sawyer Sumner of Con
way ; George Robert Sutherland
of Norfolk, Virginia; Mrs. Mar
ilyn H. Tobias of Roanoke
Rapids; Doris Annette Watts
of Faith; Bertha Mary White
of Hobbsville; Judith Lee
White of Hampton, Virginia;
Anna Velma White-Hurst of
Roanoke Rapids; Audrey Otis
Woodard of Conway; and Peg
gie Larue Leonard, Rocky
Mount.
rotunda of the administration
building from 4:00 p. m. to
6:00 p. m. Here students will
receive their housing assign
ments, programs, and other in
formation.
The Seminary will provide
lodging, but the students are
reminded to bring linens, tow
els, etc., and money for meals,
which may be obtained at the
Seminary cafeteria at the regu
lar prices. (Breakfast 50 cents,
lunch 85 cents, Sunday dinner
$1.00)
Any student at Chowan who
is interested in any way in
missions should take advantage
of this opportunity to meet our
missionaries and to discuss the
activities of our representa
tives throughout the world.
AWARDS
Shorthand
The following students were
awarded Order of Gregg Art
ists certificates for the first se
mester: Janice Askew, Dorothy
Avent, E. Lenor Coley, Nan
Dickens, Sylvia George, Mary
Ellen Hart, Margaret Sue John
son, H y 1 a h Lassiter, Faye
Ower.
Sixty-words-per-minute pins
were awarded to: Janice As
kew, Linda Fay Davis, Della
Gurkin, Nancy Harrell, Mary
Murray, Judy Owens, Faye
Ower, Frances Peed, Wanda
Rose, Maxine Sanford, Chris
tine Spangler, Brenda Taylor,
Marie Wicker.
The following students re
ceived eighty-words-per-minute
pins: Judith Duck, Glenda Huff-
stetler.
Complete Theory Certificates
were awarded to: Judith Duck,
Shirley Gyoker, Margaret Sue
Johnson, Sandra Kaye Moore,
Judy Owens, Faye Ower,
Wanda Rose, Christine Spang
ler.
Typing
The Competent Typist Cer
tificates for January were
awarded to the following stu
dents :
Carolyn Coltrain, Joanne
Day, Sarah Day, Shirley Gyo
ker, Elsie Hollowell, Sue
Margaret Johnson, Hylah Lass
iter, Shirley Liverman, Sandra
Paige Moore, Mary Murray,
Page Rogers, Joyce Snyder,
Rita Rae Ward, Doris Watts,
Nancy White.
Fifty-words-p e r -minute pins
were awarded to:
Gail Britt, Ann Dilday, Mary
Ellen Hart, Rose Lawson, Judy
Owens, Page Rogers, Faye
Rose, Patsy Test, Marie Wic
ker.
Sixty words-per-minute pins
were awarded to:
Bobby Eure, Elsie Hollowell.
Evangelism
Conference
A Campus Evangelism Con
ference for Baptist students in
North Carolina colleges will
be conducted March 17-19 at
Camp New Hope. The objec
tives of the conference are
fourfold: First, to investigate
the Biblical and contemporary
meaning of evangelism;
second, to carefully study and
honestly assess the attitudes
of students toward a meaning
ful communication of their
faith; third, to quicken aware
ness of our responsibility to
make the gospel relevant to
the campus and to share it
with the world; fourth, to seek
the best possible means and
methods of personal and group
witness on campus.
Dr. Luther Copeland, profes
sor of missions at Southeast
ern Baptist Theological Semi
nary, and Dr. Douglas M.
Branch, general secretary-
treasurer of the Baptist State
Convention, will be the leaders
in the conference.
The names of ^udents who
plan to attend must be given
to Dr. McKnight before March
1, so that he can register the
group going from Chowan. The
total cost for five meals and
two nights’ lodging will be
six dollars which is payable
on arrival.
By MARGARET JOHNSON
Reorinted from the
Virginia - Pilot
MURFREESBORO, N. C. —
The vision of her parents smil
ing at her through glass win
dows of a hospital isolation
ward has inspired Lois Beech-
am to smile back at the world
in spite of difficulties.
Lois, a Chowan College stu
dent, was stricken with polio
in 1944 when she was four
years old. She and her sis
ter, Shirley, who was stricken
at the same time, received
treatment in De Paul Hospital,
Norfolk.
Their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Ira Beecham, then of Newport
News, would smile at their lit
tle blond daughters without a
word of pity.
“As I’ve grown older. I’ve
realized that this must have
been an effort for my parents,
but they always set an ex
ample of cheerfulness for us,”
observed Lois, her blue eyes
twinkling.
“I know they were trusting
in God and I’ve trusted in Him
all through the years. We were
brought up to go to church and
this has meant a lot to me.”
Dimes Helped
The March of Dimes helped
to pay their hospital expenses
and buy braces and crutches.
Lois soon learned to flit
about on crutches as well as if
she had no handicap at all. She
goes with ease up and down
the steps of the buildings of
Chowan College and rushes
around campus and town.
She rode the school bus from
her home in the Tabbs com
munity of Yorktown where
the family moved from New
port News. Her father died in
1955.
About the time she started
school her body was encased
in a brace from right hip to
foot. A few years later she
started wearing a brace from
shoulders to left foot and a
left ankle brace.
In 1955 the sisters had opera
tions to correct turned-over
left feet. Shirley, now a senior
at York High School, walks
without crutches and has only
a slight turn to her left foot.
Lois has used crutches contin
ually for 16 years.
Baseball on Crutches
This has not dampened her
enthusiasm for sports or for
life’s activities. She relates
how she used to play baseball
on crutches with her father
and sisters.
“I can easily get about the
kitchen and cook,” she said.
She also makes many of her
own clothes.
One of Lois’ prized posses
sions is a scrapbook, started
when she was 13, on baseball
stars. She is well acquainted
with the New York Yankees,
the Cleveland Indians and
others. She was a rooter for the
Newport News Baby Dodgers
and kept their players and re
ports in her scrapbook. She
now enjoys the Chowan Col
lege games.
Her little Boston terrier was
named Yogi Berra.
B.S.U. work at Chowan Col
lege is her main extra cur
ricular activity. She attends
Murfreesboro Baptist Church
regularly.
“I feel very fortunate that
God has given me the power
to overcome my handicap. I
know that He has a purpose
for me, so I don’t mind it at
all.” she said.
“I’m thankful for a Christian
home, and I have so many
blessings that others don’t have
that I couldn’t begin to com
plain”, she added.
Gift By Will
Chowan College was one of
the beneficiaries in the will of
Mrs. W. S. Pritchard who re
cently died at her Windsor
home at the age of 87. A speci
fic bequest of $2,500 for Chowan
was provided.
Mrs. Pritchard was the for
mer Lizzie Cherry, and was
the widow of W. S. Pritchard.
Mrs. Pritchard’s husband
left $5,000 to Chowan College
in his will. His sisters, Mrs.
Lizzie Snipes and Mrs. W. C.
Askew, both of Lewiston, at
tended Chowan College.
Funds left by will to Chowan
College will be placed in the
general endowment of the col
lege, unless the will otherwise
directs the purpose for which
such funds are to be used.
PRINTING STUDENT-Peter Ray, 23-year-old student in the School
of Printing at Chowan College, is from Nevy/ York City. He is
shown changing knives on a Linotype machine. Ray has a family
background in printing. He is the son of J. O. Ray of Parkchester,
N. Y., who is production manager of the Pantagon Printing Com
pany in New York. His uncle, Roy Ray, is assistant to the publisher
of the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel. Peter will also attend
Summer School here from June 12 to July 21.
Students Invited to Conference
FOR FEBRUARY, 1961