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GIRL OF MANY TALENTS IN SPORTS—Be«y Louise Weaver, 19-year-old
Chowan student, excels in six>rts usually confined to boys . . . football,
basketball, track and tennis.
Football, Basketball, Tennis,
Betty Weaver Excels in All Sports
Betty Louise Weaver, a 19-year-old
freshman at Chowan College here,
should have been a boy, according to
her athletic ability.
But she obviously isn’t, although
she can out-perform many boys in
the field of athletics.
Betty, 5-10 brown-eyed brunette
with an infectious grin, is an all
round athlete, and all girl.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mel
vin Weaver of Vaughan, near Little
ton, Betty, by her own admission, was
a “tomboy” all through her girlhood,
climbing trees, playing football and
baseball . . .in fact as rough as they
come.
“A group of us girls used to play
a group of boys in football and we
never lost a game," she said.
She still plays football, not with
boys now, but with the Chowan Col
lege girls powder puff team.
Family Members
Make Contribution
John W. White of Aulander, who
recently contributed a set of the elev
enth edition of the Encyclopedia Bri-
tannica to Chowan College in memory
of his father, the late Royal Edward
White, has notified the college that
other family members joining him in
making this contribution to the col
lege’s library inculde Mrs. Ethel E.
White and Robert Early White.
Memorial pages have been affixed
to the inside cover of each volume by
college librarians and Dr. Bruce E.
Whitaker, Chowan’s president, in ac
knowledging receipt of the gift, com
mented, “I hope that this set of Bri-
tannica will prove to be meaningful
and helpful both to students and fac
ulty.”
For January-February, 1967
Last fall she quarterbacked the
freshman girls team and passed for
a touchdown in the annual powder
puff bowl.
Agile as a cat, or rather a kitten,
she can run 100 yards in just over 11
seconds, a feat most boys can’t do.
Betty played five years of basket
ball at Littleton High School and
was a starter the last four.
She made the all-Roanoke Confer
ence team three years straight and
was All East her last two years. She
was voted the most outstanding girl
athlete at Littleton High in 1966.
Betty likes all sports and actively
engages in all of them she can.
At Chowan she is currently the
high scoring forward on the girls
basketball team. She also plays volly-
ball, and will be a member of the
girls tennis team which is being or
ganized. She has shown considerable
tennis potential althoug^i she ha;5
never before played the game.
Her activities have cost. She has
sustained four nose fractures, frac
tures of each arm and one foot, all
while playing basketball. That should
be a clue to just how rough she is
in athletics.
Since coming to Chowan last Sept
ember, Betty has gained the nick
name of “Bool Weevil” by fellow
students who pronounce her first
and last names rapidly.
Her father is a police officer and
her mother is a nurse.
There is a young sister, Jeanette,
15, who plays basketball at Litteton,
“but she isn’t very athletic,” says
Betty.
Betty’s ambition is a natural one,
to teach physical education on the
high school level after getting her
college degree.
Want to bet she won’t achieve
that ambition? She’s quite a girl.
GET OFF MY BACK!—Eddie Martin, Chowan cage star, seems to be using
the shoulders of an East Carolina freshman player to score turn points for
the Braves in a recent home basketball contest.
FIELD GOAL FOR THE BRAVES—Sandy Sanderson scores a shot for
Chowan in a close battle with ECC frosh. The squad lost the battle 68-67.
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