Contract is Awarded for Library Building
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Chowan Board of Trustees Accepts Bid
Entered by Dickerson, Inc., Contractors
Chowan College’s Board of Trustees, meeting on campus in semi-annual
session on Monday, February 13th, accepted the bid of Dickerson, Inc.,
construction engineers of Monroe, and contracted this firm to build the
new library-fine arts facility.
FOUNDATION GIFT TO CHOWAN — Mrs. Lillian Morris, representing the
Sears-Roebuck Foundation, presented Dr. Bruce E. Whitaker, President of
Chowan College, a check representing the Foundation’s $1,000.00 unrestricted
grant to Chowan. She is manager of Roanoke-Rapids’ Sears-Roebuck Com
pany store.
Bids for this construction were open
ed on campus February 9 and
brought to the attention of the Exe
cutive Committee of the Board of
Trustees that evening. Dickerson
was among five North Carolina
companies submitting bids. When
completed, the library-fine arts
facility at Chowan, which will
shelve 100,000 volumes, seat more
than 400 students and faculty in
several reading areas, and contain
space and equipment for music,
drama and expansion of the col
lege’s fine arts program, will cost
$800,000.00, equipped.
Dickerson’s low base bid was $708,-
485.00, with the college accepting an
alternate of $20,900.00, and acceptance
of this bid, which was the lowest sub
mitted, by the college’s Board of
Trustees, means that the initial and
basic construction cost to Chowan
College will be $687,585.00.
During the Fall, the college entered
into a Development Campaign to
raise necessary funds fr.- this build
ing and other necessary expansion Oi
campus facilities by 1973, the year
Chowan observes its 125th anniver
sary. The first phase of this cam
paign exceeded its $500,000.00 goal by
December 16, 1966, with $538,387.00
pledged mainly by members of the
Chowan College Family division. The
second phase, with a goal of $150,-
000.00, is now in progress and the
third phase, also with a goal of $150,-
000.00, will follow.
Wives and husbarids of trustees
accompanied Board of Trustees
members. They were special guests
of the college at a reception in the
historic Columns Building, tours of
Murfreesboro and the campus, and
also for a special luncheon in the
President’s Room of the college
cafeteria.
Presiding was Don G. Matthews,
Jr., First District Highway Commis
sioner from Hamilton, who was
elected Chairman during the meet
ing.
New Trustees
New trustees, starting a term of
service with the meeting were, Ollie
M. Brown, Ahoskie; Mrs. Lois A.
Daniel, Wake Forest; J. E. Ferebee,
Camden; Rev. Bennie Pledger, Cole-
rain; Frank S. Pittman, Scotland
Neck; Charles L. Revelle, Sr., Mur
freesboro; Charles Lee Smith, Jr.,
Raleigh. The Reverend Thomas
Caulkins of Goldsboro began a term,
joinnig the college’s Board of Trus
tees to complete an unexpired term
of the Reverend Billy Mobley of
Jacksonville, who resigned in order
to accept another position with the
Baptist State Convention of North
Carolina.
OUR COVER
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND CHOWAN COLLEGE FAMILY AT LUNCH IN COLLEGE CAFETERIA
For January-February, 1967 PAGE THREE