Business Leaders Ride
Bus to Chowan Campus
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Vietmng the campus scene, visiting businessmen are accompanied by (right
foreground) Chowan’s Development Director.
It had been many years since any
of them had ridden a school bus,
and most had never used this method
of transportation, but a group of se
lected outstanding business and pro
fessional leaders from Elizabeth City
rode Chowan College’s activity bus
to campus recently so they could see
for themselves Chowan’s amazing
growth and development as a church-
related college.
The bus driver, Virgil L. McBride,
Assistant to the President and Direc
tor of Development at Chowan, led
ourne^
them on a guided tour of campus
facilities while explaining Chowan’s
programs and purposes.
After the bus ride back to Eliza
beth City, the selected community
leaders organized themselves into a
Community Service Panel to make
calls throughout their communities
on behalf of'the college and aid Cho
wan in the second phase of its Devel
opment Campaign to raise $2,250,000
from private gifts for necessary ex
pansion of facilities by 1973, the year
Chowan observes its 125th anniver
sary.
Businessmen arrive, after their bus trip from Elizabeth City, to tour Chowan’s campus.
Calendar Year Changes
Planned for 1967-68
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Plans to initiate a drastic change
in the school year calendar beginning
in August have been announced by
officials of Chowan College.
The new academic schedule calls
for opening fall semester classes on
August 31, after students arrive for
orientation and registration from Au
gust 27-30, about 10 days earlier than
last year.
First semester examinations will
come just before Christmas holidays,
which are scheduled to begin Decem
ber 21 and continue through January
14.
Spring semester classes will begin
January 16, nine days earlier than
last year. A week of spring holidays
comes in mid-April, and the school
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year will conclude with commence
ment activities May 12.
The proposed calendar will elimi
nate the serious interruption of con
centrated study caused by Christmas
holidays under the old system. It will
also provide the administration and
faculty much-needed additional time
for grading fall semester examina
tions, and processing student records,
essential to accurate and efficient
registration for the spring semester.
Chowan College’s summer school
program, divided into two six-week
terms, will not be affected by the
calendar change. This year’s summer
sessions are scheduled for June 5-
July 11 and July-August 18.
Entering Robert Marks Hall, they view classroom scenes.
The Chowanian