Campus Construction Gets Underway
Students, Professors, Community
Participate in Ground-Breaking
LIBRARIAN MRS. ANN LONG HARTER is joined in shoveling dirt from the
library-fine arts facility site by Chowan’s President, Dr. Bruce E. Whitaker,
right, and, from left, Murfreesboro Mayor Richard T. Vann and Don G.
Matthews, Jr., Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
Ground-breaking ceremonies on
February 23rd put in effect the first
step in a master plan, two years in
the making and adopted two years
ago by Chowan College’s Board of
Trustees after years of study and
planning with James B. Godwin and
Associates, landscape architects of
Raleigh, and architect Bill Boone of
Charlotte, and started construction
of Cliowan's new library-fine arts
facility.
This multi-purpose structure, to
shelve 100,000 volumes and seat more
than 400 students and faculty in sev
eral reading areas, as well as con
taining space and equipment for mus
ic, drama and expansion of the col
lege’s fine arts program, will cost
$800,000, equipped. It is expected to
be completed and ready for use by
the summer of 1968.
Dr. Bruce E. Whitaker, Chowan’s
president, joined Don G. Matthews,
Jr., chairman of the college’s Board
of Trustees, and representatives of
city and county governement, as well
as the college’s students, in shove
ling loads of dirt from the campus
building site. Robert DuPriest, stu
dent body vice-president representing
students, was joined by more than
200 Chowan students participatiing in
the ceremony.
Murfreesboro’s Mayor R. T. Vann,
W. T. Modlin, chairman of Hertford
County’s Commissioners; Walter
Perry of Dickerson, Inc., building
contractors of Monroe; architects,
landscape architects, and college ad
ministrators and professors joined in
the traditional “first shovels full”
routine.
SHOVELING FOR STUDENTS was
Robert E. DuPriest, student body
vice-president and gridiron halfback
for the Braves who was in charge of
a student committee soliciting funds
for Chowan’s Development Campaign.
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FURTHER GROUND-BREAKING is done by a steamshovel.
BULLDOZERS AND SHOVEL WIELDERS prepare for expansion of Chowan’s
fine arts program, with examples of work by talented students which includes
perfoming arts demonstrated by freshman Pam Rosser of Hampton, Va., as
“Mary Poppins.”
For March, 1967
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