Highest Scholars Are
Chowan's
Ninety Chowan College stu
dents have gained spscial recog
nition for outstanding scholastic
achievement during the college’s
fall semester.
W. C. Morrisette, dean of the
college, reported today that two
students making perfect grades
were named to the Presidents
List, 22 to the Dean’s List and
66 to the Honor Roll.
Both President's List stu
dents are in their final year
in the college's 33-month
program of education for
nursing, gaining supervised
nursing experience at Duke
hospital. They are Mrs.
Frances T. Parker of Ahos-
kie and Rena Diane Taylor
of Smithfield, Va.
Named to the Dean’s List
were Mary Ann Barmack, Mur
freesboro; Sue James Barnes,
George; Margaret Blythe,
Franklin, Va.; Thomas S.
Campbell, Luray, Va.; William
Carr, Richmond, Va.; Linda
Norman Davis, Athens, Ga.;
Diane Lynn Dodge, Alexandria,
Va.; Margaret Shores Farley,
Franklin, Va.; Mary Margaret
Ferguson, Sandston, Va.; Velda
Lynn Gardner, Macclesffeld;
Jeanne Renee Hawthrone, New
port News, Va.; Rosa Geraldine
Hunt, Roanoke Rapids; Linda
Frances Jenkins, Courtland,
Va.; Sydney Lee Lewis, Hamp
ton, Va.; Janice Grey Mills,
Trenton; Robert J. MoMy, Jr.,
Portsmouth, Va.; Aimee Jeanne
Oatman, Mechanicsville, Va.;
James F. O’Neil, Wilmington,
Del.; Loretta Lynn Shockley,
Snow Hill, Md.; Betty Spring.
Murfreesboro; Edward S. Tay
lor, Jr., Virginia Beach, Va.;
Daniel Wayne Walter, Hailwood,
Va.
Honor Roll
Named to the Honor Roll were
Nancy Carol Adams, Peters
burg, Va.; Irvin L. Allcox,
Grifton; Teresa Gayle Batten,
Durham; Melvin S. Beaven, So-
lomone, Md.; Jo Ann Berry,
Orange, Va.; Carol Thomas
Birkhead, Richmond, Va.;
Michael W. Bowler, Hampton,
Va.; Daniel C. Brown, Wheaton,
Md.; Frances Ann Brown,
Smithfield, Va.; Helen S. Brown,
Ahoskie; Edward Buhl, Hamp
ton, Va.; Gary Burch, York-
town, Va.; Susan Mary Clark,
Churchville, Pa.; Clara Frances
Collie, Louisburg; William E.
Darby, Temperanceville, Va.;
Christine Jo Dryden, Poquoson,
Va.; Alston E. Dunbar, Pantego;
Susan L. Fiddler, Sharps, Va.;
Stanley T. Garriss, Margaretts-
ville; Julia Anna Griffin, Wil
liamston; Luther L. Griffith,
Murfreesboro; John Harbaugh,
Richmond; Va.; Arlene V.
Harris, Pinetown; Cynthia Hill,
Murfreesboro; Brian Hirschler,
Norfolk, Va.; Martha F. Hill,
Murfreesboro; Wanda Mae
Ingle, Clyde; Virgil E. Jockisch,
Jr., Apex; John M. Johnson,
Onancock, Va.; Colburn B.
Joyner, Woodland; Kathryn M.
Kelley, Alexandria, Va.; Emma
Lee Kiser, Wadesboro; Wade B.
Lanning, Hopewell, Va.; Gerald
W. Leonard, Newport News,
Va.; Jesse Elmo Lilley, Wil-
liamston; Susan Diane Luke,
Columbus, Ohio; Deborah
Louise Moran, Elkin; Janet K.
Announced
Morris. Hampton, Va.; Donna
Mowery, Fort Campbell. Ky.;
Linda Elaine Nixon, Roanoke
Rapids; Barbara Orange, Rich
mond, Va.; Glenda Inez Or
mond, Kinston; Virginia Jo
Perry, Colerain; White C. “Bo”
Phatr, Jr., Tar Heel; Lynne
Tucker Reed, Rocky Mount;
Doris Anne Ricks, Conway; Lin
da Ricks, Conway; Hubert M,
Riddick, Scotland Neck; Susan
Annette Routh, Bear Creek;
Lynn Smith, Murfreesboro; Eli
zabeth Louisa Stephenson,
Como; Gwendolyn Tharrington,
Rocky Mount; James L. Thorpe,
Roanoke Rapids; Philip A.
Tiller, Richmond, Va.; Bruce
A. Trew, Newsoms, Va.; Ben B.
Ussery, Jr., Boykins, Va.; Dud
ley C. Vann, Pendleton; James
C. Walker, Washington, N. C.;
David S. Walls, Wilmington,
Del.; Joseph Anthony “Andy”
Ward, Mebane; Linda Dianne
Wells, Weldon; Pamela Con
stance Wetmore, Hampton, Va.;
Ernest Wade Woodruff, Jr.,
Rocky Mount.
Record Enrollment Set for Chowan
SCENE AT BELK HALL—James C. Barrett of Chapel Hill and
Cathleen Baker of New Church, Va., are seen in Belk Hall, standing
in front of a portrait of the Wife of Chairman Irwin Belk of the
college’s Board of Advisors, Mrs. Carol Grotnes Belk, in whose
honor the structure was recently named.
Chowan to Participate
In Higher Education Act
The General Board of the Bap
tist State Convention of North
Carolina approved a recom-
dation from its executive com
mittee that Chowan be allowed
to participate in the Higher
Education Act of 1965, under
title III of this act. This will
help Chowan College continue
upgrading its academic strength
through faculty enrichment.
The college's trustees had
previously approved the Gen
eral Board's recommendation
and H. Douglas White of
Rocky Mount, chairman of
Chowan's board of trustees,
was instrumental in bringing
it before the executive com
mittee and the General Board
of the Baptist State Conven
tion, during ragular business
sessions at Raleigh.
Under this program, faculty
members are recipients of ben
efits, rather than the college.
Aid will be extended to the in
dividual faculty member to pur
sue further graduate study at
a cooperating university. A
teaching fellow from the co
operating university, approved
by the administration of Chowan
College and its trustees, will be
paid by the fund to teach at
Chowan College has recorded
another record enrollment.
The college’s Dean of Men-
Registrar, Clifton S. Collins, re
ports that there are 1,155 stu
dents enrolled at Chowan this
semester. Chowan’s growth in
enrollment and facilities during
recent years has shown a steady
increase and, although a record,
this is only a slight increase
over the enrollment of 1,060 re
corded for the 1967 spring se
mester. The college’^ previous
record spring enrollment of
1,080 was recorded in 1966.
Official enrollment for this
year’s fall semester was 1,292.
Sophomores account for 420
of Chowan's spring semester
students; freshmen, 710; Nur
sing students in the final year
of the college's 33-mocith pro
gram of education for Nur
sing, gaining supervised ex
perience at Duke hospital, 12;
various hospital, three; and
there are 10 students in other
classifications.
The college, during one five
year yeriod, had the largest
percentage of increase in en
rollment among all North Car
olina colleges, both private and
public.
Most Chowan students, 85 per
cent, are enrolled in the liberal
arts and sciences curriculum,
and SmtK’ are in the college’s
famed School of Graphic Arts,
its 33-month program of educa
tion for Nursing operated in
conjunction with Ahoskie’s Roa-
noke-Chowan hospital and Duke
hospital, and in terminal busi
ness and professional courses
Chowan while the faculty mem-
Der is away.
Counselors from cooperating
universities will receive pay as
consultants to work with Cho
wan’s faculty in upgrading the
curriculum.
This is an arrangement to
last about two yeras. During
this time Chowan's faculty
will have ample opportunity to
upgrade itself, with professors
gaining further educational
preparation and completing
work on advanced degrees.
Several months of planning
and preparation will be needed
to put this program of faculty
enrichment into effect. No dates
are set at this time for imple
menting the program and no
arrangments have been maite
with any universities.
The General Board acts for
the Baptist State Convention of
North Carolina when the con
vention is not in session. During
the convention’s most recent an
nual session, November 14, 1967,
at Asheville, approval was
given for Mars Hill to inaugu
rate a program of faculty en
richment under title III High
er Education Act of 1965.
■>r
ENTERTAINING ROOMMATE—Patriacia Fay Kouba and her teddy bear, left, are entertained
by roommate Emma Louise Brooks. Pat is from Vienna, Va., and Emma calls Fayetteville home.
Concerts by Emma took her throughout much of the southeastern United States before she became
a Chowan student. The purity of her singing and guitar performances have gained wide acclaim as
the young freshman folk-music artist has performed for clubs, campus concert audiences and others
throughout northeastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia.
For February, 196S
PAGE THREE