Larry Jones director of volunteer
services at Cherry Hospital
Larry G. Jones, who attended
Chowan College frdjn 1959-1961,
has been named the director of
volunteer services at Cherry
Hospital, Goldsboro.
Jones, 28, transferred from
Chowan to Atlantic Christian
College where he received a
B. A. degree with a major in
English and minor in psycho
logy in 1965.
Jones has set as his first
major goal expansion of the
volunteer work into more dis
tant counties of North Carolina.
"Since assuming this position.
I've noticed that at any one time
on any given ward there might
be as many as 40 patients cared
for by just one employee, and
this must change," Jones said.
He said he hopes to be able
to recruit people “in all types
of jobs, from nurses and typists
to laundry workers. There is
a need in every category of
endeavor.”
The Goldsboro native stated
he plans to initiate his campagin
through civic clubs and organ
izations, church groups, and
mental health groups. “We are
in the process now of setting up
volunteer guilds within each
geographic unit and speciality
units which will be headed by a
director selected from the pro
fessional staff within each unit.
The units will be composed of
volunteers who will elect a slate
of officers from their ranks to
serve the guild."
Jones expects about 20 guilds
will be formed.
Although Jones said he will
be showing a program of slides
about Cherry Hospital in distant
counties, he believes the most
effective way of promotion is to
have potential volunteers visit
the hospital.
"Whenever possible, I ask
groups who have requested me
to speak to come to the hospital
and see the problems for them
selves." he explained. “What
they see with their own eyes
would be far more meaningful
than anything I might try to ex
plain to them."
Prior to assuming his present
position in July, Jones served
with Vocational Rehabilitation
as a recreational therapist and
later as a vocational guid
ance counselor. Before this
he worked with the N. C. Depar
tment of Corrections as a re
habilitation counselor at youth
centers in Johnson County and
Butler.
Jones is married to the former
Grance Ann Ford of Freer, Tex.
and resides at Rt. 2, Dudley.
The Jones attend a Free Will
Baptist Church. His parents are
Mr. and Mrs. H. Alton Jones
of Rt. 6, Goldsboro.
He is a member of Wayne
Civitans, National Rehabilita
tion Association. Travelers Pro
tection Association, N. C. State
Employees Association, and
American Volunteer Service
Coordination.
News of
Alumni
Class of 1968
Ellen Jones worked with the
Summer Stock Theatre in Wil
liamsburg, Va., “The Common
Glory.” She did several Indust
rial Shows with Robert Lewis
on Broadway and worked with
the repetory company. The Man-
hatten Light Opera Co., in New
York City. She presently works
with the architectural firm,
Griffey & Strollo Associates as
a secretary and receptionist.
Class of 1963
Mr. and Mrs. Louis James
Ryan, III, of Richmond, Va.,
announce the birth of a son
Louis James Ryan, IV, on Aug
ust 12, 1969.
Jerry Harper graduated from
Southeastern Baptist Theologi
cal Seminary, Wake Forest,
N. C. with the master of Divin
ity Degree.
Class of 1959
John H. Tart of Dunn has been
appointed manager of the East-
gate Cinema in Eastgate Shop
ping Center on Berkeley Blvd.,
Goldsboro.
Class of 1954
The Reverend William E.
Carter is now the new minister
of Warwick Baptist church, Hob-
bsville, N. C.
No Date
Julia M. Carpenter of Wades-
boro completed 8 weeks of basic
training at the Women’s Army
Corp. Center, Ft. McClellan,
Ala., April 4.
The Reverend Larry R. Hill,
pastor of the Mt. View Baptist
Church in Rutherfordton, has
received the Master of Theology
Degree. He has begun work on
the Doctor of Theology Degree.
Mrs. Linda Tripp
now full-time
in biology
Aiinnni president-elect
(Jene Williams, president elect of the Chowan College
Alumni Association, reads the College's “Back to School"
issue, published annually in the Ahoskie “Herald," in his
office in Richmond, V’a. Williams is Secretary of the Bap
tist Men’s Department for the Virginia Baptist General
Board. He is a 1954 graduate of Chowan, where he was
president of the Sophomore Class and a member of the
football team. He is also a graduate of Wake Forest Coll
ege and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and
has served as pastor of four churches. His wife, Glorida,
is a graduate of Chowan and Meredith Colleges.
Receives Honors
Chowan graduate, Charlie Whitley, Class of 1958, recent
ly received both an honor and a promotion. He is now vice
president of Security Life and Trust Company of Winston-
Salem.
Chowan graduate
is honored
Mrs. Linda Elliott Tripp, who
has taught part-time at Chowan
College for one year, has been
named a professor of biology.
A graduate of Campbell Col
lege (A.A.), UNC at Chapel Hill
(B S.), and East Carolina Uni
versity (M.A.), Mrs. Tripp
taught three years at Moore
County School in Carthage.
Married, she has one child. She
is a native of Perquimans.
I'.arl Winibisli
rt'signs post
The director of alumni affairs
at Chowan College, Carlyle R.
Wimbish, Jr., has resigned to
accept the position of admin
istrator and headmaster at Pat
rick Henry Academy in Char
lotte County, Virginia. He began
his new duties August 18.
Wimbish came to Chowan in
January of 1968 from the 3M
Company of Roanoke, Virginia,
where he served as educational
representative.
Chowan College graduate and
Murfreesboro native, Charlie
Whitley, climaxed ten years of
hard study recently when he
was nam^ a Fellow of the
Society of Actuaries. He is
the first known Chowan grad
uate to receive this honor.
At the same time, Whitley
was promoted from assistant
actuary of Security Life, a sub
sidiary of INTEGON Corpor
ation, located in Winston-Salem,
to 2nd vice president and asso
ciate actuary.
This is just the latest of a list
of honors and accomplishments
which have been credited to
Whitley. At Chowan, which he
entered in September 1956,
Whitley was elected to Phi Theta
Kappa, was a Marshall in 1957,
and ranked second in his grad
uating class. He was awarded
the B. S. degree from the Uni
versity of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, having been elected
to Pi Mu Epsilon and Phi Beta
Kappa. He is one of only a few
(if not the only) Chowan gradua
tes to receive this honor.
In order to achieve member
ship in the Fellow of the Society
of Actuaries, Whitley, during
a ten-year span, wrote Actuar
ial Examinations on 17 occas
ions. Behind this stood some
5,000 hours of study time. Based
on a 40 hour week and two weeks
of vacation time per year, this
amounts to 2Vi years of study.
INTEGON’s president, J.
Edwin Collette, called the honor
“the highest academic honor
an actuary can achieve." J. M.
Loftis, FSA, vice president and
actuary, added, “Those famil
iar with the actuarial science
program know that it demands
dedication and perseverance,
as well as ability. Finding hours
for study and at the same time
making outstanding contribu
tions to the company as Charlie
has done is difficult.”
Whitley, who joined Security
February 1, 1960, is one of
1,600 members of FSA. He is
also a member of the Winston-
Salem Actuarial Club, the South
eastern Actuaries’ Club, and the
Middle Atlantic Acturarial Club.
A member of the First Baptist
Church of Winston-Salem, he
is associate teacher of a Sunday
school class.
At Security, Whitley, among
other responsibilities, directs
actuarial phases of the CFO
program, the computer system
that handles all ordinary insur
ance transactions. Whitley co
ordinated the company's con
version to this system three
years ago.
Whitley’s wife, Jean, teaches
at the Forsyth County Youth
Center (a detention home) in
Winston-Salem. Her work is
with children ages six to sixteen.
She has held the position for
four years and previously taught
music privately and was minis
ter of music in a Baptist church
Whitley's mother is Mrs. Ry-
land Whitley of Murfreesboro
and his wife's is Mrs. Shelton
Long of Hertford. The Whitelys.
who have no children, live at
3127 Bonhurst Drive in Winston-
Salem.
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