Collection
Of Prints
Exhibited
A collection of Contemporary
European Prints assembled by
the North Carolina Museum of
Art as a traveling exhibition is on
view at the Chowan College Art
Gallery from October 2 to Oc
tober 25. Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Benjamin of Greensboro and
New Orleans gave the eighteen
prints to the Museum for this
purpose and also provided funds
for framing and crating the
works to travel.
All of the graphic works which
comprise the show are by con
temporary artists who are best
known for their paintings or
sculptures. French school artists
predominate-Pablo Picasso,
Jean Carzou, Marc Chagall, Jean
Dufy, Japanese-born
Tsugouharu Foujita,
Aristede Maillol, Maurice Utrillo-
but Swiss artists Hans Emi and
Alberto Giacometti are also
included.
Of special interest is
“Illustration for ‘Carmen’,” one
of five works by Picasso in the
exhibition. This particular
graphic work has been executed
by the intaglio process in which
lines are cut Into a metal plate,
which is then inked and pressed
into dampened paper. Picasso
has etched the lines with a
“pencil” made of hard steel and
left the metal furrows, or “burr,”
on the plate to catch the ink and
add richness, a printing method
called drypoint. Another intagUo
print, “Breton Mother” by
Etienne Ret, is made by a tone
etching process called aquatint.
Other well-known graphic
works on view in the show are
Jean Cocteau’s “Clown” and
Jacques Villon’s “Portrait of a
Man.” These are among the
lithographs, which result from
printing a treated stone, metal
plate, or other hard surface on
which the drawing has been
made with a waxy material. Ink
is poured over and absorbed by
the surface, except where the
wax is present. Wien paper is
pressed to the stone the im
pression is made by the inked and
non-inked areas, liie collection is
one of nine traveling exhibitions
currently being circulated by the
North Carolina Museum of Art.
Rotary Club
Hosts To
Foreign Students
World Understanding Week was recently celebrated by the Murfreesboro Rotary
Club with international students studying at Chowan College present as guests. The
featured speaker was Anthony (Tony) Odion-Esene of Nigeria, flanked by Colonel
J. C. Pennington, left president of the Rotary Club, and Dr. Bruce E. Whitaker,
fresident of Chowan College. To his right on the back row are Professor Rowland
Pruette and Clayton Lewis, dean of students. The 16 stydents represented five
countries—Iran, Mexico, Venezuela, Nigeria and the Bahama Islands. “The
program, a real experience in international understanding and good will, united
people of different races, religions and national origins in an evening of world
fellowship,” stated Clayton Lewis, dean of students at Chowan and a Rotarian.
Chowan Shares In Dr. Small Estate
Chowan College has received
$10,000 from the will of the late
Dr. Victor R. Small of Clinton,
who died February 3, 1971 after
practicing medicine for 51 years.
Chowan was one of six North
Carolina private colleges named
as beneficiaries of a substantial
estate under a trust agreement in
the will of Dr. Small. “This
represents the first payment to
Chowan,” Bobby Cross,
director of development at the
Baptist, two-year college, ex-
Our Cover
Dr. Bruce E. Whitaker, president of Chowan
College, is pictured with a portrait of the Rev.
Robert Rishop Savage, 1832-189^, who served as
a member and chairman of the Chowan College
Board of Trustees during the formative years of
the institution. He was named chairman his first
year as a trustee, in 1879, continuing in that
capacity until 1889. He remained on the Board as
a member until his death in 1892.
The portrait was presented several years ago
by Mrs. Eldridge Camp Smith, of Franklin, Va.,
a granddaughter of the Rev. Mr. Savage. Mrs.
Smith's mother, the late Mrs. Carrie Savage
Camp, was a Chowan alumna. The Rev. Mr.
Savage was pastor at five area Baptist chur
ches:
First Ahoskie (1872-1885).
Buckhorn (1845-1885).
Galatia (1870-1872).
Mt. Tabor (18«S-1885).
Roberts Chapel (1870-1885).
plained. “As funds become
available, additional payments
will be made to Chowan and the
other five colleges named in the
will,” Cross noted. He said they
are Louisburg, Mount Olive, and
Southwood, two-year colleges,
and Campbell and Atlantic
Christian, senior colleges.
Cross said the will provides for
a trust “perpetually to retain a
minimum of $500,000.
Distributions are made annually
on July 27, Dr. Small’s birthday,
in amounts of $10,000 each to one
or more of the six colleges neuned
by Dr. Small on a rotation basis.”
He said all six institutions have
been awarded a $10,000 gift. It is
believed by trust officials that
each college will receive $10,000
approximately every two years.
Cross said.
In his will, Dr. Small stressed
his “moral obligation” to make
the disposition “in a manner
which \^1 serve purposes, boUi
self unselfish and useful, emd will
accrue with lasting benefits.”
The money was earmarked by
Dr. Small for use and benefit
within the English departments
of the six colleges for the
promotion of English, poetry, the
classics, including ^ilosophy,
“and other worthwhile literature,
with a special emphasis on
English and American
literature, French Literature,
and Pre-Revolutionary Russian
Literature.”
An Ohio native. Dr. Small was
himself an author with a number
of published books to his credit.
At the time of his death, a
collection of his poems was in the
hands of the publisher for prin
ting. llie book. Crossed By The
Sun, has since been printed and a
copy is in Chowan’s Whitaker
Library along with three other of
Dr. Small’s books. Down
Coharrie River Way, Over My
Shoulder, and The Feel of Earth.
Commenting on the gift, Cross
said that Dr. Small’s expressed
desire to continue to serve
mankind after his death would be
realized through his gift to
Chowan and the other five
colleges.
J
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Chowan College sophomore, Steve Bennett, of St.
Petersburg, Fla., assuming the dress of “years ago” to
accent Chowan’s 125th anniversary celebration, talks
with Dr. Bela Udvamoki, former chairman of the social
science department at Chowan, during the recent
Planning Conference.
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