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Hollowell to Head
Campaign for Gym
ELECTED GENERAL CHAIRMAN—E. L. Hollowell of Edenton, chairman of the Board of
Trustees, presides at the recent called joint meeting of the trustees and Board of Advisors.
Hollowell was elected general chairman of the campaign for a new gymnasium-physical
education facility during the meeting.
New Members Elected
To Board of Trustees
Nine new members have been elected to
serve four-year terms on Chowan’s Board
of Trustees, lliey were selected during the
annual meeting d. the Baptist State
Comrention of North Carolina held in
November in Fayetteville.
Two members are joining the Board for
the first time. They are Mrs. Henry B.
Stokes of Buies Creek and C.M. (Tom)
Jarvis of Roanoke Rapids.
Mrs. Stokes served as secretary and
field worker in the Training Union
Department of the Baptist State Con
vention of Kentucky. Her conmiunity
service includes PTA, Garden Club, Book
Club, and Red Cross. Her husbMd is
pastor of Memorial Baptist Church. Mrs.
Stokes teaches in the Senior High
Department in Sunday School and is active
in the WMU and other programs at
Memorial.
Jarvis is vice president and division
manager of Virginia Electric & Power
Company and a former member of
Chowan’s Board of Advisors. A Wilkesboro
native, Jarvis is chairman of the Board of
Directors of the Halifax Development
Commissioa
Returning to the Board with previous
service to their credit are seven members:
Mrs. J. Carlton Cherry of Ahoskie, J.E.
Ferebee of Camden, the Rev. Clarence E.
Godwin of Oxford, State Senator J.J
Harrington of Lewiston, Mike H. Johnson
IN MEMORIAM
1905
Mrs. Sidney Francis
1935
Mrs. Steve Ontko
Miss Olivia Hall
John Charles Bryant,
husband of
Alma Belch Bryant
(Class of 1932)
of Hamilton, Charles Lee Smith of
Raleigh, and Charles L. Revelle, Sr. of
Murfreesboro.
Mrs. Cherry is active in community
affairs including Cancer Drive, Red Cross,
Heart Fund, Woman’s Club and Garden
Club. She is a member of First Baptist
Church, Ahoskie, where she has tau^t a
Sunday School class for many years. She is
also a member of the Board of Deacons.
Her husl»nd is an attorney.
Ferebee has served two terms on the
Board including chairman of the
Executive Committee. He is a member of
Sawyer’s Creek Baptist Church, where his
activities include serving as a deacon. His
daughter, Susan, is a sophomore at
Chowan.
Godwin has served as pastor of Oxford
Baptist Church since 1965. He has served
three terms on the Board. He has served
two terms as a member of the North
Carolina Baptist State General Board,
including three years on the Executive
Committee.
Harrington is president of Harrington
Manufacturing Co., Lewiston. Two of his
children, a son and a daughter, have at
tended Chowan. Harrington is president of
Chowan’s Parent Association and
chairman of the trustee division of the
campaign for a new gymnasium-physical
education facility.
Johnson is a Chowan graduate. At
Chowan, he was president of the Student
Government Association and a charter
member and president of Phi Theta
Kappa. He is serving his second term as a
member of the Board of Trustees. He and
his father, Henry S. Johnson, are
providing financial assistance for needy
Chowan students through a scholarship
fund they have endowed.
Smith is president of Edwards and
Broughton Co., Raleigh. He has served on
Chowan’s Board of Advisors and Meredith
College’s Board of Trustees. Smith is a
former chairman of the Board of Deacons
at First Baptist Church, Raleigh.
Revelle is president of Revelle In
vestment Corporation. His wife, Martha, is
a Chowan alumna. He is a past chairman
of the Board of Trustees and has been
active in a number of drives to secure
financial sui^rt for Chowan.
A number of top leadership positions
have been filled in preparation for a
campaign for a new gymnasium-physical
education center at Chowan College.
E.L. Hollowell of Edenton, chairman of
the Board of Trustees, will serve as
general chairman for the drive. State Sen.
J.J. Harrington of Lewiston was chosen to
head the trustee division. Dr. Herman
Melvin Kunkle of Portsmouth, Va., will
lead the advisor division. Mrs. Msiry Alice
Matthews of Hamilton is serving as co-
chairman for the trustee division.
The selections were made during a
called joint meeting of the trustees and
advisors in the office of President Bruce E.
Whitaker.
Active in Church
Hollowell is president of Chowan Veneer
Co., Inc. He served as general chairman of
the 1975-76 Annual Giving Fund which
topped it $67,500 goal. He is a member of
Ekienton Baptist Church, where he has
served as chairman of the Board of
Deacons three times.
Harrington is president of Harrington
Manufacturing Co. He is also serving as a
trustee and president of the Parents’
Association.
Dr. Kunkle is chairman of the Board of
Advisors. He is a physician. Mrs. Mat
thews is president of D.G. Matthews and
Son, Inc.
During the meetings, the trustees, ad
visors and administrators stressed the
importance of a new gymnasium-
physical education center. In accepting his
position as general chairman, Hollowell
noted that with the building oi the new
facility “Chowan will have succeeded in
rounding out the major construction items
of the Master Plan, which was set in
motion two decades ago, in the early days
of Dr. Whitaker’s administraticHi.”
Hollowell said careful planning and
evaluation have proceeded tte decision to
seek support for a new gymnasium-
physical education center. He asked the
trustees and advisors to help devise a plan
“in meeting the priority need for a gym
nasium-physical education center.”
Facility Important
Dr. Kunkle spoke on the importance of
the new facility. “As a physician, I am well
aware of the importance of developing the
whole person — mind, body and spirit.
New heights of service are unfolding for
Chowan. It is an exciting thing to have the
opportunity to make a great Christian
institution even greater.”
Dr. Whitaker also pointed out that
“besides being of direct service to the
college, the new gynmetsium-physical
education center will provide a modem
facility for visiting church and camp
groups, and the conmiunity at large. In
itself, the ability to seat 2,500 to 5,000
people will be a valued asset for the
educational cultural life of the college and
the surrounding area.”
In other business, H.L. Evans, Jr., of
Murfreesboro, chairman of the 1976-77
Annual Giving Program, reported nearly
$87,000 has been received. The goal is
$75,000.
Harrington noted two of his children, a
son and a daughter, attended Chowan. He
said he was impressed with the kind of
education experience they received at
Qiowan. He also said he is aware the
present gymnasium is not adequate. “I
look forward to woitoig with the other
members of the Board of Trustees and
Board of Advisors in providing this much-
needed facility for other young people,”
Harrington stated.
Whitaker said the many features of the
new guymnasium-physical education
center will increase Chowan’s ability to
train young men and women for their
future lives.
Well Equipped
He said the features include: three
basketball courts, seating for 2,500 to 5,000
peo(de, two classrooms, weight rown,
wrestling room, locker rooms, office
^ce, four non-regulation courts (hand
ball and paddle tennis), steam bath,
sauna, therapy room, laundry room,
storage, and an Olympic size swimming
pool.
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PROGRESS REPORT—H. L. Evans, Jr., of Murfreestwro, chairman of the 1976-77
Annual Giving Program, reports on the progress of the drive during the meeting of the
Board of Trustees and Board of Advisors.
For May, June 1977
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