Reynolds Foundation Gives $25,000 Toward Gym Construction
Chowan CoUege has been awarded a $25,000 grant by the Z. Smith helping Chowan meet the needs of the area and region for a facility for
Reynolds Foundation of Winston-Salem to assist in the construction of a cultural, religious and civic events.”
gymnasium-physical education center, it was announced recently by Continued Dr. Whitaker, “Thousands of people, including our students
President Bruce E. Whitaker. citizens of the area and region, will benefit from the new gymnasium-
physical education center. We appreciate the Foundation’s support and
The Reynolds Foundation, which was established in 1936, is restricted continuing interest in helping Chowan serve the needs of many different
by charter to making grants to non-profit institutions and organizations in individuals and groups.”
the State of North Carolina. Through the years, the Foundation has made Whitaker said the grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation also
grants in 91 of the state’s 100 counties. {H-ovide mranentum for Chowan’s “Accomplishing Our Mission”
The new facility will replace the present gym, which Dr. Whither call- campaiga. “We must now continue to move forward to reach the
ed ’’overcrowed and inadequate. ” It was built in 1954 fw a student body of minimum |2 miiiwm goal. Many gifts, frwii many different sources, will
300. Chowan now has an enrollment of some 1,080 students. 5^ required to reach our goal and finance construction of the new facili-
Whitaker said Chowan appreciates the suppcnt of the Z. Smith ty,” he said.
ReyiK)lds Foundation in helping to provide for Oie cultural and physical Whitaker said ttie features of the new gymnasium-physical education
needs of both the college community and entire area and region. center include three full-size basketball courts, two classrooms, weight
“A new gymnasium-physical education center is an urgent need for room, mini-gym, four courts for handball and paddle tennis, steam bath,
Chowan's students,” remarked Whitaker. “Through its gift, the Founda- sauna, therapy room, laundry room, and an Olympic size swiming pool,
tion is helping Chowan increase its service to its students in the area of Whitaker said the facility will provide 63,000 square feet of space and
academics, physical fitness, and recreation. But the Foundation is also seating for up to 5,000 people.
Grad Wins
Photo Awards
Free-lance photographer Joe Parker, of
Rappahannock Academy, Va., eind a 1977
graduate with an Associate Degree in
Photography, recenUy won three awards at
the 80th Annual Convention of the Profes
sional Photographers of Virginia in Arl
ington.
Parker, among 90 photographers who sub
mitted over 450 photographs, was awarded
two blue ribbons. One was for a photograph
of the interior of the Mosque in Richmond in
the architectural photography category.
The other was in the pets and animals
category, a closeup of two purple martins
He was also awarded a white ribbon in Jie
pictoral category for a photo of a fawn
silhouetted at sunset.
Parker is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin
R. Parker of Rappahannock Academy.
Top Golfers Sign
For Chowan Team
Roanoke Rapids High School’s top two
golfers last season have signed to play on
Chowan’s golf team.
Coach Bill Sowell said Thomas Wheeler,
Jr., and Odie “Butch” Griffin, Jr., who
alternated between the no. 1 and no. 2 posi
tions last year on Roanoke Rapids’ team
will play for the Chowan team.
Sowell said three sophomores will return
including the team’s medalist last year,
Bobby Sears of Murfreesboro. Other
veterans are Greg Ailsworth of Keysville,
Va., and Tim Martin of Chesapeake, Va.
Sears has won a number of tournaments this
summer including the East Coast Junior In-
vitationsl Golf Tournament in New Bern.
Sowell said the two new golfers are two
handicap players and together with the
three returning lettermen should give
Chowan a strong team in 1979.
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Linda S. Nelms ... of Suffolk, Va., wilt serve in her
native state in her new position with Chowan as
Associate Director of Admissions.
K. Douglas Gatewood . . . a graduate of the Class of
1976, has returned to his alma mater as
Associate Director of Admissions.
D. Gatewood, Linda Nelms Join Staff In Admissions
Kenneth Douglas Gatewood, class of 1976, has been
appointed Assistant Director of Admissions and
assumed his duties with the college on August 1, and
replaces Neal Peterson, who resigned recently to join
a Virginia pharmecutical firm as a sales represen
tative.
In making the announcement. Dean Clayton Lewis
stated that “Gatewood will represent Chowan
throughout the state of North Carolina, and we are
quite pleased that he has returned to serve his alma
mater.” The Dean of Students further related that
“Doug Gatewood is indeed committed to the purpose
of Chowan College.”
The new admissions representative received the B.
S. degree in business administration from Atlantic
Christian College. While a student at Chowan,
Gatewood was active in intramural sports and
various campus organizations.
Prior to accepting the Chowan post, Gatewood was
employed as a group leader for the Youth Conserva
tion Corps.
Miss Linda Sue Nelms of Suffolk, Va. has been
employed as Assistant Director of Admissions. While
her responsibilities vary from recuiting to interveiw-
ing prospective students and their parents, her
primary concern will be to acquaint college-bound
Virginians with the benefits available to students who
study at Chowan College. She will represent Chowan
at most of the college and career day programs spon
sored by the secondary schools in Virginia.
Miss Nelms is a recent graduate of Elon. “She
has a pleasant personality,” said Dean Qayton
Lewis. “I am impressed by her enthusiasim.” Her
hobbies include swimming, (During the past summer
she served as coordinator of the swimming program
sponsored by the Red Cross in Suffolk.), arts and
crafts, biking, tennis, racketball, cooking and music.
EDITGR’S QUOTE BOOK
No nwn is quite sane. Each has a vein of folly in
composition—a slight determination of blood to the head, to make
sure of holding him hard to some one point which he has taken to
heart.—Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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