Sunday, May 18th
Dr. Lolley, Dr. Ray Commencement Speakers
The president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake
Forest and the general secretary-treasurer of the Baptist State Convention
of North Carolina will be the speakers for Chowan College’s commence
ment exercises Sunday, May 18.
Dr. W. Randall Lolley, Southeastern’s president, will speak at the 11
a.m. baccalaureate service.
Dr. Cecil A. Ray, chief administrative officer of the Baptist Convention,
will deliver the 2 p.m. graduation address to close Chowan’s 132nd year.
President Bruce E. Whitaker said the
speakers were selected in light of the col
lege’s participation in the celebration of the
150th anniversary of the Baptist State Con
vention of North Carolina.
Other Participants
Also participating in the baccalaureate
service will be Thomas E. Ruffin, chairman
of the Department of Business, who will give
the invocation; Dr. R. Hargus Taylor,
Chaplin, who will deliver the scripture and
prayer; and Miss Anna Belle Crouch, pro
fessor in the Department of Language and
Literature, who will present the benedic
tion.
James B. Dewar, science professor, will
deliver the invocation during the graduation
exercises. The Chowan Brass Ensemble will
provide commencemenmt music. Whitaker
will preside and introduce the speakers at
both services.
Lolley is a graduate of Samford Universi
ty with the VA.B. and two Baptist
theological seminaries, Southeastern with
the B.D. and Th.M. and Southwestern with
the Th.D. He received the honorary Doctor
of Divinity from Wake Forest University.
Alabama Native
The Troy, Ala. native served as associate
pastor of Greensboro First Baptist Church
and Broadway Baptist Church of Fort
Worth, Tex. He accepted the presidency of
Southeastern in 1974 after serving as pastor
of the Winston-Salem First Baptist Church
for 13 years.
He has served as a member of the Ex
ecutive Committee and chairman of the
Resolutions Committee of the Southern Bap
tist Convention. He was president of the
North Carolina Baptist Pastors Conference
in 1967.
Lolley has been active in community ser
vice in United Fund, Rotary Club, Chamber
of Commerce, American Cancer Society, ur
ban renewal, religious life, race relations,
and educational and health needs.
He and his wife, the former Clara Lou
Jacobs of Geneva, Ala., have two daughters,
Charlotte and Pam.
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A Fort Worth, Tex. native, Ray received
his A.B. degree from Howard Payne College
and Th.M. from Southwestern Baptist
Theological Seminary. Howard Payne
University granted him an honorary doc
torate.
Ray served as pastor of Arnett-Benson
Baptist Church in Lubbock, Tex. from its
founding in 1946. During his ten years as
pastor, the membership grew to 1,500 with a
Sunday school enrollment of over 1,300 and
an average attendance of near 700.
Mission Superintendent
For five years, he was superintendent of
missions for the San Antonio Baptist
Association. He began his service with the
Baptist General Convention of Texas in 1961,
first as secretary of the Cooperative Pro
gram and Church Finance Department then
as director of the Stewardship Division. He
assumed his present position in 1975.
In 1960, Ray was selected Texas Baptist
“Father of the Year” with recognition for
providing a “new way of life” for daughter,
Susan, a victim of paralytic polio.
He and his wife, Charlene, also have a
married son, Lanny, living in L«s Almos,
NewMex.
Alumna Receives
Distinguished Award
At Guilford College
Chowan College alumna and advisor, Mrs.
Edwin P. Brown, has received the 1980
Distinguished Alumnus Award, the highest
honor which can be bestowed by the
Guilford College Alumni Association, for
her many years of devoted service — and
her continuing service — to the Quaker in
stitution.
Mrs. Brown, a Murfreesboro resident and
a 1934 grauduate of Chowan College, was in
troduced to Guilford by her late husband,
who graduated there and later served as
chairman of the Board of Trustees.
Her service to the college as her hus
band’s “partner in all things” has been so
outstanding that Trustees named her to suc
ceed him on the board after his death in
1972.
During his later years, the Browns moved
to the Guilford campus to be nerarer their
“work,” and Mrs, Brown still lives part of
the year in Greensboro to avail herself to the
college.
Ed Brown’s dream was to see a fine
physical education center at Guilford, and
Mrs. Brown has been an active solicitor for
funds to pay for the Ragen-Brown Field
House now under construction.
She has not forsaken her alma mater,
Chowan. She has served as its alumni
association president and currently is a
member of the Board of Advisors of Chowan
College.
Her devotion to Chowan has been noted,
also, for she was voted the Distinguished
Alumni Award in 1968 and was presented the
President’s Council Award in 1974.
DR. W. RANDALL LOLLEY
DR. CECIL A. RAY
Mrs. Ruby AAilgrom Appointed
As Member, Board of Advisors
Mrs. Ruby Braswell Milgrom of Bat-
tleboro has been appointed to the Board of
Advisors at Chowan College, according to
Chowan’s president. Dr. Bruce E. Whitaker.
Mrs. Milgrom is president of Milgrom
Farm Products, Inc. of Battleboro. She is
the widow of former State Sen. Henry
Milgrom and has two sons and one
daughter.
Mrs. Milgrom received her education in
Rocky Mount City Schools, the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro, and Nash
Technical School.
A Rocky Mount native, she is active in
community and church affairs as chairman
of the Area Board of the Edgecombe Nash
Mental Health Clinic, member of the Ex
ecutive Committees of the Nash Rocky
Mount and State Mental Health Associa
tions, member of the Governor’s Advocacy
Council of Children and Youth, volunteer
(Pink Lady) at Nash General Hospital and
treasurer of the Nash General Nurses
Garden, and Vestrywoman of St. John’s
Episcopal Church.
Mrs. Milgrom served as Battleboro
March of Dimes chairman for 15 years, vice
president of Coastal Heart Assoc, for four
years, president of the Rocky Mount Garden
Club for two years, and Sunday school
teacher for 10 years at St. John’s Episcopal
Church.
MRS. RUBY BRASWELL MILGROM
She is a member of the State Democratid
Executive Committee and has also servec^
as chairman of her Precinct Committeej
chairman of Nash Democratic Party, an(|
president Nash Democratic Women.
Major Drive Launched To Establish
Operating Fund For New Gymnasium
With the completion of the $2.5 million Jesse A. Hehns Physical
Education Center, Chowan College will bring to conclusion the
final phase of its long-range building program.
Now, the challenge of maintaining, operating and equipping the
Helms Center must be met. Sound fiscal policy dictates that provi
sion be made to operate the center as efficiently and economically
as possible.
Therefore, Chowan has launched a major drive to establish a
special $500,000 operating fund for the Helms Center. The prin
cipal of the fund is to be invested in perpetuity with the income to
be used on an annual basis to operate, maintain and equip the
center.
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