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Alumni directors meet on campus
The Alumni Board of Directors recently met on campus to con
duct business and to enjoy a picnic supper. Among those ot-
tending were: from left, Mrs. Elaine Myers ('60), Ahoskie;
Mrs. Betty Dough (’51), Greenville; Mrs. Ruby Udvarnoki ('29),
Murfreesboro: Mrs. Lou Evans Mason ('36), Harrellsville; and
Mrs. Gwen Phelps ('42), Plymouth.
Baptists celebrating birthday of Rice
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)-
Southern Baptists are celebrating
the 200th anniversary of the birth
of Lutfier Rice without an ap
preciation for one of his greatest
visions, says the executive
director-treasurer of the Southern
Baptist Convention Education
Commission.
Arthur L. Walker Jr. was in
Washington recently to attend the
Luther Rice Consultation on World
Missions. While not criticizing the
program, he noted it was ironic no
emphasis was given to Rice’s
beliefs in college education.
“Just as Luther Rice’s contem
poraries failed to understand and
appreciate his vision concerning
the importance of college educa
tion, so do Southern Baptists to
day,” Walker said.
According to Evelyn Wingo
Thompson’s biography on Rice,
“he saw, as no other Baptist of his
day was equipped to see, that Bap
tist churches were springing up all
over the western states and that
without trained leadership their
foundations were on shifting
sands.”
Rice invisioned a national Bap
tist educational institution where
future Baptist leaders could be
trained and founded Columbian
College in Washington, D.C. in
1821. Walker noted Rice received
some of his greatest criticism
because he spent so much time in
promoting the school and educa
tion. Eventually the school he
founded and gave so much of his
life to was sold to the Roman
Catholics and is today George
Washington University.
Rice’s beliefs and efforts were
not completely in vain. His in
fluence was instrumental in the
founding of the early Southern
Baptist institutions including Fur
man University in South Carolina,
Georgetown College in Kentucky,
the University of Richmond in
Virginia and Mercer University in
Georgia.
Despite his efforts, however, the
importance of college education in
training those interested in church-
related and mission vocations is
still overlooked.
“It is a tragedy that in 200 years
Baptists have not learned the
lesson Luther Rice tried to teach
us. You cannot effectively witness
to the world until you have proper
ly educated your messengers,”
Walker said.
Eight coeds have been initiated into the
Chowan College Alpha Pi Chopter, Alpha Pi
Epsilon, national honorary secretarial society.
From left, front row; Debra Langston, Mur
freesboro, N.C.: Morilyn Brown, Wilmington,
N.C.: Renee Fleetwood, Murfreesboro, N.C.;
Polly Boone, Gates, N.C.; Second Row: Tam
my Taylor, Bishopville, Md.; Wendy DeMoyo,
Murfreesboro, N.C.; Tracey Brett, Mur
freesboro, N.C.; and Angela Pike, Mur
freesboro, N.C. To be eligible for membership
in Alpha Pi Epsilon, a student must possess
the qualities of accuracy, dependability, and
initiative; be recommended by the Depart
ment of Business faculty; and earn a three
point-plus average in business and in liberal
arts, according to Thomas Ruffin, Department
of Business chairman. Chowan business pro
fessor, Pat Edwards, national Alpha Pi Epsilon
president, serves as the Alpha Pi Chapter
sponsor.
Grad with
Franchise
Enterprises
Mrs. Donna Davidson Leonard
has been appointed secretary to
Fred Tharington, senior vice presi
dent of development and construc
tion for Franchise Enterprises.
While a secretarial science stu
dent at Chowan, Mrs. Leonard
received a national honor, the
Florence Manning Secretarial
Science Award, sponsored by the
National Alpha Pi Epsilon,
honorary secretarial society.
At Chowan, she served as Stu
dent Government Association
representative, Woman’s Council
secretary and vice president and
president of Chowan’s Alpha Pi
Epsilon chapter, honorary
secretarial society. She was in
ducted into Phi Theta Kappa, a na
tional scholastic honorary society,
and was named to “Who’s Who
Among Students in American
Junior Colleges.” She graduated
magna cum laude from Chowan.
Crusco featured
in national
publication
Robert Dean Crusco, Class of
1973, was featured in the August,
1983, edition of Screen F*rinting
magazine, along with his screen
and offset printing operation in
New Castle, Delaware.
The eight page article described
Cnisco’s somewhat unique opera
tion of providing services in two
major types of printing. Crusco
began his business, Graphics
Unlimited, with a small offset
duplicator, and added addition^
printing equipment very rapidly.
Recognizing a market for screen
printed products, Crusco installed
necessary equipment for textile
printing and began soliciting
orders for T-shirts and other pro
ducts. The business now produces
a large volume of screen work, and
has reached the point that a com
puter is necessary to handle the
mailing lists and account billing.
Crusco indicated in his interview
for the magazine feature that he
was “spending about one-fourth”
of his time at the computer, but, he
added, “it’s sure paying off.”
IN MEMORIAM
1915
MRS. H.E. BAILEY
1920
MISS MARY LINEBERRY
1927
MRS. ELIA MAE PARKER STOKES
1928
MRS. THELMA E. FREEMAfI MURPHY
1931
MRS. ELSIE WHITE DYKE
1933
MRS. WALTER J. BOONE
MRS. C. WORTH BRIDGERS
1934
MRS. DEBORAH MITCHELL WHITE
1941
MR. D0U6LAS PARRAMORE
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