Named to Who's Who
Top students recognized
The 1987 edition of WHO’S WHO
AMONG STUDENTS IN
AMERICAN JUNIOR COLLEGES
will include the names of 31
students from Chowan College who
have been selected as national
outstanding campus leaders.
Campus nominating committees
and editors of the annual directory
have included the names of these
students based on their academic
achievement, service to the com
munity, leadership in extracur
ricular activities and potential for
continued success.
They join an elite group of
students selected from more than
1,400 institutions of higher learning
in all 50 states, the District of Col
umbia and several foreign nations.
Outstanding students have been
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honored in the annual directory
since it was first published in 1934.
Students named this year from
Chowan College are: Roney
Kuruvilla Abraham, India; David
Patrick Aydlett, Camden; Delores
Ann Baker, Windsor; Diana Lynn
Baker, Camp Springs, Md.; James
Horatio Baker, Nashville;
Timothy Owen Blake, Chester
field, Va.; Leah Yvette Britt,
Ahoskie; Melonie Faye Bunch,
Windsor; Deanna Lynn Burk,
Richmond, Va.; Scott Gardner
Capps, Oxford; Tony Xavier
Clark, Elm City; Angela Elizabeth
Felton, Suffolk, Va.; Michael An
drew Fisher, Sandston, Va.;
Rosalyn Charisse Flood, Ahoskie;
Robin Lynn Frazier, Warrenton;
Traci Yvette Gaines, Hartford,
Conn.; Darrell Bruce Garrison,
Murfreesboro.
Jimmy Richard Gray, Jr., Mur
freesboro; Elizabeth Anne Hawk,
Greenville; Laura Elizabeth
Hazelton, Murfreesboro; Susan
Ameta Howell, Franklin, Va.;
Bryon Kevin Huffstetler,
Charlotte; Labrena Annette Jones,
Ahoskie; Kimberly Michelle
Lovelace, Drexel; Wendy Ann
Matney, Boykins, Va.; Wendy
Leigh Phelps, Cary; Melanie Carol
Sawyer, Belhaven; Roger Lee
Shadbum, Atlanta, Ga.; Eric Todd
Sharpe, Gibsonville; James Steven
Thompson, Jr., Richmond, Va.;
Thomisene Vaughan, Conway.
Gift to Mission campaign
President Bruce E. Whitaker, center, and
Dean of the College B. Franklin Lowe, Jr.,
right, discuss the college's $4 million Mission
Excellence Campaign with Raymond C.
Benthall, Jr., vice president, NCNB, National
Bank of North Carolina, Murfreesboro. In
support of the college's drive to increase its
endowment, Benthall delivered the first of
five $4,000 gifts to establish the NCNB
Faculty/Stoff Enrichment Fund. NCNB has
committed $20,000 to this fund. "This gift
demonstrates our support and appreciation to
Chowan College and what it means to our
entire area," Benthall stated. Dr. Whitaker
said NCNB's support "will undergird and
further strengthen the program, mission and
service of the college to young men and
women. This commitment also will strengthen
the long-time close relationship between the
two institutions."
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Artist returns to Alma
Mater to exhibit work
Holiday reminder
The newly established chapter of "Students
Against Drunk Driving" arranged to have a
crashed car placed at the entrance to the
college as a visual reminder of the danger of
drinking and driving as Chowon students and
others took to the roads during the holidays.
The sign was made by Wendy Jo Basden, vice
president of the SADD chapter.
William Hinton, a Gatesville
native who studied art at Chowan
from 1975 to 1977, returned to his
alma mater to exhibit a collection
of his ceramic sculpture and draw
ings in the Chowan Art Gallery in
Green Hall during February.
The artist was presented at a
reception in the gallery prior to the
opening of the exhibition. Hinton
served as instructor in art at
Louisburg College for three years
before becoming acting chairman
of Louisburg’s Department of Fine
and Performing Arts in August,
1986.
On display were large scale,
4’x8’, sculptures made of glazed
ceramic tile. “Pattern, color and
texture are all used in order to in
volve the viewer,” Professor of Art
Doug Eubank explained.
Hinton also served as artist,
designer and plant manager of
Terra Designs, Inc., Morristown,
N.J.
Holds Several Degrees
He received his A.A. degree in
ceramics and painting from
Chowan. He holds the B.F.A. in
ceramics, magna cum laude, from
East Carolina University and
M.F.A. in ceramic art, magna cum
laude, from Alfred University,
Alfred, N. Y. He has also studied at
Penland School of Crafts and North
Carolina State University.
Hinton has conducted
workshops, served as a judge, and
exhibited his works throughout
North Carolina and in New York,
Arizona, South Carolina, Virginia
and Florida.
His ceramics are included in col
lections at Arizona State Universi
ty, Alfred University. Ixjuisburg
College, and East Carolina Univer
sity.
Two graduates
named to Who's
Who in Arkansas
Two Chowan College graphic
communications graduates,
Tracey Amanda Hartert of
Chesapeake, Va. and Eric Rooney
of Elgin, S.C., have been named to
Who’s Who in American Univer
sities and Colleges.
Both are students at Arkansas
State University where they are
majoring in printing management.
Hartert, a junior, is the recipient
of numerous scholastic awards, in
cluding the ASU Graphic Arts
Scholarship. She is a member of
the Graphic Arts Club, the ASU
Publications Committee, the Stu
dent Development Committee and
the Rotaract Club.
A senior, Rooney is a member
and officer of the ASU Graphic
Arts Club and is president of Nu
Sigma Chi fraternity, which he
represents on the Interfraternity
Council.
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