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Campus News Spring enrollment down Chowan College has a total enrollment of 724 students for the spring term, according to Dean B. Franklin Lowe, Dean of the College. This includes 189 sophomores, and 524 freshmen, and 11 special students. There are currently 246 females enrolled, and 478 males enrolled at Chowan. “Enrollment in the spring semester is always considerably less than in the fall semester,” states the dean. “This year’s decrease is somewhat greater than usual. One of the reasons for the immms m Mr. and Mrs. Lem Hall, of Richmond, Ka., have established by will the Marshall Lem and Louise Dabney Hall Scholarship to be awarded to deserving students as selected by the Scholarship Committee of the college. Mr. Hall is a retired merchant from Chatham, Virginia. The Halls now live at Lakewood Manor Baptist Retirement Home in Richmond. drop is that the majority of students who did not return for the spring semester either could not or would not do the quality of academic work required at Chowan College. ’ ’ There was also a group of students who had good academic records, but who elected not to return to Chowan. Many of this group elected to transfer to senior institutions, according to Dean Lowe. “This is always a problem that two-year institutions face,” ex plains Lowe. “On the other hand, some of the good students who did not return, completed graduation requirements at the end of the fall semester, while others were within nine hours of meeting graduation requirements and plan to transfer back to Chowan sufficient credit for graduation.” The goal is $50,000 total when these students, along with alumni volunteers, ‘ ‘pick up the phones" to call hundreds of alumni, parents and friends in this year’s Phonathon, scheduled for March 12-29. Industrious students and willing vounteers will spend numerous hours calling to request donations. Won't you lend an ear? 28 students named junior college Who’s Who The 1990 edition of Who's Who Among Students in American Junior Colleges will include the names of 28 students from Chowan College who have been selected as national outstanding campus leaders. Campus nominating committees and editors of the annual directory have in cluded the names of these students based on their academic achievement, service to the community, leadership in ex tracurricular 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 Columbia and several foreign nations. Outstanding students have been honored in the annual directory since it was first published in 1934. Students named this year from Chowan College, and their hometowns, are: Janice Morgan Askew, Eure; Polly Denise Babb, Roanoke Rapids; Caron D. Bailey, Clayton, Delaware; Robert Thomas Bazemore, Cofield; Julie Anne Best, Rich Sqare; Juliet Sellers Brooks, Kinston; Joudy Lynn Council, Ivor, Virginia; Whitney Leigh Cubertson, Murfreesboro; Rupal Desai, Murfreesboro; Dana Lee Goins, Harrellsville; Wendy Marie Holland, Burlington; Hunter Allen Hopkins, Louisa, Virginia; James Russell Johnson, Charlottesville, Virginia; Lori Patricia Jones, Twnety Nine Palms, California; Janerose Wanjiku Kinyanjui, Nairobi, Kenya; Holly J. Larsen, Leesburg, Virginia; David Scott Lewter, Murfreesboro; Lori Denyse Nold, Burlington; Christie Faye Parker. Harrellsville; Randy Troy Perry, Virginia Beach, Virginia; Rebekah Scott Reson, Chilhowie, Virginia; Jerod James Rose, Seaboard; James M. Rumbold, III, Elizabethtown; Atsuko Shimowada, Ibaraki, Japan; Jonathan Harris Taylor, Vaceboro; Jennifer Louise Towell, Springfield, Virginia; Kenneth R. Traino, Marlton, New Jersey; Thomas Franklin Wilkerson, Raleigh. Phi Beta Lambda students hope to fill shoes one day “ ‘These are the shoes you will fill one day,’ Dorothy Wallace, professor of business, told members of the Mu Zeta Chapter of the Phi Beta Lambda organization at their January meeting. Four members of the community spoke to the students about volunteerism and caring for your community. Each of the speakers had made a difference in their communities doing things they are not paid to do. They each brought a pair of their own shoes to display during their presentations. Lynette Bunch, from Murfreesboro, is a community volunteer who is a director at the state and national level of the Watermelon Association. Doug Cox, from Murfreesboro, is Vice-President of the Murfreesboro Historical Association and had served as a volunteer for seventeen years. He has served on the Town Council for fourteen years, and teaches meteorolgy to the Coast Guard on his own time. Left to right: Doug Cox, Lynette Bunch, Professor Dorothy Wallace, Gilbert Tripp, Bob Casmus display shoes for students to step into one day. and Bob Casmus, Athletic Trainer at Chowan, spoke to the club about his personal involvement on the local rescuc squad, and how volunteering his time ha' helped him develop his own skills and confidence. Gilbert Tripp, Professor of Science at Chowan, told how much scouting has always meant in his life. He started cub scouting in Murfreesboro year- ago, and has been a local leader in scouting since then, influential in the developmen of a number of Eagle Scouts, including hi own son, throughout the years. Showing the students what citizenship i - all about, each speaker eloquently demonstrated caring for others for no other reward than personal satisfaction. At the conclusion of the presentations. Dr. Wallace challenged each of tht students, future business leaders of tomorrow, to step into these shoes one day She reminded them of what Plato once said, “A life that is not examined, is not worth living.” CHOWAN TODAY, March, 1990 - Page 3
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