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Campus News Awards Day students and Chowan College students received awards for citizenship, service, and academic and athletic achievement during Awards Day on May 7 in the Helms Center. The 1991 Chowan annual, CHOW- ANOKA, was dedicated to Warren Sexton, chairman of the department of social science, who has been professor at Chowan since 1959. Dr. Jerry F. Jackson, president of the college, presented the awards as sisted by Dr. B. Franklin Lowe, Jr. vice president for academic affairs. Awards included an engraved plaque or certificate and many also included scholarships for the following year of study. Gary Wade Robinson, a sophomore from Aurora, N.C., was named the Best All-Around Student and was also named Most Outstanding Resident Assistant (Male). Richard Dwayne Gibson, sopho more from Greensboro, N.C., received the Superior Citizenship Award as voted on by the faculty and staff and presented to exemplary students. He also was presented the Alpha Mu Gamma Foreign Language Award (Spanish) and was named to the Order of the Silver Feather, an honorary serv ice order of outstanding students (five named each year) at Chowan. Other students named to the Order of the Silver Feather are Andrea Kaye Hines, Hillst)orough, N.C.; Jill Over ton, Ahoskie, N.C.; Charlotte Sophia Pitt, Nassau, Bahamas; and Reginald Taylor, Prince George, Va. Reginald Taylor also received the Superior Citizenship Award. Andrea Hines also received the award for Most Outstanding Female Resident Assis tant. recognizes professors The Merit Award was presented to Susan Joyner Harmon, Aulander, N.C.; Amy Melissa Underwood, Fran klin, Va. received the Highest Scho lastic Average (Sophomore) Award. She also was presented the Marylou Jones Armstrong Business Award. Jason Chad Drake, Ahoskie, N.C. and Stephen Craig White, Eure, N.C. re ceived the Highest Scholastic Fresh man Awards. Maria Jose Puente, a student from Pichincha, Ecuador, capmred the Inter national Student Award. TTie Mary Pierce Music Award was presented to Noriko Otani, from Hamada, Japan, and Natalie Candice Taylor, from Eure, N.C. The Fine Arts Department also presented music awards to Kyoko Kikuno, Japan, for Outstanding Student in the Stage Band and to Susan Jacobs, Va. Beach, Va. who was named Outstanding Chorus Member. TTie Mathematics Award went to Chak Yan Tong from Hong Kong, and the Alpha Mu Gamma Foreign Language Award for French. Donald P. Nash, of Aberden, MS, was awarded the Bernice Kelly Harris Creative Writing Scholarship. Alicia Juanita Dean, from Freeport, Baha mas, was named outstanding Fresh man in English. Stephen Craig White, Eure, N.C. received the'Raymond Memorial Sci ence Scholarship. David Tyrone Perry, from Rich Square, N.C., received the Exchange Qub Athletic Award and Scholarship presented by the Mur freesboro Exchange Club. The Krueger School of Graphic Communications presented awards to Most Outstanding Graduate in Pho tography which went to Queen Esther First StudiAct Acteens Scholarship is awarded Rhonda Kaye Whitaker, a senior at Bear Grass High School, has been awarded the first North Carolina Acteens StudiAct Scholarship to be granted by Chowan College. Whitaker was recommended for the scholarship by Linda Todd, Acteens Consultant, Woman’s Missionary Un ion of North Carolina. TTie scholar ship is based upon the quality of the recipient’s study and service while Chowan Today USPS 715-880 ISSN 1051-9580 LISA NEWSOME Ediof VINT TILSON Vic» Prmidfnt tor Dtvtkipm^nt SVEN VanBAARS - Dmctor a/Annmil Givgig and Atumni S^rvictt JACK QOLDBERQ Sporta Intofmatoo Pubith«d by Choiwan Coll«e«. MurfrsMboro. North Carolina, a ttarxJard junior colaga cortroKod by th« BapMsi Stata Convao' ton at North Carolrta and founded in 1846. Pnrtad by ttudonti and facuKy of tha Kruagar School o( Graphic Communcaiiont ai Choiwan Coitaga. Poaimaciar: Sand 3675 to Choman Today. Chow«n CoMaga. P.O. Boi 164«. Murfroaaborg N.C. 27BS5. PuUmfmd four hmm a yaar in Uafch, Jvna. Saftmrtm and D^cmrtm SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT MURFREESeOflO. N.C. 27»$$ progressing toward the level of Queen Regent in service in Acteens. The award amounts to $1,8(X) to be cred ited to Whitaker’s study at Chowan over a period of four years. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Whitaker, of Williamston, she is a member of Siloam Baptist Church and served on the North Carolina Acteens Advisory Board, 1990-91. Whitaker is also the recipient of an Academic Honors Scholarship, one of the most prestigious scholarships of fered by the college. To be considered for this scholarship, a student must rank in the upper ten percent of the graduating class, have a high school average of 3.2 or better, and a high SAT score. These awards are renew able annually for up to four years of study if the student maintains a re quired academic average while at Chowan. Whitaker was one of many scholar ship recipients honored at a Scholar ship Luncheon held in the President’s Dining Room this spring. Professor Warren G. Sexton was surprised by the dedication of the 1991 Chowanoka on Awards Day. WUliams of Greenville, N.C.; and most Outstanding Graduate in Printing Technology to Gordon Adams Bar nes, Jr., Fuquay Varina, N.C. Robert Allen Deacon, from Con way, N.C., was awarded the Joseph Lee Parker award for Physical Fimess. Fonda Dione Lyons, Raleigh, N.C., was named Most Outstanding Athlete (Female); Frederick O’Neal Vinson, Murfreesboro, N.C., was named Most Outstanding Athlete (Male). Commencement Marshalls, seleaed from the freshmen having the highest academic averages, were named. They were Jason Chad Drake, Ahoskie, N.C.; Stephen Craig White, Eure, N.C.; Melissa Dawn Lewellen, Bel- haven, N.C.; Christina Elizabeth Perk- inson, Suffolk, Va; Shannon Leigh Sullivan, Burlington, N.C.; Rumonda Tyre Smith, Greenbelt, MD; Joyce Lynn White, Murfreesboro, N.C.; Yoko Yoshioka, Atlanta, Ga. On Campus in (BrUf Russian artist, Violeta Jatniece, visited Chowan recently and demon strated her skills in ceramics for art students. She is one of several visiting Soviet artists traveling in the United States. Chowan was one of just four stops on her tour. The Russ Morgan Orchestra performed in the Helms Center on March 5 as part of the Roanoke-Chowan Community Concert series. The Red Cross Bloodmobile was sponsored by student development staff in Lakeside Student Center on March 6. Eighty-eight students and faculty/ staff members gave blood in support of the troops in the Persian Gulf. Religious Emphasis Week was held on campus the week of March 24 sponsored by the department of student development. Prayer services, dra matic presentations and other activities were scheduled throughout the week. A concert of clarinet music took place in Daniel Recital Hall on March 6 featuring Carl H. C. Anderson, professor of clarinet at Jacksonville State University in Alabama. A series of four discussions about prejudice and discrimination took place in Marks Hall during March and April. Noted lecturers visited the campus and discussed topics relating to discrimination. Community members in similar fields then responded to each of the lectures. Delivering the lectures were Dr. Mary Boyles of Pembroke State University; Dr. Kristin Herzog, an independent scholar and writer for Durham; Dr. Gay Wilentz, assistant professor of English at East Carolina University; Dr. Marie Farr, acting chair of the department of communication at ECU. A Good Friday/Easter Service of worship was held on March 29 in Turner Auditorium and featured readings and music by the stage band and chorus. The Chowan Band and Chorus presented their annual Spring Concert in Turner Auditorium on April 20, entertaining students and community mem bers with selections including Mozart, Bach, and Hamlisch. The Chowan Players presented the black comedy, “Luv”, written by Murray Schisgal in Daniel Recital hall on April 25. The play was directed by Gail Leahy, drama consultant who has directed productions locally and in Virginia. Campus Update Changes around campus this summer will include the completion of the space on first floor of Camp Hall. The academic Support Program will be located jjermanently on first floor Camp Hall. Laboratories will be estab lished in this area for English, writing and math. The Snack Bar will be moving to Lakeside Student Center this summer to give students a more centralized place to meet on campus. The bookstore will soon be located in Columns on the old pool area. The Upward Bound Program will be moving to the Snack Bar area. PAGE 2 — Chowan Today—Summer, 1991
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