MOVING IN—Freddy Knight, a Chowan sophomore,
awaits a friend to help carry packages into the dor
mitory as the students arrived to begin the 1972-73
academic year.
Parents Day Slated For
Saturday, Oct. 7
Nineteen hundred and seventy-
two is a red letter year to the
faculty, staff and students of
Chowan College.
Chowan is now in its 125th year
of operation as a college. Since
this is the 125th Anniversary, this
year has been planned out with
many events which will help us
celebrate our heritage.
The first event will be Fall
Parents Day, Saturday, October
7. In keeping with the theme of
the 125th Anniversary, the
members of Murfreesboro’s
Womaens Club have ap
propriately made historic Hert
ford Academy on Broad Street
available for the Parents Day
Founder's
Day Set
October 1 J
October 11th will be observed
as Founder’s Day at Chowan
College.
The activities will be as
follows:
10:00 a. m.. Convocation in
Chowan College stadium with
principal speaker Governor
Robert Scott of North Carolina.
The significance of Governor
Scott speaking is that his father,
Governor Kerr Scott spoke at the
re-opening of Chowan College in
1949.
11:00-12:00, Reception for
^cial invited guests.
12:15 p. m.. Buffet luncheon for
special invited guests.
2:00 p. m.. Premiere showing of
the new college film, “The Dare
to Be,” presented in McDowell
Columns Auditorium.
2:45-5:00 p. m.. Exhibition of
historical artifacts of Chowan
College in Whitaker Library.
2:45-5:00 p. m.. Art Exhibit in
Daniel Hall.
8:00 p. m., SGA Concert, Todd
Rundgun.
On Founder’s Day, there will
be on sale copies of the 1853
College Catalog of Chowan
Female Collegiate Institute and a
Ifistorical Anniversary Booklet,
both for 50 cents, which is the cost
of printing only.
Reception. This facility was
Chowan College from 1845 until
1851, when McDowell Columns
was constructed.
The day’s activities will be as
Usted below:
Schedule of Events
10:00-11:00 a. m., “The Brave
500,” bicycle race on Jones
Drive.
2:00-3:30 p. m.. Registration,
refreshments and reception for
parents, students, faculty and
friends, Hertford Academy,
Broad Street.
2:30-5:30 p. m., Art Exhibition,
Art Gallery.
3:15-5:15 p. m., “J. B.”, 1959
Pulitzer Prize Winner by Ar
chibald MacLeish, Chowan
Division of Drama. Admission,
Parents $1.00, Students, I.D.
card.
4:00-5:00 p. m.. Dormitory
Visitation.
5:00-6:00 p. m., Dutch Dinner,
$1.00, Thomas Cafeteria, organ
music by Professor Bob Mulder.
8:00 p. m.. Football game,
Chowan College Braves vs.
Ferrum College. Admission,
Parents $2.00, Students by I. D.
card.
Pregam and half-time en
tertainment at the football game
will be provided by the Chowan
College Drum and Bugle Corps
and the Clinton High School
Band, Clinton, North Carolina.
DEAN CLAYTON LEWIS
Coordinated Activities
For Parents Day
STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF CHOWAN COLLEGE
Volume 4—Number 1
Wednesday, September 27, 1972
Murfreesboro, North Carolina
Students Urged to Get Degree Here
Before Transfer to Senior College
Dayton Slayter
Named SGA
President
By BARRY BRADBERRY
The Chowan College Student
Government Association has a
new leader.
Due to the resignation of David
M. Talton, the former SGA
president, Mr. Dayton Slayter is
our new president. His other
officers are Secretary, Diane
Bowen, and Treasurer Vanessa
Holder.
The office of vice-president will
later be chosen. Slayter has
already begun to rebuild the SGA
and has recently conducted
elections for the student
legislature. The sponsor is
Professor Sessoms, of the
English Department.
Movies Scheduled
Movies scheduled by the
Student Government Association
for the fall semester are as
follows:
Sept. 13, Baby the Rain Must
Fall; Sept. 20, El Cid; Sept. 27,
King Rat.
Oct. 4, Duffy; Oct. 11, The
Wrecking Crew; Oct. 18, Our
Gang; Oct. 25, RPM.
Nov. 1, A Dandy in Aspic; Nov.
7, W. C. FieMs; Nov. 15, Bullet;
Nov. 22, Born Losers; Nov. 30 The
Shakiest Gun in the West.
Dec. 6, The Wild Angels and
Dec. 13, Wild in the Streets.
Information
For Voters
Is Released
Do you know whether or not
you need to vote by absentee
ballot in the November election?
You obviously do if you’ll be
traveling and unable to get to the
polls on Election Day. But you
also need an absentee ballot if
you attend college in a state that
requires students to vote where
their parents live and you don’t
want to make a trip home just to
vote.
Check with your local elections
board or League of Women
Voters if you aren’t sure whether
or not you can vote in your
college town. (To double-check,
you can call your Secretary of
State or write to Youth Citizen
ship Fund, Inc. 2317 “M” Street,
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037.)
Your local elections board or
League of Women Voters can also
tell you where to get an absentee
ballot when you need one. And
since deadlines vary from state
to state, your safest bet is to do it
now. (If you’ve already left for
college and realize now that you'
will need an absentee ballot.
Annual Planning Conference
Features ‘125 Years' Theme
Chowan College’s Sixth Annual
Planning Conference was held
Saturday, September 16, featured
the theme, “125 Years With a
Mission.”
Chowan, founded in 1848 as the
state’s ninth oldest college, is
celebrating its 125th anniversary
during the 1372-73 academic year.
The program began with
registration at 9 a.m. in Marks
Hall. Among those in attendance
were representatives of alumni,
board of trustees and board of
advisors, businesses and in
dustries, college personnel,
government, civic groups, and
education.
The purpose of the conference
was to examine current goals and
programs of Chowan College; to
identify its major strengths and
weaknesses and to evaluate the
areas of development in the in
terest of the college throughout
North Carolina and Virginia,
according to Bobby Cross,
director of development.
The welcome was given by H.
D. White, chairman of the
executive committee of the board
of trustees of Raleigh. Also there
were messages by Dr. Bruce E.
Whitaker, president of Chowan,
“125 Years With a Mission”; Dr.
B. Franklin Lowe, Jr., dean of the
college, "Looking Ahead”; Don
G. Matthews, Jr. of Hamilton,
general chairman, Chowan
College Mission Possible
Development Program, “Mission
Possible in the 125th Year”; and
Cross.
At 11 a.m., joint study groups
were held to discuss a “plan of
action to make our ''mission
possible’”. Cross noted. Cross
said the emphasis would be on the
“building, promoting, and
developing plans and programs
leading to leadership in
volvement in furtherance of the
Chowan College Mission Possible
Development Program.”
Group leaders gave reports
following the meetings of the
study groups. A luncheon was
held at 1 p.m. in the Thomas
Cafeteria.
Cross said the planning con-
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ABERNETOY FAMILY HONORED—Relatives at the late Miss Annie E. Aber-
nethy, who wrote the words to Chowan’s alma mater, were honored August 27 with
a dinner and program at the college. Above, Sidney Abernethy, a brother of the
saig composer, (second from right) receives a framed picture of McDowell
Columns with thewords to the alma mater overprinted. Others pictured are, left to
right. Dr. Bruce E. Whitaker; Mrs. A. C. Broughton, a great niece of the composer
who gave the response; Mr. Abernethy; and Dean Clayton Lewis, who made the
presentation.
Relatives of Alma Mater
Composer Honored Aug, 27
ference is used to help the college
anticipate changing needs of this
area and its constituency so
Chowan “may be properly
prepared for them.” He added
that recommendations from past
conferences have been in
corporated into the college’s
master plan.
The development director said
these include construction of a
new library-fine arts facility,
completed in 1969, new men’s
dormitory, opened in August,
1970, and the science building,
scheduled for completion during
the summer of 1973.
“Chowan's progress has been
by design rather than accident,”
Cross noted. “Planning con
ferences have provided Chowan
with valuable insight and
guidance. They offer an op
portunity for the college to take
advantage of the opinions and
suggestions of state and com
munity leaders from a two-state
area,” he stated.
Relatives of the late Miss Annie
E. Abernethy, who wrote the
words to Chowan College’s alma
mater, were honored at a dinner
and program Sunday, August 27
at Chowan.
Family members present in
cluded four from Raleigh, Sidney
Russell Abernethy,90, a brother;
Dr. and Mrs. A. C. Broughton;
and Miss Katherine Cain, a great
niece. Mrs. Broughton is the
daughter of Sidney Abernethy
and a niece of Miss Abernethy.
Others attending were Thomas
H. Cain, Jr., a great nephew, of
Knightdale and his wife; and
Mrs. Birdie L. Flynn, a niece, of
Phoenix, Arizona.
They were honored at a dinner
at 6 p.m. in the President’s Room
of Thomas Cafeteria at Chowan
to be attended by President
Bruce E. Whitaker and other
Senior College
Day Scheduled
On Wednesday, September 27,
from 1 to 3 P. M., in Whitaker
Library, Chowan College will
again sponsor a Senior College
Day Program. Representatives
from 90 senior colleges and
universities will be on the second
floor of Whitaker Library to talk
with Chowan students about
transferring after the completion
of two years of study at Chowan.
From 9 to 12 on the same date,
high school students from Bertie,
Hertford, Gates and Nor
thampton counties will be on
campus to talk with college
representatives about college
admission requirements. In
addition, high school guidance
counselors from high schools in
the surrounding area of North
Carolina and Virginia are ex
pected on campus for both
programs.
college officials.
The relatives were presented at
the 7:30 p.m. orientation
program for new students in the
college stadium. The program,
scheduled as part of Chowan’s
emphasis on its 125th an
niversary, to be celebrated
during the 1972-73 academic year,
will close with the singing of the
alma mater. Planning has
directed by Clayton Lewis, dean
of students.
Miss Abernethy was born in
Warren County in 1869. She wrote
thelyrics to the alma mater while
a student at Chowan. She
graduated from Chowan, then a
four-year school for women, in
1890 and did additional work at
Columbia University. She taught
at Peace College in Raleigh at
two different times and several
other North Carolina schools.
After retirement, she lived in
Henderson until moving to Ox
ford to reside with her brother,
Sidney Abernethy. Shortly before
her death in 1952 she was moved
to a nursing home in Henderson.
The source of the melody of
Chowan’s alma mater is
unknown. Its first use as a school
song was at Cornell. Many other
schools including the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
have since adopted it.
'J. B.' Production Set
Parents Day Weekend
When an applicant is accepted
here at Chowan College as a
regular or full-time student, it is
automatically assumed by the
Director of Admissions and or the
Admissions Committee that the
prospective student intends to
pursue work in a curriculum
which leads to a diploma or a
degree. Of course, whether or not
a student does this is primarily
his own decision. Howvever, we,
as members of the faculty and
the administration of Chowan
College, strongly recommend
that the student stay in a degree
program and get the associates
degree, whether or not he plans to
continue his education at a senior
institution.
We recommend completing the
work for the two-year degree for
two reasons primarily: First, if
the student plans to complete his
education after two years at
Chowan Cillege, he will have a
tangible form or evidence of
recognition for the completion of
a particular program or
curriculum, and this tangible
evidence says much to a
prospective employer who will
want to Imow about the degree of
success which the student has
already met in his first two-
years of higher education,
^cond, and perhaps this reason
is the most important, the
associates degree is becoming
increasingly important if that
student has any plans for con
tinuing his education at a senior
college or university. And it will
be on this last reason that the
remainder of this column will be
focused.
For the Chowan College
student who anticipates tran
sferring to a senior college or
university, we strongly recom
mend that he complete work for
the associates degree because we
know that, increasingly, the
senior institutions are requiring
that transfer students from the
junior and community colleges
hold the two-year degree before
they are admitted to junior
status. Accordingly, we may see
this emphasis on the two-year
degree as a growing trend in the
admissions offices of many
senior colleges and universities.
For instance, in April, 1971, the
Community College System of
Florida negotiated with the State
University System of the same
state an “Articulation
Agreement” which will facilitate
the movement of the states
community college and junior
college students into the Florida
state university system. And one
of the criteria for this movement
from the two-year school to the
university is that the prospective
transferer must hold the
associates degree. Florida is just
one of many states with such
agreements, and more such
situations are in the making.
Perhaps, the most obvious
reason for completing the
requirements for the associates
degree is that one concerned with
the actual transfer of course
hours aiid course requirements
from the two-year institution:
many schools will accept an
occasional ‘D’ grade in transfer
where the .itudent either has An
over-all ‘C’ average or the
associates degree. For instance,
through the use of what is termed
“Direct Transfer Agreements”
many senior colleges and
universities will consider ac
cepting ’D’s‘ in transfer If the
student has earned the over-all
‘C’ average and or the associates
degree.
For example, Radford College
in Virginia, Campbell and
Catawba Colleges here in North
Carolina, the University of
North Carolina at Charlotte, and
East Tennessee State University
will accept ‘D’s in transfer if the
applicant has an over-all ‘C’
average on all work and or the
associates degree. Since over 85
per cent of our enrollment here at
Chowan College does plan to
transfer, this percentage should
address itself early to the clear
advantages of first earning the
associates degree before planning
to transfer to a senior institution.
For more information about
this situation and others which
the student may not at this time
be able to anticipate, a
publication, A Step Ahead, is
available in the Registrar’s
Office which answers many of the
salient questions of two-year
college students as they attempt
to ready themselves for a senior
college or university. The reader
is invited to purchase a copy of A
Step Ahead and explore the many
options open to him as he
prepares for his admission to a
senior institution.
In the next issue of Smoke
Signals, we will want to look at an
important item of inter-collegiate
transfer: the inter-college con
fidential reference frform.
What does the senior college or
university want to know about a
student from the two-year
college? What type of
disciplinary behavior is
described to a senior college
admissions officer? What are
some of the specific questions
which a senior institution may
ask an official of Chowan College
about a prospective transfer
student? Read this column for
some interesting insists!
Amateur Radio
Club Planned
Chowan student Mark Killmon
is presently working through
college authorities in an effort to
establish an ameteur radio club
at Chowan College. Any student
who has experience or a desire to
work with amateur radio
equipment and wants to start an
official club at Chowan for such,
contact Mark Killmon, Room 312
West HaU, P. O. Box 413.
The Division of Drama,
Chowan Cillege, will open its
1972-73 season with “J.B.” by
Archibald MacLeish, scheduled
for production on October 5-8 in
historic McDowell Columns
Auditorium. Each performance
will begin with a prompt 8 p.m.
curtain, except for Saturday,
October 7, Parents Day at the
college, when the drama will be
presented at a 3 p.m. matinee.
“J.B.” is the story of the Book
of Job. The play’s modern setting
is a circus tent in which the circus
performers act out the story of
the sufferings of Job. “The circus
ring becomes the earth, the
trapeze landing becomes
Heaven, and the Book of Job
becomes once again all too real
for the audience, an exciting
theatrical event for those who
attend,” commented director
Steve Brannon, Chowan
professor.
“J.B.” demands a cast of
twenty-five and a large
backstage crew, all of which have
been in rehearsals since Sep
tember 4. The hairstyles for the
show have been designed by
Dennis Diefendorf (Mr. Eric)
from the salon of Viadal Sassoon
in New York. The make-up has
been designed by Sister Monica
Weis of St. Joseph’s Convent in
Rochester, N.Y. The set design is
by Robert L. Wrenn. “This
(H'oduction of “J.B.” will see the
inauguration of Chowan’s new
stage lighting system, with a
dimmer capacity of 32,000 watts
and three times the number of
stage Ughts used in previous
productions,” Brannon noted.
The admission to “J.B.” is
$1.50 for adults, $1 for students.
Chowan students are admitted by
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