Smoke Signals, Wednesday, March 14, 1973—Page 9
Meet William Graham
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Joe Wynns, Sr., and Son, Joe, Jr.
Father, Son Named
In Who's Who Group
ByDERYLWALL
Mr. Graham was born March 5,
1942, in Newport News, Virginia.
He graduated from Warwick
High School, Newport News. He
is married to a fine wife and has
two children.
He was in the U.S. Marine Corp
Reserves, 1960-1962. He came to
Chowan in 1961, but in the spring
of 1961 he left for active duty in
the U.S. Marine Corp Reserves.
Afterward he returned to Chowan
in 1962-1965. He was in the U.S.
Army Special Force 1971-1972. He
joined the Army National Guard,
and was awarded Honorable
Discharges in all of his services.
He is presently a member of the
U.S. Coast Guard Reserve. This
year Mr. Graham is a candidate
for graduation from Chowan
College and Elizabeth City State
University, Elizabeth City, N.C.
He is to receive from Chowan his
A.S. in Pre-Education May, 1973,
and from Elizabeth City State his
B.A. in Sociology May 1973. He
will also receive his A.A. S. in
Police Science, Martin Technical
Institute, WUliamston, N.C.
Mr. Graham is better known to
the students of Chowan as Deputy
Dawg, and one of the most hated
memtjers of Chowan staff. But he
doesn’t care about who hates him
or who likes him. He has a job to
do, a wife and family to support,
and he contends that you don’t
live on hate.
If you walk into Dawg’s, I mean
Mr. Graham’s office you will see
a red and black sign, “Beware of
Dog.” Graham is not such a bad
person once you get to know him
or if you just talk to him a couple
times. You can call him Deputy
With only six lettermen
returning including five out
fielders, Chowan’s baseball team
will depend heavily on first-year
men when the Braves open a
29-game schedule on Tuesday,
March 13, against Chesapeake
College at home.
Coach Jerry Hawkins judges
the Braves to be improved
defensively over last year’s club,
which was eliminated from the
championship in the season’s last
game. Hitting and pitching are
question marks, Hawkins allows.
If they develop adequately
Hawkins believes the Braves will
be pennant contenders. He rates
Ferrum, Louisburg and College
of the Albemarle as the teams to
beat. Chowan opens Cavalier-
Tarheel Conference play against
By LINWOOD LEWIS
To all the fellows of Chowan
who may be interested in showing
such skills as running, jumping,
and pure guts, well, it is track
season again.
If you didn’t hear from last
year, the Braves had a record of
9-0. Tliey had a very fine crop of
talent, which turned all their
opponents smiles and pre-game
jokes to tears. This season they
have lost a lot of last year’s
talent, but they return with some
of last year products in the pole
vaulting and a leg in the mile
relay of Mike Revet, the king in
long distance runners lead by
John Spears, and yet still the
sprinting, troad jumping, hur
dling, of Kelvin Barnes. With an
addition of Alan Sienkiewicz, a
freshman who ran very well in
Dawg, as long as you smile and
don’t get into his way or try to tell
hu.. how to run his office.
He has a deep interest in every
student at Chowan. But he has a
greater loyalty to those who
follow the r les of the college and
of the state. If a student comes
here for the purpose of learning,
he or she has nothing to fear. To
those hard heads who come here
thinking that they are going to
take over by causing any kind of
trouble such as parking illegally
or pushing di ugs, then they have
a lot to fear, and they are the ones
who refer to Mr. Graham as
Deputy Dawg.
Mr. Graham is also like many
of the other members on the staff
in his concern about student
social hfe. It is difficult to get the
students involved. “Here it is a
lovely 2:00 Friday afternoon, you
could drop an atomic bomb in
squii rell park and not over three
people would get hurt” He also
said that the only thing the
student body takes part in 100 per
cent is “Chapel and that’s
mandatory.” Mr. Graham feels
that if the students want to im-
pi'ove campus life, then first you
have to start with the students
themselves.
Mr. Graham is very much
concerned about Chowan, and he
seems to be the type that would
really back up the students 100
per cent. But the students hate
him or dislike him because of his
job. Mr. Graham is a human and
has feelings just like you and I,
but he has a job to do and he does
his job the way he thinks is fair
and right for the students and
Chowan. If Chowan didn’t have
such a security force like the
Kittrell March 17 at home.
Heading the list of returnees is
the club’s leading hitter last year,
right fielder Jim Stanko of Old
Bridge, N. J., who batted .420.
The other lett' “nen are Pat
Waguespack of Uc..ica, Va.,
and Ray Rawls, Carrsville, Va.,
centerfield; Carl Lancaster of
LaGrange and Pat Callahan of
Norfolk, left field and Freddy
Knight of Gastonia, who has been
shifted from right field to third
base.
Hawkins lists his starting in
field as Terry Leonard of Rocky
Mount, first base; Diego Hasty,
Northampton County, second
base; Eddie Boykin, Nashville,
short stop; and Bruce Bullock,
Tarboro, third base. All are fresh
men. Other first-year infielders
cross country.
The team of this year may be
weak in the sprints without
James Britt, last year’s most
valuable trackman, and a crop of
inexperienced freshmen, but the
distance runners may be the
team’s strongest point.
So to all those who plan to try
out for the team there is still time
to get that body in shape, because
you will need a lot of wind to hang
in with the runners of the past
season. There are a lot of jobs
open and it is up to you whether,
or not they get filled.
But all won’t be a lost cause, if
the runners, put determination
and pride in the fact that they can
still carry on the record of the
undefeated season they will
prosper again this season.
pi esent one, what kind of school
do you think Chowan would be?
and how safe would your personal
belongings be?
The future of Chowan and its
students lies in the hands of its
students and staff. But money
will cause a problem for Chowan.
He said there is no relation
between the decrease in
enrollment and the way his office
enforces the rules of the school.
College enrollment is down
across the nation. But private
schools such as Chowan are af
fected first, because of its high
fees.
Mr. Graham advises incoming
students or present students to
“Keep your head down in the
books and get the best education
you can get, because the price of
education is going up.” He wishes
all the students the best of luck in
whatever field they undertake.
I can’t say that I agree with
some of the ways Graham runs
'lis office nor can I say that he is
as “Big and Bad,” as some of the
students have him pictured. I can
only say that he is a man that
cares but maybe in a different
way than you and I do. But I
would advise nobody to get in his
way because “Deputy Dawg,
Deputy Dawg, peeping under
every little log, he can spot a
roach. Before it starts to flame,
that’s why they call him Deputy
Dawg.” In other words Mr.
Graham is a fine person to know
but don’t try your luck with him.
And do Uke his sign says
“Beware of Dog,” and you will
make it here at Chowan.
are short stops Eddie Diehl of
Virginia Beach and Waverly
Westbrook of Tyner. Two football
players will join the team
following spring practice. They
are second baseman Martin Page
of Richlands and Clyde
Johnson of Palmyra, Va.
There is also a lack of ex
perience among the catchers and
pitchers. The starting catcher,
Dwight Collier, is a freshman
from Roanoke Rapids. Other
candidates are George Sands,
Carabelle, Fla.; Bruce Harmon,
Windsor; and William Petree,
Virginia Beach.
Five of the six pitchers are
freshmen. The lone sophomore,
Ray Bates of Charlottesville, Va.,
did not play last year. The fresh
men pitchers include Danny
Weaver, Nashville; Leon Smith,
Richmond, Va.; Julian Lassiter,
Conway; and twin brothers, Tony
and Terry Young, of Angier.
The Braves meet their first
opponents in doubleheaders on
their own field. Their first road
game is March 29 at Chesapeake.
TTie schedule is;
March
13—Chesapeake, home
16—Baltimore College, home
17—Kittrell, home
20—COA, home
29—Chesapeake, away
30-U.N.C. JV, home
April
3—E. Conn. State, home
7—Ferrum, away
1ft—Louisburg, home
13—Sandhills, home
17—COA, away
24—Kittrell, home
27—Sandhills, away
May
1—Louisburg, away
5—Ferrum, home
A North Carolina Baptist
pastor and his son have been
named for inclusion in “Who’s
Who Among Students in
American Junior Colleges.”
The father-son combination of
Joseph Wynns, Sr., and Joe, Jr.,
were two of 23 Chowan College
sophomores selected for the
honor. The senior Wynns devoted
considerable time to Chowan’s
Student Ministerial Alliance. He
recently announced his
resignation effective August 1
after serving 15 months as pastor
of Cool Springs Baptist Church of
Eure to continue his studies at
Campbell College. After
graduation from Campbell, he
plans to enroll at Southeastern
By LINWOOD LEWIS
Well, basketball fans, the
season is over for the Braves. It
wasn’t quite the one they ex
pected, but they never gave up.
Hie crop of players who consisted
mostly of freshmen, and a few
sophomores, did show promising
talent. One of the main problems
seemed to be the lack of more
than on player having a good
night. Coach McCraw, who tried
to use all of his coaching skills,
couldn’t seem to solve their
problems either.
But all wasn’t loss, their
brightest games of the season
came in the Weley tournament, in
Delaware, Maryland. The Braves
took over the championship, but
after a couple more winning
games they lost that desire to
win. So now the season is over,
and they have to wait a while to
p ove that they are better than
Chowan College’s tennis team
opens a 15-match schedule when
the Braves meet Alleghany
Community College on Monday,
March 12 at home at 1:30 P. M.
The season extends to May 5
when the final match with
Ferrum at home, will be played
prior to the regional tournament.
Eight of the matches will be
played on the Braves’ courts.
TTie srhpdule is as follows:
March 12, Alleghany Com.
Baptist Theological Seminary.
Son Joe has not yet decided on
the college he will attend. His
goal is the master’s degree and a
career teaching either Eglish oi
physical education. At Chowan he
was a member of the golf team,
active in the BSU, and named
each semester to the dean’s list.
This is not the first time a
member of the Wynns family has
received honors at Chowan. Two
years ago, Adrain, the brother of
Joseph Wynns, Sr., graduated
fiom Chowan with a straight A
average. A student at Ap
palachian State University,
Adrain will begin his student
teaching this spring.
Have 5-19 Record
Tennis Card Set
nx)st people think.
The Braves will be without the
services of Chester Neals, a high
jumping forward; Mike Oliver,
sometimes called the fabulous
Dr. J.; A1 Crenshaw, the quar
terback; Kelvin Bames, a spark
plug of the team and John Spears,
the player with the shooting eye;
and Ray Rawls, the hustler.
All still will not be lost because
the freshmen were stronger than
most people realized, they will be
led next year by the smooth play
making of Lou Ward, outside
shooting of Tim Lyons, James
Boards clearing the boards, John
Byrd’s aggressive playing, and
Keith McClearn who was the
most consistent player of both the
freshmen and the sophomores.
So, sport fans, until next season,
forget the things they didn’t do
and take a positive attitude to the
things they can do.
College; 15, Mt. Olive, away; 16,
Va. Wesleyan, home; 20, N. C.
Wesleyan, home; 23, Lenior Com.
College, home.
April 3,Old Dominion, away; 7,
Ferrum, away; 10, Louisburg,
home; 13, Sandhills, home; 16,
Mt. Olive, home; 19, Lenior Com.
College, away; 25, Va. Weslean,
away; 27, Sandhills, away.
May 2, Louisburg, away; 5,
Ferrum, home.
Baseball Season Opens
Track Season Returns