Parker Has
New RA
By NELSON NICHOLS
Who is 22 years old, a pre
education major, a Navy
reservist, 5th floor RA, and
Assistant Head Resident
at Parker Hall? Jim Owens.
Tall fair haired Jim Owens
holds the job of 5th floor RA and
Assistant head resident. Asked
about the job Jim said that he
was told that he should be a
tyrant, then added; “I don’t think
it should be that way.” “I’m
concerned , with damages,
privacy, and the students’ right
to study.” As for rules, Jim
stated: “Students are aware of
the rules and the punishments
and should be man enough to take
the punishment if caught.”
Jim is 6 foot 1 inch, 22 years old,
and “available.” Jim listed his
favorite activities as nigh
clubbing, dancing, golf, and
caring for his Irish Setter, Ayron
Bernadette.
A veteran, Jim spent two years
in the Navy as a typist, and now
returns to duty once a month as a
Naval reservist. He is a
sophomore, having spent 3
semesters at Chowan.
Jim is quiet, friendly, and does
great card tricks. In his own
words: “I’m not a talker, I’m a
thinker.”
Jim Owens,
Mrs, Taylor Speaks
To Business Students
Smoke Signals, Wednesday, February 5, 1975 - PAGE 9
Expenses Going UpUii!!
By Teresa Lane Pike
This is the year 1975 and as we all have said, it is
getting too expensive to breathe. I know it is true at
my house and I hope it is true at yours, that we are
tightening our belts and using only what we “think” we
have to, in order to live a modestly comfortable life. The
comfortable part I am not so sure about when I wake up
in the morning to a 68 degrees room that feels more like
30 degrees at 6:30. Anyway the point is we all need to do
our share, and even though there are some discon-
veniences and discomforts all of us together can sur
vive.
In Chowan College’s effort to conserve energy, save
money, and-or “tighten the belt” a move of the girls that
were staying in Jenkins on the 2nd floor to the first floor
and Belk Hall has taken place. In this event the college
was able to discontinue the heating, lighting,
plumbing services, and janitoral services for this
floor. Also Mixon Hall, Stone Hall, and the
cottages are not being used.
Chowan is trying to minimize cost, because
operating cost has greatly increased. The
college’s average monthly electricity expenses alone
ranges from $11,000 to $12,000. In one year Chowan uses
five million (5,000,000) Kilowatt hours of electricty and
two hundred thousand (200,000) gallons of fuel oil. Fuel
oil for 1974 was 137 percent greater in cost than two years
before, and the same percentage increase is true for the
electricity cost. Gas was 50 percent higher, bread 78
percent higher, milk 41 percent higher, paper supplies
90 percent higher and student insurance increased by 50
percent all of this happened in just a two year period.
On the other hand in as much as a three year period
the tuition and fees paid by a Chowan student has only
increased by 24 percent, but financial aid has more
than doubled. Exclusive of any kinds of loans; the total
expense of grants, scholorships and the student work
program combined was $158,403 two years ago, last year
the figure was $332,134. an increase of 210 percent.
Chowan College secretarial
students were recently reminded
that “how well you master
certain knowledges and skills as
a student will determine how well
you perform on the job.”
Addressing the business
communications students of Mrs.
Pat Edwards was a Chowan
graduate of the department of
business, Janie Brooks Taylor,
now a legal secretary with the
Murfreesboro law firm of
Revelle, Burleson, and Lee.
In addition to the legal field,
Mrs. Taylor is also qualified in
the area of medical secretarial
administration, her major at
Chowan. After completing her
internship at Norfolk General
Hospital, she worked at the
hospital for several years.
During her presentation to the
medical, legal and executive
secretarial students, Mrs. Taylor
pointed out the advantages and
related some unique experiences
from both secretarial specialty
areas.
“She communicated ex
ceptionally well with the
students,” remarked Mrs. Ed
wards. “She urged them to take
advantage of their college
education and training they
w^re receiving here,” the
professor stated.
Continued Mrs. Edwards, “She
reminded them that they would
be earning their living with skills
and knowledges they received at
Chowan College and that how
well they performed on the job
would be determined by how well
they had mastered those
knowledges and skills. She
pointed out emphatically that the
competition is keen in the ‘top
jobs’ arena and would probably
get much greater with the
economy being in a recession.”
For the past two years,
students of Chowan’s department
of business have been named the
nation’s top junior college
secretarial student. Donna
Davidson of Rocky Mount was
selected in 1973 and Karen
Humberstone of Virginia Beach
in 1974.
Scandal
Surfers Soaked
Police in Great Yarmouth are
investigating a bizarre religious
sect whose members believe they
can walk on water. The in
vestigation was launched after
two members of the Family
Church of Jesus turned up
drowned.
John Richards, 45, a church
member, was found floating face
down in the river Yare shortly
after Richards reportedly told
friends he could walk on water.
Just a month ago another
member, John Watts, was
drowned when he stepped off a
jetty into the sea, allegedly to test
his faith.
Police are also looking into an
incident in 1972 in which three
persons were taken from the
sect’s headquarters to a
psychiatric hospital. All three
were in a trance, having ap
parently been chanting “baby
Jesus, save me” non-stop for
three days.
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Mrs. Janie Brooks Taylor speakes to Chowan's secretarial students