STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF CHOWAN COLLEGE
Volume 7 — Number 1
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Earning Associate Degree
Has Many Advantages
TheShorb Brothers —Will, Merl, and Happy
By D. H. NICHOLSON
With more than 50 percent of
the first time freshman
enrollments in higher
educational institutions now
being recorded (Fall, 1975) at the
junior and community college
level, it is evident to even the
casual observer that the two-year
college is an important and a
vital component of the total
academic scene today. It is also
evident from the preceding fact
that there is an increasing
awareness by students, by of
ficials in iMth the two-year
colleges and the four-year
universities, and by officials in
industry and business that the
associates degree is both a
practical and valuable measure
Shorb Brothers Visit Chowan
By NANCY SULLIVAN
Associate Editor
Labor Day Monday saw the
Shorb Brothers back on the
campus of Chowan College for
the fourth of fifth time. Their first
appearance of the day was at the
Freshman Chapel at 10:00. The
Shorb Brothers gave a sneak
preview of the Coffeehouse to be
held that night. They told a little
about themselves. The brothers
names were Will, the youngest,
Merl, and Happy. The Shorb
Brothers originate from
Maryland and appeared at the
campus with an invitation from
Chaplain Taylor.
The Coffeehouse was held on
Monday night, September 1, at
8:00. The concert was held in
Thomas Cafeteria. At the cof
feehouse, fellowship was shared
by all who attended. Scripture
verses were given for all to
remember. Two of the three
verses that were given were
Proverbs 14:14 and 13:13.
Another way the auidence was
involved in flie coffeehouse was a
talent hunt. The song was “0
Happy Day”. Happy had a
wandering mike and it wandered
to several people. Also a lot of
people really got into the music
and requested songs they wanted
to hear. Two of the songs
requested were “Tiny” and“Give
Your Hand to a Friend.”
The general reaction to the
coffeehouse was good. Several
people commented that they
enjoyed the Shorb Brothers and
hoped they would come back
again. Let’s all work together to
get the Sorb Brothers back.
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SMOKE SIGNALS
September 29, 1975
of a student’s progress. If he
holds such a degree from his stay
at a junior college, he has
demonstrated that he can
achieve prearranged goals. The
associates degree, for this
student, has become tangible
proof of earned recognition for
the completion of a particular
program or curriculum in the
various disciplines, and this proof
(or evidence) states much about
the student’s own stamina and
motivation. It also states that the
student has been tested under fire
and found to be able to meet the
initial challenges encountered in
his efforts to become as
productive an individual as ac
cidents, abilities, and cir
cumstances will allow him.
Of course, another clear ad
vantage of toe associates degree
is that relating to inter-college
transfer. When a student earns
the associates degree, he has a
clear-cut advantage over his peer
in the two-year coUege who
leaves without one. For instance,
the degree holder is more con
fident of receiving the best ad
vantage in an increasingly
competitive college market. His
grades and courses, generally,
transfer with greater ease. In
fact, many states have mandated
through legislation that a com
munity or junior coUege graduate
have certain transfer privileges
over his peer in the two-year who
tries to transfer to a senior in
stitution without the associates
degree. The degree holder also is
in a more flexible position when
he talks with a senior college or
university admissions officer.
In essence, the advantages of
holding the associates degree so
much outweigh any disad
vantages that the student should
not consider leaving Chowan
College unless he first earns his
‘sheepskin’. For a student to
transfer without such a degree is
analogous to the person climbing
a ladder, a person who as he
climbs cuts off the rungs under
him as he moves along. He has
nothing to step back to if he en
counters troubles further up. SO
GET THAT DEGREE.
Frosh
Elect
Officers
On September 8,1975, following
the Chapel-Assembly program
given by Dr. B. Franklin Lowe,
Dean of the college, the class of
1977 elected their class officers.
Elected President was Randy
Baldwin, a photography major
from Darlington, South Carolina;
Vice-President, Dean “Zeke”
Gerringer, a physical therapy
major from Elon College, North
Carolina; Secretary, Marsha
Colonna, an art major from
Norfolk, Virginia; and
Treasurer, Janey Euler, Nursing
major from Chesapeake,
Virginia.
The officers of the class of ’77
will be meeting in the near future
to discuss plans for fund-raisers
and activities to be sponsored by
the class.
Poetry Contest Winners
Chosen by Catalog Editors
By PHILROYCE
Winners in the first annual
poetry contest have been an
nounced by the co-editors of the
NEW POETS REVIEW, a
literary supplement to the
Chowan College catalog.
Ken Wolfskill.Chairman of the
English Department, and Darrell
Nicholson Registrar, said six
poems have been selected for
publication from over 1,000 en
tries.
Winner of the $25 first prize is
Ken C. Bradley of Onley, Va.
Phayne Poliakoff of Spar
tanburg, S.C, won the $15 second
prize. Melanie Snow of Matthews
placed third and received' $10.
The co-editors called the
quality of the selected works
“excellent.” The title of
Bradley’s winning poem is
“Three Fragments of the Moon
Near Burton’s Bay.”
The co-editors said up to seven
honorable mentions will also be
published in the REVIEW. This
year, three were selected: Lynn
McConnell of Rockville, Md.;
Robert A. Creecy of Mechanic-
sville, Va.; and Nancy Ann
Hassler of Berwyn, Pa.
A wide range of vocational
interests and poetry styles and
subjects were represented by the
contestants, according to
Wolfskin and Nicholson. Winners
included an educator, a
previously published poet, a
housewife and hign scnool and
college students.
Nicholson, himself a published
poet, said entries were received
from a broad geographical area
covering most of the eastern
seaboard states.
WolfskUl termed response to
the first contest ^‘very good.”
“We are very pleased with the
results and anticipate greater
response next year,” he said. He
called the REVIEW an “outlet
for the poet whose work has not
been previously published.”
Nicholson said printing the
supplement in the Chowan
catalog assures a wide
distribution. He stated some
25,000 copies of the 1976-77 issue
will soon reach all the United
States and a number of foreign
countries.
The supplement covers eight
pages of the catalog which is
printed by students in Chowan’s
School of Graphic Arts.
They announced March 1, 1976
is the deadline for the second
contest. The rules are published
in the supplement and are
available from the co-editors.
They stressed “all entries must
be completely original and never
before published.” Each con
testant may enter up to three
entries. Poems are limited to 45
lines.
Entries should be mailed to:
Editorial Board, NEW POETS
REVIEW, Chowan CoUege, P.O.
Drawer 37, Murfreesboro, N.C.
27855
NEW POETS REVIEW — Darrell Nicholson, left, Chowan
College registrar, and Ken Wolfskill, chairman of Chowan's
English department, look at the poems appearing in the "New
Poets Review" for which they serve as co-editors. The
"Review", a literary supplement to the Chowan College
catalog, carries the winning entries in the first annual poetry
contest.