Volume 9 Number 3
Wednesday, December?, 1977
Gym Given Quarter Million
Chowan College President Bruce E. Whitaker is all smiles as he receives a
pledge card from Mr. and Mrs. Andrew (Andy) Brown ot Murfreesboro for the
"Accomplishing Our Mission" campaign. With the couple is their son, David.
The $50,000 gift is the largest received to date from an indivdual for the drive
to provide a new gymnasium-physical education center.
Planning a Career
Involves Big Decisions
By CHARLES FADDIS,
Director
Counseling and Career Development
There is no magic formula for develop
ing career goals. Career planning is an on
going process which requires a great deal
of thought, self-evaluation, and career ex
ploration.
Career choices depend on individual in
terests, aspirations, abilities, and ex
periences. Making decisions relevant to a
career choice is not easy and people make
these decisions at various times during
their lives.
For many students courses, extracur
ricular activities, and summer jobs during
their years at Chowan will be instrumental
in helping to focus and shape career goals.
Students have the option of pursuing a
liberal arts curriculum which exposes
them to a broad range of academic
disciplines without necessarily providing
them with specific vocational skills. A
liberal arts education is unique in that
students are not strictly trained for a
specific vocation, but are educated in a
wide range of academic fields.
For example, some employers feel a
liberal arts education is an excellent
background for management and ad
ministrative positions in business, in
dustry, and government, and they are will
ing to train students for these positions.
A bachelor’s degree alone is not always
a sure job ticket. Students may find it in
creasingly important to supplement a
general curriculum with course electives
such as accounting, economics, statistics,
computer science, or a writing course.
Related experience outside the
classroom such as volunteer work, sum
mer jobs or internships, and field study
are becoming increasingly important in
helping students to decide on a field of in
terest, and it may help them in landing a
permanent job.
The concept of a career is also changing.
Current trends indicate that individuals
will have three or more careers rather
than irrevocable commitment to one
career for a lifetime. Career choice will
mean more than choosing an occupation;
it will involve choosing a lifestyle as well
as choosing where you will live, the people
you will work with, the hours you will
work, and the time set aside for leisure ac
tivities and pursuing outside interests.
Career choices are important choices
and Chowan College provides its students
with a variety of career materials to assist
in developing career goals and preparing
for that first important step into the job
market and/or senior institution.
Family
Donation
Largest
Chowan College has received a gift of
$50,000 from Mr. and Mrs. Andrew (Andy)
Brown of Murfreeesboro to help the col
lege provide its students with a new
gymnasium-physical education center.
Chowan’s president, Dr. Bruce E.
Whitaker, said the pledge is the largest
received to date from an individual to
assist with the present campaign. He said
it helps bring the total received in pledges
and gifts to over $634,000.
Brown is president of Northeastern Oil
Co. A Murfreesboro native, he graduated
from Guilford College. He is a member of
the Cedar Grove Friends Church in
Woodland. Brown is a member of the Mur
freesboro Rotary Club and vice president
of the Murfreesboro Historic Assoc.
Brown’s mother, Mrs. Dorothy Brown, is
serving as general chairman of Chowan’s
1977-78 Annual Giving Program. His
father, the late Edwin P. Brown, during
his lifetime was one of the leading benefac
tors of the college.
Dr. Whitaker thanks the Browns tor
their support of “Accomplishing Our Mis
sion,” Chowan’s development program to
provide the new $2 million gymnasium-
physical education center.
“We appreciate their interest and in
volvement in this campaign. Obviously, a
gift of this size is important in itself. But it
is also important to Chowan because of the
spirit in which it is given. It is in keeping
with the tradition of a family that through
the years has shown its love and devotion
forOiowan.”
No-Coin Washers
Urged for Dorms
The Student-Faculty Relations Conunit-
tee recommended that washers and dryers
be installed soon in both the men’s and
women’s dorms at its meeting Nov. 9.
The committee felt that the washers and
dryers should not be coin-operated, but the
cost of operation should be included in the
student’s activity fee. One member sug
gested that the machines be placed in an
area supervised by a student worker.
Chairman George Hazelton agreed to
look into the washer-dryer situation in the
women’s dorms. A student raised the ques
tion of the justice in having a washer-diyer
on each floor of Belk to serve 60 students,
while Jenkins has only one to serve 80
students.
The committee discussed the problem of
having too many events scheduled for the
same night. Some members felt events
should be spread out. Others felt that cam
pus life should give the impression that
much is going on.
$200,000
Gift Sets
Challenge
A challenge gift of $200,000 from an
anonymous source has been promised
Chowan College to help provide a new
gymnasium-physical education center.
The announcement was made by
Chowan President Bruce E. Whitaker and
E. L. Hollowell of Edenton, national chair
man of ’’Accomplishing Our Mission”,
Chowan’s development program to secure
a new facility.
Dr. Whitaker said the challenge gift is
being given on a one-to-two basis for
pledges and gifts above the $625,000 mark.
He explained that after Chowan receives
the next $400,000 in pledges and gifts, the
college may anticipate receiving the
$200,000. At that point, Chowan will have
received $1,225,000 toward its $2 million
goal, the anticipated cost of the new
gymnasium-phyical education center.
Chowan’s president said the $200,000 gift
is the “largest gift from an indivdual, cor
poration, or foundation in the history of the
college.”
Whitaker said he was “extremely pleas
ed” with the amount of the gift. “This is a
significant challenge gift,” he noted. “It is
encouraging to all of us who are working to
help Chowan provide its students with a
desperately needed new gymnasium-
physical education center.”
Whitaker said the immediate milestone
goal is to reach a minimun of $1 million by
January 1,1978. “The challenge gift makes
reaching this milestone objective both
doubly important and obtainable,”
Whitaker noted.
Hollowell said the many features of the
new gymnasium-physical education
center will increase Chowan’s ability to
train young men and women for toeir
future lives. He said these features include
three full-size basketball courts, two
classrooms, weight room, wrestling room,
four non-regulation courts (handball and
paddle tennis), steam bath, sauna,
therapy room, laundry room, and an
Olympic size swimming pool.
Hollowell said he is confident Chowan
will reach its $2 million goal. “This
substantial challenge gift is going to help,
naturally. We believe it will encourage our
many other friends who believe in the col
lege and the important role it is playing in
the field of Christian higher education,” he
said.
Hollowell said area campaigns are
meeting success in Murfreesboro and
Ahoskie. He said campaigns will also be
held in the following areas: Halifax Co.;
Northampton Co.; Martin Co.; Bertie Co.;
Elizabeth City-Albemarle; Edenton- Hert
ford and Gates Co.; Rocky Mount- Tar-
boro; Wilson; Greenville-Washington;
Henderson-Oxf ord; Raleigh-Triangle;
Kinston-New Bem-Goldsboro; and Pied
mont Triad.