Smok* Signals. Monday, August 27, 1979 — Page 3
Loss of Starters Fails To Douse
Smith's Hopes for Three in Row
Tiny Willie Wilson has her eye on the hoop as she goes up for a jump shot
against Mt. Olive.
Lady Braves' Stock
Boosted by Recruits
By HARRY PICKETT
Chowan College’s recent basketball
success hasn’t gone down the drain as
many people speculate. Sure the team
has lost seven sophomores six of whom
are playing at four-year schools, five
starters, and four Eastern Tarheel all
conference selections. But as last
year’s ETC coach of the year Jerry
Smith puts it, “We’ve got a lot of talent
coming inhere.”
Smith, who enters his third season as
head coach of the Braves basketball
team, seems confident that his team
can win big again this season, despite
By CINDY LEE
“I feel that the drama program
improved greatly in ’78-79,” said Greg
Simpson who appeared as Teddy in
“Arsenic and Old Lace” and Bert
Powers in “Send Me No Flowers,” the
fall and spring productions of the
Chowan Players for the last year.
Simpson continued, "Last year was a
good rebuilding year. Unfortunately, it
was hard to keep student interest long
enough to see a production through.
This year I would like to see a broader
range of plays produced.”
Six additional stage lights were
purchased with the profits from the
plays.
Mrs. Sandra Boyce, director, plans to
cast in early September for “Do Not
Drink The Water”, a comedy in two
acts by Woody Allen. It is about a
the loss of last season’s starting five.
During the first two seasons as head
mentor, Smith who earlier had great
success at Bertie High School, leading
it to four state appearances and a state
championship in 1970, has guided
Chowan to two straight ETC cham
pionships, the school’s only two.
In his first season, the Braves wound
up 20-8, sweeping the conference
championship with an 8-0 mark while
playing an all-freshman team. Last
season, those freshmen were
sophomores, and they again streaked
through the pack, cominng up with
another unmarred league cham-
family of American tourists trapped
behind the iron curtain in an American
Embassy. According to Mrs. Boyce
“What doesn’t happen to them doesn’t
bear repeating.”
There are 15 roles to be filled which
are divided about evenly between male
and female parts.
“The play ran for one year on
Broadway and got rave reviews.” Mrs.
Boyce added.
Mrs. Boyce encourages all students
who are interested in helping with the
fall production either on stage or
backstage, to see her by registration
day, Tuesday, August 28. Her office is
115 Daniel Hall.
Mrs. Boyce also stated that the
Drama Workshop will be offered in the
Fall semester and that Drama Ap
preciation will be offered either in fall
or spring.
pionship, and ending the season with a
23-7 record. The Braves were runner-up
in the region, missing the national
playoffs by one point.
This team returns five players, but
only two lettermen. Smith went out and
recruited 10 players for this season,
with the tallest man being a mere 6-6,
but the coach isn’t pessimistic at all, as
he said, “We had a good recruiting year
— a very good recruiting year, based on
the overall talent in ths area.”
“Overall, we’re going to be a little
young and short; all that's compared to
last year’s team, and the teams in our
conference,” he noted.
Heading the list of returners in 6-8,
230 sophomore center William Barnes
of Greenville, N.C. Bames started in
several games for the Braves last
season, but was nagged with a chronic
backache for much of the year. He will
be counted on for his scoring,
rebounding, and his leadership abilities
this season.
But says Smith, “We aren’t going to
pattern our whole ball game around
Barnes, but we are definitely going to
use him. We’re going to carry the ball to
him.
“People are going to have to stop
him, especially if we get in the position
where people have to play us man-to-
man,” he noted. “They are going to
have to stop Bames because we’re
going to stick it right in to him, and
we’re going to tell him to stick it in their
nose.”
Johnny Johnson of Tarboro will be
expected to nail down a big forward
position. The big 6-6, 225 leaper, was a
top reserve on last year’s squad.
“With Barnes and Johnson together,
we’ve got a pretty good combination
under the basket,” Smith chuckled.
“People are going to have to play them,
ru tell you that.”
Other returners include 6-5 Jean Earl
Williams, a probable starter at a for
ward position from Lewiston, N.C.
Haywood Evan 5-9 of Tarboro and Mark
Murdock, 5-8 of China Grove, each play
the point guard position.
Smith didn’t want single out any of
his freshmen as being the best of the
crop, but 6-4 swingman Andre Cobb of
Raeford and 6-4 forward Larry Canady
of Deep Run each have versatile
talents. Both were named honorable
mention All-America by Bill Cronaur of
the St. Petersburg Fla. Times.
Cobb, a silky smooth player, tacked
in 16 points an outing last season as a
senior at Hoke County High School. He
was an All-Division IV 4-A eager, and
an honorable mention All-East per
former.
Canady, the lanky forward from
South Lenoir High School, averaged a
bUstermg 21.5 a game, and hauled in
12.8 rebounds. He too made all- con
ference, and was an honorable mention
All-East selection.
Six-foot-four Douglas Stevenson of
Shallotte, is a husky, physical-type
player, who Smith describes as “a good
type of person.” Stevenson led West
Brunswick High School to a 24-4 season
and a berth in the 3-A state playoffs last
spring, averaging 15.3 points and 13
rebounds per game. He was selected
All-Three Rivers Conference, All-East,
and was named school and county
athlete of the year.
Pender High School was the source of
three Southeastern, North Carolina
stars. Smith signed three All-East
Central Conference players including
Vishon Fuller who averaged 16.8 and
9.5. Fuller will play either big guard or
small forward at 6-4.
Teammate Hassonil Jones “may be
the sleeper” of the crop, according to
Smith. At 6-4, Jones cranked out 14.8 a
game, and yanked for 9.3 boards. Elton
Mosley, shot at a 11.9 pace and handed
out 5.8 assists for the Pender team.
Mark Moore, a 6-4 product of Fairfax,
Va., was an All-District performer at
W.T. Woodson High School. Averaging
a tough 16.6 and 9 rebounds, the
“aggressive” Virginian led his high
school team to a 21-4 canH>aign.
John Cratch of Kinston, N.C. is a
skinny 6-6 center, who played his high
school ball at North Lenoir. There, he
chipped in 16 numbers a game and
snared 12 rebounds. Cratch should back
up Bames.
Six-foot-four Mark Hunter comes
from the Hoosier state of Indiana. He
brings with him a 19.6 average, along
with 12 rebounds a games. At
Lawrenceburg High School in
Lawrenceburg, Indiana, Hunter led his
team to a 19-6 finish. He was named all
region and all-district. “He is fun
damentally sound, and a good shooter,”
Smith not^.
Donald Hunter, no relation to Mark,
hails from Enfield, N.C. He didn’t play
high school ball as a senior, but came
up with 19 points and 19 rebounds as a
Junior. Hunter, who stands at 6-4 was
named All-Roanoke River. “He’s got a
lot of tools — has a good jump shot, and
is a great leaper.”
Richard Dickerson notched only 12
points a contest at Northern Durham
High in Durham, N.C., but Smith says
the 175-pounder could possibly crack
the starting lineup as a point guard.
“He’s quick and has good size. I think
he’ll play good defense. He’s not really
a shooter; but I don’t need one from
that position.”
Does winning a third straight ETC
title look realistic to Coach Smith at the
moment.?
“It looks just as realistic as it did the
first year I came here, and we did it
with freshmen.
“I never said it was going to be easy,'
though.”
You know, it never is.
By ALLEN DAVIS
Five talented recruits were expected
to join returning veterans in the Colum
bia Blue and White women’s basketball
uniforms this year, with four other
possibilities, Coach Roy Winslow
predicted shortly before the end of the
spring semester.
“None of the recruits are seven feet,
three inches tall like Ralph Sampson of
Harrisonburh, Va.,” Winslow cracked,
“but we do have a few with talent equal
to that of former University of North
Carolina/Chapel Hill star Phiil Ford.
“With their talent and the experience
of the vetettBiS'-niixed together, this
season shitultfibe a successful one. ;
Two of the expected recruits were
teammates at Wayne County High
School, Jesup, Ga. They are 6-foot pivot
Donnie Stephens and 5-5 guard Sandra
Dixon. From North Carolina are 5-11
pivot Nancy Fleming, Halifax
Academy, Littleton, and 54 guard Tina
Mildred, Concord. The fifth recruit is
Jenkins Hall
Defending
Cup Champs
The President’s cup is an award
which Dr. Bruce E. Whitaker, president
of Chowan College, presents annually
at Honors Day to the president of the
residence hall (the day student
organization functions as a competing
unit in the competition) which earns the
greatest number of points through
competition in six areas:
(1) Academics; (2) attendance at
college-sponsored activities such as
athletic events, plays, lectures, and
concerts; (3) intramural sports; (4)
residence hall programs/activities; (5)
citizenship; and (6) proration. The
President’s Cup is the most cherished
award presented a group during the
Honors Day program.
Students are urged to upgrade the
quality of competition betweeen units.
The competing units are: 1) McDowell
Columns/Mixon; (2) West Hall; (3)
East Hall; (4) Belk Hall; (5) Jenkins
Hall; (6) Parker Hall and (7) Day
Student Organization
Winners for 1978-79 in the six areas
were: (1) Day Student Organization in
academics; (2) Jenldns Hall in at
tendance to college-sponsored events;
(3) McDowell Columns/Mixon in in
tramural sports; (4) Belk Hall In
residence hall programs/activities; (5)
Day Sudent Organization in citizen
ship; and Day Student Organization in
proration. Jenkins Hall was the winner
of the President’s Cup with 65 points.
Belk Hall accumulated 61.5 points. East
Hall 49.5/ points, McDowell
Columns/Mixon Hall 48 points. Day
Student Organization 47 points. West
Hall 35 points, and Parker Hall 31
points.
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5-6 guard Selestine Hood, Caesar
Rodney High, Dover, Del.
These players collectively averaged
80 points a game while in high school.
Hood was high with 25, followed by
Fleming, 20; Stephens, 15, and Dixon
and Mildred with 10 apiece.
Possible additions noted by Winslow
were Jacquelin Gore, West Brunswick
High, Shallotte; Jenifer Cherry and
Bonnie Powell, Rocky Mount, and
Brenda Hartment, East Stroudsburg,
Pa.
Expected to return from last year’s
team which won seven out of 23 games,
were forwards Gale Batts, Laura
Braihfoi^and Deborah Brown, Ceot^
Mary Reitly and guards Sandra Brown,
Wilhemina Wilson and Queenie Tor
rence.
The team’s leading scorer, forward
Anita Durham, was transferring to Ap
palachian State, guard Donna Hudson
planned to leave school and center-
forward Georgia Ross was undecided
about playing another year.
LEWIS
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small colleges such as Chowan. The en
vironment at Chowan helps students
improve their feelings of self-esteem,
self-respect.
The Student Government Association
is budgeted approximately $21,000 for
on-campus movies, dances, concerts
and other types of entertainment for
1979-80. Please do not expect the SGA to
provide a social life comparable to that
in a large university. Accept Chowan
College for its strengths and for what it
can do for you to help you realize your
short and long-range goals.
Also, one needs to accept Mur
freesboro as a small town where com
mercial entertainment is lacking. For
this reason the college, through the
SGA and Student Development, at
tempts to provide students with various
forms of entertainment.
Students who want the preferential
treatment and other benefits which are
found at Chowan can have the best of
two worlds by first earning the
associate degree from Chowan and then
transferring to a larger senior college
or university. Chowan graduates do
this, and they do it successfully.
Happiness at Chowan is thinking
positively about the strengths of the col
lege without trying to turn it into a
university with an enrollment of 20,000.
If Chowan had such an enrollment, it
would lose its strengths as a small col
lege where students express satisfac
tion with student friendships, faculty
relations, classroom instruction and op
portunities for participation.
While some Chowanians may express
a degree of dissatisfaction with the
social life, they can boast of preferen
tial treatment from members of the
faculty and staff. This includes health
services. Help is available at Chowan.
Ask for it. Many Chowanians, will be
helped through non-credit courses in
Study Skills and Human Potential
Development. Many of last year’s
freshmen benefited from these courses.
The way to achieve desired results is to
participate with the expectation that
you will develop better skills and leam
how to be in charge of what happens to
you. Be determined to get all you can
from classes in Study Skills and Human
Potential.
Become involved in intramural
sports and residence hall programs. Do
not go home every weekend.
Chowan has a small number of
students who do not honor regulations
on academic cheating, vandalism,
theft, alcohol and drugs. At Chowan
specific abuses of college policy are at
tacked. Ignoring problems related to
cheating, theft and vandalism would
not permit the guilty an opportuntiy to
use the offense as a lesson of ex
perience. Members of the faculty and
staff at Chowan work to help students
develop into more responsible leaders
and citizens.
Chowan is an SnveStoient AiP'j>feb|Af.
Chowan College takes people'kho want
to improve themselves and gives them
extraordinary opportunities to do more
with their lives than they ever dream
ed. I challenge you to make your stay at
Chowan College a worthwhile invest
ment of your time and money.
R. Clayton Lewis
Dean of Students
Greg Simpson, Mrs. Betty Batchelor end Greg Androssy in scene from
Arsenic and Old lace lost toll.
Chowan College
1979
Football Schedule
Sept. 1 . . .
. . N.C. State J.V.’s
. . . 2:00
Sept. 7 . . .
. . . 2:00
Sept. 15 . .
. . Newport News App
. . . 8:00
iSept. 22 .
. . Potomac State College. . . .
. . . . Away. . .
. . .8:00
Sept. 28 . .
. . . 8:00
Away 1:30
Home 1:30
Homecoming . 1:30
Away 1:30
Parents Day . . 1:30
Away 1:30
Jomes G. Garrison
Head Football Cooch
Welcome New Students
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Phone 9I9-398-3681
• A large selection of rings and rvame
brand watches.
• A variety of gifts for all occasions.
• Ear piercing.
• Jewelry repairs.
• Watcfi batteries.
• Certified master watchmaker.
Casting Call Sounded
For First Play of Year