...TO ONE AND TO ALL!
Volume 15 Number4
Chowan College, Murfreesboro, North Carolina 27855
November 18, 1983
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AtL IN FAVOR, RAISE YOUR HANDS Anthony Hill (88) agrees with Referee John Letts that Eddie
McDuffie (34) has scored against Ferrum's Panthers. Waiting to agree are Todd Andrews (14) and an unidentified
Ferrum player.
PLAYERS, PULCHRITUDE, AND THE PRESIDENT....Players Anthony Hill (88) and Paul Smith (27) assist
Dr. Bruce E. Whitaker during Homecoming Festivities by escorting Queen Tammy Taylor and Princess Laura
Churchill off the field following the coronation.
Simons Hall, Turner Auditorium Dedicated
Founder's Day was cplebrated at
Chowan College Monday, October 10
with a convocation in the Helms Center
followed by the naming and
rededication of two campus facilities.
Dr. Alton H. McE^chem, pastor,
First Baptist Church, Greensboro,
delivered the Founder’s Day address.
He centered his remarks on the virtues
of two deceased supporters of Christian
higher education and Chowan College-
Walter Leroy “Roy” Simons, Jr. of
Ahoskie and Dr. J. Clyde Turner.
Simons was a Chowan trustee and
member of the Board of Advisors. Dr.
McEachem stated, “Roy supported
Chowan generously during his lifetime
and remembered the school in his will.
Today we honor his family with the
dedication of ‘Simons Hall' on the
campus.”
Beginning in 1910, Dr. Turner served
as pastor of the First Baptist Church of
Greensboro for 38 years. He served four
terms as president of the N.C. Baptist
State Convention and was a trustee of
Wake Forest College for 25 years.
“Dr. Turner contributed to Chowan
and remembered the college in his will.
These funds were used as seed money
for the renovation of the “J. Clyde
Turner Auditorium,” McEachern
remarked.
“Roy Simons and J. Clyde Turner
were different men, yet great men.
They had no children but helped
provide and insure the education of
future generations.”
Continued McEachern, “A.N.
Whitehead has given us a vivid
definition of greatness. He said, ‘The
great man is he who plants trees whose
shade he will never sit under.’ Roy
Simons and J. Clyde Turner had neither
children nor grandchildren. Yet they
supported Chowan College. And thus
they planted trees they never sat under.
They helped make possible something
they would never personally enjoy or
profit from. They invested in
generations yet unborn.”
The musical part of the program was
provided by the Chowan College Choir
under the direction of Dr. James
Chamblee and the College-Community
Wind Ensemble directed by Bob
Brown. Dr. Hargus Taylor presented
the prayer and scripture and Dr. Bruce
E. Whitaker recognized the family
members present.
The Turner family was represented
by his niece, Mrs. cieryl Hart, and her
daughter, Mrs. Charles Warner, who
unveiled the plaque at the entrance to
Turner Auditorium within McDowell
Columns.
At Simons Hall, a sister of Roy
Simons, Miss Agnes Simons, unveiled
the plaque dedicating the men’s
residence hall formerly known as East
in memory of Roy Simons’ mother,
Bettie Valentine Simons, and in honor
of his cousin, Melton E. Valentine of
Raleigh.
Also participating were two other
sisters of Roy Simons, Mrs. T.R.
Tunstall and Mrs. R. Stewart Roberson,
and members of their families; and
Valentine family members to include
Mrs. M.E. Valentine and his three
sisters, Mrs. Vernon Baker, Mrs. W.H.
McGee, and Mrs. F.G. Kroncke.
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Chowan's Players entertolned audiences during their Foil presentation of The Rainmaker. Providing the
theatrical touches in this scene are from left, Thomas Cole, Thomas Gale, Laura Crum, and Chaplain Hargus
Taylor. See Review on Page 2.
A PROUD DAY FOR A FAMILY....Members of the Simons family take time out during Founder's Day activities
for this portrait in front of the newly named Simon Hall. The dorm is named for the late Roy Simons, Jr.