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Wynegar Hired as COA President
BY REGGIE PONDER
Staff Writer
The veteran community
college teacher and admin
istrator who helped lead
Western Nevada College
through a severe financial
crunch has been named the
10th president at College of
The Albemarle.
Paul O’Neal, chairman of
COA’s Board of Trustees,
announced last week that
Ronald Wynegar, vice presi
dent of student and academ
ic affairs at Western Nevada
College, had been named
president of COA.
Wynegar, 52, is slated to
start April 17.
“He is every excited
about getting to northeast
ern North Carolina and get
ting to work,” O’Neal said,
describing Wynegar as “very
well qualified.”
“We had four outstanding
candidates and he was the
one that the board unani
mously picked as our next
president,” he said.
In a phone interview Tues
day, Wynegar said that COA
had called him Monday with
the offer and he had been
pleased to accept it.
“Everything I saw about
COA while I was there for
the interviews tells me it’s
an absolutely wonderful in
stitution,” Wynegar said.
He said the college obvi
ously takes care of its stu
dents and the region as a
whole.
O’Neal said a number of
things about Wynegar made
a positive impression on
trustees.
“One of the things is what
he accomplished where he
currently is,” O’Neal said.
“He took a tough situation
and turned it around. He did
a great job.”
Wynegar himself talked
about the Western Nevada
experience during his visit
to the four COA campuses
as part of the selection pro
cess. He pointed out that he
arrived at Western Nevada
shortly after it received a 42
percent cut in state funding
and a reduction in full-time
faculty from 90 to 50.
“He took a tough situa
tion and righted the ship
and did a really good job,”
O’Neal said.
O’Neal noted that
Wynegar also served a large,
diverse area in Nevada that
is very similar to COA’s
area in size and diversity.
Wynegar also has worked
at community colleges in
Florida and Georgia. COA
will be able to “go to new
places” with Wynegar as
president, he said.
For his part, Wynegar said
he is excited about serving
as president of the college.
ROBERT WYNEGAR
He has had a long career,
See WYNEGAR, 2A
Decades Of Worship
PHOTOS BY JOY HARVILL
More than 500 people attended Sunday's service celebrating the 200th anniversary of Edenton Baptist Church.
Layton to lead
Chowan Herald
From staff reports
Historic church celebrates 200 years of faith
BY MILES LAYTON
Editor
Happy 200th Birthday Edenton Baptist
Church.
The faithful wore their Sunday best to
attend a service highlighted by hymns,
prayer and a sermon for the ages.
“It was a great joy for our congregation
to celebrate the 200th anniversary of our
founding” Reverend David Books said.
“Edenton Baptist Church has been an
integral part of this town throughout our
history with numerous members of our
church living out their Christian faith as
they have served the people of Edenton
and Chowan County. The stated mission
of our church is To know God and the
make God known,” and I believe that our
congregation is faithful in that pursuit.’”
Jesse Croom’s well-written book
about the church, “Entertaining a Hope”
offered an expansive look at the church’s
history that includes biographical ac
counts of visionary preachers such as
Thomas Meredith, whose efforts led to
the founding of Meredith College, and
E.L Wells, the builder who spearheaded
the construction of the four columned
temple with the dome that is familiar to
many across Chowan County and East
ern North Carolina.
“Whoever has studied church history
and through every contribution of every
pastor, the constant reality has been the
faithful presence and leadership of God,”
said Reverend Kenneth Word, pastor
emeritus.
Banners that read “great is thy faith
fulness” and “entertaining a hope” hung
from the walls that have seen many de
cades of worship. Dressed in blue robes
with white trim, the choir sang uplifting
hymns of praise. Children who attended
story time got cupcakes.
Word addressed the question of
whether some congregations will survive
into an ever changing age that tends to
compartmentalize faith that aligns more
with what is in style rather than what is
right.
“The answer is no,” he said. “But the
church that gathers can survive because
we can do more together than we can
alone. The church where people are more
concerned about serving God than the
beauty of a building and care more about
the reality of faith than the pretense —
who face discouragement and crisis with
love instead of ill — will survive.”
Word said the future will produce a
growing society of affluence, technol
ogy, false religions and more will shape
people’s views of religion more than the
See CHURCH, 3A
Shown is a cake made to celebrate
Edenton Baptist Church’s 200th
, birthday.
Miles Layton has been named editor of the
Chowan Herald.
“Edenton and Chowan County are great
places to work,” said Layton, a North Caro
lina native and graduate of — —
East Carolina University. “The
newspaper has a strong history J
of serving the community.”
Layton replaces former Her ¬
ald Editor Reggie Ponder, who
has assumed reporting duties
for The Daily Advance. . -
Prior to joining the Chowan
Herald, Layton worked for LAYTON
newspapers large and small during his career
as a reporter and editor. After graduating from
ECU in 1998, Layton attended graduate school
at Ohio University, where he studied journal
ism and business. Layton has worked for sev
eral newspapers including the Daily Sentinel
in Pomeroy, Ohio, The Dominion Post in Mor
gantown, W.Va., the Herald-Standard in Union-
i town, Pa., and the Intelligencer/News-Register
in Wheeling, W.Va. Most recently, Layton was
editor of the Tyler Star News, a weekly newspa
per in West Virginia.
Layton explained a little bit about his ap
proach to community journalism.
“The people and history of this area are amaz
ing, so that inspires me to want to know more
about everything,” he said.
Mike Goodman, publisher/executive editor
of The Daily Advance, said Layton will be a wel
come addition to the newspaper and the com
munity.
“Miles is a great fit for the Chowan Herald,”
Goodman said. “He brings a wealth of experi
ence in community journalism and a high ener
gy work ethic that will benefit our readers. Also,
he wants to be involved in the community, not
only as a journalist, but as a citizen and family
man.”
Layton has won multiple awards for his writ
ing from the West Virginia and Pennsylvania
press associations.
“It’s not the size of the paper, it is the size of
the story,” he said.
Miles and his wife, Nicole, are the proud par-
See LAYTON, 2A
Council considers renaming local park Boundary dispute no cause
for civil war between counties
“What happened is the board of elections
had a different map than what we were
using."
Kevin Howard
Chowan county manager
BY REBECCA BUNCH
Staff writer
Queen Anne Park, adja
cent to the Hayes Bridge in
Edenton, may soon have a
new name.
Town council members
agreed at their work session
on Monday night to have
the full council consider at
a future monthly meeting
a proposal by Councilman
Sambo Dixon to rename the
park after the late Elizabeth
Vann Moore, a local resident
known for her generous na
ture and her love of history.
Town Manager Anne-Ma
rie Knighton noted it was
“Ms. Moore’s generous gift
to the town, given anony-
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mously, that enabled the
town to acquire the Queen
Anne property and convert
it to a park. The renaming
of the park in her honor will
ensure Edenton remembers
the wonderful contributions
Ms. Moore made to our
community.”
Dixon, a friend and
neighbor of Moore, said
he thought the honor was
long overdue. He hastened
to add, however, that were
Moore still alive she would
not have wanted the atten
tion that the renaming of the
park would draw.
“She would tan my hide if
she knew that it was going
to be renamed after her,”
Dixon said.
Council members Bob
Quinn and Jimmy Stallings
agreed that the honor was
well deserved.
“She was an impressive
lady who did many impor
tant things,” Quinn said.
An obituary published in
the Virginian Pilot follow- |
ing her death on New Year’s
Day, 2010 outlined many
of the achievements and
special recognitions she re
ceived during her lifetime. It
read, in part:
“Miss Moore served as
a member of the Edenton
Historical Commission and
the Cupola House Associa
tion, from both of which she
received Lifetime Service
Awards. In 1978 she was
awarded the prestigious
Cannon Cup by the Histor
ic Preservation Society of
North Carolina.
“She received a Cer
tificate of Award from the
Daughters of the American
Revolution, Edenton Tea
Party Chapter, for her re
search on the Edenton Tea
Party.
“She wrote the Guide
Book to Historic Edenton
and Chowan County and
See PARK, 2A
BY PETER WILLIAMS
Staff writer
The county line between
Perquimans and Chowan
may not be where you
think it is.
The issue came up when
someone went to vote in
Chowan County and was
told they actually lived in
Perquimans County.
The variance between
where both counties think
the line belongs and where
the state recognizes the
border is not large accord
ing to Perquimans County
Manager Frank Heath.
“Basically it’s like 100
yards,” Heath said.
The actual county line
may shift slightly to the
west, meaning Perquimans
County would become a
little larger and Chowan
would be a little smaller.
“We just want to make
sure the line is correct,”
Heath said.
Julie Sharpe, the head of
the Chowan County Land
Records office could not
be reached for comment.
Hackney High, the county
attorney for Perquimans
County did not return
phone calls for comment.
Kevin Howard, the coun
ty manager in Chowan, said
he understands there may
only be once house that is
involved.
“It’s been discussed for
a while now,” Howard
said. “What happened is
the board of elections had
a different map than what
we were using.”
The fact that a county
line may not be where
people think it should be
is not unusual according
to Ron Harding. He works
on issues involving state
and county boundaries for
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