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2A THE CHOWAN HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9,2017 COA, NC State on track for ag program in 2018 BY REGGIE PONDER For the Chowan Herald An administrator at N.C. State University believes Col lege of The Albemarle is on track to put together an agri culture curriculum that could help students either transfer to the university or go direct ly into the workforce. John Dole, assistant dean of the College 6f Agriculture and Life Sciences at N.C. State University, said he and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Dean Richard Linton met with COA Presi dent Robert Wynegar in Eliz abeth City two weeks ago to discuss plans for COAs pro gram. COA officials have indi cated they hope to launch an agriculture program in the fall of 2018. Wynegar said the community college hopes to have transfer agreements with N.C. state in place by the end of December and hire faculty in the spring of next year in anticipation of a fall 2018 start. Wynegar said the original proposal from N.C. State was for one year of work at COA followed by three years at the university, but the two insti tutions are now working on a program that allows students to complete two years of the work at COA. DOLE WYNEGAR “We’re working on a more robust two-year program that serves our students well and that also satisfies the aca demic rigor that is required at N.C. State,” Wynegar said. N.C. State hopes one out come of the COA agriculture program will be students transferring from COA to the university’s College of Agri culture and Life Sciences as agriculture majors, according to Dole. That hope is rooted partly in Dole’s personal experi ence. He explained that he was the first person in his family to go to college and at tended a community college for the first two years of his college degree because of the savings it offered his family. But Dole also acknowl edged that not all the COA students who study agricul ture will want or need to complete a four-year degree. “We recognize that for a lot of students the two-year degree that they get at a com munity college is what they want and what they need for the kind of work they want to do,” Dole said. Dole said the job outlook in agriculture in North Caro lina is good. The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has found that it generally has job opportunities wait ing for its students when they graduate, Dole said. The one exception is stu dents who want to work in a particular area of the state — especially if they want to live in a specific small town — and who are in a highly specialized mqjor rather than a more general major. Those students usually have to choose either to work in a field other than their mqjor in order to live where they want to live or to move somewhere else in order to land a job in their field, Dole explained. The university’s academic advisers try to communicate those realities to students clearly, he explained, so that they understand what the job outlook is likely to be in their field of study and in the area where they wish to live and work. All in all, though, Dole noted that even during the height of the Great Reces sion, the College of Agricul ture and Life Sciences was getting calls from companies that were wanting to recruit its graduates for jobs. N.C. State is training stu dents to be growers, manag ers, propogators and techni cal support, Dole said. COA presumably has in mind the same kinds of jobs for its stu dents, he added. “A fair number of our stu dents will also go into busi ness for themselves,” Dole said. Opportunities for people to start their own businesses abound in niche areas such as organic farming, plant nurseries and specialty crop or specialty animal produc tion, Dole said. Dole cited Avoca, a com pany in the Bertie County community of Merry Hill, as a classic example of a niche business in agriculture that is doing very well. Avoca pro cesses clary sage, extracting from the crop a chemical that is used in the manufacture of perfume and other products. The Merry Hill plant pro vides a ready market for sage growers in Bertie, Chowan and other northeastern North Carolina counties. “Agriculture in general is doing very well in the state,” Dole said. The positive job outlook for N.C. State’s agriculture graduates would also hold true for students who gradu ate from a community col lege with a two-year degree in agriculture, Dole said. Agriculture in North Caro lina is not a “boom” industry like oil in South Dakota, but neither are most other indu- tries, Dole said. But agricul ture remains an important in- dustry in North Carolina that offers good opportunities for students, he said. Jeff Smith, chairman of the Chowan County Board of Commissioners and a farmer in the fyner area, said that when many people hear the word “agriculture” they don’t understand how many differ ent activities it covers. “All they think of is farm ing,” Smith said. “When you talk about an ag school ev erybody that’s not really in volved with farming thinks about tractors and plowing and all that.” But in reality, he said, “agribusiness is a big, broad thing,” Smith said. A highly skilled workforce is needed to work with the sophisticated equipment that is used in modern agriculture, Smith said. Jobs are available for grain inspectors, other commodity inspectors, and experts in ar eas such as pest control and food safety, Smith said. All of those areas are things that could fit with a program that COA could of fer, he said. Dole said he understands that it’s a high priority at COA for students to be able to stay in the area after they gradu ate. He said that is consistent with the mission of com munity colleges, which are intended to support the local community. So as COA finalizes plans for its agriculture curricu lum, the college will certainly want to look closely at what it will offer to be sure it’s the best possible fit for the area, he said. Dole said COA officials in their conversations with N.C. State have discussed a lot of different possible degree op tions. One goal certainly is to provide a college transfer program that would blend in veiy well with the programs at N.C. State, he said. But COA also could offer a two-year program for stu dents who don’t want or need a four-year degree, he said. N.C. State has been work ing hard to smooth out tran sitions from community col leges to the university, and in this case COA is out in front in planning the agriculture program with that kind of seamless transfer in mind, he said. “It’s really great that the College of The Albemarle wants to do that from the very beginning,” Dole said. REUNION Continued from 1A “Chowan High was a spe cial place,” said Evans, Class of 1979. “Small — everyone knew everyone. Teachers knew you and the whole school was a family. I look back at those teachers and administrators now as folks that helped educate me and above that, teach life lessons that can’t be bought.” Ullom remembers the days when students could drive school buses. Truly, students looked up to their classmates who not only had their driver’s licenses, but could drive a school bus. Many of these drivers were the “cool” kids. “Remember the days when students drove school buses (I did) and they only went 35 mph and all grades 1-12 rode those buses to gether,” Ullom said. And then there was the FFA — perhaps Chowan High’s most popular club. “Remembering back to the days of FFA initiation week and wondering how your assigned members were going to make you dress, or count the bricks on the school, break out in song in the hallway,” Ullom said. “Their names were written on a board that hung around your neck. Steve Ev ans was one of those names written on my board! No matter what year you at tended Chowan, you knew everyone from two grades below you to two grades above. Everyone was fam ily, students and teachers alike.” Evans spoke of a time when his life and that of his peers was centered around school; a time when there was a newness and feeling that memories — no mat ter how small — were be ing created. Though disco died for some in 1979, that didn’t stop some radio disk jockeys from playing the Bee Gees “Stayin’ Alive”. Country music fans might remember Hank Williams Jr.’s “Family Tradition”. Ev ¬ SUBMITTED PHOTO ans played bass in a band that preferred Southern rock — Lynard Skynard — “Freebird” baby! Passionate school spirit reigned supreme. “We had a school spirit that was second to none other,” Evans said. “When a basketball game was held at our gym, the spirit was electrifying. I didn’t play basketball, but I was there every game, making my share of noise! I drove the activity bus to all the away games, so I felt I was a small part of those teams. One of my basketball class- mates said one time, ‘If you can’t play basketball at a home game at CHS with all that support from school- mates, family and friends, you need to sell your basket- ball shoes!’ I played baseball all four years, I can still play some of those games in my head!” Class reunions are or ganized as means to get together and about talk the old times and to see how life has treated eveiyone. While different things happened to different people then and now, common themes and values created a shared ex perience of the time spent as a Bulldog. Though Ev ans contends that he hasn’t used a logarithm to balance a checkbook since he gradu ated those many years ago, he has used a cell phone to send text messages — that would have been cool to have had in high school. Seeing that time, tide and technology waits for no one, maybe it’s time for a reunion. “We started the idea of this reunion about a year ago,” he said. “We staited out just thinking about the 70’s classes, but we decided, what the heck, let’s make it an ALL classes reunion! We really hope folks will keep responding, it has been good so far, but there are so many more locals that haven’t re sponded yet. We also want all the faculty to show up. There are lots of folks I would like to see and say, you were right, I did need this or that to make a good living.” RATE Continued from 1A $230,000 annually. Regarding the solar farm ordinance, commission ers directed county staff to make some changes to the draft proposed by the Planning Board. Commis sioners may bring their in dividual recommendations to the next meeting Aug. 21. Commissioners imposed a 120-day moratorium in May on any new solar devel opment in the county to give tire board time to study the county’s current ordinance and recommend potential changes. That moratorium ends Aug. 28. In other business,the commission approved a proposal for construction of a state-mandated back- up 911 tower that will cost $475,000. Stallings said the project will cost the county $250,000 and the state grants will provide an additional $247,000. OUTLAY Continued from 1A ence — N/A D.F. 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Holmes High School ■ Replace Boiler; Bud get Request —$65,000; Cost/Quote —$76,040.20; Difference — $10,529.60 ■ Repair/Resurface Driveway; Budget Request —$40,000; Cost/Quote — Quotes Pending; Differ ence — N/A ■ Gas Piping for HVAC Units (Auditorium, Mu sic, Band, Gym); Budget Request — $50,000; Cost/ DR. CHRIS KOPPELMAN^DDS DR. ETHAN NELSON, bDS 482-5131 103 Mark Dr. Edenton, NC (behind Chowan Hospital) Quote — Quotes Pending; Difference — N/A ■ Resurface Tennis Courts; Budget Request — $51,880; Cost/Quote — $36,748; Difference — $15,132 ■ Window Replace ment (Auditorium, Music, Band); Budget Request — $50,000; Cost/Quote — $32,471.88; Difference — $17,528.12 ■ Construction of Room for Graphic De sign Academy Equipment — $8,500; Cost/Quote — Quotes Pending; Differ ence — N/A ■ Parking Lot Lighting; Budget Request — $2,000; Cost/Quote — Quotes Pending; Difference — N/ A ■ Replace Flooring in EC Suite and Vocational Rooms; Budget Request CHOWANHERALD (USPS 106-380) Vol. 82, No. 31 Published Every Wednesday Cooke Communications North Carolina, LLC Entered as a second-class matter August 30, 1934 at the Post Office of Edenton, North Carolina, under Act of March 3,1870. 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