CHOWAN COLLEGE
1848-1927
The ChoWanian
Vol. 5
Four Pages
Murfreesboro, N. C., Tuesdiy, October 25, 1927
TRAVELERS PASS
THROUGH TOWN IN
TIME FOR RESCUE
Many Lives Are Saved From
Being Snuffed Out
By Fire
Baseball “What Am” Is
Played At Dear
Old Chowan
OLD BOYETTE HOTEL
BURNED TO GROUND
BIRTHDAY PARTY IS
STOPPED BY DISASTER
Valuable Historical Records
Destroyed According
to Report
Two late travelers pass
ing through Murfreesboro,
at three o’clock last night,
saw flames leaping out the
front of one of the lower,
vacant apartments in the old
Boyette Hotel. One rushed
to awaken the sleeping peo
ple in the apartments, and
the other to get neighbors
to fight the fire. The old
building was as paper in the
flames and wind.
Before the people in the upper
apartments could b© ^wakened,
all the stairways had been block
ed by fire. Ladders were rushed
to the windows of the apartments
occupied by Miss Mary Parham,
teacher in the public school of
Murfreesboro, and her mother;
by Mr. W- Gary Parker and his
family; and by Mr. Thomas Pip
kin, collector of historical data.
When Mrs. Allie Parham, the old
est white resident of Murfrees
boro, reached the middle rung
of the ladder on which she was
descending, the ladder broke, and
she narrowly escaped fatal in
jury. There was no time to get
another ladder for the Parham
apartment. Miss Inez Matthews,
head of the Piano Department in
Chowan College, and guest of
Mi=s Parham, jumped and
Yankees Vs Pirates—Freshmen
and Sophomores. The world’s
“Serious” has been played. Hu
manity ceases from its “rooting.”
The old bats, gloves, and balls art
carefully laid away. The tom
and dirty uniform goes to the
rag-bag. The small boy exhales
a last sigh and turns sadly to his
school books. The world is drab.
The days shorten—The thud of
the foot-ball is heard in the land.
When lo! The day brightens,
the sun shines again. Happy
laughter fills the air. Cheers re
sound. The rooter is abroad once
more.—And why? The Yankees
and the Pirates have come to life!
The last great game is to be play
ed! It is to be the final test. Civ
ilization trembles and fate hangs
in the balance. The vast throng
is held in the tenseness of
breathless suspense. The war
riors assemble for battle. The um
pire takes his stand. The Cap
tains give a last look to see that
the players are properly placed
■y^hen —“Play Ball”—and the
game is on.
And of that game who shall
tell? When pen dipped in the
limpid springs of poetic aflrlatus
and touched by olympian fires,
shall speak the epic story? Wher«
the Homer and where the Virgil
who shall steal enchantment from
Plutorion shores and decant
majestic strains the mighty deeds
of that fateful day? Who shall
hymn the greatness of the oppos
ing Pitchers—the mighty Mackie
and the no less mighty Turner.
Who will sing the doughty “Babe
Ruths” and “Lon Gehrings” as
they swing a mean willow and
lammed the pill to Kingdom
Comes! Who shall immortalize
each fleet Diana as she sped in
matchless grace from base to
base? But enough! Some other
and worthier hand than this must
take up the parable and tell the
tale, we cannot—suffice to say,
that many Founder’s Day shall
come »nd go ere Chowan^c-'^^^ _ is
’ ’ * ■ I ■'1 ■* - —» UaKl.it.
‘'^behold history
fashion!
Candle Falls Over 2ind Sets
Fire to Everything In
Sight
Motto: Light and Truth
Colors; Blue and White
One Section
No. 2
TWO COLLEGISTO
ENTERTAINDIIRING
STUDENT MIETING
Murfreesboro, Oct. 12.—Last
night at about 9:30 o’clock, Hope
Cottage, one of the buildings of
Chowan College, was the scene
of disaster. Miss Louise McDan
iel was giving a birthday party
in honor of her room-mate, Miss
Elizabeth Middleton, when the ac
cident happened. As Miss Mc
Daniel was unable to get a real
birthday cake, she camouflaged
one by covering a round candy
box with white paper. Everything
was going nicely until one of the
candles fell over, knocking over
several others. Immediately the
whole top of the cake was in
flames.
It had been only a few days
since the Junior Class had finish
ed the Cottage, and for a few
moments it looked as if the flames
were going to destroy their work.
A piece of the burning paper fell
from the make-believe cake, and
before anyone could extinguish
the flame, burned a large place
in the newly painted table.
One of the guests snatched the
“cake” from the table and hurled
it through the window, but the
fire was not so easily gotten rid
of. As the burning mass passed
on its way out of the window, a
piece of the paper fell on the new
ly covered window seat, and the
flame shooting upward, caught
the handpainted window curtains
that had been hung only two days
before.
The Junior who had spent
many hours painting the curtains
was present at the party. She
was almost frantic when she saw
her work going up in flames. For
moment, it seemed that the
Meredith and N. ic. State
Will Be Hostesses Oc
tober 28-30
STUDENT COMMITTEE
OF STATE PROMOTER
Mystery Presented By ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF FOUNDERS’
F-Cbutau,«a Poster j joCETHER OLD AND NEW
™ FRIENDS FOR PROGRAM OF INTEREST
More Than Five Hundred
Are Expected to At
tend the Event
On Friday, Saturday and Sun
day, October 28-30, N. C. State
College and Meredith College virill
be host and hostess to the State
Baptst Student Conference. We
are expecting over five hundred
students, workers and student
secretaries, representing all the
schools and colleges of North
Carolina.
Last year at the Southern Bap
tist Student Conference held at
Birmingham, it was decided that
similar conferences should be
held in each Southern state dur
ing the months of October and
November, for the purpose of
carrying out the challenge re
ceived at Birminghani to make
“Christ Master of My Genera
tion.’’ Taking as tbp keynote of
our N. C. State Canference,
“What does that ad mean? It’s
a ceratin fact that I did not know
that there was to be a Chautauqua
here Friday night. Why is it ad
vertised down town instead of at
the college? What do those four
F’s mean?”
These were only a few of
the questions that confused th«
minds of the college girls early
Founder’s Day. The cause of the
mysterious confusion was a pos
ter in the post office, saying that
there would be an F-Chautauqua
in the college auditorium at seven
o’clock Friday night, October 14.
Maybe the girls weren’t in the
SENIORS ARE BUSY
ON THE CHOW ANOKA
Important IWeetinjf I» Held And
Officer* Are Named for
College Annua!
Dr. N. Y. Gulley Spoke on
Work Done by Chowan
College
At the ball game Thursday af
ternoon, two foreign men appear
ed on the athletic field, and to the
amazement of the people, dis
tributed papers that were similar
in appearance to invitations. Af
ter reading these announcements,
a part of the mystery concerning
the F-Chautauqua was solved—
yet there was a great deal left to
the individual’s imagination. The
announcement said that the
Chautauqua would consist of
fun and foolishness, and would
provide Fare (to Baptist Student
Convention at Raleigh), and
Forty Laughs to boot. To top
TELLS OF PLIGHT
BEFORE CIVIL WAR
An important meeting of the
Senior class was held Saturday,
October 15, and final plans were
drawn up for the new CHOWAN
OKA.
The staff is as follows:
Editor-in-Chief Mary Raynor
Asso. Editor-in-Chief Jean
Craddock
Business Mgr. _ Elizabeth Middle
ton
Advertising Mgr. Bernice
Benthall
Asso. Adv. Mgr., Elizabeth Webb
Circulation Mgr. Pauline
Willis
Photographic Mgr. Louise
McDaniel
Snap-shot Editor Lois Cale
Joke Editor Susan Barnes
With Miss Collins as our ad
visor, we hope to publish a beau
tiful book.
Mr. Hamblin, our photographer,
has already begun taking pic-
Our Duty To See That Her
itage of Past Be Pre
served
given for ten cents. The suspi
cion that these foreigners were
spies was soon de-
i I inlm'ed. Miss i«ary Par- f pirates or
severly • ^o rescue
r; valuable jewel^V. - ^
’/ow^r;Jn.p The peoplejn the
partments barely had
“Christ Adequate”, we are stnv-| ^he
ing for a rededication of the ''ves|
of all the students of oar genera-1 vexiHators tor tne
tion to Christ: for a ijew vision
of the missionary spirit; for a
burning zeal for soiXlj winning;
and for a quickening gleam of
Christianity. ;
This conference is | promoted
jointly by a state stiiient com
mittee, of which Mr. ■ R. Paul
Caudill, a student at Wbke Forest
College, is chairman, Iby the In
ion;i
the climax, all of this was to be| tures; in fact he took some of . ur
"" ' ' pictures last spring. Everything
looks promising for a successful
book; at least, we believe that it
will be different from any that
we have ever had.
The following officers were add
ed to our class executives:
Poet Ethel Britt
Historian Hilton Jones
Prophet Beatrice Burrell
transmit t’^o'“rity the follow-
inff outline: Tnr-
apartnicivvo Players: Mae ^ur
save themselves historicalL^, pitcher; Julia Hobbs, short
Some ve y Thomas Grace Stillman. -n-,.
records were lost in M ^er S Matthews, first base; Ehza-
tlaw, Mr. hislXet ferd ’base" Ethel Ta^or,
death. Mr. hist^rylr v Substitutes: Corinna i
whole building would be burned
but one of the guests jerked theUg^-Board Commission
burning curtain down and threw] (.j,g General Board of
it, and the window seat, thro ugh j gj-gtg Convention. -Al
the window, thus freeing
hu.nd’’AP-^’-"^ ' wciy.| (jniiiai
Willis, Majoriej Coral Gables, Florida; Dr. J. E,
Barnes, Etheli pUlaid, Birmingham, Ala.; Dr. J.
Vida Dun-1ijlis, Raleigh; Dr. J. Clyde
Chautauqua.
After a long day of waiting,
seven o’clock came. It found an
enthusiastic audience waiting for
the forty laughs. They got them!
The best received number on
the program was the reading by
Mary Lou Jones. Her red dress,
stockings and hair ribbon gave her
hair an even fireier hue. Her
whole appearance prepared the
to
and by audience for that which was
e Baptist come—Pep.
ong the, jQhn McCormack and Gene
‘ONLY ME” IS GIVEN
BY SENIORS AND
BOYS OF COMMUNITY
Misses Pauline
Bowles, Susan
state (jonveniion. .-ipuug John Mcl^ormacK anu ueiie t-jj-ee or
tbei^o„tsta.nding speakers fpr the con-|^ygt;jj -^,,ere the famous musicians
,;e.e:,china'l ^ Sf^hits, which were
Britt, A T Virginia Mar-j Tuner, Greensboro; Dr. Charles
Cale Jaunita Coleman,| Maddry, Raleigh; and Mr.
- J ’ Wilma Ellington, ! prok H. Leavell, of Memphis,
^ Marv Lou Jones T'ln., who is the Executive Sec-
Mary Raynor^ Mary 1.0 Inter-Board Com-
B^—A typical newspaperL-»sion. Student
*■ diluted with fiction) (>m the different schools
iTary Lou Jones, ’29. a large part on the pro-
death.
FIRST FACULTY TEA _
OF SESSION ENJOYtf”
The
records narrowly J cas
fometurnd twS-five ton,
Frances
base;
Substi-
3 Lassiter, Mavis Lewter^
"tate M
T^ome burnd ;it"che^°BiUie Temple, catcher;
Mr. PipW" could S:;Flythe fir^ base;
—
the inadequate fire fighting equip
V the wind made it im-
®®" wrto save the building it-
TJi tire is no doubt that the
tenants could have saved many
llluable personal pos^—
K"^=^vick: S:
Hams, Julia Downs, Audrey Par
ker.
Score: Hits, 3’.
Runs, Freshmen
there had been a
sufficient num-
silence;
Sophomores 17
At this point the
Mrs. W. B. Edwards, Mrs#
B. Vaughan, Mrs. W|
R. Burrell Hostesse^
On Wednesday afterno
tober 12, from fou^thirt-
o’clock, Mrs. W. B. Edwa’
E, B. Vaughan, and mrj
Burrell were the delig
tesses at the first facu.
the season. irlors
The college halls
I were beautifully dec^
white cosmos and feB
score-keeper fainted.
athptjiaNS HAVE 1 scheme of green anc ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
interesting PROGRAM very effectively use students, I want
representatives
will
fve a large part
ram.
The opening session, Friday
night, and the Saturday morning
ession will be held at Pullen Hall
'on the State College Campus. The
guests are invited out to Mere
dith College for the afternoon
session, at the close of which an
informal tea will be given by the
Meredith students in the college
parlors. Following this a Hal
lowe’en dinner will be served to
the conference in the Meredith
dining hall. The Saturday night
session and the sunrise prayer
service on Sunday morning will
also be held at Meredith; the
closing session, Sunday morning,
taking place in Pullen Hall.
The boys are to be entertained
by the State students, and the
color I girls are to be the guests of the
being j Meredith students. As president
I of the B. S. U. at Meredith, in be-
>,er of fire escapes.
N. B.—Do not weep too heart
ily over
the fire sufferers
The
exercise
The Alathenian Literary So
ciety held its regular meeting
written for the
ism
STOP! LOOK!
In
Mi»*
well received by the mixed au
dience. Perhaps John McCor
mack’s “When You Come to The
End of a Lolly Pop” was the pop
ular vocal selection for the even
ing.
The monkey act by Gertrude
Vann and Roxie Flythe furnish
ed fifty laughs; in fact, the whole
audience became one uproar when
they appeared on the stage.
I Wilma Ellington, a republican
politician, certainly killed A1
Smith as a possible nominee for
president of the United States.
Her speech was clever and witty,
and contained more truth than
poetry. She emphasized that A1
Smith was not the man for the
job.
The recitation and announce
ments of Miss Jenkins were tip
top, and the harmonica solos by
Miss Whitley were truly enter
taining.
The F-Chautauqua proved to
be a comedy in the truest sense.
The girls taking part in the pro
gram deserve great praise for
their originality and wit.
They were: Mary Lou Jones,
Wilma Ellington, Ruby Daniel,
Roxie Flythe, Bettie Walter Jen
kins, Mrs. Gertrude Vann, and
Mary Whitley.
The guests werej,jgnkins
door by Bettie jijg chat-
and led into the m,g
was in
Janet crowd, ^^tful and
Saturday night, October 8. JanetUgring crowd. Ightful and
■Ronthall vice-president, presided spirits, and^g passed
T%rA5ident. nfter^
1923, during
Knott’. reign, Am.t.ur
Night wa.
ha. become one of the *
lookea-for event. of
year, and P-mi.e. to Wd
fair position in the co K
:at:;:/ue of event, thi. t.me.
Amateur Night «« e.tab
li.hed to dLcover h.dden ta^
ent.. Each one of u. h»*
.ome talent and .ome »r«
fortunate enough to
than
po..e.. , Te-
orator, poet, playwngu ,
tre.., or clown. Who know.J
We are giving you a
to discover your talent and to
.how what form
lity you have, on Am
Night, Friday, November the
'“c™. ... -S
the public what Chowan girl.
‘’“'jEAN CRADDOCK
Pres. Dramatic Club.
Miss Crew: Does anyone know
■rVint the Sherman Act was.
Marching through
the absence of the president L^.^y^we after
After the business was attendeaUogether. ^dorn-
to a program, which gave the ne From tables|ticks masses
to. a P . ,v,P real silver^ferns, deli-
members an insight into the
memoe society, was ren-
meaning of the soc e y,
dered. The new girls had been
wondering what the aims of the
society were, and they
•nLrmed by a talk given by Billie
Temple on “The Aims of Our So
ciety.” Ann Downeys talk on
“What The Society Means to Me
inspiring and beneficial.
The Hour of Mem-
was very
A vocal solo,
orv”, by Christine Stillman, and a
reading, “When Johnny Goes to
College”, by Susan Barnes, were
beautifully rendered.
of white cosi%; sandwiches,
cious date ai were served,
coffee, tea, class, who
Besides faculty, there
were guestihe town and
were mannunities. Among
surroundiy John Outland,
these weiWh, Mrs. Jim
Mrs. L Wiggins, Mrs.
Payne, *ss Ida Heyworm,
Lloyd Imith, Miss Sarah
Miss ^fancy Parker, Miss
to extend to all the students and
workers of the state, a hearty
welcome to Meredith. To the
girls^ who will be our guests in
our domitories, I want to give a
special welcome. We are looking
forward eagerly to your coming,
and praying that the conference
may be of value in bringing forth
a realization of our aim—Christ
Master of Our Generation.
HERTFORD COUNTY
W. M. U. WILL MEET
MISS HARRISON, B. Y. P. U.
WORKER, VISITS COLLEGE
Mr^ G. T. Underwood
PjW Babb, Mrs. E. W.
jirs. E. W. Whitley,
, Sewell, Mrs. G. N. Har-
Dick Watson, Mrs. Col
ira, Mrs. Stanley Win-
Mae Turner
Georgia.
Y W. A. IMPROVEMENTS
The Y W. A. has been reor
ganized into three circles which
will meet separately twice each
month. Pauline Willis, Vida
Dunning, and Odessa Moss are
the leaders of these circles. Each
circle will be divided into three^jgg ^ Parham,
1 groups with a captain ®®®»lie Barnes, Mrs. E. N.
group. The programs wiU Miss Elsie Crew, Miss
given alternately by the grou^jg Crew, Mrs. E. N. Evans,
The circles will meet in a gen^enson, Mrs. L. M. Futrell!
mass meeting *ies Caldwell, McDowell and
months Mrs. Burrell, Y. W^ hostesses at the
counselor,, has offered a re^ga November 9
for the circle which has th(
report for the year.
The College B. Y. P. U.’s were
quite fortunate in having, during
the past week, Miss Marguerite
Harrison, the recent additional
worker in B. Y. P. U. field work,
who taught a training course,
, HI Tr. . I “Southern Baptists Working To-
^ gather”, being the text book used.
Mau^enc^ Mrs. H. L. j^iss Harrison is an efficient,
successful, and wide-awake work-
Edv •_ ynn, Mrs. E. L. young people, and almost
instantly wins their hearts. The
girls manifested much interest
throughout the course of study;
the entire student body attended
the lectures and took the examina
tion.
Miss Harrison was especially
pleased with the atmosphere of
Chowan, frankly stating that
“there is something different
about Chowan.” She remarked
especially about the sacredness of
the atmosphere of Chowan’s cam
pus.
The W. M. U. of Hertford
County will hold an all-day meet
ing at Menola Church Tuesday,
November 1. The following is the
program;
Subject: R. A. and Sunbeam
Bands. 11 A. M..—Opening song;
“Jesus Shall Reign”, devotional.
Rev. R. M. Von Miller; business
session; song; talk, “Implanting
Missionary Ideas in the Hearts
of our Boys,” Mrs. T. B. Wynn,
Murfreesboro; ‘Give Us a Chance’
an exercise by R. A.’s of Menola;
song, “The King’s Business”;
talk, “My R. A. Band”, Mrs. H. J.
Holloman, Harrellsville; special
music; talk, “Your Part as Moth
ers in Promoting R. A. and Sun
beam Interest”, Mrs. W. D.
Boone, Winton; announcements;
Lunch.
Afternoon Session: Song;
devotion, Mrs. 0. Creech, Ahos-
kie; talk, “What is Meant by the
Scripture, Train up a Child in
the Way it Should Go, Mrs. N.
S. Shepherd, Murfreesboro; spe
cial music; address. Miss Bertha
Carroll, Chowan College; pageant,
Sunbeams of Menola; report of
Committees; closing song; bene
diction.
The meeting will be presided
over by Mrs. K. B. Lineberry,
Superintendent of the Union.
The Board of Trustees of
Chowan College met in the
college at 11:00 A. M. on
October 13, 1927, the seven
ty-ninth anniversary of Cho
wan’s founding.
At 3:00 P. M. the College
girls and a number of the
friends and Alumnae assem
bled to hear the address of
Dr. N. Y. Gulley, Dean of
Law School of Wake Forest
College. The theme of his
address was the work of
Chowan College between
the years ’65-’75.-
He began his address by telling
of the conditions prior to the war
between the states. All of the
wealth in North Carolina lay in
the eastern part. This was im
portant because the ravages of
the war on this part were so
marked. The wealth was due to
slaves who had been accumulated
under the protection of the law.
Many men spent their lives to
keep the slave trade growing. It
was an abomination. The battle
grounds were in the East and all
our material possessions were
taken to carry on the war. This
was one of the hardships of the
war. Another was the loss of our
.Manhoad'Vftf that generation.
Every man "kn'd* bo5L_i08rfi}i?d to
the front. The majority never
came back, and those who did
come back were, in many cases,
crippled. This remnant returned
to find the country desolated,
their homes gone, and all their
possessions and relatives gone.
The desolation at that time is be
yond our imagination. Hope had
fled. Lawlessness was abroad.
There was no government—only
barren soil and a remnant of
population.
In 1866 schools were bravely
opened again. Dr. McDowell with
others had kept Chowan College
open. The ten years that follow
ed were years of doubt and re
construction. The fathers knew
they were going to rise out of the
ashes of defeat. No army has
been superior to that army that
returnd home. Only the Confede
rate Woman was greater. The
people had to be kept from
literally “going to the dogs.”
No one can tell what the de
nominational institutions like
Chowan meant to North Carolina
in those years. The state institu-
This is an annual custom of the tions were deserted, and some of
society. The purpose of this isitbe buildings were inhabited by
to give the new girls an idea of 1 S^ats and the like. The condition
the origin of the society, its!°^.^°fth Carolina today is the re-
“Only Me”, a modern play in
three acts, by Short and Philips,
will be given at Chowan within
three or four weeks. The cast will
up of members of the
Cia3b £ a»i ■ t>L»y5 *T»'«-n "tTTe
town and communty. The play will
be ^iven at the college and, per-
haps, in near-by towns, also. The
proceeds from the programs will
go to the college Annual fund.
Miss Poe, expression teacher, and
senior class advisor, is directing
the play. Louise McDaniel, presi
dent of the senior class, is acting
as business manager.
THE lUCAUAN SOCIETY
REVIEWS ITS HISTORY
First Meeting Devoted
Discussion of Past
Activities
to
The Lucalian Society had its
first meeting on October the
eighth, in the Lucalian Hall. The
first number on the program was
a vocal solo by Frances Flythe:
“How It Happened” by William
Sticklethic. This was followed
by our Second Saturday Night
Speaker, Miss Louise McDaniel.
meaning and its ideals.
Miss McDaniel’s talk was very
impressive and her audience lis
tened attentively. First, she told
of the origin of the society, way
back in the eighties. The C. 0.
V. A. and the P. N. A. were the
names of the first societies. There
are no records of these first so
cieties, because in 1912 the en
tire student body was reorganized
into two societies—the Lucalian
and the Alathenian.
When the Lucalian society
was three weeks old, it was de
cided that it should have a flower
and colors. Next was the draw
ing up of the by-laws of the con
stitution, and in 1913 it was de
cided that the true Lucalians
should have a pin which would
show to the world just exactly
what they stood for: the green
says ‘young, capable’; the gold
says ‘we are earnest in word,
thought and deed’. The three
points say ‘be loyal, be of ser
vice, stand up for the ideals of
the motto’. The flame says
‘strive on,—breach onward, up
ward, I will light the way!’
Three years ago, the big day,
which we now know as Society
Day, was celebrated for the first
time. On this day we have a
reading contest, and a debate,
followed by a reception given by
both societies. We are looking
forward with great anticipation
to the Society Day this year.
suit of the labor of people in those
dark days who would not give up
hope. The people in North Caro
lina turned their faces toward be
liefs in God and in the denomina
tional institution as an instru
ment of God. Dr. Gulley said
that he was proud of North Caro
lina for what she has done and
not for what she is.
We are, he said, what the past
has made us. “We are what we
are because we were what we
were.” Things which we have are
the results of things gone before.
A person would not be so ready to
criticise if he understood the past
or how far we have come. The
state owes her position today to
the denominational institutions
more than to any other source ex
cept to the ministers.
After the war everyone went to
work to accumulate more wealth
than his neighbors. Men who suc
ceeded acquired the idea that
they were self-made men, and
they began to adore their own
make-up. They got above their
surroundings and began to think
that the denominational school
was too little for their sons. They
wanted a school of higher reputa
tion. Often the boys who went
to these schools came out as the
kinfl who dissipate their father’s
earnings almost before the fath
ers, themselves, are cold In their
graves. Let us stop and think.
“Have they not paid too great a
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