1«E CHOWANIAN
Published Semi-monthly by the Students of
Chowan College
ANNE ONLE
EDITOR
business manager jean BUNN
MANAGING EDITOR JIMMIE COKER
News Editor John Jloore
Feature Editor Barbara Thomason
Sports Editors Curtis Copeland, Ellen Downs
Photographer Mary Jennings
Circulation Mana^:er Ruth Taylor
ISfeporters Lona Nell Worrell, Shirley Davis,
John Pcele, Eva Hunt, Anna^ Rae Chappel, Janet
Ed«-ards, Margaret Futrellc, Charles Binisong,
Mabel Johnsoii.
Advertising Staff Mabel Johnson, John Peele,
Barbara Thomason, Eva Hunt.
Faculty Advisors Hazel Griffin, Elbert O'Connell
An Easy Way
(1). By not using knives to open milk
bottles (openers are provided).
(2). By not breaking window lights.
■ (3). By not abusing furniture in the so
ciety halls.
(4). By not wasting food by taking un
necessary amounts out of the cafeteria or by
buying more than is wanted.
(5). By not taking books and magazines
from the library without properly checking
them out.
(6). By keeping walls and woodwork
clean.
Respect of public property reveals charac
ter.
An artist of the Metropolitan Opera is to
appear at our school on February 17th. This
artist will present to us a varied program
which will be very good and which ought ti
help us appreciate good music.
The students of Chowan College should
take advantage of this opportunity to hear Mr.
Terry. We are sure that students will enjoy
-his program and will receive an appreciation
of the artist’s music.
Mr. Terry studied under the best teachers
for years and he will know how to present Gil
bert and Sullivan' to us so we will enjoy and
understand it best. t
We, as college students, should realize that
music is as important a part of our education
as Fiench verbs and Trigonometry problems.
S6 let’s get some of our education in a'*, easy
way—by going to the concert.
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Support
Students! Support your college functions.
These functions of college life may not at all
seem important to you, but they must be sup
ported if the bigger ones are to be.
Basketball is an important function of the
gc4iool i>fogram at Chowan. It has been notic
ed that the students have not been attending
the basketball games as they should have.
Students, who is going to boost our team if
we do not? No one Then the public will get
the idea that we at Chowan do not especially
care if we support our athletic or school func
tions. They will think we are not "interested
enough in our athletic pfogram to attend the
games. We would not want anyone to think
tliis of us.
Let’s practice good sportsmanship at the
games too. Let’s show the public that we re
spect the decisions of the umpires and that we
are always courteous even if we do not agree
with them. Let’s support our basketball team' i
xvholeheartedly.
Faculty Member Leaves
A Happy Troop
The Lucalian Society is going to meet—
If you hurry right down, you might get a seat.
And if you listen carefully and don’t get con
fused,
You’ll see and hear things that will leave you
amused.
The president stands up with a happy grin
And gives a signal for the meeting to begin.
Ths. Secretary tells us what we last did and
said.
And the minutes now stand approved as read.
“Is ‘so-and-so’ ever going to be here?
He hasn’t attended a meeting this year.”
“Have you finally decided to pay your dues?
This treasurer’s job really gives me the blues!”
“If the program’s long, I simply can’t wait,
You know very well that I’ve got a date.”
“Have you ever heard of such nervy-nerve?
I’m here for a meeting and they’re not going
to serve.”
“Please be quiet and don’t make commotion.
The program chairman is going to give the
devotion.”
“One of our members, quite a song-bird,
Is going to sing. Please let her be heard.”
“I don’t think I’ve ever laughed quite so loud!
The reading she gave really did her proud.”
“The next meeting is—when did you say?
That date seems far, far away.”
, SjfiCpr’Mident announces that the meeting will
adjourn.
And expresses her wish for all to return.
So goes a meeting of our little group
We really are a happy troop.
Our students, especially those majoring in
comijiercial subjects, will miss Miss Jennie
Daughtrey who taught typing, bookkeeping, ~
and salesmanship.
Miss DaughJ;rey was an alumnus of Cho- Dorm Nl^ht
wan College. After her graduation, she taught
and did postgraduate work in other colleges
and also at Columbia University in New York
City.
Our students enjoyed her teaching us and
A e were soVry to hear that she was leaving to
live at her home in Holland, Virginia. We
hope she will visit us at Chowan soon.
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—liarljara ,Mc( ilauglian
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Not Rich
Chowan is not rich—quite to the contrary.
By rich, we mean money. Because of this,
students should take care to preserve what
we do have, in order that money might not
have to be spent needlessly in replacements
or repairs. Money used this way could be spent
to a better advantage: To buy needed new
equipment, for instance.
Here are some ways we can help the col
lege :
Pajama parties can be a wonderful sport
—just one big gabfest. There we are—sup
posedly “sleeping” but instead burning the
midnight oil and gabbing about everything
from makeup to our latest heart-throbs
Imagine! Mary Jennings, Nina Turner,
Eva Hunt, Geneva Harris, Elva Rae Mann,
Carolyn Davis, Marilyn Woodard, Barbara
Thomason, O’Neil Hurdle, Jean Daughtry,
Ann Jackson, Jane Ellen Jernigan, Barbara
McGlaughon, Betty Jean Taylor, Georgia
Dean Riddick and Dorothy Ward—all in one
room. With lots of food and lots of jokes, the
fun begins about ten-thirty.
By the time Nina and Ruth do their dance
routine and everyone has added their bit of
conversation to most every subject anyone
can think about—someone has to go to their
room “for a minute”. Ten or fifteen minutes
pass—finally with a guilty smile on her face,
she returns. Sooner or later, the party has to
break up and every girl starts back to hei;
room to enjoy a “full night’s sleep.” Suddenly,
a door bangs open at one end of, the hall, and
footsteps are heard going down the hall; then
another door opens and closes—a mixture of
angry and amused voices. Oh! Oh!. Someone
has been short-sheeted. Indeed she has, but
that’s not all. Another door flies open, more
footsteps are heard and then—more voices.
The things some people don’t think of! Now,
someone’s pajamas have been sewed together.
Barbara Jean Archer turns down the cover on
her bed only to find no sheets at all. The next
ccinplaint comes from Mary Jennings: “Who
put cracker crumbs in my bed?” What a life!
About an hour later, when everything is back
to normal, Barbara climbs in bed with the
hope of getting a little sleep anyway. When
almost asleep, a beautiful musical sound comes
to her ears—wedding bells. Oh, yeah? Eva
Knows better. Those beautiful musical sounds;
happen to be a cow-bell she has tied under the
bed.
This is only an example of one night. There
have been many others, and we are looking
forward to even more—don’t be surprised at
anything you hear.
—Barbara Thumastni
Roving Reporter
One of the topics most discussed about the
campus recently has been the Honor System
here at Chowan. Heated debates on whether
it will or will not work are an everyday occur*
rence in the halls and on the campus.
Upon being asked: “Do you think the Hon
or System will work here?” “Why?” these are
the answers given by a few of your fellow
students. Do you agree with them? , .
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EVA HUNT: “Yes, I think all the stud
ents will realize how important the honor sys
tem will be to ChOwan and be willing to co*
operate to make it a success.” ^ ■,
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JEANNE'DAVIS: “Yes! If they will start:
soon, and not keep waiting. I believe all the
students here are honest enough to abide by
the codes of an honor system.”
CAROLYN GIRIFFIN: “No! I don’t thinls
the students would tell on each other.” •
GENE PROCTOR: No! In a small
school like this, I don’t think the students
would be willing to tell on each other, and
that’s as much a part of an honor system ag
anything else.” /
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Life with Biology
By ANNE ONLEY ” T
School life in the science department can
be fun! But sometimes when I think very hard
—sounds impossible, doesn’t it?—I come to
the conclusion that it is a hard life-
Can you imagine walking through the
woods all day trying to find one little green
slimy pool of stagnant water? Of course, all
the water you do see then is clear and run
ning. And then someone takes pity on this
poor plodding disillusioned creature and shows
her—oh, no—a pool of water that looks as
though it had been in that same place since
prehistoric time. Now I could shout with glee:
“I have found my spirogyra and algae!”. No
more field trip until we study something else
that we have to collect. Of course, I-am so
thrilled that I have found those plants that I
think nothing of crossing seven-foot barbed-
wire fences, falling in mud holes, and drop
ping my precious bottle of muddy water and
spilling some. “Oh, I didn’t spill too much, did
I? No, I can still see my green plants.”
Class time arrives. Triumphantly I plac2
my hard-earned results on the teacher’s desk
. . . only to be toTd: “Thats the wrong kind.
Find another”. That means another trip o£
the same sort and life with biology goes on
and on ^