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THE CHOWANIAN
Edited By Sludenls
At Chowan College
And Printed At The
Roy Parker School
Of Printing.
Volume 2 — Number 3
Murfreesboro, N. C. February, 1955
Subscription; $1.00 a year
Chowan Seeks Admission To
Junior College Association
'Love Cottage' is
Victim of Hazel
The oldest building on the campua
at Chowan College has now been
torn down and removed. “Love
Cottage," -which was built earlier
than the “Columns.” was damaged
by Hurricane Hazel Last fall. A
large tree fell across the small
structure, wrecking at least half
the building.
Housing visiting athletic teajns,
thia cottage was in use until dta
recent damage. “liOve Cottage," a
white Colonial frame structure, waa
located •everal hundred feet to the
rigtit of the main building, the
“Oolumns,” and a great deal of
college tradition was connected
with the building.
Former Professor
To Teach Own Book
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CHOWAN VICE-PRESIDENT
PROMOTING CHOWAN COLLEGE-Pictured on the steps of the -^in^ buHding^ar^^
£'.£rS' Ttirs.”' r\e,f At Cliowan College
Creech’!'AMe.'^ystarto the pr^idem; ’^aok Boyd. ’GreenvUle. Cohen Zunl!
vice-president, Apex; Hunter Pope, En .eld; Mrs W. D. Wh e Waters. New Bern; Herbert Jenkins.
Grady Davis, Conway Third row left to r^W. Rev. j. ^/^^hington; J. C. Leary.
id /onS Red .n§ Pr- O- MIk.., pre.ld.nt of tb. coU.ge,
President Sees '55 Prospects Excellent
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College Extension
School at Ahoskie
In oomiectlon with the Business
Department, an extension school is
being held In Ahoskie under the
direction of Mr. Robert Boston, head
of the Business Department. There
is an estimated enrollment of twelve
attending the class, with a sub
stantial number from Windsor.
The courses being offered are
typing, business law, and boo^keep-
"~In«.~TtIrr~BOStojr TXniunteiits iliat
this is a grand opportunity for
people Interested In the field of
businfss. Mr. Boston and Mr. Carl
Bicktrs tare teaching these exten
sion courses, which are held in the
Ahoskie High School on Monday
nights from, 7:30 to 9:30.
Two Cuban Cousins
Chowan Students
By IRENE BUHT
Elsa Miranda Sardina,15 and
Noemi Miranda Sardina, 16, new
Cuban students at Chowan ar
rived on campus shortly after
Christmas holidays. Although the
cousins do not speak much Eng-
lish they seemed to adjust them
selves very well to their new
friends and the new surround
ings. rapidly learnmg a few
phrases and communicating a
great adeal with a friendly
^'s'efore coming to Chowan, Elsa
attended school at Emelina
Roqueta in Cruces, Cuba. Daugh
ter of Carolina Sardina Miranda
and Angel Miranda, manager of
the railroad in Cruces Cuba
Elsa has one brother age 12. bh
and all of her family mem
bers of the Emmanuel Baptist
Church in Cruces. p.,,„es
Noemi also lives in Cruces,
Cuba. She attended the Kinder
garten Normal School. In her
family besides her parents,
FeTipe Miranda, there is. one
sister aged 12. Her father is an
agriculture inspector. She ana
her family are a^o members
the Emmanuel Baptist Church
^'^The girls have a special
son for being at Chowan. For
several summers Mr. J
pastor of the Severn Baptist
Church at Severn, C. visited
in Cuba. It was during his ^m
mers in Cuba that he met Elsa
and Noemi and told thern about
Chowan" Thus it is that the Sev
ern Baptist Church and Mr^ Kay
are sponsoring these two Baptist
Pirls serving as their church
family here in North Carolina.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The Chowan-
ian wishes to thank Dr. Mixon
for this encouraging New Year'i
report. It goes without saying
that the material growth of our
college, motivated as it is by
Christian ideas, cannot fail to
enrich spiritual, emotional, and
mental devetopments which we
experience in college.
Mrs. Rose Goodwin Poole,
former professor of music here,
now affiliated with the Home
Mission Board, will be on the
campus on February 14th. Mrs.
poole will teach a mission study
book which she has just recently
written.
The book is based on Mrs
Poole’s work as a musical miss
ionary among Cuban Baptists
Mrs. Pool was a missionary to
Cuba several years before her
recent connection with Chowan
College. When she is not travel
ing with her new mission study
book Mrs. Pool is at home in
Greenville, S. C.. where her
husband, the late Dr. Frand K.
Pool was head of the Religion
Dept, of Furman University.
CHOWAN MAY DAY QUEEN—Miss Emily Parker, of Gates-
ville has been elected by the student body of Chowan College
to preside as Queen of May Day festivities. Her court includes
the Misses Pat Laughinghouse, Vanceboro, maid of honor;
Jean Carol Parker. Hubert; Patsy Futrell. Murfeesboro; Jessie
Lee Davis. Davis; Marilyn Joyner. Hobgood; Janice Dew. Wil
son- and Betty Ruth Boyd of Monroe. The May Day program is
being sponsored by the Phi Lambda Pi literary society of the
college. (News Bureau Photo.)
College Training Union
Anticipates Good Year
The Young People’s Class of
the Murfreesboro Baptist Train
ing Union, under the leadership
of Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Wilhelm
has set up the first quarter s
program for 1955.
Mr. Wilhelm, who is the Dean
of Men at Chowan College, has
proved to be an efficient leader.
Under his guidance the attend
ance which began with 8 mem
bers has increased to 26 mem
bers. The programs that were
planned have varied so as not to
prove uninteresting.
’The theme for 1955 is: “Be
strong in the Lord.” Various
programs have been built
around this theme. There will be
panel discussions, films, outside
speakers, and student speakers
participating in the programs
The Bible Quiz Leader Jean Gal
loway has also gotten off to i
very good start in making the
programs more interesting this
year by making a game out of
I the Bible Readings.
Chowan College enters 1955
with the brightest prospects in
its long history of 107 years. The
administration, faculty and stu
dents are grateful to our Heav
enly Father for building our
course over another year. The
mtn’s doriTiic'.jry and the class
room gymnasium building are
now in use. At this time in 1954.
only the dorm was in the plan
ning stage. It was not until April
that the final plans were appro
ved by the Board of Trustees,
and work was started toward
its construction. It was at this
time that we learned that we,
through generosity of friends,
could build a gymnasium class
room building. We received
through our main source of sup
port, The North Carolina Baptist
State Convention, a good portion
of the funds used for the dorm
itory.
We must be loyal to the hand
that feeds us. As we strengthen
our Baptist churches we build
ourselves. Our support comes to
us because we are a Christian
institution and anything non—
Christian on our campus makes
us unworthy of our support. Let
us do our best to be worthy of
those who trust us.
The year 1955 begins with
plans for the future. A science
building, perhaps 80 x 50. two
stories of the same type of
construction of the dormitory p
in the planning stages. It is
hoped by next year this time
this building too. will be com
pleted. Work is to be done on
the library in the addition of
books and the improvement of
the room and furniture. Before
this year is over we are dream
ing of the planning stages for
a new library building. In a fast
growing and expanding college,
we must move as fast as .we can.
To this end we must give our
best.
Faculty Member is Auto Victim
Sweetheart Party
Planned By B.S.U.
Unfon will be held on Feburary
10 1955. Pat Gutherie. head of
the social committee which
mldfup of Shirley Martin. Jean
Galloway. Toye Carter. Pauline
Hardee, and Leora Holland, has
decided to use campus talent for
The Banquet. This promises to
be both unusual and
esting. Some of our prospective
talent are a bang-up trip con-
ststing of Ernest Whittington,
(see SWEETHEART page 4.)
Professor G. C. Buck, head of
the Agriculture Department at
Chowan College, received major
injuries on January 4, when the
College Studebakr he was driving
collided head-on w4tlh an oil tank
er. He was returning from Raleigh
where he had been on business for
the College when the accident oc
curred near Jackson, at the junc
tion of the Seaboard road and U.S.
highway 158.
Having received a broken leg
and being generally shaken up.
Mr. Buck was taken to Roanoke
Rapids Hospital for treatment. He
remained in the hospital several
days before doctors permitted him
to return to his home In Hertford
where he is now recuperating. Mr
J. D. Parker of Murfreesboro will
teach Mr. Buck’s classes unti he
is able to return
The Studerbaker driven toy Prof
fessor Buck was a complete loss
and considerable damage was also
done to the oil truck.
Sopliomore Advisor
The Sophmore class of Chowan
College has elected Dean Grogan
as their class advisor. This was
done during a recent monthly
class meeting. Dean Grogan
has the responsibility of taking
on any problems the sophmores
as a group, present to him.
Church Fellowship
Supper on Sunday
A fellowship supper for the
college students is sponsored by
the Murfreesboro Baptist Church
every Sunday evening at 5:30.
Students gather together in the
basement of the church where
food is prepared and served by
the ladies of the church.
Every student who remains
at the college for the weekend
is urged to join in this fellow
ship. Following the supper the
colllege Training Union group
holds its regular meeting. An
average of about twenty stu
dents have been attending these
Sunday suppers, which have
been furnished by the Church
since early fall.
Mr. Ross Cadle from Apex.
N. C.. has recently been elected
vice-president of Chowan Col
lege. This is a new office which
has just come into existence
here.
Having received his Bache
lor’s degree from Broaders
University, West Virginia. Mr.
Cadle also completed a year of
graduate study in law school,
and three years graduate work
in theological school. He has had
several years in a successful
Baptist ministry in various
states, and he is especially inter
ested in working with young
people.
By late summer. Mr. Cadle
and his family will be moved
into their new home, recently
constructed by Moonlight Enter
prise Inc. in Murfreesboro.
He has two daughters, the
younger of whom will finish high
school this year and will enter
Chowan next fall. His older
daughter will graduate from
Meredith College this year. She
plans to be married in late sum-
An unofficial committee from
the Southern Aissociation of Junior
Colleges and Universities visited
the campus December 16—17,
to consider the prospects of Chow
an’s admission into the Associa
tion.
Visiting the coUege were Dr.
Curtis Bishop, Averett College,
Danville. Va.; Dr. Jessie Bogue,
Washington, N. C., Ben Fisher.
Southeastern Baptist Theological
Seminary; and Mr. Claude
Gaddy. Raleigh.
The Ctommittee inspected class
rooms, the library, and other
facilities. Tliey also held private
conferences with members of the
faculty as well as a meeting with
the entire faculty at a luncheon
in the school cafeteria.
These educators were to make
an unofficial report of their eval
uation; if Ohowan is approved,
there will be an official survey
about a year hence. As yet, their
decision has not been received;
however, the College itself now,
and has been for sometime, work
ing towards meeting all the re
quirements of t ta e accrediting
agency.
Monogram Club is
Planning Banquet
Chowan’s Club is planning to
have a banquet for old players
from the last twenty years. The
proceeds will be used for mono
grams and sweaters. The Club
is also planning to have a talent
show for Chowan students.
Eligibility for the club is de
termined by a player’s partici-
poting for a certain number of
minutes in an athletic contest
The Block-C men are trying to
build themselves into the strong
est club on the campus.
The Monogram club was reor
ganized last quarter, and the
following men were elected
officers: Shad Barden. Presi
dent; Troy Perry. Vice Presi
dent; Lawton Box, Treasurer;
Gene Fergurson. Secretary; and
Herman Clark. Reporter.
Advisor's Playlet Presented
In Chapel By College Y,W,A.
A one-aot play, the first to be
written by a professor here and
given by a school organization, was
presented at a regular chapel ser
vice in December.
Miss Betty Moore, Professor ot
Haiglisih and Spanish, and advisor
of the college Y.W.A. composed the
story of the life of Anne Hassaltine
Judson. The play, chiefly narrative
combined with pantomlne, was por
trayed by members of the Y.W.A.
Lula Pearl White was the narrator.
Others appealing in the perform
ance were Sue Godwin, Pat Laugh-
inghouse, Jean Galloway, Gladys
Melero, Ann Hales, Betty Graber,
and Mildred Wheeler.
A chorus made up of Pat Guth
erie, Iris Evans, Anne Long, Ella
Jane Smith, Marilyn Turner, Bette
Britton provided background music.
Joe Harkey assisted as the voice of
Adoniram Judson. lieora Holland
directed the entire performance.
New Gym Expands Activity
Glee Club Elects
Officers For Year
At a regular rehearsal of the
Chowan College combined Wom
en’s and Men’s Glee Club the
following officers were elected:
President, Billy Finch; Vice-
President, Becky Flythe; Secre-
tary-Treasurer, Carolyn Davis;
and Reporter, Shirley Blizzard.
These officers will serve for
the year 1955.
Group pictures will be used in
the ‘55 College Annual.
Miss Young Frosh
Class Advisor
Uembera of the Chowan College
Freshman Class met in the aud
itorium on January 5 and elected
Miss Barbara Young, Professor
of music, as their advisor for
this year. ,
President of the Class, Johnny
Hill, presided over the meeting.
Plans were made and discussed for
a Junior-Senior party to be held
in Che spring.
The new gymnasium proper and
the annexed eight modern class
rooms at Chowan have recently
been completed and both are now
in use. Before the $55,000 build
ing was constructed, the basement
rooms in the Main Building were
used for classes, and the Murfrees
boro High School Gym was bor
rowed for Ohowffli’B basketball
games.
Containing 550 square feet per
room, each classroom is 20 x 25
feet. They are all well ventilated,
■well lighted with fluorescent lights
and furnished with almost all new
furniture. Floors are covered with
asphalt tile. Covered walkways
provide entrance to the classrooms,
whicih are all approached from the
outside.
The modem-style gym has the
new type court with asphalt tile
laid on concrete; backboards arc
of modern glass. Furnishing heat
for the spacious gym are two Le
nox flltured hot air furnaceE.
Pending the addition of more
bleachers, the seating capacity wil'l
be 750 to 1000 persons. Also the
dressing rooms are yet to be built.
At present, plans are being set
up and put to work for landscap
ing grounds around the gymna
sium and beautifying them with
shrubbery and flowers.
Most of the construction on the
building was under the super
vision of Mr. Bob Hill of Moon
light Blnterprises Inc. of Murfrees
boro and Mr.Jimmey Ringale of
Butler Manufacturing Company.
The University of Richmond fur
nished the bleachers for the gym
nasium.
Business Conference
To Be Held at Chowon
Mr. Robert Boston, head of the
Business Department, has announc
ed that a conference of representa
tives from business departments in
North Carolina Baptist colleges will
be held at Chowan the last of April
A large group is expected, and def
Inlte plans will be announced at a
later date.
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CHOWAN COLLEGE COVER GIRL—Pretty enough to be Maid
of Cotton is this Chowan College co-ed, IV^rilyn Joyner of
Hobgood. N. C. This photo was taken by M. G. Mann. Jr. and
appeared on the September cover of Carolina Co;operator. A
sophomore at the Murfreesboro. N. C., jOntCr college. Miss
Joyner worked for the Farmers Cooperative Exchange during
the summer. The cotton was from Johnston County and the
pretty girl a product of Halifax County.