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THE CHOWANIAN, JANUARY 1959 VISITS CAMPUS—H. Dail Holderness, president of Carolina Tele phone and Telegraph Company, was a recent visitor to Chowan. He was shown around by President Bruce E. Whitaker and ex pressed much interest in the growth of the college. Telephone Executive Pays Visit To Campus; Presents Donation ■« DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER—A member of Chowan's Board of Trustees, pastor of Blackwell Memorial Baptist Church, Elizabeth City, Dr. Robert W. Kicklighter was a recent chapel speaker. He is shown (center) with President Bruce E. Whitaker (right) and Administrative Assistant John Gill, who is in charge of college public relations. Dr. Kicklighter is Convocation Speaker; Member of Trustees That Chowan College is gain ing more and more public recog nition and approval is evidenced by the outstanding personalities who are visiting the campus. Recently, our president had as his guest, H. Dail Holderness, President of the Carolina Tele phone and Telegraph Company of Tarboro, the third largest in dependent telephone company in America. Mr. Holderness expressed gen uine appreciation for the pro gress being made at Chowan, and he presented Dr. Whitaker with a donation for our develop ment program, saying that his company was happy to have a part in the future growth of Chowan and other eastern North Carolina institutions of higher learning. In November of 1958, the state’s top telephone executive and his brother Howard were selected by the NEWS AND OBSERVER as the “Tar Heels of the Week”. The brother is president of the Jefferson Standard Life Insur ance Company of Greensboro, which has insurance in force amounting to almost two billion dollars. Howard Holderness is also a firend of Chowan College. It was from his company that our trustees secured the loan which made possible the actual construction of the new girl’s dormitory. Ten Candidates For Graduation There are 10 tentative candi dates for graduation on the Fall semester list. Those who have the grades and quality points required for graduation will return for commencement in May. The candidates are: David Earl Adams, Vanceboro; Ed ward Thomas Britt, Elizabeth City; Ellis Leon Britton, Marga- rettesville; Paul Robert Dickin son, Suffolk, Va.; Emery Bow man Goodwin, Victoria, Va; Clyde Morgan, Elizabeth City; Mills Pruden, Suffolk, Va.; Herb ert P. Burnette, Castalia; Paula K. Tripplett, Banner Elk; and Robert Giles Miller, Bealeton, Va. ECC May Offer Some Summer Courses Here F. Milam Johnson, Director of Summer School at Chowan Col lege, has announced that East Carolina College is considering the possibility of having an Ex tension Summer School at Cho wan this year. The proposed six weeks extension courses would be co-ordinated with the regular Chowan College summer session, June 8 - July 17. According to the demand, courses would be offered at all college levels. Credits earned would be recorded with the Reg istrar at East Carolina College, and could be used for the renew al of teaching certificates, or transferred to the college of one’s choice for degree credit. The program would be set up primarily for those who live within commuting distance of Chowan College. However, Cho wan College facilities for rooms and meals would be made avail able to extension students, and persons from further distances are invited to enroll. Mr. Johnson, at the request of ECC Dean Leo Jenkins, has scheduled a meeting at 10:00 a. m., Saturday morning Febru ary 7, at Chowan, for the pur pose of determining the number of persons interested in the proposed extension program. Dean Jenkins will be on hand to discuss course offerings, costs and other pertinent matters. Both he and Mr. Johnson are urging all interested persons to attend the meeting at Chowan College. Whether the extension program will be offered will de pend entirely upon the interest shown at the meeting on Satur day, February 7. Help Needed The new staff of The Chowan- ian, listed elsewhere in this is sue, needs the help of interested students and faculty members. How about you! STUDENT LOANS; FACULTYJAISES Board to Seek NDE Funds; Other Action The recent quarterly meeting of the Chowan College Board of Trustees was climaxed when the trustees gave approval of the architect’s plans for the propos ed new $150,000 cafeteria and re-affirmed their intention to have the building ready for use this fall. Other significant actions of the board included the granting of a 10 per-cent increase for all Cho wan employees, effective July 1, 1959. The salary increases are to be met from the revenue pro vided by a $60 increase in charges for boarding students in the academic year 1959-60. The trustees voted, also, to request $10,000 for student loans from the funds made available by the National Defense Edu cation Act of 1958. This signi ficant program is to be admini stered through the colleges of the state and nation. In line with a policy many colleges and universities have adopted, Chowan’s trustees fur ther decreed that all new en- rollees in the future must be innoculated against polio before entering the college. Dr. W. Raleigh Parker of Woodland, chairman of the Cho wan College board of trustees, presented certificates of appre ciation to six retiring members of the board: H. D. White and A. L. Brandon, Rocky Mount; Mrs. W. S. Penny, Raleigh; F. H. Rountree, Sunbury; W. A. Thomas, Cofield; and Wait Brewer, Wake Forest. Information Given On Student Loans By CLAUDE F. GADDY Executive Secretary Council on Christian Education In the weeks immediately a- head of us we shall be hearing a great deal about the National Defense Education Act and its benefits for our young people in North Carolina. In the following statement I want to bring to the attention of our Baptist young people in North Carolina some of the benefits which will be most meaningful to them. The one of major importancf is known as Title II which will make available “loans to stud ents in institutions of Higher Ed ucation.” Beginning with the second semester of this college year, it will be possible for stu dents enrolled in our colleges to secure loans under very attrac tive conditions. The limited funds that have been made available for the remainder of this college year will not be sufficient to meet all the needs, but it is like ly that additional appropriations will be made to increase these funds for the beginning of next college year, September, 1959. It is anticipated that in the near future it will be possible for “worthy and needy students” to borrow as much as $1,000 per year for as many as five years in college. The Congress of the United States has authorized these loan funds to be made to individual students and the loans will be handled through the college which the student attends. These loans will bear no interest until repayment begins and the bor rower need not begin repayment until he has been out of school for one year. At the end of this one year out of college, the loan will begin to bear interest at the rate of 3 per-cent. Both interest and principal can be repaid in 10 annual payments or more quick ly if the borrower wishes. Another attractive feature about these educational loans for students is a provision that if he or she “becomes a full-time teacher in a public elementary or secondary school, up to one- half of the loan (plus the interest on the loan) will be forgiven at the rate of 10 per-cent a year. That is, five years of teaching can repay one-half of the loan. ’’This provision in the Act is ENROLLMENT FOR SEMESTER IS 405 Four hundred and five stu dents have enrolled for the Fall semester, according to records in the bursars office. Included m this number are 38 new en- rollees and six special students. There were 407 enrolled for the first semester. There are 96 girls and 309 boys. Of these 353 are boarding students; 336 are living on com- pus. On campus there are eleven different religious denominations represented: Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Christian, Luther- ian, Morma, Moravian, Church of Christ, Free Will, Catholic and Episcopalian. Prospects for a continued in creasing enrollment are very good, according to Rev. Ross Cadle, Director of Admissions. He said a large freshman class this term will mean some 210 returnees next Fall, and the ever increasing demand for higher education should result in a lar ger enrollment for 1959-60. Mr. Cadle has visited some 71 high schools and talked with probably 1500 seniors and jun iors who have asked for infor mation about Chowan. intended to encourage many of our fine young people to prepare themselves for teaching in the public schools. Our seven Baptist colleges in North Carolina are now working out their plans for helping their students secure these loans as they may be needed. It will take some time for all the details to be cleared and it is certain that the present limited appropriation of funds will not permit the granting of all who will request loans for the second semester of this college year. This pro vision for loans to “worthy and needy students” will be most fortunate for those of our fine Baptist young people who have heretofore been unable to finance their college education. It is sound in that it will make it pos sible for a student to secure his college education and pay for it following graduation through his own work and services to so ciety. In many respects this new Federal legislation embodies all the good features of former pro grams for aiding college stu dents and comes at a most op portune time for the great “tidal wave” of college youth in North Carolina.—Biblical Recorder. On Wednesday, January 28, the students of Chowan College heard an address by Dr. Robert W. Kicklighter, who was the speaker for the opening Convoca- tional chapel program of the second semester. Dr. Kicklighter is pastor of the Blackwell Memorial Baptist Church in Elizabeth City and is a graduate of Stetson Univer sity of Deland, Florida. He holds the B.D. and Th.D. degree from the Southern Baptist Theology Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Chowan College and was elected as Elizabeth Citv’s “Man of the year.” ■The topic of Dr. Kicklighter’s address was “An Adventurous Faith for Young People.” He pointed out how young people seeked adventure more than se curity in our world today. Also, he stated that the student who comes to Chowan learns facts a- bout the Bible which were never revealed to him by a Sunday School teacher. This is done by learning to read the Bible as it really should be read. Thus the student has a better under standing of what he reads. Campaign Fund Nears New Goal At a recent report meeting workers m the current Chowan College campaign for funds to begm construction on a new cafeteria building reported a gain of about $4800. The cam paign goal of $100,000 is now only $26,500 away. This means that since the cam paign was resumed last Fall under the direction of The Rev Oscar Creech, some $73,500 in pledges and donations have been secured. The group also formulated plans for “Operation Victory” a special sohcitation to raise the funds necessary for the achieve ment of the goal. On Thursday, February 26, twenty-five two- member teams will make an all-out effort to raise the remain- mg $26,500. Club Speaker Bill Sowell, instructor in the Graphic Arts Department of Chowan College, was guest speaker at the Exchange Club on Monday night, Jan. 12. He was presented by Glynn McFad- den, program chairman. Sowell talked on the history of the Roy Parker School of Print ing and told the value of the equipment in the school now and about the courses offered and the placement of graduates.
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