THE CHOWANIAN, OCTOBER 1959
Dr. William C Young Chaplain,
Counselor For Chowan College
With the coming of Dr. Young
as College Chaplain and Coun
selor, special counseling serv
ices will now be available for
students, faculty, and staff.
The offices, formerly occupied
by Mrs. Whitaker and Miss
White have been renovated into
a counseling suite. The arrange
ment, recommended by profes
sional counselors, is a two-room
arrangement. Each room has a
window and a door, with a door
between the two rooms. A per
son may enter or leave either
room privately. The doors are
hinged and the furniture so
arranged that a person in the
counseling office is afforded
privacy at all times.
The larger office, referred to
as the conference room, will be
available for student confer
ences, discussion groups, im
provement groups, and for
group counseling acitvity.
Dr. Young has indicated that
he will be available for counsel
ing both by appointment and on
contact, and will provide coun
seling hours during the day
and also at night. Times con
venient to the student will be
worked out by the students in
volved. “Counseling,” he states,
“is not necessarily a function
for those who are having emo
tional, mental, or physical dif
ficulty. Counseling is an oppor
tunity for the successfully func
tioning person to improve his
mental, his emotional, and his
physical state.” He feels that
most of his counseling will be
with those who are already well
adjusted, and who desire to be
come better persons. “Maturi
ty,” Dr. Young states, “often
begins when a person begins to
understand that there is room
for growth and improvement,
and begins to reason as he re
gards his interpersonal rela
tionships, vocational opportuni
ties, and philosophical motiva
tions.”
Many psychological tests will
be made available for those de
siring to take them, and thor
ough evaluations will be made.
The purpose of tests will be to
show strengths and areas for
growth improvement. Various
inventories will be available to
indicate parental and environ
mental relating so that better
understanding of sociological
states might be made.
Seven types of counseling
will be made available at this
time. There will be religious
counseling given, which will be
an attempt to help develop a
better understanding of a per
son’s relationship to the Creator.
The involved student will be al
lowed freedom to try to find
ultimate truth and relate it to
a better way of life. This v/ill
be an attempt to find the true
and lasting happiness. It will
mean understanding present
actions as related to the total
life span.
A second type of counseling
opportunity will deal with the
multiphasic problems and crises
that affect developmental life.
A person, through his own re
sources, will be able to face
with reality the past, present,
and future unrealities of his
life and those individuals as
sociated with him. If desired,
tests and inventories will be
given so that he might see how
impersonal and interpersonal
experiences have shaped his
present personality pattern.
Pre-marital counseling will be
made available for those who
are making definite plans to be
married. Such talk sessions arc
designed to give a better un
derstanding of the marital re
lationship, and provide under
standing so that necessary mar
ital adjustment might be made
easier, and married life
might be made happier. Such
counseling may involve either,
or both of the persons involved,
and understanding of each other
will be a major activity of this
type of counseling.
Some individuals who come to
Chowan are married, and due
to the added burden and re
sponsibility of classes and class-
work, have an extreme amount
of personality demands which
increase tension and anxiety.
Also, marital adjustment may
not be complete and more
understanding is desired and
needed. Married couples mature
enough to involve themselves in
this type of activity will be able
to consider and improve marital
success and happiness.
A lot of fun and understanding
of others is made possible by
discussion groups which are al
lowed to come together and
talk about anything that they
so desire. There is a lot of good
natured banter and argumenta
tion that promotes a better
understanding of people by
seeking to understand particu
lar, and sometimes , unique,
viewpoints.
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OUTSTANDING STUDENTS - At the close of school last year, a program was held in the audito
rium to give recognition to the outstanding students at Chowan College. Here they are, left to
right, first row: Willie Lee Harris, highest scholastic average (sophomore); Delores Hill, high
est scholastic average (freshman); Carolyn Holliday, highest scholastic average (freshman); and
Rebecca Powers, Mary Pearce music scholarship. Back row, left to right, Billy Ray Godwin, Joe
Parker award for outstanding sophomore in Graphic Arts; Jimmy Elks, best all-around athlete;
Warren Bryant, John AAcSweeney award for outstanding freshman in Graphic Arts; Manly Dunlow,
superior citizenship award; Norman Phillips, best all-around student; and John Whitley, most
outstanding contribution to religious life of campus and community.
Quit Squawking Many Books in College Library
Have Been Made Into Movies
We would like to ask you,
the students of Chowan College
why you complain about the
food that is served? Some of us
heard these complaints last
year, and we didn’t like to hear
them.
One of the common com
plaints is, “I don’t want any of
that slop.” Why, then, do you
try to slip more food when no
one is looking or you return and
ask for seconds or thirds?
You can’t go anywhere else
and buy a balanced meal for the
price you pay for those served
at Chowan.
Don’t complain to the people
serving you because they are
doing their best.
Remember, they are only hu
man. What about you????
The following books have been
made into great movies. These
books, along with many others,
can be found in Chowan College
Library.
has never lost its immense pop
ular appeal.
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A VALUABLE GIFT - This Monotype has been donated to the
Roy Parker School of Printing at Chowan College by Parker
Brothers, Inc., of Ahoskie, Windsor, Rich Square, and Gatesville.
It has a sales value of $1,500.00 and will save the school a great
deal in cost of spacing materials, which this machine makes. It
also makes type, which is added saving.
Help Needed
The new staff of The Chowan-
ian listed elsewhere in this issue,
needs the help of interested
students and faculity members.
How about you!
Perhaps the most definite and
far reaching type of talking ac
tivity is the “Improvement
Type” of group counseling. In
this setting, ten or fifteen in
dividuals come together and be
gin to understand their develop
mental states, and how they get
along with each other in the
group and in society. A lot of
deep level introspection is done.
Projective techniques, such as
dream analysis, projective
drawings, and various tests are
given and critiqued in the
group. The group leader at
tempts to show how actions of
individuals are governed by per
sonality need. A lot of develop
mental understanding is given
through a non-directed free dis
cussion period. This activity, of
course, is only for those who are
willing and able to be truthful
and mature, and who conscient
iously desire to improve their
manner of thinking and behav
ior.
Since the College Counselor
is not related to disciplinarian
committees, he will not exercise
discipline in any manner, and
all tests and verbalizations are
strictly confidential.
Ben Hur, A Tale of the
Christ— A best-selling histor
ical novel by Lew Wallace. The
hero is Judah Ben Hur, heir of
a rich Jewish family, by acci
dent responsible for injury to
the new Roman governor by a
falling tile. His quondam friend
Messala assuces him of treason
and he is sent to the gaUeys.
It is years before he escapes.
In the course of the novel John
the Baptist and Jesus are in
troduced. The most famous of
the many adventuresome epi
sodes of the book is the chariot
race in which Ben Hur defeats
his old friend and enemy Mes
sala. First published in 1880, it
became an immediate and spec
tacular best seller and has been
a popular favorite ever since.
Was one of the greatest movies
ever filmed.
The Hunchback of Notre-
Dame— The publication of The
Hunchback of Notre - Dame
marked the beginning of a new
era in French fiction; with it,
Victor Hugo struck a mighty
blow for the new Romanticism.
With the mingled violence,
broad humor and strange Goth
ic beauty of medieval Paris as
a background, the tale of the
deformed giant Quasimodo un
folds in a welter of excitement
and passion. Under Hugo’s spell,
we hear again the thunder of the
bells of Notre-Dame; we see the
gipsy dancer La Esmeralda as
she whirls in the midst of a
Paros mob; we hear the roar of
the army of gipsies, vagabonds
and thieves attacking the great
doors of the cathedral; and we
feel the desperation of the priest
Claude Frollo as he jeopard
izes his soul for the gipsy. Com
pounded of the grandeur and the
degradation of one of the most
colorful epochs of French his
tory, written with all the vigor
and brilliance of Hugo’s story
telling genius. The Hunchback
of Notre-Dame, written in 1831
Quo Vadis— A historical nov
el by Henryk Sienkiewicz, writ
ten in 1895, dealing with the
Rome of Nero and the early
Christian martyrs. The Roman
noble. Petronius, a worthy re
presentative of the dying pagan
ism, is perhaps the most inter
esting figure, and the struggle
between Christianity and pagan
ism supplies the central plot.
A succession of characters and
episodes and, above all, the rich
ly colorful, decadent life of an
cient Rome give the novel its
chief interest. The beautiful
Christian Lygia is the object of
unwelcome attentions from Vin-
icius, one of the Emperor’s
guards, and when she refuses to
yield to his importunities, she is
denounced and thrown to the
wild beasts of the arena. She
escapes and eventually marries
Vinicius, whom Peter and Paul
have converted to Christianity.
The Nun's Story— A true nar
rative of the dedicated life of
Kathryn Cavarly Hulme. Con
vent life, with its rigors and its
compensations, has seldom
been as fairly depicted as in this
biographical account. An un
happy love affair was one of the
reasons Gabrielle Van der
Mai (fictitious name) entered
a convent in Belgium, but her
love of God and desire to serve
her fellow men were also im
portant influences. For 17 years
she tried diligently to discipline
her analytical and independent
mind through prayer and hard
work as a nurse, first in a hos
pital for the insane, then in a
Congo mission, and finally in a
TB sanatorium in occupied Hol
land. Ultimately, she faced the
bitter truth that the religious
life, with its inflexible authority,
was not for her, and she was re
leased from her vows.
It is sad, but the fact is that
men need women, at all ages.
What I really think, 1 don’t
always care to say, much less
^rite.