THE CHOWANIAN OCTOBER, 1959
THE CHOWANIAN
Published monthly by the students of Chowan College, Murfreesboro, N. C., a
standard Junior College controlled by the North Carolina Baptist State Convention
and founded in 1848. Printed, designed and edited by the students and faculty
of the Roy Parker School of Printing at Chowan College. Changes of address
notices should be sent to The Chowanian, Chowan College, Murfreesboro, N. C.
Second class postage paid at Murfreesboro, North Carolina.
THE STAFF
Editors-in-Chief
RAYMOND JAMES
WAYNE ALFORD
GENEVA CONGLETON
Associate Editors
WILLIAM "BLUE"SHARBER JANICE WHITE
News Editors
BARBARA BYRD LOIS "BUNNY" JONES
Feature Reporters
AUDREY MARRINER DELORES HILL
JOHN GRIFFIN
Sports Editors
KAREL WEST
LORRAINE HARRIS
Staff Photographers
THOMAS W. THOMAS WILLIAM PATTERSON
Circulation Managers
MARVIN COOPER DAVID BEDSOLE
Reporters
DORIS EDWARDS CHARLES HERRING
KEITH ABBOTT BILL WELCH
Faculty Advisors
JOHN McSWEENEY
HAROLD F. BROWN WILLIAM B. SOWELL
GENE EASON
MISS WHITE
The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent
one from another. Genesis 31:49
A Message From The President
It is my privilege again through our newspaper to wel
come you to the campus of Chowan College. My hope is
that this will prove to be a good year for each and every
one of you on every level of life and activity. At the outset,
I want to challenge our student body to make this a
“friendly campus”. If we maintain a warm, friendly and
congenial campus atmosphere, each new day will prove
to be a challenging and joyful one. Moreover, I want our
college family to he considerate and friendly in all con
tacts with permanent residents of Murfreesboro, as well
as with visitors who are frequently on our campus.
I want to congratulate you upon your choice of Chowan
College as the institution where you will pursue your high
er educational experience. You have chosen well. Chowan
College is a church-related institution; it is one of the
seven colleges owned and supported by the Baptist State
Convention of North Carolina, which Convention owns and
controls its institutions through the Board of Trustees who
are elected by it for four-year terms of service.
Moreover, Chowan is a Christian college of Liberal
Arts. We are justly proud of our two vocational or termi
nal programs of Graphic Arts and Secretarial Science.
Your institution is fully accredited by the Southern Associ
ation of Colleges and Secondary Schools. If you choose a
course of study, and pursue it for four years, you will not
lose any credits when you transfer from Chowan College,
as a two-year institution, to a four-year college or
university.
Please let me challenge you to a year of academic
stewardship. Put the best you have into study, work and
play. Make it your goal to gain at least one true friend this
year, which there is no more priceless possession. Henry
Churchill King, The Laws of Friendship, Human and
Divine, has said that the basis of friendship is fourfold:
(1) integrity, breadth and depth of personality: (2) some
deep community of interests; (3) mutual self-revelation
and answering trust; and, (4) mutual self-giving. There
is no greater capacity than the capacity to grow, and be a
friend. The greatest gift from man to man is friendship.
There is nothing you need more than friends. These need
ed friends are both human and divine.
Come to my office when I can help you. I want to get
to know each and everyone who is a part of the Chowan
College family. And remember, let us make this a friend
ly campus. , ^
—Bruce E. Whitaker, President
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WE ARE PROUD OF BOTH Miss Frances E. White, professor of
English and Religion, and Gene R. Eason of Rocky Mount, newly
elected president of the Baptist Student Union.
Miss White, for several years, directed the B. S. U. activities at
the college, and has been active in other student organizations on
the campus. She teaches in both the departments of religion and
English, as well as teaching a special course in related English
in the School of Graphic Arts. Miss White received a B. A.
degree at Radford College, a B. M. T. degree at Carver School of
Missions and Social Work, and a M. R. E. degree at Presbyterian
General Assembly Training School.
For her interest in the students and in their welfare, Miss
White is extended The Chowanian's commendation.
Gene Eason, a sophomore, has recently succeeded the Rev.
James Layton as President of the B. S. U. He was vice president
last term, Gene is majoring in English with a minor in history.
After graduating from Chowan he plans to further his education
at East Carolina College.
Gene is a leader among the students at Chowan and a fine
influence on the campus. The Chowanian staff extends good wish
es, and congratulates Gene on his citizenship.
The support of our newspaper, and help from students
and faculty, are both needed and appreciated. In the past
years the attitude of the faculty and staff toward THE
CHOWANIAN has been very comendable. Also, the organ
izations, clubs, and students have been most cooperative.
Then, too, the individual aid given by our faculty advisors
has been of the utmost importance to each edition.
Last year, as some of you know, THE CHOWANIAN
received many very fine compliments. We all like to get
a compliment once in a while and the best way to obtain
this is to earn it. So, the staffers try to put out their best
work and so far this effort has paid off.
Many of us think that the experience received by a
staffer enables him to accept responsibility more readily.
Surely, at the college age each of us should be able to
shoulder a task like turning out a good newspaper once a
month. And the key to this is hard work and participation
in campus activities.
In this edition we want to take the opportunity to urge
more freshmen to come out and become full-fledged staf
fers. To these new staff members will go the duty of get
ting THE CHOWANIAN out next year. Let’s work, you
freshmen, and help improve our school paper.
Thirteen Buildings
Erected at Chowan
Since Reopening
FRANKLIN — Thirteen new
buildings have been erected on
the campus of Chowan College
at Murfreesboro since the col
lege reopened in 1949, Presi
dent Bruce Whitaker told the
Franklin Rotary Club.
Enrollment at the school, lo
cated about 25 miles south of
Franklin, has increased from
85 in 1949 to 455 this year.
"We hope to expand our fa
cilities until we can accom
modate 750 students,” Dr. Whit
aker said.
Dr. Whitaker was introduced
by Professor Eugene Williams,
head of Chowan’s language de
partment. Williams formerly
lived 35 years in Franklin.
Dr. Whitaker said Chowan
College was founded in 1848 as
the Chowan Baptist Female
Institute. It remained a girls’
school until 1931 when the first
male students were accepted.
The college became a two-
year school in 1937.
First classes were held in the
Mulberry Grove home of the
former Dr. Godwin Cotton
Moore. The home still stands
between Rich Square and Ahos-
kie. In 1850 the college was mov
ed to the present site in Mur
freesboro.
One of the first buildings pur
chased cost only $1,225, Whit
aker said. The first president,
Archibald McDowell, received
a salary of $750 a year. Stu
dents were charged $100 for a
five-month semester, which in
cluded room, board and tuition.
The first graduate was Miss
Annie J. Ward in 1853. The son
of an 1863 graduate. Miss Mary
O. Parker, still lives in Empor
ia today.
He is Rufus Green, 93, who in
1955 donated the money for the
erection of a science building on
the college campus.
Work Cut Out For Staff
We, the staff members of THE CHOWANIAN, realize
the importance of our assignment this year. It is important
to each of us that we continue to get out an attractive and
interesting edition each month.
Less Noise In Dorms
It has been said by some of the professors that the
noise in the dorms is not as bad as it was last year. But
is this statement true?
Take for instance, the other week in the “Big House”
there was iust as much noise, if not more, than last year.
The boys there, mostly freshmen, have been running up
and down the halls fighting with towels and any other
available ammunition. Also, there was a lot of scuffling in
the rooms and halls.
The majority of the noise was made during “quiet
hours” when everyone should have been studying. Sever
al times some of the students have walked up the steps
and heard their favorite hit records coming from a good
distance down the hall. We do not believe this noise is
intentional, but it does disturb the students who are
studying.
We don’t know about all of the other students in the
dorm, but some of us have some studying to do and we
would like to study in quiet. The ones making a lot of
noise now are making a good start for a quick exit before
much longer.
Rules of the Game
“I am giving you the ball,
son, naming you quarterback
for your team in the game of
life. I am your coach, so I’ll
give it to you straight. There
is only one schedule to play.
It lasts all your life, but consists
of only one game. It is a long
game with no time out and no
substitutions. You play the
whole game all your life.”
“You’ll have a great back-
field. You’re calling the signals,
but the other fellows in the back-
field with you have great rep
utations. They are named Faith,
Hope, and Charity.”
“You’ll work behind a truly
powerful line. End to end, it
consists of Honesty, Loyalty,
Devotion to Duty, Self-Respect,
Study, Cleanliness, and Good
Behavior.”
“The goal posts are the
pearly gates of heaven. God is
the referee and sole official. He
makes all the rules, and there
is no appeal from them. There
are ten rules. You know them
as the Ten Commandments, and
you play them strictly in accord
ance with your own religion.
There is also an important
ground rule. It is ‘as ye would
that men should do to you, do
ye also to them likewise’.”
“Here is the ball. It is yoW
immortal soul! Hold on to it'
Now, son, get in there and
let’s see what you can do with
it!”