Chowan Post Office Small Only
In Floor Space; Work Load Is Big
POST OFFICE WORKERS—Roy Mitchell, left, and Wallace Guilford
right, are shown as they "sort out" mail to be deposited in the
student boxes located in the Student Center.
Chowan Elected Member of
College Entrance Exam Board
INCORRECT ADDRESS — Student worker Roy Mitchell is assorting
2nd class mail which has been improperly addressed. Special care
should be taken in giving correct addresses to assure prompt
service.
Luboff Choir Presents
Best Performance Yet
Chowan College was recently
elected to membership in the Col
lege Entrance Examination Board.
The action was announced follow
ing the recent meeting of the
Board in Chicago, Illinois.
Membership in the Board is open
to all qualified institutions and en
ables a college to participate in
the formulation and operation of
the Board program. An institu
tion of higher education is eligi
ble for election to Board mem
bership if it is a member of the
appropriate regional accrediting
association and is making regular
and substantial use of the Board’s
tests and other services. Chowan
currently requires that a student
take the CEEB before registration.
W. C. Morrisette, Dean of Cho-
On Tuesday, November 19 rep
resentative Herbert C. Bonner, of
the First District extended remarks
related to the growth and develop
ment of Chowan College to the
House of Representatives.
The extension of Mr. Bonner's
remarks are recorded on pages
A7148-49 of the Congressional Re
cord. Mr. Bonner, addressing the
ART in this issue
Our Christmas cover was drawn
by Faye Jones, a liberal arts fresh
man from Greenville, and a CHO-
WANIAN staffer. The back of the
cover is the art work of Gloria
Dean Barnes of Jackson. She is a
student in the School of Graphic
Arts.
Gloria Dean is the artist who
drew the portrait of President Ken
nedy which appears on the editori
al page. She is the art director of
THE CHOWANIAN. Predictions are
that there is quite a future ahead
for this young lady in the art world.
wan College, has been named in
stitutional representative. James
R. Masters, Registrar at Chowan,
has been named institutional ex
aminer for the CEEB’s institu
tional admissions testing program.
This program, which is replacing
the Summer Scholastic Aptitude
Program, began on June 1, 1963.
As institutional examiner. Masters
will have full responsibility for ad
ministering the p.'-ogram at Chowan
College.
Morrisette, as institutional rep
resentative, will represent Chowan
College at the meetings of the
Board which are held at least
once annually. Also, regional meet
ings of colleges and schools are
held to review the problems of
admissions ti colleges under the
sponsorship of the CEEB.
speaker, said "Under unanimous
consent, I include in the Appendix
of the Record an editorial which
appeared in the Herald. Ahoskie,
N. C., entitled “A Million-Dollar
Enterprise.” The editorial des
cribes the growth of Chowan Col
lege in Murfreesboro, North Caro
lina, which is in my Congressional
District.”
The editorial pointed out that
Chowan College began its 115 year
on a budget twice that of Hertford
County. The budget for 1964-65 is
one million dollars. Also, the stu
dent enrollment was listed at 967
which is slightly less than the total
1960 population of Winton and Har-
rellsville combined. The editorial
stated “Quite a showing for an in
stitution that had been pronounced
dead in the 1940’s with burial in
the form of selling its property be
ing considered”. Other facts are
included which point out the ser
vice of the college to the entire
area.
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The only people you should try
to get even with are those who
have helped you.
There is more work behind re
ceiving a letter than might be an
ticipated. The Chowan College post
office is not as large as a regular
city post office but much of the
processing is the same, only on a
smaller scale.
The mail comes in from the
Murfreesboro post office at 9 A.M.
in mail bags. These are filled
with everything marked Chowan
College. The mail in these bags
arc in no special order.
The mail then has to be taken
from the bags and assorted ac
cording to class rating. All 2nd
class mail is compiled first. This
includes mail for the library (news
papers, magazines, books, etc.),
faculty and administration, and
student newspapers and maga
zines. The second class mail is
then placed into the boxes.
There is quite a large amount
of 2nd class mail. Many students
receive their hometown newspapers
as well as sports and news mag
azines.
Next the first class mail is as
sorted. First class mail consists
mainly of personal letters to the
individual students. The letters are
assorted according to box numbers
then put in the boxes.
Packages
After all the foregoing mail is
placed in the proper boxes, stu
dent post office workers turn their
attention to the packages received.
These come in with the regular
mail.
Slips are made out to the re
ceiving parties and placed in the
boxes. Then the packages are
given to Mrs. Bowling at the stu
dent book store. This is done so
that the students may acquire
their packages at any time during
the day and not at special hours
as it might be if left in the post
office itself.
After the packages are "put up”
all letters without box numbers
are gathered together. Then a
search on the special student-box
number chart reveals the siu-
dent's box and the mail is placed.
Call-in slips, library notices for
overdue book fines, and other spe
cial college-to-student notices are
assorted and distributed to proper
boxes at 6 P. M. No other mail is
placed at this time.
Week-End Clean Up
During the morning on Saturday,
all boxes are checked for mis
placed letters with incorrect box
numbers.
Wrong box numbers may mean a
weeks delay of much-wanted letters
so make sure all acquaintances are
in possession of your proper ad
dress.
The mail comes in only once a
day — 9 A.M. It is carried out
twice a day — 9 A.M. and 4:30 P.M.
No mail is delivered or sent on Sun
day.
Former Astronaut
Instructor Speaker
At Chapel Service
Dr. James W. Batten, a former
instructor of the American Astro
nauts, spoke at Chowan College on
December 2 on topics related to
astrophysics and space travel.
Dr. Batten spoke in the college
auditorium at 8:00 p.m. He came
to Chowan College through the aus
pices of the Chowan College Pub
lic Entertainment Committee. Mr.
Eugene Williams is chairman.
Other members of the Chowan Col
lege Committee are: Mr. Wallace,
Mr. Baumgartner, Miss Wood, Mrs.
Bowling, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Jeanes,
and Mr. Stewart.
The speaker holds the A. B.,
M. A., and Ed. D. degrees from the
University of North Ctrolina. He
has done graduate study at Colum
bia University and the University
of California at Berkeley. Chowan
students and friends of the college
are cordially invited to attend.
LUBOFF CHOIR— The most pro
fessional group of entertainers ever
to appear in the Chowan College
concert series program gave the
best performance yet heard to the
largest audience to date in the se
ries’ history Wed., Nov 20.
That’s a lot of superlatives, but
then so was the performance.
The entertainers were the Nor
man Luboff Choir with Luboff con
ducting.
Study, Travel
Offered Under
New Program
For most American college
students, summer is a time of
either gainful employment or un
interrupted leisure. But for the
approximately 250 students who
will participate in Michigan State
University’s AMLEC program, the
summer of 1964 will be a time
of language study and travel in
Europe.
AMLEC, the American Lan-
and E-d u c a t i o n Ce.nter, co
operates with a non-profit Swiss
foundation to offer college students
an inexpensive oportuni y to study
Spani.sh, German, French and
Italian, while immersed in the cul
ture and daily life of the countries
in which these languages are
spoken.
During the summer of 1963 , 243
students, representing 64 Ameri
can colleges and universities,
participated in this MSU program.
They spent six weeks studying
language and culture, and then
travelled for three more weeks
before returning home.
F. J. Mortimore, AMLEC direc
tor, reports that, "Amerian univer
sity students are perhaps the best
goodwill ambassadors this country
can send abroad.
"European students with whom
the Americans attended classes
and social functions were nearly
unanimous in their praise of our
students.”
Commenting on the educational
benefits for American students at
tending the program, Mortimore
observed that, "the students re
turning with me from Europe
were a great deal more sophis
ticated than the students whom
I had taken to Europe only nine
weeks earlier.”
Further information regarding
this MSU summer language pro
gram can t^e obtained by writing
AMLEC, Michigan State Univers
ity, East Lansing, Michigan.
At one point in the program,
while referring to his sterling per
cussionist Marvin Uniman, Luboff
s; ii “sometimes I have the feel
ing I’m working for him.” He
may, but Wednesday night the 27
voice choir and four instrumenta
lists were working for Luboff to
perfection.
In a program that began with
classical sacred works sung a-cap-
pelia and ending up with accom
panied folk music, hootenanny
and everything in between.
Of the classical sections the
“Magnificant” by Pergolesi was
longest and one of the best works
presented.
A number of the more popular
pieces were enthusiastically ap
plauded by the near capacity au
dience in the Columns building
auditorium. Especially noteworthy
were the calypso tune “Yellow
Bird ”, written by the conductor,
and the spiritual Kyrie from“Afri-
can Mass ” in which bass Paul Ber
gen gave the outstanding individual
performance of the night.
Bergen’s individual effort was
the mo. e dramatic and memorable
because he was performing on
crutches.
Another outstanding number was
Luboff’s arrangement of the spiri
tual “Steal Away” done in modern
idiom with steel guitar accom
paniment.
The performers were given a
standing ovation at the end of the
program. First encore, “Dixie”,
was also loudly applauded.
Writer Says It
Takes A Lifetime
To Write Col umn
(ACPI — It takes a lifetime to
write a human interest column, Hal
Boyle told THE DAILY COLLEG
IAN, Wayne State University, De
troit, Michigan. By that, the Asso
ciated Press columnist meant he
tries to capture his interviewees’
ideas on life, which normally takes
years to take shape.
“I like to find out what lesson
they’ve learned in life,” Boyle said,
after delivering a Journalism Day
lecture. “1 like to find out some
thing that will have an enduring
quality on my readers. Everyone
has a story worth telling that has
real interest to every other human
being.”
It doesn't take much to be a col
umnist, he said. “All you have to
do is sit down at the typewriter,
split a vein and bleed.”
Boyle said he would like his own
epitaph to read: “To be continued.”
Editorial on Chowan Printed
In Congressional Record
FOR DECEMBER, 1963