Alumni Edition
Profile of an Alumnus
Frank’s enrollment at Chowan
College was made possible by
scholarships from the Hallie Baker
Trust Fund and the Raleigh Cho
wan Club, an affiliate of the Alum
ni Association. He said "I shall
be eternally grateful to the people
who made this financial help avail
able.” He worked on a student
work grant in the Chowan Col
lege Development Fund Office Dur
ing the 1957 campaign. His extra
curricular activity included serving
as sports editor of the Chowan-
ian and the Chowanoka, and the
presidency of the men’s judic
iary. As a result of Ashfield’s
participation in student life and
his extended services to the col
lege he was awarded, in 1958, the
citizenship award.
In September of 1958 Ashfield
enrolled at the University of North
Carolina. He celebrated a special
Christmas season that year for
he was married to a former clas-
mate, Sara Margaret Crisp, of
Mooresville, North Carolina. After
receiving the Batchelor of Arts
in Education from the University
in 1960, he took a position teaching
high school social studies in Cum
berland County. Then, in June of
1961, Mr. & Mrs. Ashfield re
turned to Chapel Hill where he
enrolled as a graduate student in
American History. He has com
pleted the course requirements for
M.A. degree and is currently work
ing on his thesis. He said “Rather
than stop after the first year of
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MEMORIES; — So many of you former students will recall vi'itl->
varying emotions this beautiful walkway that leads from the
Columns building to the Gate. Remember "Lover's Lane?" You bet!
Chowan Elected Member of
College Entrance Exam Board
Chowan College was recently
elected to membership in the Col
lege Entrance Examination Board.
The action was announced follow
ing a 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. Any 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 CKEB before registration.
W. C. Morrisette, Dean of Cho
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 program 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 to colleges under the
sponsorship of the CEEB.
Frank Y. Ashfield became a
Chowanian in January 1956 and
graduated in June 1958. He is a
native of Ahoskie.
Back On Campus
(ACP)-Paris declared it, so the
weird look is back on campus, not
THE COLLEGIAN, Fresno State
College (California).
For instance, those little wooden
heels on the females’ footgear.
Even if the girl is flat, her heels
are bound to be stacked. The only
advantage we've noticed so far
is that they tend to discourage
freshmen (as well as, fortunately
or unfortunately, fresh men).
Then there is fake fur, the hot
test thing since red flannel. Girls
who would just as soon live in a
cave and eat mastodon meat as
wear the skin of a deceased horse
now show up sporting “phony
pony," to say nothing of synthetic
skunk, imitation monkey and pseu
do-rat.
Really noticeable are what we
used to call "sack dresses" back
in the good old days of Elvis
Presley and “The Chicken" (it was
a dance, kiddies). Well, actually
we called them chemises; “sacks"
was a term used by fathers, and
boy friends, husbands and come
dians, the latter being a group in
cluding all of the other groups.
FRANK Y. ASHFIELD
graduate study and complete the
masters program, I have contin
ued on with course work toward
the Ph.D. Next semester I will
devote my entire time to research
on my masters thesis.” This will
make him eligible to receive the
M.A. this summer. By that time
he will have completed a portion
of his requirements for the Ph.D.
During the time of his graduate
study he has been awarded mem
bership in Phi Alpha Theta, the
national honorary history society.
Frank Ashfield will be the first
to admit that graduate study does
not leave much leisure time, but
he has taken that time with a
part-time job at which he works
approximately twenty-five hours
each week. Mrs. Ashfield is also
getting a kind of degree ( some
call it the P.H.T. or putting hubby
through degree). She’s employed
as a medical technologist at North
Carolina Memorial Hospital in Cha
pel Hill. Her course work at
Chowan, incidentially, was the
two-year medical technologist pre
preparatory program.
The Ashfields, at present, are
caught up in anticipation of what
this new year will bring. They
both hope to “put down roots” in
some community. Frank plans to
find a teaching position upon the
completion of his work at Chapel
Hill.
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Editors note:
Mr. and Mrs. Ashfield were re
cent visitors on the Chowan cam
pus. During that visit they con
tributed six books to the Chowan
College library. Mrs. Neva Camp
bell, librarian, has expressed ap
preciation to the Ashfields for this
expression of interest.
We proudly solute Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Y. Ashfield, both former
Chowanians, who have done well
on their acedemic march. Our best
wishes go to them as they seek
out their place of service.
WHITEHURST PROVES POPULAR SPEAKER - Dr. G. William
Whitehurst, Dean of Students and Associate Professor of History at
Old Dominion College, Norfolk, Virginia, has proved to be on? of
the most popular speakers in Chowan College's current semester
series of chapel-assembly programs. Shown with Dr. Whitehurst
are, left to right, Frank Casper, Pat Shuffler, Virgil McBride, Dr.
Whitehurst, and George Archibald. Using as his subject, "'''he
Sino-Soviet Controversy and the Evolution of Western Com
munism," Dr. Whitehurst made of current history a live and livelv
subject for his hearers. A member of the Public Affairs and News
Department of WTAR-TV, and host of the program, "Dr. William
Whitehurst Reports," Professor Whitehurst has indebted Chov/an
students and faculty to him for sharing with them his grasp of
the significance of current events in such a personable and intri
guing manner. He appeared at Chowan on January 10.
Former Chowan Professor To
Teach At Florida College
WINTER PARK, FLA.-Miss
Catherine Elizabeth Moore has
been appointed an instructor in
English at Rollins Colege for the
academic year 1963-64.
Miss Moore received her B. A.
degree in 1950 from Meredith Col
lege, Raleig,h N, C. and her M.
A. in English literature in 1954
from the University of North Caro
lina, where she is presently stud-
ing to complete requirements for
a Ph. D. degree.
The new member of the Rollins
English faculty has previously
taught at Chowan Junior College.
Murfreesboro, N. C.. from 1954-55
From 1955-58, she was an assis
tant professor of English at Short
er College, Rome, Ga., and from
1958-60 she served as a part-time
instructor of English at the Uni
versity of North Carolina.
While an undergraduate at
Meredith College, Miss Moore was
the recipient of a freshman alum
nae scholarship, a member of the
honor society, and a member of an
honorary scholarship society. She
was listed in the Who’s Who in
American Colleges and Universi
ties.
The new Rollins instructor,
whose specialty is 18th Century
literature, is a member of the
Modern Languages Assn. and the
South Atlantic Modern Languages
Association.
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