Chowan Grad Featured
For Role in Printing Plant
SURROUNDED BY MEANINGFUL MEMENTOS OF HER RICH LIFE-
Mrs. Callie Bolton Tyler, 74-year-old recent college graduate, is seen in
academic cap and gown in her living room of her colonial home at
Branchville, Virginia.
74-Year-Old School Teacher
Completes Courses at Chowan
A 74-year-old school teacher, who
lecently completed graduation re
quirements at Chowan College, spent
52 years between college degrees.
Mrs. Callie Bolton Tyler of
Branchville, Va., graduated from
Longwood in 1915 when it was a jun
ior college and educated multitudes
of children before entering Chowan
as a student.
“Most of my teaching has been
as a regular elementary school
teacher and I have taught public
school music, as well as all seven
elementary grades," she explains,
"but I prefer teaching the first
grade.”
A talented artist and musician,
who spent many years as church
organist, she has decorated her love
ly colonial home with many of her
own oil paintings. She takes great
pride in a painting of an Arab in
native costume done during a trip
to the Holy Lands on an expedition
led by the late Dr. F. 0. Mixon, who
was Chowan’s president then.
Courses Transferred
Courses just completed at Chowan
are being transferred to Longwood,
where a dedicated teacher whose
greatest joy is “molding young lives”
is being awarded her Bachelor of
Arts degree in education.
Rare Volumes
Donated to Library
John W. White of Aulander has
contributed a set of the eleventh edi
tion, a scarce and rare edition, of the
Encyclopedia Britannica to Chowan
College’s library.
He donated these volumes in memo
ry of his father, the late Royal Ed
ward White, a surveyor who did sur
veying and topographical work for the
college.
The following is reprinted from The
Herald (Ahoskie):
“The printing industry offers a
chance for the development and use
of any kind of skill. If you are me
chanically inclined or have artistic
skill or like to sell or deal with the
public at large, you can find a good
paying job in printing.”
‘‘Not only are printers needed
in every state in the union, but
pay is set according to the level of
skill that you develop. There are
state and natoinal trade associa
tions that see that learning is a
never ending process in the indus
try.”
These thoughts express the out
look of John Powell, the assistant
superintendent of Parker Brothers,
Inc., of Ahoskie. He has been a
printer at the plant since 1957 when
he graduated from the Roy Parker
Printing School at Chowan College.
John and his wife, Joyce, are na
tives of Nash County. They find time
to serve with their church and in
their community. John is a past
president and secretary of the Barac-
ca Sunday School Class at the First
Baptist Church while Joyce works
with the Training Union.
John is active also in the Jay-
cees as a director and editor of the
Jaycees’ newsletter. He has served
as vice-president.
Before going to college John serv
ed four years in the Navy.
He has two daughters, Teresa, 9,
and Johnna, 5. They live at 513 Gar
rett Street in Ahoskie.
The biggest thrill in printing, says
John, is to see the finished product,
for each new job presents new and
varied technological problems. The
work is va'-'ed and never becomes
loutine or boring. A wide range of
new materials, machinery and tech
niques are available each year and
it takes a mind full of curiosity and
energy just to keep up witli the
changes in the industry.
The company allows employees
to attend trade organization meet
ings where they can see new ma
chines and learn industrial techni
ques that increase their skills.
“After all, the whole range of print
ing industries make our craft the
fifth largest industry in the United
States and therefore I have never
considered changing my occupation
and I believe that any high school
graduate would do well to consider
the opportunities offered in the great
industry,” he says.
John Powell takes pride in his af
filiation with the printing trades and
his associates in the shop and in
the company take similar pride in
him and his contribution to Parker
Brothers, Inc., and the community
of Ahoskie.
Alpha Pi News
The Chowan College Chapter of the
Alpha Pi Epsilon has had many mon
ey-making projects. Before Christ
mas vacation, the club members made
Christmas stockings which were sold
at $1 apiece. We also had a service
project Saturday, December 10, on
which questionaires were typed for
Chapel on December 15. Our other
money-making project was selling
candy. Each member was given
twenty-nine bars to sell.
John Powell, Assistant Superintendent, Parker Brothers Newspapers,
and his family, Johnna, Joyce, Teresa
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