Alumni Section
THE CHOWANIAN
VOL. 17 No. 7.
FOR APRII^MAY; 1968
• David Brinkley Featured Speaker
• Children's Theatre Tour Successful
• Cagers End Thrilling Ball Season
• Chowan Host Youths This Summer
BACCALAUREATE ADDRESS—The
President of the Baptist State Con
vention of North Carolina, Dr. Claud
B. Bowen, left will deliver the
baccalaureate sermon at Chowan on
May 12. He is pastor of Greensboro’s
First Baptist Church.
Drs. Scales, Bowen to
Address Graduates
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Candidates For Graduation
General Clerical Diploma
Consuelo Diane Garcia
Sylvia Ellen McGee
Mary Deborah May
Graphic Arts Diploma
Roger Louis Edwards
James Palmer Foster
Forrest Dale Gibson
Edward Byron Hicks
Virgil Elmer Jockisch, Jr.
Douglas Edward Keeter, Jr.
Lawrence Mitchell Lancaster
Fred Conrad Michael
Haywood Leslie Pearson, Jr.
Robert Wayne Perry
White C. “Bo” Pharr, Jr.
Jack Johnston Williams, III
Teletypesetter Perforator
Operator
Karen Lynne Hall
Wanda Mae Ingle
Secretarial Science Diploma
Alice Elizabeth Baines
Shirley Elizabeth Barnes
Linda Faye Boone
Carol Jean Daves
Brenda Elaine Davis
Mabel Lynn Dilday
Geraldine Hunt Ferguson
Janice Faye Flythe
Carol Alice Forbes
Eva Florence Hall
Linda Joyce Montie
Judith Dianne Moss
Glenda Inez Ormond
Virginia Jo Perry
Linda Diane Ricks
Barbara Ann Storey
Renea Alphin Vann
Suzanne Dail Whitehurst
Barbara Ann Williams
Associate in Accounting Degree
Franklin Earl Benthall
Janie Wilson Davis
Mary Elizabeth Grissom
Beverly Jean Watson
Associate in Engineering
Degree
Roger Edward Brunell
George Woodrow Gurley
Ernest Glenwood Jones, Jr.
Glen Wilson McGhee
Dudley Carroll Vann
Richard Bly Williams
Associate in Business
Administration Degree
Jerry Lee, Barkley
John Wright Blake
William Rock Bryant
Edward Wayne Carr
Edward Donald Chandler
David Lealand Carr
Edward Morgan Culliton
Braxton Bragg Dawson, Jr.
Alan Curtis Edwards
Hassell Junius Harris, Jr.
Cecil Sherwood Hollomon, Jr.
Ronald Lee Holt
Daniel Wayne Howell
Clifton Thomas Joyner
Allen Ovid Keene
Edwin Lee Legg
James Russell Lewis
Thomas Edison McGee, Jr.
Joseph C. MacPhail, Jr.
James Holloman O’Berry
James Kelly Pennington
James Lawrence Potter
Mills Robert Pulley, III
Hubert McNaughton Riddick
William Frederick Schwartz
William Bowman Snyder
Benjamin Bascom Ussery, Jr.
Richard Thomas Vann, Jr.
Verlon Barry Wilson
Associate in Business Education
Carol Jean Carneal
Charlotte Ann Clark
Betty Lou Gibbs
Deborah Gail Hopkins
Louise Adele Jernigan
Meredith Ellen Schoonover
Associate in Liberal Arts
Patricia Cecilia Annunziata
Linda Lou Bullock
John William Curtis, HI
William Edward Darby
Margaret Shores Farley
Mary Margaret Ferguson
Glen Alan Greening
Julia Anna Griffin
Donald Wayne Gupton
Linda Diane Guy
Jeanne Renee Hawthorne
Brian Ries Hirschler
John Lawrence Huber
David Chambers Lawson, Jr.
David Archer McCauley
James Brown Miller
Janet Kay Morris
Julian Rudolph Morton, Jr.
Constance Ann Post
Larry Arthur Stancill
William Walker Ware. IV
Raymond Lee Wimbrough
Ernest Carl Witt
Associate in Secretarial Science
Degree
Paula Annette Bedgood
Cynthia Kay Bottoms
Donna Ray Brame
Sandra Deane Burkarth
Martha Lacy Doughtie
Shirley Lynn Dawson
Gloria Patricia Edwards
Annette Harris Lee
Aimee Jeanne Oatman
Patricia Lea Pope
Doris Elaine Robinson
Dayle Darlyne Young
Associate in Science
Floyd Wilson Abernathy, Jr.
Charles Rives Brinkley, Jr.
Terance Spencer Adams
Armid Edward Allen
Howard Vincent Bounds, III
Diana Lynn Boykin
Raymond Victor Burton
Roger Lee Hudson
Frederick Leroy Huffstetler
John Mapp Johnson
Marvin Edward Morris, Jr.
Donald Ray Smith
Daniel Wayne Walter
James Sterling Wells, Jr.
Associate in Education Degree
Eddie Virginius Bage
Albert Wayne Beale
Thomas Emmett Bolton
Louis Ray Brown, Jr.
John Ellis Bryant, Jr.
Fanny Lue Byrd
Willis Edwin Cobb, HI
Clyde Wesley Copeland, Jr.
Judith Ann Dawes
Margaret Elizabeth Dowd
James Brodie Harris
Arch Clark Hoyle, Jr.
'Stephen Carroll Jilcott
Herbert Ray Long
Robert Dean Luce
Samuel Lee McCaskey
Gerald Edward Matthews
James Francis O’Neill
Kenneth E. Parker
Donna Sue Puckette
William David Ridout, Jr.
Robert Louis Rieley, III
Jean Page Roberts
Larry H. Rountree
Nathaniel H. Sanderson, Jr.
Brenda Sarah Simmons
Doris Suzan Stitzel
Ralph Andrew Styron, Jr.
Earl Stanford Vann, Jr.
Emily Louise Walters
Joel Arthur Williams
David E. Lord
Associate in Music
Carlton Pressley Brinkley
Virginia Gilliam Ferguson
Ellen Josephine Jones
Sylvia Jean McCraw
Charles Mason Owen
Mary Etta Rose
Associate in Nursing
Nancy Carol Adams
Frances Anne Brown
Helen Spivey Brown
Susan Littlepage Fidler
Beverly Diane Fisher
Kathryn Maureen Kelly
Emma Lee Kiser
Deborah Louise Moran
Barbara Leigh Orange
Frances Theresa Parker
Loretta Lynn Shockley
Frances Lynn Smith
Ingrid Jo-Ann Soltes
Rena Diane Taylor
Gwendolyn Jean Tharrington
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Two outstanding churchmen-
educators, the president of the
Baptist State Convention of
North Carolina and the presi
dent of one of the world’s most
highly respected church-related
universities, will be featured
speakers at Chowan College on
Sunday, May 12, during grad
uation ceremonies for the class
of 1968.
A former newspaper report
er and veteran of Navy duty
in World War II who is now
president of Wake Forest Uni
versity, Dr. James Ralph
Scales, will deliver the com
mencement address on May 12,
during graduation exercises at
3 o’clock that afternoon climax
ing Chowan C o 11 e g e’s 120th
year.
Formerly president of Okla
homa Baptist University, he
served there as executive vice-
president, vice-president and
professor of government and
history. Dr. Scales also ser
ved as dean of the College of
Arts and Sciences and profes
sor of political science at Okla
homa State University.
Active in many positions of
leadership responsibility on the
state, national and internation
al level. Dr. Scales served on
the President’s Committee on
Education Beyond the High
School and was an American
observer of the 1964 British
elections.
His father was a pioneer
Baptist minister and attorney
in Oklahoma and Dr. Scales is
married to an educator of note
in international relations, the
former Elizabeth Ann Randel,
and they have two daughters.
Dr. Scales is a graduate
imagna cum laude) of Okla
homa Baptist University and
earned Master’s and Ph. D.
degrees from the University of
Oklahoma. He has also com
pleted further graduate studies
at the University of Chicago
and the University of London.
There are 185 candidates for
graduation this year at Cho
wan.
They will hear the president
of the Baptist State Conven
tion of North Carolina, Dr.
Claud B. Bowen, when he de
livers the baccalaureate ser
mon during services at 11
o’clock that morning.
He is pastor of Greensboro's
First Baptist Church, serving
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as minister to more people
than any other Baptist pastor
in North Carolina, and has
served in this important lead
ership posliUon for 20 years.
Dr. Bowen’s previous pasto
rates include serving the First
Baptist Church, Opelika, Ala.;
Calvary Baptist Church, Jack
son, Miss.; churches in Ken
tucky. He has also travelled
extensively throughout Europe
and the Holy Land; participa
ted in preaching missions spon
sored by the Foreign Mission
Board of the Southern Baptist
Con\ention in Ghana and Ni
geria, West Africa; furnished
leadership for the Baptist World
Alliance in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, and furnished leader
ship for other occasions through
out Europe and the Holy Land.
He has also served as presi
dent of Southeastern Baptist
Theological Seminary’s trus
tees and as a trustee of num
erous other Baptist institutions,
including Campbell College and
the North Carolina Baptist
Hospital.
A native of Mississippi, he
is a graduate of Southwestern
College and ""received Th.M.
and Ph.D. degrees from South
ern Baptist Theological Semi
nary. His bolstering the cause
of Christian higher education is
easily seen from the fact that
he and his wife have a son
serving in a leadership p>osi-
tion with the Training Union
Department of the Baptist
State Convention, another son
studying at Southeastern Semi
nary and a daughter who is a
junior at Wake Forest Univer
sity.
His many leadership services
include serving as chaplain to
Greensboro’s Fire Department.
Delivering the invocation for
the baccalaureate service will
be Dr. R. Hargus Taylor, Chap
lain to the College; scripture
and prayer will be delivered by
Dr. B. Franklin Lowe, profes
sor in the college’s Department
of Religion; the benediction will
be by Dr. Calvin Dickinson,
Chairman of the Department
of Social Science.
Dean A. Paul Thompson,
Dean of Student Affairs, will
deliver the invocation during
afternoon graduation exercises.
President Bruce E. Whita
ker will introduce the speaker
for each occasion.
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COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS
The President of Wake Forest
University, Dr. James Ralph
Scales, right, urill deliver the
commencement address at Cho
wan during graduation exercises
closing the college’s 120th year.
A former newspaper reporter
and veteran of Navy duty in
World War II, he was previous
ly President of Oklahoma Bap
tist University.
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Alumni Edition, April-May, 1968
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