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Phi Theta Kappa Group Explained . Some will then be chosen for higher privilege. The studies which they pursued without order in their early years will now be brought together, and the students will see the relationship of these studies to one another and to truth.” “Yes,” he said. “That is the only kind of knowledge which takes lasting root.” Plato, The Republic Phi Theta Kappa was bom in 1918, at a meeting of Missouri Junior College presidents who were seeking to form an organization that recognized superior students. Membership in Phi Theta Kappa is conferred on those junior college students who have "established academic ex cellence ...” Initiates must have completed at least one term or semester, of junior college work, must be judged of good moral character, must possess qualities of good citizenship, and have obtained an over all grade average of a “B”. Since its founding Phi Theta Kappa has been the only National honor society for American junior colleges. After leaving junior college life, its members have obtained success at four- year colleges and universities and in all fields of professional life. The constitution states that the purpose of Phi Theta Kappa is promotion of scholarship, development of leadership and service, and cultivation of fellowship among students of junior colleges in the United States. The emblem of Phi Theta Kappa is a golden key. Across the center is a black band upon which the Greek letters “Phi,” “Theta,” and “Kapp” appear. Behind the band is a wreath of oak and laurel Chowan Music Professor Gives Annual Recital Jefferson Ishee, professor of music at Chowan College since 1969, gave a faculty recital recently at 8:15 p.m. in McDowell Columns auditorium. A graduate of the Uni versity of North Carolina at Chapel HUl, with a masters in choral art, Ishee was a lead baritone with the UNC Opera Theatre for eight productions and baritone sobist with the Carolina Choir. He was also soloist in residence, Duke Chapel Choir. Accompanying Ishee was James Meredith, pianist, also a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill where he and and Ishee were roommates and Tulane University. Meredith currently is a professional accompanist in Birmingham, Ala. “He is recognized as one of the finest young professional accompanists in the nations,” Ishee said. The program was entitled, “Songs of Love in Three languages.” “This was a program of the very finest love songs from the realm of Art Song,” Ishee explained. It in cluded the “Poet’s Love” song cycle by Robert Schumann, a group of French love songs by Duparc and Faure, and four songs by modern American and English Composers. Ishee has been featured in numerous concerts and guest appearances across the state. leaves, denoting strength and leadership above it is the head of Athena, symbolizing wisdom. Below the band are the three letters symbolizing the Greek mystic words phronimon, Thuemos and Katharotes (wisdom, aspiration, purity.) The colors of Phi TTieta Kappa are blue, for scholarship, and gold, for purity. These colors appear in the ribbons of the Membership Certificate and on other fraternity insignia. The Iota Delta chapter, a division of the National Phi Theta Kapp, at Chowan College has elected the following officers: president, Jim Hunter; Vice- president, Kenny Lundquist; secretary, Patsy Copeland; treasurer, Robin Andrews, reporter, Debbie Faulkner and Mr. Carl Simmons as advisor. At the end of the 1971 FaU semester the members of the Iota Delta chapter will be searching for new members to initiate in the Spring semester. The qualifications they will be looking for are those which have been previously stated. Education does not mean teaching what they do not know .. . it is a painful, continual, and difficult work to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, but above all ... by ejiample.—Ruskin Coffee House Being Held On Thursdays By CAROL DENTON Reverend Joe Cooper, Episcopal minister, has organized a place for young people to enjoy themselves. This place is the Coffee House, and it is open to young people the first and third Thursday nights in the nwnth, from 7:30 until 11:00. The attendance is very good with an average of fifty or sixty students per meeting. Live folk music is provided by the young people in a relaxed atmosphere. Discussion of any topic is encouraged among the young people, and inexpensive food is served. The Coffee House provides a place where students can get together with an informal setting. The purpose of the Coffee House is to help students see that the church cares about the young people. Rev. Cooper will have this fellowship every Thursday night after Christmas. He is also hoping to begin showing short fil^ or having plays for en tertainment. He would like for anybody to volunteer to provide en tertainment and if you are in terested, please call 398-3150 or 398-4990. If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.—Rabelias. Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tounge, to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.—Socrates. We say that a person who is laying low is “playing possum” because the Virginia oppossum, when caught, feigns death. Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most like it least.—Megiddo Message. Gi LEARNING ABOUT CHOWAN—Many area high school seniors took ad vantage of “College Day” recently to learn more about the academic op portunities available at Chowan College. Top photo shows Miss Bonita Treadway, Associate Director of Admissions, pointing out interesting facts in the current college catalog, while the lower photo shows a group receiving materials from Clarence Williams, also an Associate Director of Admissions. a SENIOR COLLEGE DAY—Admission representatives from a large number of senior institutions visited Whitaker Library recently to talk with prospective students from Chowan College. The entire library was filled with representatives and activity was brisk throughout the day. The morning hours were reserved for area high school students and the afternoon was open only to Chowan students. Above, a group chats with representatives for the University of North Carolina about the possibility of transferring after graduation here. PAGE EIGHT The Chowanian
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