Conference Held for Women;
Sponsored by Student Personnel
A picture of a “new breed” of
woman — the emerging
professional woman of the 1970’s
and 1980’s - was presented by Dr.
Charlene Dale, president of the
North Carolina Council of Ad
ministrative Women in
Education, at Chowan College
Wednesday, November 8.
Speaking to an audience of
young ladies and a sprinkling of
males from high schools and
Chowan at the second annual
"The Professional — A Woman”
conference, Dr. Dale called the
professional woman “a new
breed.” “When she reads her
newspaper, she’s still interested
in a recipe for apple strudel but
she also checks the financial page
on her stocks and bonds.”
She has shorn the image that a
woman must be weak, passive,
docile, indecisive, dependent and
helpless. "We are seeing women
shifting from dependency to
emerging independence,” Dr.
Dale, a public school principal in
Charlotte, stated. She said a
woman should have the right “to
call the plays in her own life.”
In order to obtain her new
status. Dr. Dale asked the young
ladies in the audience in Marks
Hall auditorium to consider
themselves first a human being
and then a woman. She warned
that it is not enough to depend on
“love, marriage, and children”
for total self-fulfillment.
WRITING CHOWAN PARENTS—Parents of Chowan
College student will soon receive a letter from Nancy
Long, shown above in her dormitory room in McDowell
Columns. Nancy is a sophomore from Newport News,
Va., and is completing her study in graphic arts.
“On an average, you will hve to
be 80, yet in your planning, it’s
hard to see beyond 25 or 30. Most
women will have their last child
by the age of 30. Twenty years
later her last child will be in
college. Therefore, the last 30
years of life will be empty if you
put all your dreams in being a
wife and housemaker,” she
reasoned.
The slogan, “A woman’s place
is in the home,” must be exposed
as a myth, she said. “Who do you
think said it in the first place, a
man or a woman?”, she asked.
She said the “June Allyson”
image of a model woman is
“fading fast.” Dr. Dale described
this woman as “accommodating
and sweet, wanting only what her
husband wants.”
But today, the working woman
is to be envied, assured Dr. Dale,
named Charlotte’s “Outstanding
Career Woman in Education” in
1971. She can be a financial asset
to her husband. “She is a dream -
a giver, not a taker, a winner, not
a loser, a contributor, not a
parasite,” she explained.
The speaker, the mother of
three teenage daughters, em
phasized, “But most important,
she is a person, a human being.”
And how are women, with their
new-found freedom and in
dependence, faring? “They are
demonstrating a surge of am
bition in their jobs, which is a
surprise to some,” she remarked.
As for the male, she believes he
will have to learn to adjust to the
new trend. “As the woman’s role
undergoes a change, it will take
an effort on the part of men to
understand women now and in
the years ahead,” she stressed.
But she is optimistec that both
sexes will benefit from “the new
horizons which have opened up to
working women.”
The two-day conference was
sponsored by the department of
student personnel at Chowan
Collage and direceted by dean of
women, Vicki Tolston. Two panel
sessions each were held Wed
nesday and Thursday. High
schools sending students included
11 from North Carolina and four
from Virginia.
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.ART CLASS—Memt)ers of the art classes used the recent warm, sunny days to
make sketches of the beautiful campus. The scene above was*taken by the eight-
acre lake at the rear of the campus.
PAGE EIGHT
Congress Notes
125th Anniversary
The 125th Anniversary of
Chowan College
HON. WALTER B. JONES
of North Carolina
In The House of Representatives
Thursday, October 5, 1972
Mr. JONES of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, in
this day of “bigness”, where the larger universities
continue to grow and expand, it is all too easy to
forget the important role played by the smaller
institutions of higher learning.
On October 11, 1972, Chowan College located in
Murfreesboro, N. C. will celebrate its 125th an
niversary. The college first opened its doors on
October 11, 1848, as a result of the interest and
influence of the Baptist of northeastern North
Carolina and southeastern Virginia. It was
originally known as the Chowan Baptist Female
Institute. In 1910 its name was changed to Chowan
College.
It is significant to know that even with the Civil
War, this college remained opened while many
others were closed. Due to conditions beyond the
control of the administration, the college was
closed from 1943 to 1949. Since reopening, the
growth has been phenomenal in enrollment,
physical facilities and expanded academic of
ferings.
I want to join with thousands of others and pay
tribute to the present administration as well as
those of the past who have offered educational
training to many who might otherwise been denied
this opportunity. In terms of dollars and cents, it
would be futile to attempt to evaluate its worth to a
wide section of both North Carolina and Virginia.
For many years it has been fully accredited by the
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. I
predict that its influence and its service will expand
as time goes on and will continue to be an in
spiration to the thousands of young people who pass
through its portals.
To all, congratulations on this, the 125th an
niversary.
From: Congressional Record, Vol. 118, No. 160,
Friday, October 6, 1972
B/oo(/ Flows Free During
Visit of Bloodmobile
Chowan students donated a
record 281 pints of blood
November 20, during the visit of
the Tidewater Regional Blood-
mobile.
Some fifty other students were
rejected for a total of 330 who
registered to give, said William
McCraw, campus chairman for
the blood program. This was the
largest number to register and
donate and McCraw reported the
response of the students is the
"talk of the region,” in the words
of a Tidewater Regional
Bloodcenter spokesman.
Praises Organization
McCraw praised the joint ef
forts of members of the Circle K
Qub and the Chowan student
nurses for their support. “They
did a great job in recruiting
students as donors, ” McCraw
said. The student nurses also
assumed various duties in the
gymnasium, where the blood was
received.
Aslo thanked by McCraw for
their cooperation was the faculty
and staff members.
Remarking on the students’
response, McCraw noted, “it
appears they have a great in
terest in helping others through
the blood program. Many were
able to put aside their ap-
prdiension about giving blood
and discovered it’s easy and
painless as others had said it
was.”
"Huge Success"
McCraw noted the canteen was
a “huge success” with the
students who consumed *‘some 10
gallons of milk, approximately 50
gallons of orange juice, about 25
loaves of bread and 25 pounds of
pimento cheese, peanut butter
and egg salad as well as
cookies.”
A goal of 300 pints has been set
for the spring visit, April 18, of
the bloodmobile, McCraw an
nounced. Chowan has won the
silver bowl last year and two of
the past three years for the
greatest percentage of its student
body donating blood. The
professor said that Chowan
competes in the college division
in the Tidewater region, and now
has a head start for its third win
which will place the silver bowl
permanently in the trophy case
on campus.
THE CHOWANIAN