Chowan College - Chowanoka Yearbook (Murfreesboro, NC)

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CHAPLAIN TAYLOR DEAN LOWE The unusual is usual for the office of the Dean of the College. Two examples follow. The first of these occurred while I was in the office of the Dean; the second occurred during the time of my predecessor: 1. A student came in to see me. He appeared upset, claiming that he needed to go home for several days due to the death of his uncle, who was his legal guardian. While the student was sitting in my office talking with me, the telephone rang. The dead uncle, in very good health, was calling to check on his nephew. 2. A student had been making long distance calls on a pay phone and charging these to numbers that he picked at random from the telephone book. On one evening, he placed such a call and gave to the operator the number to be charged for the call. In picking a number from the telephone book, he had accidently picked the home phone number of the operator. The operator casually put the call through, and then called the police. The police picked up the student while he was still talking on the phone. Once a security guard on campus approached me with a question, ' You ' re the new chaplain, aren ' t you? ' ' Yes, ' I answered. ' You ' re a doc too, huh? ' ' Yes. ' ' Well, I ' ve got this sore on my elbow and . . . ' , replied the guard. ' I ' m sorry about that but that ' s not the kind of doctor that I am; I had to reply. DOUG GATEWOOD Doug Gatewood, working in admissions as a recruiter for the college, has had many experiences related to his position at Chowan. However, his most memorable involves not being recognized as an administrative member: It was my first year at Chowan, the fall semester of 1978. Most student worries were over and the first dance, the ' welcoming dance, ' was go- ing over well. When I arrived to help out with the dance, being a new face on campus, I was refused admission to the dance without proper identification. After much embarrassment, I was eventually allowed to enter. CLIFTON COLLINS In filling out the North Carolina Legislative Tuition Grant ap- plication, students are asked to give their residentiary ad- dress, which is where the student actually lives. Very often, students give their post off ice box as their address when they should have given their route number. Mr. Collins often wonders, How does a student live in a post office box? 11

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A Little Unusual... DR. WHITAKER Although a college president is expected to have everything under control at all times, the family dog, Trixie, ' frequently gets out of line. On one oc- casion, the faculty and student alike enjoyed wat- ching my reaction in chapel when I was making a very important address to the Chowan community. I noticed that low-down dog in the back of the auditorium after I had started to speak. She heard and recognized my voice, so she started trotting down (at that time) the middle aisle. When she reached the front of the auditorium, she looked up. sniffed and dashed up the steps to the stage and started gleefully jumping up and down on my leg, wagging her tail and yapping! By the time Dean Lowe picked her up and took her away, Trixie was so scared by the wild applause that she had her tail bet- ween her legs. I guess that goes to show that even college presidents have skeletons in their closets! PHILROYCE I guess the thing that stands out most in my mind as being memorable in relation to my job oc- curred in the field of sports. In 1970, Chowan entered its annual football game with Ferrum, our arch-rival, possessing a 6-0 record. It was a tremen- dously hard fought football game, but Chowan emerged victorious when our halfback broke loose on a 50-yard touchdown run. This kept us undefeated and advanced us in the national rank- ings. DEAN WINSLOW My most interesting incident contains a very subtle type of humor. Several years ago, the Iranian students held a sit-in around the pine trees and boycotted classes because they felt I was treating them unfairly. In fact, they even hung me in effigy in front of the Columns Building. Dr. Whitaker finally broke up the rally. MR. NICHOLSON We had a student one year come in for an excuse because of a death in her immediate family. When I asked her who died, she paused and said, ' my grand- mother. ' She had missed a critical test and wrote a note and signed her mother ' s name on the note — it looked fishy to me. I had to call her home to verify her excuse. When I asked her mother who had died, she said, ' Was it her aunt? ' I said, ' You ' re not even close. She said it was her grandmother. ' Her mother then answered. ' Oh, that ' s right. It was her grandmother. DEAN LEWIS It was a spring evening, after mid- night, with a beautiful full moon when I heard about some disturbance on campus. At that time the Dean of Men and I went over to investigate. While we were in- vestigating that incident in a residence hall, we kept hearing some kind of strange noise. We couldn ' t tell whether it was a student in trouble or what, but we did determine that the sounds were com- ing from the lake area. The Dean of Men walked down the walkway toward Parker Hall and the security man and I drove down. When we got there, it was apparent the noise was coming from the lake. As we arrived at the spillway, we saw two guys in an old pontoon boat on the lake singing Joy to the World. They paddl- ed the boat right up to shore as they hadn ' t discovered we were there yet. The Dean of Men called them by name and asked them what they were doing out on the lake. They replied that they had been drinking and had discovered they were too drunk to go back into the residence hall. At the time they were only concern- ed with not bringing undue notice to themselves. 10

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other stuff... TWO CHOWAN TEACHERS NAMED OUTSTANDING NORMAN EDWARD WOOTEN DWIGHT G. COLLIER 12 Nations Represented At Chowan Chowan College has 1,124 students on campus representing 20 states, the District of Columbia and 12 foreign countries. Of the 1,124, 81 are International Students, representing the countries of Brazil, Columbia, Ghana, India, Iran, Japan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Liberia, Micronesia, Nigeria, and Thailand. According to Mr. Rowland Pruette advisor and personal counselor to these students, 38 of the 81 students are returning students, either from summer school or the fall term. The International Students are encouraged to participate in all the ac- tivities of the college, Prutte stated. He also mentioned that contacts are made through the area church groups. Chowan College also has 629 students from 20 other states, the District of Columbia, or from a U.S. Territory. They are Alabama, Con- necticut, Deleware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusettes, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Vermont. Virginia, and West Virginia. One student comes from Puerto Rico. 1 12