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Page 2 A BASEBALL SEASON GETS UNDERWAY The Asheville-Biltmore nine got off to a slow start this season due to bad weather. The team is now in the rebuilding stage due to the absence of a coach last season. There are no returning lettermen but the men out for positions this year are determined and so far have worked hard. Bill Bradford, Jim Baldi/in and Phil McKinney are dividing the mound duties. Other starters are first baseman, David Bryson; second baseman, Bruce Ballard5 shortstop, Phil McKinneyj and catcher, Bobby Ledford. In the out- I field are Clyde Long, Jerry Forest, John Carswell, and Lewis Sauls. Coach Laney Yelverton, A-B mentor, said that the team ie rapidly improving with each sunny day. "Bad weather conditions have held us at a big deficit since the first day of practice,” he said. Leading the team in hitting in the :Tirst four games are Bruce Ballard and Carswell. Both are colorful pe,-'’formers and will be depended upon 'Xxi the games to come. Ballard is leading Vo.Q two Kith a .500 average. The reiiiaining schedule is as follows: April 21 yt North Greenville (2) April ab Wingate (2) May 9 at Brevard, Ma^?- l5 at Lees McRae (2) and May 16 at Brevard. Phil McKinney SHORTHAND STUDENTS TOT HONORABLE I'ffiNTION Congratulations to the Secretarial Science students who are in Mrs. Peck’s beglr.ning shorthand class. They sent copies of their shorthand penmanship to the International OGA (Order of Gregg Artists) Shorthand penmanship contest and won a certificate oi honorable mention. This contest, sponsored by the Gregg company, is held every year and competition is among contestants from all over the world. This se:?tificate is being put into an attractive frame and will placed in the new Business Department in the doijn^toTO campus« RFrSOLDS NA^'fED TO STATE EDUCATION BOARD Governor Sanford could have looked high and low and far and wide and never come up with a better choice than I'lr* Jclm M. Reynolds as a member of the State Board of Education. I'4r. Reynolds is a member of the board of trustees of our om Asheville- Biltmore college and had a big hand in making successful our recen'o bond issue. He has visited our school on numerous occasions and has spoken to our student body in se'veral assembly progrms. Mr. Reynolds is a native of Buncombe county avrl was graduated fron Bijirnsville High School, He attended Kcev;.rd College and is a gro.i17.ate of Wofford College, Fe took post*t adaate work at Western Carolina where "e also taught science. LIBRARY RECEIVES DONATIONS OF BOOKS The library staff have been busy lately taking care of the new and used books that have been donated to the library by friends of the college. Among the most recent donations are a number of fiction books donated by Mrs. Florence Ryan, German fiction books donated by Mrs. Duphemia Brookshire, engineering books donated by Mrs. Charles Mannell, and monthly donations of fiction and non-fiction by the AAUW. The AAUW recently gave a memorial book in honor of Mrs. Flora B. Coterill. Faculty members continue to donate new books. Heading the list are Mrs. Virginia Schreiber and Mr. Jackson Owen. Shelf space is a critical problem in our present library but the new librar,y will have room to expand* mm IN BRIEF We are happy to have on our campus I'Ir. Frank Edwinn a well-knox-jn musician in Asheville who is teaching the Misic Appreciation classes and directing the chorus in the absence of I'Ir. Carl Perry. Mr. Perry is on an extended trip through Scotland and ^ill return soon* However we have enjoyed having Hr. Edwin with us and hope he *11 come back soonl John Rinehardt, president of the Spanish Club, says he has found the solution to ”no--club-spirit.*’ Members of the club had a breakfast at Buck’s and he says, really got a lot accomplished, such as plans for a special Spanish supper and the spring Fiesta Real.” He suggests that the other clubs give a breakfast meeting a try. Asheville-Biltmore Botanical Gardens, Inc. has recently been granted a charter by Secretary’- of State Thad Eure. The no:i-stock, non-profit organization was established to sponsor the garden and Fiiuseam on our new campus down-town. Any propecty owned by the organization will go to the college upon its diss olution. Initial members and incorporators are Miss Gertrude Ramsey, Traynham Houston, Mrs. T. S. Shinn, Joseph Schandler, Shelby E. Horton Jr. and Mrs. W. C. Macon. Congratulations to Mary I^rgaret McCall and Phyllis Hampton who were taken ijito Alpha Beta Gamma, the chem istry fraternity, at their regular meeting on ''.’ii.ejday, April 3* Membership to Alpha Eeoa is determined on the basis of &ch-.:dai’;b'hip and interest in the field. At lh= April 3 meeting plans were discussed in which the club would take for a project the dark room i^iich is a part of the plans in the new building* If tall is taken as a project, the schw \!. Tj’Ill have a dark room and the equiV'TTifen=ces•v5;^•^?y bo dv-^valop its own pic-tuj £:3 snd to do sind.lar work. Tile fjnternityis iider the sponsor ship of M-:*, Grayoun Bradley who came to Aheville-Biltmore tliis year.
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