SEVENTY-NINE
TO GRADUATE
Clarion
COMMENCEMENT
JUNES
THE BREVARD COLLEGE WEEKLY
Vol. II
Brevard College, Brevard, North Carolina, May 22, 1937.
No. 28
Seventy-Nine Will Graduate June 3
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Final Exercises
Thursday Morning
Dramatic Club
Presents Play
Tuesday night, May 18, the
Dramatic Club under the direc
tion of Miss Smith presented, as
the commencement play, “Come
Out of the Kitchen” to the larg
est audience ever to witness one
' of the productions of the Dra
matic Club.
By this final play of the year
Several students proved them
selves to have unusual histrionic
ability, and the cast as a whole
was given an ovation by the
three hundred who paid seventy-
five dollars to seethe production.
Miss Doris Thorne, playing
the leading role again, proved
that she can handle a difficult
part. Leighton Prt ssor, d r a -
matic genius of Brevard College,
played unusually well iii the rule
opposite Miss Tht rne. Frank Cra
ven, playing the part of a digni
fied old lawyer, brought more
laughs than a first-rate comedian
generally gt*ts with sn individuril
show. Eddie Carlisle handled
the role of a butler in first-rate
fashion. Mr. Colvard left the
rule of an agricalturalist to be
come a loony poet; he handled
the role with ease and distinction,
altho he had only two days to
learn his part. Satenik N ihikian,
Russell Andrews, and Midge C>g-
dill played the minor rol-8 above
par. Griffin Campbell showed un
usual ease to handle himselt well
on the stage. Jean Mangum a-
gain played a brilliant role as an
aristocrat. John Odom c a m t
through with success, although
he was playing a Negro mammy.
Moss Wins Clio Contest
Robert Moss with Elbert Hub
bard’s “A Message to Garcia,”
won the first annual Cliosophic
Literary Society Declamation
Contest last Friday night.
There were six other contest
ants. Moss spoke sixth on the
program. Charles Woodson and
Frederick Nichols won honorable
mention
Music Department
Presents Recital
Advanced students of the Mu
sic Department presented their
commencement recital in the Col
lege auditorum Saturday night,
May 22, at eight o’clock.
These students are all pupils
of Miss Clay or Mrs. Dendy, who
have conducted the Music De
partment here during the past
year.
Quite contrary to the usual
practice, a large number of stu
dents attended this recital. The
audience was well pleased with
the brilliant performance of these
students of music.
The program wap opened with
a piano duet by Virginia Hunter
and Brownie Lipe. Virginia Hun
ter next played two piano solos.
lyxtiiy McLui'tj cippCtiri^d thii'u
the program with two vocal
solos. Ellen L. Gidney and Mrs.
Johnson next played a piano
duet. Miss Lipe next played a
piano solo. Following was a n
unusual piano arrangement by
Misses Lipe, Hunter, Gidney and
Mrs. Johnson. Ellen Gidney
next played two piano solos.
Charles Scotf, the only boy in the
recital, sang two solos. Mrs.
Johnson then played two piano
solos, and Ellen L. Gidney and
Mrs. Johnson closed the recital
with a piano duet.
Hackney Named
‘Tertelote’* Editor
List Of Graduates
Aileen Alewine, Jane Alex
ander, Mary Allen, Russell An
drews, Paulina Auer, Frank
Bahnson, Sarah Barksdale, Wil^
lie Berryhill, Billie Black, Leon
Blanks, Ethel Blythe, Lou Belle
Boyd, Margaret Boyd, Bernice
Brantley, Ruth Brewer, Betty
Brookshire, Roy Brown, Annie
Ruth Call, Edwin Carlisle, Clem
entine Chrisco, Edward Clayton,
Mildred Cogdill, Charles Cook,
Vivian Craver, William Craver,
James Crawley, James Crouse,
Vaughn Dorsett, Lizzie Dozier,
Lallah Mae Edwards, Mitchell
Faulkner, Turner Feezor, Lottie
Frazier, Margaret George, Ellen
Gidney, Hattie Giles, Fleda Hal-
lum, Virginia Henderson, Mar
shall Houts, Jethro Hoyle, Vir
ginia Hunter, Edwin Hyatt,
Cora Ann Johnson, Ellen Waddell
johnsoii, Georgfc Joaes, Mary
McLarty, Dorothy Marr, Allison
Moore, Ora Belle Myers, Satenik
Nahikian, Bearl Nesbitt, Jack
Noblitt, Wallis Orr, Irene Par
sons, Gussie Rose Pless, John
James Powell, and Horace Raper
Margaret Raper, James Rogers
Guilford Ross, Margaret Ryan
Odell Salmon, Spencer Scott
William Scott, Mavis Shinn
Clyde Shuford, Glenn Shuler
Howard Stamey, Lucy Strum
Evelyn Swaringen, Roland Tay
lor, Alma Talley, Mary Helen
Teague, William Turner, Samuel
Tweed, Paul Westbrook, M a r -
jorie Whisnant, Margaret W i 1 -
son, Christine Yongue.
At a recent meeting of the
Freshman Class Bill Hackney
was elected the new editor of
the Pertelote; John Miller was
named business manager of the
year book that will appear when
the present freshmen will be
graduating sophomores.
Also at this meeting the class
elected Stuart Black class presi
dent for next year. Claude
Love was elected vice-president,
and Helen McConnell was named
secretary.
Landreth Is Elected
At the assembly of the student
body Tuesday, May 18, Monk
Landreth was unanimously elect
ed new editor of the Clarion, of
which he has been news editor
this year.
Also elected by acclamation
were Helen McConnell, associate
editor, and J. C. Williams,
business manager.
The CLARION, on behalf of
the student body, extends
deep sympathy to Pete Ven
able in the death of his mother.
Seventy-nine students will grad
uate from Brevard College at
the commencement exercises
Thursday morning, June 3.
The week beginning May 31
will be filled with activities of
graduation until the culmination
of the final exercises on Thurs
day morning, at which time Dr.
John W. Shackford, pastor of
Washington Street Methodist
Church in Columbia, South Car
olina, will deliver the principal
address.
Wednesday morning, June 2,
at eleven o’clock, Dr. A. W.
Plyler, editor of the North Car
olina Christian Advocate will preach
the commencement sermon at
the Brevard Methodist Church.
At pight o’f*In*k Wednesday
night, June 2, the alumni will
celebrate at their annual banquet
in the main dining hall. Rev.
C. M. Pickens, an alumnus of
Weaver College, will be toast
master. Eight o f last year’s
outstanding students have been
invited to make brief talks. All
of the graduating class are in
vited to the banquet, for soon
they will be eligible for member
ship in alumni organization of
Brevard College.
With seventy-nine wearing the
robes of commencement, and
dignitaries of the Western North
Carolina Conference of the
I Methodist Church present, the
final program will begin at
eleven o’clock Thursday morn-
ning. Parents of the graduates
and special guests of the College
will the seats of the main floor
in the auditorium. Loud speak
ers and seating arrangements
will be provided for those who
come late.
The graduates will begin their
procession from Mr. Coltrane’s
residence promptly at eleven^
In commencement pomp they
will march in procession to their
reserved seats in the auditorium
a s the chords of the prelude
1
resound.