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Volume XVII
BREVARD COLLEGE, NOVEMBER 4, 1950
Number 2
FIRES AT COLLEGE CLOSE DUNHAM HALL
Culture Series Is
Announced For Year
The college administration has
announced a series of events de
signed to advance culture in the
college and to provide entertain
ment for students, faculty, and in
terested townspeople.
The individual programs, to be
presented through the year at
dates to be announced later, will
include such artists as Robert
Frost, dean of American poets;
Bess Furman, author and news
paper correspondent^ and Warren
Lee Terry, interpreter of Gilbert
and Sullivan.
Included also will be a full-
length play presented by a com
pany of the Barter Theatre play
ers, the State Theatre of Vir
ginia.
ROBERT FROST
Best-known of the lecturers in
the group is Robert Frost, who, it
has been said, has won more hon
ors than any other living Ameri
can poet.
BESS FURMAN
Bess Furman is an author and
is Washington correspondent for
the New York TIMES. Under the
topic “Washington By-Line” she
will give insights into Capital
news. Miss Furman has been ac
tive political reporting since the
Hoover administration.
BARTER THEATRE
The Clarion will announce lat
er the specific play chosen for
presentation here by the Barter
players. This repertory group is
familiar through the Southeast for
its service in bringing legitimate
drama to the smaller towns and
cities.
Organized by producer Bob Por
terfield in 1933, when many fine
actors were going hungry during
the depression, it takes its name
from the fact that in its early
days the company traded plays
for “ham n’ eggs” in the communi
ties of Virginia where it made its
first appearances. The excellence
of its work has won it official
recognition and support from the
State of Virginia.
Ecuata Publishes
Book For College
School Daze, a booklet publish
ed by Ecusta Manufacturing Com
pany for Brevard Collefie sopho
mores, was distributed last week
to all sophomores. The periodical,
printed as a scrapbook, is appro
priately illustrated, and has sec
tions on sports, music, homecoming,
and the like. The 24-page booklet
is of notebook size.
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Armed with a load of programs to sell at the game tonight,
CUBA GILVER, enthusiastic student body member, smiles as if to
say, “Wont you buy a program?”
Story Of Brevard College Fires
Published In Clarion Coverage
Action began here Sunday, Oc
tober 22, when Mrs. Ellard Shook
of Caldwell street, seeing smoke
issuing from the eaves of the Ad
ministration building, rushed to
phone and set the sirens howling
on main street.
As the alarm sounded, Joan
Gamble, Brevard freshman, turn
ed from her walk near Taylor Hall
and saw what Mrs. Shook had
seen.
Joan raced into Taylor, where
the president of the college hap
pened to be, paused to break
the shocking news—“the ad build
ing is burning again!”—and raced
on toward the fire.
She looked into the basement
window left of the south portico.
“It seemed like a boiling inferno
to me,” she said later; “ I thought
the whole building was going this
time. I was badly scared, and I
ran as hard as I could go, to tell
the girls in West.”
When the alarm reached West
H&ll, Freshman Geraldine Bar
rier thought, “The boys will hear
the siren, but how will they know
that the fire is here?” She remem
bered the bell atop West Hall
and set it ringing wildly.
Out of the men’s quarters burst
every student male that had re
mained on campus—not many at
first, for it was Sunday afternoon
In the van was Arthur Moriarty,
Moriarty, an absentee member
of Columbia Engineer Company
Number 4, of Alexandria, Virginia,
had has ten year’s experience as a
fireman. He knew exactly what
to do. He did it.
Assisted by Clinton Tutterow,
Howard Graham, Mack Lassiter,
and Reid Gilbert, who had raced
to the scene with him, Moriarty
unlimbered the college hose. He
smashed a window and brought
water to bear upon the flames.
Things happen fast at a fire
The Brevard fire company ar
rived at once and brought its
powerful equipment into play. In
thirty minutes, or less, the fire
was out.
Already burned by the earlier
fire, the region of the Sunday
blaze, once ignited, kindled furious
ly. Seconds counted. And the work
of the Brevard student volunteers
may well have saved the building,
Fire Chief D. W. Merrill credit
ed the work of the college boys
with delaying the spread of the
flames; and President Ehlhardt
on Monday morning publicly de
clared the gratitude of the college
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Ehlhardt Plans For
Renovations Soon
At an assembly of the college,
held in the James Addison Jones
Library on Wednesday, November
1, President George B. Ehlhardt
discussed plans for the repair and
reopening of Dunham Hall, the
college administration building,
which was badly damaged by suc
cessive fires on October 20 and
22.
Bids are being received for a
complete rewiring of the hall in
accordance with modem building
codes, Mr. Ehlhardt revealed. The
plan is to repair the building by
phases, looking toward early use
of the auditorium and other sec
tions not directly affected by the
fire.
ADMINISTRATION ACTS TO
ASSURE GENERAL SAFETY
When Dunham Hall re-opens it
will be safe. “Every recommenda
tion made by the civic authorities
will be carried out in detail,” Mr.
Ehlhardt said, “since it is the in
tention of the administration and
of the trustees to take any ac
tion that may become necessary
anywhere on the Brevard campus
to assure the safety of the stud
ents and of the faculty.”
The coUege administrator re
marked incidentally that follow
ing the fires the college, assisted
by competent local officials, has
made a thorough survey of the
campus for possible fire hazards.
EHLHARDT PRAISES STUDENT
' HEROISM AND CO- OP
ERATIVE SPIRIT
Pleased that the academic work
of the college has gone on well
despite the serious handicap im
posed by the temporary loss of
the big administration building,
Prseident Ehlhardt praised what
the students have done to make
the necessary emergency measures
work.
From the very outset of the
fires, when heroic student action
helped to save the building, the
students have assisted splendidly
in every way. The president expects
this fine spirt of the Brevard -
student body to make less difficult
the necessary continuance of tem
porary arangements. For the time
being classes must continue to
meet in the dormitory parlors and
other available space called into
service for the emergency. Ad
ministrative work will continue
to center in the library.
REOPENING DATE IS
UNCERTAIN
The president could not predict,
in the face of possible materials
shortages, when complete repair
of the building could be accomp
lished. He expects early com
mencement of the work. At pres-
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