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Volume XXI
BREVARD COLLEGE, MAY, 1954
Number 8^
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES TO BE MONDAY
Pictured above are the graduates of Brevard college for the 1954
spring semester: Front row, Bobby Welch, Wylladene Duckett, Ma
tilda Bell, Celia Sherrill, Colene Cook, Becky Eaker, Betty Lee
Starnes, Imogene Dickson, Frances Weaver. Second row, Ben Brooks,
James Richardson, Ed Trivette, Edna Waldrop, Mary Frances Meach-
um, Beth Jones, Evelyn Ledford, Ellen Torrence, Jennie Lou Morris,
David Griggs. Third row, John Marona, William Woodlief, Harry Pat
terson, Harold White, David Phipps, Chester Kilpatrick, Wallace Hon
eycutt, Nick Williams and James David EUiott. Not pictured are
Joyce Ann Fullam, Nancy Setzer and Frances Fortune.
Commencement
To Honor 30
Brevard Graduates
Brevard college will honor one
of the largest graduating classes in
recent years on May 24. This grad
uating class consists of thirty stu
dents who will receive either the
Associate in Arts degree or the reg
ular Junior College diploma, de
pending on which course of study
they followed. They are:
Associate in Arts: Benjamin T.
Brooks, Jr., Mary Colene Cook,
Bernice Imogene Dickson, James D.
EJliott, Frances EUzabeth Fortune,
Dehnas David Griggs, Wallace Blair
Honeycutt, Selma Evelyn Ledford,
John Wesley Marona, Mary Fran
ces Meachum, Harry A. Patterson,
James R. Richardson, Nicholas
Fisher Williams, Thomas Harold
White, William T. Woodlief.
Junior College diploma: Hester
Matilda Bell, Wylladene Vivian
Duckett, Joyce Ann Fullam, Re-
bekah Eaker, Chester Kilpatrick,
Doris Ferguson McGaha, Jennie
Lou Morris, David W. Phipps, Celia
Sherrill Nancy Ann Setzer, Betty
Lee Starnes, Ellen Howard Tor
rence, Edward E. Trivette, Jr., Ed
na Mae Waldrop, Ida Frances
Weaver.
Trustees To Meet
At Commencement
A number of meetings have been
scheduled for the Board of Trus
tees during the last two days ol
commencement week. The Execu
tive Committee of the board wil)
meet Sunday evening at 8:00
o’clock, May 23, in the Skyland ho
tel in Hendersonville. This meeting
is preliminary to the meeting of
the full Board of Trustees on Mon
day. The Executive Committee is
composed of Mr. Edwin L. Jones
of Charlotte, chairman; Colonel W
Bryan Moore of Wadesboro, vice-
jhairman; Reverend James B. Mc-
Larty of the First Methodist
church, Mooresville, secretary; and
Mr. Jonathan Woody, Waynesville,
Mr. Allen Sims, Gastonia, Mr. Clar
ence Morgan, Asheville, and Presi
dent Robert H. Stamey, of Brevard
college.
After attending the graduation
exercises in the morning the Board
of Trustees will meet in the James
Addison Jones Library at 2:00
o’clock. The annual Trustees din
ner wiU be held in the cafeteria
Monday evening at 5:30.
President Robert H. Stamey will
present his report of college activi
ties to the board at these meetings.
President Stamey feels that on the
whole, this has been a very suc
cessful year.
Alumni Group Will
Meet On May 22
The ’54 commencement program
will get underway Saturday,
May 22, when the Alumni Associa
tion will meet in the Brevard Col
lege Cafeteria at 12:30 for a lunch
eon meeting. Because of a number
of'important items of business, in
cluding the annual election of of
ficers, D. Leon Stubbs, President
of the Association, is urging a full
attendance of alumni. The lunch
eon will conclude with a business
meeting which will be held in the
cafeteria at 1:30. No further activi
ties have been planned for the
day in order for time to be reserved
for the alumni to meet old friends,
and for informal tours of the cam
pus to see the many improvements
to the buildings and grounds that
have been effected during the last
few years.
On Sunday morning at 11:00
o’clock, the Reverend Kenneth
Goodson, Superintendent of the
Winston-Salem District, will deliv
er the commencement sermon to
the graduating class in the First
Methodist Church. In the afternoon
at 5:30 a musical program featur
ing a concert by the Brevard High
School Band and a choral recital
by the Brevard College Glee Club
will be held in the Pickelsimer Me-
Commencement
Program
The following plans tor the
commencement program have
been released. Please keep them
in mind in order not to miss any.
SATURDAY, MAY 22
Alumni Luncheon and Business
Meeting, 12:30 p. m. in the cafe
teria.
SUNDAY, MAY 23
Commencement Sermon, 11:0ft
a. m. at the First Meithodist
church.
Band Concert and Choral Re-^
cital, 5:30 p. m. in Memorial
Gardens.
Reception for Graduating
Class, 6:30 p. m. in the Cafeteria..
MONDAY, MAY 24
Graduation Exercises, 10:30 a.,
m. in Dunham Hall.
Board of Trustees, 2:00 p. m,.
in the Library.
Trustees’ Dinner. 5:30 p. m. in
the Cafeteria.
morial Gardens. At 6:30 a recep
tion honoring the graduating class
will be held in the cafeteria.
Graduation exercises will be held
in Dunham Hall Monday morning
at 10:30. Dr. Embree H. Blackard,
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