MERRY
CHRISTMAS
The Clarion
HAPPY
new year
Volume XXV
BREVARD COLLEGE, DECEMBER 6, 1957
Number 5
NSional Council Of Alpha Beta Gamma To Meet
Recorder Releases
Deans List And
Honor Roll
Mrs. C. E. Roy, Recorder, has
posted the Dean’s List and Honor
Roll for the Mid-Semester work.
The Dean’s List is composed of the
persons who obtained a 2.5 aver
age and above, and the Honor Roll
includes those with a 2 to 2.5 av
erage. The Dean’s List includes:
Linda Boliek, Ole Borgen, Shar
on Cline, Agnes Hamilton, Neil
Howell, Rayford Ledford, Dianne
Lineberger, Mildred Miller, Syl
via Parker, Sondra Whisnant, and
Carolyn Wright.
Those on the Honor Roll are:
Alicemarie Becham, Joe Britt,
Janice Brown, Doris Brundage,
Ronald Daniel, Bobby Davis, Myra
—Turn to page Two
The National Council of Alpha |
Beta Gamma will meet at Brevard j
on December 7. The agenda begins |
with registration from 11:00 to
3:00. Following a tour of the cam
pus, scientific movies will be
shown in Dunham Hall. Immedi
ately after the movies, a student
from each college represented will
give a scientific paper in a con
test. This will be follo'wed by the
business meeting. After the initi
ation, the guests will attend a ban
quet in the cafeteria. Dr. Isadore
Mtschan will lecture to the mem
bers and quests in the Campus Cen
ter Auditorium at 8:00 p. m. Pre
ceding the dance, which closes the
meeting, is the ritual which will
be held in the barn and attended
by Alpha Beta Gamma members
only.
The Brevard Chapter of Alpha
Beta Gamma meets monthly with
programs ranging from seeing mov
ies to touring local industries. The i
group participated in the Science ^
Shew last spring and will do so j
again this spring. The officers are
John Huggins, president; Linda
Boliek, vice - president; Pat Mintz,
secretary; and Craig Garren, treas
urer.
The Alpha Beta Gamma is a na
tional social and honorary frater
nity for chemistry students in
Junior colleges. The first chapter
of Alpha Beta Gamma was organ
ized by Dr. D. H. Pierce at Ashe
ville - Biltmore College in March,
1952. The second chapter was or
ganized at Brevard College in 1954.
At present there are seven chap
ters in North Carolina and South
■Carolina, and plans are being made
to add other chapters.
The name, Alpha Beta Gamma,
comes from the three types of rad
iation in atomic energy. The key is
—Turn to page Two
Students To Attend
National Methodist
Student Conference
Representing Brevard College at
the National Methodist Student
Conference to be held at the Uni
versity of Kansas, I^awrence, Kan
sas, December 27 through January
1, are Linda Boliek and Marie
Benge. This conference meets ev
ery four years and is attended by
jstucjents from practically every
college and university in the na
tion. Three thousand students are
expected to attend. Our represen
tatives will travel toy chartered bus
with other college students
throughout North Carolina. They
will leave Christmas night from
Greensboro and return January 3.
A highlight of the conference is
to be a world premiere of an ora
torio on John Wesley.
THE BREVARD COLLEGE GLEE CLUB, pictured
above will leave on its annual Christmas tour on Thurs
day, December 12th. On the four day trip they will sing
in three high schools and three churches. The main por
tion of their program will be “The Christmas Story by
Schutz, although other sacred and secular numbers will
be included. The members of the glee club are, first
row left to right, Elizabeth Whisenant, Maiden, accom
panist; Janice Brown, Brevard; Grace Hunter, Marion;
Shirley Moses, Clover, S. C.; Lois Hamilton, Brevard,
Ann Lively, Wadesboro; Ruth Elliott, Oxford; Loretta
Helms. Charlotte; Agnes Hamilton, Brevard; Martha
Howell Waynesvill'C; Donna Johnson, Rockingham,
second row, Jane Dantzler, Walterboro, S. C.; Ann Yar
brough, Brevard; Edith Houck, Concord; Judy Kiser,
Bessemer City; Alicemarie Beckham, Hendersonville;
Judy Elkin, Charlotte; Carolyn Jones, High Point; Lois
Blythe, Hendersonville; Minna Morrow, Washington,
Pennsylvania; Marie Benge, Black Mountain; and Pro
fessor Nelson F. Adams, director; third row, Julia Ann
Ross, Shelby; Martha Laughlin, Lawndale; Janis Smith,
Asheville; Danny Joe Nicholson, Flat Rock; David
Trucksess, Herndon, Virginia; John Carper, Thomas-
ville; Benny Martin, Morganton; Gary Frick, Marion; C.
K. Lee, Hongkong, China; Mary Frances Young, Bryson
City; Sally Griffin, Hendersonville, and Rachel Berner,
Winston-Salem; fourth row, Ronnie Money, Greensboro;
Thad Garrett, Moncure; David Richardson, Statesville;
Bob Martin, Kings Mountain; Marion Swann, Spruce
Pine; Ole Borgen, Lillestrom, Norway; Howard Martin,
Mount Airy; Horace Turner, Gastonia; Hayes Bishop,.
Shelby; Harrell McDaris, Asheville; Kenneth Nichol
son, Etowah; and Jerry Shepherd, Winston-Salem.
Veterans Club
Sponsors Yule
Project
The members of the Brevard
College Veteran’s Club are busy ga- j
thering and repairing toys and j
gifts for the Christmas Program, j
which they are giving for the un
derprivileged children of Brevard.
The Chamber of Commerce is giv
ing the club a list of . the needy
chilren in Brevard, and the club
has made arrangements Jor. two ot
their own memiliers,, who live here
in town, to distribute...Uiese gi s
during the Christmas holidays
.shortly before Christmas. TJie mer-
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Glee Club Begins Tour
The Glee Club of Brevard Col
lege begins its annual Christmas
tour 6n Thursday, December 12th,
and will present a total of six pro
grams in the western and central
portions of the state.
Professor Nelson F. Adams,
head of the music department, is
director of the group and Miss Eli
zabeth Whisenant, of Maiden, is
accompanist. .
The highlight of the program will
be “The Christmas Story” by Shut^
although a number of other sacred
and' secular numbers will be pre-
^^On the afternoon of Thursday,
December 12, the forty-six member
group will present two programs
at Morganton High school, and in
the evening they will perform at
the Burke County Subdistrict MYF
meeting at Hildebran. On Fri(^y
morning, they will sing at Shelby
High School and at Hendersonville
High School that afternoon. The
Friday evening program will be
given at St. Paul’s Methodist
Church in Asheville. The group
will conclude their tour by pre
senting a program for the Sunday
mon'iing worship service at the
Central Methodist Church in
Mount Airy.
Brevard Student
Is Honored By
Poetry Association
The National Poetry Association
has announced that they have ac-,
cepted the poem, “Quiet Lay. the
Moon”, by Donald E. Oglesby, of
Brevard College, for publication in
the Annual Anthology of College
Poetry. This Anthology is a com
pilation of the finest poetry writ
ten by the college men and woift-
en of America, representing'-feafih:
section of the Country. The Se- ,;
lections were made from thousands
of poems submitted. Don deserV^
recognition for stich- outstatiding'
work.
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