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Volume XXV
BREVARD COLLEGE, JANUARY 17, 1958
Number ft
Brevard Methodist Church Holds Formal Opening
N«w Faculty
Members Added
President Emmett K. McLarty,
Jr., of Brevard College, announces
two new appointments to the facul
ty of Brevard College: Mrs. Eliza
beth J. Holder, as librarian; and,
Dr. Joseph F. Leete, to the Chem
istry department.
Dr. Leete is a native of Pennsyl
vania and has done academic work
at Pennsylvania State university,
the American University at Cairo,
Egypt, and the University of Greif-
swald in Germany, where he receiv
ed his doctorate in chemistry.
He has taught at the Amierican
University in Cairo and the U. S.
Naval Academy at Annapolis.
While serving at the Academy, he
was appointed for a tour of duty
with the office of Strategic Servi
ces in the China, India, Burma the
atre, where he was chief of the
United Nations Relief and Rehabil
itation service in Shanghai, China.
He returned to naval duty and ser
ved with the foreign liquidation
service.
Dr. Leete served on the faculty
of Brevard College in 1950-’51.
For the past three years he has
been a manufacturer’s agent for
L.nkeside Engineering Corporation
of Chicago, a firm which handles
equipment for the treatment and
di.9posal of municipal and indus
trial waste.
Dr. Leete will assume his teach
ing duties beginning with the
spring semester. He and Mrs.
Leete and their 10-year-old dau
ghter, Susan, live at 220 Grove
circle in Brevard. They are well-
known in church and civic circles.
Mrs. Holder is a native of Win
ston-Salem and has done academ
ic work in Duke University, Salem
college, Columbia university, and
the University of North Carolina.
She holds an A. B. degree from Sa
lem College and a Master of
Science in Library Science from
the University of North Carolina.
Mrs. Holder has been Assistant Li
brarian at Salem college, assistant
in children’s work in the New York
Public library: and has served as
reporter and staff artist on the
Winston-Salem Journal and Sen-
Jinel- and is at present on the staff
of the Woman’s College library of
the University of North Carolina
at Greensboro.
Mr>. Holder, together with her
daughter. Elizabeth, will move to
Brevard during the summer and
v.’ill assume responsibilities as li
brarian before the opening of
school for the fall semester. 1958.
Rumors And
Comments
“Brevard College is planning
to become a four-year college.” I
Dean Bennett reports that there
are no plans for Brevard College ;
to become a four-year college. The
need for junior college level work ■
increases as college enrollments
grow by leaps and bounds. Devel
opments at the college such as the
planning for buildings and the se
curing of faculty members are be
ing guided by the standards of
four-year college work. This will;
insure the academic standards the *
college has already attained and
have the college prepared for four-
year level work in the event the fu
ture should warrant changes.
“Brevard College is about to
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Day Or Night
Church Is Filled
To Capacity
January 12, 1958, marked the
I formal opening of the Brevard
Methodist Church. The Reverend
J. W. Fitzgerald, District Superia-
tendent, made the declaration alkt
also shared the pulpit hour with
I the Reverend E. K. MoLarty, Pres
ident of Brevard College, and the
Reverend Douglas Corriher, pas
tor of the Church.
Mr. Corriher, speaking on the
topic of “The Church and The Com
munity”, stated that the Church
should be the conscience of the
community and should speak out
when necessary. One should re
joice for critical preaching and not
I feel that the church is meddling.
He also stated that the comimunity
should be the conscience of the
I church and speak out prophetical-
! ly-
President McLarty spoke on ‘Tbs'
Church and the College.” He ex
pressed the sentiment of the col
lege toward the Church when he
said that the college felt fortunate
to have the Church as its closest
neighbor. He called attention to the
inseparable tie between religion
and education, saying that reli
gion without education was incom
plete and that education without re
ligion was inadequate. He pointed
out that the Methodist Movement
grew out of the heart of a dedica
ted student. The fellowship of
^11 I prayer, praise, and learning shared
between the church and the col
lege should be approached with
eagerness for each group and nev-
Clll "K J" 1 1 1 er be taken for granted. It is a priv-
The New Methodist Church
the Kingdom”, Mr. Fitzgerald said
that one might find at Chiurch a
ladder from earth to heaven. He
stated that it could be a gate to hea
ven and a means for a fuller life.
He closed by giving his attitude or
his philosophy of life in “The
Church by the Side of the Road**,
which he had paraphrased from the
familiar “House by the Side of the
Road.”
The Brevard College Choir, un-
I dor the direction of Prof. Nelson
i Adams, provided the choral music
I for the formal opening.
Evening Classes
Being Instituted
Is Beautiful and Inspiring
Beginning with the spring semes
ter five courses will be offered in
j the evening at Brevard College. It
became necessary in the fall se
mester to offer Engineering Draw
ing in the evening as well as is the
; regular schedule.
Evening courses to be offered in
I addition are: General Chemistry,
: Mathematics 10, Salesmanship, and
, Reading Improvement. The lec-
[ ture-recitation periods will be
scheduled for Monday evenings
from 6:30 to 9:30 and laboratorisss
I will be scheduled for Tuesday eve-
; nings. The courses will continue
throughout the semester and will
carry full college credit.
Regularly enrolled students wiI2
be registered for these courses as
for any other in the curriculum
though some attempt will be made
to reserve room for special stu-.
dents from the town of Brevard.;
a ad its outlying areas.