Bowles To Be The Principal Speaker During REW
Charles P. Bowles was born in
Guilford, North Carolina, August
15, 1906. He is the son of a Metho
dist minister and spent his early
life in the western section of North
Carolina, where his father served
churches in the Western North
Carolina Conference. He attended
college at Guilford College and
Duke University, receiving an A. B.
Degree from the latter institution.
He then enrolled in the Graduate
School of Duke University, receiv
ing the M. A. Degree and later re
ceiving his B. D. Degre from Duke
Divinity School. During the time
he was in the Graduate School he
was received into the membership
of Phi Beta Kappa and later was
made President of the Student
Body of Duke Divinity School. In
1955 High Point College conferred
upon him the honorary degree of
Doctor of Divinity.
Dr. Bowles joined the Western
North Carolina Conference in 1930,
and has served the following
churches: Bessemer Methodist,
Greensboro, N. C.; First Methodist,
Belmont, N. C.; First Methodist,
Wadesboro, N. C.; Broad Street
Methodist, Statesville, N. C.; Dil-
worth Methodist Church, Charlotte,
N. C.; and at present pastor at
West Market Street Methodist
Church, Greensboro, N. C.
As a member of the Western
North Carolina Conference, Dr.
Bowles has four times been elected
delegate to the Southeastern Juris
dictional Conference, and was a
delegate in 1956 to the General
Conference. He is a memiber of The
Commission on Deaconess Work
for The Methodist Church. He is a
trustee of Duke University, Bre
vard College, The Children’s Home,
and served for many years on the
Board of Managers of the Duke
Pastors School and the Methodist
Home for the Aged. In February
1955, he participated in the Inter
national Evangelistic Crusade to
Cuba, and was selected as one of
the speakers for the 1955 Metho
dist Series of the Protestant Hour,
sponsored by the Joint Radio Com
mittee of the Methodist Church.
He has had a constant interest in
the field of Christian Education,
serving on the Conference Board
and its Executive Committee for
many years. Due to this interest he
has attended many Church-Wide
Conferences and Asseaniblies, taught
in Christian Worker’s Training
Schools, and represents the Gen-
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LET IT RAIN,
LET IT POUR
The Clarion
so, WE’LL
JUST HAVE TO
SWIM TO CLASS
VOLUME XXVII
BREVARD COLLEGE, FEBRUARY 5, 1960
NUMBER 6
Anna Williamson Is CLARION Contest Winner
Brevard College
Announces Honor
Roll Dean's List
Those making the Dean’s List for
the Fall semester are the following:
Felix Castillo, Havana, Cuba; Joe
Harris, Asheville; Celia Hooper,
Canton; Barbara Parks, Lexington;
John Henry Pierce, West Jefferson;
Lynda Porter, Lincolnton; Jo Ann
Shouse, Pfafftown; and Becky
Sigmon, Conover.
To be on the Dean’s List, stu
dents must have a 2.5 average.
To be on the Honor Roll, stud
ents must have a 2.0 average.
Those making the Honor Roll for
the Fall semester are the follow
ing: Martha Adams, Gastonia; Joe
Alexander, Salisbury; .Thomas Bar
bee, Weaverville; Judee Britt,
Greensboro; Vandalyn Brown, Mar
ion; Dee Carden, Concord; Glover
Coggins, Thomasville; Lee Creede,
Greensboro; John Eller, Weaver
ville; Sandra Fleenor, Kingsport,
Tennessee; Jean Fluke, Brevard;
Patricia Greene, Thomasville; Doro-
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Glamour Magazine
Will Select Ten
For National Honor
MISS ANNA WILLIAMSON, the best dressed girl
at Brevard College, is shown here after her victory. Anna
will be entered in Glamour’s “Ten Best Dressed College
Girls in America” contest.
Olsen And Edison Are Victorious
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CHRIS OLSEN and Brenda Edison toast their vic
tory, Chris is the new May Queen, and Brenda ^er
maid of honor. Both girls were members of the May
Court last year.
Introducing the Queen of the
May—^Miss Christine Olsen. And
the maid of honor—Miss Brenda
Edison. These two girls along with
the eight reigning attendants from
the sophomore and freshman class
will participate in the annual May
Day program and dance in the
spring.
The attendants from the sopho
more class are Carole Mappus,
Jeanne Morris, Anita Smith, and
Betty Sutherland. Freshman at
tendants are Joyce Freeman, Diane
Nesbitt, Sandra Smith, and, Maxine
Callisher.
These girls were elected in a poll
of the two classes this week. The
queen and her attendant were
chosen in a general election of stu
dents on Friday, January 29.
Chris is a sophomore from Char
lotte, North Carolina. An adopted
southerner originally from Ohio,
she is a tall blue-eyed blonde., She
is pinned to a Sigma Chi, Paul
Poiey—the brother of her room
mate.
Another Gastonia girl, the maid
of honor, Brenda Edison is a tall
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Anna Williamson, a sophomore
from Dublin, Georgia, has been
chosen the best dressed girl at Bre
vard. In March, following her I0C9I
victory, Anna will be entered in
GLAMOUR, Incorporating Charm’s
“Ten Best-Dressed College Girls in
America” contest.
Earlier this year, this national
publication invited Brevard, as an
outstanding junior college, to enter
a girl in the contest. Anna was
chosen from a field of eight girls
on the basis of apipropriate and
well-planned wearing apparel, fig
ure, neatness in makeup and attire,
charm, and poise. Other girls run
ning for the title were Dotty
Ballew, Joy Cook, Joyce Freeman,
Susi Hodges, Lea Hood, Christine
Olsen, and Judy Wiley.
In the coming weeks, Anna will
be photographed in every possible
type of outfit to show the variety
and suitability of her wardrobe.
She will fill out a qualifications
form which, along with several of
the best of the photographs, will be
sent to GLAMOUR for the national
judging in New York.
If selected for national notice,
Anna will take a whirlwind dream
trip to New York, as a guest of
GLAMOUR, to be photographed by
the best of photographers in the
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Delphians, Nemos
Will Have Dance
The Mnemosynean and Delphian
societies will sponsor the 1960
‘^Sweethearts’ Ball” Saturday, Feb
ruary 13, at 8:00 o’clock, in the
Sims Camipus Center Building Audi
torium. Music for the evening will
be presented by the Lenoir Rhyne
Campus Cats.
Out of five candidates to be voted
on, one of them will be known as
the Delphian Sweetheart. This will
be withheld until the night of the
dance. The other four girls will be
her attendants.
The Mnemosynean and Delphian
societies hope that everyone of you
will thoroughly enjoy “The Swwt-
hearts Ball.”