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THE CLARION
FEBRUARY 24, 1961
The Lenten Season
W'Jien the young men of America left the com
forts of home and prepared for war, they were first
sent to a training camp, not only to be schooled, but
also to be hardened by the process. They were to be
made “fit” for war.
Lent, too, is the time for training in the necessary
disciplines of life. By observing Lent, onei determines
whether the pleasures of life have actually become
xiiecessities.
A few years ago at Brevard College, a group of
students decided to observe Lent by abstaining from
eating dinner for the 40-day period, and to give the
money thus gained to a charitable organization. How
ever, these students failed to catch the true signifi
cance of Lent, for, even though they did not eat
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MUSIC NOTES
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The second Lyceum program'
for this school year will be on
Wednesday night, March 1.
PLAYERS INCORPORATED will
present Shakespeare’s play The
Merchant of Venice. In addition
to the faculty and student body,
tlie Kiwanis Club of Brevard will
be present for this program. We
welcome the Kiwanians to our
campus and hope that they
might wish to make this an an
nual “ladies night” affair for
their group.
Brevard Chamber of Commerce
banquet to be held at the Ar
mory on Thursday night, March
2. This will be the first appear
ance of this group for the spring
semester.
When You're Alone
By Vandalyn Brown
I 'i’he College Madrigal Singers
lunch in the cafeteria, they later went to a downtown featured in the annual
restaurant for their meals. Thus, they had sacrificed - —— - -
nothing.
During the Lenten season, each person should seek
±o observe greater fidelity to prayer, to emphasize
more the daily reading of the Bible, and to show more
concern for building concrete religious habits.
Physically, Lent is the 40-day period pr^eding Eas
ier, beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending on ^ ™
Sunday. But Lent is much more than smply a phys -
cal lact It is a time for discipline, for paying attention
S 4e needs of one’s own soul, for determining who
gmaste? -- man or his appetites. The sacrifices the
abstinence from purely social forms, are merely a
fort to disengage oneself from the world
fx> take a piercing, searching look at life, and to clea
life of its less important activities m favoi of disci
pline.
There Are Others
Alpha Beta Gamma and Pi Theta ^appa, I the scho
lastic honorary fraternities on campus, have recently
held their induction services. To become a member
of one or both of these organizations is a much-covet-
S honor, and those inducted deserve smcere congrat
ulations. This is a recognition of the many
they have spent studying, of their exemplary cond
as students, of their above-average grades and of
Hieir interest in th^iir courses and then school.
But this is not to say that these students are the only
deserving ones. There are those who are capable ot
making only C’s. And many of these students have
Sudied as long, have conducted themselves as well
have had the same interest, and have made the best
grades they are able to make. May they somewhere
find the recognition and appreciation which they need
and deserve. •
And for those who almost made it, but fell sUghtly
short of the mark, there is always another chance.
For the freshmen there is next year, and for the sopho
mores there will be other organizations and other
forms of recognition. The important thing is to keep
trying — not so that others will know they can meet
the standards set by an organization, tout so that they
can keep progressing and learn and know within them
selves that they have tried.
It is a wonderful achievement to meet the require
ments of one of these organizations and be accepted
into its membership, but it is more importai^ to bring
forth the best qualities and the highest effort in order
to leam and live as each of us should.
till H
The fourth program for this
year’s Asheville Civic Music Ser
ies will be presented on March
4, It will feature Grant Johan-
nesen, Pianist.
The Chromatic Club of Bre
vard College will have its first
meeting of the spring semester
on Saturday, March 4. It will be
gin with supper in the faculty
dining room and will be followed
by a business session. Those hav
ing tickets tor the Asheville con
cert will then leave together
for this concert. It is hoped that
we can find additional tickets
for this concert so that more
ciub members may attend the
program. All members are urged
to remember this meeting.
Nicholson To
Speak During
REW March 5-9
Religious Emphasis Week will
be held March 5-9, the first ser
vice being held Sunday evening
March 5, in the Brevard Metho
dist church.
The speaker for these sessions
will be Mr. R. H. Nicholson, pas
tor of the First Methodist church
There are many different
forms of happiness. There is the
serene contentment that comes
with the living of a full, rich
Ijle. There is the unbidden ecs
tasy that comes with first love
and never returns in the same
way. And there is a calmness
that comes with having a sense
of direction.
Even though there are those
v/ho say that the object in life
is not to be happy, everyone is
searching for happiness. Why,
then, does it always elude us
when we try to trap it and come
to us when we least expect it?
Happiness comes to different
J people in different ways. There
are those persons who seem to
have been born either for joy
or tragedy, and when happiness
comes to them it comes as bright
ness and vivacity and it fills
their lives.
And there are others who ac
cept their happiness knowing
that it might not last. They ques
tion it and do not let it get too
firm a grip on them.
Others bring it into their lives
with calmness and serenity.
V.’hen and if it leaves their lives,
they continue with their routine
vi'ith no noticeable change even
though they are slowly dying in
side.
Happiness often comes from
an unexpected source. We are
not expecting it and possibly
v/e do not want it from just that
particular source, but it is bet
ter to accept it than to fight and
become weary. For it is what
we really want and it is what
is best for us. The only thing to
question about happiness is if
it is real and true or merely a
moment of light coming during
a dark time seeming to be a ray
of eternal joy.
Happiness to one person is
misery to another, but if we live
and love and learn as we should,
we will each get a chance to find
our own particular type of hap
piness.
Miss Crook
The Clarion Staff
PRESS
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Staff Writers and Typists — Sara Whitmire, Jerry Tillotson,
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Wilson, Eleanor Mefford, Carole Padgett.
By JERRY TILLOTSON
I feel sorry for Miss Crook.
She was here one day, but then
gone the next. She lived in our
town all of her life, never ventur
ing from its site, even with the
advent of automobile and jet-
propelled transportation, so they
say. I never knew her myself ex
cept on sight, but then no one
could mistake the pitiful, hunch
ed figure in the faded blue
gingham dress and the thread
bare cashmere coat. She would
give a wan smile to passers-by,
but her light brown eyes seem
ed to be on some object in her
mind, looking at it from differ
ent angles, but then casting it
suddenly aside as something too
awesome to touch. What was it,
[ wonder. They say that she was
once a beautiful woman, with all
the young men in town in pur
suit of her, but as her mother
had died while quite young. Miss
Crook was dominated by an ir
rational father who kept her in
the house, forever berating her
about the meek or some person-'
al mannerism.
He said to her once, “You can
make yourself happy by marry
ing a man, or you can make me
happy by staying with me until
1 die,” Miss Crook never married.
She stayed with her father, nev
er uttering a complaint, mixing
liis medicine, answering his cor
respondence arid cleaning the
house, until he died ten years
later. They say that her eyes
held no tears at the funeral. Her
young beauty had faded now,
and she gave up any ideas about
matrimony. She shut up most of
the house, covering the furniture
in long, tapering white sheets,
and used only the first floor
of the house as her home. She
began going to the quilting part
ies and church suppers. She can
celled her subscription to Read
ers Digest and subscribed to The
C hristian Advocate. She was now
one of the old crowd. They say
that an elderly man in the neigh
borhood took an interest in her,
but she snubbed him on the
streets and he never recovered.
Miss Crook doesn’t live in the
old chocolate house now, the
one with broken windows and
sagging porch. She lies under the
ground on the hill, in the family
cemetery. Her grave is situated
in an inopportune location. In
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of Waynesville, Mr. Nicholson is
a native of North Carolina, hav
ing been born near Statesville in
Iredell County. He graduated
from Harmony High School in
1P33 and from Lenoir-Rhyne Col
lege in 1937. Mr, Nicholson re
ceived his BD degree from Duke
University Divinity School and
did one and one-half years of
special work in the Duke Univer
sity Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences, During World War II
he served as a chaplain in the
U. S, Navy and again during the
Korean War. He maintains »
commission with the rank of
Commander in the U, S, Naval
Reserve,
Mr, Nicholson is married to
the former Hazel Montgomery
of Statesville, and they have
three children, two boys and a
girl, ages respectively 13, 11, and
8.
Religious Emphasis Week was
originated by Mrs, A. W. Flyer,
who established a fund, the in
terest from which will each year
bring an outstanding preacher
to the campus.
Her husband, the late Dr. A.
W. Plyer, was a Methodist minis
ter in the Western North Caro
lina Conference, He served as
a charter member of the Board
of Trustees of the college, show
ing great interest in the college s
work and promises for gromn
He was co-editor for the Nortn
Carolina Christian Advocate ana
served in that capacity for many
years. The church suffered a
great loss when, in 1956,
Plyler died at the age of
Mr. Nicholson, speaker for tn
forth-coming Religious Emphasi
AVeek, will present a talk to
Brevard College student body
Wednesday, March 8, at the
lar assembly service,
The library has a display
of career pamphlets which
hopes the students will
to their advantage. If
would like ”or1an
special career, the
will be happy to order pamp
lets.
A number of new Pho‘®
graphy books which the ]0U
nalism department gave t
library are beginning to com
in. These are also on spec
display.