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VOLUME XXXIII
BREVARD COLLEGE, BREVARD, N. €., NOV. 12, 1965
NUMBER 9
Tim Murray, Artist-ln-Residence,
Presents A Showing Of Prints
Brevard College’s artist-in-res-
idence, Tim Murray, is current
ly presenting an exhibit c£
prints in the Dunham Music
Center. Shown are 42 examples
of his work during the last two
years, particularly that done this
past summer at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Forty-one of the pictures are
done in either of two mediae:
etching or polymer. In the etch
ing process, the design is placed
on an ink plate with nitric acid.
It was by this method that all
books were produced before the
invention of the printing press.
After the plate is completed,
any number of prints may then
be made from it.
The other media, polymers, is
relatively new (within the last
two years). In this process, a
liquid plastic is applied to ma
sonite. Polymers permit the art
ist to be much freer than he is
in many other methods.
The forty-second work in the
exhibit is a drawing, a self por
trait of the artist.
Mr. Murray is head of the Bre
vard art department. He is an
Englishman, bom in Heading,
Eng.) who still retains his Brit
ish citizenship, but has lived in
the United States since the age
of eight. He first began draw
ing at the age of three, but did
not take up sculpture until 1959.
He attended Mars Hill College
(1957-59) and the University of
North Carolina (1959-63), major
ing in art. He completed the
majority of requirements for the
M.A. degree at U.N.C. in 1963.
During this time, Mr. Murray
studied graphic art, painting,
and sculpture.
He has exhibited his work in
various shows, such as the N. C.
State Shows (Raleigh, 1961-62),
the Chapel Hill Sidewalk Show
(1962-63), and the Mississippi
Southern Annual (1963). He
has also held one-man shows and
participated in group showings.
The oldest print in the present
exhibition was done in 1962; the
latest, in 1965. Mr. Murray com
ments on his artistic progress:
“There is a lot more freedom
in the later ones, particularly
in linear structure. I think I
have also achieved more matur
ity in my own mental thought.”
In 1963, Mr. Murray expressed
his purpose in his work when he
stated, “I am working at present
in abstract geometric • forms
dealing with relatkmships of
transparent space through visual
movements in time and mental
images.” Today, in 1965, he says
that his philosophy has not
changed to any great degree;
however, “I’m beginning to re
late the geometric to the organ
ic, coming out into a semi-ab-
stract vogue.”
Mr. Murray denies that he is
a member of any specific
school. “I’m not ready to be
classified yet. You could say
I’m of the school of contempor
ary situations.”
B.S.U. Leaders Attend
State Convention
On November 5-7, 1965, four
students accompanied by Mr.
Quentin Cantrell attended the
Thirty-sixth Baptist Student Con
vention of North Carolina. The
convention is sponsored by the
North Carolina Department of
Student Work and was held in
the Myers Park Baptist Church
in Charlotte, N. C.
Harry Byers, president of
BSU; Sharon Eckard, vice-presi
dent; Gail Drake, social chair-
man; and Brenda Ervin repre
sented BSU at the convention.
On Friday night, November 5,
a controversial movie, “The Par
able,” shown at the World’s Fair
in New York, was shown to more
than 900 students attending. Af
ter the movie was completed,
discussion groups, organized on
the basis of vocational interest,
were held.
Saturday morning an address,
“The (k>spel of Gk>d, the Kerug-
ma,” was delivered by Dr. Car
lyle Mamey, Senior Minister of
Myers Park. Discussion groups
were held immediately follow
ing the address.
Saturday afternoon Mr. Arthur
Driscoll, member of the Stu
dent Department of the Baptist
Sunday School Board, delivered
e talk. The subject was “With
Head, Heart, and Hands ... A
Vocational Summer.” All the
rest of the afternoon was free
to do whatever the students
wished.
Saturday evening at 8:45 Dr.
Charles Boddie, President of the
American Baptist Theological
Seminary, held “An Evening of
Singing with Dr. Boddie.” Slides
of the Cherokee work program
were also shown earlier in the
evening.
The convention was concluded
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Dunham Music Center
Is Formally Opened
Brevard College’s new Music department, the
Dunham Music Center, was formally opened last
weekend, marking another historic step in the prog
ress of Brevard College.
The first event of the weekend was a student
recital, the first formal student recital of the season^
featuring Miss Diane Lovelace, voice pujpil of Harvey
Miller. The recital was held Saturday night, Nov. 6»
at 8:00 p.m.
The Dunham Music building, formerly the Cam
pus Center building, will enable the Music depart
ment to offer a far more effective program, with the
added benefit of housing all studies in one place.
Those who attend the “Open House” will want to
see the new offices, teaching studios. Music Refer
ence Library and classroom space.
For many years the Brevard College Music de
partment has been on the move. The department, for
example, was housed in Old West Hall, long since tom
down, and in the basement of Taylor Hall before De
partment Head Nelson F. Adams came to the col
lege. For a while the music instruction was given in
the Coltrane house, a former president’s home, but
this, too, was removed when construction on the Bre
vard Methodist Church began.
Since its stay in the Coltrane house, the depart
ment has scatt-ered about the campus, offering instruc
tion wherever it could. At one time lessons were
being given simultaneously in the Brevard Methodist
church, the outdated first science building, in dress
ing rooms off the Dunham hall stage and in a dress
ing room off the Campus Center building stage.
When the new Bryan Moore
Science building was complet
ed, the Music department was
alowed to have the second old
science building as its home,
with the exception of the in
strumental groups, which were
housed in the college bam. In
the second science building, a
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THE RENOVATED AND NEWLY-NAMED Dun
ham Music Center was opened to the public on
Saturday, November 6th, when the first formal stu
dent recital of the year was given. Following
the recital, a reception was held and guests were
encouraged to tour the improved facilities. All
music lovers of Brevard were cordially invited, and
a special invitation went to the local music students
and their teachers.
frame structure that had once
served as a cafeteria. Music
Department instructors found
themselves teaching in former
kitchen and laboratory rooms.
Now, for the first time in.
years, the Brevard College
Music department will enjoy
the convenience of housing its
various programs and equip
ment under one roof. Prof,
Adams states:
“It is wonderful to finally
have more adequate facilities.
This will be the first time,
for instance, that we have had
listening facilities under the
direct control of the depart
ment, and this is the first time
we have had a classroom spe
cifically designed for the
study of music.”
The complete renovation of
the first floor of the former
Campus Center building, now
Dunham Music Center, has
provided studios, offices and
other teaching facilities that
are adequate for the depart
ment’s present needs.
On first floor can be found
the Music Listening room and
Reference Library, where basic
reference books will be avaU-
able to all music majors, and
specialized records used in
music courses can be heard.
This room will also give space
for the proper cataloging of
a large number of musical
scores which formerly were
largely inaccessible. Now that
an accurate record can be
made of these, they will be
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