The Clarion
Volume XXXV
A Weekly Publication of Brevard College
BC Music Department
Presents Recital Tonight
The BC Music Department will present its 5th
formal recital of the 1967 - 68 year on March 1 at
8:00 p.m., in Dunham Fine Arts Auditorium. The
featured recitalists will be Scarlett Estridge, piano;
and Tommy Thompson, trumpet. Mr. Thompson will
be accompanied by Miss Martha Poole.
Miss Estridge will perform the following works:
Cinfonia No. 12 in a major, by J. S. Bach; Impromtu,
CH)us 90 No. 2, by Franz Shubert and Beethoven’s
“Pathetique” Conanta, Opus 13 (First Movement).
A native of Charlotte, Miss Estridge is a sopho
more music major who plans to transfer to Greens
boro College next year. There she will continue her
studies, majoring in Music Education with an em
phasis on 'piano. She plans to teach in public school
after graduation.
Scarlett’s background activities include partici
pation in the college wind ensemble and choir, as
well as participation in the BC touring ensemble. In
addition to her musical activities, she is the vice-pres-
ident of West Beam, secretary of the NEA student
organization and is in charge of the music for Re
ligious Emphasis Week.
Mr. Thompson, one of Mr. Cousin’s students, is
a native of Charlotte and plans to transfer to East
Carolina University to continue his musical studies
after graduation from Brevard.
A member of the college soccer team, Tommy
also plays trumpet in the college wind ensemble.
, His selections will include works by Burnet Tut-
mV Andrieu and G. Alory. The recital
will be concluded with Conata for Flute, Oboe and
lano by Jean - Baptiste Loeillet with Celia Henry,
iiute, Dego rah van Seiver, oboe, and Mrs. Louise
Miller, piano.
There will be no admission charge and the pub
lic 18 encouraged to attend.
BREVARD COLLEGE, BREVARD, N.
REV. FINLATOR
MARCH
Religious Emphasis Week
Begins On March 3rd
TTT The ninth annual Plyler Religious Emphasis
Week will be held March 3-7. Reverend W .W. Pin-
lator of the Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Ral-
eigh, North Carolina, will be the speaker for the var
ious programs.
The worship committee, which is made up of
various organizations, is responsible for each of the
services. This includes selection of hymns, respon
sive readings, and persons who are to assist. The or
ganizations participating in the services are Sunday
Christian Council; Monday
at 1:00, Cliosophic and Euterpean societies; Tuesday
at 1:00, Mnemosynean and Delphian societies; Wed-
nesday at 11:00, Day Students; and communion on
Thursday morning at 7:00, Kappa Chi.
PC At BC To
Present Sacred Music
Brevard College will be host
to the Presbyterian College
Choir, from Clinton, S. C., on
March 7.
Under the direction of Char
les T. Gaines, Assistant Profes
sor of Music and Chairman of
the College Music Department,
the co-educational choir will
present a proigram of sacred
and secular music drawn from
various periods of Music His
tory including Renaissance,
Baroque, Classic, Ro'mantic, and
Modern. Although the basic re
pertoire is sung acappella Mr.
Alon G. Cook, instructor in or
gan and theory at Presbyterian,
wall perform as accompanist on
several pieces.
No>w in tneir third year of
touring, the men and women of
the 41-voice choir represent 7
states and 2 foreign countries.
At P.C. which turned co-edu
cational in 1966, the group sings
weekly for chapel services and
has presented the choir
along most of the Eastern Sea
board. This spring the choir is
touring the Carolinas.
The conductor of the Presby
terian College choir is Charles
T. Gaines. In 1965, P.C. turned
co-educational, admitting wo
men students for the first time
since its founding in 1880. The
same year, Mr. Gaines, then a
recent graduate of Union Theo
logical Seminary in N.Y. arriv
ed and took charge of the new
Department of Music.
At the seminary, Mr. Gaines
was assistant Field Work Super
visor. He had occasion to con
duct the seminary Chodr. His
background includes 7 years
choirmaster - organist experi
ence at Wesley Methodist
Church in Bloomington, Illinois,
prior to his Doctoral Studies at
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Mr, Roy, Lynn Horry, and
Christian Council are in charge,
of arrangements for Religious
Emphasis Week. Committee
heads are Programs, Becky Mil
ler; Publicity, Patti Page; ESi-
tertainment, Cathy Wayant and
Jeanie Selleck; Activities, Kay
Welsh; and Music. Scarlett Eit-
tridge.
In 1959, Mrs. Plyler, in mem
ory of Dr. A. W. Plyler, estalb-
lished a fund, the interest from
which brings an outstanding
preacher to the Brevard Col
lege campus annually.
Prior to his death in 1956,
I^. A. W. Plyler devoted his
life to the Methodist Church in
Western North Carolina. As a
charter member of the Board
of Trustees of the College, h©
showed great interest in the in>
stitution’s growth and oseftil*
ness to the church. For many
years he was a oo-editor with
his brother, Dr. M. T. Plyler, ol
Advocate.
The Presbyterian College Choir
Mr. Finlator was graduated
from Hugh Morison High School
in Raleigh, N. C„ Wake Forest
College, and Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary at Louis:-
ville, Kentucky.
Before going to Pullen Me
morial Baptist Church, Mr.
i Finlator served Weldon Baptist
Church, Pittsboro Baptist
Church, and First Baptist
Church of Elizabeth City.
Mr. Finlator is a member of
the public affairs committee
for the Baptist State Conven
tion of North Caolina, a s&em*
ber of the President’s National
Committee for Community Ser
vice, a member of the Board
of Directors for the North Car
olina Chapter of American Civil
Liberties Union, Chairman of
the Legislative Committee for
the North Carolina Chapter of
Civil Liberties Union, a mem-
her of the ComTti^ttee on Leg
islation and Morals in the
North Carolina Council of
Churches, and a mrmber of the
North Carolina Advisory Com
mittee of the U S. Commis.sion
cn Civil Rights.
Mr. Finlator is married ^'o the
former Mary F]iz?beth Purvis
fif Salisbury. He has three chi),
■’ren, Wallace a graduate stud
ent at the University of Peftn-
vlvania; Eli'^abeth, a senior at
Bradley University in Peoria,
TJIinoi'!; and M3r*ha, a senior
at Needh?m B-. ighton High
School.