PAGE FOUR
THE CLARION
May 8, 1970
TORNADO WARNING!
By MARK TODD
Track Squad Headed For Nationals
Suddenly the semester and the school year are
coming to a frenzied close, a close perhaps not un
like most of the preceding part of the year. In this
final little piece of journalism, it seems a good time
to take a look at the whole sports year at Brevard
College in pers'pective.
Needless to say, it has been a good year, a
successful year. Brevard College has sent to the
NJCAA Nationals the Cross Country Team, Soccer
Team, and soon, the Track Team. The fired up Bas
ketball Team managed to make it all the way to the
regionals by trouncing highly regarded Gaston Col
lege this winter.
The Brevard College Golf Team, forced to go
completely with non-returning talent, found the tal
ent it had to be its best in Brevard College history.
They stunned the Western Carolinas Junior College
Conference last week by taking a comeback victory
over highly favored Spartanburg Junior College.
And let’s not forget the Tennis Team, the first team
in history for Brevard to gain a fair amount of suc
cess.
But while basking in the glow of the succ^
Brevard has had, we must stop and think who has
been responsible for all these honors. Of course, the
staff including Coaches Martin, Burch, Witek and
Neal, must once again be commended. But perhaps
it is impossible to thank the people most responsib e
for the success. All the nameless, perhaps unseen
heroes 'played perhaps the bigger part.
While it is true that the stars in these various
sports did everything they could to lead the team to
victory, thev undoubtedly would have failed if the
team as a ‘whole, including the numeroias obscure
members, had not given their full support. It is to
these many hard working, spirited, and dedicated
competitors that much of the credit belongs even
though they are not the ones who get the headlines.
Indeed, they are a major part of any successful
team’s success.
By ED WILLIAMS
After successfully defending
its title, Brevard College’s
track team has the big task of
making a good showing in the
National Junior College Athle
tics Association Track Meet in
Kansas on May 16-17.
Throughout the season, which
began in April, the track team
has swept by some of the small
schools in the conference and
some of the big schools not in
our conference.
Soccer Team Loses
To Western Carolina
BREVARD SOCCER
Brevard College met West
ern Carolina University last
Friday at Cullowhee for the
last soccer match of the spring
season. Western Carolina was
fully prepared to win since
they lost their last match to
Brevard on April 3.
The score was 7-6 in favor
of Western Carolina. Western
Carolina scored five goals in
a row in the first quarter, and
Brevard scored three in the sec
ond quarter. During the third
quarter, Ralph Lundy, Brevard’s
half-back, passed a corner kick
close enough to the goal that
one Western Carolina full-back
knocked it in by mistake. It
helped Brevard score one more.
Mike Michner scored two;
Brackey Brenizer scored one;
and John Collins put in one, in
the losing effort.
Tennessee, our biggest threat,
fell very short of their propos
ed victory over Brevard. The
Roadrunners caught them look
ing and won fourteen events
out of seventeen, thus handing
Tennessee their first loss in
six years.
Wingate, Milligan, and Cum
berland fell to the mighty rush
of Brevard also. Then came the
Regional Tract Meet at Sand
Hills, North Carolina. The mem.
bers of the team asked each
other whether they had driven
to the Carribean or to some
remote desert sand dune. For
at Sandhills, the temperature
must have been about ninety
degrees, and with not a trace
of shade on the track and a
limited number of losses. What
began as a very wide-open
track meet ended in a massacre
in favor of the Roadrunners.
As if the weather were test
ing the team’s ability, rain and
cold air greeted the team at the
Rome Relays in Rome, Georgia,
on May 1. Berry College of
Rome, Georgia, was favored by
the local sports fans, but after
^some hair - raising moments,
Brevard got the momentum go
ing and opened up the margin
to victory. This ended our sea
son with a 7-0 record—the best
track season in Brevard’s his
tory.
Now it’s off to the Nationals,
hard work and hopefully a re
ward.
World News Roundup
By: BARBARA PARIS
U. S. LAUNCHES DRIVE in
to Cambodia to attack the half
a dozen untouched enemy bas
es left stretched along the
western border of the Mekong
Delta to the region north of
Saigon. Ten Americans were
reported killed and 38 wound
ed.
STRIKE CALLED FOR by
campus newspapers across the
country to protest the military
action in Cambodia. Strikes
have been declared at Prince
ton, the University of Penn.,
Sarah Lawrence and Bryan
Mawr, and strike plans are un
der way at Notre Dame, Bran-
deis University and Stanford.
WALLACE BIDS to regain
the governor’s chair in Ala
bama and is expected to have a
tight race. If Wallace loses the
Democratic primary, it could
dull his national political image.
INDIA LEADERS push for-
their own nuclear weapons sys
tem, and it is only a question of
'time before the step is taken.
Many are still against the bomb,
but it is stated that a majority
of members of the Parliament
are in favor of changing the na
tion’s long standing peace pol
icy.
‘Robert A. Davis Installed
Secretarial Class Visits GE
The Secretarial Science 27
class took their last class
iod on Tuesday, May 5, and
visited the General Electric
plant in Hendersonville. The
group did this in order to get
a better idea of what working
conditions will be when they
are actually on the job in a few
weeks.
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CAMPUS RADIO i
STATION
The prospective secretaries
were first given an introduc
tion to GE by Mr. Tom Neal,
Public Relations Manager and a
former graduate of Brevard
College. They were also shown
slides of the parts of the plant
which they would not see on
their tour and of how GE light
ing is used all over the world.
One of the secretaries at GE
Mrs. Pat Wilde, then took the
girls on a tour of the plant.
They were taken to different
division offices, and in each
office they were given a brief
explanation of the work which
is done there.
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as well as factual knowledge
and in the favor of God as
well as the favor of man,
“To the Trustees and to the
church which called this institu
tion into being and which now
sustains it, I pledge my all to
the end that neither this gene
ration nor the next shall be sold
cheaply to false values and easy
answers which cannot sustain a
faithful life.”
The principal address at
the inaugural program was
delivered by Bishop Earl G.
Hunt, Jr., resident bishop of
the Charlotte Area of The
United Methodist Church.
Bishop Hunt stated that “the
Christian college today, in spite
of all its problems, is a far
stronger enterprise than it was
in earlier periods of its history.”
He said ,“Our nation re
quires for the safe preserva
tion of both its idealism and
maintenance of a dull system
of colleges and universities.”
Bishop Hunt went on to add;
“I pause to pay grateful tribute
to state-supported higher edu
cation and its galaxy of dis
tinguished teachers and ad
ministrators—nowhere brighter
than here in North Carolina.
“But at the same time, we
must reaffirm the importance
of the historic duality of the
private-public system of high
er education, with its invalu
able structure of checks and
balances.
“The church-related college
throughout its history, has
played what may be called the
‘role of conscience’ to public
institutions as the point of value
articulation and the concept of
commitment,” he continued.
The Bishop praised Presi
dent Davis as effecting “a
combination of astute under
standing of the student mind
the Christian church.”
The inaugural program was
the highlight of a full weekend
of activities which began with
the dedication of the McLarty-
Goodson Classroom Building
and an Inaugural Dinner Fri
day, May 1st. The dinner was
followed by an Inaugural Con
cert in the Dunham Music Cen
ter provided by Brevard’s music
department.
Saturday, May 2nd activities
began with the annual meeting
of the college’s board of trus
tees, followed by an Inaugural
Luncheon and the Inaugural
Program at 2:30 p.m.
Music for the Inaugural
Program was provided by the
music department of Brevard
College and the Brevard
Senior High School Concert
Band. A reception honoring
President Davis was held
after the ceremony in the
.Tames Addison Jones Library.
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