THE
CLARION
THE
VOICE
Of BREVARD COLLEGE CAMPUS
Volume 39
Brevard College, Brevard, N. C., October 29, 1971
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Number 7
College Benefactor
Gheorghiu to be featured =
in Asheville Symphony I Edwin
L. Jones, Sr., Saturday
The opening performance of
the 1971-1972 season of the
Asheville Symphony Orchestra
will be held Saturday, October
30, in the Asheville City Audi
torium. Several of Brevard’s
students are active participants
in the Symphony.
Soloijsts for tha coming
year include violinist Aaron
Rosand, January 15, 1972; cel
list Leopard Teraspulsky, Feb
ruary 26; Harold Enns, bass-
baritone appearing March 26;
and pianist George Lucken-
berg, May 6. This year’s Sym
phony program includes many
de.serving pieces such as Sym
phony #104 (London) by Hay
dn, Overture to the Magk
Flute by Mozart, and Overture
to the Beautiful Melusine by
Mendelssohn. Of special inter
est will be the al]-Bartok con
cert.
-For Saturday night’s perfor
mance, the orchestra will offer
Brahms’ Symphony #1. Guest
soloist for the evening will be
Valentin Gheorghiu, the bril
liant Rumanian piano virtuoso.
He will play the Piano Concer
to #5 (Emperor) by Beethoven.
Season tickets are available
for the Symphony to students
for $3.50, but tickets will be
available at the door for each
individual concert.
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SHIRLEY SWANEY, the new Miss Chero
kee, is shown in a traditional Indian costume.
Brevard student wins
^Miss Cherokee’ title
(Editor’s note: In tribute
to the late Edwin L. Jones,
Jr., Dr. Robert A. Davis has
issned the following state
ment. Mr. Jones was a great
benefactor to Brevard College
and the community.)
“The entire Brevard College
community was saddened on Fri
day to learn of the death of one
of the stalwart leaders and tow
ering figures in the life of Bre
vard College.
“Mr. Edwin Jones Sr. had
served on the Board of Trus
tees of Brevard College since
the early 1940’s and was Chair
man of the Board of Trustees
from 1944 to 1959 one of the
most formative periods in the
life of the college. During these
years, under Mr. Jones’ leader
ship, a sound foundation was
laid upon which a strong insti
tution w^as built.
“Mr. Jones was not only a
builder of buildings, he was
a builder of worthwhile institu
tions including the church and
the college, and a builder of
sound character in human life.
The imprint of his leadership
and his vision is firmly placed
in the history and in the life
of Brevard College. His wise
counsel and dedication to Bre
vard College will be greatly
missed.
“The deepest sympathy of the
Brevard community goes out
to his widow, Mrs. Edwin Jones,
Sr., his daughter, Mrs. W.
Franklin Brown, who serves on
the Board of Trustees, and to
Mr. Edwin Jones, Jr.”
Funeral services for one of
the world’s great builders and
Methodist laymen were . last
Saturday at Providence Metho
dist Church in Charlotte.
Edwin L. Jones, board chair
man of J. A. Jones Construc
tion Co., died last Friday morn
ing as he had lived for 80 years
—on the go. He was striken
while waiting to board a plane
for a Chicago session of the
World Methodist Council. He
was pronounced dead at Pres
byterian Hospital shortly before
11 a.m.
Mr. Jones was one of 15 chil
dren of James Addison Jones,
vvho left an impoverished Ran
dolph county farm to become
a brick mason and finally to
begin a one - man contracting
business here in 1894. And it
was Edwin, at age 9, a water-
boy on downtown building pro
jects, who later became the
primary force in developing
the company’s organization and
growth into world-spanning pro
portions.
Bom here June 10, 1891, he
graduated from Charlotte’s pub
lic schools and Baird’s Prep
school in 1908 and from Trin
ity college (now Duke Univer
sity) with honors in 1912.
He joined his father’s firm
in that same year, and married
a Trinity college classmate, An
nabel Lambeth of Xbomasville,
three years later.
“We statred out in a four-
room house on Caldwell street
and wie ended up in a four-room
cottage at Presbyterian Home,”
Jones said recently when he
and his wife gave up their
handsome Sharon Lane home
for quieter, more convenient
living.
While his father was to build
Charlotte’s first “skyscraper” in
1909, the 12-story Independence
building, the son was to spend
the last 30-plus years of his life
flying to inspect dams, high
ways, industrial plants, office
and military complexes
throughout the Americas and
the Pacific.
Actually it was in the Great
Depression, when construction
companies everywhere were
dead or dying, that J. A. Jones
became expansionist by landing
a large contract to build a com
plete new air base in the Pan
ama Canal Zone. Son Edwin, in
charge of that project, landed
five others while there during
a three year period, and the
company came out of the de
pression with increased capi
tal, training in offshore mobil
ization and a largei, trained su
pervisory staff.
And Jones Construction was
there when the Roosevelt ad
ministration came on with hous
ing post office and military
construction projects. Public
contracts fell to Jones through-
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MR. MUNRO
Sympathy i^ extended to Mrs. Grace Munro
Associate Professor of Business at Brevard Col
lege, because of the recent death of her hus
band.
Mr. Thomas Munro was killed Friday morn-
mg, _ October 22, when the automobile he was
drivmg hit high water on U.S. 276 during heavy
rain and struck a tree.
A native of Columbus, Georgia, he was an
^untain Pont Corporation at Cedar
Funeral services were held Sunday, Octo-
ber 24 at the Brevard-Davidson River Presby
terian Church.
drama: The battle of the hush
While most of us at Brevard
were wrapped up in Homecom
ing activities, Shirley Swaney
was busy with reporters and
photographers. Shirley had
just been crowned Miss Cher
okee for 1971-72.
Wearing a beautiful red vel
veteen Indian dress trimmed in
white, Shirley sang “I’ll Walk
With God” for the pageant. A
parade and banquets were al
so on her busy agenda.
Shirley has in addition won
such honors as Miss Big Cove
(^ommunity and Miss Fall Fes
tival for 1970-71, and Miss Min
go Falls as well as Miss Chero
kee for 1971-72.
Upcoming events include
publicity work at the State
Fair during fall break. Thanks
giving and Christmas parades;,
and running for Miss Eastern
Indian America next year.
Congratulations, Shirley, and
good luck!
NOTICE
The Confetti staff is continu
ing to seek original works from
interested Brevard College
students. Photographs, short
storiesi, poems and art work
may be submitted to be con
sidered for publication. Works
should be placed in Box B-441.
November 20 is the ■ deadline
for receiving material.
It happened last week, just
before fall break, and the resi
dents of Ross Hall were duely
dismayed.
“But they just can’t do that,”
screeched Miss Brychcin.
“Well, they’ve done it,”
rumbled Mr .Holcombe.
It was the case of the mis-
ring bush. Here today, gone to
morrow. To be sure, life is
but a blade of grass that with
ers with the wind and is gone,
but a bush that disappears?
That’s a bit too much, and
from its home at Ross Hall
that’s exactly what happened.
The bush was gone — gone
where it had resided for no
one knows how long — just
gone!
“Now let’s get to the root of
the problem,” said Mr. Hol
combe.
“That is the problem,” obser
ved Miss Corbin. “Just where
are the roots?”
“It just left,” said Mrs. Hol
combe.
“You mean ‘leaved,’ ” sighed
Miss Brychcin.
“Now where would a box
wood wander?” said Mrs. Hol
combe.
After no little sleuthing, it
was discovered that the bush
had been spirited away from
Ross Hall to . . . the Presi
dent’s house. J
“But our bush won’t like it
down there,” said Miss Bry
chcin. “Its leaves will drop off.
It’ll just pini6 away.*’
“Shouldn’t happen to a dog
wood,” muttered Miss Corbin
An emergency assembly waS
called by Mr. Holcombe, and
various plans were discussed.
“We’ll retrive our bush by
force!”
“Violence!”
“Aggression!”
“No,” mused Miss Corbin,
1 d rather be redwood than
dead wood.”
It was finally decided that
the only thing that could be
done was to make a pilgrimage
to the new home of the bush,
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