THE
CLARION
Volume 44
THE
VOICE
OF BREVARD COLLEGE
Tuesday, February 1, 1977
Number 4
Sara Beard and Sally King discuss plans for con
vention .
Delta Pi Hosts
Regional Convention
In April of 1958, Brevard’s Phi
Theta Kappa chapter. Delta Pi,
got its first taste of national
recognition. It came in the form
of a PTK national convention in
which representatives of all 48
states converged on the tiny
Brevard College campus. At that
time Delta Pi was a fairly new
and relatively inactive chapter.
But, this national convention
proved to be the beginning of a
rich heritage of which Delta Pi is
justifiably proud. In recent
years, Delta Pi has become one
of the most active PTK chapters
of both Carolinas.
Phi Theta Kappa, like its “big
brother” Phi Beta Kappa, stands
for the promotion of academic
excellence on the junior college
level. One of its main objectives
is to acquire scholarships for the
campus’s brightest students.
Among Delta Pi’s scholarship
winners is former Brevard
College student Sue Caldwell. Sue
competed with Phi Theta Kappa
applicants across the nation for a
two-year, full-tuition scholarship
to Florida Atlantic University.
The climactic moment came for
Sue and Brevard College at the
national convention in
Philadelphia on March 25, 1975.
PTK’s national office both
shocked and thrilled Sue, the
Delta Pi delegation, and the local
sponsor, Mrs. Sara Beard, by
awarding Miss Caldwell the
scholarship.
Last year’s national con
vention proved to be an even
bigger success for Delta Pi.
Biloxi, Mississippi, was the site,
and the trip included a visit to
New Orleans. Representing
Brevard at the convention were
Angela Penley, Sally King (Delta
Pi’s current president), Wes
Sharpe, Cindy Caldwell, Pat
Terry (current Vice-President),
and Pete Lance. The Phi Theta
Kappa members were ac
companied by their sponsor, Mrs.
Sara Beard, who deserves a
lion’s share of the credit for Delta
Pi’s long list of honors. Delta Pi
was thrice honored, giving
Brevard College a huge amount
of national publicity.
The local chapter was named
one of the top ten chapters in the
nation. Mrs. Beard, who doubles
as North-South Carolina
Regional Advisor, was named
one of the top ten sponsors in the
country. To cap off the steadily
growing list of Brevard College
honors, Debbie King was named
the winner of the William
Faulkner Award for her essay on
Faulkner.
This year’s PTK activities
included a “coffee” for the
presidents of the North Carolina
Association of Junior Colleges
and a Halloween visit to the
patients of Transylvania County
Hospital in Brevard.
But one of Delta Pi’s biggest
honors came at Wayne Com
munity College in Goldsboro, N.
C., at last year’s regional con
vention. The Brevard Delta Pi
found itself nominated for
president of the North-South
Carolina Region. Mildred
Webber (last year’s president),
Pete Lance, Danny Armstrong,
and Kim Wehunt were sent to the
convention to campaign for
Brevard College. They found
themselves up against
neighboring Lees-McRae College
who brought with them a very
well-planned campaign. Using
what Mrs. Beard describes as a
“low-key” campaign, Delta Pi
upset Lees McRae and was
elected president of the North-
South Carolina Region. Another
honor accompanied this one, that
of hosting the 1977 regiona.
convention.
So Delta Pi now finds itself
with a big responsibility on its
hands. On February 4, PTK
representatives will be rolling
into Brevard College from all
over both Carolinas.
The chapter has been planning
the convention since its election
last year. President Sally King,
Mrs. Beard, and the rest of Delta
Pi’s members have put together
a full schedule of meetings and
entertainment to keep their
guests busy. The schedule in
cludes a concert and square
dance, which are open to all
Brevard College students, as well
as numerous business meetings
and a banquet with our own Dr.
Martinson as speaker.
The convention will also draw
a couple of PTK celebraties to
our campus. Marty Grant, who
represents the entire South on the
national level, will be here with
Lees-McRae’s delegates.
In addition to Marty, last
year’s national president. Kip
Johnson, will be visiting our
campus. Kip is now an honor
student at Duke University. He is
described by Mrs. Beard as, “a
charming young man who can
deliver an impromptu speech as
well as most college presidents
can deliver a prepared one.”
Delta Pi and Brevard College
are very privileged to be hosting
these representatives and special
guests, and PTK members ask
the students to cooperate in
making them feel welcome. So if
you see a strange face on campus
the weekend of February 4,5, and
6, give him a smile. Remember,
he is your guest too.
Kip Johnson
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Snow blankets Brevard College campus, again.
THE ICE AGE COMETH?
By Luke Osteen
The polar icecaps grow fall, the old timers of Brevard
enormous in the span of a few confidently predicted that the
years. Crops in traditionally winter of 76-77 would be mild as
warm regions wither and die the previous years. There must
under waves of cold air. Northern an abundance of starving
cities are bulldozed into the squirrels and freezing eater-
ground by marching glaciers, pillars running around.
Civilization crumbles as Man
again faces a savage Ice Age. Well, there is very little that
THE CLARION can advise to
Is that the finale of a make the winter months more
meteorologist’s nightmare? A bearable. Drive slowly. Drink
scene from a grade B science plenty of fluids. Wear your
fiction movie? “Certainly, cheap woolies. Keep warm. Pilgrim;
fiction,” say many of the world’s see ya after the Thaw,
top scientists. Still, you know that
sometimes, late at night, they
must feel the Worm of Fear
gnawing at the backs of their
minds. According to research
undertaken by the M^sachusetts
Institute of Technology and the
National Academy of Science,
the earth does in fact seem to be
Painters
Featured
At Reception
A reception for sophomore
passing through a cooling trend, painting students was given
one that will extend for at least January 11 by the freshmen art
the next three years, possibly the students in Coltrane Art
next three hundred. Building. The reception featured
a showing of the sophomore
Where does this leave Brevard students’ paintings. There were
College? — trudging through the several different kinds of pain-
worst winter in sixteen years, tings, including; a landscape of
This year’s record low of eight the college, a transparency, line
degrees below zero is surpassed without form, line with form, and
only by seventeen below in 1960. an open and closed composition.
And the worst is yet to come! The artists featured at the
“This is already the worst winter reception were: Linda Love,
we’ve had since I’ve been here”, Nancy Presley, Cecilia Hedenlo,
remarks Mr. H. L. Souther, the Jan Davis, Kathy Brown,
college’s bursar “Even down-Melanie Mather, Olin Caulk,
town you have people pushing Owen McWhirter, and Tommy
stalled cars.” We ^ould have Dial,
been ready for it, but we
were given faulty information. ^
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that wooly caterpillars were oes. ^
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