'k Cross-CountryTeam Wins 3rd National Title ★
By Kelly Johnston
The Brevard College Cross
Country team finished first in the
National Junior College Cross
Country Championships in Twin
Falls, Idaho, on November 10,
winning the national title and pro
ducing four All-Americans,
Brevard’s victory was the first
time that a team had won the
N.J.C.A.A. championship title
three years in a row. Patrick
O’Grady, Charlie Purser, Glenn
Roach, and Rodney Curry each
received All-American honors.
The team arrived in Idaho late
Thursday night. On Friday,
Coach Norm Witek and the seven
runners got their first glimpse of
the five-mile course that runs
along the Snake River Canyon.
According to team members, the
weather was sunny and mild.
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'Brevard College All-Americans
Rodney Curry, Charlie Purser, and
Patrick O’Grady,
Glenn Roach.
They awoke on the day of the race
to a light snowfall. Weather con
ditions continued to consist of
sleet and rain with the average
temperature at 35’F.
The’ course was icy, causing
many of the runners to slip and
fall several times. According to
team member Rodney Curry, the
condition of the course benefitted
Brevard. He said, “The weather
conditions separated the other
competing team members. It in
creased the time gap of their first
five runners while Brevard’s run
ners stayed close together.”
Patrick O’Grady was the first
Brevard runner to cross the line,
finishing 8th overall. Charlie
Purser finished 17th, Glenn
Roach finished 18th, Rodney
Curry finished 25th, Winston
Brown finished 31st, Henning
Brandt finished 33rd, and David
Coulter finished 81st.
Team members attributed
their success to months of train
ing, the spirit of the team, and the
- concept of running as a team.
Coach Witek said, “We run
against major competition, like
A.C.C. schools and other four-
year colleges. The other guys
were worrying about the
weather. We just thought about
the race.”
Brevard ended the season with
a record of 96 and 9.
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Volume 52 Brevard College, Brevard, N.C. I Wednesday. December 5. 1984
Students File For Aid
Students who want to file for
Financial Aid for the 1985-86
academic year should do so as
soon as possible after January 1,
1985.
All students must file the
Financial Aid Form (FAF) for
1985-86 to be considered for aid at
Brevard College. Financial Aid
Administrator, Ed Cunningham,
has received the 1985-86 FAF ap
plications and has announced the
following distribution program:
1. All first year students who
were awarded financial aid in
1984-85 based on need will receive
the 1985-86 FAF form in their
campus mailbox prior to
December 7.
2. All other students desiring
the new 1985-86 FAF may pick up
the form at the Financial Aid Of
fice in Room 205 of Beam Ad
ministration Building anytime
after December 7.
Mr. Cunningham urges all
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Students Win Drum Corps Positions
. By Andrea Braymiller
Two very talented BC students
have been chosen as members of
Crossmen, a internationally
ranked drum and bugle corps.
Chris Burnett, a freshmaii, will
be playing snare drums while
Chuck Shelf, also a freshman,
will be a keyboard-marimba
player for Crossmen. Auditions
were held in West Chester, Penn
sylvania on November 23-25, and
approximately 150-200 people
tried out for the available posi
tions in horn, percussion, guard,
and drum major sections.
Burnett won one of the ten
snare drum postions. From
Gastonia N.C., Burnett has eight
years of experience with snare
drums, and in 1982 he was a
member of the Avant Garde
Drum Corps of Saratoga Springs,
New York. He is a member of the
concert band and the jazz band at
B.C.
Shelf won one of four open posi
lions for keyboard/marimoa
players, and will also be playing
tympani drums. He is from
Charlotte, N.C. and has been
playing keyboards for about
seven years. He is a music major
and the principal percussionist
for both the concert band and the
jazz band.
The Crossmen is made up of 128
people from all over the United
States. At the national champion
ships in 1984, they were ranked
tenth in the world. This place-
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BC Community Celebrates Christmas
Christmas is almost three
weeks away, but at Brevard Col
lege the season of preparation
and anticipation has already ar
rived. The Christmas spirit has
nestled in the practice hall of
Dunham Music Building with the
echoing phrases of Handel’s
Messiah and the pungent aroma
of beeswax and tallow candles.
Across campus, expectation is
growing for the celebration of
Christ’s birth with a service of
worship where the Brevard and
Brevard College community
gather for the annual lighting of
the Christmas tree. The 1984
Christmas Tree Lighting Service
will be held on Sunday,
December 9, at 7:30 p.m.
The lighting of the tree is the climax of the Brevard Col-
lege Christmas celebration.
The service owes it tradition to
the Moravian Candlelight service
and to a vision of Dr. C. Edward
Roy, professor emeritus of
Brevard College. Dr. Roy sought
to establish an annual tradition
on the Brevard campus of a com
munity gathering to light a
Christmas tree and to read the
Christmas story in celebration of
the Nativity. The small tree he
planted in front of the Dunham
Music Building years ago now
rivals the height of its neighbors.
The annual tree lighting was
combined with a Christmas Con
cert performed by the Brevard
College Music Department. Like
the Moravian Candlelight Ser
vice, small beeswax candles
trimmed with a red crepe paper
ribbon are distributed to each
member of the congregation. A
light from the altar is passed
from person to person until the
sanctuary glows from hundreds
of tiny flames, and swells with
hundreds of voices singing
Yuletide hymns. The congrega
tion recesses to the College Green
and participants surround the fir,
where upon the College Presi
dent, Dr. Jacob C. Martinson, Jr.,
reads the Christmas story. The
tree is lit and the candles are ex
tinguished.
Recent years have seen and in
creasing community interest in
The Christmas Tree Lighting. In
1983, over 400 people crowded into
Dunham Auditorium and . the
building foyer. The program
^irector, Alex Helsabeck,
cherishes that time for gathering
of friends and neighbors. He
said, “We want the community to
know the College. We want to in
vite them to share in this ex
perience of worship, proclaim
ing, ‘Glory to God in the Highest
and on Earth, Peace, Goodwill
towards men.’”
Helsabeck, Director of the
Brevard College Collegiate
Singers is joined by the Brevard
College Band Director, Steven
Kelly, in preparing for the con
cert.