NEWS BRIEFS
Environmental Awareness Group Needs You!
In the time you read this, do you realize that at least five animals will have
died from unnecessary laboratory testing, that the ozone layer is
diminishing due to industrial/consumer wastes, that thousands of trees are
being ripped out of the ground for paper products and skyscraper space, or
that some company is presently dumping their industrial wastes into a piwe
of land you or your children’s children may want to build a house on? It’s not
the best news to hear, but it needs to be heard and acted upon.
EC’s own Environmental Awareness Group has met once, and is in pro
gress of launching a campus-wide awareness program.
The group contains three divisions, each concentrating its efforts and con
cern on a specific environmental issue, including forestry, recycling, and
wildlife. The Environmental Awareness Group is asking for support from
faculty, staff, students, or anyone who breathes the air or walks the Earth to
become involved or become aware of the ‘casualties’ being caused by waste
and abuse of the earth and its other inhabitants.
For further information on EC’s Awareness Group and its efforts, please
attend the group’s next meeting, March 1 at 8:30 p.m., in Eoshamer Gym
Room 102, or contact Sharon Erown, EG 208, or Jan Gillean, MG 105.
Health Fair scheduled for March 21
Sharon Brown and Earbara White will co-sponsor a Health Fair on March
21. The Health Fair will be held in the Rutherford Room of the cafeteria and
will be open to faculty, students and staff. More specific information will be
available at a later date.
BC Jazz Band to perform at Grove Park Inn
Brevard College’s Jazz Ensemble will be featured in Asheville at the
Grove Park Inn’s Jazz Festival, March 17-18, along with jazz great Herbie
'ann on flute.
BC’s finest will perform Friday night from 8-10:30. The Grove Park Inn is
\ illing the BC thusly: “Rising jazz stars along with the 16-man big band of
Lrevard College.”
New Scholarship Offered by Math/Science Faculty
The faculty and staff of the Math/Science Division announces establish
ment of a new scholarship for Math and/or Science majors.
Up to $740 will be awarded to sophomores returning for the Fall 1989
semester. The number and amount of awards will be dependent on the
number of performance.
Freshmen currently following a Math and or Science track who wish to be
considered for the award should inquire with Mrs. Whitmire in the Math
Science Division Office (150A Moore Science Building). Applications must
be completed by March 29,1989. Recipients will be announced at the Honors
Day Ceremony, April 26, 1989.
The scholarship, the first of its kind, is funded completely by faculty and
staff donations.
Clarke Wellborn originated the idea, according to Acting Division Chair
Cheryl Hallowell, who says the scholarship is aimed at helping the college by
encouraging gifted students to pursue their studies in math and science at
EC.
March Life and Culture Events
Check your March calendars for these Life and Culture events after Spring
Break.
The Staley Lectures will be delivered in Dunham Auditorium on Tuesday,
March 21 at 8:15 p.m.; and on Wednesday morning at 10:15.
The Jazz Ensemble will be scorching the walls of Dunham with their an
nual spring concert on Thursday, March 23, at 8:15. Steve Kelly conducts
and just gets out of the way to let the horns blow.
Mark Nabholz’s College Singers present their annual spring concert on
Tuesday, March 28, at 8:15 p.m. also in Dunham.
Springfest scheduled for April 15
Springfest, the annual “derby day” style field day and picnic, is scheduled
for Saturday, April 15, at BC. There is a Hawaiian Luau set for noon and
talent show is on tap for Sunday night, the 16th.
Spring Formal: A Toestep Away
Dust off your dancing shoes and get ready for BC’s Spring formal This
year the big dance will again be held at Deer Park Inn on e i
Estates in Asheville, from 4 p.m. to 1 a.m. The event inc u es inner an
night of dancing. The featured band is Top Secret. Details to follow in T p
Clarion and on the matrix board in the cafeteria.
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Poets Corner
Slides
The Clarion February 28, 1989 Page 3
On Downtown Haywood Street,
a spiney, spindle-legged black man
skips light.
Sweatered in a crimson red cardigan,
smiles wide.
’Round the corner,
a young mother,
mean with make-up,
shelves a round-headed baby
on her hips.
And the brown haired boys
run quick quick,
flashing and shouting,
palming hot their pocket change.
Their dark eyes full of penny candy.
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Cumberland adventure awaits
by Jay AuHliii
(Clarion Reporter
What are you doing over spring break?
Going home, to the beach, snow skiing, or
camping?
Jan Gillean is taking nine students and
three faculty members on a week long hik
ing trip to Cumberland Island.
Among those going are Brad Dodson,
Marjorie Hawk, Alice Gaines, Kenny
Gallagher, Russ Bayne, Deborah Shook,
Brooks Goodwin, Alan Berrier, Edward
Jones, Devin and Sharon Brown, and Jan
Gillean.
The group will leave on Saturday, March
4, and the next morning travel over to
Cumberland Island by ferry.
Brad Dodson, who has been five times
before, said, “I think the ferry trip is half
the fun because you can see dolphins
swimming in the water.”
The group will spend the week camping
on the island and leave the island on Fri
day.
Each person will carry a 35-40 pound
backpack.
Cumberland Island is the largest of the
barrier islands off the coast of Georgia.
“There are many kinds of wildlife on the
Island,” Jan Gillean said. “There are wild
horses, deer, turkeys, and many birds. We
have to hang the food up at night to save it
from the racoons, they are crafty httle
characters.”
The island is a national sea shore and is
run by the Park Service which limits ac
cess to the island to 300 people per day.
Dodson said,“I really enjoy the Island
and am pleased with the good job the Na
tional Park Service has done and the up
keep of the island.”
Gillean said, “When we get over to the
island what we have is what we live on.
There is no place to run to the Coke
machine.”
BC takes to air udth Sunday series
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('.hirion Reporter
For those of you that can’t make it to the
various concerts and recitals here on cam
pus, the Second Sunday Series may be for
you. WPNF (AM 1240) airs the program
every second Sunday of every month,
directly after the 1 p.m. news. The show
features recent performances of students,
faculty, bands, and guests that have ap
peared on campus. The February show
featured the talents of Karen Hill, the
clarinet teacher here at BC, and Diane
Daniel, the EC percussion instructor.
The March show will feature two very
successful BC music alumni. Susan
Torella, who sang with the Metropolitan
opera, returned to BC on February 12 and
gave an encore performance. She was ac
companied on piano by Stephanie Brunelli,
a BC music faculty member. Also featured
will be pianist David Moody, a 1987
graduate of BC. Mr. Moody is currently
completing his bachelor of music degree in
piano performance at the University of
Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
The program format has changed from
the prior way of production. Tony Sirianni
now produces the show, while Mark
Nobholz hosts it. Devin Brown also has
begun to engineer the program, and hopes
to produce professional quality recordings
of the show. The half hour program is pro
duced in the studios on WPNF and on cam
pus here at BC.