clarion
Brevard College, Brevard, N.C.
Monday, April 30,1990
Volume 57, Number 11
Honors Day
Bassoonist Anita Lyn Cocks and
Judicial Board Vice President Lin
Redmond were the two most highly
decorated students at EC's Honors Day.
The two outstanding sophomores
were among hundreds of BC students
receiving awards at the annual
ceremonies in Dunham Auditorium,
April 25.
The top honors were presented by
President Greer to three of the schools
most outstanding students. Annually,
ihe College gives three coveted
Presidential Awards at this time: for
Service, Achievement and Leadership;
Citizenship and Scholarship Awards are
presented at Commencement
These five sophomore awards are
voted upon by the faculty and approved
by the Honors and Awards Committee,
except for the Scholarship Award,
automatically goes to the graduating
sophomore with the highest academic
average.
Wednesday's Presidential Awards
went to Anita Lyn Cocks for
Achievement, Tom Bernal for Service
and Lin Redmond for Leadership.
Anita Cocks, a Martinez, Ga., music
major, entered BC as a Jones Scholar,
winning the Freshman Scholar Award
last year with a 4.0
GPA. She is a member of the
honorary scholastic fraternity Phi Theta
Kappa and serves as Chief Student
Marshal and was named to the national
list of Who's Who Among Junior
College Students.
BC resdy for graduation
Outstanding students cited at ceremony
Anita Cocks receives the
Presidential Award for
Achievement at Honors Day.
In addition, she was last year's
recipient of both a Music Scholarship
and the Outstanding Freshman Music
Major Award. She has also received a
Brevard Music Center Scholarship, and
won first place last year in the Asheville
Symphony Young Artists Competition.
She plans to continue her study of
bassoon at Florida State University
where she has been granted a tuition
waiver and a $1,000 scholarship.
At this year's Honors Day, Cocks
won the Outstanding Music Major
BC President Billy Greer congratulates Tommy Bernal for winning the
Presidential Award for Service.
Award and was named one of five.
Sophomore Scholars.
Tom Bernal, this year's recipient of
the Presidential Award for Service, is an
Honor Roll student who last year
received the Math/Science Faculty
Scholarship. In addition, he is a member
of the track team. His primary service
profect has been volunteering to work
for the past two years with fourth and
fifth graders at Brevard Elementary
School where he earns this praise from
the teacher he assisted: "He has been a
Approximately 140 students will be
receiving diplomas from Brevard
College this year.
Commencement exercises are set for
Sunday, May 13, at 2 p.m. in Boshamer
Gymnasium.
The weekend begins with th? 10
a.m. Saturday, May 12, Alumni Brunch
for Graduates and Faculty. Held in
Myers Dining Hall, the event is
designed to officially welcome the
graduation candidates into the BC
Alumni Association.
Also, it will be a time for
reminiscing. This year the Office of
^blic Information will sponsor Dan
Curnow's first ever BC Video
Yearbook.
At 11 a.m. the sophomores go to
gym for the traditional graduation
fthearsal. That evening at 6 a picnic
'"'ill be held on the lawn and in the rose
83rden beside the dining hall.
Sunday morning begins with a 9:45
Baccalaureate SCTvice at the First United
Methodist Church across the street from
the College. That event begins
traditionally with the blue-robed
sophomores parading from Dunham
Music Center across campus, under the
Old Gate and across the street to tlie
church.
Retired Bishop W. Kenneth
Goodson will be tiie Baccalaureate
speaker. Bishop Goodson of Wmston-
Salem, is a long-time Trustee of Brevard
CoUege. His name should be famiUar to
BC students; he's the second half of
"McLarty-Goodson."
After the 11 a.m. brunch at the A.G.
Myers Dining Hall, G^^duatnon
Exercises will be held m Boshamer
Gymnasium. Commencei^nt had
originally been scheduled to be ^Id o
the lawn but were moved inside because
of Brevard's unptedict^l^ve^||^
Dr. George Shilling
This year's graduation
speaker is Dr. Roy B. Shilling Jr., the
president of Southwestern University.
Georgetown, Texas.
The traditional reception on the
president's lawn will follow graduation
at approximately 3:30 p.m.
great help to us as well as an inspiration
for our children..! really hate to see this
school year come to a close, because it's
people like Tom that have made a
difference."
Next year Bernal will attend N.C.
State University to study engineering.
Lin Redmond of Flat Rock, N.C.,
received the Presidential Award for
Leadership. She served as a counselor
for Project Winners last summer and
wmked on the 1990 spring break servk*
trip to Washington, D.C. In addition
she was this year's Clarion assisunt
editor, SGA Judicial Board Vice
President and named to Who's Who.
Redmond also received other awards
and recognitions at this year's Honor's
Day, including outgoing SGA officer
appreciation and the new Lauterer
Scholarship Award given to Clarion
editor who through her craft best best
lives up to the school motto, "Leam So
That You May Serve."
The Lauterer Scholarship Award
was created by the College's Director of
Public Information in the belief that
"young journalists should be encouraged
to use their conrununications talents in
the media to better their worid," said
Lauterer.
Next year Redmond will take a break
in her studies of Public Affairs to work
at BC as the new editorial assistant in
the PublK Infoimation Office.
Freshman Scholar Awards went to
the two students tied with a perfect 4D
average: Eric Chason of Lake Toxaway
and Russell Knights of Brevard.
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