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NEWS
The Clarion
Faculty Research Award Winners Named
VP/Dean Bauslaugh
The five Division Chairs,
acting as a selection committee,
have sent to the Academic Affairs
Office their recommendations for
awarding the Pendleton and Sprinkle
research awards. More than the
usual number of awards could be
made this year, because no compe
tition was held in 1999/2000 and the
endowments have done well during
the past year. The Pendleton award
winners are;
MARGARET BROWN
(History) for presenting a paper and
serving as organizer and moderator
of a panel at the American Society
of Environmental History meeting in
Durham, NC. Prof Brown’s paper
is titled “Tourism vs. Preservation in
the Battle to Save the Brook Trout.”
JOHN GUDMUNDSON
(Music) for attending the Interna
tional Association of Jazz Educators
Conference in New York City in or
der to learn about publishing in the
Jazz Educators Journal and to ex
pand efforts to target music recruit
ment.
The Sprinkle aw'ard winners
are:
ANNE CHAPIN (Art His
tory) for presenting a paper at the
Archaeological Institute of America
annual meeting in San Diego, CA.
Prof. Chapin’s paper is titled
“Power, Privilege, and Landscape
Art in Minoan Society.”
PAUL ELWOOD (Music)
for attending the Summer Institute
for Contemporary Piano and Percus
sion at the New England Conserva
tory, Boston, MA, as an invited guest
composer. Prof Elwood will hold
master classes in contemporary
composition.
BOB GLESENER (Biology)
for presenting the results of his re
search on the white squirrel popula
tion in Brevard and the water qual
ity in King’s Creek at the 2001 NC
Academy of Science meeting in
Greensboro, NC. Prof Glesener may
also offer a presentation on the un
dergraduate salamander laboratory.
JIM REYNOLDS (Geology)
for presenting a paper and chairing
a theme session on the geology of
Argentina at the joint meeting of the
Cordilleran Section of the American
Association of Petroleum Geologists
and the Pacific Division of the Geo
logical Society of America, in
Northridge, CA. Prof Reynolds’
paper is titled “Magnetostratigraphy
of the Neogene Pena Colorada and
Las Manzanas Sections: Refining the
Tectonic Model for the Sierras
Subandinas, NW Argentina.”
The selection committee
was impressed with all of the
applications and particularly with
stated advantages in teaching that
the Pendleton and Sprinkle award
winners would provide. Congratu
lations to the recipients and thanks
to the Division Chairs!
Military Mail Program Continues [ Vandalism
Fayetteville, NC (Home of
Fort Bragg and the 82nd Airborne) -
All across the nation, individuals and
groups of all kinds, including stu
dents and campus groups, are al
ready writing fan mail to our troops
at home and abroad for Christmas
2000
“We know that U.S. troops
across the nation and around the
world appreciate the fan mail they
receive,” said G.B. Wiser, executive
director of the program. “Mail from
students may be especially wel
comed, as many of the young men
and women in uniform are college-
age.”
Mail from all over the nation
is sent to Friends of Our Troops
headquarters, where it is thoroughly
mixed, then made up into well over
1,000 packages of mail to be sent
out. “The packages range in size
from just a handful for small units
up to several thousand for an entire
base or one of the Navy’s large
ships,” said Wiser. “This helps to
get an appropriate amount of fan
mail to all those places.”
As the continuation of the
Vietnam Mail Call program estab
lished in 1965, there have now been
35 years of service to and support of
our soldiers, sailors, Marines, air
men, and coast guardsmen. A vi
sual overview of how the campaign
functions has been posted in the
online photo album at http://
www.militarymail.org/album.htm.
In addition, there are special schools,
colleges, churches, veterans groups,
youth groups, and Catholic pages.
To learn how to help boost morale
by writing fan mail for U.S. troops
all across the U.S. and around the
world, write to Friends of Our
Troops, P.O. Box 65408,
Fayetteville, NC 28306. (And men
tion where you read about the Mili
tary Mail campaign.)
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HALLOWEEN
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cakes attained, the more prayers for
the donors’ dead relatives were of
fered up. It was believed at this time
that after prayer for the dead rela
tive that it could expedite a souls
passage to heaven. The “trick”
of trick-or-treating came from the
16th and 17th Century Europeans.
Old women went from door to door
begging for coins or food. People
believed that the women were
witches and that if they failed to pro
vide the treats, the witches would
curse their families.
With all of the legends and
traditions surrounding the “evil
day”, in reality it is simply a celebra
tion giving acknowledgment to the
Celtic ritual celebrating a new year,
and medieval prayer rituals of the
Europeans. Halloween is only as
evil as one chooses it to be.
Isaac Bradley
With Halloween comes
vandahsm. Halloween is an en
joyable holiday in which people,
can dress up in costumes and at
tend social gatherings. But, to
some people Halloween is also a
time to engage in mischief
Those of us here at
Brevard College are fortunate that
we do not have a great increase in
vandalism during Halloween.
Steve Woodson, Director of Pub
lic Safety, said that the main types
of vandalism are things like roll
ing the trees with toilet paper.
Woodson said that since he be
came Director of Public Safety in
1989 there has been a decrease in
vandalism on campus. Students
today seem to be more mature and
do not do as much damage to
property as they once did.
Students who do engage in
vandalism during Halloween or
any other time are usually required
to pay reimbursements for dam
ages and may face other punish
ments as well. Woodson said that
there will be more people on the
lookout for vandalism and trouble
during Halloween. Students are
encouraged to keep their eyes and
ears open and report any vandal
ism they witness and to make
people be held accountable for
heir actions. It is everyone’s re
sponsibility to look out for each
other and our school.