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Mav 4, 2005
Brevard College to lose numerous faculty in Fall 2005
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Retirement, sabbatical leave take heavy toll
with a arant from the Appala
by Jamie Michaels
Special to The Clarion
Brevard College will suffer great losses
next yeeir as many valued faculty will not
be here in the fall.
Their reasons for leaving are varied:
some will take a year of sabbatical, some
have terminated their interim contracts,
some are retiring, and some have been of
fered opportunities elsewhere.
In the division of Environmental Sci
ence, Mathematics, and Natural Science,
the division chair, Dr. Larry Ragsdale, will
be retiring at the end of this semester. Also
leaving the ESMNS division, though only
for one year, will be Dr. Jennifer Frick, As
sistant Professor of Environmental Stud
ies and Ecology and director of the Ecol
ogy major.
Dr. Frick will use her sabbatical year m
conjunction with a grant from the Appala
chian College Association to write a book
based on her column in the Transylvania
Times, “Appalachian Almanac.
The divisions of Social Science an
Humanities will suffer the losses of Dr.
Robert Bauslaugh and Ms. Betsy Burrows
for a sabbatical year as well.
Dr Bauslaugh says that he will use
this time to finish two books he has been
working on for some time; one for scholars
on the Hellenistic period of Greek history,
and one for non-scholars entitled Dar al
Harb (Arabic for The Abode of iVar).
“I’m looking forward to the year,
Bauslaugh said, “but 1 always miss teach-
i„8 «hen I'm not “ '
look forward to returning m fall 2006.
Ms. Burrows intends to use her time
to finish coursework “"^er doctoral de
gree in Educational Leadership and begin
research and writing on her dissertation.
perhaps suffering the most losses will
be the Division of Fine Arts. With Dr. Paul
Elwood on sabbatical, Dr. Julia Broxholm
and Mr. Kyle Biery accepting positions
elsewhere, Mr. Andrew Le returning to his
home in Michigan, Dr. Tim Murray official y
retiring, Mr. and Mrs. Todd and Kate
Jenkins finishing interim and adjunct posi
tions respectively, and Ms. Molly Doctrow
relocating to Florida after a leave of ab
sence this year, the Fine Arts Department
is actively involved in several searches tor
new faculty.
Senior Jana Neplechovits.) remarked
that it will be especially difficult to lose
this many faculty in the music department
because as a musician, the professors guide
the major so personally, and it is difficult
to adjust to an entirely new teaching an
musical style.
see Faculty, page 16
Dr: Frick will use her sabbatical year in gree m bducauona. . ^ ^ r, tl oth Pr
Drunk driving accident lulls one
Pichpr had been driving his silver 2000 ^his a
by Tabitha Breedlove
Staff Writer I Business Manager
On Sunday, April 24, at 11:16 p.m., a
drunk driving accident left one dead and
one seriously injured.
The accident occurred on Highway 64
between Cummings Cove Road and Ban
ner Farm Road when Caleb Fisher, 20, of
Lake Toxay crossed the yellow line, crash
ing head-on into 18-year-old Chaise Jeffery
“C.J.” Ladas.
Fisher had been driving his silver 2000
GMC Jimmy highly intoxicated. When hu
Ladas’ blue 1980 Ford
pushed into the ditch, where the gas tank
Lploded, causing both vehicles to catch
on fire. Someone nearby was able to save
Fisher but was unable to remove Ladas from
^Fisher was listed in fair condition
Wednesday at Memorial Mission Hospit
in Asheville, suffering from hip displace
ment and other injuries. He was charg^
River
clean-up
Catherine Johns and another
Brevard College student
pulled trash from the French
Broad River during the
college's celebration oi Earth
Day on Friday, April 22.
PMO b» M* Graham
with driving while impaired, with possibile
other charges that may stem from this acci
dent. Ladas was pronounced dead at the
Services were held in Ladas
April 28 from 6-8 p.m. and April 29 at 4.30 at
B^lah Baptist Church in Etowah. Ladas
was a month away from receiving his high
see Accident, page 6
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