77,e Clarion
SERVING THE BREVARD COLLEGE
Volume 73, Issue 15 COMMUNITY SINCE 1935 January 25, 2008
BC Women's Golf to tee off in fall 2008
by Joseph Chilton
Managing Editor
David Nelson is a busy man
on the Brevard College
campus these days. Not only
is Nelson splitting his time
between his job with
Brevard’s alumni house and
his duties as the school’s
men’s golf coach; now he is
also hard at work making
preparations for the school’s
addition of women’s golf next
fall.
Brevard announced last
month plans to launch a
women’s golf program
during the 2008-09 school
year. In the time since then,
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Nelson has sent over three
hundred letters to potential
recruits who he hopes will
help get the program off the
ground.
“I hope to bring in five or
six people for next year, and
combine that with two or
three people that already go
to school here that have
expressed interest in playing,”
Nelson said.
There has been interest on
campus in adding women’s
golf for some time. According
to Nelson, several women
approach him each year
asking about the possibility of
playing golf.
The school has been
seriously considering adding
the sport for the last three
years, ever since the school
decided to move to NCAA
Division II and revive the
long-dormant football
by David Ulloa
Staff Writer
Investigators are still
searching for the body of hiker
John Bryant, 80, whose wife,
Irene Bryant, 84, cwas murdered
and linked to Gary Michael
Hilton.
Hilton, who has been charged
with the slaying and beheading
of 24-year-old Meredith
Emerson, whose body was
found on Jan.7 by authorities
in a Georgia State Forest with
his aid, has now been linked to
the disappearance of John
Bryant and the decapitation of
program.
Things were finally put into
motion last fall when Brevard
College’s Athletics Committee
presented their women’s golf
proposal before the Board of
Trustees. The Board of
Trustees approved the
proposal at their October
meeting, paving the way for
Brevard’s December
announcement that it would
add the sport.
“We’ve been talking about
this for a long time and now
it’s finally here. I think it’s a
great move,” said Nelson.
According to Nelson, the
team will compete in a full
schedule their first season,
playing five tournaments in
the fall and five more in the
spring. The team will be fully
funded to South Atlantic
Conference limits, meaning
that Nelson will have one and
Cheryl Hodges Dunlap in
Florida’s Apalachicola National
Forest on Dec. 15
Searchers from the
Transylvania Police
Department found Irene’s body
near a trail in the Pisgah
National Forest on Nov.9.
Authorities assume John
Bryant was kidnapped for the
access to an ATM account the
couple shared due to the $300
withdrawal that took place the
day after they went on their
hike. The withdrawal of money
was traced near the Georgia
investigation about 50 miles
a half scholarships to split
amongst his recruits.
With the addition of
women’s golf, Brevard now
offers all 14 sports sponsored
by the South Atlantic
Conference, the NCAA
Division II league that Brevard
will become a full member of
next school year.
“We are very excited about
the addition of women’s golf,
as it provides additional
opportunities for women in
collegiate athletics, and helps
Brevard continue our
tradition of gender equity in
athletics,” said Brevard
College Interim Athletic
Director Kim Pate.
“We are going to offer a
great opportunity for kids to
come into something run
professionally with hopes that
we can be as competitive as
possible.”
away. Authorities said that
Hilton also tried to use
Emerson’s credit card after she
was murdered.
The North Carohna Bureau of
Investigation are also trying to
link Hilton to the 2005 Bryson
City disappearance of Rosana
Mihani, 26. It was reported that
Miliani mentioned to her family
that she was going on a hike on
Dec. 7 2005. A store clerk told
private investigator Steve Siske,
that Miliani seemed nervous
when she bought a backpack
with a white man in his 60’s.
Police still searching for NC hiker