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The Clarion | April 16, 2010
News
Brevard College receives Connestee Falls Scholarship funds
Bill Watson, chair
of the Connestee Falls
Scholarship Program
and member of the
Brevard College Board
of Visitors, recently
presented Brevard
College president Dr.
Drew Van Horn with
a check for $8,700 on
behalf of the Coimestee
Falls Scholarship
Program.
The generous gift will
Brevard College’s Vice President for
Institutional Advancement Susan Cothem
Stromberg watches Bill Watson, chair of
the Connestee Falls Scholarship Program
and member of the College’s Board of
Visitors, present a check to Brevard
College president Dr Drew Van Horn.
be used to help support
local Transylvania
County students attending
Brevard College
“We remain
appreciative of the
extremely generous
support given to Brevard
College and our students
by Coimestee Falls over
the years,” said President
Van Horn. “Having had
65 students as Coimestee
Falls scholarship
recipients, it’s easy to grasp the wide-
reaching impact that this group has had
on many talented and deserving young
Transylvania County students.”
Begun in 1987, the Connestee Falls
Scholarship Program has benefited many
talented and deserving students from
Transylvania County.
Brevard College alone has been the
recipient of more than $100,000 since
the inception of this program. These
scholarships have provided academic
support to 65 students during the past 20
years.
Brevard College receives Cannon Foundation Grant
Brevard College recently received
a $150,000 grant from The Cannon
Foundation Inc. to improve the College’s
steam heating system.
The College will use the grant to help
fund the replacement of its antiquated
centralized system with new high-efficiency
decentrahzed steam generation systems.
The grant will also help fund the
College’s recent upgrade to new high-
efficiency electrical heat cooking and
dish washing systems in its A.G. Myers
Dining Hall. The system improvements
are expected to cost the College just over
$1 million.
“The Cannon Foundation’s generous
grant will help us dramatically reduce
Brevard College’s maintenance and repair
costs while making the campus a more
comfortable educational environment,”
said Brevard College President Drew
Van Horn. “We estimate that within five
years, the College will see a savings of
more than $100,000 each year from these
improvements.”
The Cannon Foundation of Concord
began in 1943 as a corporate foundation,
with giving focused on the communities
where Cannon Mills plants were located.
Following the 1971 death of its founder,
Charles A. Cannon, and the subsequent
sale of the Cannon Mills Company, the
Foundation evolved into an independent
organization. Most of The Cannon
Foundation’s giving is in North Carohna
and reaches from Manteo to Murphy.
Moliere's Tartuffe to be performed at Brevard College
Brevard College’s Department of
Theatre Studies will present Moliere’s
Tartuffe April 29 through
May 1 at the Morrison
Playhouse in the Porter
Center for Performing
Arts.
First performed in
May of 1664 in Versailles,
Tartuffe, by Moliere, was
quickly banned by King
Louis XIV, by influence
of the Archbishop of
Paris, who threatened to
excommunicate anyone
who watched, performed
in or read the play.
Moliere’s classic
satire, about a con man who uses rehgion
to capture his prey, will be brought to life
at Brevard College, with modernistic and
hyperbolic influences on the production
design.
Tartuffe (played by sophomore Alex
Brevard College’s Department of Theatre
Studies will present Moliere’s Tartuffe
April 29 through May 1. Pictured (L to
R) are Alex Tompkins as Tartuffe; Kalt
McConomy as Elmlre; and Adrian Wagner
as Orgon.
Tompkins), a con artist whose latest con has
him posing as a holy man, effortlessly dupes
the patriarch of a prominent
French household into
giving him all that he
owns in the name of God.
There is just one problem:
everyone in the family, with
the exception of the head
of the household, Orgon
(played by sophomore
Adrian Wagner), and his
mother, Mme. Pernelle
(played by junior Bethany
Tebo), know of Tartuffe’s
evil schemes, and it is up
to them to stop him before
the family’s future is left
in ruins.
This version of Moliere’s play,
translated from French by Ranjit Bolt,
whose other adaptations include Lysistrata
by Aristophanes, Cyrano de Bergerac by
Edmond Rostand and Le Misanthrope,
another Moliere play, is “irreverent and
blessed with a filthy wit,” says Charles
Spencer of The Daily Telegraph.
In a present world that seems rife with
schemes and tricks around every comer,
Tartuffe expresses that, no matter the time
period and no matter the situation, anyone
can con and be conned. “Moliere’s style
of comedy is one that transcends time and
place, easily bringing the audience into his
fantastic and chaotic world,” says Tebo.
“Brevard should be ready to be tantalized
by Tartuffe!” says junior Caitlin Kennedy,
cast in the role of the family’s maid,
Dorine.
Doors for the Tartuffe will open at 7:30
p.m. Curtain time for all performances is
8 p.m. Single tickets are $ 10 for adults and
$2 for students (with a student ID). They
may be purchased from 10 a.m. until 1
p.m. Monday through Friday at the Porter
Center Box Office. For more information
on tickets, please contact the Porter Center
Box Office at 828.884.8330.