Hearty CongraHations And Best Wishes To Ail The 1953 High School And College Graduates
1953
Graduation
The Transylvania Times
1953
Graduation
Issue
AStateAnd National Prize-Winning A. B. C. Newspaper
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Vol. 64, No. 21
SECTION ONE
BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1953
24 PAGES TODAY
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Marshals For Commencement At Brevard High School
The marshals for graduation here at Brevard high school are pictured above. The baccalaureate ser
mon will be preached at the school on Sunday night, with final exercises next Tuesday night. Marshals, front
row, left to right, are: MARY ELLE.N LOFTIS, ROBERTA HARRIS, JOYCE GALLOWAY and DORIS
WILLINGHAM. Second row; JOAN TEAGUE, MARTHA FORTUNE, BEVERLY BRYANT and BETTY
JO BYRD. Third row: KEITH PARKER, JOHN NORVILLE, WALTER CANTRELL and JIM KIM-
ZEY. (Times Staff Photo)
1953 Music Festival Membership Drive
Launched, Early Response Said Good
Mrs. Earle Bryant Chairman
Four Networks To Broad
cast Coast-To-Coast
Early response to the drive for
memberships to the Brevard Mu
sic Festival has been excellent, ac
cording to Mrs. Earle 0. Bryant,
who has been named 1953 member
ship chairman.
The official opening of the mem
bership drive was the joint civic
club dinner and meeting held last
week at the college when local
leaders pledged . their support to
this community enterprise which
has brought nation-wide publicity
to Brevard and the area.
Attractive folders telling the pro
-ams and soloists for both the
camp and festival were mailed out
to hundreds of persons this week,
Included with the brochure is a
mail order blank for tickets.
Patron memberships (two tick
ets) are $50 or more; sponsor, $30
to $50 (two tickets) and one active
ticket is $12.50. Single admissions
will again be $2.50. The tickets will
be mailed to purchasers after the
first of July.
This year all four major radio
networks have indicated that they
will give coverage to the Brevard
Music Festival, something of which
no other musical event can boast.
Soloists on this year’s program
will be Luboshutz and Nemenoff,
Richard Dyer-Bennett, Joseph Szi-
geti, Jorge Bolet, Gordon Epperson,
Robert Harrison, Eileen Farrell,
Beverly Wolff, Andrew McKinley,
Andrew White, and Olin Downes,
lecturer.
CALENDAR OF
COMING EVENTS
Six Transylvania Lunchrooms
And Schools Rated Grade "A”
Transylvania has six, fine grade
“A” lunchrooms, and the schools in
the group were also given an equal
sanitary rating by Walter F. Hart,
senior sanitarian, of the Transyl-
vania-Henderson district health de
partment.
Ail schools in Transylvania were
inspected and graded twice during
the year by the senior sanitarian
in accordance with the laws of the
state.
Grade “A” schools are: Penrose,
Straus, Rosman, Rosenwald, Pisgah
Forest and Brevard.
The ratings are based on the
building structures, the safety of
the playgrounds, the maintenance
and sanitation of all buildings and
playgrounds. The findings are eval
uated, Mr. Hart says, and the rating
is posted in the principal’s office
or on the bulletin board.
The lunchrooms are rated in the
REA Will Open New
Building This Week
Thursday, May 21 — WSCS meets
at First Methodist church, 3:30 p,
m. Masonic meeting in temple at
7:30 p. m. Women of the Presby
terian church, 8 p. m.
Friday, May 22 — Pre - school
clinic at the health department, 9-
11 a. m. District Scout committee
meeting in Duke Power company
office, 7:30 p. m.
Saturday, May 23 — Poppy Day
in Brevard. Managers of Little
League meet at Hobby and Sport
Shop, 10:30 a. m.
Sunday, May 24 — Attend the
church of your choice. Brevard
college baccalaureate sermon at
Methodist church, 11 a. m. High
school baccalaureate sermons at 8
p. m.
Monday, May 25 — Rotary club
meets at Gaither’s Rhododendron
room. Music Lovers club with Mrs.
Verne Hill at 8 o’clock.
Tuesday, May 26 — Inauguration
of President Robert Stamey at Bre
vard college, 10:30 a. m. College
graduation at 2:30 p. m. High
school graduation exercises at 8
—T'lni to Page Eight
The official opening of the new
headquarters for the Haywood
County Co-operative on the out
skirts of Waynesville, will be ob
served Saturday with an open
house.
Visitors will be taken on a tour
of the beautiful building between
9:30 a. m. and 4:30 p. m. by meni-
I bers of the staff. Refreshments will
I be served in the model kitchen by
Home Demonstration club mem
bers.
Officials of the REA co-opera
tive extend a cordial invitation to
subscribers and other friends in
Transylvania to visit the new quar
ters on Saturday.
same manner. First inspections
were made in October and Novem
ber and the second in March and in
April. Ratings are posted in the
lunchrooms.
Numerical ratings of the grade
“A” schools and lunchrooms are as
follows:
School sanitation — Penrose, 97;
Straus, 96.25; Rosman, 95; Pisgah
Forest, 95; Brevard, 92.5; Rosen
wald, 92.25.
Lunchrooms — Penrose, 96.25;
Straus, 93.25; Rosman, 93; Rosen
wald, 92.25; Pisgah Forest, 92.25;
Brevard, 91.5.
“The grade “A” schools in Tran
sylvania, from a structural stand
point and safety, are as fine
schools as there are in North Caro
lina,” Mr. Hart declared.
He pointed out that they are be
ing operated efficiently, and the
lunchrooms, with one exception, are
well planned, supplied with the best
equipment and staffed with well
trained workers. Correction will be
made at the one exception before
the next school year, he continued.
‘Each lunchroom is supervised
by a trained dietitian, who sees to
it that the children get a well bal
anced lunch, prepared under the
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Commencement Exercises Begin At Two
County Higl; Schools, College Sunday
MINSTREL WILL
BE REPEATED AT
ROSMAN FRIDAY
Proceeds To Benefit Athletic
Fund. Winchester In
vites Public
After a highly successful per
formance here last Saturday night,
the minstrel show in black and
white, staged by the men and wom
en of the Brevard-Davidson River
Presbyterian church, will be re
peated on Friday night in the Ros
man high school auditorium.
The show, under the direction
of Jack Richards, was enthusias
tically applauded by a large audi
ence during its entirety.
Proceeds derived from the show
at Rosman Friday night will go into
Rosman athletic fund. Boyce Win
chester, Rosman coach, is in charge
of making arrangements, and he
cordially invites all persons who
missed the show at Brevard to come
to Rosman Friday night. Curtain
time is 8:15 o’clock.
Many people who saw the min
strel last week are making plans
to see it again, Mr. Winchester
states, and admission is as follows:
adults, 50c; children, 25c; reserved
seats, 75c.
biootobTieat
ROSMAN FRIDAY
Speakers At Graduation Exercises
ill
Will Make Visit To Brevard
All Day Next Wednesday.
Contributions Asked
Scout Committee
To Meet Friday
The Transylvania district com
mittee of Boy Scouts of America in
the Daniel Boone council, will meet
Friday night in the office of Duke
Power company.
Charles Dunlop, Transylvania dis
trict chairman, urges all members
I to be present.
Transylvanians will have two
opportunities to give blood to
the American Red Cross Blood-
mobile during the coming week,
and Tom Eller, general chair
man in the county, urges as many
citizens as possible to donate a
pint of blood.
The mobile unit will be at Ros
man on Friday afternoon from
1:00 to 6:00 p. m., at the school
cafeteria.
Mrs. Joe Osborne is chairman
with the Rosman Garden club
sponsoring the visit.
Next Wednesday, the bloodmo-
bile will be here at the American
Legion building, under the spon
sorship of the American Legion
auxiliary. Mrs. C. L. Newland is
the recruiting chairman, and Mrs.
Ed Sikkema and Mrs. Elton Lew
is are in charge of making ar
rangements.
Miss Bessie Ann Allison, a jun
ior at Furman university, has been
chosen as a member of the Nu
chapter of Chi Beta Phi, honorary
fraternity.
The honor students at both Brevard and Rosman high schools
, will be the principal speakers at graduation exercises next Tuesday
night. In the top photo, left to right, arg: ANNE FOSTER, valedic
torian; HEYWARD RAMSEY, master of ceremonies; JOANN GAL
LOWAY, co-salutatorian; BILLIE JEAN CANSLER, who will give
the graduates’ creed; and HARRY SELLERS, JR., co-salutatorian here
at Brevard. In the lower picture are the speakers at the Rosman
exercises. They are: MINNIE SUE BROWN, left, valedictorian; and
LESTER WINCHESTER, salutatorian. (Times Staff Photos)
Saturday Is Poppy Day In Brevard,
Scouts To Assist Legion Auxiliary
DIPLOMAS WILL
BE GIVEN NEXT
TUESDAY, MAY 26
Total Of 145 Youths Finish
Prescribed Courses Of
Study At Institutions
PROGRAMS GIVEN
■Commencement begins at
Brevard and Rosman high
schools and at Brevard col
lege on Sunday, and diplo
mas -will be awarded to the
graduates at the three
schools on Tuesday, May 26.
There are 84 members of the
graduating class here at Brevard
high school, 27 at Rosman and 34
at Brevard college, making a total
of 145 graduates in Transylvania.
This week The Times is publish
ing its annual congratulatory edi
tion with pictures and stories about
the 1953 graduates at Brevard and
Rosman high schools and Brevard
college.
Publisher Ed M. Anderson urges
all readers to especially read the
congratulatory messages in the
school section. The Times salutes
the graduates and the school offi
cials upon this important occasion.
Baccalaureate sermons will be
preached at the two high schools
Sunday night. Rev. B. W. Thoma
son, pastor cf the First Baptist
church will deliver the sermon
here, while the Rev. Albert R. Hast
ings, pastor of Rosman’s Zion Bai>-
tist church, will preach at Rosman.
The time is 8 p. m. at both schools.
The honor students will be the
featured speakers at commence-
—Turn to Page Eight
JONES ACCORDED
UNANIMOUS VOTE
County Superintendent Chos
en For Another 2-Year
Term By Board
Mayor John A. Ford has pro
claimed Saturday, May 23, as
“Poppy Day” in Brevard.
The event here is sponsored
by the American Legion auxil
iary, with Mrs. Roy Head as
chairman.
Memorial poppies will be dis
tributed on the streets here by
volunteer workers of the auxil
iary, Mrs. Head states, and they
will receive contributions for the
legion and auxiliary activities in
behalf of the disabled war veter
ans and needy children of veter
ans.
Assisting will be members of
Boy Scout troop one, and Girl
Scouts of Troop 79. Jack Mor
gan is scoutmaster, and Mrs. John
Brewer, with Mrs. Walter
Glazener assisting, heads the Girl
Scout group. They will be active
in the residential district, Mrs.
Head points out.
The disabled veterans who
make the poppies derive double
—Turn to Page Eight
,1953 Graduating Class At Brevard College
WPNF Program Highlights
^plete Coverage Of Brevard College
Commencement To Be Carried Tuesday
Complete coverage of the com
mencement exercises at Brevard
college, including the inauguration
of President Robert H. Stamey and
talks by outstanding Methodist
leaders of the South, will be car
ried over WPNF next Tuesday.
A delayed broadcast of the inau
guration, which will be held in the
college gymnasium at 10:30 o’clock,
will be heard over the local station
at 1:15 o’clock Tuesday afternoon,
and then the commencement
speeches will be heard Tuesday
night, beginning at 9:05, Jack Ham-
mette, station manager announces.
Other Programs
The schedule for the coming
week on the Farm and Home hour
is as follows: Thursday, Holmes
state nursery, William Bland; Fri
day, PMA, Edward H. Mackey;
Monday, county agent’s office;
Tuesday, extension forestry, Fred
E. Whitfield; Wednesday, home
demonstration agent.
On the Civic hour for the coming
week, the schedule is: Friday,
Wednesday club; Monday, Red
Cross; Wednesday, Good Neighbor
club.
—Turn to Page Eight
Members of the 1953 graduating class of Brevard college are pictured above. They will receive their
diplomas next Tuesday afternoon in commencement exercises in the college gymnasium. Left to right,
front row, they are: Patsy Parrish, Brevard; Jane Bishop, Cedar Mountain; Lila Burgess, Greensboro;
Rachel Meaders, Greenville, S. C.; Nancy Carson, Belmont; Elaine Walker, Charlotte; Virginia Osborne,
Brevard; Carolyn Thrower, Belmont; Jane Edwards, Charlotte; and Caroline Davis, Brevard. Second row,
Mary Lillian Morgan, Brevard; Mrs. Carolyn Cousins, Brevard; Virginia Shipman, Brevard; Dora Huss,
Vale; Barbara Hansen, Brooklyn, New York; June Craft, Pfafftown; Annie Lou Allison, Old Fort; Frances
Davidson, Murphy; Dot Wallace, Spindale; and Melvin McIntosh, Charlotte. Back row, Anne Cowan,
Sylva; Mack Armstrong, Bessemer City; Malcolm Johnson, Brevard; Jack Anderson, White Hall, S. C.;
Bill Eller, Greensboro; Wilson Morgan, Hendersonville; Bob Walton, High Point; and Harold ’ Black,
Leicester. Absent when photo was made, Alton Craven, Ramseur and Mary Ann Holden, Pisgah Forest!
See other college pictures and stories on page eight, second section. (Times Staff Photo)
J. B. Jones was unanimously re
elected county superintendent of
schools for the next two years at a
meeting of the county board of ed
ucation held in the court house
here last Friday evening. No other
name was presented. Mr. Jones has
served in this position for 20
years.
The board consists of Dr. J. F.
Zachary, chairman, Mrs. R. E.
Matthews, F. S. Best, Homer Mc
Call and Harry F. Morgan.
After the election, the board
spent several hours studying nu
merous items for the 1953-54 school
budget. Final preparation of the
budget will be completed in the
near future, after which it will be
submitted to the county board of
commissioners for their approvaL
Provisions were made for contin
uing the band on a county-wide
scale, purchasing three 60-passen
ger buses, extensive repairs, includ
ing fluorescent lights for Brevard
and Rosman high schools, replace
ments of worn-out furniture and ad
ditional vocational teachers.
Wants Clothing' For
Needy, Work During
Past Year Is Cited
Mrs. W. F. Huffman, chair
man of the clothing committee
for the Brevard P-TA, urges per
sons who are spring cleaning
their closets to be on the look
out for clothing items which can
be used this fall for needy chil
dren.
She points out that 117 chil
dren were partly clothed, some
completely outfitted, during the
last school year. Many children,
it was learned, would not have
had sufficient clothing to attend
school had it not been for the
generosity of donations.
Anyone wishing to donate
clothing may leave it with Mrs.
Huffman, 102 Franklin street.
She will keep it until the open
ing of school this fall.