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The Brevard College Weekly Vol. I Brevard College, Brevard, North Carolina. April 17, 1936. President Hunter Addresses Students Saturday morning, April 11, Dr. Hunter, president of Western Carolina Teacher’s College, with members of his faculty and friends presented a chapel program at the assembly period to the members of the student body. After the program President Hunter talked to the members of the graduat ing class. Miss Dorothy Moore, a member of the Cullowhee faculty rendered several beautiful vocal solos. Dr. Hunterr talked on “A New Deal In Faith”. He stated that what we need in America is a restoration of faith, and he showed us how we lack faith in regard to our dealings with our fellowman. We also naed restor ation of spiritual faith. He gave Examples that illustrated the belief' in immortality that a faw of the Old Testament writers had. Mr. Hunter made the statement that real faith is a dynamic force and keeps us going under adverse circumstances. He also said that every great achievement is a monument to somebody’s faith. In his talk to the sophomores Mr. Hunter stated that it was almost necessary to have one’s vocation pick ed out by his junior year in college, and he went so far as to say that if one had not picked out his vocation by that time that he would advise him not to go on to college. He listed the qualifications of W. C. T. C. as teach er’s college and stated that they were glad to get any one who was studying for the teaching profession; but that they were not out to get students to leave their school and matriculate at Cullowhee unless they had finished their course at the present school. Mary Freeman Well Weren’t we all glad to see Mary Freeman out for the first time in a good while last Monday? We wish for her a speedy recovery and hope that she will be back with us in the future. Oration Award Will Be Given Early in June there will be held here at the college an oratorical con test open to all sophomore boys of the student body. This contest is bsing sponsored by two brothers. Rev. Claude Moser, who is now Presiding Elder of the Gastonia District of the Western North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and Dr. Moser, who is a prom inent dentist in Gastonia. These gentlemen are offering a medal to the winner of this contest; and it is to be a memorial to their father and mother, who were killed in an automobile accident a few years ago. The organization and rules of this contest are being worked out at the present time by the members of the faculty committee on public speaking, and lieftirilii ~'announcetrient'" will- be made regarding it in the near future. The final contest will be held between the four men who are selected by elimination from the large group that is hoped will become interested in this work. Sophomore boys who are interested in this event should communicate with the authorities and find out the regu lations and requirements other than those listed above. Jack Wildey Active at the University (vSpecial to the Clarion) Chapel Hill, April 9. Jack Wildey of Asheville, a graduate of Brevard College and also of Brevard Institute, has just been unanimously nominated as one of two Debate Council Repre sentatives at the University of North Carolina where he is a junior. Young Wildey was president of the Brevard College student body during his senior year there, 1934-35. He made the University scholastic honor roll during the past (winter) quarter by attaining an average of B in all of his work. He plans to enter the School of Law next year. No. 23 Public Speaking Club To Be Organized Tuesday morning, April 14, at the assembly period the debaters present ed a program in order to arouse inter est in the formation of a public speak ing club. The speakers put before the student body the various hardships that the debaters have had to cope with in beginning work of this nature this past winter. They also spoke of the benefits that the individual students will obtain from a public speaking club, the benefits that the college as a whole will derive, and others. Th»^ students participating in this program were Horace Raper, Ida Whisenant, Rembert McNeer, and Geraldine D?- Vier. After the students had presented their views President Coltrane was called on to express’his views upon this subject. He agreed with the students in the need for a club and sanctioned everything that they had presented. He stressed the need for cooperation between the faculty and the students in an endeavor and stated that the time had come for action a- long this line to take place. Carlisle, Student Body President Tuesday afternoon, April 15, after three elections had been held Eddie Carlisle was elected to the presidency of the Student Council for next year. Carlisle won over LeRoy Lail. Two elections were held before this one on Tuesday. When the race be gan there were six candidates, James Rogers, Eddie Carlisle, LeRoy Lail, Mitchell Faulkner, Marshall Houts, and Bob Sumner. Carlisle, Lail, and Houts were running in the second election, and then the final election was between Lail and Carlisle. Eddie entered Brevard at the begin ning of the second semester in 1934- Continued on page 4
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