THE CLARION
THE BREVARD COLLEGE WEEKLY
Brevard College, Brevard, North Carolina, November 6, 1936
News-in-Brief
PRESIDENT COLTRANE
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene J. Col-
trane left Brevard last Tuesday
afternoon for the McKay Clinic
at Charlotte, N. C., to consult a
specialist concerning Mr. Col-
rane’s health.
President Coltrane has been in
bad health since the opening of the
fall term. Mr. and Mrs. Coltrane
expect to be gone about a week
It is hoped that on their return
Mr. Coltrane’s health will be
greatly improved, so that he may
return to his duties at the College.
NEW SUPERVISOR
OF PRINT SHOP
Mr. 0. G. Daniel has recently
been appointed supervisor of the
Brevard College Print Shop, tak
ing the place of Mr. R. D. Mc-
Neer.
Mr. Daniel is ably assisled by
Wallis Orr, manager; Bill Fowler,
type-setter; Henry Miller, type
setter, George Buchanan, type
setter; and Sam Tweed, press
man.
The print shop has been work
ing under difficult conditions in
the past, but new type and oth
er supplies will be pur
chased in the near future.
LEAVE for CONFERENCE
A group of fifteen Brevard
students will leave at 8 o’clock
this morning for the North Car
olina Methodist Student Confer
ence in session at the Trinity
Methodist Church of Durham, N
C., November 6-8.
The students attending the con
ference from Brevard are Mary
Fern Coble, Elizabeth Little,
Russell Andrews, Thelma Hub
bard, Lee Henry Eagle, Lallah
May Edwards, Mildred Cogdill,
Jack Armstrong, Mary Helen
Ross, Mitchell Faulkner, Mary
Aiken, Betty Brookshire, Brown
ie Lipe, Lois Andrew, and James
Rogers. The group will be chaper
oned by Miss Poovey and Mr.
Bennett. The theme of the confer
ence is “Christian Students in
Action.”
The highlights of the confer
ence will be an address by Dr. W.
A. Smart, Emory University
School of Theology, and a tea
and carillon recital at Duke Uni
versity.
Work Starts On
Athletic Field
At dawn last Monday morning,
November 3, 1936, five men be
gan to break sod and earth in
construction of the new athletic
field that officials and students
of Brevard College have eagerly
awaited for two and a half years.
Comment ran swiftly through
the school Monday when the
students learned that this worthy
project was actually under way.
Some suggested that the cheer
leaders organize the students into
a cheering squad, rig up a band,
and celebrate the beginning.
Severe weather has made it
impossible for work except on
Travel Club
The Travel Club held a meet
ing November 3, from six-thirty
until eight o’clock at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Pangle.
As the members entered they
were each told to pick one of the
packages of pictures on the chairs
and glance over it. Each member
then told of the place pictured on
on his card, talking as if he had
been there.
The meeting ended with Mrs.
Pangle’s describing the Tower of
London.To continue the influence
of her talk, she then served tea,
English fashion. An animated
discussion of some of the things
that had been described followed.
Monday; yet is likely that work
will be steady next week. Under
present arrangements of the
WPA, employees are paid only
for the time they do on project;
whereas they were paid for the
project.
It was annouced three weeks
ago that workers of the Works
Progress Administration would
begin this project October 12;
but because of certain circum
stances, it was impossible.
It is now expected that a
public library will later be added
to the present development.
Club Grows
Seven new members joined the
Ballad and Folklore Club at its
meeting Tuesday night. The
program consisted of several
folk-songs of American origin,
discussed and read by Mary Anne
Turner, and the reading, by Bill
Hackney, of a collection of moun
tain folk-lore assembled by Vic
tor Sigmon.
ADDED to STAFF
Brownie Lipe and Mary Helen
Ross have been added to the
staff of the clarion as reporters.
Both of these girls are experienc
ed in newspaper work. They were
taken on to replace Charles Dob
son and Bill Pope, who recently
resigned their positions.
Freshman Student
Council Members
Leon Stubbs, Helen Parrish,
and Thelma Hubbard were elect
ed last Wednesday, November 4,
to serve as freshman class mem
bers of the Student Council for
this year.
The polls were opened until
four-thirty o’clock, but the vot
ing was very close and no candi
date received a majority; there
fore three candidates were elimi
nated and a second ballot v^as pre
pared.
The first ballot consisted of
the names of Thelma Hubbard,
Bill Landreth, Gene Wilson, Berta
Fields, Helen Parrish, Jack Reed,
Leon Stubbs, Magaret Miller, C.
B. Moss, and Mary Aiken. The
second ballot was the same, with
the exception of Berta Fields, C.
B. Moss, and Mary Aiken, who
were eliminated in Tuesday’s
voting.
Voting took place in the lobby
of the Administration Building.
The Student Council was in
charge of the polls.
‘ ‘So long as we love, we serve-
So long as we are loved by others
I would say we are indispensable;
and no man is useless while he
has a friend. —Robert Louis
Stevenson.
The most truthful part of a
newspaper is the advertisements.
|Home-Coming Is
Big Success
October 30 and 31 will go down
in the history of Brevard College
as the day when “a good time
was had by all.'’
The fun started off with a
bang when the literary societies
held their parties in the Admin
istration Building Friday night
from 8 until 11 o’clock. Songs,
readings, jokes,music,and ‘‘eats”
were the order of the evening.
Then to bed.
Saturday morning was filled with
cheery greetings to the old grads
who had returned to their Alma
Mater for an eventful weekend.
Saturday noon finally arrived,
when we enjoyed a little heavy
eating.
Finally the big moment arriv
ed- 2 o’clock Saturday, time for
the the Home-coming Day foot
ball game between Brevard and
Belmont Abbey. Though our team
went down in defeat, our spirits
were still running high. We went
back to the campus for the big
supper, at which were served
barbecue, potato chips, hot rolls,
strawberry ice-cream, and hot
coffee.
The big session with the
“spooks” was held in the Admin
istration Building from 8 until 11
o’clock. The different clubs of
the College had rooms in which
various stunts and programs were
held. Last, but not least, came
the big dress parade in which
Frank Craven and Dorothy Jonas
won the prizes for the best cos
tumes.
Debaters' Club
^ There has been a change made
in the officers of the Brevard
College Debating Club. Paul
Westbrook resigned as president;
and the vice-president, Horace
Raper, automatically assumed
the place. A new vice-president,
Mavis Shinn, was elected. Turn
er Feezor was elected sergeant-
at-arms at this meeting, also.
After the business session,
Geraldine DeVier presented some
of the main issues of the present
debate query, and Mavis Shinn
told the club what the first
speaker on the affirmative should
include in his manuscript.