$700,000 NEEDED
TO RAISE $100,000
WITHIN FIVE YEARS
Mi
IN 1937
THE BREVARD COLLEGE WEEKLY
Vol. II
Brevard College, Brevard, North Carolina, February 12, 1937.
No. 19
Brevard College Will Raise
Expansion and Endowment Fund
Music Department
Presents Program
(A Brief Review)
Last Tuesday night the music
department made its initial ap
pearance of the year when it
presented the noted Chinese
operetta, “The Willow Plate,”
in the college auditorium to a
large audience which appeared
greatly pleased with the entire
performance.
The legend of the operetta is
built around an old Chinese plate
which contains a beautiful Orien
tal picture. The picture on the
plate was the scene with which
the stage was attractively decor
ated.
Miss Annie Ruth Call played
the leading role with ease and
distinction. Leighton Presson,
playing opposite Miss Call, thrill
ed the audience with his sing
ing and acting. Miss Gladys
Weatherman displayed outstand
ing histrionic ability.
The operetta was under the
direction of Miss Irene Clay and
Mrs. Jack Dendy, instructors in
the department of music. Miss
Clay accompanied at the piano
during the operetta,, and Mrs.
Dendy directed the group sing
ing.
Above is an architect’s sketch of the proposed library, which
comes as a part of the building program:
$700,000 Is Necessary To Meet De
mands of Increasing Student Body
—y.
,000 Is Amount Set for 1937
Mr.Alvin Moore To Be
Featured in Musicale
Mr. Alvin Moore, local musi
cian, will be featured in a music
al program next Thursday night,
February 18, at eight o’clock in
the auditorium.
Miss Irene Clay will appear on
the program with several piano
solos; Ellen Wadell will play a
piano selection; Marcella Pendley
and Miss Poovey will render vo
cal solos.
Mr. Moore will open the pro
gram with song and piano solos
during the first fifteen minutes.
After three years of marked
development and growth Brevard
College is beginning her‘first
campaign to raise a building and
endowment fund, , which is nec
essary to meet the demands of
her rapidly increasing student
body.
The college administration has
begun a campaign to raise within
the next five years $700,000,
which will be divided into a
building and an endowment fund.
It is necessary to raise imme
diately $100,000 for the construc
tion of three buildings that are
an urgent need.
According to a carefully plan
ned program for the future by
college officials, it is necessary
that a library, an infirmary, an
athletic field and a gymnasium
be ready for use by the first of
January, 1938. The infirmary is
to be erected at a cost of $10,000;
the library will cost $25,000; and
$20,000 must be raised for the
gymnasium and athletic field.
It is believed that there are
friends of the College who would
be willing and able to give such
buildings as memorials.
Within the next five years col
lege officials expect to ra’se
$445,000 to increase the present
endowment fund. In this period
it will be necessary to construct
a new girls’ dormitory, which
will cost $100,000. Also it is im
perative that the college have a
science building equipped which,
conservatively estimated, will
cost $50,000. There is an ur
gent demand for a combined
t;uditorium and music building,
which cannot be built for less
than $50,000. All these buildings
are proposed as memorials.
Since the opening of Brevard
College in Septtmber 1934, the in
stitution has been accredited as a
standard junior college. All debts
incurred in opening and equip
ping the college have been liq
uidated. The college now has a
faculty and administrative staff
of thirty members. A plan of
self-help has been thoroughly
established, thus putting into
effect the principles enunciated
by the Methodist Conference in
establishing the college.
Brevard College meets an im
perative need in Western North
Carolina. Many many boys and
girls are eager for the type of
education that Brevard offers,
for the cost is reasonable and in
Comedy Will Be Next
Play by Dramatic Club
The Dramatic Club is preparing
to present “The Imaginary In
valid,” a comedy in three acts,
Tuesday night, February 20, iri
the college auditorium.
The play is based upbn the
story of a man who thinks tha.t
he is incurably ill. He is kept
in this state of mind by his wife
in order that she may get his
money. The sick man desires to
have his daughter marry a doctor
so there will be a doctoi; in ;the
family.
Council Will Be Host
To Students Saturday
Saturday night at eight o’clock
the student council will be host to
the entire Student body at a
Valentine party in the auditor
ium and library.
Thomas Peieler is heading a
committee which is making ar
rangements for entertainment
and refreshments.
reach of the average person. A
student can spend a year in Bre
vard College on an outlay of
$225.
Young men and women are
interested in Brevard College be
cause of the four main ideals
which she represents. These
ideals — a Christian institution,
sound scholarship, reasonable stu
dent expenses, and practical
training—are given constant em
phasis by faculty members and
the leading students of the cam
pus.
Every student who has been
to Brevard College is convinced
that it has a glorious future. The
present enrollment is 448 stu
dents from North Carolina and
eight other states.
“The poor are poorer and more
unhappy when there are no
rich.” —AgaKhan.