THE CLARION
VOL. X NO. 12
BREVARD COLLEGE, APRIL 1, 1943
Published Semi-iMonthly
College May Get Air Corps Training Unit
Religious Emphasis
Week Is Being Held
Brevard College’s annual Reli
gious Emphasis week, scheduled
to have been held last month and
which was postponed because of
the illness of the guest speaker,
Rev. MfMurry Hichey, pastor of
the Methodist church in Cullow-
hee, will be observed from March
29 to April 2.
Services will be held each morn
ing at the regular chapel hour
and each evening at 7 o’clock.
Rev. Mr. Richey will be assist
ed in the observance by Miss
Mabel Cherry, director of religi
ous activities at the coUege, Gil-
reath Adams, president of the
Christian Student Movement, and
William Ru|h, president of the
Baptist Student Union.
One of the highlights of the
week will be the repeated appear
ances of the college choir. Under
the direction of Miss Lily Brovm,
the choir will sing at least once
each day during the week. Solo
ists for the choir will be Miss Jo
Ann Carter, Miss Julia Owen, and
Miss Eleanor Ledford. Miss Owen
and Hubert Owen will play sev
eral violin duets.
In making the announcement of
Religious Emphasis week. Presi
dent Coltrane stated, “At no time
in the history of our country have
we felt the need of Christian edu
cation as much as we do today.
Mr. Richey is a man of great
sympathy and experience, and he
will have something important to
say at each meeting.”
Brevard Masquers
To Present Play
And Came the Spring, a gay,
light comedy of three acts by
Marrijane and Josep Hayes, is to
be the next production of the Bre
vard Masquers. And Came the
Spring is a humorous story of the
Hartmans, a pleasantly typical
American family, who enjoy a
reasonable amount of quiet and
peace imtil spring enters the
scene—to stir the blood and lift
the heart. Midge, the youpgest
finds herself in love for the first
time, and when she determines
to manage lives and emotions for
her own ends, she plunges her
family into complications which
almost prove disastrous.
Tryouts were held Friday night,
March 26, but the characters have
not yet been announced.
INTRAMURAL WINNERS
Civil Service Exam
Is Given At College
About thirty college students
and townspeople participated in
the Civil Service examinations
^given Wednesday night at th|e
college by Mr. Herman S. Wein-
steen, district representative of
the Civil Service from Charlotte.
Twenty-two college students
took and passed the clerical ex
amination. Eighteen of twenty-
two students passed the typing ex
am and nine of ten college' stu
dents passed the shorthand test
Students that passed the exami
nation will be offered jobs in
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^ Shown above ar® Miss Ginny Blanton and Odell “Red” Buckner,
receiving the Times trophy given to the winners of the intramural
basketbiall tourney, from Mr. Ira Anufield, business manager of
the Transylvania Times.
Miss Blanton was captain of the Smith-Hayes group which won
the girls’ division of the tournament and Buckner was captain of ;
the ||!ariey counsel group which won among the boys. Bioth teams ^
cam£ though the tournament undefeated.
Eleanor Ledford Elected May Queen;
Frank Crawford Is Prince Charming
Miss Eleanor Leford, of Rural
Hall, has been elected 1943 Queen
of the May Court at Brevard Col
lege and will reign over the May
court on May 8, At the same time
Frank Crawford, of Honea Path,
S. C., was elected Prince Charm
ing and will be Miss Ledford’s es
cort for the May event.
Miss Velma West, of Yadkin-
ville, was chosen maid-of-honor
to Miss Ledford, and Herbert
Gregory, of Kershaw, S. C., was.
elected Prince Charming’s best-
man.
In another recent election sop
homore and freshman boys and
girls were elected attendants to
the Queen ^nd her Prince Charm
ing.
Sophomore girls elected to the
May Court are Miss Patsy How
ard of ' Fayetteville, Miss Beth
Buckner of Chapel HiU, and Miss
Gladys Burnette of Scaly.
Freshman girl attendants are
Miss Eugenia Martin of Waynes-
ville. Miss Betty ^mith of Green
ville, S. C., and Miss Ginny Blan
ton of Cliffside.
Sophomore boy attendants . to
Prince Charming are Lonnie Bi
shop of Arden, Odell Buckner of
Asheville, and Douglas Jones of
Spartanburg, S. C.
Freshman boys assisting Prince
Charming will be B. D. Rodgers
of Charlotte, Manning Garren of
Greenville, S. C., and Charles
Coleman of Greenville, S. C.
Miss Ledford is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Ledford, of
Rural Hall. She entered Brevard
College in the fall of 1941 and is
now a member of the sophomore
class. She is a member of the
Mnemosynean society and the
choir.
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College Bulletins
Are Sent To Seniors
During the past tlu’ee weeks
around forty thousand Brevard
College bulletins have been sent
to graduating high school seniors
in North and South Carolina;
The bulletin invites the young
men and women to consider the
advantages of Brevard College
and contains a number of scenes
of the College at work and play.
Pictures of the choir, sports, dra
matics, farm laboring, science de
partment, library, and engineering
departments are some of the out
standing features of the bulletin.
A post card was enclosed invit
ing the high school seniors to
write for further information.
Half of Goal Gained
In Red Cross Drive
Almost half of Brevard College’s
$100 Red Cross War Fund Drive
had been reached late Friday af
ternoon, and prospects for the re
maining days of ^e drive appear
ed to be bright.
"So far sixteen people had con
tributed one dollar or more and
had received their Red Cross con
tribution cards, with approximate
ly ten additional one-dollar dona
tions promised.
Taylor Hall leads the other
dormitories in contributions with
a total of $14.55. West Hall is
second with $10.42.
A final round-up of all students
and fapul^ members is being con
ducted this week, and results will
be announced in the next issue
of the Clarion.
200 Men Expected
To Train On Campus ■
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Serious consideration is now be
ing given to Brevard College’s
application for a 200-man army
flight training unit and if a fa
vorable report is made following
an inspection, the students will
probably arrive on the campus
Monday, April 5.
President Coltrane and Public
ity Director E. M. Anderson went
to Washington last Thursday and
placed the college’s application^
before the joint committee for
the selection of non-federal edu
cational institutions for utilization
by the War and Navy Depart
ments.
It was pointed out that since
Brevard is a co-educational col
lege and a large number of the
men students have already been
drafted, its facilities are adequate
to furnish the highly specialized
training to at least 200 army or
navy students.
Congressmen Zeb Weaver and
Robert Daughton and Senator
“Our Bob’^ Reynolds assisted Dr.
Coltrane and Mr. Anderson in
giving to the committee important
information concerning the col- ;
lege’s facilities and in urging ap
proval of the application.
The two men also talked with
important officials of the commit
tee and with J. Kirk Baldwin of
the Civil Aeronautics authority,
which directs the college ^ght
instruction.
Another important point
brought before the committee
'members was that the college
has successfully carried on a
flight, training program for the
past two years and that a good
flying field is located nearby.
By the first of April, the Army
expects to have 70,000 young men
in colleges and universities
throughout the country taking five
months’ courses.
Believing that the application
will meet final approval, Dr. Colt
rane with members of the coUege
faculty is making ready to receive
the army air corps cadets.
Regular students at the college
take about 54 semester hours in
each of their three-hour a week
courses. If any student thinks
that is hard, take a look at what
the army air corps cadets go
through in their five months’
courses.
They receive 60 semester hours
in English and 60 hours in Amer- •
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Miss Neuberger Is
Speaker At I. R. C.
Miss Emmi Neuberger, former
ly of Germany, was the guest
speaker of the iitemational Rela
tions club meeting on Wednesday,
March 17.
Miss Neuberger spoke on “Ger
many at War” and gave many in
teresting facts about daily life in
Germany now and before the war.
After the speech the club mem
bers attended a tea in the living
room of West Hall.
Faculty guests were Miss Jack
son, Miss Smith, and Miss Hayes.
The program was in charge
of Leo Nance, new president of the
International Relations club.