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THE CLARION
Volume XVI
BREVARD COLLEGE, JANUARY 14, 1950
Number 5
GRADUATION EXERCISES ARE NEXT SUNDAY
Brevard College
Students Attend
Illinois Meeting
The Christmas holidays at home
were shortened for Elaine Higdon,
Nancy Suttles and Dot Wallace.
Accompanied by Mr. Edward Roy,
these three girls attended the
Methodist Student Movement con
ference at the University of Illi
nois at Urbana.
They left Asheville early Mon
day morning, December 26, and ar
rived on the college campus late
in the afternoon of the next
day.
North Carolina had one of the
largest delegations at the confer
ence, and for that reason her 85
delegates had to wait in line to
register until midnight that night.
In the conference from the Old
North State were Mr. and Mrs.
Troy Barrett and Mr. R. Harold
Hipps, persons well-known on the
Brevard campus by students as
well as faculty members.
The morning meetings during
the conference week of December
27 through January 1 were devot
ed to platform speakers. The sub
ject of the conference was “The
Christian Use of Power in a Sec
ular World,” and each speaker
chose his topic from the different
phases of power.
In the afternoons the confer
ence was broken up into sub-con
ferences with 230 people in each
group. The purpose of these meet
ings was to discuss the talks made
earlier by the platform speakers.
The evenings were devoted to
fellowship groups composed of 10
or 12 members. They were organ
ized to talk over personal problems
and exchange ideas. There were
also creative interest groups for
recreation, movies, chorus, orches
tra, vocational guidance, and many
others.
Besides all the 48 states, repre
sentatives of 30 foreign countries
attended the conference, whose to
tal delegation was 2,300.
Music Building
Opened Recently
The building which was used
last year as Barracks “D” has been
converted into a music building.
This expansion of the music facil
ities was made possible by Mr.
Bruce A. Livengood, director of
the music department, and Mr.
Hall Smith, Jr., business manager
of the college.
The main room is large enough
to accommodate practices for all
the choral groups, the band, and
the general music classes. The in
dividual rooms have been made
into practice rooms for piano, voice
and instrumental students.
Mr. Herman and his crew are
responsible for tearing out the
petitions and getting the building
ready for use.
CHURCHES WORK TOGETHER
While the Federated Church in
El Paso, 111., was being repainted
the congregation held services in
the Baptist church. Then the Bap
tists met in the Federated church
while their sanctuary was being
repaired and painted.
W. Powell Hale Gave Program
Of Impersonations At College
Gave Program Here
W. POWELL HALE, outstand
ing impersonator and entertain
er, gave a program of readings
and recitations in the college
auditorium on Wednesday night.
The recreation class sponsored
the program. (See story.)
Noted Entertainer Was Well
Received Here By Stu
dents, Townspeople
W. PoweU Hale presented to the
Brevard college students and the
townspeople of Brevard a program
of impersonations and monologues
in the college auditorium Wednes
day evening, January 11, at 8
o’clock.
Mr. Hale, a noted impersonator
and entertainer, visited the col
lege last year and gave Dickens’
“Christmas Carol” and an encore
poem that entertained the large
audience. In Wednesday night’s
program, Mr. Hale gave a great va
riety of selections, imitating chil
dren as well as old people. His
reading of the famous “Foolish
Questions” brought a large round
of applause from his audience.
Simple and natural in style, Mr.
Hale is so unaffected in his man
ner that he gains easy and instant
entree into the good will of his au
dience. Among the selections in
his repertoire are scenes from
Shakespeare, Poe, Kilmer, Kipling,
Riley, Twain, Tennyson, and many
other masters. He also uses many
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Sophomore Superlatives Have
Been Named For Current Term
Student Center
Will Be Opened
Next Semester
By the beginning of the spring
semester, the new student center
is scheduled to be ready for use.
According to the information giv
en by Dean J. J. Stevenson, the
West Hall basement will be equip
ped with a juke box, a coke ma
chine, and a popcorn machine.
Students may dance there dur
ing any time of the regular dating
hours except on Sunday, when on
ly the post office section of the
center will be open. Dean Steven
son stressed the fact that the local
fire department has stated that ab
solutely no smoking will be per
mitted in the new recreation hall.
Mrs. Lee Pylant, dean of women,
has given permission for the girls
to go to the center during class
hours for doughnuts and coffee or
a coke, but that they are not al
lowed to stay longer than several
minutes. In other words, a whole
class hour may not be spent in so
cializing.
Dancing and prolonged conver
sation during these class hours
will not be permited. Mrs. Pylant
pointed out that because the cen
ter is a project for the benefit of
the students, the students owe it
to themselves to show orderly con
duct and to follow the rules and
regulations, since it is only under
the above conditions that the cen
ter is being opened.
‘Bests” In Graduating Class
Named Before The
Holidays
In a meeting of the sophomore
class before the Christmas holi
days, the superlatives for the year
were chosen. After discussion
from the floor, it was decided that
the S'ame superlatives used last
year would be used by the present
class. There are seven of these,
a boy and a girl for each.
Mickey Case and Bob Ratchford
were named the best-looking mem
bers of the class. Also nominated
for this title were Lizette Lewis,
Evon Davidson, Betsy Bowman
and Kenneth Highsmith.
Best-all-round are Bette Cook
■and Bob Moore. They were chos
en over the following nominees.
Betty Howerton, Lizette Lewis,
Evon Davidson, Mike Haddock,
Dan Stowe, and Donald Helms.
Those students who were nomi
nated for most intellectual were
Betsy Bowman, Frances Swarin-
gen, Doreen Pearson, Betsy Dean,
Margaret George, Hershel Ayers,
Raymond Wilkinson and Bob
Dwiggins. Betsy Bowman and
Hershel Ayers were elected from
this group.
Evelyn Eller and J. C. Grose
were chosen as the students’
choices for the most original su
perlative. The others who were
nominated for this title were Anne
Haley, Doreen Pearson, and “Spee
dy” Cranford.
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13 Students Will
Graduate In The
’50 January Class
Thirteen students will receive
their diplomas from Brevard col
lege on next Sunday night, Janu
ary 22, at 7:30 o’clock at the Bre
vard Methodist church. Dr. Em-
bree H. Blackard, pastor of Cen
tral Methodist church in Asheville
and a member of the Board of
Trustees of the college, will be
the principal speaker.
Special music for the exercises
will be given by members of the
college music department, of
which Bruce A. Livengood is the
head.
Dean J. J. Stevenson, Jr., will
present the honor students to the
class for recognition, and Dr. E.
J. Coltrane will award the diplo
mas. Rev. J. Julian Holmes, pas
tor of the Methodist church here,
will preside over the graduation
program.
Members of the graduating class
are as follows: Edith Marie Day-
vault. Concord; Herbert Dale Dix
on, Kings Mountain; Isabelle Mar
garet Harrison, Gastonia; Mary
Kathleen Martin, Charlotte; Henry
Odell Purgason, Converse, S. C.;
David LeGrande Rogers, Bennetts-
ville, S. C.; Mary Josephine Rowe,
Charlotte; Sherman G o r r e 11
Thompson, Winston-Salem; John
Westervelt Tucker, Sola, Cuba;
Eli Alston Wilkes, Jr., Hemingway,
S. C.; Raymond Lee Wilkinson,
Belmont; Connie Wortman, Casar;
and Wiley Stewart Van Nortwick,
Robersonville.
All Next Week
Given Over To
Semester Exams
.Yes, it has been a really won
derful semester, but the crucial
moment has arrived. Just how
much the students of this institu
tion have learned during the past
four and a half months wiE be dis
closed by the final examinations
for the fall semester, which begin
on Saturday, January 14, and con
sume the days from then until Fri
day, January 20.
The examining periods are a
challenge to each and every stu
dent. They will show the result
of a semester of hard work or a
semester of idleness, a semester
thrown away or a semester put to
good use.
Those who have studied indus
triously and with a will to learn
will have no difficulty with their
examinations. Teachers do not
make the exams for the “A” stu
dents, but for the average ones.
Those students who have not ap
plied themselves to their work thisi
past semester can take on the new
semester with renewed zeal.
All morning exams will be from
9 o’clock until noon and after
noon exams will be from 1:30 un-
tU 4:30.
CAFETERIA SERVING HOURS
Breakfast 6:45- 7:30
Snack Bar 8:30-10.00
Dinner 11:45- 1:00
Supper 4:45- 5.45