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Onions to those who clutter up the clean rec hall Clarion Orchids to the faculty ioc The Shakespearean basketball game Volume XVII BREVARD COLLEGE, FEBRUARY 26, 1951 Number 6 Chamber Of Commerce Meets At College MISS MARTHA BISHOP was selected by popular vote as the Brevard college entry in the Carolina Junior Conference basketball tournament beauty contest. Miss Bishop was judged among beauties from other North and South Carolina junior colleges. Martha is one of the four semi-finalists. Frost, Noted Author And Lecturer Will Present Program March 10 Robert Frost, dean of American poets and four-time Pulitzer prize winner, will appear on the campus OMarch 10 to lecture to students, fac ulty, and visitors. Strong local interest has been expressed for this program, and ac cording to President Ehlhardt of the college, will grant as many of the requests for admission to Mr. Frost’s lecture as it possibly can. Spe cific arrangements will be announced at a later date. Brevardians Crown Miss Bishop Queen Choosing a girl to represent Brevard college in a pre-touma- ment contest held to select a reign ing queen for the Carolina Junior conference basketball tournament was the occasion for a campus beauty contest here on February 12. Marty Bishop, sophomore, from Tryon, N. C., was declared winner by vote of the student body. The tournament queen was chosen last week at Shelby by the judging of photographs submitted by the schools in behalf of the var ious contestants. Chosen as Queen of the tournament was Miss Kay Helms, of Kernsville, who was sponsored by the Oak Ridge Mili tary institute. The Brevard college representa tive was invited to serve as an at tendant in the court of the queen. Miss Bishop has a distinguished record in Brevard campus activi ties. A member of the Mnemosy- ntan society and of the commer cial club, she has served through the present school year as associ ate managing editor of the Clar ion. Additionally, she is secre- tary-treasurer of the Baptist Stu dent union. Mr. Frost was a professor of English at Amherst and has taught and lectured in colleges through out the country although he never finished college himself. His time at present is divided between poet ry, farming and less formal teach ing. Some of Frost’s better known books are “North of Boston,” “A Way Out,” “New Hampshire,” “The Lone Striker” and “A Boy’s Will.” TERRY WELL RECEIVED AT FIRST OF CONCERTS Warren Lee Terry, familiar to North Carolinians as “Old Tom,” cf paul Green’s LOST COLONY, v/as well received here Monday evening, February 19, when he performed his GILBERT and SUL LIVAN IN SONG AND STORY. The capacity audience appeared extremely pleased with Terry’s program of anecdotes, humorous remarks, and operatic selections from representative works of the Gilbert-Sullivan team. —Turn to Page Seven Chemistry Prizes Awarded By Leete Lawson Bingham, freshman of Leicester, and David Starr, sopho more of Greensboro, were present ed special awards in chapel on February 12 for distinguished per formances in chemistry. Dr. J. F. Leete, head of the Brevard college chemistry department,, presented each with a Handbook of Chemis try and Physics. This national award, which is made possible by the Chemical Rubber Publishing Co., of Cleve land, is presented annually to a freshman in each college who has jriade the most outstanding prog ress in chemistry. Because this award was not pre sented at Brevard college last year, two awards were given this year. Student Council Cleans Rec Hall On Tuesday night, February 20, members of the Student council gave the rec hall a going over. This consisted of cleaning the floor, washing windows, dyeing curtains, painting the ping-pong tables, and furnishing the rec room with waste cans and crates for empty bottles. —Turn to Page Five Progress Reported On Loyalty Drive; Jones Is Speaker The Brevard college loyalty fund drive made the college a chief theme of John I. Anderson, George B. Ehlhardt, and Edwin L. Jones, speakers at the annual chamber of commerce banquet, held on the evening of February 22 in the col lege cafeteria. Presented by J. O. Roland, pres ident of the local organization, \yho presided at the banquet, John I. Anderson, drive committee chairman, read a partial list of contributions made to date. Prom ising for his organization extended community effort in behalf of the cnlJege, he showed that the pres ent drive is going well. Mr. An derson expressed gratification at ihe support that the Transylvania region already has given his com mittee. President Thanks Region; Presents Philanthropist President George B. Ehlhardt spoke his gratitude for the cordial relationship now enjoyed by the college administration with the greater Brevard community; and he voiced appreciation for the town’s present material endorse ment of Christian education as it is now being advanced in the col lege. “Although Brevard college is under the government of the Methodist church,” he went on to explain, “we go beyond the boun daries of our denomination and serve this community and all those who dwell therein.” Mr. Ehlhardt introduced as the principal speaker of the evening the Charlotte philanthropist and lay religious leader, Edwin Lee Jones, who is president of the J. A. Jones Construction company and chairman of the board of trus tees of Brevard college. Reviews Freedom Crusade; Applauds Small College iMr. Jones’ principal theme cen tered in his recent experience as an American representative dur ing the ceremonial ringing of the freedom Bell in Berlin. The speaker emphasized the importance of this symbolic bell. To oppress ed peoples everywhere it said “in no uncertain notes that there is still indeed hope for freedom.’’ Interested as a trustee in Mr. Anderson’s accounting of commu nity support for the college, Mr. Jones discussed at some length in his opening remarlcs “the mutual ity of interests” of the town and the school. In practical terms he pointed out that each advertises the other. “Both Brevard and Brevard college should and will growth together,” he said; “what —Turn to Page Eight
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