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Volume XVII
BREVARD COLLEGE, APRIL 16, 1951
Number 7
Theme Of May Day Is “Robin Hood”
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Centered around the May Day Queen Joan Schaeffer are her Maid of Honor, Martha Bishop^ and
her May Day Court. On the top row, from left to right, are Betty Lineberry, Miss Bishop, Nonna
Jean Williams, and Martha Gibbs. Middle row: Peggy Waller, Miss Schaeffer and Annie Lewis. Bot
tom row: Ellen Faulkner. Carol Carter, and Jean Arledge.
Rehearsals Begun
For Play With Cast
Of Fourteen
Rehearsals have begun
for the three act comedy,
“Everybody’s Crazy,” which
is to be given here later this
term by the Brevard Col
lege Dramatics club. Mr.
Francis B. Price, faculty ad
viser for the dramatics club,
is directing the play but has
not set a date for the per
formance.
“Everybody’s Crazy” is a farce
in three acts by Jay Tobias. The
play takes place in the lobby of
the ‘ghost” hotel that three col
lege boys have bought. The boys
purchased the hotel with the in
tention of making money in order
to splurge during their last year
in college.
Members of the cast include
Larry Poteat, Wayne Umphlett,
Reid Gilbert, James Smith, Dot
Dellinger, Betty Shepherd, Doro
thy Gay Rockwood, Tom Roberts,
Helen Hayes, Betty Huff, Clinton
Tutterow, Jewell Sentelle, Lura
Cole and Mack Lassiter.
HONORARY FRATERNITY
HAS TAPPING SERVICE
The Phi Theta Kappa held its
tapping ceremony in chapel Fri
day. Those tapped into the chapter
were Mary Dean, Lawson Bing
ham, Bernie Welch, Carol Carter,
Richard Hodson and Alice Leg
gett.- - .-
Students To Vote For Student
Government Officers April 19
April 19 and 20 will be red-letter days on the college
calendar. Student body elections will take place on the
19, and the results will be announced on April 20.
Student Body President Bernie Welch announced in
chapel on April 5 that the new procedures for announcing
candidacy and for voting will go into effect in this year’s
elections.
To be an eligible candidate, a
student must have declared his
intention in a written petition
signed by 18 students. These pe
titions were turned in to Mary
Alice Hollifield, secretary-treas-
urer of the student body, by Fri
day, April 13. In a call meeting,
the student council will approve
such candidates as meet the re
quirements stated in the constitu
tion.
A list of candidates will be pre
sented to the student body over
the week end. The officers to be
elected are a president, a vice
president, and a secretary-treasur-
er of the student goverimient; a
social chairman, who will be in
charge of the social calendar; an
editor and a business manager of
the PERTELOTE; and an editor
and a business manager of the
CLARION.
Voting will take place in one of
the basement rooms in Taylor Hall.
Members of the student coimcil
will be on duty at the polls and at
entrance and exit doors of the doi:-
mitory . at all times on tlje djay of
election. Winners will be an
nounced within a 24-hour period
after the polls close.
The new voting procedure in
which voters state first, second,
end third choices prevents the
need for a run-off in case of a tie.
College Choir Has
Successful Tour
Jody Schaeffer Is
Elected Queen
Bernie Welch, president of the
student government of Brevard
college has issued the statistics of
the recent May Queen election.
Welch stated that the voting in
the election was so close that had
it not been for the majority dause
in the new constitution, the voting
would have been held again, be
cause there was a difference of
only two or three votes for all can
didates.
Out of five candidates for May
Queen, Miss Joann' Schaeffer re
ceived the highest niunber of
votes. Miss Martha Bishop re
ceived the second highest num
ber, which, according to the con
stitution, placed her as Maid-of-
Honor.
After the announcement of the
winner, Welch asked that the
inemoers of each class meet sepa
rately lor the purpose of electing
ireir representatives as attena-
ants in tne May Court. Out of the
iresnman class Betty Lineberry,
jeeggy Waller, Ellen Faulkner,
ana Carol Carter were elected as
auenctants. From the sophomore
class Anne Lewis, Marty Gibbs,
Jean Arledge, and Norma Jean
Williams were elected.
Tne May Day program, under
the airecuon ot Miss Louise Mos
ley, IS basea on the story of Robin
Hooa. Alice Leggect will have the
part of Robin Hood, and Betty
Jean Evans will take the part of
ot the Maid Marion. The mem
bers of tne girls physical educa
tion Classes will participate in tbe
dances planned lor the program.
Tne costumes are now being made
xor tne program and are to be in
gieen and yellow.
The Brevard College choir, un
der the direction of Bruce A. Liv-
engood, recently completed its
spring tour. The choir was com
posed of 33 selected voices with
Francis Price, instructor in voice,
and Mary Jane Kornegay featured
soloists. Miss Susan Graham, in
structor in piano, was accompan
ist for the choir.
The choir sang in Concord,
Charlotte, Wadesboro, and Ruth-
ei’fordton. It also performed in
several high schools.
The highlight of the tour was
an appearance at the Dilworth
—Turn to Page Five
College Mien Urged
l o Write To Local
Boards For Forms
All college men who plan
to continue their educations
are advised by the adminis
tration to write letters imme
diately to their draft boards
informing the local boards
of their intention to con
tinue college.
Selective Service examin
ations which will enable
men to continue study will
be administered at examina
tion centers throughout the
country. Tests will be giv
en at Brevard college on
May 26, June 16, and June
30.
When writing the local boards,
men should ask to be sent forms
SSS No. 106 and SSS No. 107. Ac
cording to recent radio and press
announcements these forms are
not ready for distribution; how
ever, notifying the boards of the
desire to take such an examina
tion is necessary at once, the ad
ministration has announced.
Miss Josephine Linn, former di*
etician of the Brevard college caf
eteria, writes that she is now
feeding five thoiisand men at Fort
Jackson, South Carolina.