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Volume XVIII
BREVARD COLLEGE, FEBRUARY 9, 1952
Number 5
The Board Of Trustees Elects Acting President
OPEN LETTER TO
COLLEGE ALUMNI
Dear Fellow-Alumni:
Through Brevard college, the
Methodist church has made a great
contribution to your life and mine.
When we consider the influence
that this institution has had upon
our lives, we immediately recog
nize our indebtedness to others.
Their investment in Christian high
er education has made life differ
ent for us.
My thoughts frequently, and quite
naturally, turn to Brevard college
and I have been thinking recently
of the college as it now is—its lim
ited facilities, its underpaid facul
ty, its hundreds of alumni, its in
adequate support, its smaller-than-
usual student body. One is not made
jubilant by such thoughts, we must
confess. Nevertheless, we rejoice
in the vision and consecration of
those persons who have helped
Brevard college render the service
that it has during its brief history.
Then, I have other thoughts —
thoughts that lead me to dream of
the Brevard college that might be
— ■with improved facilities, with a
larger enrollment'of students, with'
a better-paid faculty, with alumni
v/hose interest in the school is gen
uine and whose concern is expressed
by vital influence and through tan
gible gifts.
On behalf of our Alumni associa
tion, I would like to challenge you
to join me in doing the following
two things for Brevard college
within the next few months:
(1) It is imperative that the col
lege have more students next year.
Trustees and officials cite this as
being one of the pressing needs at
the present moment. You can help
at this point by influencing high
school seniors in your community
to consider Brevard and by send
ing their names to the college for
follow-up purposes. Please be on
the alert to lend your assistance in
this connection.
(2) The college needs whatever
gifts we might be able to share—
$1, $5, $10, $25, $50, $100. This is
a constant need! We have received
much. Surely loyal alumni can and
will give something! I hope that
many of you will be able to send
immediate gifts, however great or
small, and thereby express your
love for the college and our faith
in its future. Make your check pay
able to Brevard college and mail it
to Miss Lois Frazer at the college.
May this New Year of 1952 bring
to all of us an ever-growing sense
of appreciation for the contribu
tion which our Alma Mater has
made to our lives!
Very sincerely yours,
R. DELBERT BYRUM,
President, Brevard College
Alumni Association
College BSU Joins
State-Wide Campaign
James W. Ray, North Carolina
Baptist Student union director, has
announced two projects which
Brevard college B. S. U. members
will join hands in sponsoring with
other North Carolina campuses.
“The drive for this year will be a
combined one,” explained Mr. Ray
when on campus at Brevard last
week for conferences with Baptist
students.
Some 30 organized student un
ions and other school groups have
launched a $1,500 campaign for
helping send a North Carolinian to
Hawaii for internship, missionary
work with adults, and for aiding a
foreign student to continue minis
terial education. Qualifications for
the state-awarded honor are that
the recipient be an upperclassman
or graduate of a four-year N. C.
college, a mission volunteer, and
that he have endorsement of his lo
cal student group. .
The North Carolina Baptist Stu
dent union’s award to a foreign stu-
WALTER FULLBRANDl
dent has been granted to Walter
Fullbrandt, a 23-year-old, Weener,
Germany-born Baptist seminary
student. Fullbrandt’s mother died
when he was five; his father was a
Baptist minister at Eilenburg, near
Leipseig, Germany. During World
War II, the young boy and his fath
er lost their belongings, and their
home was completely destroyed.
Now Walter’s father is pastor of
the Baptist church at Pforzhein,
ir. Southern Germany.
Said yoxmg Fullbrandt in his let
ter of thanks directed to Mr. Ray:
“Please let me thank you and also
the students of the Baptist Student
Unions of North Carolina very
much for the great contribution you
have made to my education as a fu
ture minister. . .
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Dean J. J. Stevenson has been
appointed by the board of trus
tees as acting president of the
college until a president can be
selected.
Jones Visits Campus;
Speaks To Students
John E. Jones, promotional direc-
•tor-for tfeg-AaheviHe-Oitig&n-Ti
company, visited the Brevard col
lege campus on Wednesday, Jan
uary 9, in connection with promo
tional work which is being done by
the Asheville newspapers in the
colleges and schools in the moun
tain area of Western North Caro
lina.
The Citizen-Times company, ac
cording to Mr. Jones, has begun a
project to stimulate reading habits
among students in this area. This
project consists of supplying free
copies of the Citizen to students
one day each week for a period of
six weeks. At Brevard, which was
the first college to receive newspa
pers in the project, the newspapers
were distributed in history classes
with the cooperation of Dr. A. L.
Bramlett, head of the history de
partment.
Mr. Jones, a veteran of twenty-
eight years’ experience in the field
of journalism, spoke to history stu
dents of journalistic experiences.
At the chapel period on the morn
ing of his visit to the college, Mr.
Jones spoke to the assembled stu
dent body and showed a movie
about the making of a newspaper.
DR. EDDY SPEAKS HERE
Dr. Sherwood Eddy, well-known
author, lecturer and social worker,
lectured at Brevard college on
world conditions last Wednesday in
the college auditorium at regular
chapel period. His wife spoke Tues
day evening on “The Orient” at the
college.
Both Dr. and Mrs. Eddy have
been prominent in YMCA-YWCA
work.
Dean Appointed To
Actingr Presidency
The Brevard college board
of trustees announced that,
in absence of a chief admin
istrator, Dean J. J. Steven
son, Jr., has been appointed
acting president of the col
lege. The college board met
January 25 at Dilworth
Methodist church, and an
nouncement of its decision
was made to the faculty re
cently by Dr. B. Joseph Mar
tin.
Roy Heads Admissions
Along with the appointment of
Dean Stevenson as acting president
came the official appointment of
Prof. C. Edward Roy, head of the
college department of religion, as
Director of Admissions, according
to Dr. Martin.
President Stevenson received his
A. B. from the University of South
Carolina, his B. D. from Emory
university, and his M. A. from: the
University of South Carolina. He
has been a member of the college
ac-iltx sinqe 19^^^ ^
The Rev. Mr. Roy received his
A. B. from Piedmont college, his
B. D. from Emory imiversity and
his M. A. frx>m George Peabody
college for Teachers. He was ap
pointed to the faculty in 1944.
Euterpeans Sponsor
St. Valentine Dance
Martha Washam, president of the
Euterpean society, has announced
plans for an informal Valentine
dance which the society will spon
sor on Saturday, February 16. The
dance, which will feature the Val
entine motif, wiU be held in the col
lege cafeteria follovnng a basket
ball game with North Greenville
junior college.
The entertainment for the dance
wiU consist of square dances and
ballroom dances, according to the
chairman of the entertainment com
mittee, June Craft. Plans of the
decoration committee, headed by
Gloria Starnes, and the refresh
ment committee, under the direc
tion of Melba Eller, have not been
disclosed.
FRY IS MEMBER OF PLAY CAST
Mr. Ray Fry, of Brevard college,
librarian at the James A. Jones
library, will be a member of the
cast when the Brevard Little The
ater presents a three-act murder
mystery, “The Ninth Guest,” in the
American Legion building. The
play is scheduled for production
on February 12 and 13 at 8:30 p. m.
Several members of the college
drama dub will serve as ushers for
the play.