time will PASS The Clarion WILL YOU? HUH? VOLUME XXVII BREVARD COLLEGE, NUMBER 2 Famed Organist To Appear In Dedicatory Organ Recital Brevard Theafre Gives Comedy THE THREE MANUAL SCRANTZ ORGAN on which Dr. Robert Baker will present a concert-recital at the Brevard Methodist church on Tuesday, November 10, IS shown above. (Photo by “Scoop” Scott) Benefactors Present Valuable Library Collections To College For the tenth consecutive season the students of Brevard College can look forward to participation in and enjoyment of the Brevard Little Theatre. The college center build ing will be the scene of all produc tions and imany rehearsals. The cur tain will be raised first this year, November 20-21 on a three-act play by John, The Loud Red Patrick. The production will be directed by Mr. Robroy Farquar of the Flat Rock Playhouse. A mystery and possible a drama are also in the planning stage for this season. Officers for the group are from the Brevard area. The president is Mr. James Hicklin vvrho has been associated with the Ashe ville Community theatre. Mrs. Jean Dickson is vice-president. • The Clarion staff, as well as Bre vard College, extends hearty con gratulations and hopes that this will be the best year in ten for Brevard’s Little Theatre. Containing four hundred and seventy volumes, the private library of the late Miss Beulah May Zachary was recently donated to the Jones Library. A native of Brevard, and an alumnus of Brevard Insti tute, Miss Zachary was the prolucer ol “Cukla, Fran, and Ollie,” a tele vision program that ran from 1944 until 1959. She met with an untime- Brevard Choir Plans Tour Mr, M. T. Cousins, director of the Brevard College Choir, announced today that the choir would make a one-day tour on November 15. The trip will include singing for two services; one at Avondale Methodist tlmrch, Avondale, North Carolina, and the other at Central Methodist church, Shelby, North Carolina. For these two programs, the choir will be assisted by the Madrigil Singers. Board Of Trustees Approves Budget The Brevard College Board of trustees adopted a budget of $474,- 183 at their recent fall meeting on jTiday, October 17. Plans for the luture development of the school were also discussed. The budget Qopted by the trustees was ap proved at the spring meeting and MS formally accepted at this fall session. consultant for Amercian Col- thro!’ L. Jones, spent ^ on the campus of Bre- schL reported that the pfln! excellent job in no?eri religion. He also potentialities and limited school are un- chairman of “e board, presided. ly death in an airplane accident while en route to New York from Chicago. In her will. Miss Zachary be queathed all of her reference books to Brevard College and the remain ing books to her sister, Mrs. Harold Bogler of Asheville. Mrs. Bogler, however, waived her claim to the books and included them in her sister’s gift to the college. In addition to the reference books originally willed, the books that Mrs. Bogler waived to the college include plays, some classics, books on modern art, and on play produc tion. The collection will be shelved in a special section of the library as soon as space is made available. A second donation to the library was presented by Brevard College Trustee, Judge Guy Weaver, follow ing the Trustee meeting on October 16. Included in the gift were a set of Carlysle in twenty volumes, and a Lamed set of Ready Reference books. The presentation from Judge Weaver’s personal library totaled about thirty volumes. BSO Entertains Freshman At Teas Delphians, Clios Choose Pins A new club precedent has been started here this year by the Del phian and Ciliosophic societies with the ordering of society pins Three-fourths of the Delphian mem bers and a majority of the Clio members have ordered pins which indicates that the wearing of pins may become a standard practice here at Brevard College. The triangular shaped Delphian pin which is similar to the Clio pin has the Greek letter D embossed in gold on a black enamel back ground. Both pins closely resemble the expensive fratgrnity pins of large universtiies. The pin to be worn by officers of the Delphian Society is distinguish ed by a small gold link chain with a gold ’60 pin. Formality is the keynote in the teas currently being given by the Big Sisters Organization. Begun several weeks ago and continuing through the second week of No vember, these teas are held each Monday and Friday afternoons be tween 4:30 and 5:00 p.m. in the parlor of Annabelle Jones Hall. Two Big Sisters combine their groups for each tea and are re sponsible for flowers arrangements and refreshments. They chose two teachers to participate in them I along with Dean Plant. (Memibers of the BSO are voted on and chosen by the faculty and graduating Big Sisters. They possess the qualities of the ideal college girl, including an average or better academic record, a sense of respon sibility and a warm out-going per sonality. Their purpose is to make each freshman girl feel at home at Brevard College; and to help, in any way possible, to acquaint her with campus life. Betty Neale is president of the group and other members are: Martha Adams, Marty Clark, Vir ginia Doscher, Betty Eure, June Feemster, Betty Hornaday, Susan Hunt, Judy McManus, Chris Olsen, Nancy Poley, Pat Pruitt, Betty Sutherland, and Linda Sluder. Famed organist Dr. Robert Baker will appear at the Brevard Metho dist church on Tuesday, November 10, for the dedication of the Beulah McMinn Zachary Organ. This con cert-recital will open Brevard Col lege’s fall lyceum program. Dr. Baker is the organist for the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church and Temple Emanu-El in New York and a teacher of organ at the Union Theological Seminary. He holds a master’s degree and a doctorate in sacred music, and he has become known as a concert recitalist, mak ing tours which have taken him to all parts of the United States. In February of 1958, Dr. Baker appeared in the initial recital on the three-manual Schrant organ, just purchased by the Methodist church. The gift of the organ was made possible by Miss Beulah Mae Zachary, of Chicago and Brevard, now deceased, who established an organ fund in the memory of her mother, Mrs. Beulah McMinn Zachary. Following Miss Zachary’s death, the church set up a permanent and active fund to be used for the presentation of organ recitals and other worthwhile programs. The piece to be played in memory of Mrs. Beulah McMinn Zachary was commissioned ibv Mr. Thor Johnson, former director of the Chi cago Symphony Orchestra and present drector of organ activities at Northwestern College. The music was composed by Vittori Giannini this summer while he was visiting in Brevard. Masquers Plan Plays, Pantomines Euterps Elect Officers Organization officers from the freshmen class were elected recent ly by the Euterpean Society at a called meeting. Maxie Callisher will serve as secretary and Mary Hop ping is treasurer for this year. Other business included making plans for the Christmas Dance and discussing the ordering of Euter pean pins. The Nemo Society has approved and has taken orders for their club pins. The Brevard Masquers’ Studio is busy with rehearsals of several one- act plays, a mid-term examination 'ballet-pantomime, and iplans for a gala Christmas performance. All scheduled productions are labora tory experimental projects emanat ing from English 14 (Play Produc tion) class. This class strives to in troduce each member to basic as pects of the theatre in acting, di recting, costuming, makeup, and lighting. The Masquers’ calendar includes performances on Thursday, Novem ber 11, of Park Scene, a classroom music pantoimdme project based on Kabalevsky’s Comedians; Winter Sunset and Husband’s Supplied on November 23, two one-act plays, directed by Eric Greene and Dee Carden; Concert in the Park and From Paradise to Butte on Novem ber 30, two one-act plays directed by Beverly Holloway and Max Walser. On December 14 the Studio The atre will join the Glee Club with a production of John Masefield’s mystery play, Coming of the Christ. On the same program will be an original masquCipantomime by Karl Harrell and Jerry Cantrell. The sec ond item is an adaptation of ele ments by Thomas Wolfe and Edgar Lee Masters and is entitled Good Morning, Stranger! Other plays in progress for later Studio production are: Minor Mir acle, directed by Eric Greene; Senor Freedom, directed by Gail Van Landingham; Inn of Discon tent, directed by Bill Kale; and Hold on to your Hat, directed by Virginia Doscher.

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