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The Clarion
“SONG OF BERNADETTE”
VOLUME XXXI
BREVARD COLLEGE, BREVARD, N. C., MAY 8, 1964
NUMBER 13
Dean Bennett Resigns, Accepts Post At Western Carolina
Recitals Feature Music Students
Hooker, Jevons Perform Tonight
Tonight at 8 p.m. in the Bre
vard College Campus Center
Building Auditorium, a formal
recital will be presented by the
College Music Department. Fea
tured artists will include Donna
Hooker, soprano, Dean Jevo^ns,
baritone, and the Brevard Col
lege Wind Ensemble, directed by
Miss Joan Moser and Mr. Larry
Whatley, of the music faculty.
Another formal recital, featur
ing Judy Barnes, organist, and
the College Woodwin Ensemble,
will be presented Sunday at 4
p.m. in th« Brevard Methodist
Church sanctuary. The Ensem
ble will be directed toy Miss
Moser.
The Asheville Symphony So
ciety will present a “Mozart
Music Festival” May 14-17. Sev
eral Brevard College students
are members of the Asheville
Symphony; David AMord, flute,
Mike Harris, tympani, and Steve
[Poland, percussion. Miss Joan
Moser, of the Music Deportment
faculty, plays bassoon for the
orchestra.
Mr. Nelson F. Adams, of the
Brevard College faculty, will di
rect the Brevard Civic Chorus in
the performance of the CREA
TION by Franz Joseph Haydn on
May 24. The program will be
held in the Brevard Methodist
Church at 7:30 p.m.
The graduation activities at
Brevard College will include
Commencement Concert to be
held at 8 p.m. on May 30, in the
Campus Center Building. Par
ticipants will be the Brevard
College Glee Club, directed by
Mr. Harvey H. Miller, and the
Brevard College Wind Ensemble,
directed by Miss Moser and Mr
Whatley.
The College Woodwin Ensem
ble performed at Opportunity
House in Hendersonville last
Sunday. They were directed by
Miss Moser. Opportunity House
might be called a recreation cen
ter for elderly retired people.
Dr. John B. Bennett has re
signed from his post as Dean
of Brevard College to accept
an appointment as Professor of
Philosophy at Western Caro
lina College begmning with the
September, 1964, term.
In announcing Dean Bennett’s
resignation. President Emmett
K. McLarty said, “Because of his
total commitment to the goal of
excellence in al phases of the
college program, Dean Bennett
has had a pervasive influence in
the develc-pment of Brevard’s
present stature.
“Specifically responsible for
all educational affairs and ac
tivities of the college, he has
guided the Academic Standards
Committee in redesigning the
curriculum with emphasis up
on university parallel courses.
The result has been economies
in the instructional budget and
greater efficiency in the pro
grams of individual instruc
tors.
“Supported by the Board of
Trustees and the Administra
tion, Dean Bennett has raised the
standards of admission with the
result that there has been a
marked increase of students who
return for the second year of
study and for graduation.
“Brevard College graduates,
long welcome at many senior
teaching. Dr. Bennett returned
to Brevard College in 1957 as
dean.
“Brevard CoUege stands on
the threshold of great oppor
tunity for service,” Dean Ben
nett says. “It is with great
personal regret that our fami
ly leaves this town and college
we have loved so deeply and
for so long a time. But the op
portunity for developing
courses in philosophy and re
ligion at Western Carolina
College is one for which my
training and experience have
prepared me specifically. At
the same time the academic af
fairs at Brevard College are in
excellent condition for a
smooth transition to be made
with a new dean with a vigor
ous approach to the tasks
which Brevard College offers
so well to fulfUl.”
Mrs. Bennett will continue
with the College for a year in
order that the language depart
ment may not experience a
double change, Dr. Roberta
Reigel having elected to retire
from her position in French.
Mrs. Bennett’s continuing here
DR. JOHN B. BENNETT
institutions, are increasingly
in demand by these colleges
and universities as a result of
the high standards for gradua
tion established by Dean Ben
nett.”
Dean Bennett was instructor
in Bible at Brevard College from
1936 to 1939. He resumed grad- will make it possible, too, for
uate study at Duke University in Jack and Mary Martha, who are
the fall of 1939 and earned his still in secondary school, to ex
doctorate there. After consid- perience a smooth transfer to a
erable varied experience in new setting.
Students Choose S. G. A. Officers
JAMES HALL
Sunrise Service
ToBeHeldMayl?
“God’s Unfinished Story” is the
topic chosen for the Mountain
Sun - Rise Service to be held May
17, in the outdoor chapel at Camp
Greenville.
This worship service will be
presented by Dr. Emmett McLar
ty, president of the college.
The college bus will be leaving
for the camp at 4:15 a.m. for the
convenience of those wishing to
attend the service.
Camp Greenville is located in
the Cedar Mountain section. The
chapel itself affords a stupendous
view of the surrounding area and
is particularly inspiring during
the spring season.
The results of the run-off elec
tion between David Drum and
Geary Crist for S.G.A. President
have not been announced (as the
Clarion goes to press), but the
Student Government Association
Vice-President, Secretary-Treas-
urer, and Social Chairman were
elected May 4.
James Hall has been elected
Vice-President. He is from Burns
ville, N. C., where he graduat^
from Cane River High School in
1962. While in high school, James
was in the Beta Club and Pep
Clulb, and served as a Junior Mar
shall. He was recently tapped
into Phi Theta Kappa at Brevard,
and was elected to serve as pres
ident of that organizaUon next
Secretary-Treasurer oi tne
S.G.A. is Deedra Dickinson, She
is from WintCT Park, Florida, and
is majoring in political science.
She was tapped into Phi Theta
Kappa at Brevard. ^ ,
Some of the offices she held
and activities she participated
in during high school were:
tional Honor Society, secretary of
sophomore class, treasury m
junior class, and president ^ in-
Hi-Y, an organization affiliated
with the Y.M.C.A.
Donna Jean Nichols, Social
Chairman, is from Lenoir, Nor^
Carolina, where she graduated
from Gamewell High Schwl.
She has served as
freshman class Secretary-Treas
urer this year. Donna held a
number of class offices during
her four years of high schoo _
She was Secretary-Tr^urer
her freshman class, ^
dent Council, and the
Teachers of America.
DEEDRA DICKINSON
Drama Class To Present
“The Imaginary Invalid”
DONNA NICHOLS
Two performances of Moliere’s
hilarious satire, THE IMAGI
NARY INVALID, will be pre
sented May 15 and 16, at 8:15
P.M. in the college auditorium.
The all-student cast, directed by
Alan Wallace, includes Donna
Hooker, Johnny Goforth, Caro
line Lobban, James Warren, Mel
ba Partin, Dean Jevons, Robert
Clontz, Lawrence Davis, Becky
Roy, Vincent Dennen, Thomas
Hamilton, and Vaughn Leslie.
The production, professionally
mounted, directed, acted in the
ma^er and costumes of the per
iod (Louis XIV), offers one of
the most entertaining and popu
lar of Moliere’s plays. THE IM
AGINARY INVALID is a satire
on the hypocrisy and pseudosci
ence of the medical profession
of Moliere’s time.
The tragic irony of this
comedy is that the central
character Argan is a hypo-
chrondriac but at the time
Moliere wrote the play and
performed this part, he was
himself dangerously ill. Dur
ing the fourth showing he was
seized by convulsions on stage,
but insisted on completing the
performance. He died several
hours later.
Most of Moliere’s plays are a
mixture of farce and social sa
tire. for he sought to entertain
while provoking “thoughtful
laughter.’’ He gave satirical and
comic pictures of what he saw
and heard, and he described with
censure and ridicule the results
produced by bad and foolish ac
tions. He loved pleasant raillery
and the fun of good satire and
irony, and his wish to ridicule
was always governed by charita
ble intention, and by a desire not
to wound when chastisement was
not deserved.
The main line of the plot is
the familiar theme of an> unsuit
able marriage: Argan’s determi
nation to marry his daughter to
a doctor, so that he can enjoy
free and continual medical con
sultations with his son-in-law.
Argan — Moliere makes it quite
clear — is not suffering from
anything but stupidity.
When Moliere condemned the'
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Brevardians Go
To Young Harris
A variety show will be present
ed by approximately twelve Bre
vard College students to the stu
dent body of Young Harris, May
11, at 7:30 P.M.
This evening performance will
be in return for the program
presented by Young Harris to
Brevard during the first semes
ter. The trip was arranged by
Dean S. David Frazier of Young
Harris and the Social Committee
under the direction of Mr. Ray
Fisher.