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CLARION
THE
VOICE
Of BREVARD COLLEGE STUDENTS
Volume
XXXVI
BREVARD COLLEGE, BREVARD, N. C., SEPTEMBER 13, 1968
Number 2
Ten New Members Join Faculty
SNEA Meeting
Set For Thursday
Brevard College’s chapter of
the SNEA (Student National
lEducation Association) will
hold an organizational meeiting
September 19 at 5:30 in a pri
vate dining room to be an
nounced later.
The SNEA (a step higher and
the college version of the Fu
ture Teachers of America) is
an affiliate of the largest pro
fessional organization in the
world, the National Education
Association.
Any persons interested in
teaching at any level is eligible
for membership. The SNEA is
a professional club, not a so
cial club; h&wever, there will
be some social activities spon
sored by the club scheduled
for the coming year.
Anyone interested in the
SNEA, please attend the meet
ing Thursday.
Many Changes Made
In College Library
Have you visited the library
recenitly? Freshmen will find
the library a quiet and com
fortable place to study. Sopho-
moires will find that many
changes have been made since
last year.
The library received approx
imately six hundred and sev
enty - five books during the
three summer months. The
books cover the subjects Eng
lish, history, music, govem-
ment, physical education, social
studies, biology, art and re
ligion.
After being open to the stud
ents for one year, the library
found a need for rearrangement
of the books and furniture. The
card catalog has been moved
closer to the check-out desk in
order to give more room for a
study area. In the reference
area, tables have been placed
between each row of books in
order for student to be closer
to the needed materials.
■\n area in the rear of the
I brary has been reserved for
short stories. More shelf space
was added to the fiction and
biography sections. The Q books
or oversize books and new books
have been placed in a brousing
area.
Upstairs the books have been
rearranged so as to give more
shelf space.
A new school year often car
ries with it a number of novel
ideas and new faces. Many new
faces were noticed those first
hectic days of classes. The
most noticeable were the new
faculty. The Clarion introduces
our new faculty at Brevard
College;
Mrs. Sarah Akins has return
ed to Brevard College this year
to join the Art Department as
a full - time instructor. She is
a graduate of Eastern Illinois
University at Charleston, but
her home is near St. Louis, Mo.
Mr. Akins is a chemist at Olin
Mathieson Chemical Corpora
tion of Brevard.
Mr. Frank Sinclair, from
Mooresville, N. C., has joined
the Language Department this
fall as the PYench instructor.
He is a graduate of Catawba
College, East Carolina Univer
sity, and was a visiting instruc
tor at Appalachian State Uni
versity where he did graduate
study. He also received a grant
for graduate study in France.
Mr. Sinclair says he is “in love
with the school and community
after just two weeks.”
Mr. Victor Duggins, a Euro
pean history major, will be
teaching government and his
tory at Brevard. Mr. Duggins
did his under-graduate work at
the University of North Caro
lina and grauate work at East
Tennessee State University. A
native of Grenville, Temiessee,
Mr. Duggins has taught at Tus-
culum College and in the Ten
nessee public schools. He and
his wife, Becky, have a baby
daughter, Leslie.
Miss Christina Ellsworth of
Wooster, Ohio, will be teaching
in the English Department. She
is a graduate of Muskingum
College in New Concord, Ohio,
and did her graduate work at
Brown University in Provi
dence, Rhode Island.
Miss Ellsworth comes from a
family of educators. Her father
is a professor at the College in
Wooster, Ohio, and her mother
teaches in nursery school. Be
sides her teaching experience
in high school. Miss Ellsworth
has done social work in Chica
go and Delaware. Miss Ells-
Students Assume Control
Of Campus Coffee House
Zen Den, the Saturday night
coffee house formerly sponsor
ed by the Canterbury Club, is
now being changed into a stud
ent - sponsored and student-
led activity. This announcement
was made by Mrs. Walker, the
cluib’s sponsor, last Saturday
during preparation for the first
Zen Den, which featured the
Peace Core.
From now on, Mrs. Walker
THE NEW A. G. MYERS CAFETERIA
^Bw Dining Facility Gives
New Touch To College Campus
Everyone seems to agree that
new A. G. Myers Dining
Hall is a wonderful new addi-
wn to our expaiiding campus.
A lovely, modern building, it
^ already proved to be a
wiuabie asset to students and
laculty alike.
, Besides a spacious main din-
“ig room, two private dining
^oms are available to student
^ups for meetings or special
^^ions. This facility will
®aKe dinner meetings and
lunch - time discussions, such as
the ones conducted by the re
ligion department last year,
much more enjoyable.
Mrs. Cox and her staff are
most nleased with the new
building. When asked to name
the one greatest improvement
over the old dining hall, Mrs.
Cox singled out the use of two
serving lines as a great time-
saver for everyone. “We want
students to enjoy our new dm-
ing hall and make use of the
private dining room.”
Freshmen and sophomores
alike are enthusiastic about the
short length of tim.e it takes to
be served. Some of the ortier
comments includ’e” .... no
other college has such good
food” and “I love the orange
juice.” One co-ed liked the
meal tickets because she could
prove to her mother that she
had been eating!
said, students will plan and
direct the activity, which in
cludes choosing the entertain
ment and cleaning up after
ward. A president is soon to be
chosen to head the new organ
ization.
The first Zen Den enjoyed
only a modest success, but with
the help and cooperation of the
entire student body, this year’s
could be the greates’t ever.
Organ Recital
Set For Sunday
The first organ recital of the
1968 school term will be held
Sunday afternoon at 3:30 in the
Brevard Methodist Church, as
announced by Mr. Nelson
Adams, Head fA the Brevard
College Music Department.
Mrs. Marie Martin will be the
guest recitalist.
Mrs. Martin is organist-choir
director of the Brevard-David-
son River Presbyterian Church
;n Brevard. She also teaches
private organ and piano les
sons in Brevard.
She is a gracruate of Brevard
College, Greensboro College,
and Northwestern University.
She is the accompanist for
the Brevard Ci\ic Chorus.
In other news released by
Mr. Adams this week, the
Brevard Civic Chorus had its
first rehearsal Tuesday night
and will practice again Tues
day night. September 24. He
reminds the student body that
the Chorus is open, and every
one is invited to join.
Mr. Adams also said that the
Fall Concert, which will be
given Dec. 8, wiU be Handel’s
Messiah.
worth’s comment was, “Brevard
College is another example of
'the fine schools which may be
found in all parts of the coun
try.”
Mrs. Rhuemma Carter Miller,
who will be teaching English,
drama, and speech this year, is
a native of Brevard. She attend
ed Brevard High School, Mars
Hill College, and received her
B. A. in English from Furman
University. Mrs. Miller com
pleted work for her M.A. in
English at Appalachian State
University. A bride of one
month, Mrs. Miller met her hus
band while performing with the
Brevard Little Theatre. As the
semester progresses, Mrs. Mil
ler hopes there will be an in
creased interest in drama work
and the fine productions plan
ned for presentation on our
campus.
Miss Gail Anderson, health
and physical education instruc
tor, came to the Brevard Camip-
us from Andrews, N. C. She
received her B.S. and M.A. in
Education from Western Caro
lina University. Miss Anderson
instructed at Piedmont College
in Georgia, and on the high
school level in Franklin and
Oakboro, N. C.
Mr. Leslie German, the new
chemistry instructor, was bom
and reared in Kentucky. Ger
man received his B. A. from
Centre College, Kentucky; M.
S. from Lafayette College,
Pennsylvania; Ph.D. from Uni
versity of Cincinnati, Ohio.
German has worked with
the Research and Development
Department of Sinclair Refin
ery Company in Indiana. He was
head of the chemistry depart
ment at Virginia Military In
stitute in Lexington and visit
ing professor of chemistry sev
eral summers at the University
of Virginia.
Mr. German said, “Having
known of Brevard College’s ex
cellent reputation for years, I
am most favorably impressed
by its personnel, physical plant,
and facilities.”
Mr. German is married and
has a son who is a senior at
the University of Virginia.
Mr. Orville Woodyard, math
instructor, received his B.A., B.
Sc. Ed., and M.S. from Ohio
State University. He did other
graduate work at Catholic Uni
versity (Washington, D. C.)
and New York University. Mr.
Woodyard worked as a physi
cist in the U.S. Army Electron
ic Research and Development
Labs, a fiber technologist with
the U. S. Dept, of Agriculture,
and a physics instructor at
the Georgia Institute of Tech
nology.
Norman Witek is one of the
new P.E. instructors. Born in
Chicago, Witek is one of six
children. He received his B.S.
from the University of Tennes
see and his M.E. pending com
pletion of oral examinations.
Mr. Witek ran track and cross
country at the University of
I Tennessee as well as coaching
i the 440 men at the University
• as an assistant coach. He also
I worked as graduate assistant-
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