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CLARION
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VOICE
Of BREVARD COLLEGE STUDENTS
Volume XXXVII
BREVARD COLLEGE, BREVARD, N. C., OCTOBER 10, 1969
Number 6
College's Homecoming Slated
Saturday, Events Are Planned
homecoming game — The
1969 Homecoming game will be
held Saturday afternoon on the Bre
vard College athletic field. The Tor
nadoes will take on Montreat-Ander-
son at 2:30. The soccer team, pic
tured above, has a 2-2 won-lost rec
ord for the year.
North Carolinians Represent
55 Per Cent Of Student Body
Plans for the 35th annual
Homeceming at Brevard Col
lege, scheduled for October
11th, are announced by the col
lege’s alumni office.
According to Mrs. Imogene
M. Eaker, alumni secretary, all
friends and former students of
the college are invited to at
tend Homecoming 1969, which
will begin with registration and
a coffee hour at 10:00 a.m. in
the Beam Administration Build
ing. Alumni are invited to in
spect the Homecoming displays
built by various student groups
prior to lunch in the A. G.
Myers Dining Hall.
All dormitories will observe
open house from 12:00 noon un
til 2:00 when Brevard faces
Montreat - Anderson in a West
ern Carolina Junior College
Conference soccer match. At
halftime of the match, Bre
vard’s nationally - ranked cross
country team will host King
College, Wingate College, Kit-
trell Junior College and Cheasa-
peake Junior College in a five-
Yearbook Proofs
Arrive At College
A statistical breakdown of
the student body of Brevard
College reveals that 55%
of th^ students at the Meth
odist ■ related junior col
lege are native North Caro
linians, while the remainder
come to Brevard from 18
states and three foreign coun
tries.
The report, released by Mrs,
Brono N. Roy, associate regis-
Miss Patsy Neal Writes
Textbook On Coaching
Miss Patsy Neal, assistant
professor of health and physi
cal education at Brevard Col
lege, is the author of a new
textbook on “Coaching Methods
for Women.”
The book, published this
week by the Addison - Wesley
Publishing Company, of Read
ing, Massachusetts, was writ
ten to encourage sound coach
ing principles and training
methods for women and is Miss
Neal’s second textbook.
Her first, “Basketball Tech
niques for Women,” was pub
lished in August of 1966 and
has become one of the stand
ard texts in its field.
In the new publication. Miss
Neal gives attention to the role
of the coach as leader, the or
ganization and selection of a
team, training, conditioning,
problems of competition and
guidelines for athletic pro
grams for women.
Widely in demand as a lec
turer in clinics throughout the
nation, she is regarded as one
of the nation’s foremost au
thorities on women’s basket
ball.
A graduate of Wayland (Tex-
3s) College, she received the
master’s degree from the Uni
versity of Utah.
Miss Neal was selected as an
All - American in basketball
in 1959, 1960 and 1965, and was
the national women’s free throw
champion in 1957. She was a
member of the United States
teams that have played against
Russia, Germany, France and
in the World Basketball Tour
nament in 1964, She presently
serves as a member of the bas
ketball rules committee of the
national Amateur Athletic
Union.
Miss Neal is the director of
the Patsy Neal Basketball
School for Girls, held each
summer on the campus of Bre
vard College, which attracts
young women from throughout
the southeast.
MISS PATSY NEAL
trar, shows that there are 229
returning students, while the
freshman class has 385 mem
bers, making a total of 614
students. Part - time students
equated to full - time equal 6,
making the total student body
620 for the 1969 - 70 college
year. Mrs. Roy also indicated
that 30 individuals are enrolled
as special students of the col
lege’s music department.
Of the 614 fulltime stud
ents, 338 are 'from North
Carolina. South Carolina has
the next largest number with
67, while Florida residents
number 66. There are 40 stud
ents from Virginia, while
New Jersey rounds out the
top five with 22. Other states
represented in the student
body are Pennsylvania, 14
.Maryland, 12; Georgia, 11;
Delaware and New York, 7;
Connecticut 6; Massachus-
setts and Ohio, 4; Tennessee
and West Virginia, 2; and
Alabama, Michigan and Tex
as 1. Two students are en
rolled from Trinidad, with
one each from Bermuda and
the Canal Zone.
Methodist students represent
the largest number on the cam
pus with 228, followed by Bap
tist 134; Presbyterian, 87; Ro
man Catholic, 51; Episcopal,
40; and Lutheran, 20. Other
denominations are claimed by
60 students.
Of the 338 North Carolma
students, 67 are from Tran
sylvania County, while Meck
lenburg comes next with 38.
Third - leading county is Bun
combe with 32, while 27 For
syth County students are en
rolled at the college. 23 stud
ents are from Guilford Coun
ty, while the remainder of
the top ten counties is as fol
lows: Gaston, 19; Henderson,
16; Rowan, 10; Catawba and
Rutherford, 9.
Brevard College students
were given the opportunity this
week to pick out their proofs
from the recently arrived pho
tos for the yearbook. The stud
ents had the option of ordering
personal copies if they so de
sired. including all standard
frame sizes as well as wallet
prints, in either black and
white or color.
This year 620 students were
photographed, and the distri
bution method was revised by
the participating firm. Olan
Mills Studio. Depending on the
alphabetical position of their
name, students were given the
chance to come in on a specific
day during this week.
The nationwide studio, ex
perienced in college and school
photography as well as other
areas, has found that the new
method of distribution elimi
nates much of the confusion
of the past.
way cross country meet.
Homecoming activities will
continue after the soccer game
with refreshments being served
in all dormitories at 4:00. The
day’s festivities will conclude
with the Homecoming Dance at
9:00 p.m. in the auditorium of
the Dunham Fine Arts Center.
“We hope that many of our
alumni in the two Carolinas
will make their plans to return
to the campus to see the prog
ress that has been made in re
cent years on our campus,”
stated Mrs. Eaker.
★ ★ ★
Homecoming History
Dates Back To 1936
Brevard College will hold its
annual Homecoming Festivities
this week end on the campus.
The highlight of the week end
will be the soccer match and
track meet which will be held
Saturday afternoon on the Bre-
ard field.
A dance will be held Saturday
night in Dunham Auditorium
featuring the “Sweet Young-
uns” and at intermission, the
Homecoming Queen will be
crowned.
The first Homecoming was
held at Brevard College in the
spring of 1936. It was a com
bination of Homecoming and
graduation exercises. There y/as
a luncheon held on the athletic
field. Invited to the first Home
coming were not only alumni
of the College (which opened
its doors in 1934) but ministers,
high school principals, teachers,
and other leaders. The Wo
men’s Civic Club and other
Brevard groups helped w'th
the first Homecoming.
Homecoming was held again
that year. In the fall of 1936.
the College held its second
Homccoming. This time, there
was an athletic contest which
featured Brevard, under the di
rection of Arthur Ranson,
scored a 19-2 football win over
Belmont Abbey College. For
the season, the Brevard team
posted an 8-1-1 won-lost record.
Homecoming Schedule
OCTOBER 10 . . ^ V, • „
8:00 - Bonfire — 9:00 - Movie in Gym - bring
blankets to sit on — Under the Yum Yum Tree
starring Jack Lemon
OCTOBER 11
Homecoming — 12:00 - 2:00 Dorm Open
jlouse — All dorm displays must be finished
by 12:00. 1st prize - $15, 2nd prize - $10.00.
2-00 - Brevard vs. Wingate - Soccer. Brevard
vs. King & Wingate — Cross - Country. Home
coming Queen announced at half - time—suits
should be worn to the game, _
4:00 - Refreshments served in Dorm alter
game , • c •
8:30 - Receiving line at dance begins—bemi-
formal „ . j
9:00 - 1:00 Dance — Sweet Youngun’s and an
Electric College. j
College Homecoming Queen and Court pre
sented at intermission