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Of BREVARD COLLEGE STUDEXTS
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BREVARD COLLEGE, BREVARD, N. C., OCTOBER 30, 1970
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Number 7
State Dept. Representative
To Visit Brevard Campus
On November 4, 1970, Mr.
Richard Kilpatrick, Public Af
fairs Officer of the State De
partment’s Bureau of East
Asian and Pacific Affairs, will
be on the Brevard Campus to
defend the government’s policy
in Southeastern Asia. Mr. Kil
patrick will speak to the stud
ent body in assembly at 10:00
a. m. to which the public is
cordially invited. After assemb
ly Mr. Kilpatrick will speak to
various history classes and
small groups, including an in
formal question and answer
session to be held in the cafe
teria from 12 noon to 1:00 p.m.
Mr. Kilpatrick joined the U.
S. Department of State in 1958
as an Administrative Assistant.
He was assigned in 1960 to the
Foreign Service Institute’s Field
School in Tokyo for Japanese
language and area studies. He
stayed in Tokyo at the U. S.
Embassy as a Consular Officer
and later became staff aide to
the American Ambassador. In
1964 Mr. Kilpatrick treansfer-
red to U. S. Consulate General
in Kobe - Osaka as a Political
Officer. His most recent over
seas tour of duty was as poli
tical adviser to the Department
of the Army in Naha, Okinawa.
For the academic year in
1967 - 68, Mr. Kilpatrick com
pleted East Asian area studies
at Columbia University in New
York.
Mr. KUpatrick will also visit
Spartanburg Junior College,
Montreat - Anderson College,
and Lees - McRae College dur
ing his trip to the south.
PLANS FOR CELEBRATING
several events of United Nations
week here in Brevard were readied
by the group above. This is the
25th anniversary of United Nations.
Discussing the events above are Rev.
Orion N. Htchinson, Jr., pastor of
the First United Methodist church,
and temporary chaplain of Brevard
college, Mrs. E. K. McLarty, chair
man of the local UN committee, and
Mrs. S. V. Chapnerker, in charge of
the International covered dish sup
per, which was scheduled for Octo
ber 17th. Mr. Hutchinson was in
charge of the Community - College
convocation on October 19th.
Business Department
Head, Mrs. Munro, Finding
Sabbatical Leave Rewarding
U. N. Convocation
Held October 19
By Mark Todd
The convocation on October
19, planned in conjunction with
the 25th anniversary of the
United Nations, featured three
speakers from Western Caro
lina University, who offered
varied viewpoints on what the
U.N. has done to date and the
prospects for the future.
After a short concert by the
Brevard High School IBand,
Mrs. E. K. McLarty, Chairman
of the Brevard United Nations
Committee, and acting chaplain
Orion Hutchinson, were present
ed with a distinguished ser
vice award for their work with
the United Nations.
The first of the three speak
ers was Andrew H. Baggs, As
sistant Professor of Political
Science at WCU. He stated that
he feels the U.N. has been a
failure for the most part, and
ittempted to show how the
United Nations has failed to
prevent the U.S. from seriously
considering the use of the atom-
^ bomb in three instances since
World War II.
^ He pondered the U.K.’s 25
years of existence and asked
™e question, “Will there be
another 25 years?” He also
f^^ted that it appears the world
IS becoming more blase about
“e use of the bomb with each
j ttisis that arises, and that
nobody cares about the rest
o' the world.”
The next speaker, W. Leon
“now, President of CHtUNA at
WCU, preferred to take a hope
ful stance, and to look to the
good things that the U. N. has
done. Snow suggested that the
U.N.’s goal be shifted to an all
out attack on the conditions
that cause our wars, or to
“attack problems, but not go
ing to the extremes to main
tain lofty goals.” He conclud
ed with the well placed state
ment, “Let us wage peace as
fiercely as we wage war.”
The final speaker, Denise
Schickle, Representative of the
National Student Leaders
stitute at Western CaroUna,
seconded Snow’s statement that
we need to learn our problems
so as to know more realisticaUy
how they can be solved. She
stated “We as individuals must
take action, or else face the
reality of there not bemg anoth.
er 25 years for the world, as
Baggs suggested.
Halloween Dinner
The Saturday night meal in
the cafeteria will be a special
halloween dinner. Studente are
encouraged to dress m hall ■
ween costumes for the affair.
In making the announcement,
Mrs. Mary Cox, director of the
cafeteria, stated that it is not
required to dress in costimes,
however, it is fclt that to do so
would be to the advantage of
the students in producmg a
real halloween feeling.
Dialogue Dinners Are
Scheduled Weekly For
Rest Of Semester
Monday night, October 26th,
the second “Dialogue Dinner”
of the year was held in the
cafeteria from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.
The dinners are intended to
let the students and faculty get
to know each other better, ask
questions, and learn more about
the people that are teaching
them.
Plans are to continue the
dinaers each week if enough
interest is shown. The speak
er on October 26th was Mr. E.
W. Hardin, acting chairman of
the Division of Social Studies
and Religion. The speaker for
the first dinner was Mr. James
Jackson, instructor in history.
To date the programs have
proved interesting, and it is
hoped that more students will
participate in the future, per
haps enabling the dinners to
realize a very valuable poten
tial for d#velopment of student-
faculty relations.
The dinners are one of the
several projects that the Clms-
tian CouncU is sponsoring this
year, under the direction of
Paul Sims, President, and a^
ting advisor Rev. Orion Hut
chison,
The schedule for the remain
der of the semester is as fol
lows: Nov. 1, Mr. Sinclair; Nov.
8, Mrs. Beard; Nov. 16, Mr.
T?nberts‘ Nov. 23, Mr. Hoi-
S^’nov. 30 Mr m™;
and December 7, Mr. Poe.
Last spring, Mrs. Grace J.
Munro, Head of the business
department of Brevard College,
submitted plans at the request
of President Robert A. Davis
for her sabbatical, to be taken
in the fall of 1970, to Grady
Whicker, academic dean of the
college.
The plans, which were ap
proved by the dean, were as fol
lows:
“In order to compare our
business program with those of
other institutions, I plan to visit
both junior and senior colleges.
I hope to be able to talk with
students, faculty, and adminis
trators and to observe some
classes.
My main interest, however, is
to find out just what industry
expects of its secretaries. Thus,
I plan to talk with secretaries,
personnel directors, and super
visors. Learning firsthand the
major strengths and weakness
es of the “average” secretary
should help us strengthen our
department.
Also, I hope to observe ways
in which other business depart
ments are serving their local
communities.”
According to Mrs. Munro, the
sabbatical is even more reward
ing than she had dreamed it
would be. Whether she is in a
one-man office, the State Capi
tol in Raleigh, a large industry,
a high school, or a college, she
receives the undivided attention
of those with whom she is talk
ing; and many people in in
dustry are impressed with the
fact that she is spending her
sabbatical trying to find ways
to serve Hiem better. “Why, that
is what we have needed for
years,” said an official in one
of the local firms. “If educa
tion and industry can get to
gether, we’ll be moving in the
right direction,” said another.
In Mrs. Munro’s interviews
she has three basic questions.
To the high school student, she
poses the question, “What do
you want from college?”; to the
college, she asks, “Is our pro
gram in line with yours so that
our students can readily trans
fer?” Of industry, she queries,
“How can we better serve you?”
“It is very gratifying,” said
Mrs. Munro, “to hear in a per
son-to-person situation what
we’ve known all along — that
our program is acceptable to
most senior colleges.”
Since the majority of the
secretarial majors are terminal
students, Mrs. Munro is espec
ially interested in what in
dustry, including the secretaries
themselves, has to say. “No
matter where I turn,” she sai4.
“the conversation is always the
same — the need for loyalty,
maturity, a businesslike atti-
MRS. MUNRO
tude, and initiative, with atti
tude being No. 1. In summing
up her findings recently,
Munro said, “In these chang
ing times, the basics have not
and will not change. The em
ployer still wants a responsible
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