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Of BREVARD COLLEGE CAMPUS
Volume 39
Brevard College, Brevard, N. C., February 11, 1972
Number 14
Busy weekend
planned for
Brevard
This weekend will be a busy
one on the Brevard campus.
TTiis decidedly is not going to
be another “weary winter week
end.” Friday and Saturday
there is to be a track meet in
Knoxville, Tennessee, and Fri
day night a formal recital will
be held for Lynn Taylor and
Rick Poole. Saturday night
there will also be a basketball
game in Spartanburg, South
Carolina.
Most important of all, though,
this is the weekend of hearts
and flowers. For many, many
years tradition has honored
February 14 as Valentine’s
Day, This year the Nemos and
Delphians are jointly sponsor
ing a Valentine’s Dance. It is
to be semi-formal and will be
held Saturday evening, Febru
ary 12, from eight p.m. until
twelve midnight in Dunham
Auditorium. “Truth” will pro
vide music for the occasion.
Nemos are decorating and serv
ing refreshments and the Del
phians have selected a court
from which a queen will be
crowned.
Tommy Lippard, Jimmy Cope
land, Linda Hartman, Amy Hin
son, Adele Dickieson, Ann Reed,
and Lou Ellen Young are sell
ing tickets. They are two dol
lars in advance and two and a
half dollars at the door.
BC to participate in
Scholar Lecture program
LYNN TAYLOR
RICKY POOLE
Music Department presents
formal recital tonight
The Brevard College Music
Department is presenting a
sophomore formal recital on
Friday, February 11th, in the
Dunham Music Center Audi
torium. It will begin at 8:00 p.
m.
Featured will be Lynn Tay
lor, mezzo soprano, and Ricky
Poole, french horn.
Miss Taylor, a pupil of Har-
Panel discussion
^ Members of the administra
tion, faculty, and student body
will participate in a panel dis
cussion on Feb. 17th at 7:30
P. M. on the second floor of
the Student Union. The main
topic of discussion will be “The
Christian College and Its Role
In Our Society.”
After the members of the
panel have responded to sev
eral questions, the floor will
be open to members of the
audience.
Pfeiffer choir
to visit Brevard
The Pfeiffer College Choir
will give a performance at Bre
vard College February 15, at
4:30. A group of fine, out
standing voices, they are un
der the direction of Dr. Rich
ard Brewer. Dr. Brewer is the
head of the Fine Arts Division
and head of the Music Depart
ment at Pfeiffer College.
Pfeiffer College, located in
Misenheimer, N. C., is known
throughout the Southeast for
the high degree of perfection
exhibited in their usually flaw
less performances. In their pro
gram will be featured many
varied and select works from
numerous composers.
This performance is being
sponsored by the Music De
partment and everyone on
campus is invited to attend.
vey Miller of the music faculty
at the college, will be perform
ing arias of Purcell, Saint- Sa-
ens, and Mozart. She will also
sing some American songs by
Bernstein and Barber; also two
songs from the “Songs of the
Wayfarer” by Mahler. She will
be accompanied by Burton Bum
garner.
Lynn is presently a cheer
leader for Brevard College, a
‘■Big Sister,” and a member of
the Phi Theta Kappa Society.
She plans to continue her edu
cation at the University of
South Carolina next year. She
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Huber T. Taylor of 1063 Ebe-
nezer Extension, Rock Hill, S.
C.
Mr. Poole, a pupil of Tommy
Cousins of the college faculty,
will be doing Concerto No. 1
by Richard Straus, accompanied
by Georgie Henson, of the Bre
vard Music Department. He will
also be performing Villanelle
by Paul Dukas, accompanied by
Elaine Henderson, freshman
music major from Henderson
ville, N. C.
Rick is editor of the college
annual — THE PERTELOTE.
He plans to continue his music
career in performance and edu
cation, but is undecided about
the school he will be attend
ing. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. E. E. Poole of Walnut
Street, Cornelia, Georgia.
Brevard College is to par
ticipate in the Tohmas F. Stal
ey Foundation Distinguished
Christian Scholar Lecture Pro
gram, , according to an an
nouncement made by President
Robert A. Davis. A grant has
been made by the foundation
to present outstanding C’hris-
tian leaders to speak at Bre
vard College.
Speakers for this series will
be The Rev. Ed Kilboume from
Atlanta Ga., a “minister at
large” of the United Methodist
Church. He is a most ver
satile person and a unique in
dividual for many reasons. Mr.
Kilbourne has played the gui
tar for 16 years and speaks the
language of music. Through
this medium he brings Chris
tian understanding and enjoy
ment to every generation. The
Rev. Kilbourne will speak at
Brevard College on February
23.
Our second speaker is Bishop
Ole E. Borgan, who will speak
a Brevard College on April 5.
He is the new Episcopal leader
of some 43,000 United Metho
dists in Northern Europe. This
area that he heads includes
Denwark, Norway, Sweden,
Finland and Estonia. Bishop
Borgen graduated from Bre
vard College in 1958, snmma
cum laude. He also holds de
grees from three United Metho
dist - related schools in the
United States. He has lectured
and taught special courses
throughout Scandanavia and
has written numerous articles.
He is also author of two recent
books in German.
- Dr. Arthur Mitchell Faulk
ner, pastor of Myers Park Unit
ed Methodist Church in Char
lotte, North Carolina, will speak
at Brevard College on May 7.
Dr. Faulkner also is a graduate
of Brevard College, class of
1935. He received his A.B. de
gree from Emory University;
also holds the D.D. degree from
Pfeiffer College, and is on the
board of trustees at Pfeiffer
College.
The Staley Dis.tlnguished
Scholar Series is a project of
the Thomas F, Staley Founda
tion of New York.
This lectureship was es
tablished in the fall of 1969
by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F.
Staley of Rye, N. Y., in mem
ory of their parents. Dr. and
Mrs. Thomas F. Staley, and
Judge and Mrs. H. H. Haynes
of Bristol, Tennessee.
The Thomas F. Staley Foun
dation is firmly persuaded that
the message of the Christian
Gospel when proclaimed in its
historical fullness is always
contemporary, relevant, and
meaningful to any generation.
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Decker to represent Southeast
in Phi Theta Kappa convention
Slliss Susan Decker, a Bre
vard College sophomore, has
been selected by Phi Theta
Kappa to represent the South
eastern United States on the
program of its 1972 national
convention.
Miss Decker, 19, and a daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Deck
er of Greensboro, will help pre
sent the negative sid^ of the
question of governmental sur
veillance, She is the only mem-
hsr of the debating to be
chosen from North Carolina.
The convention will be held
April 13 - 15, on the Rochester
Junior College campus in Ro
chester; Mjlnnesota.
Phi Theta Kappa is the na-
ional honorary fraternity for
junior college students vvith
chapters all over the nation.
Brevard’s Delta Pi chapter was
chosen earlier this year as re
gional head of the chapters in
North and South Carolina.
All of the chapters have
made a study of government
and its functions this year. The
program will include an address
by Minnesota’s Governor, and
a visit to Mayo Clinic.
Mfss Decker is extremely
interested in politics and has
worked with voter registration.
She also was active in the state
fight to get legislation passed
allowing 18-year-olds to vote.
She plans to continue her
interest in politics while at
tending the School of Nursing
at the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, after
graduation frotn Brevard.
MIKE SMIlH AND DAVID WEST
a melodramatic break from studying.
take