THE
CLARION
THE
VOICE
Of BREVARD COLLEGE CAMPUS
Volume 40
Brevard College, Brevard, N. C., March 23, 1973
Number 12
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Benches On Campus
Honor Ben Kenerly
LINDA RAPIER, FRANCES
EHRLICH, AND DEBBIE FRYE
are pictured above chatting with Dr.
Eric Wiechert, Assistant Professor
of Chemistry at Brevard College.
The bench on which they are sitting
is one of those recently placed on
campus in memory of the late Ben
Kenerly.
Holtsclaw Art And Photographs
Now On Display In Coltrane
There will be a painting and
art exhibition at Brevard Col
lege in the Eugene J. Coltrane
Art Building from March 15
through April 15.
This exhibition is open to the
public and all interested per
sons are cordially invited to
attend.
Mr. and Mrs. George Kelly
Holtsclaw are residents of both
Florida and North Carolina. Mrs.
Holtsclaw is the painter and
Mr. Holtsclaw is the photog
rapher.
Harrison Covengton, and in
Clearwater with William Pach-
ner.
Mrs. Holtsclaw has exhibited
throughout central Florida in
galleries and side walk shows
winning Best in Show in Lake
land under jurors Dr. Hans
Jufrgsnsen and Ben Stahl.
For a number of years Mr.
Holtsclaw involvement with
photography was confined to
family vacation “snap shots ;
eventually he became discon
tented with ‘he poor quality of
work produced by most proces
sors and built his own dark
room.
ida, and since then he has had
three one-man shows.
Last year Mr. Holtsclaw
took an early retirement from
his regular progession to be
come a professional photog
rapher and is presently free
lancing in both Florida and
North Carolina.
Recently, those of you of the
Brevard College community,
who frequently stroll the camp
us for one reason or another,
may have noticed some rather
clean and white new additions
to our picturesque campus.
These new contributions to our
campus are some benches which
are being placed in loving
memory of Mr. Benjamin' M.
Kenerly who remains in the
hearts and minds of those fac
ulty, maintenance, and admin
istration who have been at Bre
vard for longer than ten years.
Mr. Kenerly, during the years
1957 through 1963 held the po-
siton of Manager of the Col
lege Store, a term which ended
in an untimely death on Febru
ary 2, 1963. At his death Mrs.
Kenerly, whom we all present
ly know as the President’s sec
retary requested that those who
were going to give flowers
would donate their money in
stead to a fund that could be
used to buy something for the
future student union. When the
student union was planned and
the money was all obtained,
the money donated in Mr. Ken-
erly’s memory was saved so
that it could be used to pur
chase something in the future
that would benefit the students
of Brevard College who he lov
ed so dearly.
Mr. Kenerly, affectionately
called “Pop” by his many
friends, was in every sense of
the word a friend to the stud
ents of Brevard College. His
out-going nature and genuine
personality made him a much
sought-out counselor by stud
ents, and gave to the school
store an atmosphere of friend
liness, which made it more than
After sketching and drawing
as a child Mrs. Holtsclaw receiv-
ed her first formal training as during the early stages How would you ' ®
a freshman at Rollins College, learning to develop film print in ”®has fixed a
Florida. The following year she „v,ntopraDhs that Mr. Holtsclaw ernment policy h
transferred to the Richmond Di- f ooked” standard tuition rate of any of
vision of Williams and Mary, in '’^came , , British
Kichmond, Virginia. Remaining Mr. Holtsclaw joined a local colleges for overseas students,
- ... (y Florida) camera
club and during his first year
there he won first place in black
& white print competition, and
second place in color competi
tion. Sometime later he won
Education In Britain
Available To Students
there for two years she had
classes under the direction of
Theresa Poliak in life — draw
ing, anatomy, painting, fashion-
drawing, and portrait.
Being one of ten winners in a
national competition for a years
tuition to the Arts Students
League in New York City she
studied there two winters.
She had painting and life
classes with John Sloan and
Arnold Blanche, sculpture in
the class of Mahonri Young,
of $625'. This covers 45 quarter
credits or 20 semester credits.
As a result, the Study in Bri
tain Association reports that
the total cost for an academic
year at a British college or
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second place in Photography university (including round trip
at the annual Side Walk Art air fare) can now run as low^as
This includes
lodging and
and lithography and etching to Coach Norman Witek,
With George Pickins. Will Bar- ^ ^Iv appointed Athletic Di-
net was printer for the class. at Brevard College.
Since then she had studied Coach Witek’s name was miss^
briefly at the University of pelled m ^ headline
South Florida in the class of March 9 edition of the
Festivar‘irwinter Park, Flor- $2500 to $3500.
tuition, meals,
^ ’ books. . ,
Furthermore, American stud
ents (or faculty members) can
now study on any of five levels:
1. At a campus of an Amer-
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2. As a visiting student,
scholar or fellow.
3 As a graduate or under-
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Complete details of these
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how to combine travel and
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services available, write “Brit
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just a place of business.
Mrs. Kenerly has some very
vivid remembrances of her
husband. She muses back to the
summer, in between sessions,
when she says her huband was
miserable in anticipation of the
students return to the campus.
The thing that made him so
happy, contented, and jovical
in his years at Brevard were
the students and his close rela
tionships with them. Mrs. Ken
erly remembers a certain boy
who worked at the school
store and had a muscular-mo
tor impairment. This boy was
a good student, but often be
came frustrated with his stud
ies. To ease his anxieties adn
tensions he would spend every
spare moment he had at the
school store. In those days Mr.
Kenerly, without an assistant,
worked all day and every night
until ten o’clock. But if this
boy came down an night after
studying, Mr. Kenerly would
keep the school store open late
for him. This boy was without
a true father of his own and
Mr. Kenerly made up for this
deficit a hundredfold. Mrs.
Kenerly sees ths episode as an
example of the love and kind
ness he bestowed upon every
student.
Ben Kenerly was also a true
man of nature and the out-of-
doors. In his spare time he
would frequent the campus or
take a walk downtown. His wife
remembers how he would sit
on the wall at the courthouse
and make friendly conversa
tion with the passers-by Mr.
Kenerly was also a dear friend
of Mr. Quentin Cantrell and
the men in maintenace. There
fore, it is truly appropriaite
that the benches that are be
ing placed in his memory. He
loved benches, where he would
sit for hours watching nature
and God’s creation and con
versing with the people of the
mountains he loved.
As this school year progress
es on, more and more of these
benches will be placed at vari
ous points on campus. When
you sit on or see these benches
which are donated for the use
of the students Mr. Kenerly
loved, think of him. And if
you want to know more about
this man, whose presence was
truly a blessing to Brevard
College, just ask people like
Mr. Cantrell, Mr. Miles, Chap
lain Roy, and Mr. Fisher.
They’ll surely remember him
with a twinkle in their eye.