THE
Volume 43
CLARION
THE
VOICE
Of BREVARD COLLEGE CAMPUS
Tuesday, April 20, 1976
Number 3
/
^‘Arsenic And Old Lace^^
A Big Success
Dr. Robert A. Davis
Rev. Lloyd Donald
Ellis
Mrs. W. Murray
Hollyday
Commencement Scheduled For May 2
Brevard, N, C. — A weekend of
graduation activities have been
scheduled at Brevard College on
May 1 and 2.
Commencement speakers will
be Dr. Robert A. Davis,
President of Brevard College;
the Rev. Lloyd Donald Ellis,
pastor of Burkhead United
Methodist Church in Winston-
Salem; and Mrs. W. Murray
Hollyday of Asheville,and former
secretary of Brevard College
Alumni Association Board of
Directors.
President Davis will address
the graduating class of 1976 at
2.00 p.m. on Sunday, May 2, in
Boshamer Gymnasium. As in
recent years, a capacity at
tendance of parents and friends is
expected to share in this highlight
and culmination of the academic
year, when some 120 students will
be awarded degrees.
Dr. Davis has been president of
Brevard College since 1%9. The
1976 graduation event will be the
concluding one for Dr. Davis. He
will leave Brevard in June to
assume the presidency of Florida
Southern College in Lakeland,
Florida.
Holding degrees from the
University of Georgia, Emory
University, and Yale University,
Dr. Davis’ leadership has been
recognized by state and national
and church organizations. He
currently serves as president of
the Board of Higher Education
and Ministry of the Western
North Carolina Conference, on
the private College Advisory
Committee of the University of
North Carolina Board of
Governors and the Steering
Committee of the National
Associated Methodist Colleges
and Universities. He is listed in
Who’s Who in North Carolina,
Who’s Who in the Methodist
Church and the International
Dictionary of Biography.
Dr. Davis is a native of
Broxton, Georgia and is an or
dained United Methodist
clergyman. Before becoming
president of Brevard College he
served seven years on the staff of
the Methodist Church’s General
Board of Education in Nashville,
Tennessee, as an Associate
Director of the Division of Higher
Education.
Dr. Davis is a member of the
steering committee of the
National Association of United
Methodist Colleges and
Universities and past secretary
of the North Carolina Association
of Independent Colleges.
In Brevard he has served as
president of the Chamber of
Commerce, the United Fund and
the Rotary Club, is a trustee of
the Transylvania Community
Hospital, and also is a member of
Brevard Music Center’s National
Advisory Board. Academic
honors include membership in
Phi Kappa Phi and Beta Gamma
Sigma scholarship fraternities.
He was a Danforth Scholar in
1958-59 at Yale University.
He is married to the former
Phyllis Clough of Douglas,
Georgia, and they have three
children: Robert, III, a freshman
at Georgia Tech; Blaine, 13; and
Palmer, 11.
Mr. Ellis is pastor of Burkhead
United Methodist Church in
Winston-Salem. He has also been
chairman of the Western North
Carolina Conference Board of the
Ministry since 1972. Born in
Tampa, Florida, he and his wife,
Clara, have five children: Em-
mette; Marie; Gene; Michael;
and Timothy. Ellis attended
Southwestern College in Mem
phis, Tennessee. He graduated
from Western Carolina
University with honors and also
graduated from EMory
University Candler School of
Theology. In his ministerial
career he has served the
Bethesda Methodist Church in
North Georgia Conference, he
has seveved churches in the
North Carolina conference,
among the most recent bemg
minister of membership for West
Market United Methodist Church
in Greensboro and pastor of Main
Street United Methodist Church
in Kernersville, before his
present assignment at Burkhead.
He is a Mason, member of the
Civitan Club, Toastmasters
Club,and Lions Club.
published articles in periodicals
including the North Carolina
Christian Advocate and The
Upper Room Devotional Guide.
He is listed in Who’s Who in
Methodism and will soon be listed
in Who’s Who in North Carolina.
Mr. Ellis will give the bac-
calureate sermon in the First
United Methodist Church at
Brevard at ll:oo a.m. on Sunday,
May 2.
The Brevard High School Band,
under the directioon of Dr.
Robert Palmer, will present a
concernt at 1:30 p.m. in
Boshamer Gymnasium
proceeding the graduation
exercises.
Saturday, May 1, the Annual
Alumni Luncheon will be held at
1:00 p.m. in A. G. Myers dining
hall and Mrs, Murray Hollyday
will be the speaker. Mrs.
Hollyday is a member of Brevard
College Alumni Association and
has served as a member of the
Board of Directors for several
yesr, psrt of that tini6 hs vic6-
president.
Mrs. Hollyday and her husband
reside in Biltmore Forest and
operate Hollyday, Hahn, and
Company, a certified public
accountant firm.
They have three children, ages
28, 15 and 16 and two grand
children, ages 6 and 2.
They are members of the
Trinity Episcopal Church in
Asheville. Mrs. Hollyday has
been treasurer of the Women of
the Church, has taught Sunday
School about 20 years. At the
present time she
memger of the Buncombe County
Board of Social Services, is vice^
chairman of the Buncoml^e
County Republican Party and s
Sdent of the Children’s
Welfare League.
This humorously ironic and
funny play, “Arsenic and Old
Lace,” which ran April eighth,
ninth, and tenth at the Barn
Theatre proved to be a great
success. The Thursday night
showing was a near seU-out,
whereas, the Friday and
Saturday night showings were
complete sellouts. All who had
the opportunity to attend found
themselves laughing in spite of
their efforts to stay calm and
collected.
Through use of multi-level
meaning, the humorous irony
made its way to the audience’s
funnybone. A very good example
of this would be Teddy who, in the
play, thought he was Roosevelt.
He was always charging up the
stairs saying, “Charge!!!” The
stairs were San Juan Hill. The
cellar of the house was the
Panama Canal and the “little,
old, lonely men”, Teddy thought,
were victims of the yellow fever
epidemic. In reality, these “little,
old, lonely men” were victims of
Aunt Martha Brewster and Abbie
Brewster’s long cherished family
recipe: Vz teaspoon stricknine, Vz
teaspoon arsenic, and a pinch of
cyanide in a glass of elderberry
wine. The recipe worked
everytime. The little old ladies
thought they were doing a great
work of charity sending lonely,
old men to their graves; whereas,
Jonathan Brewster thought the
niuiii-Kiiiings were some kind ot
lottery contest between himself
Spring Festival
AtBC
The Fine Arts Division of the
College will present a concept in
Dunham Auditorium on Satiu^day
night at 8:00 p.m., which will be
followed by a reception by Dr^
and Mrs. Davis, honoring the
graduates and their parents, at
their home.
Brevard, N. C. — “600,001,
600,002, 600,003 ...” Old Rocking
Chair’s Got Me might have been
the themesong for these weary
rockers. As the final hours of this
grueling contest ticked away, an
earlier-noted air of enthusiasm
gave way to nodding heads. The
occasion was Spring Festival at
Brevard College. Overalled
Robert “Hobs” Talbert, of
Winston Salem, N. C., center and
Patricia Terry of Raleigh, N. C.,
second from right, rocked their
way to a winning 41 hours and 45
minutes. The contest was stopped
by the bell, the class beU Monday
morning. While all this ex
citement was going on in
McLarty Hall, elsewhere on
campus it was kite flying, creek
jumping, greased pole climbing
and bingo, chess and frisb^
tournaments. For the nostalgia
buffs there was a 50’s dance and a
50’s movies festival. Monday was
reported to be an unusually quiet
day in class.
and the innocent little, old ladies.
Jonathan, who has a record of
criminal activity, was chased all
over the world but was never
caught (until the end) thanks to
Dr. Einstein, the plastic surgeon,
who gave Jonathan a new face
everytime he got into trouble.
Throughout the play, Jonathan
had the face of Peter Loring. Dr.
Einstein claimed the night before
Jonathan’s last plastic surgery
that he had watched a monster
moving starring Peter Loring.
Elaine Harper, the young and
beautiful daughter of Reverend
Dr. Harper, falls in love with
Mortimer, Jonathan’s brother.
Through multi-level irony and
action among the almost insane
to the very insane, the audience
got a very complete picture of the
1930 high society life. At the end
of the play, the audience knew
what happened to the main
characters: the little, old ladies
end up in Happydale Sanitarium;
Elaine and Mortimer are going to
get married; Dr. Einstein
escapes the police arrest; and
Jonathan, after being arrested,
ends in jail.
Much thanks and recognition
go to the many who made the
play a success: the cast members
who spent long hours throughout
play practices and then, during
productions; the persons in
charge of the props and sets; and
those who helped with makeup
and then behind the scenes.
BC Candidates
For Who’s Who
Fourteen of Brevard College’s
sophomore students have been
nominated to appear in Who s
Who Among Students in
American Junior Colleges. These
students will represent Brevard
in the 1976 issue. The students are
as follows:
Mr. Floyd Danile Armstrong,
Miss Martha Suzanne Dickerson,
Miss Deborah Kay Easier, Miss
Kim Virginia Wehunt, Mr.
Thomas Paul Horonzy, Mr. Keith
Lee Honeycutt, Miss Sonia Elaine
Ingraham, Mr. Don Pete Lance,
Mr. Billy Mac Sexton, Mr.
Samuel Wesley Sharpe, Mr.
Michael David Stinneford, Mr.
David Douglas Johnson, Mr.
William David Haire and Miss
Mildred Jordan Webber.
The new two-dollar bills will
portray on the back the
signing of the Declaration of
Independence.