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Brevard College, Brevard, NC
Volume 54 Number 3
Wednesday, October 1, 1986
Homecoming activities cranking up
by Bonnie Davis
October is the month for homecomings
and Brevard’s will be held on the October
11 weekend. Many activities have been
planned to make this year’s homecoming
an enjoyable and memorable occasion not
only for the students, but for alumni as
well.
Spirit Week kicks off homecoming
festivities with Punk Day on Oct. 6. Tues
day will be Hawaiian Day and Wednesday
will be 50’s Day. Thursday is Western Day
and Friday is Toga Day, so “when in
Rome, do as the Romans do.”
Homecoming activities will start Fri
day, October 10 with a women’s soccer
game against Emory University. The
game will be played at 3:30 p.m. at
Brevard’s Sherrill field. Also to be held on
Friday is the Lyp Sync contest in Dunham
Auditorium at 7 p.m. “Cheyenne
Autumn,” a classic western film, will be
shown the same night at 9 p.m. in the
Storm Cellar.
All dorms should have their banners
hung outside by early Saturday morning
for judging. Winners for the banner con
test will be announced at the soccer game
half-time. A pre-game picnic will be held
at noon at the Boshamer gym. Following
will be the alumni soccer game at 1 p.m.
According to Dean Don Scarborough, the
odd-year graduates will play against the
even-year graduates.
The dominatmg event of the after noon
will be the men’s soccer game against
Catawba College at 3 p.m. Catawba is a
four-year school nationally ranked in the
NAIA. During half-time of the game, the
homecoming court contestants will be in
troduced. The court will be made up to five
men and women from both the sophomore
and freshman class, totalling 20 court
members. The four winners of the king,
queen, prince and princess titles will be
announced later the same night at the
dance. The women play Georgia State on
Sunday the 12 at 2 p.m. here at BC.
A semi-formal/formal dress dinner is
planned for 5:30-7 p.m. in the A.G. Myers
Dining Hall. Following dinner will be a
dance held in the auxiliary gym starting at
9 p.m. Music will be provided by the band,
“Prime Tyme.”
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BC students will be enjoying the sounds of Prime Tyme at the Homecoming Dance, Saturday, Oct. 11, at 9 p.m.
in the auxiliary gym. Here, dancers get down to some serious boogeying at the recent Orientation Dance. (BC
photo by Jock Lauterer)
BC adds new faculty, staff members
Tne freshmen aren’t the only new faces
on the Brevard campus this fall. New peo
ple have joined the College faculty, staff
and administration as well.
William B. Byers has returned to his
alma mater to teach art. A 1972 graduate
of Brevard College, Byers studied at UNC-
Greensboro and earned his bachelor of fine
arts from Atlantic Christian College in 1974
and his master’s degree in painting from
East Carolina University in 1980.
A specialist in photography as well as
painting, the Fayetteville native has
taught photography and had numerous ex-
PTK inductions held tonight
by Laura Hannah
Phi Theta Kappa will hold its fall induc
tions at 7 p.m. this evening. Dean Harry
Langley will be the guest speaker at induc
tions which stress the importance of
academic achievement
P.T.K. is the national honorary society
for students in two-year colleges. In order
to qualify for membership, a student must
maintain at least a 3.2 grade point
average.
“I feel that this will be a brand new
society due to new membership and plann
ed projects,” says current president Brian
Cartland. Some projects planned are the
sponsorship of an underprivileged child
and local community service.
The following people have been invited
to join P.T.K. this fall:
Carol Lynn Besco, Elizabeth Ann Chap
man, Pamela Diane Stephenson Eller,
Tracy M. Fisher, Marco Rosario Furnari,
Laura Lynn Hannah, John Ashley Ingani,
Fusoka Ikeda, Stacy Harold Jennings, An
drew Brian Lankford, Archie Lester Le
Grone, John McGilvray Lucas, Michelle
Ann Martin, Martin Thomas Powers, San
dra Marie Rogers, Marcus Siebmann,
Robert Miller Sydnor, Lisa Michelle
Taylor, James Mark Weekley, William G.
Wilkie and Wendy Gail Wood.
hibits. He has taught art and photography
at Forsyth Technical College, Martin Com
munity College, the University of Maine
and East Carolina University.
Diane C. Hoffman is teaching
psychology and serving as a resident
director. The Ohio native earned her
bachelor’s degree from Grove City College
(Pa.) in 1982 and her master’s degree in
college student personnel service in 1986
from Miami University of Ohio where she
was also a resident hall director and
taught career development.
Linda Ashcraft of Brevard is working
as a library clerk. She attended Southern
College in Collegedale, Tenn., where she
has neared completion on a bachelor’s
degree in elementary education.
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Steve D’Adamo has been named the
College’s student activities director. The
1982 Furman graduate is also serving as a
resident director and teaching psychology.
The Garden City, S.C., native comes to BC
from Atlanta where he was the district
executive for the Boy Scouts.
Barbara A. White is the new college
nurse, succeeding the school’s long-time
nurse, Corrie Burdette, who retired last
spring. She is a cum laude graduate of
Mars Hill college with bachelor of science
degrees in both social work and nursing.
Earlier, she earned her nursing diploma
from the North Carolina Baptist Hospital
School of Nursing.
Maggi Zednick returns to Brevard Col
lege after a year of teaching English in
Gmunden, Austria. This year at BC she is
teaching German, philosophy and logic.
Kristin Kelley is working part-time in
the college library and teaching trumpet
and horn in the music department. She
earned her bachelor’s degree in music
education and music performance from
the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro, and her master’s degree in
music from the New England Conser
vatory of Music where she studied horn
with Charles Kawalovski, the principal
horn player for the Boston Symphony Or
chestra.
Michael L. Gantt and Mikal J. Peveto
joined the Brevard College staff in August
as admissions counselors. Peveto was an
All-American runner for Brevard
College’s first junior college national
championship cross-country team in 1982
and was the individual national marathon
champion for the NJCAA. The Alexandria,
La., native earned his bachelor’s degree in
special education this year from the
University of Southern Alabama where he
was an honor student. For the last six
years Peveto has served as recreational
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