Wednesday, March 6,1996 ^
Summer Biology Class Will Be Unique
Marla Mainer
Staff Writer
If you enjoy the outdoors and would
like to receive college credit in biology,
spend a month this summer with
Professor Suder.
The class will begin June 16 and
continue until July 12. Professor Suder
has developed a course that will
investigate everything from aquatic
insects to mammals of the mountains.
Week 1: Forest, Ecology, Biology from
the Piedmont to the Parkway; Week 2:
Biology of a Mountain Stream; Week 3:
Spiders, Salamanders, and Snakes of the
Southern Appalachians; Week 4; Birds
and Mammals of the Mountains.
Professor Suder’s passion for this
class is contagious. He said, “It’s not
like any other biology course you’ll ever
take.”
There is room for only twelve
students. Students at Brevard College
will have the first chance to register. The
course is also open to students from other
colleges and to teachers for recertification
credit. The class will meet Monday
through Saturday from 1 p.m. until 5
p.m. Professor Suder promises that
lecmres will be kept to a minimum.
Piano Major Wins First Prize
Freshman
Press Release
BC News Bureau
Natsuko Bansho, a freshman piano
major at Brevard College, recently won
first prize in the College and Adult
Division of the Greensboro Music
Academy Piano Competition. The
contest, held on Feb. 17 in Greensboro,
was open to adult pianists of any age
without geographical restrictions. The
event was heavily advertised in national
piano magazines and attracted the top
collegiate and adult pianist from across
North Carolina and the Southeast.
Bansho is a native of Kobe, Japan.
She has studied piano since early
childhood and came to the United States
to continue training for a career in music.
At the Greensboro Music Academy Piano
Competition, she performed portions of
Bach’s “Partita In C Minor” and
Debussy’s “Pour le Piano.” Bansho will
perform these works as well as others in
a recital at Dunham Auditorium on the
Brevard College campus on March 28.
Bansho was among the youngest of
the competitors, and was the second
Brevard College piano student to win top
honors in the competition smce 1994,
when Ai Okuda, a 1995 Brevard College
graduate, won the last Greensboro Music
Academy Piano Competition. Okuda is
currently majoring in piano performance
at the Eastman School of Music in
Rochester, New York.
Bansho studies under Dr. Gregory
Morris, Brevard College Assistant
Professor of Music and Piano, who also
taught Okuda.
Swing Into Spring” In Style At BC
Press Release
BC News Bureau
Every year the Brevard College
Annual Conmnmity Campaign Kickoff
Auction and Concert gets bigger and
better. This year, however, the
community volunteers and area businesses
have outdone themselves by planning
what will truly be the social event of the
season: the “Swing Into Spring” big band
concert and auction, featuring over 73
items for both live and silent auctions, the
big band and contemporary music of the
Frank Love Orchestra, and a menu
including prime rib and pork tenderloin.
“Swing Into Spring” will be held on
Saturday, March 16, from 7 until 10:30
pm. in Brevard College’s Boshamer
Gymnasium. Tickets are $12.50 per
person or $25 per couple, and are
available at the Brevard Chamber of
Commerce and Beam Administration
Building on the Brevard College campus.
Tables for eight will be available for
advanced booking of larger groups.
The excitement of the live auction
^ways brings out the competitive spirit in
bidders and spectators alike, and the
silent auction always proves to be a
popular cat-and-mouse game to see who
will bid the highest for preferred items.
Area businesses have been exceptionally
generous this year with their donations of
products and services, includmg
gemstones, tools, cameras, artwork,
camping gear, heirlooms, apparel,
makeovers, furnimre, s^rtmg
equipment, and a variety of gitt
certificates for local restaurants,
automobile services, gift shops, and other
businesses. Among the travel and leisure
packages available this year ^e airline
tickets to any destination m the United
States, four days and three mghts m St_
Johns m the U.S. Virgin Islands a week
at Wild Dunes outside of Charleston, a
ho. air balloon ride, rtckeK for the G«.
Smoky Mountains Railway, “
cruise at the Greystone Inn, and even
Soring ” the Frank Love Orchestra will
be Performing throu^^
';r?«cestS.ardclge«off
events for the past three years. Their
big-band tunes and contemporary classics
always fill the dance floor and please the
listening audience.
The menu for “Swing Into Spring”
will also be improved over last year, with
prime rib, teriyaki and lemon pepper
chicken strips and pork tenderloin added
to the usual array of cheese, fresh fruits
and vegetables, and luscious desserts.
“Swing Into Spring” will open die
1996 Brevard College Commumty
Campaign, which will run through May
31 widi a goal of raising $100,000 from
friends of the College from Transylvania,
Henderson, and Buncombe counties. All
proceeds wUl benefit the Brevard College
annual fund for culmral events,
scholarships, library materials, contmumg
education courses, and a variety of other
educational programs. «
“The Community Campaign Kickori
auction and concert has become the
traditional Spring social event m
Transylvania County, and this years
“Swing Into Spring” will be no
exception,” says Julie Heuutsh, Director
of the Brevard College Annual Fund.
“We hope to see all of our friends on
campus for the year’s March 16 event; it
will be the place to see and be seen!”
For more information about “Swing
Into Spring” or the Brevard College
Community Campaign, contact Julie
Heinitsh at (704) 884-8314. To view
many of the auction items that will be up
for bidding at “S\Ving Into Spring,”
“swing” by the Brevard Chamber of
Commerce.