May 4,2005 | The Clarion
NEWS
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Dr. Mel Bringle to speak at
Guilford College graduation
by Angelita Col6n-Francia
Asst. Dir. of Public Relations
Dr. Mary Louise “Mel” Bringle, Brevard College’s professor of Religious Studies and
chair of the Division of Humanities, will be the guest speaker at Guilford College’s 168th
commencement exercises May 7.
Bringle, a 1975 alumna of Guilford, was nominated by the college’s community and
was recommended by its Convocation and Celebration Committee to President Kent
Chabotar.
“As an outstanding liberal arts college educator and alumna of the college, Mel
Bringle can relate to the Guilford experience in so many ways. It is fitting that we welcome
her back to speak to our graduates on their special day,” said Chabotar.
A member of Brevard College’s faculty since 2000, Bringle was selected as Faculty
Member of the Year for 2003-04 by the Student Government Association. She taught at St.
Andrews Presbyterian College in Laurinburg, N.C., from 1983-2000 and has held a Jefferson-
Pilot Distinguished Professorship since 1989.
She is the author of “Despair: Sickness or Sin?” and “The God of Thinness; Gluttony
and Other Weighty Matters,” and is currently writing a book on envy. In 2001, she was
recognized by the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada for her composition of
the hymn “Bless The Arms That Comfort.” Written to the tune “Cranham” by Gustav
Holst, the hymn honors the ministry of caregivers.
She also penned the hymn “When Terror Streaks Through Morning Skies,” which
has been used by churches around the country in services of worship/remembrance of
the events of September 11.
Final Exam Schedule
Exam day
and time
Wednesday,
May 4
Thursday,
May 5
Friday,
May 6
Saturday,
May 7
Monday,
May 9
8:30-11:30 a.m.
Classes meeting
1:30-2:20 p.m. MWF
Classes meeting
8:30-9:45 a.m. TTTi
Classes meeting
8:30-9:20 a.m. MWF
Classes meeting
9:30-10:20 a.m.
MWF
Classes meeting
4:00-5:15 p.m.
MTWTh
1 :30-4:30 p.m.
Classes meeting
10:00-11:15 a.m.
TThF
Classes meeting
10:30-11:20 a.m.
MWF
Classes meeting
11:30-12:20 a.m.
MWF
Classes meeting
11:30-12:45 p.m. TTh
Classes meeting
12:30-1:20 p.m.
MWF
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Classes meeting
1:00-2:15 p.m. TTh
Classes meeting
2:30-3:45 p.m. MW
Classes meeting
6:30-9:15 p.m.
MTWTh
Classes meeting
2:30-3:45 p.m. TTh
Final Exam Notes:
n Final exams for classes not normally scheduled or overlaps not listed are scheduled
for Tuesday. May 3, at 6:00 p.m.
D No student will be required to take 3 exams on the same day. It is the student’s
responsibility to speak with the instructors involved and to request moving one of the
to a time convenient for both the student and the instructor.
n All courses in physical education give their final exams during the last week of
classes. Fine Arts courses which use juries, performances, or projects in lieu of a final
warn are not required to schedule additional testing during the final exam week All
other courses are required to meet during the scheduled exam time for testing and/or
instructional activity.
□ Classes which meet more than 3 hours per week and, therefore, use 2 exam times in
the schedule, will take the final exams during the exam time for the first scheduled class
period, e.g., Monday class Any exceptions must be approved by the respective Division
Chair and tte Vk:e President for Academic Atfairs
O The exam for a class that meets 3 hours straight should be scheduled at the time
period most similar to it or use one of the two general times.
□ Faculty should not schedule an exam (sttidio or other) for a group of students in a
time slot that has been set aside for another class time Doing so places a burden on other
faculty for rescheduling. There are open times in the exam schedule that can be used for
special group exams.
Pancake dinner
scheduled
Musical entertainment to
feature President Van
Horn, faculty and staff
Brevard College faculty and staff
members will get a chance to show their
appreciation to the student body by
serving up pancakes at a study-break
during final exam week.
From 9:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. on
Wednesday, May 4 at Myers Dining
Hall, students will be treated to all the
pancakes they can eat, hot coffee, and
soft drinks. Live musical entertainment
will feature Brevard College President
Drew Van Horn along with members of
the faculty and staff. It is not uncom
mon for students to relieve pre-exam jit
ters with a little dancing.
The tradition of cooking and serv
ing pancakes to students during final
exam week was started by the college’s
faculty and staff more than 20 years ago.