Commencement Edition
SERVING BREVARD COLLEGE SINCE 1935
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Graduates’ BC memories
Advice to other students
Photos!
Retiring faculty profiles
Voice of the Rivers 2019
May 10, 2019
'What rain?'
More than 100 graduates reeeive
diplomas in EC’s 166th eommencement
Rain and thunderstorms were in the forecast,
prompting things to start an hour earlier than
originally planned.
In the end, though, neither the foggy, earlier
hour nor the threat of wet weather could dampen
the mood at the graduation ceremony Saturday
morning as 111 Brevard College seniors marched
to their seats to await their turn to walk across
the stage in front of McLarty-Goodson.
“What rain?” BC president David Joyce even
said at the beginning of the ceremony, tempting
fate and weather patterns in Transylvania County
that in just the past few weeks has seen severe
thunderstorm and tornado warnings, a freak
hailstorm and more than 10 inches of rainfall.
Fortunately, the rains held off and the sun was
shining bright as graduates and their families
embraced the joy of seeing the fruition of their
years of hard work: a Brevard College diploma.
At 9 a.m., the Betty Neal Academic Quadrangle
was filled with the sounds of a bagpiper
piping while a sea of black regalia greeted
beaming parents awaiting the college’s 166th
Commencement Ceremony.
“The most significant recognition we bestow
today is the Brevard College diploma itself—for
it signifies a level of education that the vast
majority of people in this world, and even in
See 'Graduation,' page 2
The Brevard College class of 2019, along with BC president David Joyce and his wife, Lynn, let loose for a class picture on the steps of the Jones Library early on
Saturday morning. Commencement exercises began at 9 a.m., an hour earlier than originally scheduled, to avoid rain and thunderstorms forecast later that day.
Top: Mai Sakuma, an exercise science major from Japan, was one of several International students who graduated from Brevard College on Saturday.