Brevard College - Pertelote Yearbook (Brevard, NC)

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models being driven. Traffic was light — one could easily cross Highway 64 without risk of life or limb. There was no College Shopping Center or Methodist Church in the block across the highway. In their stead were three one-story white wood en houses used as faculty homes, a grassy field with a little creek running through it, and the two-story gingerbread home of the president. The faculty and administrative staff numbered thirty-nine. In our sophomore year six hundred eight students were enrolled — we were bursting at the seams because of the post war conditions. Classes were held six days a week. Tuition, room and board were approximately $251.50 per semester, $50 extra for music, and labs from .SI. 00 to $5.00 extra. We were quite aware that we were a church-affiliated institution. Three times a week we attended chapel. Sunday church at- tendance was mandatory for the dormitory students. Drinking was not permitted. Girls M

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been built by students a few years before our time was moved intact and is now used by the maintenance staff for storage of equipment and supplies. Beam Administra- tion Building is now located where it once stood. We went through calisth enics in our make-shift gym outfits, cheered for our bas- ketball teams, and held occasional dances in the gym. Behind the student-built brown stone wall at the west corner of the campus was the football field. Yes! We had a football team. The McLarty-Goodson Building is on the fifty-yard hne. The Barn was actually used for that purpose. Up through our freshman year stu- dents could earn their way by working on the farm. A corn field covered the land where Boshamer Gymnasium and the track are. There was a herd of cattle graying in the pastures near Ross Hall. Chickens cack- led as they laid eggs for the kitchen menus. Alongside the lane that led to the barn were two or three faculty homes and an old white frame house which served as the in- firmary. World War 11 had ended in the year 1945. Veterans whose schooling had been inter- rupted by the call to arms could finish high school in the pre-coUege division and then continue into the college courses. Others, many of them girls, took advantage of this opportunity to complete high school in a concentrated period of time. Prefabricated barracks, which served as living quarters for the vets , sprang up in a row where the Bryan Moore Science BuUding is now lo- cated. Campus parking was no problem. Only a very few faculty members or students had cars. Automobiles were not made for civihan use during the war so there were no late

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were not allowed to smoke even in their own rooms. Lights had to be out by 10;00 p.m. for the girls. Girls could go uptown only in groups with a chaperone; mixed groups moved in double lines. Couples could sit to- gether or walk on campus at a distance of about fourteen inches separation. The dean of women had to Argus-eyed to perform her duties! Then, as now, the more defiant ones could find ways of getting around prescribed codes of conduct. Sweaters, a string of pearls, knee-length skirts, bobby socks, brown and white saddle oxfords or loafers were the fahion for the girls — oh yes, and those bulky padded shoulders on dress suits and coats. Rayon stockings were saved for dress-up occasions. Blue jeans could be worn on picnics and similar outings and also in the dormitory — but not to class or uptown. The hair-dos were shoulder length with loosely-flowing curls. Bright red lipstick plastered their mouths. Boys wore their hair clean-cut with side- burns ending about an inch below the top