French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-10-10
EASS|FERN HAS
ABLE FACULTY
(By Evelyn Byrd Graham)

by Evelyn Byrd Graham)
Saturday evening from $3.50 to 1O:So
Mrs McBee and Miss Shipp gave a re-
ception to the students and faculty in
honor Of Fassifern's eleventh birth
day
The drawing room was attractively
and appropriately decorated in the
school colors,-lavander and white
flowers. Receiving with Mrs. McBee
and Miss Shipp were: Mrs. Walker,
Miss Sampson, Miss Pixley and Miss
Graham. An informal dance was helG
later in the school auditorium anG
those receiving there were: Miss
George, Miss Waddell, Miss Maxwell,
Miss Fhrall, Miss Carter, Miss Evans,
Miss Lucy Bomar and Miss Schutt.
The auditorium was attractively
decorated with a profusion of autumn
leaves and wild flowers.
Mrs. c. G. Barr, of Hendersonville,
furnished music for the occasion
RRpch and cake were served
during Short intermission:
!. The students presented Mrs. McBee
and Miss Shipp with handsome piece
of silver. Many toasts were given to
FaEsifern and the principals in wish
ing the school many more happy anc.
PIOSpSIOUS years.
Sunday at eleven a. M, Rev. e. E.
Bomar, pastor of the First Baptiss
church, of Hendersonville, was askec
to hold a special service for the Fas-
sifern students at the school DR..
Bomar delighted the faculty and stu
dents and his earnest appeal to the
young held the close attention of the
student body.
Sunday night the faculty and stu
dents met and re-organized the Fas-
sifern Red Cross Chapter. Officers
were selected as follows: Miss Samp-
son, chairman; Miss George, vice.
chairman, and Miss Maxwell, scre-
tarF and treasurer.
TIE girls are divided by classes i1l-
81 ~ IasI1l rs Of
have been elected as heads of each
group. These are follows: Misses
PiXley,S Thrall, Evans and Graham,
with other members of the faculty as
assistants. Miss Shipp will have
charge of the freshmen class.
The Fassifern girls have every rea-
son to feel proud Of the work they
accomplished last year, and begin an
other year with sum Of five dollars
and over in the treasury.
Fassifern school has added to its
IuuSIC U0pdEIIu01J MISS OGLO ". OCIluIt,
assistant to Miss Pixley, a musician
and teacher of wide training and ex-
perience,-a pupil of Linanousky and
George Schneider, at Cincinnati Music
School, and Nine. Amy Fay, of New
York. Miss Schutt has had the fines:
authorities in Interpretation, while her
methods Of teaching are those of tho
Virgil Piano School of New York,
Having been a teacher at st. Mary's
school, Raleigh, five years, and Of the
faculty of Winthrop College, Rock Hill,
S. c., fourteen years, Miss Schutt is
we'll known in the Carolinas for her
great success in the music profession.
Miss Schutt is an aunt of Miss Che
liem A. Pixley the latter having been
the efficient music director of Fassi-
fern since 1909. Miss Pfx1ey is rec
ognized as one of the foremost artists
of the day and has a wide reputation
in her profession. She is pupil OK
e. G. Schutt, New York, of MaZkOwski,
Paris; sof Burmeister, Berlin, Certifi-
cate of Virgil Piano School, New
York; wasI president of North Carolin2
Music Teachers association, 1917; Elk
.aniner. Progressive Series Of Piano
lessons.
New additions to the Fassifern fac
ulty this year are: Miss Jennie Fleet
wood Westfeldt, of Fletcher, Miss
Ships secretary; Miss Waddell, OF
Columbus, Ca, French, English and
geometry; Miss Alma Maxwell, OF
Charlotte, advanced English and hist
ory; Miss Isabel Evans, of Montgom-
cry, Ala, Latin and athletics; Miss
Mary Thrall, of Asheville, physiology,
botany and domestic science; Miss
Parthenia George, Demopolis, Ala, lib
rary science, Bible and chaperon;
Miss Lucy BonAar, of Hendersonville,
intermediate department, and Miss
Pauline Carter, of Asheville, house
keeper.
Other members of the faculty are:
Col w. G. Decoligny, French ana
Spanish; Miss Maud Chambers, o.
Asheville, art director, Miss Evelyn
Graham. Bible and chaperOn.