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clarion.brevard.edu Volume 84, Issue 20 Web Edition SERVING BREVARD COLLEGE SINCE 1935 February 20, 2019 Clarions Holocaust survivor removed in Walter Blass visits Scholarship Brevard College Day prep By Jeni Welch By Carmen Boone Refugee, World Citizen, Holocaust Editor in Chief Copy Editor Survivor and Storyteller Scholarship Day offers an opportunity for Walter P. Blass, an 88 year-old Holocaust Walter P. Blass prospective new students the chance to tour the survivor, came to Brevard College on Monday, college and interview for different scholarships Feb. 18 to speak about his experience during offered from Brevard College. Last Friday, Feb. the Holocaust. He spoke in Ingram Auditorium 15, the BC Admissions office began setting at 7 p.m. up the event in different areas on campus for The presentation was titled “Refugee, World Saturday’s visitors. Citizen, Holocaust Survivor and Storyteller.” He Part of the process of setting up for the began by talking about his childhood. admissions event is adding chairs to the buildings He was born in 1930, three years before Adolf and tidying things up, which Admissions Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933. personnel say includes removing the clutter Hitler decreed that no Jews were allowed to of The Clarion newspapers, other magazines, work in law, medicine, as university professors publications and selected posters. According to or in government. Director of Admissions and Financial Aid David Walter’s father, Richard Blass, asked him if Volrath, this is a protocol that the college has he wanted to go on a business trip with him followed for past events. to Brussels when Walter was five. Once they Photo by Thomas Kennedy “We typically remove anything that is laying around or loose as we need the spaces to be as arrived, Walter’s father took him into a place Photo via Megan Keiser surrounded by a big iron fence. Walter was left neat and clean as possible so that we make a Walter BlassMonday, is also a successful February business 18 man and there alone for three weeks while his father went advocates7 p.m. - Brevard for liberal College arts colleges. Dunham Auditorium good first impression on these future Brevard to get his mother. If all three of them had tried This event is free and open to the public College students,” Volrath said in an email on to flee Germany at the same time, they would One day, he read that she had been liberated by Friday. The college was expecting more than 100 theSponsored French. by: Brevard While College, in Projectthe camp, Empathy sheof Transylvania learned County that have been caught because of suspicion. The Democracy Project of Transylvania County, Inc students to visit campus with their families on On May 10, 1940, Walter felt what he thought Walter’s father was in a camp on the other side of Saturday for Scholarship Day, he wrote. was an earthquake. He was told to go down and France. She decided to go get her husband out of English professor Alyse Bensel assisted with hide in a cellar because air raids were happening the concentration camp. Walter was then picked interviews at Scholarship Day on Saturday. “I in their area. Walter found out at breakfast the up by his father from the Veterans Hospital next noticed that all of the issues of The Clarion had next day that his father had been arrested at 8 door to where the home was. been removed from the building [McLarty- a.m. that same morning. Four days later, the While his parents continued to travel, Walter Goodson], with the exceptions of an issue rumor was that all the men who were arrested lived with a family in Masai who had three behind the glass display case,” Bensel said. “I were piled into a box car and taken across the girls, one of which was his age. His mother had was mostly confused, as I had never noticed French frontier. No one knew where they were a acquired a visa to the Dominican Republic The Clarion missing during other admissions after that. and his father was sent to another concentration events.” After that, Walter, his mother and a couple camp north of Masai. However, on Friday afternoon, a comment was they were living with were arrested and taken to Richard Blass learned that men were going made to Mary Harris, administrative assistant for jail. The two women were sent to a concentration to be transferred to Gurse and climbed over the the Humanities and Social Sciences divisions camp. Walter was sent to a home for delinquent fence to escape before the transport. He hid on in MG, suggesting that in addition to the issue children. He stayed there for four months, all of tidiness, last week’s Clarion may have been the while receiving postcards and letters from See ‘Holocaust survivor Walter Blass’ on removed in part because of the content. page 3 his mother. See ‘Clarion removal’ on page 3 Page 2 Campus News The Clarion | February 20, 2019 SGA seeks mug donations Class The Brevard College Student Government similar situation in Moore Science. Association (SGA) is accepting mug donations “I thought how great this could work at the this week on campus to help implement coffee shop!” Petoia said. “So I met with Sarj reusable cups for Bill’s Boiler House. from the caf and Bunny from the coffee shop helping Students will be able to use the mugs that to talk about how to get it started, going over are donated and return them back to the coffee the health codes, and then how to accomplish house, instead of using a cup that would it once the mugs are donated.” otherwise end up in the trash. If more people start choosing the mugs to open Currently, gift wrapped donation boxes instead of paper cups, SGA will be looking for are set up in Beam Administration, Myers more donations in the future. Dining Hall, Jones, McLarty-Goodson and — Jeni Welch Moore Science. Cat Cafe “After about 20 mugs are donated, they will be washed and sanitized of course, and then By Brock Tuttle put on a rack in the coffee shop in order for Staff Writer the customers to have the option of choosing a The not-for-profit management class taught mug instead of a paper cup that they can take at Brevard College by Dr. Steve Woodsmall is and go to class, work, etc,” Malynne Petoia, assisting in the opening of a cat cafe that will SGA Senator said. “And then bring it back as be located near the Brevard College campus. soon as they can.” In an effort to understand how nonprofits The mugs will be washed and sanitized in the Dining Hall before they are returned Photo by Jeni Welch operate the nonprofit management class is Donation boxes wrapped in paper like this one can tackling fundraising, marketing, operations and for use. be found in various locations throughout campus. location initiatives. Nonprofit organizations The idea came to Petoia after seeing a Individuals are encouraged to donate mugs. are dedicated to fulfilling their mission, which in this case is finding forever homes for cats through coffee, community and compassion. Moms Demand the Clarion Any profit made by the cafe will go directly to the Pisgah Animal Welfare Society (PAWS). SENIOR STAFF PAWS, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated Action event Moms Demand Action (MDA) is coming Editor in Chief Jeni Welch to rescuing and improving the lives of domestic to Brevard in an attempt to reach out to the Managing Editor Mary Lewe and wild animals in Western North Carolina. community and bring awareness to a big cause Copy Editor Carmen Boone The cat cafe will be a place where customers the North Carolina chapter. MDA will be hosting Campus News Zach Dickerson can purchase a drink and enter the cat lounge to Opinion a few events in the upcoming months in and Julie Carter relax and have some company. The lounge will Arts & Life around the Brevard College campus. have about a dozen rescue cats that have either Sports The first of many events coming to campus been found or taken out of a shelter and will be Layout & Design Mary Lewe will be a gun violence film screening put on by up for adoption. Faculty Adviser John B. Padgett the MDA group. They are aiming for the event Other areas in the cafe would include the bar, OTHER STAFF to be on April 20. retail section, study room, and an event area. The events will include a film on gun violence Aia Andonovska Bry’Kendrick Moore The cat cafe will be an ideal place for a Kenny Cheek Brock Tuttle which will be determined by Feb. 22. After the college student to get some caffeine and crank Chloe McGee film there will be guest speakers who will be out some homework. Also, the cat cafe will sharing their survivor stories. be the perfect place to get volunteer hours if MDA was founded the day after the Sandy The Clarion is a student-run college newspaper produced needed considering it will be fully operated by Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012. by student journalists enrolled at Brevard College. volunteers. Unsigned editorials represent the collective opinion of That tragedy exposed many people to the gun The concept of cat cafes originated in Taiwan the staff of The Clarion. Other opinions expressed in violence that plagues our country, and it spurred this newspaper are those of respective authors and do and were made popular by Japan. There are this group of mothers into action to create a not necessarily reflect the opinions of the faculty, staff roughly 72 cat cafes in the United States, and or administration of Brevard College.

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