m Olamwua €mr ASHEVILLE-BBLTMORE COLLEGE Volume XV-Rl ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA, NOVEMBER, 1961 Number 2 Annual Wins First Honors At Scholastic Press Meet Escalante Wins Election | Mike Escalante and Roy Stewart head the slate of officers selected in the class elections held Oct. 16. Escalante, a Texas product, was presented in nomination by Jerry Warren at the assembly program on Oct. 12. His successful platform won out over Howard Williams as President of the Sophomore Class. Dave Wolfe was victorious in de feating Diane Ricker for the vice presidency, as was Emilie Alexander over Ellen Winston in the bid for the office of secretary-treasurer. Also serving with these officers will be the three elected representa tives, Ellis Holcombe, Linda Pacione, and Nancy Jolly. Roy Stewart was successful in his bid for the Freshman class presidency against Fred Heath. Stewart, who attended the Asheville public schools, was placed into nomination by Lee Roy Griffin. Gene Ponder will serve with him as vice-president. Ponder defeated Vivian Ragan for this office. Lynn Herron successfully defeated Jo Ann Perkins to become secretary-treasurer. The Freshman class representatives will be Charles Medd, Alice Rogers, and Bob Beal. YDC Meets The Asheville-Biltmore Young Democratic Club held its first meet ing of the year Wednesday night, Oct. 25, to elect officers and plan activities. Miss Lee Hawkins was elected president of the club to succeed Boyce Ford who organized and served as president of the first A-B YDC. Other officers elected include David Bryson and Gene Ponders, vice presidents; Joyce Taylor, secre tary; and Ellen Winston, treasurer. The club is an affiliate of the North Carolina Young Democratic Clubs under the direction of State College President, Charlie Smith of Asheville. Bryan Harrison, Western District YDC officer, told the group of the importance of good organization. Miss Hawkins suggested several projects to aid in the success of the upcoming bond vote and appointed several committees to work with these ideas. Asheville-Biltmore will work close ly with the Western Carolina Col lege club since the two are the only active YDCs in Western North Carolina in the college division. The group will also aid in projects of Teen-Dem clubs at St. Genevieve of the Pines and Lee Edwards. Delegrates from the Asheville- Biltmore club attended the State I* Annual staff boards train for New York press meeting and first honors for their annual at Columbia. Pictured left to right, they are Howard Williams, editor, Linda Pacione, Phyllis Hampton, Miss Mary Miller, advisor, and Tom Doe. Faculty Trip President Glenn L. Bushey, Dean Joseph Parsons, Miss Emily Porter, aand Mrs. Cornelia Serota recently attended a series of educational meetings at Raleigh. Dr. Bushey and Dean Parsons attended the 41st Annual Conference of North Caro lina Colleges. Miss Porter attended those meetings devoted especially to the problems of registrars. Dean Parsons and Mrs. Serota, instructor of biology, also attended a Bio- Mathematics conference at N. C. State College in Raleigh. Holiday Dance Planned The annual Thanksgiving dance for A-B students will be held on Wednesday Evening, November 22, from 9 o’clock till 1:00. The place will be the Community Center on Charlotte Street, and dress will be semi-formal. This vacation dance is open to all area students home for the Thanksgiving recess. The “Down Beat” orchestra has been engaged for this function. Fac ulty chaperons include Mrs. Lois Huggett, Colonel William Quarter- man, and Miss Flora McGhee. YDC Convention Nov. 9, 10, 11 in the Jack Tar Hotel in Durham. The number or votes the club will have has not been revealed as of yet. Several projects have been under taken for the club as well as social functions and a membership drive is now underway. Smith and Harrison, veteran YD Corganizers, said the AB club has a possibility of becoming the largest junior college club in the state. Social Committee Sponsors Halloween Carnival And Dance On October 28 Asheville-Biltmore Social Committee gave a Carnival and Dance to celebrate Halloween. The booths were set up by the dif ferent clubs and run by the members. The Soscal Committee appointed Ellen Winston as chairman and she selected members to help organize the different booths, the raffle, publicity, and the dance. Mrs. Huggett, Coach Yelverton, and Mrs. Forney, the advisors, vol unteered the faculty to run the House of Horrors. Coach Yelverton and Mr. Bradley offered themselves for the Water Balloon Booth. Other booths were the Penny Pitching, Fortune Telling, Dart Throwing, Car Bash, Fishing, and Cakewalk. > Thursday before the Carnival Ellen Winston, Tom Brown, and Lee Hawkins went to the dog pound and purchased Domino and Bingo. The dogs lived at A-B until the night of the dance, then a student nurse and a Lee Edwards student gave them a permanent home. JFK At Chapel Hill “Peace and freedom do not come cheap, and we are destined ... to live out most if not all of our lives in uncertainty and challenge and peril. . . . This is a time of national maturity, understanding, and willing ness to face issues as they are, and understanding not as we would like them to be. It is a test of our ability to be far-seeing and calm, as well as resolute; to keep an eye on both our dangers and our opportunities.” President John F. Kennedy Speech at Chapel Hill, N. C. The decorations for the Dance were planned by James Barker and Kaye Hudson. Tom Brown and James Barker went and collected the corn cobs and placed them around the columns in the Snack Shop. At 9:00 the dance started with music by the Downbeats. Many were dressed in costumes and Mrs. Hug gett was the Halloween Witch. S.C. Plans Social Year The Social Committee has planned the Semester activities. Chairman, Fred Heath, has set up committees to plan the events. The Carnival and Dance was the first function on the committee. Ellen Winston was appointed head of the Carnival and Dance. Lee Hawkins is chairman of the publicity for all functions. Members of the publicity staff are Sandra Cook, Glenda Duckett, Jo Ann Perkins, Kaye Hudson, James Bar ker, Vivian Reagan, and Tom Brown. Secretary of the Social Committee is Aileen Owen. Other functions to be held are a Thanksgiving Dance on November 22. It will be semi-formal. December 16 will be the Annual Christmas Dance. Plans are being made and any suggestion would be appreciated. The 1961 Edition of The Summit won first place in the medalist compe tition at the recent Scholastic Press Association meeting at Columbia University. This is the first time in two years that our annual has won this honor. The theme of last year’s Summit was “One Last Long Look.” The Annual was dedicated to the mem ory of the buildings, grounds and campus which housed our college during the years from 1949 to the fall of 1961. The purpose of the annual was two-fold. First, it showed the school year with all the activities, studies and honors of the school year. Second, it portrayed via pictures and words a history of Seely Castle from construction to completion. The purpose of the annual meet ing is to offer short courses in year book production and to judge the annuals of the past year. Since four people attended the meeting they were able to attend more lectures on different phases of yearbook pro duction. Not all of the time was spent for studies. The group was able to visit the United Nations, and Radio City Music Hall. Sometime was also al lowed in Washington, D. C., where they made a tour of the city. Howard Williams, editor of The Summit, and staff members Linda Pacione, Phyllis Hampton, and Tom Doe made the trip to enter the an nual in competition. Miss Mary Miller, faculty ad visor for The Summit, said the staff spent most of the time they were traveling on making plans for the 1962 Edition of The Summit. Chamber Music Presented Here Asheville-Biltmore students, along with students of other colleges in the area, will have the opportunity to attend concerts of the Asheville Chamber Music Series free of charge. Mrs. Lutrelle Wishart, Dean of Women, is able to secure tickets to the Winter Series, which will be held in David Millard High School, for students who are interested in chamber music. Four concerts scheduled for the winter season are the Pasquer Trio from Paris, Nov. 3; two from the United States, the Alberney group, Dec. 1, and the Budapest Quartet, Feb. 26; and last, the Drolc Quartet from Germany. This series is part of a program sponsored by Avsheville Chamber Music to bring some of the best ensembles from all over the world to the Asheville area.

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