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Vol. I No. 5
MAURICE WILLIAMS
HEADLINES A-B
CHRISTMAS DANCE
By Trudy Schandler
Asheville -Biltmore’s annual
Christmas Dance will be held to
morrow night, December 18, at the
Greek Hellenic Community Center,
from 9 to 1. The dance will again
feature the presentation of "Miss
Asheville-Biltmore” and her Court.
Music will be furnished by the
famous Maurice Williams and "The
Zodiacs'* who achieved national
prominence with their golden hit
record. Stay! This band is being
imported by the SGA Social Com
mission at great expense for the
dance, so you won’t want to miss it.
Students wishing to help decor
ate for the dance should contact Ted
Corcoran, Leigh Stevens, Trudy
Schandler, or Sally Straine, or should
come to the Greek Center at 227
Cumberland Avenue from 2 to 5
today or any time after 9 A.M. to
morrow. And help u/ill be needed!
Admission will be free to all A-B
students (with activity cards) and
their dates ONLY. All outside
couples without activity cards will
be charged $3.00.
Don’t miss this big event of the
week, month, year, decade, maybe
even century! Get yourself a date,
put on your dancing shoes (semi-
formal attire only please), and head
for the ASHEVILLE-BILTMORE
DANCE. You can’t afford not to!
Student Center
Head Named
After consulting with the admin
istration, the Student Government
Association recently created the new
campus office of Student Center
Manager. This position is a paid
job which entails many and varied
responsibilities, but it is felt that
the new appointee, Jim Day, will
do a satisfactory job. Chief among
Jim’s duties will be to act as offi
cial administrator of all business
concerning the use of the Student
(lenter. This includes receiving all
suggestions and complaints referring
to the building. To better accom
modate this, he is currently in the
process of planning set office hours
in the Center.
Other duties of Mr. Day include
the maintenance of a lost and found
department, the provision of a first
aid kit, and the insurance of the
smooth operation of the building
and its facilities,, subject to the di
rections of the SGA House and
Grounds Commission.
In his new capacity as a liaison
between the students, campus or
ganizations, Executive Council, and
administration of the college in
those matters which are directly re
lated to the Student Center Build
ing, Jim has stated a readiness to
cooperate with any of these groups
in working out a more efficient set
of rules concerning the use of the
Center. Mr. Day will be inter
viewed on the new policies of his
position in the next issue of The
Ridgerunner.
At their sixty-fifth annual meet
ing in Raleigh on December 3, the
North Carolina Literary and His
torical Association announced
awards in the 1965 literary compe
tition in the state.
John Ehle, a native of Asheville
and a former member of the Uni
versity of North Carolina faculty,
won the Mayflower Award for non
fiction, presented by the Society of
Mayflower Descendants in North
Carolina, with his book The Free
Men, an account of the recent civil
rights demonstrations in Chapel
Hill.
The Sir Walter Raleigh Award
in the field of fiction, given by the
Historical Book Club of North
Carolina, was presented to Doris
Betts for her novel about a family
in Piedmont North Carolina in the
1890’s, The Scarlet Thread.
The Roanoke-Chowan Award was
won by the volume The Lost
World, written by the late Randall
Jarrell. And the American Associ
ation of University Women Award
for juvenile literamre was won by
Alexander Key's The Forgotten
Door.
All original works written by
persons maintaining either physical
continued on page 3
By Allan Pierce
November 21, saw the second
running of the Sigma Delta Upsilon
Highlands Rallye. This is an event
which challenges the automobile
driver and the mind of his navi
gator. It is not * speed event but
one that requires the team of driv
er and navigator to work together
in order to cover a specific distance
in the exact amount of time that
a stated speed should require. It is
a skill event that takes much prac
tice to be good at, but none-the-
less it is usually fun if one wins or
not.
Last Spring the Rallye had per
fect weather. Such was not the case
this year. Rain! Rain! Rain!. The
weather was miserable, cold, damp
and anything else that namre could
do to make life hell. However, to
the astonishment of the fraternity
29 contestants came to vie for the
three trophies offered for 1st, 2nd,
and 3rd places. This marks a
33Vi% increase over last year.
The Rallye was run primarily by
two Sig Up brothers: Allan Pierce
and Bill Plyler (plus his wife).
They were assisted by Sig Up
pledges Steve Smith, Dennis Moore,
Jerry Welborn, Gene Stirewalt, and
Jim Myers.
Cars of all varieties came from
various localities near and far. There
were a surprising number of en
trants from A-B. Three brothers
from Sig Up, two brothers from
Lambda Chi, and various other stu
dents helped the Rallye become a
success. Many people came from
other colleges. Mars Hill, Western
Carolina, Marshall (W. Va.), Caro
lina, and Roanoke College were
represented.
Winner was Nicky Bennet of
Asheville who drove a Triumph
TR-3 to first place with 88 points.
Second was Bob Lawrence, a stu
dent from Lee Edwards, with 144
points. Third was Phil Goode and
Charles Bennett from Marshall Col
lege with 216 points.
The day was miserable, the peo
ple tired, the cars dirty, and the of
ficials worn-out. However, if spirit
is any indication, everyone had a
good time.
Sigma Delta Upsilon will hold
its Spring Highlands Rallye one
week after the Chimney Rock Hill
Climb next year. It is hoped that
A-B students will continue to sup
port this event.
CHRISTMAS
DANCE
Tomorrow Nite
December 17, 1965
A-B PAYS
MARS HILL
VIET BILL
Last Friday night the Mars Hill
student government made an im
passioned plea over WISE radio in
Asheville for funds to underwrite
postage expenses for a package they
had readied for mailing to U. S.
troops in Viet Nam. S.G.A. presi
dent Ed Harris immediately con
tacted Finance Commissioner Jim
Day and decided it would be in the
best interests of A-B to foot the
bill. Ed then phoned WISE in an
effort to reach the Mars Hill S.G.A.
president and notify him of A-B’s
offer.
By the following afternoon a
meeting had been arranged and Mr.
Harris met with Chris Pappus of
Mars Hill. The Madison County
school’s efforts, which had begun
two weeks earlier with the drive to
collect books, toilet articles, dry
foodstuffs, magazines, and Christ
mas cards for the packages, then be
came a joint project with the A-B
students working through their
S.G.A. The final shipping weight
of the packages came to 393 pounds
and cost the S.G.A. $63.15 to mail
overseas. The items were sent to
the First Battalion, Eighth Cavalry
of the First Cavalry Division now
doing combat duty in Viet Nam.
It was felt by the S.G.A. that this
effort might help to erase the im
pression given by other student
bodies in recent weeks, regarding
Viet Nam support.
Plans
Released
The first rendering of plans for
Asheville-Biltmore’s new dormitory
complex are now available for the
smdents to see in the SGA offices
of the Smdent Center. The pro
posed buildings, still in the design
development phase, are designed
by Charles Sappenfield, an Ashe
ville architect, and reflect the cur
rent trends in college housing con
struction, away from the overdone
high-rise dorms appearing on large
university campuses. The idea, of
course, is that ^e garden-apartment
type of dorm will be more home
like and conducive to study in lib
eral arts college with A-B’s aims.
The complex will initially con
sist of seven buildings, no more
than three stories high, that will
provide facilities for a hundred
twenty-five men and a hundred
twenty-five women. There will be
a maximum of sixteen students to
a floor and two to a room. Separate
living room-lounge facilities will
also be built into each unit, and one
unit will house a small infirmary.
The rooms will feature as many
built-in designs as possible for such
items as clothing, book and luggage
storage.
Location is set for the southwest
ern part of the present campus out
lines approximately in the area be
tween the gymnasium and the
maintenance plant. They will be
arranged and landscaped to provide
a courtyard type of atmosphere in
informal surroundings. As plans
progress further details will appear
in The Ridgerunner.