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THE DIALETTE
March, 1949
Mysterious Newcomer Informs Reporter
Of His lmpoi*tant Mission In Montreat
Mrs. Miller Presents
Own Compositions
In Concert
Misses Arthur and Haney
Assist on Program
On February 26, Mrs. Miriam
Mays Miller, assisted by Misses
Ann Arthur and Lee Haney, gave
a musical program in Gaither
Chapel for students, faculty mem
bers, and other music lovers in
and around Montreat.
The program consisted of sev
eral different types of music, in
cluding some songs with musical
settings by Mrs. Miller, voice
numbers by Miss Lee Haney of
the Montreat School Music De
partment, and piano selections by
the American composers, Burrell
Phillips and Roy Harris, played
by Miss Ann Arthur of the Col
lege Music Department.
Mrs. Milller, who started writ
ing her own music when she be
came an organist and choir di
rector, composed the pieces that
she played. Several of these were
poems written by her friends,
which she had set to music. Her
compositions have won for her
many awards in the professional
division of the North Carolina
Composer’s Competition.
Roth, Tussey, And
Marshall Assume
Class Presidencies
With the elections of the class
presidents and the secretary to
the cabinet completed on March
25, all the positions on next year’s
Student Government Association
have been filled.
Charlotte Roth was elected
president of the rising senior
class; Jean Tussy was chosen to
lead the rising junior class; and
Betty Marshall was re-elected as
president of her class and will
head the sophomores.
Janet Bound, a member of the
junior class this year, was named
secretary to the Cabinet for the
coming year.
A psychiatrist says a good po
ker player can hold almost any
sort of position, but who wants to
work if he’s a good poker player?
For the past few weeks Dr.
McGregor’s office has been the
scene of some apparently myster
ious activity. Perhaps you’ve been
among the girls who have peered
inside the door in passing, won
dering who the quiet man was, and
what he was doing there.
The man is Dr. Philips C. King,
of whom you will hear later —
but when we talked with him, he
seemed more interested in Mon
treat than in himself.
He explained first the mystery
of his presence in Gaither Hall.
“Dr. McGregor’s office,” he said,
“is headquarters for a fund-rais
ing campaign. This money is to
be used for the completion of the
new building, as well as for other
improvements which will add to
the comfort of the people who
come here for the conferences
during the summer months.”
The campaign is an outgrowth
of the 1948 General Assembly
Meeting. At that time, the As
sembly authorized the Mountain
Retreat Association to seek $780,-
000 over a two-year period, in
order to meet special needs. Dr.
King, along with his secretary.
Miss McNeill, is working on this
project as a staff member. “We’re
really just the people behind the
scene,” he declared. “Our job
is to keep the schedule straight,
and to make the plans — but Dr.
McGregor and the Montreat
trustees are responsible for the
carrying out of those plans."
He explained the two steps that
are currently being worked on
and that are to be completed in
this first year of the campaign.
First is the observance of Mon
treat Day. In all the Southern
Presbyterian Churches, May 22,
1949, will be set aside to inform
the congregations of the work
here, to emphasize the important
part Montreat plays as the center
of the Church, and to take a
special offering so that this work
may move forward. The second
step is a campaign for individual
gifts, to be conducted during the
summer.
Now back to Dr. King. He was
born in Ohio, reared on a college
campus, and has himself spent
ten years as president of Wash
burn College, Kansas. He is a
representative of Marts and Lun
dy, a fund-raising firm, which has
had wide experience in working
Sonny Howedwel of Ft. Laud
erdale, Florida, won the picture
contest recently sponsored by
the High School Junior Class.
He is eighteen years old and
likes all sports, especially sail
boat racing. His picture was
entered by Anne Latham.
with colleges and churches, and
which has worked with our Church
before as director of the Program
of Progress.
ED’S NOTES
(Continued from Page 2)
Another thought for the begin
ning of the year;
“I am cnly one.
But I am one.
I cannot do everything
But I can do something.
What I can do,
I will do.”
“No matter how small our tal
ent, we have no right to fail to
use it for God’s glory. However
small it may be in our own esti
mation, it is His gift, and who
knows, until he has tried his best,
how much God can do with it?”
Have you heard all the rumors
about what the 1949 SUN DIAL
is going to look like ? Make a gal
curious, don’t they?
Another evidence that Montreat
College is moving forward into an
ever-widening program of edu
cational activities may be seen in
the securing of Mrs. Milner, wife
of the president of Guilford Col
lege to present lectures on Love,
Courtship^ and Marriage March
25-31. We welcome Mrs. Milner
to our campus.
The story of Miss Lord which
—UNSUNG HERO—
In every community or business
there is always someone working
behind the scene to help things
go smoothly and to make life more
pleasant — someone who goes
about his business quietly and ef
ficiently, never expecting, and sel
dom receiving, the praise and
credit due him. Such a person is
James Wilkins, our janitor
Gaither, whose duties are never
done.
Aside from cleaning the entire
building and immediate grounds,
he keeps the building heated,
brings the mail twice a day, and
runs countless errands, both m
the station wagon and on foot.
He’s done so many things for the
organizations on the campus, he
could almost be made an honoi-
ary member of any of them. This
is his second year working a
Montreat, having been employe
at Assembly Inn last year.
He is 24 years old, married, and
has two daughters — Margaret,
aged 2, and Carolyn, 6 months.
Originally from Rutherfordton,
North Carolina, he is now living
in Black Mountain.
He serves not only the faculty
and students in the winter, but h-
has been staying here in the sum
mer and helping the conference
people enjoy their vacations m
comfort.
was printed in the February
DIALETTE and which received so
many fine comments was the
of Betty Gibbs^ our new Associate
Editor.
SURPRISE, FRAN!
“Life on the S. P. S. is full of
surprises. May as well get use
to it,’’ thought Fran Brown las
Saturday night when she steppe
unsuspectingly into Mrs. o
living room on the way back from
Black Mountain and found her
self the guest of honor at a party.
Jane and Mrs. Holt provided all
the Italian spaghetti the crow
could eat; and the others — Win
nie, Lib, Martha A., and Marjorie
R. — presented Fran with a the
saurus (to supply new words fo-
DIALETTE headlines). There was
also a brand new pencil sharpener
for the Staff room.
“Yes, an editor’s life is full of
surprises.”
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