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1 UVIUL III Dramatic Club Holds First Meeting of Year The Dramatic Club held its first meeting at the regular hour Tuesday evening, September 16. Since both the president and the vice-president did not return to the club this year, Bill McLester was elected president and Florence Johnson vice-president to serve during the fall semester. Val Edwards and Milton Hamby were al so elected to serve as janitors. Plans were made for the coming year’s work and it was decided that the club enter the state contest in original plays which is held in the Spring term. The date has also been agreed upon for the presentation of a play during the fall semester. The work pro’".ises to be both interesting and beneficial and it is hoped that the club will receive the hearty co-opera tion and support of the entire student body. The following new members were received into the club: Pearl Howell, Sarah Fox, Martha Stack, Amanda Cannon, Vernie Huffman, Flora Huif- rnan, Tom Moore, Douthit Furchess, John Johnson, Marion Smith, Grant Kennedy, James Kurr, and Willard Griggs. SOMETHING for Everybody We*" By the Editor Dr. Sams in his opening address of the year said something that every Mars Hill student should remember and keep nearest his heart during the ensuing school year. Dr. Sams was speaking on the subject “How to Be come Great.” During the course of his discussion, while speaking of pur pose, he said that one should see clearly, but that he should march for ward with a preparedness to propel. Every student at Mars Hill should be ready to march breast forward and have imbedded in his soul those great and noble things which enable one, under any circumstances, to propel himself through the many channels in which circumstances will place him. If you want to be the kind of man or woman that is master of his own cir cumstances, and is able to march breast forward, and love life, then do not ‘‘squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.” Did you know that Louise Smith received the first “city note” and that May Bragg was the first girl to write one? “Cam” was the lucky boy! Did you know that this is the sev enth-fifth year of Mars Hill’s exist ence? ‘‘The Moving Finger writes, and having writ, moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line. Nor all your Tear.s wash out a Word of it.” —Omar Khayyam. Be different like Dale, and Yo-Yo. Composition Popular Among Mars Hill Student Body ALUMNI NOTES (Note: The interest of Mars Hill College in its sons and daughters is shown through the Alumni Notes.) It is particularly gratifying to the school authorities to notice that so many students take active interest in written expression. It has been an aim of the English teachers to en courage written expression among the students. At the present time the outlook is most encouraging. A stu dent of the past year returned at the opening of the school term in order to do his bit toward encouraging this particular phase of college activity. Thus he became the author of the first city note of the season, which was hailed as a literary triumph by the noted city note critic, Loiiise Smith. Relying upon the success of this first, many others have become literary aspirants in the art of city note writing. The practice is increas ing daily, and it is expected that within a few weeks the city note will have assumed its accustomed place in the activities of the Mars Hill stu dent. di.. Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt; And every grin, so merry, draws one out. —John Wolcot. suco iger. ( From labor there shall come forth test. —Longfellow. Miss Abbie Benton Bonesteel re ceived her Master of Arts degree from Mercer University, Macon, Ga. Miss Bonsteel was at Mars Hill Col lege in 1923-1924 and is now a teach er of English at Campbell College. She is also the author of a book. Hid den Pearls. 0 Dr. Edd. Adams, of the class of 1917, was back at Mars Hill Septem ber 14, after an absence of thirteen years. Dr. Adams is a prominent physician and leading church worker of Murphy, N. C. 0 Mr. Charles H. Alder, class of 1919, has been taking advanced journalism in New York. His special articles have been appearing in Sunday edi tions of the Miami Daily News. Mr. Adams’ address is 2243 96th street. Corona, Long Island, New York. 0 Miss Myrtle Abernethy, a former student, is now general vice-presi dent of the Gaston B. Y. P. U. Con vention. 0 Mr. A. S. Ballard, a Mars Hill Col lege Alumnus, has been made prin cipal of the schools in Nashville, N. C. Q Mr. Russell Berry, of the class of 1923, is at present the solicitor in the recorder’s court at Morganton, N. C. Recently, Mr. Berry has been nominated for the Legislature from Burke County. 0 Miss Edelmira Robinson sends greetings to the class of 1920. For the past ten years Miss Robinson has been working at home in Cuba. Her address is Zulueta 3GV2, Habana, Cuba. 0 Miss Eugenia Mozelle Rollins, a former student, was married to the Rev. Mr. Charles Evans Crawford on August 14, to be at home in Bunn, N. C. 0 Mr. James Woodrow, who is well- known at Mars Hill, is connected with the Oil Royalties of Indepen dence, Kansas. Mr. Woodrow’s sis ter, Catherine, is doing Red Cross wrrk at Rock Hill, S. C. 0 Mr. Carl Meares who was at Mars Kill in 1927 is now working with the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corpora tion at Wilmington,N.C. Mr. Meares’ address is 146 Dick street, Fayette ville, N. C. 0 Mrs. Grace Bruce Ellen has moved to Mars Hill with her family. The un timely death of her husband, Dr. C. J. Ellen, in the spring was lamented not only in Greenville, N. C., but by a wide circle of friends throughout the state. 0 Miss Merle Sams of Marshall was married to Mr. Ernest Edgar Ramsey on September 6. Both Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey are former students of Mars Hill College. 0 Mr. Lamar Stringfield, a graduate of the academy here, has joined the Chapel Hill art colony. Mr. String- field won the Pulitzer prize for the outstanding musical composition of 1928 and is the first composer to join the colony. He is at present writing an opera, both the play and the mu sic, based on the life of the mountain people. 0 Miss Louise Wilkins and Dr. George W. Leiby, who are both grad uates of the class of 1926, were married on September 6 at Mars Hill, Miss Wilkins’ home. Dr. and Mrs. Leiby will soon be at home in Nash ville, Tennessee. 0 Mr. Nolan J. Sigmon, a former stu dent at Mars Hill, is principal of the schools at Robbinsville, N. C. 0 Mr. J. Marcus Kester, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Wilmington, N. C., has just edited a book of ser mons called The Life Beyond Death. 0 The marriage of Miss Lydia Ellen THE HILLTOP, MARS HIL| COLLEGE, MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA Page Three Teague toTVIr. Floyd Franklin Sick was solemnized August 24. Mrs. Sick was a student here in 1924. Mr. and Mrs. Sisk will be at home in Bessemer City, N. C. 0 . Another marriage of much local interest was that of Miss Dora Gene Pruette and Mr. Harry Lee Carter of Asheville. Both were students at Mars Hill. 0 Judge Thomas L. Johnson, a well- known alumnus of the college, has resigned from the court bench to en ter an Asheville law firm. 0 Miss Bonnie Rogers of Leicester, N. C., who became the bride of Mr. W. M. Harris of Union, S. C., is a former student at Mars Hill College. The couple are now at their home on the Sulphur Springs Road, West Ashe ville. 0 Miss Fay Gertrude O’Quinn was married to the Rev. S. L. Lamm on September 6. Mr. Lamm was a stu dent here in 1924. 0 Mrs. McGraw of Gaffney, S. C., formerly Miss Attie Blanton and a student here, visited Mars Hill this summer with her two children. 0 Another visitor to the school this summer was Mrs. Book, formerly Miss Esther Parker, of Albemarle, N. C. Mrs. Book was here in 1906 and returned to see the progress that had been made. 0 Mr. Luther R. Vann, teacher of mathematics in Bakersville Bowman High School, was made president of the Mitchell Teachers Association for this year. 0 Mr. Quentin Plumbley, a student here in 1927, recently wrote an ar ticle which was published in a daily paper. At the time, Mr. Plumbley was a student at the University ol North Carolina. A Romantic History Seventy years ago Edward Carter, W. P. Anderson, and other foresighted and God-fear ing citizens of this little moun tain community dreamed of an institution in which their chil dren could not only be taught the “readin’, writin’, and ’rithmetic” of that day—but could also be brought up in the fear and ad monition of the Lord, in the tenets of their own religious faith. This vision was realized in the completion of a building, and school opened with Dr. W. A. G. Brown as first president, and Mr. W. P. Rollins, father of Thomas S. Rollins, attorney of Asheville, as first student. Thus the torch of Christian education was lighted in West ern North Carolina, It shed its rays to all parts of this state and adjoining states. The financial stress of the first few years call ed for much sacrifice on the part of friends and trustees. At one time Joe, a slave of W. P. Anderson, was held in an Ashe ville prison as security on the in debtedness. During the dark days of the Civil War and reconstruction period, the torch flickered and waned. In 1863 the building was used for quartering soldiers and later for an orphanage. Many hardships and struggles marked the varied success of its history for the next thirty years. In 1897, when the beloved R. L. Moore became President, the institution took on that life which has brought forth a real ization of the dreams of its founders. In all of its progress there has been no departure from their ideals and principles — a steadfastness to the Old Book. —From The Laurel MARS HILL BEGINS 75th year of SERVICE 75 Years Mark Great Growth of Bap tist Institution. Seventy-five years ago, under the name of “The French Broad Baptist Institute,” the school began its work with Messrs. W. A. G. Brown (father of the late Dr. A. E. Brown) and P. W. Anderson in charge. On February 16, 1869, a little less than two years and a half after the opening in 1856, the first charter of the school was se cured and the name changed to “Mars Hill College.” The College was first managed by a self - perpetuating board of trustees. In 1925, however, the charter was changed so that the Baptist State Convention now ap points th(j members of the Board. This insures a perpetuation of the principles and purposes of the found ers. Campus and Buildings Mars Hill possesses a beautiful campus situated in the heart of the Madisoa County mountains, eighteen miles from Asheville. The campus is dotted with eleven buildings for ad ministration and dormitory use, and six cottages for teachers’ and minis ters’ homes, as follows: the Music Building, erected in 1893, for piano practice and for studios for teach ers; the Auditorium, erected in 1906, seating eight hundred students and used also by department teachers; the Moore Hall, erected in the spring of 1910, containing two literary so ciety halls, administration offices, and seven large class rooms; the Mon tague Library, a gem in stone, steel, and cement; the Spilman Home, given in 1903 by Dr. B. W. Spilman and wife, containing girls’ dormitory, kitchen and Oscar E. Sams dining hall; the Rivermont Home, the gift of the Rivermont Avenue Baptist Church, of Lynchburg, Va., accom modating thirty girls; the Treat Home, made possible by Mr. M. C. Treat, containing Infirmary and girls’ dormitory; the B. S. U. Building, hav ing besides the B. S. U. headquarters, offices of the Dean, Registrar, and Secretary, and three large class rooms; Melrose, erected in 1924, ac commodating eighty men; Brown, a duplicate of Melrose; the McConnell Gymnasium, named for Mr. W. C. McConnell, who was the most liberal contributor; and cottages, which are used by teachers, the custodian of the ground, and married ministerial stu dents. A Sonnet on Study In framing an artist, art hath thus decreed. To make some good, but others to exceed. —Shakespeare. Accidents will occur in the best regulated families. —Chas. Dickens. The shortest answer is doing. —Herbert. The soul of this man is his clothes. —Shakespeare. Some seem to think that study is just play; They sit and dream and talk, and all the while Lose opportunities with but a smile! Thus from this life is lost another day. They seem not to regret it, but just say, “Why need we worry? We have more to live.” Forgetting that to others they should give A bit of cheer and help along their way. So let us study well and do our best To help those who to us are near and dear; We shall be able then to do the rest Which life demands that we accom plish here. Then shall we able be to stand the test; While iry the end naught shall we have to fear. / —Sibyl Pace. “ Y -Double-Y ou-A” Pageant Rendered Plans for the Year Outlined at First Meeting of Year. The Y. W. A. presented its first public parogram on Friday evening at 7 ;30 in the church auditorium. The program was opened with the singing of two hymns after which Miss Pierce gave the invocation. Miss LaRue Mangum, in her own sweet way, sang “J Would Be True.” The Council, consisting of eighteen fine, consecrated, Christian girls, then presented to an audience of approx imately two hundred the pageant “Y- Double-You-A.” This put forth the work of each officer for the coming year. Miss Eva Robbins, the spirit of Y. W. A., placed upon the heads of five girls, Vernie Huffman, Thelma Quinn, Mamie Kelly, Louise Smith, and Helen Beckwith, the crowns rep resenting the five points in the Stan dard of Excellence for any Y. W. A. —Daily Bible Reading, Prayer, Mis sion Study, Personal Service, and Social Work. It is an earnest hope of each coun cil member that every girl present caught a spirit of Mars Hill “Y-Dou- ble-You-A” work, and will strive to help get much done for the advance ment of His kingdom. The work for the year will be a study of both Home and Foreign Mis sions. Lives of great missionaries v/ill be studied in the circles which meet every other Friday evening at seven o’clock in their respective places. My Home There is a spot where Memory loves to rest,— A scene whose image, pictured in my breast. Is twined with all that’s beautiful and dear. With all that weeps affection’s mourn ful tear— My home!—and by the sunshine of thy glades, Thy daisied pastures cool with forest shades. The gentle breeze that fans each waving tree. The sweet wild flowers—by all I’ll ’member thee! Corinne Pannell. Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abil ities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest. —Gail Hamilton. EXPERT DRY CLEANING H.51TS BLOCKED MENDING We Guarantee a Spotless, Odor less Finish on Any Type of Clothing. An Agent in Every Dormitory MARS HILL CLEANERS Phone 41 Your Laundry Done Quickly. CITY BARBER SHOP Between Cafe and Drug Store. WE GUARANTEE FIRST- CLASS BARBER WORK. We have served college students at Mars Hill for a period of 12 and 8 years each. STUDENTS, TRY HERE AND SEEK NO FURTHER.
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