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THE HILLTOP
Published Bi-Weekly By The Students of Mars Hill College
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BASEBALL SEASON
OPENS MARCH 17
VOL. VI.
MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, MARCH 12, 1932
No. 10
PLANS MADE TO REMOVE JOE
ANDERSON TO CAMPUS
The A»hes of Negro Slave May Be IV^tirS Hill OpCIlS
Brought to Campus This Dcbatc Scasoii
Spring.
As a result of an investigation by
the Hilltop into the pathetic story of
“Old Joe,” negro slave, who, back
in 1856, was levied on and placed in
jail as security for a debt of the
college, plans are now practically
complete, it is said, for the removal
of his ashes to a site, on the campus.
The intense interest shown through
out Western North Carolina by var
ious clubs and individuals has hast
ened this undertaking. Several let
ters of commendation have reached
the leaders who have spent much
time in attempting to erect some
memorial to this old slave.
Consent for removal of the re
mains has been obtained from the
descendants of “Old Joe” with the
exception of one. The owner of the
estate where the grave is now lo
cated, Mr. Ed Huff, has also given his
consent for the removal.
No definite site on the campus has
been selected!* although a suggestion
has been set forth to place it at the
entrance to the boys’ dormitories on
the Asheville highway, where, it is
said, there will be erected a gate
way shortly.
It is hoped that by spring the re
mains of “Old Joe” will be placed on
Mars Hill Campus with an appro
priate marker.
Joe’s services to the college came
in the Fall of 1866, it is said, when
a check-up at the completion of the
first building on the campus revealed
a debt of $1100 with no money to
meet it. The contractors levied on Joe
as collateral, who was placed in the
Asheville jail where he remained un
til sufficient money was procured to
obtain his release.
i Girls Win First Three Contests En-
Edgar Osborne Elected
New^ Phi President
Typical Program Precedes Election
of OfBcers.
gaged In.
The Mars Hill debaters af§ facing
a full season, according to the sched
ule announced by Professor J. B.
Huff, chairman of the debate com
mittee. On March 29, a boys team
will engage Western North Carolina
Teacher’s College in a dual debate.
On March 14 the girls will meet Vir
ginia Intermont in a return engage
ment. April first both boys and girls
will meet teams from Weaver college
in a double debate. April 4-5 Mars
Hill, Wingate, and Rutherford will
engage in a triangular debate as a
part of the state junior college tour
nament for boys. On the same days
Mars Hill, Wingate, and Lees-McRae
will engage in a similar triangle for
girls. April 14-16 a debating team
with other representatives of the col
lege will participate in the contests
sponsored by the Southern Associa
tion of Teachers of speech held in
Asheville.
The team composed of Miss Kath
leen Gilliland, of Statesville, and
Miss Carolina Haynes, of Waynes-
ville, returned Wednesday after their
first trip of the season, having won
decisions from Virginia Intermont,
at Bristol, Va., on Monday night, and
from Tennessee Teacher’s, at. John
son City, Tenn., on Tuesday night.
They represented the negative side
of the query, “Resolved, That Con
gress Should Enact Legislation Pro
viding for Centralized Control of In
dustry.” An affirmative team, com
posed of Miss Sara Fox, of Morris
town, Tenn., and Miss Lily Bennett,
of Candler, met a team from Averett
college, Danville, Va., in the Mars
Hill College auditorium Monday ev
ening in a no decision deibate on the
same question.
ALMA MATER
Thine to mold us, Alma Mater,
In the beauty of thy grace.
Thou the mistress of our service
To our race.
Thou hast sown thy golden seed-
ings
On our rude uncultured soil:
Let the morn of our awaking be
Blest with toil.
From the clustered rhododendron
Doth thy living fountain flow,
’Til our fields are full of blossoms;
And the glow
Of the sunrise o’er thy mountains
Paints the world a jeweled plain.
Where thy grateful sons and
daughters
Hold domain.
When our grain is ripe to harvest
And the cooling dews descend
On thy weary happy reapers
At the end—
We salute thee, Alma Mater,
At thine altar may we sing.
And our efforts thru the years thy
Tribute bring.
UONS WIN CONSOUTION CUP
IN SOUTHEASTERN TOURNEY
RAYON LECTURE
GIVEN HERE
Mr. Vanderhooven Tells of The Mak
ing of Rayon; Interesting
Exhibits Shown.
Mars Hill Loses to Weaver In Open
ing Game Forty-Five
to Forty-One.
New Song Adopted
For Alma Mater
Introduced in Chapel in Impressive
Manner
Friday night Edgar Osborne was
elected by the Philomathian Literary
Society to pilot it through the next
term of office of nine weeks. Other
officers elected were: Vice-president,
Avery Hunter; recording scretary,
Allen Suttle; corresponding secretary,
Bomar Lowrance; censor, Andrew
Albritton; chaplain, Roy Bryant; fines
collector, Pegram Holland; dues col
lector, Ansel Jones; English critic.
Jack Dale; expression critic, Carl
Rogers; Marshals, Turner Rogers and
Joe Philbeck; janitor, Erskine Plem-
mons; librarian, William Wyatt; pi
anist, Joe E. Brown; chorister, Clif
ford Icard; Hilltop reporter, H. Clay
Cox.
Preceding the election of officers
the following program was rendered:
Declamation, Bill Wyatt; poem, Wil
liam Chambers. Then came the de
bate on; “Resolved, That National
Advertising As Now Carried on Is
Both Socially and Economically
Harmful.” Many interesting points
were brought out on both sides, but
the decision rendered by the audience
was given to the negative.
The program was cut short because
of the election of officers. Mr. and
Mrs. Mott were visitors in the hall
along with several Euthalians.
Student’s Play
Placed In Contest
Ben Cox Wins
Eu Oration Contest
The annual oratorical contest of
the Euthalian Literary Society was
held on Friday, March 5.
Out of eleven orations the follow
ing were awarded first, second, and
third places respectively: Ben Cox,
whose subject was “George Washing
ton, Citizen and Patriot”; Tom
Moore, who spoke on “Our Needs,”
and Paul Berry, who used for his
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“Heart Asleep,” an original Irish
fantasy by Ruamie Squires, was
awarded third place in the class of
individual plays at the Dramatic Fes
tival at Chapel Hill. The judges were
pleased with Miss Squires’ work and
said that if “the only thing to be
considered was beautiful writing.
Miss Squires’ play would come back
wrapped in blue ribbon.” Her writ
ing was compared to that of Don
Byrnne and Maristan Chapman. The
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The new arrangement of the Alma
Mater, written ten years ago and dis
continued until recent revision, was
successfully introduced in an impres
sive chapel service. Four different
musical presentations were given by
the.band, male quartet, orchestra, and
chorus. The students were supplied
with copies of the word of the Alma
Mater, and after singing it several
times, marched out to its stirring
measures.
For this beautiful and individual
College song. Mars Hill owes much
to the interest and work of Mrs. Nona
Moore Roberts, who composed the
melody; Miss Martha Biggers, who
contributed the harmony; and Mr,
Arthur Whitehead, former student
and* faculty member, who wrote the
words. Their combined efforts have
resulted in an Alma Mater with a
spirited tempo more suitable and
adaptive to use as a march or band
selection than that of the song form
erly used.
The words to the old Alma Mater
were written by Edith Mayes, now
Mrs. Thomas Belcher, to the music
of “Believe Me, If All Those En
dearing Young Charms.” Although
a very beautiful and expressive song,
the tune has been overused and is
too slow and dreamy for college pur
poses. It has been reverently laid
aside for an Alma Mater more easily
sung by college groups and arranged
for musical selections.
Mr. C. Vanderhooven of the Enka
Corporation of America spoke on the
manufacture of rayon from wood
pulp in the college auditorium Sat
urday evening, March 5th. Mr. Van
derhooven is a native of Holland, hav
ing came to New York from that
country several years ago, and for
the past five years has been connect
ed with the Enka plant, located near
Asheville.
In an interesting way Mr. Vander
hooven told of the history of the
manufacture of rayon which had its
origin in the latter part of the nine
teenth century and has since became
an outstanding industry. Beginning
with the raw material, the spruce
tree, he traced the various steps to
the production of the yarn as it is
presented to the weavers.
After following the pulp through
the soda bath, carbon disulfide treat
ment, and the acid bath from which
the fibers emerge as long filaments,
Mr. Vanderhooven exhibited various
materials made from rayon. His
talk was supplemented by a motion
pictui-e of a trip through a rayon
plant.
A-IV Glass Presents
Washington Program
Post-Season Celebration Combined
With Patriotic Program.
In keeping with the nation-wide
celebration of the bicentennial anni
versary of George Washington, the
A-4 English class, under the direc
tion of Miss Ethel Gregg, presented
a George Washington program in
Chapel on March 4.
Bruce Ellen, in presiding over the
exercise, gave a short introductory
speech on the memory of Washing
ton. The following numbers were
given by various members of the
class who represented different states:
Devotional, by Freeman Wright, Ten
nessee; “A Review of Books on
Washington,” by Josephine Smiley,
New York; “How We Should Respect
the Flag,” by Jack Bost, Charlotte,
N. C.
An impressive scene was the pre
sentation of the American flag to
Alexis Vinokuroff, a student from
Russia. Robert Burnette, Macon,
Georgia, presented the flag in behalf
of America, welcoming him to this
country. Mr. Vinokuroff, in his ap
preciative manner, told the audience
just what this country has meant to
him.
The Mars Hill Mountain Lions won
the consolation cup in the Southeast
ern Junior College Conference tour
nament at Newport, March 5, by
turning back the Gi-een Dragons from
Sue Bennet, 34-29.
Sue Bennett jumped to an early
lead which they held through the first
half, the score standing 21-19 in their
favor at the intermission. The Lions
got off to their usual late start, but
cut the Kentuckians’ lead to two
points at the half. The Lions came
back in the final stanza to dominate
things, breezing through to victory by
a five point margin, 34-29.
Young led the Lion attack with
nine points while Leeper and Coffey
each contributed seven. Albritton
played a nice floor game but was
removed from the game early in the
second half through the foul route.
In the semi-finals of the consola
tion the Lions rallied in the last min
ute to turn defeat into victory, by
nosing out St. Petersburg, 47-43.
The Whelps trailed the Floridians 23-
16 at the half and never got a lead
until the closing seconds of the game.
Young, Leeper, Coffey, and Fox start
ed a rally in the second period that
brought them within two points of
the Trojans. With one minute left
to play Coffey sank a long one to
knot the count at 43-43. Then in the
closing moments Leeper and Fox
each dropped in trips to put the gam©
away.
In the opening round the Lions
dropped a close game to their neigh
bors, Weaver, 45-41. The Whelps
played usual first half ball and were
on the short end of a 31-17 count at
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OREN ROBERTS’ MARS HILL COLLEGE QUINT
ENDS CAMPAIGN WITH 15 WINS, 7 DEFEATS
Mildred Elmore
Heads Clio Society
Interesting Dialogues Given Featur
ing Election of Officers.
In the regular busines meeting of
the Clio Society on Thursday after
noon, March 3, the following officers
were elected: President, Mildred El
more^ first vice president, Madge
Myers; second vice-president, Willie
Newell; recording secretary, Ruth
Robertson; corresponding secretary,
Dorothy Johnson; censor, Grace
West; chaplain, Mary McLean; chor
ister, Mary Ella Newbrough; pianist,
Helen Keller; marshalls, chief, Har
riet Hall, Frances McFarland, and
Kathleen Ammons; reporter, Ruth
Wagoner; program committee, Mild
red Moore, Mildred Sorrell and Lo-
raine Smith.
An interesting feature of the pro
gram for the afternoon was a dia
logue given by Pearl Howell and
Katherine Rollins. This being time
for the election of officers, the dia
logue was in the form of an inter
view in which information was given
in regard to the election of officers,
and the proceedings of the regular
business meetings of the society. The
program was as follows: Reading,
Sylvia Ammons, “The Discriminating
Line,” Mary McLean; Dialogue, Pearl
Howell and Katherine Rollins; Piano
Solo, Helen Keller; Impromptu Speech
Flora Huffman.
Science Club Holds
Monthly Meeting
Courtesy of The Citizen-Times
First row, left to right—Holloway, Fox, Coffey, Scarborough, Moore, Leeper and F. Young; second row—-
Tuttle, Bailey, S. Young, Woody, Albritton and Dale. Third row, Morgan, W. Rabb, Reed, D. Robb, Lyday and
Fisher.
The Science Club held its regular
monthly meeting in the Science lec
ture room Tuesday evening, March
7. The mathematics section had
charge of the program. The follow
ing talks were given: “Points of
View,” by Edgar Osborne; “Oaks
From Acorns,” by Odessa Carter;
“Storming the Heavens,” by Ala
meda Carter, and “Mathematical
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