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MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, JUNE 6, 1934
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USINESS DEPARTMENT WILL
OPEN HERE ON SEPTEMBER 5
’ M. Canup Of Johnson City,
' To Head New School
d(i Of Business
TWO YEAR COURSE
^ Operate In Harmony With
Standard Junior
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College
LAUREL STAFF BUILDS
LAUDABLE PUBLICATION
Students Receive 1934 Annuals
With Pride From Editor
Frank Powell
STUDENTS RECEIVE MANY
HONORS: PRIZES, MEDALS
AND HIGH SCHOLARSHIPS
President Moore, Society Presi
dents And Others Give
Awards
DONORS LISTED HERE
ajjpefinite plans have 'been perfected
• 1 the installation of a Business De-
iss,
^’itnient to oipen with the beginning
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;he regular session of the ■College,
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^^ptember 5, in connection with the
‘^^dard junior college advantages.
M. Canup will he the director
^he new department. Mr. Canup
.^n A. B. graduate of Carson-New-
^ College and has done graduate
Jdy at the University of Tennessee.
holds a Tennessee Teachers’ cer-
5cate in the field of Commercial
bjects. Mr. Canup taught for sev-
al years in the Johnson City schools
id is now in charge of the Southern
thool of Commerce of Johnson City,
enn. He will come to Mars Hill in
lugust and make preparations for
^^e opening of the Mars Hill College
usiness Department.
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j “A business training in connection
^ith a standard junior college gives
indents many advantages,” a bulle-
»Jn announcing this department says.
Contact with men and women who
rill be leaders in many fields; mem-
I ership in cam(pus organizations for
iterary, social, and religious im-
(rivement; life in an atmosphere of
ulture and spiritual uplift; and all
II-pportunities enjoyed by this college
„:roup. Any young person
who
hinks of a business career should
;onsider well the offerings at Mars
Jill.
"Mars Hill has always tried to of-
ifer the best for its constituency and
keep its work up to standard. For
that reason we are now opening this
new department to take care of the
ever increasing demand for such
courses.
“Many students can only spend
two years in college and want to be
ready to go directly into business.
Our new department in cooperation
with other departments will seek to
equip a young man or young woman
to go directly into business positions
on completion of the Junior College.
“We will seek to make these
courses practical, much practice work
being provided in the college offices.
“Never before has there been a
greater need for Christian business
men and womn. If Christian princi
ples had been followed in the busi
ness work during the past genera
tion, the present critical financial sit
uation could have been avoided.”
Entrance requirements into the de-
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Modernistic in design, bound in
blue, printed in shades of gray, and
clever in arrangement is the new
college annual. The Laurel designed
by Charles A. Fisher of the college,
edited by Frank M. Powell and man
aged by Arthur Ramsey, which made
its appearance on the campus Thurs
day, May 24.
Frank M. Powell of Louisville,
Ky., was Edltor-in-Chief of the an
nual; Arthur Ramsey, Business Man
ager; and Charles A. Fisher, Artist
and Designer.
The book was dedicated to Dr. W.
F. Robinson, former college physi
cian, who died during the summer of
1933, and the Laurel says of him:
“In evidence of the high esteem in
which he was held, we dedicate this
the 1934 volume of the Laurel. He
was a man of rare worth and Chris
tian character, a man possessed of
keen foresight and loyalty, one whose
life made all those who had the priv
ilege of contact with it much richer.
“A real contributor in this man
made world. Dr. W. F. Robinson.”
The outstanding feature of the book
was the athletic section, which was
dedicated to Yates Stroupe, who had
been a leading athlete of the school.
The dedicatory page reveals a picture
of Stroupe over the athletic group
picture with a large “M” indicative
of the Monogram club in the back
ground. It says: “The ‘M’ club dedi
cates this section of Athletics to
Yates Stroupe, hoping that in death
he will lead those who follow him to
a spirit of clean living. He was a
gentleman in every endeavor, with
clean sportsmanship, dauntless cour
age, ^never failing courtesy, and de
votion to his comrades. He endeared
himself to all with whom he was asso
ciated. To him life was an adven
ture to be undertaken without fear
or regret. Although he is gone, a
part of him will always remain with
us. To all who knew him, HE WAS
A MAN.”
The Laurel staff included; Ed
mund Bunker, Associate Editor; Lil
lian Whitehurst, Feature Editor;
Mattie Mae Houpe, Literary Editor;
Janie Britt, Photo Editor; E. W.
Parker, Circulation Manager; Thad
Yelton, Advertising Manager; P.
Durante Summey, Joke Editor and
Spencer B. King, Jr., Faculty Ad
viser.
PRESIDENT MOORE PRESENTS
DIPLOMAS TO 101 GRADUATES
GRICE IS REELECTED
CHAIRMAN OF TRUSTEES
62 Members Of Class Are Boys
And 44 Are Girls; 5 Are
Academy Seniors
Prizes and awards for students ex
pressing the highest efficiency in cer
tain phases of society, scholarship,
writing and public speaking were
presented to the winners for the
1933-34 school year Friday morning
May 25, by President R. L. Moore,
the society presidents and others who
sponsored the various awards.
Inter-SocIety Awards
A complete list of the donors, sub
jects and winners is given here.
iC. B. Mashiburn debate medal to
Woodrow Jones, (Eu) of Ruther
ford County; G. C. Brown declama
tion medal to John Washburn, (Phi)
of Rutherford County; Mrs. Quaid
Memorial Medal, American History,
to Grace Carter, (Non); J. L. Cor-
zine loving cup to the society
(young women’s) whose representa
tive wins in Oration-Essay 'Contest
to Nonpareil Society won by Louise
Bowles; the College reading medal to
Virginia Ballard (Clio) of Georgia;
J. H. Hutchins oration medal to
Mark Taylor Orr, (Eu) of Brevard.
Chambers’ Dictionary award fot
the best Government term paper to
Marga!ret Hines, (Clioi); Woodrow
award to Felix Speer (Eu). This
last award was for improvement in
composition for C-I.
The winner of the Euthalian de-
claimer’s medal was William Leister
of South Carolina. Woodrow Jones
won the society debate medal and
also the medal for improving the
most in the two years that he has
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Hoffman And Glazener Are
Elected To The
Board
‘ASSOCIATE OF ARTS
No. 12
Editor Lionel Hoffman
Has A Competent Staff
Hubert Elliot Is New Managing
Editor; James Reid Is
Business Manager
EUS AND NONS WIN HONORS
IN INTER-SOCIETY CONTESTS
Lionel Hoffman, editor of the Hill
top for 1934-35 has an unusually
capable staff to cooperate with him,
according to general student and
faculty comment.
Mr. Hoffman will have charge of
the editorial work while Hubert El
liot, in the capacity of Managing
Editor will have charge of the gener
al make-up and news work of the
publication. James Reid of Ashe
ville, is Business Manager.
The entire staff has the approval
of the faculty and student body and
the group has already expressed keen
interest in the work of next year.
The Hilltop is expressly a student
publication and will not exist if the
student body does not rally to its
sulpport more than it did during the
past year. In such a manner of co
operation as the 1933-34 editors ex
perienced, neither the students or
Officers of the board of trustees of
the college were re-ele'Cted at the an
nual meeting of the board held here
Thursday, May 24.
The re-elected officers are: The
Rev. J. B. Grice, West Asheville,
president; W. F. Watson, Burnsville,
vice president; and R. S. Gibbs, Mars
Hill, secretary.
Twenty of the twenty-five mem
bers of the board were persent: R.
S. Gibbs, 0. D. Revell, A. W. White
hurst, the Rev. J. B. Grice, W. H.
Hipps, Thomas L. Johnson, Mrs. W.
C. Logan, J. R. Owen, J. R. Sams,
W. L. Griggs, R. T. Teague, E. F.
Watson, W. H. Wray, H. Fields
Young, Dan K. Bryson, Walter R.
Chambers, J. B. Eller, Grover H.
Jones, J. Ray Morgan and N. S.
Whitaker.
Two new members were elected to
the board: Robert O. Hoffman of
Morganton, to succeed W. H. Ford,
of Knoxville, Tenn., and Julian A.
Glazener of Brevard, to succeed
Brown Carr of New Orleans, La.
Among other routine work of the
board was the appointment of two
members of the college staff and the
granting of leaves of absence to two
members of the faculty.
Mrs. C. D. McComb, at present on
the staff at Baylor College for wo
men in Texas, and formerly in
charge of the senior dormitory at
Ward-Belmont college in Tennessee,
was elected hostess in the dormitor
ies for men. Miss Margaret Whit
tington, now at Meredith college, was
elected to the voice department of
the college.
Miss Zula Coon, for several years
head of the voice department of the
college, was granted a leave of ab
sence for one year. Hoyt Blackwell,
of the Greek and Bible departments,
now at Yale University, was granted
an additional year’s leave of absence
for study abroad.
The building program of the
board for the coming year includes
the erection of Robinson Memorial
infirmary, a part of the funds for
which has been given by members of
the family of the late Dr. W. F. Rob
inson, of Mars Hill. The Board ap
proved the addition of a commercial
department for the college to open
next fall.
John Corbett TFas President Of
Class, And Mark Orr
Vice-President
One hundred and one seniors re
ceived Junior College diplomas at the
graduation exercises held here Fri
day, May 25. The diplomas weie
presented by Dr. R. L. Moore.
With the granting of these diplo
mas, a total of 843 students have
been graduated here since Mars Hill
was granted its Junior College char
ter in 1921.
During the period of 37 years. Dr.
Moore has headed the institution,
more than 7,500 students have en
rolled for work in the high school
and college departments. A large
number of students expect to receive
dijplomas after completing work in
summer school.
John Corbett, of Shelby, was pres
ident of the graduating class; Mark
Taylor Orr, of Brevard, was vice-
president; and Robert Burnett of^
Macon, Ga., was secretary-treasurer.
Spencer B. King and Grace T. Elkins
were faculty sponsors.
Of this group of 101 receiving di
plomas, 62 were boys and 39 were
girls, while in the class of 1933, 43
were women and 44 were men and
in the class of 1932, 47 were men
and 61 were girls.
There were 101 Junior College di
plomas received, five academy diplo
mas, and 3 expression diplomas.
Students receiving their Junior
College diplomas which carried with
them the title of “Associate of Arts^
included;
Frank Alexander, John Corbett, Sylvia Am
mons, H. H. Baird, Emory Baldwin, William
Baley, Virginia Ballard, Verna Banks, John
L. Barnett, Louise Bowles, Thurman Briggs,
Janie Britt, James Bruce, Ewart Burleson,
Robert Burnett, Elizabeth Campbell, Carl Car
ter, Elma Carter, Grace Carter, Oscar Carter,
Parks Coble, Calvin Connor, Virgil Cox,
Evelyn Crawford, William Dancy, Ralph
Dean, Robert Duckworth, Dorothy Early,
Miriam Early, Elizabeth Edwards, Bruce
Ellen, Norman Ferguson, Harold Frazier,
Edna Gann, Mary Alice Gibbs, Milton Gib-
son, John Greene, Margaret Hale, L. T-
Hamrick, Vance Hardin, WilliSm Harkey,
Hazel Haynes, Alma Henderson, Truett Hen
derson, Margaret Hines, Mattie Mae Houpe,
Gladys Houser, Lula Houser, Martha Huiit,
Wilson Hunt, Helen Ingram, Helen Jarvis,
Edward Jones, Woodrow Jones, Ella Keller,
Ted Landers, Ray Lawrence, Nancy Leach,
Clarence Lovell, Agnes Lowe, Ora Matheson,
Thomas Merrelll Clota Merrill, Geneva Mes
ser, Darrell Mlddle'oii, Robert Mobley, Eve
lyn Morgan, Mary Morris, Lucille Morrison,
6. L. McGinnis, Edna Earle Nanney, Bill
Nettles, Margaret Owen, Dexter Parham,
Earle Parker, Henry Parker, Billy Peek,
Frank Powell, Arthur Ramsey, Alma Reid,
Ralph Rhyne, Paul Roach, Joan Rymer, Doro
thy Shipman, Earl SliuforJ, Dorothy Smith,
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Ell’s Take Debate Decision And
Medal And Oration—
Phi’s—Declamation
Five inter-society contests were
held in connection with the graduat
ing exercises in which the four Mars
Hill societies, Philomathians and
Clios, Euthalians and Nonpareils,
participated. The Declamation con
test was held Saturday, May 12; the
Oration contest, Saturday, May 19;
the Reader’s contest, Wednesday,
May 23; OrationrEssay, Thursday,
May 24; and the Debate contest,
Thursday, May 24.
In the debate contest which was
won by Woodrow Jones and Henry
Parker of the affirmative (Eutha
lians) Woodrow Jones won the de
bate medal. The following program
was followed:
Thursday, May 24
2:15 P. M., DEBATE.
Piano Solo: Song Without Words, Op. 30,
No. 3, Mendelssohn, Paul Kendall.
Query: Resolved, That the United States
Should Adopt the British System of Radio
Control.
Affirmative — Henry Parker, Virginia;
Woodrow Jones, Rutherford County (won
medal).
Negative—Lionel Hoffman, Gaston County;
Freeman Wright, Tennessee.
President: L. T. Hamrick, Buncombe Coun
ty; Secretary: Billy Wright, Wake County.
Vocal Solo: On the Road to Mandalay,
Speaks; Brownlow Hastings.
The Oration-Essay contest was won
by Louise Bowles (Nonpareil) and
the following program was given.
Thursday, May 24
faculty can be satisfied.
Home Economics
Contest
FIRST TERM SUMMER SCHOOL
OPENED TUESDAY, JUNE 4TH
Second Term Opens July 14;
School Is Fully
Accredited
10;45 A. M., ORATION-ESSAY CONTEST
Vocal Solo: Two Roses, Gilberte, Marian
McManus.
“The Highway of Culture and Education’*
—Evelyn Crawford, Caldwell County.
“The Power of Music”—Nina Gray Liles,
Anson County.
“The Beauty of the Commonplace”—Dor-
tha Morgan, Buncombe County.
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In the recent Home Economics de
partment contests ribbons were
awarded for sponge cakes, butter
cakes, ensemble dresses and after
noon dresses.
Mary Prevost won first place in the
sponge cake competition; Marie
Young, second; and Dorothy Ship-
man, third. Lula Young won first
in the butter cake contest; Margaret
Owen, second; and Pauline Wall,
third.
Eleanor Martin won first place in
both the ensemble and afternoon
dress contests. Nina Hayes won sec
ond in the ensemble contest and
Rebecca Knight, third. Nina Hayes
won second in the afternoon dresses,
and Evelyn Morgan, third.
Mars Hill’s first term summer
school began Tuesday, June 4th, and
closes July 13th; the second term of
six “Weeks begins July 14 and closes
Aug. 18. It is fully accredited by the
State Board of Education, is a mem
ber of the American Association of
Junior Colleges and the North Caro
lina College Association; is a mem
ber of the Southern Association of
Colleges and Secondary Schools, and
is approved by the American Medical
Association.
The summer school dates back sev
eral years. Until the summer of
1925, however, it was conducted for
those who wished to make up courses
in which there was a deficiency, and
it ran for a {period of about six weeks.
In 1925 it was standardized and op
erated for twelve weeks.
All those taking junior college
work and who want additional credit
will be permitted to take such work
as is offered in the regular session.
All those who need a review for col
lege entrance or those who need moi
high school credit may remove sue;
deficiencies.
The teachers are selected from the
college faculty, which fact guaran
tees the quality of instruction. The
work is regarded in the same serious
spirit as during the regular session.
The same regulations and rules of
conduct will be observed as during
the regular year.
A variety of receptions and s(jj
meetings are provided for the
mer students under the supervisi^(.gjj
the Dean of Women. The gyn
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