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Published By The Students Of Mars Hill College
VOL. XIV.
MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 24, 1940
NO. 9
Euthalians Elect
Gommencementeers
J. Norman Harper To Head
Eu’s During Contest
Time
The Euthalians chose J. Nor
man Harper, of Rocky Mount, as
the commencement president in
their business meeting Friday
night, February 16. Harper suc
ceeds T. L. Cashwell, of Gastonia.
Other officers chosen with the
gentleman from Rocky Mount are
James Thomas, vice-president;
Gordon Bernard, censor; Harold
Spainhour, secretary; T. C. Wag-
staff, recording secretary; Bill
Merritt, treasurer; Horace Small,
debate critic; John Owen, expres
sion critic; Rush Beeler, English
critic; Henry Negron, collector;
Hugh Transou, reporter; Ralph
Thrift, timekeeper; Dean Willis,
chorister; Paul Brunner, pianist;
Fred Porter, librarian; John Far
rar, Jr., chaplain; Bob Holt and
Wilbur Picklesimer, janitors.
Honor Clubs Get
New Members
65 Students Are Inducted
Into Six Honor
Clubs
CHARTER DAY IS OBSERVED
BY COLLEGE ON FEBRUARY 16
The honor clubs here received
and most of them initiated new
members at their last regular
meeting, February 13. Students
accepted made at least a “B” on
the subject represented by the
club and not lower than “C” on
any other subject.
New members of the Scriblerus
club, Harold Spainhour, president,
are Beth Hildebrand, Jean Kusz-
maul, Sheila Gulley, Mary Nell
Hardin, Lynn Starkweather, Jew
ell Ray, Grady Dover, Bob Holt,
George Matthews, Jack Tesh, Dick
Proctor, Earnest Cox, and Bill
Duckworth.
The Business club, Conrad Car
ter, president, took in the follow
ing new members: Annie Laurie
Clayton, Marjorie Frances, Patri
cia McCleney, Hattie Scott, Ele-
nor Fokes, James Jackson, Ed
ward Lyon, and Charles Phillips.
New members of the Classical
club, Oscar Harris, president, are
Madge Allen, Gwen Potter, Lilia
Diaz, Evelyn Evans, Jessie Rhyne,
Ruby White, D. C. Martin, Lewis
Shields, and Hiram Brockman.
Those taken in by the Inter-
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Muriel A. James
Delivers Address
Mars Hill TFas Chartered By
General Assembly
In 1859
Mars Hill college celebrated its
eighty-first anniversary as a char
tered institution of higher learn
ing February 16 in a service in
the college auditorium, as Muriel
A. James, attorney of Asheville,
delivered the address of the occa
sion, describing the history of the
college as “A Triumphant March.”
Mr. James paid tribute to the
founders and lauded the develop
ment of the school plant and edu
cational facilities.
“Conceived of necessity, born
in prayer, nurtured by sacrifice,
the college was destined to grow,”
declared the Asheville attorney.
In directing his remarks toward
the students, the speaker pointed
out that a person in order to grow
must become dissatisfied with
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PRICE
•'ijed above are the presi-
IINU* the four literary societies
lave served during the past
g veeks. They are Claire Har-
'resident of the Nonpareils;
SINO,- president of the
« ^jrginia Lisk, presi-
the Clios; and Earl Price,
^es. ent of the Philomathians.
WELCOME HOME,
BONKIE!
Frances Bonkemeyer, popu
lar C-II from Chadburn, not
only was able to return to the
campus last Saturday, Febru
ary 17, but she felt well enough
to see Gone With The Wind be
fore leaving Asheville where
she had undergone a mastoid
operation.
The be-dimpled former sec
retary of the Nonpareil Lite
rary society smiled over her
book and told a news report
er the other day that her health
was up to par. “I had a nice
‘vacation’,” she smiled, “but I
have to catch up with my
school work.”
Her mother, Mrs. L. C.
Bonkemeyer, was on the cam
pus February 9 and accompan
ied “Bonkie” to the hospital.
WANTED: A
SHORT SHORT STORY
Are you an author? Start
today! Let us show you how to
win social prominence, literary
prestige, and make up to $6.00
per day. The plan is simple.
The Hilltop will give you a five-
dollar bill if you submit the
best short short story of 1000
to 1200 words.
The Hilltop is sponsoring
this contest in an effort to
secure the best possible short
short story. It will be pub
lished along with essays, poems,
and feature articles in the lite
rary edition, which will make
its debut on the campus April
6. The contest is open to any
student and his family.
Here’s how: Submit your
manuscript in correct type
written form to the editor on
or before April 1. (No, this is
no April fool’s joke). Begin
now. For further information
read yoijr local newspaper and
ask your druggist today for a
box of short short story writ
ing tablet (pills).—The Editor.
Lewis J. Ammons, above, friend
to presidents, teachers, and stu
dents of Mars Hill college for a
period of over fifty years, died
Friday morning at four o’clock.
He was a prominent citizen here,
deeply loved by all.
Eu’s Stage Two
Contests Feb. 16
Thomas Takes Oration And
Evans Temperance
Reading
Home Makers’ Guild
Selects Officers
On Tuesday, February 8, the
Home Makers’ Guild held their
regular meeting and elected offi
cers. The new leaders chosen
were Juanita Rush, president;
Edith Staton, vice-president; Ola
Grace Frink, secretary; Edith
Bodenheimer, reporter; Martha
Whitworth, chairman of poster
committee; Nell Brandon, chair
man of refreshment committee;
and Mary Alice Hill, chairman of
arrangement committee.
A delightful program was ren
dered on the topic “The Contrast
Between the Old Colonial Home
and the Modern Home.” Several
girls contrasted various rooms of
the old colonial home with those
of modern ones. Edith Staton then
led the group in two familiar
songs.
James Thomas, of Selma, and
Tommy Evans, of Batesville, Ar
kansas, were crowned winners in
the Euthalian oration and tem
perance reading contests, respec
tively, Friday evening, February
16.
Thomas placed fir.st in the ora
tion contest, which came at the
beginning of the forensic double
header, giving “Can We Blame
Hitler?” George Blackwell, fol
lowing on the heels of Thomas,
placed second with an oration en
titled “Second Mother”; and T. C.
Wagstaff, giving “The Essence
of Culture,” won third place.
Tommy Evans topped the tem
perance reading contest with a
reading entitled “Toll” by May
Greinburg; and Ralph Jinnette
placed second and is the com
mencement alternate.
Ben Galloway, George Mat
thews, H. B. Parrott, and Dick
Proctor entered the oration con
test, and Bill Allred was the third
contestant in the temperance read
ing contest.
The Euthalians have already
selected their commencement de
baters, and their declaimers will
be chosen at an early date.
It is during the commencement
period that the rivalry between
the two societies reaches the boil
ing point, and each society is pre
pared to explode its pent-up steam
next spring.
BYRD’S TEMPERANCE
SPEECH WINS
Charles E., Byrd, of West Dur
ham, N. C., using a reading,
“Fighting for the Soul of the Na
tion,” by William D. Upshaw, was
chosen as commencement repre
sentative in the Philomathian tem
perance readers’ contest held last
night in the Phi Hall. Bartlett P.
Dorr, of Mt. Rainier, Maryland,
was selected as alternate.
Lewis Ammons
Passes Suddenly
Mars Hill College Pays Tri
bute To Oldest Alumnus
Here Friday
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Lewis Ammons, 89, a former
alumnus of the college, passed
away here yesterday morning at
four o’cclock.
A resident of Mars Hill dur
ing the eighty-nine years since
his birth, December 29, 1851, Mr.
Ammons was an outstanding citi
zen of the town. He was the son
of the Rev. John Ammons, an ear
ly Baptist minister in Madison
county, who was at one time the
only preacher in his county sub
scribing to his denominational pa
per, the Biblical Recorder.
As a tribute to Mr. Ammons’
life of service and his position as
oldest alumnus of Mars Hill col
lege, a memorial service was held
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Pierce And Howell
Sponsor G-II Glass
President A ppoints Com
mittee To Select Gift
For School
Dr. Ella J. Pierce, of the Eng
lish department, and Professor J.
V. Howell, of the mathemtics de
partment, were chosen sponsors
of the class of 1940 in a C-II bus
iness meeting on January 13, in
the college auditorium.
Dr. Pierce, of Ahoskie, N. C.,
received her doctor’s degree from
Cornell university and is a popu
lar member of the Mars Hill fac
ulty. Mr. Howell, a native of
Tennessee, attended Carson-New-
man and received the master of
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BLACKWELL CHOKES
CURRENT RUMORS
Contrary to the current cam
pus rumor that an unusually
large number of students with
drew from Mars Hill at the end
of last semester was President
Blackwell’s recent announce
ment in chapel that fewer stu
dents left the college at the
close of the first semester of
this year than left at the close
of the first semester of last
year. With new students en
rolling here at the beginning
of this semester the total en
rollment reaches 784.
Hill And Prof’s Are
Ghampion Stunters
Young Hypnotist And Fac
ulty Crooners Rank
First
Cecil Hill, alias “Swami the
magician,” and the “Dying Quin
tet,” a faculty composition con
sisting of Professors Kendall,
Wood, Canup, King, and Howell
have had their names added to
the list of stunt night winners;
and their fingers are in the pie
for the grand parade.
On February 14 the judges
chose Mr. Hill, who profession
ally put two campusites to slum
ber by his hypnotic powers, as
the winner over Asa Willford,
giving a drum routine, and Henry
Negron and Lilia Diaz, crooning
Spanish songs.
The thunderous applause of the
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