Bonnie Wingert has cast
\t into the mold for the
names
- THE NEWS
rom pagi
i the Ui
a. He t
faculty I play, Rosalind, by Barrie.
Emily Patrick
carries the lead
ing role, and
C. C. Hope and
Imogene Brown
complete the
list.
A prelimin
ary contest be
tween Lees-Mc-
Rae, Montreat,
ide in »rs Hill will be held here
6. The winner will enter
^matic Festival to be held
pel Hill in early April.
W. E. .
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CThe Hilltop
Published By The Students Of Mars Hill College
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COURSE
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VOL. XIV.
MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, MARCH 2, 1940
NO. 10
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mR
iy, Mrs moderns are using an old
uglas h philisopher as a drawing
Mrs ^*®*’*' to the times, Pro-
. 'Wood gave a discourse on
onnie Pu.Xsze (“Confucius” to
I three ^ chapel last Monday, sur-
i, Jim i some when he gave only
1. Funetrious sayings of the Ben
1 the Jlin of China.
esterdaj *
ock, anienting a combination of ar-
the famsnd athletic abilities, a se-
Creek. ’o^p of girls will appear on
•Ts physical education dem-
iion under the direction of
gj ’.ally Allen-on March 16.
The program
will consist of
exercises, folk
games, and pan-
tomines. It will
be closed with
a special pres
entation, “Tales
from the Vien
na Woods,” an
adaption of a
oNsve^vee/tgraphic work of Ted Shawn.
■■ -i one of the numbers, the
ian trio, the class in cloth-
1 o • nder the directio nof Mrs.
iheville Howell, is making authentic
Vigifiau costumes.
campus C-1 clown, slender
dents of Canton, is a form-
dcome!^^®''^ of Mrs. Shaw’s waiters’
Here’s the reason he isn’t
breakfast the other
NIGHt^L to perform his usual
of carrying on inter-table
^erce, but he was not the
Bobby who had left the
;n the night before. Instead
usual closely-cropped sandy
FLOW^ he was sporting a flaming
ALWA'^ded stubble of modified
rou”
was then that Mars Hill’s
-topped dietitian rang the
and discharged him until his
Qj^prows and changes color.
J-^(>fessor Ralph Marion Lee,
n-voiced assistant dean of
jeville. takes delight in giving
^^^^^^rs on how to run a munici
pality. Frequent-
ly he makes
mention of may
ors, the cities’
chief monitors.
In one of his
economic classes
the other day the
subject of a
city’s govern-
ment was pro
jected before the
class. Someone,
wishing to ac-
quaint himself
with local cur
rent affairs ask
ed: “Mr. Lee,
1 who is the mayor
I of Mars Hill?”
Dean Carr’s as-
it smiled sweetly and then
mayorial dignity popped:
1 just commit an offense and
1 see.”
le Hilltop presents this week
s readers the highest official
/Ur mountain metropolis.
Blue And White
Takes Brown
Completing the list of com
mencement elections, the Phi-
lomathians chose Bruce Brown,
of Clyde, as the fourth presi
dent of the year.
Mr. Brown, also director of
the B. T. U., will serve with
the following officers: George
Culpepper, vice-president;
Bartlett Dorr, secretary; Tom
White, censor; Caughey Cul
pepper, corresponding secre
tary; Cecil Hill, fines collec
tor; Lowell Miller, dues collec
tor; Charles Byrd, chaplain;
Ernest Cox and David Lee,
marshalls; Paul Meyers, choris
ter; James White, pianist; and
Frederick Bruton, janitor.
The other Philomathians
who have served as presidents
this year are Pete Merrill,
Charles Greene, and Earl Price.
Craddock Chosen
Nonpareil Head
Pokes Is Vice-President;
Other Officers
Chosen
Elected last Thursday to pre
side over the Nonpareils at com
mencement this year is Alice
Craddock, of Raleigh. Martha
Fokes is the new vice-president.
Other officers chosen along with
Miss Craddock were Miriam Crit-
cher, recording secretary; Ethel
Croom, corresponding secretary;
Leah Oglesby, censor; Jewell Ray,
chaplain; Helen Trentham, chor
ister; and Alma Moore, pianist.
A few minor offices will be filled
at next business meeting.
Miss Craddock is the fourth
president for this year and the
last. C-II to be elected to the
highest literary society office in
school. Emily Patrick was this
year’s C-I president; Mary W.
Corpening was the anniversary
president; and Claire Hardin serv
ed as training president.
Peter Deyneka
Gives Program
Testimonies And Russian
Music Heard In
Chapel
Peter Deyneka, general director
of the Russian gospel associa
tion, and his Russian-American
evangelistic party presented an
hour program of Russian songs
and Christian testimony in the
morning chapel service here
February 27.
Mr. Deyneka, who came from
Russia to the United States, told
of his early years in his native
country and of his conversion at
Moody church in Chicago. At
present he is making a brief tour,
speaking in many churches and
cities, and in some of these meet
ings is showing his moving pic
tures on religious work and on
war in Europe.
The Russian-American evangel
ist was accompanied by Miss
Nina Zernou, who is leaving in
the spring for Alaska to do
missionary work there; Miss
Sonja Marchuk, a violinist, who
for over a year has played on the
eastern chain of the Columbia
network from Boston, Mass., and
George Bechik.
Speakers Steal
Forensic Show
Hope, Greene, And Reed
Wear Tournament
Laurels
Locking horns with forensic
gladiators from Wingate junior
college and Winthrop college.
Mars Hill’s representatives
tongue-lashed their way through
the defense of the opposition to
claim four first and three third
places in the annual Wingate
forensic tournament held Febru
ary 23 to 24.
C. C. Hope won first place in
after-dinner speaking and was de
clared best debater in the men’s
division. Charles Greene won first
place in the oration contest for
men, third place in after-dinner
and extemporaneous speaking.
Gwen Reed won third place in the
after-dinner speaking for women.
The Mars Hill delegation—con
sisting of forensic director J. B.
Huff, Gwen Reed, Virginia Lisk,
Vivian Crisp, Louise Thomas, C.
C. Hope, and Charles Greene—
left Mars Hill Friday morning
and arrived in Wingate for the
first speaking event held that eve
ning and were guests of the dra
matics club at the campus produc
tion Little Women.
The speech contest was under
the direction of Mr. Bob Van
Londingham, president of the
tournament, and Miss Caldwell, di
rector of forensics at Wingate.
Clio Gavel Goes
To Miss Grayson
Forest City Girl Elected
New President Of
Clios
Making use of female suf
frage on “Sadie Hawkin’s” day
the Clios balloted into the com
mencement president’s chair
Martha Lee Grayson, of Forest
City, to succeed Virginia Lisk
of Asheboro.
Katherine Perkinson and Anne
Cochran are the first and sec
ond vice-presidents respectively;
Annie Laurie Clayton, record
ing secretary, and Hazel Tilson,
censor, will assist Miss Grayson
at the dais.
Other officers are as follows:
Virginia Terry, corresponding sec
retary; Geraldine Shields, chap
lain; Carolyn Williams, chorister;
Marie Clark, pianist; Jane Sond-
ley, chief marshall; Frances Bur
rows, Glenice Jones, and Algene
Stanfield, assistant marshalls;
Madge Allen, expression critic;
Mildred Crowder, music critic;
Helen Campfield, literary critic;
Gwen Reed, Gretchen Johnson,
and Virginia Lee Cox, program
committee; Louise Thomas, Mary
Ezzell, Billie Carter, and Martha
Welts, poster committee.
Preacher Is
Proud Pop
TESH, TESH—Yes, another
one will soon have a card in
the registrar’s office. For Jack
Tesh, popular ministerial stu
dent and keeper of Edna Cor
pening Moore “galley,” gleam
ed with paternal pride this
morning and told the editor
that IT had arrived. “An eight
pound boy,” giggled Papa
Tesh, as he flipped a coin (per
haps the price of a rattler),
into the air and laughed with
the students who congratulat
ed him.
Mrs. Tesh, who was with her
husband on the campus last
year, is in Sarah Leigh hos
pital, in Norfolk, Va., and ac
cording to the latest reports
young Tesh is still with his
mother. His name, by the way,
is Jack Griffin.
Sebren Meets A
Critic Of “Swing”
Brave Band Leader Faces
An Opponent Of One
Kind Of “Sicay”
Defying all predictions of rain,
eighteen “get-away-from-it-allers”
last Saturday hiked to the swing
ing bridge a few miles from Mars
Hill.
Arriving there, they rushed
upon it and began jumping up
and down, causing it to sway in
a perilous way until they were
suddenly startled and stopped by a
gruff voice yelling “Get across
that bridge and stay!”
Visions of hair-triggered moun
taineer moonshiners filled the
minds of at least some of the
hikers, and they ran to the pro
tecting side of their chaperon, Mr.
(Continued on page 4)
Proctor Is Picked
As Eu Declaimer
Richard C. Proctor, of Oxford
(not in England), giving “The
New South,” floored twelve oth
er contestants to capture first
place in the Euthalian declama
tion contest last night.
T. L. Cashwell won second
place with “Immortality,” and he
and Mr. Proctor will represent
the Euthalians in the inter-so-
cietl contest at commencement.
Ralph Jinnette, giving “The Land
Where Hatred Expires,” was se
lected as alternate.
T. C. Wagstaff, Roy Lee, Bill
Clark, J. C. Jones, Harold Mc-
Croskey, Bill Allred, Gordon Ber
nard, Norman Harper, Noah Bur
rows, and Ralph Thrift were the
other contestants.
“Old Harp Singers”
Arc Here Tonight
Program Of Old Hymns And
Ballads Will Begin
At 7:30
Spring Social Calendar
March 2—Old Harp Singers
March 9—Concert, College Orchestra
March 16—Demonstration, Girls’ Physical Education Classes
March 27—Carlton Palmer, Art Lecturer
March 30—Faculty Recital
April 6—Concert, College Band
April 20—Junior-Senior Banquet
April 27—Expression Recital
May 4—Declamation Contest
May 11—Oration Contest
May 18—Reading Contest
The “Old Harp Singers,” of
Nashville, Tenn., will give a pro
gram of sacred and worldly music,
not one piece of which is le.ss
than a hundred years old, in the
college auditorium here tonight
at 7:30.
Dr. George Pullen Jackson,
noted folklorist and founder of
the ensemble, says: “My Nashville
concert group is carrying on the
ancient song tradition in America,
although for the enjoyment of
urban hearers.”
The “Old Harp Singers” come
to the campus this evening with
a reputation expressed by the
Montclair-Glen Ridge Bulletin:
“ . . . Each singer is an artist, and
each voice a solo voice, as was
evidenced in the incidental solos
throughout the program; but all
yield their art to a concerted and
magnificent blending of tone,
whether in a humming accom
paniment or a majestic old re
ligious song in modem harmonic
vestments.”
S. S. Study Course
To Begin Monday
Cashwell Announces Plans
For Spring Training
Classes
The annual spring study course
sponsored by the Sunday school
department of the B. S. U. will
begin here next Monday, March
4, according to an announcement
made by T. L. Cashwell, superin
tendent of the college Sunday
school.
The study classes will be one
hour in length, beginning at 11:00
each day from Monday through
Friday. An examination will be
given Saturday, March 9, for those
who wish to receive, awards from
Nashville.
Students who wish to meet
with the study course class will
choose one of the following.
Building a Standard Sunday
School—Mr. Lee.
Personal Factors in Character
Building—Rev. W. P. Hall.
When Do Teachers Teach—Mr.
Lawson Allen.
The Grace of Giving—Dr.
(Continued on page 3)
Kuszmaul Tops
Talent Parade
Baltimore Lad Puffs Off
First Place On
Harmonica
Charles Kuszmaul blew his
name into the talent parade win
ner’s box with his “crying har
monica” at the weekly stunt night
February 28.
The student audience served as
judge, and the person receiving
the greatest applause was declared
winner.
Other high lights of the fourth
talent parade were Mary Watson
Corpening’s Grand American
opera “II Avertiso”; Marion
Nobel’s impersonation of a tobac
co auctioneer; and a faculty
mixed quartet, composed of
Misses Ellison and Gwen and
Coach Dickerson and Mr. Sebren.