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Mars Hill, North Carolina, March 8, 1941.
No. 11.
We Society News
Bo *
re New Officers
literary societies have
j. {jjCted the following officers
3U c the commencement term:
N o n p areil:
President, Beth
H i 1 d e b rand;
Vice - President,
Mavis P o w ers;
S e cretary, Mor-
t h a Graham;
Censor, L e 1 a
Bur gess; Chop-
1 a i n, Lillian
dges; Chorister, Amelia Ro-
ison; Pianist, Emily Thorne,
cause of lack of time the
ler officers have not been
•cted. The new president
11 take charge next meeting
d continue the election.
Clio: Presi
dent, Gwen
Reed; First Vice-
President, Kath-
e r i n e Beatty;
Second Vice-
P r e sident, Mar
garet Perry; Re
cord ing Secre
tary, Margaret
"een; Censor, Faustina Bor-
Chorister, Mavis Hardin;
3nist, Wilma Mason; Corre-
DKding Secretary, Frances
irrows; T r e a surer, Virginia
e Cox; Chief Marshals,
' h n n y Abemethy, Thelma
Y his, Jean Combs, Dorothy
llespie; E X p r e s sion Critic,
Anne Johnston; Music
■itic, Evelyn Hamrick; Literary
• Q ^tic, Jane Davis,
E u t h a lian:
President, Ralph
J i n n e tte; Vice-
President, Matt
Summerlin; Cor
responding Sec
retary, James
J e n n ings; Cen
sor, Dick Proc
tor; R e c o r ding
^cretary, Tom Galloway;
^aplain, Frank Johnson; Eng-
■h Critic, Bill West; Expres-
Critic, Ben Johnson; De-
^1® Critic, Fred Chamblee;
sllector, William McGinnis;
mekeeper, Paul Nolan; Li-
, orian, Johnny Williams;
'Porter, Bob Beall; Chorister,
Lucke; Pianist, Paul Brun
er; Treasurer, Noah Burrows;
pritors. Bob Brissie and Harry
ickey.
P h ilomathion:
President, Lorry
W i 1 liams; Vice-
President, Frank
V e n ters; Secre
tary, D. C. Mar
tin, II; C e n s or,
Lewis Beam;
Seer, Bill Nip-
P®^' Chap lain,
°vid Dorr; English and Ex-
. Iiession Critic, Walter Harrel-
Pianist, James Dendy;
norister, David Lee; Dues
? ®®lor, Randolph Hendricks;
}nes Collector, Earl Jolley;
___^arshals, Henry Parris and
onnan Caudle.
^.iHiorry
Concert To Feature
Music Of Nation
Several Guest Performers
Will Also Be Heard Dur
ing Orchestra Concert.
The orchestra, under the di
rection of Miss Mildred Gwin,
will present next Saturday eve
ning, March 15, its annual con
cert, featuring this year the
music of the different nations.
At present the orchestra is
busily engaged in extra prac
tices, requisites for a finished
program.
Miss Gwin, hinting to the
students and faculty of what is
to be, promises that there will
be represented some familiar
music along with the less
familiar pieces will be an ar
rangement of the "Londonderry
Air," better known as "Danny
Boy," to be played by the
strings alone, with Ernest Haire
taking the main melody on the
viola, the* low violin. By spe
cial request "Dark Eyes,"'with
Henry Anderson playing the
solo viofin, will represent
Russia. "Jazz Pizzicato," one of
the most interesting numbers
in its Repertoire and one which
made a fiit with everybody on
the commencement program
last year, will be a repeat, this
also by the strings.
America will not be over
looked. The entire orchestra
will render a fantasia of
Stephen C. Foster times, among
which will be "I Dream of Jean-
nie," "O Suzonna," and
"Camptown Races."
The orchestra has been very
fortunate in securing several
guest performers for this year's
concert. They will be Mrs
Spencer B. King, Jr., violin;
Miss Dorothy Wagner, violin;
Mr. Herbert Sebren, alternating
between clarinet and string
bass; and Mr. Joe Sebren,
brother of "Maestro" Sebren,
French horn.
Vice-President Of
G-II Glass
Pictured above is Martha
Graham, of Pembroke, North
Carolina, who was elected
vice-president of the C-II class
after Lynn Starkweather
resigned.
Mars Hill Sponsors
For e n sijc Meet
M.H.C. Forensic\ Team And
Asheville Teachers’ Col
lege To E^e Co-sponsors
Of Tournamen^.
The forensiojteam left Friday
morning to corrtpete in the
junior college ifo^nsic tourna
ment of North Qarplina, at Mon
roe, North Carolina. Those
entering the debates are Frank
Venters and C. G. Hope, Larry
Williams and Dick Proctor,
Gwen Reed and Eleanor Pokes,
Willie Ruth Edwards and Julia
Smoak. Cecil Hill is entered in
oration, extempore, and im
promptu. Lucille Haywood is
entered in poetry reading, Mary
Nell Hardin in dramatic read
ing, Alice Reid Smith in after
dinner speaking, and Gwen
Potter in humorous reading.
(Continued on page 2)
Mr. S e b r i n g ,
Journalist,
Visits G a m p u s
Lectures To Various Organ
izations On Campus.
"What are you going to
speak on tomorrow?" Mr. Lewis
B. Sebring, Jr. was asked the
night before his appearance in
chapel, and he calmly an
swered, "I haven't the slightest
idea!"
Mr. Sebring, who is former
night city editor of the New
York Herald Tribune, was the
guest of Miss Mary Logan from
Wednesday until Friday. Your
interviewer found him a veri
table storehouse of interesting
facts.
Mr. Sebring has served in
practically every field of the
printers' trade. He began with
the Tribune as advertising man
ager; from there he was pro
moted to the office of city edi
tor. After this ho served four
years as assistant night city
editor from which he was again
promoted to the night city edi
torship which he has held for
five years. Mr. Sebring is now
serving in the capacity of spe
cial correspondent to the Trib
une.
A raconteur in the highest
sense of the word, Mr. Sebring
held his small audience in com
plete attention. After four
months of visiting the army
camps of the South, he is now
on his way back to New York.
When asked how Western
North Carolina impressed him,
Mr. Sebring astonished his
listeners by telling them that
this was his second visit to
this vicinity and he enjoyed its
views with renewed pleasure
at each visit.
A photographer of no mean
ability, Mr. Sebring has won
honorable mention in the na
tional amateur motion picture
photographic contest. His li
brary of films contain, besides
the usual subjects, army
maneuvres at a training camp
(Continued on page 2)
Are You So Profoundly Dead That You Don’t Know
The Deadest Part Of The Campus? — The Museum!
There is a room in the base
ment of the science building
which is not very widely
known now, but one that
should be quite an attraction
on the campus in the future.
This room is the museum.
The museum had its begin
ning five or six years age
when Mr. S. O. Trentham and
Dean Carr purchased a num
ber of historical relics from a
collector in Albemarle. Since
that time additional contribu
tions hove been made, and to
day it contains quite a display
of antiques and articles with
a historical significance.
Turning to the left on enter
ing the museum, one will ap
proach a huge showcase con
taining numerous oddities sym
bolic of the last two centuries.
Particularly interesting is an
old apparatus said to have
been used to bleed George
Washington. Other prizes in
collection are as follows: a
side pocket which belonged to
General Robert E. Lee, the stir
rups used by Burgoyne, an old
lock from the temporary head
quarters of Lord Cornwallis
near Hillsboro, a key to the
murderer's cell and the debtor's
cell in the first jail in Davie
County, a number of war relics
used in the War Between the
States and the World War,
handmade garden implements
used by the early settlers of
Madison County, and an ex
cellent collection of old Euro
pean coins.
Toward the center of the
room is a magnificent display
of precious stones and minerals
of all varieties native to West
ern North Carolina. These
hove been collected over a
period of several years on
geological trips made by Mr.
Trentham and his summer
school students. For the Indian-
lover, there is an exhibit of
arrow-heads, tomahawks, celts,
pottery, and other Inidan relics.
There is also a table of un
usual formations and fossils.
In the right side of the room,
one will find an extensive show
of Confederate state bills, one
or two of which might be con
sidered rare. There also may
be found an original hand
written bill about the sale of
two negro women, Clo and
Minty, to a gentleman of
Davidson County in 1823. At
present there is no scheduled
time for visiting the museum.
It may be visited, however, if
arrangements are made with
Mr. Trentham.
King Presents
Radio Talks
Gives Series Of Seven Talks
On European Travels.
Mr. Spencer B. King, Jr.,
well-known history professor
on the campus, is giving d se
ries of seven radio talks on
t h e Euro
pean Traits.
Mr. King
is making
on a 11 empt
to show the
national
character of
the (Derman,
French, and
English peo-
p1es by a
c o m p a -
rative study
of their lit
erature, art, music, philosophy,
and culture. Through this study
he is trying to explain the fac
tors that cause the conditions
of today to exist. His talks are
facts and not propaganda for
any nation.
The talks ore heard every
Friday afternoon from 4:30 to
4:45 o'clock over Radio StOtidn
WWNC. Mr. King is giving
two talks on each nation arid
the subjects ore listed below:
1. Introduction: a general ba
sis for the study.
2. German Dualism: the re
ligious and militaristic nature
of the Germans.
3. German Totalitarianism:
the aggressive German.
4. The Emotional French.
5. The Rational French.
6. The Good Englishmen;
the traits of honesty, fairploy,
generosity, and courage of the
English.
7. English Conservatism: the
English as a man of action,
stolid and conservative.
The first five of these talks
have already been given by
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News Flashes
TONIGHT
The Mortal Storm, starring
Margaret Sullivan and Jimmy
Stewart, will be shown in the
college auditorium.
Concert
The College Orchestra will
give their yearly concert in the
in the auditorium next Satur
day night.
TOURNAMENT
The Mars Hill forensic team
entered the North Carolina
junior college forensic tourna
ment at Monroe this week-end.
Basketball Tournament
The following Mors Hill
cagers went to Marion, Ala
bama, for the Southeastern
junior college tournament;
Haithcock, B. McMurroy, J., Me-:
Murray, Edwards, Carr, Me-:
Kinney, Farrar, Trentham, Ham-
bright, Hollins, and J. Thigpen
as manager. . ;
March 25
Cameron McLean, baritone;,
Mctbelle Hanes Mable, at- the
piano. . i , ■