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CTKe Hilltop
Published By The Students Of Mars Hill College
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Mars Hill, North Carolina, April 12, 1941.
No. 13.
IIRPRISE, JUNIORS ENTERTAIN SENIORS AT BANQUET
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eu7s Flashes
tb Tonight
pr’he annual Mars Hill college
concert will be held to-
at 8:00 o'clock in the col-
jjg© auditorium. Everyone is
ofited.
Banquet
gh’he Junior-Senior Banquet
h VI be held next Saturday
^ iht at 8:00 o'clock in the
ry ‘i
pegs dining hall. Make your
les now. Don't be left out.
**■ Flash
The new dormitory for girls
now well on its way to beirig
a! jlf- Just ask the Edna Moore
Is who ore awakened every
la^rning by the sweet(?) sound
qUf'Gt tractor.
Tennis
f gfhe Mars Hill tennis team
11 meet th^j ^ Appalachian
rsity here Wednesday after-
on, April -16. They will meet
•hnore College here Sotur-
V. April 19.
Forensic
C. Hope and Frank Vent-
* 3 will debate against Wake
rest over WWNC on April
ril!« bsfween 9:45 and 10:15.
^ d n a Moore
^ Scholarship Fund
Is Established
M«d Raised Will Bear
ante Of Mrs. R. L. Moore.
R. L. Moore who has
>en superintendent of the W.
• U- of the French Broad Asso-
ntion for forty years was
>nored at the annual meeting
- the association at Mors Hill,
^'pril 4.
recognition of her thirty
3ars of service and effective
=rk in the W. M. U., the asso-
^lon agreed to raise a $1,000
holorship fund to. bear ^ her
The sum, to be known
• the E(fea Moore Scholarship
^j^d, will t)e placed at Mars
^ ctnd the. interest used each
^ to help some worthy stu-
3Ut from the association. The
Hill society presented
' o as a nucleus for the fund,
|uch President Hoyt Blackwell
iCepted in the name of the
’ Mrs. Moore was also
e ected as superintendent for
® coming year.
all-day meeting was held
•the Mors Hill church. A
,j .'■■ interesting reports
inspiring messages were
5ord during the day. Visiting
leakers included: Mrs. J. R.
■Prgan, superintendent of the
,es eru North Carolina Di-
sion; - Miss Mary Currin,
Leader of
Carolirid; and; Dr. H. H.
Majl^, -^ho' is I on' furlough
°ni China.
This intelligent crew repre
sents the Hilltop staff "or la
dies and gentlemen of the
press" for the past year. Seat
ed are: Mary Lee Ellington,
Grady Dover, editor, Thelma
Baker, Lowell Shive, managing
editor, Margaret Duckworth,
and Betty Lee Spainhour.
Standing are: Dorothy Pearce,
Winfred Thompson, George
Blake, Richard Proctor, Wil
liam J. Clark, Jerry Rogers,
Robert Brissie, and Walter Hor-
relson. Other members of the
staff unable to be in the pic
ture are: Lynn Starkweather,
John Foster West, Carol Bart-
ling, Sheila Gulley, Wilmer
Fisher, Stanley Smith, and
Billy Donnelly. Faculty advi
sors for the paper ore: Misses
Mildred Hardin, Elise Rose
Dons, and Mr. Ramon De-
Shazo.
Public Speaking
Shows Progress
Forensic Tournament Will
Be Held On April 15.
A recent survey shows that
the persentage of college de
baters winning recognition in
Who's Who in America is five
times as great as the percent
age of college graduates who
take no part in public speak
ing.
Mr. Huff, who coaches pub
lic speaking, is very much
pleased with the large number
who have taken advantage of
this valuable course, and he
is anticipating on increase in
the coming years. This year's
forensic team has not only par
ticipated in numerous tourna
ments throughout the South,
but has also won state and na
tional recognition as well.
In climaxing this year's work.
Mars Hill will be co-sponsor
with Asheville Teachers college
(Continued on Page 2)
College Band Presents Second Annual
Concert This Evening At 8:00 O’Clock
Group Has Made Numerous
Trips; Novelty Numbers
Will Be Featured.
The Mars Hill college band
will present its second annual
concert Saturday night at 8:00
o'clock in the college audi
torium. Organized last year by
Mr. Herbert Sebren, this musi
cal . unit has increased rapidly
in both personnel and popu
larity with the public. Although
only ten of last year's band
are back, new students have
compensated for the loss of
1940 graduates. The organi
zation has been working hard
and faithfully on the program
to be presented, and every
indication points to a varied,
interesting, -and entertaining
evening.-
Most of the nuinbers to be
played have been "aired" pub
licly by the bond on its recent
tours to Yancey and Mac-
Dowell counties, and this "trail-
by-fire" 'practice has added
considerably to the stage con
duct of the members as well
as to the finesse of playing.
Mr. Sebren estimates that ap
proximately 3,500 people hove
heard the bond on its tours this
year, and about 5,000 people
heard it last year. This of
course provides an excellent
medium of advertising for the
school as well as valuable ex
perience for the band. An ex
ample of the spirit and coopera
tion of the bond may be found
in the fact that after completing
the latest tour, on which five
concerts were given, a good
day's workout, the band was
enthusiastic for a rehearsal
that night after returning home.
The program for Saturday
(Continued on Page 2)
New Dormitory
To Be Completed
By Sept ember
The new dormitory for giu&
of Mars Hill College is expect
ed to be completed and ready
for occupancy by September.
Larger than any building now
on the campus, it will be four
full stories high, and will- join
the west, end of Edna C. Moore.
Fronting west toward the ath
letic field, it will run one hun
dred sixty feet due north.
Mr. B. H. Tilson, Supt. of
Buildings and Grounds, reports:
"The new dormitory cannot be
considered as an annex, but
as a complete new unit. It will
be built with the same type of
fiu^proof construction as Edna
Moore except that it will be
larger and the floors are to be
of inlaid asphalt throughout
the building. For the present,
the original walk and driveway
will accommodate both dormi
tories."
A few changes will be
necessary to allow for the
difference in size of the "two
dormitories. The parlor of the
new construction will be nearly
on a level with the present
driveway and it will be larger.
The first floor will consist of
parlor, office and teacher's
room, teachers' parlor, kitch
enette, laundry, and students'
rooms. The second, third, and
fourth floors will be made up
of students' rooms with one!
teacher's room on each floor. I
Built in suite style, each two'
rooms will be connected by a
bath. The present post office
and laundry of Edna Moore
dormitory will be converted
(Continued on Page 4)
Mystic Air Prevails
Concerning The
Program And Theme
Biggest Event Of Year To
Be Held On April 19.
Yes, not . only spring but
Junior-Senior is iri the air! And
not the least of the evidences
is that haggard look President
Horrelson carries, continually
with him. Ed Long toted it last
year.
'Mr. Horrelson reports that
thb banquet is. coming to a
definite head now;—after two
months of detailed planning.
This year's president is for
tunate in choosing able C-I's to
head up the necessary and all-
important committees. Promi
nent among the appointed
workers are Norman Caudle
and Richie Harris, program;
Ralph Rogers and Margaret
Duckworth, decorations; Doug
Aldrich and Virginia Roy, serv
ice-menu; Jack L.ucke, coordi
nating chairman; Henry Parris,
treasurer. This is, he reminds
us, but a small portion of the
host of C-I's devoting cdl-well,
almost all—of their spare .tiriie
to Junior-Senior.
Junior-Senior, given ^ by the
junior class for the senior class,
is a long-established and de
lightful tradition at Mors Hill.
Each year the juniors search
for a different . idea for the
theme, and each ■ year the
the jtmiors scheme to'keep this
theme a secret. This year our
enterprising juniors ha've gone
mysterious in a big way and
have concealed "even the
identity of the number-one man
of the banquet, the toastrriaster.
Look again at ' that - brilliant
krud in yoxir English - class: he
may be IT. .... ..
The super-industrious, decora
tions committee has .-.plastered
the campus with gentle but
striking reminders to the young
gentlemen to get busy and ask
HER for a date. There is no re
liable method of che.ckipg the
effecti'veness of these/, ppgterial
arts, ' but it is generally be
lieved that they. ore stiffening
the ■' backbones of ; our . boys.
Should .q&iyone require, further
evidence ; of why he should
attend, any senior will be quick
to proclaim that Junior-Senior
is the biggest combined event
on the campus.
Because of the necessary
secretive nature of the;bonquet,
Mr. Horrelson was maddening
ly limited in his press Releases.
He promises eveiybhe a 'me
morable meeting at this po'w-
wow of Jrmiors arid Seniors,
however.
Can you guess the toast
master?