MON^ GUE LIBRARY
Mars College
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Euthalian
Anniversary
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Published By The Students Of Mars Hill College
Nonpareil
Reception
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Volume XVIII.
MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, OCTOBER 23, 1943.
IS.
Number 3.
DR. ADAMS LEADS COLLEGE IN STIRRING REVIVAL
Miss Fisher To
Appear In Recital
First Of Faculty
Concerts
The first faculty concert will
be presented in the auditorium
Saturday evening, November
P. at 8:15 o'clock, when Miss
iiyelyn Lois Fisher, contralto,
vill appear in a recital. Miss
'Martha Biggers will be accom
panist. The following program
vill be given.
iir: He was despised (Messiah)
Handel.
love you seen but a whyte
lily grow. Anonymous,
icument (Dido and Aeneas),
_ Purcell.
>weet Nymph, Morley (arr. by
Sowerby).
»er Tod, dos ist die Kuehle
Nacht. Brahms.
Iherese, Brahms.
Lufdem Schiffe, Brahms,
jopphische Ode. Brahms.
lOtschait, Brahms.
•oysage Triste, Reynold Habn.
, Tous deux, Reynold Habn.
Meine Seele, Richard
otrauss.
weignung. Richard Strauss,
loctume, Michael Head,
weet Chance. Michael Head,
he Piper. Michael Head
orewell. Oldroyd.
Mr. Lynch Enters
■ Chaplain School
Mr. William L. Lynch, for
mer pastor of the Mars Hill
Baptist Church, left last week
for Williamsburg, Va., to enter
the Naval Chaplain School.
Mr. Lynch has been pastor
of the Mars Hill Baptist Church
since 1936. His seven years in
Mars Hill have been of in
estimable value to the church,
the college, and the com
munity. As he enters his new
work, he takes with him the
prayers and best wishes of his
Mars Hill friends.
east of Lanterns, Bantock.
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Society Calendar
Four Saturdays are impor
tant on the societies' calen
dars:
Nov. 13: Euthalian Anniver
sary,
Nov. 20; Nonpareil Recep
tion.
Nov. 27; Philomathion Anni
versary.
Dec. 4: Clio Reception.
Societies Select
Anniversary
Leaders
Recently all societies elect
ed officers to serve during An
niversary and Reception. Fol
lowing ore the results:
Nonpareil: president, Nadine
Paxton; vice-president, Gerry
Farrar; secretary, Susan Hor-
bison; chaplain, Irene Glass;
censor, Margaret Hoyle.
Clio: president, Ellen Go-
secretory, Jane Frazier; censor,
Frances Hancock; and second
vice-president, Jimmy Sue Mor
gan.
Euthalia: president, Wayne
Richardson; vice - president,
Earl Vaughn; secretary, Leroy
Newton; and censor, Mac Sell
ers.
Philomothia: president, Ray
Turner; vice-president, Glenn
Brown; secretary, Harold
Spangler; and censor, Lewis
Coleman.
Midd, eJi-andifi TiJfUted ^o^Uk Aj/Uca
Chapel Schedule
^5 For November
•M Cats,' I- Mr.
jesday, November 2: B. S. U
f E f dnesday, N o v e mber 3-
^ Music.
'rursday, November 4: Mrs
Canup. .
idoy, November 5: Miss Clay-
/jiton.
onday, November 8: Mrs
Howell.
W jesdcry, November 9: B. S. U.
I ednesdgy, November 10;
^^XMusic.
jMursday, November 11: Mr
'^uff.
iday, November 12: Mr
Kendall.
Dnday, November 15: Dr.
Blackwell.
esday, November 16: B. S. U.
sdnesday, November 17:
Mi Music.
Jlursdoy, November 18: Ad
visory Meetings,
day, November 19; Mr. Lee.
)nday, November 22: Mrs.
jMcLeod.
ssdcry, November 23: B. S. U.
, idnesday, November 24; Dra-
Inatics.
liursdoy, November 25:
^^onksgiving Program.
^cry, November 26: Mr. Mc-
.eod.
Periods during the morning
1 be shortened 8 minutes
:h.
The Faculty,
Mars Hill College,
My dear Friends:
As I stop to remember ail
that has happened since I
left the Hill more than a year
ago, I marvel that so many ad
ventures could have crammed
themselves into a few short
months. If I should try to sketch
even the most important ones
in a few sentences each, I
should have to write more
pages than on ordinary en
velope could hold. As you
probably know, sometimes last
May I waked up to find myseh
in a strange new world. I think
Alice in Wonderland must
have had the same sort of sen
sation I did when I looked
through the sides of a truck
one night and saw on bill
boards and road markers and
shop windows words written in
a language I had been accus-
to reading only in books.
Directly I began to see people
dressed in odd clothes that
looked as if they might have
come out of Miss Wengert's
costume box; and soon I heard
them break out in a prattle
from which I couldn't disen-
intelligible
^ shudder at the
bought of making myself study
that preposterously difficult
Arabic language. Whatever
business has to be transacted
between the natives and me
has to be done in sign lan
guage if French or English
won t suffice.)
We live in a beautiful part
of the country, not too different
in some of its scenery from our
own state. Although the days
ore usually scorchers, the
nights are cool enough to make
us thankful for our army
blankets. Our building seems
a very palace in comparison
to the quarters a soldier
normally expects. Everything
is civilized almost to the point
of disillusionment. I had half
way expected, I think, to be
stationed in the middle of some
desert where sand and camels
and roaming Arabs constituted
the only scenery. How differ
ent to live in a beautiful build
ing with balconies and marble
stairs; to leave every morning
in modem buses for work in a
modem city; to meet scores of
people daily—if you core to
walk down a busy street—who
speak your own language!
As for our work itself, I am
with a large group of girls
now whose job it is to see
that the soldiers here get the
letters you write and the pack
ages you send. Sometimes we
almost wonder whether, with
our small job, we ore really
doing our port toward helping
them win the war. Yet realizing
the importance of mail even to
us girls who hove never seen
the front lines, we remind our
selves from time to time that
moil from home is almost in
dispensable to a job that in
civilian life might seem quite
dull and unexciting.
There ore lots of things here
to remind us of home; yet
these of course ore only inci
dental in a place whose his
tory and traditions and people
ore so different from our own.
The native population is large-
(See MISS HARDIN—Page 2)
“Little Women”
To Be Given
Rehearsals are under way
for the production of "Little
Women," which is to be pre
sented by a group of students
under the direction of Miss
Bonnie Wengert.
Jo, Jane Lee; Meg, Jeanne
Wall; Army, Jane Gunter;
Beth, Jeanne Webster; Mar-
mee, Laura Nell Schrum;
Laurie, Jimmy Pegram; John
Brooke, Bob Gellerstedt; Aunt
March, Yvonne Lowing; Mr.
March (Father), Clay Brown;
Professor Bhaer, Phots Adcov.
Ministerial Officers
Frank Rogers, president
C. H. Green, vice-president
F. M. Barnes, secretary
James Pegram, chorister,
Erwin Chaney, pianist; Ray
Linnville, reporter.
Several Confessions Of
Faith, Many Additions
To Church
Visitors And Old
Students On
Campus
Mother Wilkins, for seventeen
years a teacher at Mars Hill,
came to the campus last Fri
day and spoke to the girls' as
sembly Friday night. Mother
Wilkins caught the girls' in
terest by telling some of her
experiences both in Mars Hill
and in other parts of the coun
try.
Miss Laura Mae Hilliard,
Baptist field worker of the
Baptist field worker of the Yan
cey and French Broad associa
tion, came to the campus to
teach the course in Baptist
Training Administration during
study course week.
Mr. A. K. Cheek, whose wife
is secretary to the college
registrar, visited the campus
recently. Mr. Cheek is a stu
dent at the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary in Louis
ville, Kentucky.
Forrest Morrow, otherwise
known as "Flukie" brought a
breath of sea air to the campus
several days ago. He has just
completed his boot training at
the Great Lakes Naval Train
ing Station, and is being trans
ferred to another school for
further training.
Stable Leonard, former pre-
med student at Mars Hill ar
rived on the campus Sunday
morning and left Tuesday to
enter the Nervy.
Anna Frances Jinette, who
graduated from Mars Hill in
1943 and who is now a student
at Cullowhee, spent last week
end on the campus.
Bill Hamlett, Philomathion
(See VISITORS—Page 4)
We were very fortunate in
having Dr. Theodore Adams of
Richmond, Virginia, to conduct
our annual revival which be
gan on Sunday, October 18.
Since Dr. Adams could not
arrive before Monday after
noon Prof. V. E. Wood spoke
at both services on Sunday.
On Monday morning in chapel
Dr. Blackwell spoke on "My
Father's World." One scripture
which he emphasized was,
"The heavens declare the glory
of God and th firmament shew-
eth his handiwork."
By Monday night Dr. Adams
had arrived. His evening mes
sage centered around the verse
from Psalms, "Let the words
of my mouth and the medi
tations of my heart be ac
ceptable in thy sight, O Lord,
my strength and my redeem
er."
Faith was the subject of both
addresses of Dr. Adams on
Tuesday. In the morning serv
ice he emphasized faith in a
God of love, righteousness and
power. In the evening service
hq stressed belief in oneself.
On Wednesday morning Dr.
Adams challenged our think
ing by presenting his personal
statement of "What Jesus Does
For Me." No less stirring was
his address Wednesday night
on forgiveness.
We wish to express to Dr..
Adams our most sincere appre
ciation for his inspiring mes
sages.
Air Corps Exam
Is Given
FIVE PASS TEST
The Aviation Cadet Qualify
ing Examination, issued by the
War Department Headquarters
of the Army Air Forces, was
given on October 14 to eligible
students on our campus. The
examination was given by
Captain Francis N. Everett and
Sergeant H. L. Goison of the
Aviation Examining Board of
Asheville.
The following students
passed the examination: Wil
liam Cullen Byrd, Merrill Dean
Hampton, Bobby Binford
Hodges, Lee Roy Pitts, and
James Garfield Williams.
These boys are now authorized
to take the physical examina
tion in Asheville. After pass
ing this, they may enlist in
the army air corps, or the air
corps reserve.
Students who are interested
in taking the next aviation
cadet qualifying examination
may see Dean Lee for infor
mation.