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..Ma. . .r/i i THE H.LETOP, MARS H.LL COLLEGE. MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA April 24, 1946. Ar Plain Living and High Thinking Old SPECIAL HOMECOMING E D 1 Issued semi-monthly during the college year. Subscription Rate Year $1.00 Cascades Retains Lure For Picknickers, Lovers MPMRER OF ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS STAFF Sigsbee Miller Editor-in-Chief Long Associate Editor Peggy Chesson Managing Editor - Marion Sports EdRor (Boys) ZZ-..---- Louvene Jordan Sports Editor (Girls) .phvllis Ann Gentry Feature Editor Tallent Business Manager Johnson Art Editor - Lib Foster Advertising Manager McCurry Assistant Advertising Manager ---;-£-”7;„kZnd Peggy Nichols Circulation Managers - Tommie Wright Typist CONTRIBUTORS Inez Wyatt . Lois Harris . Ruth Forester . Tommy Stapleton . Betty X"v» . Jerry S-l.e . Cor„eli. V.„„ . A..» Advisor — Volume XX. April 24, 1946. Number 13. Honor Onbs Former Students Now on Faculty Dear Fellow Members: Greetings to you from the Honor Clubs. As we are looking forward to commencement, we are hoping to have the pleasure of welcoming you back to our campus. Having heard much about you and what you meant to the college, we know meeting you will be a happy experience for us. You have helped to make Mars Hill what it is today. One special phase in which you have been our inspiration is the honor clubs. You set the standards high for these. We have striven to main tain these standards. Our honor club programs have been interest ing, stimulating our imaginations and broadening our horizons. One honor club member had a poem accepted in the Annual Anthology of College Poetry: another, a play by the Carolina Dramatics Asso ciation. Our honor clubs, too, have furnished many of our stu dent leaders, such at the B. S. U. President and social presidents. During the past few years war conditions have made it incon venient for many of you to come back to Mars Hill. This year, how ever, we hope that each one of you may be able to return for our great Homecoming, May 30. In this simple way, we, the presi dents of the honor clubs, are ex tending to you a hearty invi tation. It will be wondeful to have you back on the “Hill” to see the improvements, to renew old acquaintances, and to acquire new friends. As honor club mem bers W6 shall want to have a real get-together. . Your Fellow Members of the Honor Club, Mary Broome, French Club, Lois Harris, Science Club, Miriam Smith, Spanish Club, Gloria Abernethy, International Relations Club, Dorothy Lawhon, Classical Club, Doris Penland, Scriblerus Club, Agnes Fleming, Business Club. A number of former students are now members of the Mars Hill college faculty. They are: Preston Calvin Stringfield, pro fessor of Phychology, Sociology, Plaine Geometry, (photographer for LAUREL); Hoyt Blackwell, president; Daisy Anderson, li brarian; Nona Moore Roberts French; Eva Brewer, college nurse; Bryson Tilson, Supt. of Buildings and grounds; M. H. Kendall, Bible and Greek; B. M. Canup, Asst. Bursar and head of Business Department; Ralph Ash worth, Biology; and Vivian Luns ford, Asst, librarian. Dear Fellow Alumni: Have you been on a vacation lately? How about cranking up the “old bus,” which probably has suffered from inactivity during the war days, and come to Mars Hill for the commencement pro grams, particularly the class re unions and alumni banquet. Homecoming Day at Mars Hill this year promises to be the most enjoyable in the history of the college. Special effort is being made to get our big family to gether. There will be interesting programs and plenty to eat, cer tainly, but I predict that the event which v/ill be most enjoy able and reward us with memories which time cannot erase will be the mutual exchange of greet ings, the handshaking, the shoul der-slapping, the chats of retro spection with those friends we made in the happy days of yore on the Mars Hill College campus while we worked and played to gether in the classroom, literary society, athletic fields, and other places of endeavor, not excluding the traditional “soup line.” Several years have elapsed since many of you have visited the college campus. Doubtlessly, you will marvel at the progress which has been made during these intervening years. But progress knows no rest. The Cascades! Does that word bring back memories to you? How many times have you sat on the great rock and dreamed while the water tumbled down the mossy bed to the pool below? Or maybe you did not have to dream. Your “dream” sat beside you when regulations permitted. To most of us. Mars Hill would not be complete without the Cas cades. It is just a small part of the intangible something that makes up the school. Do you sup pose the moon could be more beautiful than at the Cascades? There are many romantic spots about the old “Hill.” This is one of them. „ But at the name “Cascades some of us smell the frying of bacon, hear the grease popping in the pan as the eggs are scrambled, or we are pulling hot dogs bathed in mustard, saturated with onions, and enveloped in a long bun. It is the place for pic nics (complete with ants, bugs and sudden showers), games, and fun—where students are children and teachers are human beings. Then there are other memories. Have you ever fallen in—slipped on the rock when trying to jump the stream, gone skidding down over the algae coated surface and pulled yourself out of the pool below, soaking wet—and perhaps in your hand a box camera made the trip with you? Or maybe you fell in while you were trying to help your lady friend cut. That is the Cascades, one of the many things that is a part of Mars Hill! The spot is still here— an inspiration to would-be poets, a boon to lovers, and a good place to study, think, yes, and pray. ^ocieti&i Dear Clios and Phis: Dear Alumni: James Cowan, coach and Phys. Ed., Irene Glass, student person nel secretary; Rachel Swann, Asst, in Bursar’s office; Eula Mae Young, Asst, in Registrar’s of fice; Virginia Hart, coach and girls’ Phys. Ed., Ruby Hudson, business; Frances Snelson, secre tary (on leave at Temple Univer sity) ; Herbert Sebren, Music (on leave with North Carolina sym phony orchestra) ; and J. P- Watts, Asst, to Supt. of Buildings and Grounds (on leave). Contribution Sent To College Library Today the alumni are faced with a challenge. The old chapel building was adequate for the needs of the college when you and I were there, but today the student family is so large that a new building is almost impera tive. What more suitable memorial could be erected in honor of those Mars Hill College boys and girls who served so valorously in the armed forces of our country than a modern chapel building on the college ground? To be sure, money will be required, but the necessary amount will be raised with little sacrifice if every alum nus will participate. Some can and will make substantial dona tions, but if the chapel is to be a genuine ■ memorial it must have as its foundation the goodwill and loyalty of every alumnus evi denced by small gift, be it large or small. Make plans now to meet your friends at the greatest home coming day in the long history of Mars Hill College. We shall be looking for you. Sincerely, Muriel A. James, Alumni Assn. President. Mr. F. P. Drake, of Atlanta, Ga., recently sent a check for $100 in care of Dr. Ella J. Pierce, head of the English Department, to be used for purchase of new books for the library. Cafeteria To Replace Old Dining Hall In announcing the contribution. Dr. Pierce said Mr. Drake has sent previous gifts which have been used to buy new books. THE HILLTOP adds its voice looking forward to a big Homecoming Day. We are looking forward to a big ^‘family reunion.* —The Staff. Expressing the college’s ap preciation, Dr. Pierce pointed out the need for addition of new books to the library. “The college library is in one sense the real strength of the college,” she said. “The library is a means of valu able, daily service to all the stu dents. The college is indebted to Mr. Drake for this and other con tributions he has made.” Dr. Hoyt Blackwell, along with the Buildings and Grounds Com mittee, after studying present dining hall facilities, will suggest that plans for a new up-to-date cafeteria be drawn immediately. It is hoped that work can begin so that it can be put into opera tion by the beginning of the 1947-48 term. The new unit will include an all stainless steel kitchen along with proper refrigeration and probably a milk pasteurization plant. The main dining hall will be large enough to take care o at least 600 simultaneously, along with small dining rooms for i groups. “Years may come and years may go, but Clio-Phi will go forever.” When all of you left Mars Hill and the Hall of Blue and White, above all your desires was that the future Clios and Phis would continue to reverence their ideals of Truth, Purity, and Fidelty, and carry always the spirit of friendliness. Because you left to us Clios and Phis some thing good and lasting, we are endeavoring to follow your ex ample of being loyal to the so ciety we love. Many cf you have not had the privilege of visiting Mars Hill since you left; consequently you do not know the progress that is being made in Clio-Phi. Perhaps you have not seen the beautiful hall which is in the Chai’les M. Wall building. That is just one of the things you will want to see. On Homecoming Day we extend a very sincere invitation for you to share with us your memories of Clo-Phi as we share with you the joyous experience that we have had this year. The tradition al Anniversary and Reception were big successes as they always are. Then there were the Clio- Non Joint Meetings. We are look ing forward to our Clio-Phi Wed ding, and, above all, a new event. For the first time in the history of Cli and Philomathi we are having a Spring Festival. Clio-Philomathia has developed and changed in some ways, but you will recognize it and love it for those immortal qualities that it had when you were one of its proud members. Come back and visit! Sally Morton Hudson, Clyde C. Drake, Presidents. i We Nons and Eus are, more than we can express, anticipating your “homecoming.” Even though ^ I we don’t know all of you, when we realize you’re Nons and Eus, it’s just as if we were having a family reunion, because really you are our sisters and brothers. It may have been quite a long time since you entered the hal of black and gold, but it is stiU the same—there is still enclose within those four walls that feel ing of Dignity, Simplicity, and Conservatism. Yes, that indescrib able feeling is still there and al ways will be, but—have yod heard? Flans are under way renovation of the hall! For id stance? Well, we hope to paint the walls, and get new chairs and curtains. Yes, we think it sounds wonderful too, and with theJSlon-l Eu spirit, backed by the friendly I love of Clio-Phi, we know we can do it. I Now—we shall be conservative! with our words and in a simple>j dignified way, say “Welcome^ Alumni!” Hope Blanchard, Livingston Greene, Presidents. V' VETERANS (Continued from Page 4)' Cauley Peek, Asheville, N. C. Information not available. Eugene Reese', Mars Hill, N. Q One year with United States Navy; attached to ITSS Ponomint. John Frank Stanley, Ash, N. Q 40 months with Army Air Corps; attached to 13th Air Force; served 30 months in the Pacific theater; took part in the Solomons and New Guinea cam- I paigns. Mars Hillians (Continued from Page 1) ton (ionnelly, Jr. (‘45’, is pres> dent of the BSU at the Universit of Richmond and the state of V'’ ginia. Luther Morphis (‘43) devotional vice president of t' BSU of the state of North Cat lina. Bob Harris (’43) is preside of the BSU of Baylor UniversH! Ormand Williams (‘42) is preS dent of the BSU at Berea Colleg Raymond Martin (‘44) has serV^ as president of the BSU at t' College of Charleston. Je' Chandler (’43) has served president of the BSU at We Forest College. Margaret Sparks (‘39) K served as president of the at Furman university. Me* Sparks (‘45) is president of BSU of Furman university. R^' Hudson (‘43) served as B“ president at E.C.T.C. and is a member of the faculty of Hill college. ^ Prances Pope (‘44) repress the YWA on the BSU council Meredith college. Ronald (‘45) is devotional vice presi^^^®( of the BSU at Baylor universj
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