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Published by the Students of Mars Hill College
Volume XXm
MARS HILL. N. C.. SATURDAY. JANUARY 29. 1949
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Dr. Gerald Wendt Speaks
Tonight in Mars Hill
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Three students graduated from
.Mars Hill College at the end of
the first semester. They are Mar
garet M. Howell, William C. Mc-
Iver, and Joseph R. Eller.
Margaret is planning to teach
in grammar school next semester
aear her home in Roanoke, Ala
bama. Next fall she will enter Fur
man University where she will con
tinue her liberal arts course which
she began here. She plans to be
come an English teacher. While
a student at Mars Hill, Margaret
bas belonged to the Scriblerus
club, the M-blem club, and Non
pareil Literary Society. She was
also B.S.U. president during the
last summer term.
William, better known as Bill,
is from Marion, N. C. He is going
to Clemson next semester. There
be plans to begin a pre-med
course. Bill played football both
this year and last. He belonged to
the M-Club and to Philomathian
Literary Society.
Joseph will enter Furman next
-semester. There he will continue
bis liberal arts course. He is a
ministerial student. Joseph entered
Mars Hill in the fall of 1947 and
attended summer school here last
summer. He lives in Asheville, and
commutes daily.
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loginning Monday morning,
^anuary 31^ ^t 8:30 o’clock,
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reser'*^*^^ 5. A room cannot be
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room deposit is paid. If
cqjj already in one of the
^bich^ f^uildings then the $6.00
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^■50 session.
Frances Snelson,
■'Assistant to the President.
Dr. Gerald Wendt, Editor of
Science Illustrated, and distin
guished author of Science for the
World of Tomorrow and The
Atomic Age Opens, speaks to
Mars Hill College students tonight
at eight o’clock in the College
Auditorium. Dr. Wendt uses as his
subject, “Vast Public Domain
Created by Science.”
Giving up a career in scientific
research in 1938 to become di
rector of science and education at
the New York World’s Fair, Dr.
Wendt became science editor of
Time magazine. During World
War I, he was captain in the
United States Chemical Warfare
Service. For seven years, he was
dean of the School of Chemistry
and Physics at Pennsylvania State
College, and also has been associ
ate professor of chemistry at the
University of Chicago.
Dr. Wendt mentions the Louisi
ana Purchase of 1810 and the
Alaskan purchase in 1867 as top
national expenditures. However,
they both proved to be “superb
investments.” “Today we spend
billions and get that much bigger
Dr. Wendt
returns,” states Dr. Wendt. Scien
tific research belongs to the
American people, and a great
future lies ahead for America. Dr.
Wendt predicts that “there will be
more changes in the way we live
in the next ten years than there
have been in he past fifty.” He
will discuss the problems arising
from American capital invested in
chemical research.
Former Faculty
^embers Announce
I^aughter’s Marriage
r>r. and Mrs. Walter E. Wilkins,
Jacksonville, Fla., both former
^embers of the Mars Hill faculty,
ave announced the marriage of
® 1 r daughter. Miss Kathrine
Gene Wilkins, to Knut Erik Tra-
Oslo, Norway.
"Tbe Wedding took place on New
®ar s Day in Oslo, with the bride
faring the traditional Norwegian
ding costume. Mr. and Mrs.
ranoy will reside in Paris, where
*'• Tranoy is on the staff of the
arnegie Foundation for Interna-
Peace.
Ijames and Moody
Submit Plays to
Drama Festival
Two Mars Hill College students,
Nancy Ijames and Clyde G.
Moody, have submitted original
plays to the 1949 Drama Festival
which will be held at Chapel Hill
in March. Each year the plea is
sent out from the University of
North Carolina for college and
high school students to enter their
original plays in the annual Drama
Festival which is sponsored by the
Carolina Dramatic Association.
This year. Tied, an American
mountain comedy, by Clyde G.
Moody, and Without Alimony, a
comedy devoted to the theme of
divorce, by Nancy Ijames, are be
ing submitted to the festival. Miss
Ijames wrote Without Alimony
this year and submitted it to the
MHC creative writing class for
criticism. Mr. MoodS^’s play was
written last summer while he was
studying creative writing at Wof
ford College and was also sub
mitted to the Mars Hill creative
writing class for criticism. If they
are accepted by the Carolina
Dramatic Association, they will be
produced in the Playmaker’s The
atre in Chapel Hill in March.
The Dramateers will also pre
sent a one-act play by a profes
sional author. This play has not
been chosen yet, but it will be se
lected soon and rehearsals begun
immediately in preparation for the
trip to Chapel Hill.
Betty Gene Sanders and Betty
Ferrell recently submitted short
stories to the magazine, Tomor
row. They will be entered in the
Miss F. Snelson
Represents MHC
At Programs
January 13, 1949, Miss Frances
Snelson, assistant to Dr. Black-
well, attended the annual college
day program at Greensboro high
school, as Mars Hill’s representa
tive. There were twenty-eight col
leges and universities represented.
Miss Snelson also attended the
college day observance at Boyden
high school in Salisbury, January
14. Twenty-one colleges were rep
resented there. These college day
programs were inaugurated sev
eral years ago for the purpose of
affording to high school seniors
the opportunity to consult repre
sentatives of various colleges and
acquire information concerning
institutions of higher learning.
Miss Snelson stated that she
interviewed many students who
were interested in coming to Mars
Hill College next session.
National Short Story Collegiate
Contest sponsored by Tomorrow.
Miss Sanders has entitled her story
“Like Mother, Like Daughter.”
The name of the story written by
Miss Ferrell is “Socrates Brought
to Life in 1948.”
Mademoiselle announces a short-
story contest for young women be
tween the ages of eighteen and
thirty. One thousand dollars in
prizes will be awarded to winners.
Further information is available
in The Hilltop office.
Honor Clubs
Hold Election
of Officers
The honor clubs have elected
their officers to serve during the
second semester. The Scriblerus
club officers are: president, Wal
ter Smith, Pensacola, Florida;
vice-president; Lit a Mauldin,
Charlotte; and secretary-treasurer,
Shirley Robertson, Richmond, Vir
ginia. The officers of the French
club are: president, David Ander
son, Mars Hill; vice-president,
Geneva Ammons, Mars Hill; and
secretary, Roberta Lucas, Gas
tonia. The officers of the Spanish
club are: president, Anne Bailey,
Pensacola, Florida; vice-president,
Linda Hudspeth, Winston-Salem;
and ’secretary, George Ingram,
Richmond, Virginia.
The, International Relations club
has elected: president, Janet Har
ris, Thomasville; program vice-
president, John McAllister, Ra
leigh; social vice-president, Mil
dred Swann, Statesville; and sec
retary, Beulah Johnson, Quantico,
Virginia. Leary Reid, Jacksonville,
Alabama, is president of the
Science club, and the other of
ficers are: vice-president, Shirley
Schellenburg, Lancaster, South
Carolina, and secretary, Martha
Norman, Cherry Lane.
Minimum requirements for mem
bership in the honor clubs are:
thirty or more quality points
earned during the preceding
semester, a grade of at least B
on the subject represented by
the club, and no grade below C.
C-I’s meeting the preceding and
other specific requirements of the
various clubs will be invited to
join at the beginning of spring
semester.
Blackwell, Lee
Attend Council
Dean R. M. Lee and President
Hoyt Blackwell spent January 18
and 19 in Raleigh, attending the
first 1949 meeting of the North
Carolina Baptist Education Coun
cil.
Presidents, deans and members
of the boards of trustees from the
six Baptist colleges in the State
compose the Council. The colleges
are: Campbell, Gardner - Webb,
Mars Hill, Meredith, Wake Forest,
and Wingate. The Rev. W. Perry
Crouch, of Asheville, chairman of
the Committee on Education of
the North Carolina Baptist Con
vention, is president of the Coun
cil.
The Council operates through
the following committees: Finance,
Correlation, Christian Emphasis,
and Church-School Relations. The
July meeting of the Council will
be held at Mars Hill College.
Music Depart
ment Sponsors
Choral Clinic
on Campus
Next week, February 4 and 6,
the Music Department of Mars
Hill College will sponsor a Choral
Clinic on our campus. This clinic
will be composed of 15 music di
rectors and 106 high school stu
dents froiii high school glee clubs
over Western North Carolina, who
will be directed by Paul Young
of the University of North Caro
lina. Students from the following
schools will participate: Black
Mountain, Weaverville, Valdese,
Lee Edwards High School in Ashe
ville, Newton-Conover, Shelby,
Belmont, Hendersonville, Moores-
ville. Mars Hill, North Wilkesboro,
Cramerton, Dallas, and Waynes-
ville.
A full schedule is planned for
the students. Arriving on the cam
pus Friday morning, they will be
gin rehearsals immediately. Friday
night they will be entertained at a
banquet in the College Cafeteria.
Mr. Paul B. Fry, director of music
in the Albermarle Schools, and
president of the North Carolina
Choral Association has been in
vited to speak at the banquet.
Saturday morning rehearsals will
be resumed and brought to a cli
max with a concert Saturday
night.
STUDENTS TRAINED
IN LEADERSHIP
Included in the concert will be
such folk tunes as the “Orchestra
Song” by William Schuman; the
“Ballad of Brother,” a recent
work of Joseph Wagner; and the
concert will conclude with the
well-known “Gloria” by Mozart.
Several stu’dents of Voice at Mars
Hill College are being trained to
lead the different choral groups.
They are: Gretchen Rufty and
Martha Maxwell, sopranos; Janice
Aiken and Margaret Lee, altos;
Allen Brown and Oscar Northern,
tenors; Bill Stapleton and Harold
Stevens, basses.
Mrs. Elizabeth Logan Souther,
Mr. Elwood Roberts, and Mrs.
James Hall compose the Clinic
committee here on the campus.
This Clinic will be the first held
in Western North Carolina. The
purpose of the clinic is to stimu
late interest in choral music in
this part of the state. Ton'-'>>'ve
plans of the Music Department in
clude annuS' clinics sponsoredPby^^
the College.
Mr. Young is an Associate Pro
fessor of Music at the University
of North Carolina, where he has
been for the past three years. He
obtained his B.S. at the Uni
versity of Ohio and his M.A. at
Columbia University and was a
member of the Adjudication Board
for the annual State Choral Con
test last year. Besides teaching
voice at U. N. C., he is the Di
rector of the 176 voice men’s
chorus and the 160 voice women’s
chorus. He is well-known in his
work and has conducted choral
clinics of this sort throughout the
eastern part of the United States.
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