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Dr. R. Paul Caudill, pastor of First Baptist Church of Memphis,
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^tudents Present
Senior Recital
The Youth Revival is sponsored
by the Baptist Student Union of
Mars Hill College.
Dr. Caudill is a former student
and B. S. U. president of Mars
Hill. He was graduated from
Wake Forest College and received
his Th.M. and Ph.D. degrees
from the Southern Baptist Theo
logical Seminary at Louisville,
Kentucky. Dr. Caudill is the Ten
nessee member of the Southern
Baptist Convention Executive
Committee and is Chairman of
the Finance and Baptist World
Alliance Relief Committees. He
is also the author of the 1949
edition of Broadman Comments,
a commentary on the Internation
al Sunday School lesson series.
Revival services will be opened
Sunday evening, Feb. 27, by Dr.
Blackwell and will be closed by
him on March 6. Dr. Caudill will
speak at the evening services
Monday through Friday. The
Saturday night service will be
student directed. Student speakers
will have charge of all the chapel
and watch services during the
week.
^our students in the Music De
partment of Mars Hill college will
® presented in senior recital
ursday evening, March 10, at
®ight o’clock in the college audi-
^^rium. They are: Valeria Wal-
of Rocky Mount, soprano;
ames Crisp, of Candler, pianist;
^Pey Cook, of Clemmons, pian-
® > and Maclyn Mackie, of
Ppnite Palls, flutist.
Each student will give a gi-oup 111 healtn nas ui
numbers in the special field of prevented Dr. Sams from tekmg
y- In addition Mr. Crisp will
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MHC Debaters
Plan To Enter •
Tourney
Trying out for the debating
team this year are Janet Harris,
Doris Link, Harold Newman, Gor
don Middleton, Frank Ingle, John
McAllister, Dale Hooper, Shirley
Schellenberg, Elaine Gibson, and
Bill Everhart. The query is on
federal aid to education, and the
finals will take place at Mary
Washington college on April 13
through 16. Four debaters will
represent Mars Hill at this grand
national tournament which is one
of the few that is open to junior
colleges.
Debaters planned to participate
in the South Atlantic debates at
Lenoir-Rhyne in Hickory, but it
was decided to limit the number
of attendants to senior collegians.
“Something ought to be done
about this, or soon there will be
no tournaments open to junior
colleges,” says Mr. Ramon De-
Shazo, debating sponsor. “Maybe
Mars Hill will be the college to
do it.”
Appalachian State Teachers
College played host to Mars Hill
debaters, Saturday February 12,
in an inter-collegiate, non-decision
debate with Boone teams. Mars
Hill will welcome Boone students
in a return debating contest next
month.
Life Adjustment Week
To Be Observed At MHC
Dr. O. E. Sams
Seventy-Second
Dr. 0. E. Sams, vice-president
of Mars Hill college, observed
on February 5, his 72nd birthday.
Ill health has in recent years
Observes
Birthday
Mars Hill Band
Makes Week-end
Concert Tour
The MHC band, under the di
rection of Mr. James Hall, is plan
ning a tour which will include
concerts given at Morganton,
February 25, Roanoke, February
26, and tentatively an afternoon
concert at Virginia Interment, at
Bristol on Sunday, February 27.
They will present a campus con
cert on Thursday evening March
17. Tentative plans are being
made for later tours to North
Wilkesboro and Hendersonville.
Classical selections to be pre
sented in these concerts will be;
“The Major’s Battalion,” by
March;'“Adoramus te and Santus,”
by Palestina; “If Thou Be Near,”
by Bach; and “Prelude and Fugue
in B P’lat Minor,” by Bach.
Slections from the romantic era
will be “Recitative and Prayer”
(featuring a trombone solo by
Allen Putnam) by Berlioz. “Sym
phony in B Flat, Fivoli” by Fau-
chet will be a selection from mod
ern symphonic music.
Numbers from the popular
group will be “Stout-hearted
Men,” “Kiss in the Dark,” “Inter
mezzo,” and “The Night Was
Made For Love.” The program
will conclude with “Eulogy” by
Wagner, “Pavanne,” by Gould,
and “American Folk Rhapsody,”
by Grundman.
Featuring chapel presentations
by Dr. and Mrs. Robert Dyer of
Gardner-Webb Junior College,
and two programs, prior to their
arrival, on Student Adjustment
Problems, the Life Adjustment
Week activities will be presented
March 7-11.
For a number of years this
program has centered around vo
cational emphasis. This year, how
ever, the B. S. U. Council and
the Personnel Department, co
sponsors of the event, have felt
that a consideration for several
adjustment areas rather than one
would be more beneficial.
Chapel programs on Monday
and Tuesday will be forums, one
consisting of students and one of
faculty members. Each group will
discuss, in round-table fashion.
Student Adjustment Problems.
The student group will be com
posed of Bill Everhart—discussion
leader, Rachel Ammons, Polly
Watts, Bryan Coates, and Tom
Tobey; the faculty group will in
clude Mr. Pickering—discussion
leader, Mrs. Souther, Miss Under
wood, Mr. Ford and Mr. HighfilL
Programs for the remainder of
the week will present Dr. and Mrs.
Dyer, who will talk on specific
areas of adjustment. Dr. Dyer,
Guidance director at Gardner-
Webb Junior College, comes to
ns with a fine record of achieve
ment in developing an effective
student guidance and personnel
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an active part in college activi
ties He maintains, however, his
interest in church and school and
as accompanist for Miss Wal-
-w,® '^ocal numbers. Miss Cook .
V accompany Miss keeps in close tone wi ^ ^
fluteher selections on the
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But'^ "’Bl be “Have You Seen
En Lily Grow,” an old
By it' air’ and “The Cuckoo”
lac . sung by Valeria Wal-
Bfan* by Haydn,
Cook; “The Lament of
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by
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“Lg ^^J'boven’ James Crisp; and
Jaipe ° Cyril Scott, piano duo.
Crisp and Nancy Cook.
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recitals by music
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has served as sponsor and coun
selor for ministerial students and
as an honorary deacon in the Mars
Hill Baptist church. When his
health permits, he is a faithful at
tendant at religious services.
Dr. Sams is recognized as one
of the leaders in Christian edu
cation in this region. He held sev
eral pastorates over a long term of
years. He was president of Carson-
Newman college 1920-27 and
president of Bluefield college,
Bluefield, West Virginia, 1927-30.
During his active years at Mars
Hill, Dr. Sams was instrumentel
in furthering the building and en
dowment programs of the school.
Born at Flag Pond, Tennessee,
Dr. Sams was reared in the Mars
Hill community. He was educated
at Mars Hill, Wake Forest, and
Rochester Theological Seminary.
He holds honorary degrees from
Carson-Newman and Wake Forest.
Among other positions of honor
and responsibility which Dr. Sams
held, he has been a member of
the board of trustees of Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary.
Polly Watts
Competes For
Nursing Award
Miss Polly Watts, C-I, has been
selected to represent North Caro
lina Baptist Hospital School of
Nursing in the State-wide Linda
Richards award contest, it has
been announced by Miss Edna L.
Heinzerling, director of the school.
Polly, who now works in the
college infirmary, represented
Baptist Hospital and District Two
of the State Nurses’ Association in
the finals of last year’s Miss
North Carolina Student Nurse
contest. She completed her work
at the hospital Sept. 1, 1948. She
maintained a scholastic rating of
90 while a student nurse and
served as president of the Baptist
Hospital Student Government, as
student representative at the State
Association’s convention in Ashe
ville in 1947 and at the Baptist
State Convention the same year.
In recommending her for the
award. Miss Heinzerling described
Miss Watts as “a good public
speaker,” and she said, “She is
alert and enthusiastic, uses good
judgment and is emotionally
stable.”
Noted Baritone Presents
Concert Here Tonight
February 6, at 8:00 P.M., Steven Kennedy, baritone, presented a
recital in the Mars Hill College Auditorium. His program included
“Largo,” from Xerxes, by Handel; the aria, “Toreador Song,” from
Carmen; a group of English, Italian, and German songs; a group of
American Folk Songs; selections from Rudolf Friml; as well as others.
Mr. Kennedy is represented as " ' - -
one of America’s great recitalists.
He has sung 23 lyric baritone roles
in grand opera in Europe. He
made his European debut in
Naples in the role of elder Ger-
mont in La Traviata. Following
this he sang in Italy, France, Hol
land and Switzerland, receiving
high praise throughout the tour.
Returning to America, he made
appearances in concerts and as so
loist with symphony orchestras. In
1947 he sang in concert at Town
Hall. He has also sung with the
New York City Center Opera
Company and has been a guest
artist on many national CBS radio
programs. During the war he
served with the Armed Forces and
later with the USO. Mr. Kennedy
has been highly praised by re
views in papers throughout all
parts of the United States.
Mr. Kennedy comes to Mars
Hill as one of the regular lyceum
numbers engaged by the Enter
tainment Committee, of which
Mr. Ralph Ashworth, of the Sci
ence Department, is chairman.
The College is fortunate to have
Steven Kennedy
artists of outstanding distinction
appear on the campus. Music stu
dents and others who enjoy goodl
mu.sic find concerts by such musi
cians as Mr. Kennedy a rare treat.