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Published by the Students of Mars Hill College
MARS HILL, N. C.. SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1949
Number 14
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^lars Hill Glee Club Members Touring
Central North Carolina This Weekend
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LUMNI
Walter Harrelson of Elizabeth
*^y, former student of MHC and
l^aduate of the University of
Carolina, has been awarded
* $1000 fellowship for study
jj'road by the faculty of Union
Geological Seminary, New York
®ity.
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John Barinegar, former MHC
*^'ident, who has achieved con-
’{Jerable recognition as tenor
^*'ger, presented a recital in Hill
^>1. Chapel Hill, March 27. A
haduate of the University of
Orth Carolina with an A.B. in
’'Osic, Mr. Brinegar is now a
^hdidate for the B.M. degree, and
receive his degree in August.
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Joyce Fite, a recent graduate of
*srs Hill College, is now holding
good position as secretary in the
I fice of A & P Company in Char-
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^ed Wheeler, Jr., graduate of
^rs Hill College and Wake For-
College, who received his Th.B.
!'gree from the Southern Baptist
Geological seminary, Louisville,
j Ged from New York March 18,
^*'r Peru, where he will serve as
•hissionary.
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K.^r. J. Walter Hendrix, Mars
1934, head of the department
j.* plant pathology at the Univer-
^ of Hawaii, has been chosen
^ member of a group of scien-
1^ '■s who will report to United Na-
"hs conference on conservation
® use of natural resources.
>■ G>r. Hendrix is the son of Mars
Sixty members of the Mars Hill
College Glee Club, under the di
rection of Mrs. Elizabeth Souther,
are making a tour this weekend of
central North Carolina.
Sunday morning, April 24, a
program will be given at West
Durham Baptist Church, of which
Dr. B. E. Morris is pastor. Sunday
night, April 24, the Glee Club will
sing^t the First Baptist Church,
Fayetteville, of which the Rever
end Louis S. Gaines is pastor.
Selections which will be used in
clude: a quartet, “O Lord Most
Holy,” by Frank, with soprano
obligato; a duet, “Love Divine” by
Stainer; the “One Hundred and
Fiftieth Psalm,” Landowski;
“There Was Great Darkness” by
Haydn; “The God Who Gave Us
Life” from “The Testament of
Freedom” by Randall Thompson,
sung by the men’s group; “List the
Cherubic Host,” Gaul, sung by the
girls; “The Battle Hymn of the
Republic” by Steffe-Ringwald;
“The Hallelujah Chorus” from
Handel’s Messiah.
Soloists to appear on the two
different programs are: Barbara
Morris, Martha Maxwell, and
Gretchen Rutfy, sopranos; Mar
garet Lee, contralto; Allen Brown
and Paul Barwick, tenors; Bob
Scalf and Harold Stevens, basses;
Johnny Brigman and Bill Atkins,
baritones.
Accompanists are Miss Martha
Biggers, Eddie Collins, and Bert
Clay Edwards. Robert Chapman
will be trumpeter in the selection
from “Testament of Freedom.”
graduates, and the great, great
Q^^idson of its founder, Mr. Ned
j^fter. He is a nephew of Mrs.
"Gp Smith of Mars Hill.
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^G>r. George W. Greene, profes-
of social science at Catawba
Salisbury, N. C., has been
head of that school’s newly
. ^nized Institute of World Gov-
"»nent.
n,^r. Greene, who was born in
of missionary parents, was
^'^'^ated at Mars Hill College,
Forest, and the University
Glorth Carolina.
B.S.U. Council
Attends Retreat
All of the members of the new
Baptist Student Union Council of
Mars Hill for 1949-50 will attend
the state B.S.U. Retreat at Durham
on April 22 and 23. The Watts
Street Baptist Church will be host
church for the meeting. Mr. Leon
ard Morgan Jr., state B.S.U., Presi
dent, and Mrs. James Ray, state
student secretary, will preside. The
purpose of the meeting is to elect
the state B.S.U. officers for the
coming school year and to have
forum groups to better fit new
B.S.U. officers of all the campuses
for their duties.
Banquet
Schedule
Business Club Alumni
Hold Annual Banquet
The annual Business Club Alumni Association meeting was held at
Mars Hill College, April 9.
The meeting began with the business session held in Moore 10 at
4:30 P.M. The new officers elected were: President, Rachel Swann;
Mars Hill Honor
Clubs to Attend
Joint Banquet
On May 17, 1949 a precedent
will be set when the members of
the honor clubs of Mars Hill Col
lege will be recognized at a joint
banquet at 7 p. m.
The Scriblerus Club will act as
host club for this annual affair;
Walter Smith, club president will
serve as master of ceremonies, and
Dr. Ella Pierce, head of the Eng
lish department, will introduce the
guest speaker for the evening. Dr.
Archibald Rutledge, author,
naturalist, teacher, lecturer, and a
member of the prominent Rutledge
family of South Carolina.
Dr. Rutledge lives on his Hamp
ton Plantation at McClellanville,
South Carolina, where he writes
and oversees the maintenance of
the plantation. A former teacher
and a contributor of some very
fine articles to several well-known
magazines. Dr. Rutledge is the au
thor of many books, among which
are Home by the River, Under the
Pines, The Heart’s Quest, Heart
of the South, God’s Dark Children,
Rain on the Marsh, Wild Life of
the South, and Life’s Extras. A
towering literary figure in the
south and poet laureate of South
Carolina by act of the legislature.
Dr. Rutledge is a true southern
gentleman.
It is the purpose of this banquet
to give distinction, heretofore un
paid, to the honor students of our
campus. It is hoped that these stu
dents will attend and enjoy it.
Students Attend
Inter-racial Meet On
Shaw Campus
Mr. Carl Harris, Frank Ingle,
Frank Ramsey, Davey Ward,
Thelma Angell, Betty Mayhugh,
and Janice Aiken represented the
Mars Hill Baptist Student Union
at an inter-racial conference at
Shaw University in Raleigh, on
April 2 and 3.
The main speaker at the meeting
was Mr. S. E. Grinstead, South
wide Secretary of the Negro
Young People’s work, from Nash
ville, Tennessee. There were seven
N. C. Negro colleges and six white
colleges represented.
Conferees Discuss Amendment
In the conferences the students
discussed the recent amendment
passed by the Baptist students at
the Fall convention in Gastonia.
This amendment stated that no in
vitation for the convention meet
ing would be accepted from any
churcli that would not invite Negro
delegates too. Also, from now on,
one Negro student is to be elected
to the council. At this conference
the Negro B.S.U. accepted this
amendment as a step forward in
inter-racial understanding. They
also discussed the possibility of
having both groups do their state
B.S.U. work as one convention.
vice-president, Paul Hudson; secre
tary, Regina Styles; and assistant
secretary, Charlene Williams. The
retiring officers were: Gordon
Funk, president; Rachel Swann,
vice-president; Betty L a z e n b y
Murdock, secretary; and Bryan
Coates, assistant secretary.
The banquet was held in the
Coyte Bridges Cafeteria at seven
o’clock. The speaker was Mr. Wil
liam Powell Hale, retired profes
sor of dramatics at Carson-New-
man College, Jefferson City, Ten
nessee. The program followed the
birthday theme in celebration of
the tenth anniversary.
Highlight of the evening was the
presentation of a gift of $600 for
stage furnishings for the proposed
alumni auditorium. This project is
to be continued another year in an
effort to increase this amount.
Also highlighting the evening’s
program was the naming of
Dorothy Spahr as winner of the
B. C. A. A. medal, which is award
ed each year by the Association to
the graduating member of the
Business Club who, in the opinion
of the faculty of the Department
best represents the ideals of the
Club, high scholarship, Christian
character, pleasing personality,
commendable deport ment, and
promise of future attainment.
A reception given by the Busi
ness Department faculty was held
in Huffman Parlor at 9:30.
Mars Hill Band Pre-
Students Hold Open House SCntS ConCCTt TPO
The Shaw students had open
house of their dormitories and
cafeteria during the conference.
Banquets to be held on campus
within the near future are: Pub
lications Banquet, April 26; BSU
Banquet, April 28; and Junior-
Senior Banquet, April 30. Write
ups of these social functions will
follow in the next edition of The
Hilltop.
Barbara Morris
Wins Goodman
Scholarship
Barbara Morris, soprano, won
the Samuel Goodman scholarship
in the state contest sponsored by
the Federated Music Clubs. The
finals were held at Meredith Col
lege, Raleigh, April 9.
The Goodman scholarship pro
vides for a summer’s study in the
Juilliard School of Music in New
York.
Miss Morris, first year student
at Mars Hill college, is the daugh
ter of Dr. B. E. Morris, pastor of
the West Durham Baptist Church.
She is prominent in musical activi
ties on the campus and has ap
peared as organist in Chapel serv
ices and as featured singer with
the band.
Student Body
Mars Hill college’s forty-six
piece band, under the direction of
James Hall, presented a program
of classical and modern musical
compositions in the college audi
torium Tuesday evening, April 5.
Music by Palestrina, Bach, Ber
lioz, and Fauehet was featured in
the opening part of the program.
Allen Putman of Greenville was
trombone soloist in Berlioz’s “Reci
tative and Prayer.” Also pre
sented on the program were Wag
ner’s “Eulogy,” Gould’s “Pavan-
ne,” and Clare Grundman’s
“American Folk Rhapsody.”
“American Folk Rhapsody” is
a setting for four of the lesser
known American Folk songs: “My
Little Mohee,” “Shantyman”s
Life,” “Sourwood Mountain,” and
“Sweet Betsy from Pike.”
Prominently featured on the
program were also Barbara Morris
of Durham, and Bill, Fred, and
Allen Mills of Columbus, Ga., who-
were presented under the name of
“Bobbie and the Bandsmen.” They
sang a group of popular songs, ac
companied by the band.