1949
260 Seniors To Be Graduated May 30
On Monday, May 30, approxi
mately two hundred and sixty
Seniors will file across the stage
of the Mars Hill College audi
torium to receive diplomas. This
graduation will be the climax of
two years of labor, fellowship, and
Christian living on the campus. It
Will also mark the ninety-second
Commencement of Mars Hill Col
lege. The week preceding the
graduation exercises will be filled
with the closing of exams, and the
(beginning of graduation activities.
Visitors to the campus, although
Welcome at all times throughout
the year, are especially welcome
during this period.
Commencement activities will
begin with the Art Exhibit and
Tea in Spiiman at 4:00 p.m., Fri
day, May 27. Miss Bowden’s pri
vate students whose work will be
displayed are: Ruth Bolt, Connie
Fahnestock, David McManaway,
Lamar Brigman, Jeanne Hamrick,
Nancy McCracken, Martha Hunt,
and others coming from some of
Miss Bowden’s regular classes.
Romeo and Juliet
Friday night at 8:00 p.m., the
commencement p r o d*u c tion of
“Romeo and Juliet” by the
Dramatics department will be per
formed in the amphitheater.
Leading members of the cast are:
Elaine Gibson, Juliet; Robert
Scalf, Romeo; John Brigman,
Friar Lawrence;' Beulah 'White,
Nurse to Juliet; Walter Smith,
Capulet; Robert Solomon, Mercu-
tio; Herbert Gray, Tybalt; Ru
dolph Singleton, Paris; John An
drews, Montague; Bob McKinney,
Peter. The production is being di
rected by Miss Imogene Cowan,
head of the dramatics department.
Saturday, May 28, has been .
designated as Society Day with
the Nonpareil, Euthalian, Clio, and-
Philomathian Societies competing
for the honors. All of the society
contests will be held in the college
auditorium. Representing Philo-
mathia with the Declamations at
9:30 a. m. are George West and
Walter Smith who will be vying
W’ith Euthalian speakers Frank
Litaker and Robert Wade. At
10:30 the girls’ societies will pre
sent the Dramatic Readings with
Elaine Gibson and Dot Owens
from Clio contesting with Non
pareil entrants, Barbara Morris
and Margaret Lee. At 11:45 the
societies will meet in Coyte
Bridges Dining Hall for the So
ciety Luncheon.
The afternoon session will begin
at 2:30 p. m. with Lloyd Rector
and Rudolph Singleton represent
ing Euthalia in the oration con
tests in opposition to Kelly Cau-
dell and Harold Newman of Philo-
mathia. The orations will be fol
lowed by the essays for Clio and
Nonpareil. Betty Gene Sanders
and Margaret Stewart will repre
sent Clio in the Essays and Netta
Sue Caudill and Jean Hamrick
will give Nonpareil’s essays. At
8:00 p. m. John McAllister and
John Claypool of Philomathia will
meet Dale Hooper and Bill Ever-
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Volume XXm
Published by the Students of Mars Hill College
MARS HILL, N. C., SATURDAY. MAY 14, 1949
Annual May Day Draws Large Crowd
Miss Mackie
Miss Caudill
Publications Hold Banquet;
Blliott And McLeod As Speakers
Hubert A. Elliott and Miss
^lyde McLeod of the staff of
Asheville Citizen were guest
speakers at the annual press ban-
'IPet at Mars Hill College Tuesday
®^ening.
Elliott spoke on the place of the
’'fiWspaper in social relations and
^^■I'essed the importance of the
South’s need to interpret itself to
‘*^elf.
Miss McLeod related her experi
ences as a beginning journalist
epd urged hopeful writers to prac
tice awareness and kindness.
The banquet, which was held in
the Blue Room of the college
dining hall, included members of
the staffs of The Hilltop and the
Laurel, and faculty advisers.
Miss Katherine Phillips, co
editor of the Laurel, made a brief
address of welcome; David Ander
son, editor of the Laurel, intro
duced new members of the staffs;
and Clyde Moody, editor of The
Hilltop, made a brief talk at the
close of the program. Bob Scalf,
baritone, sang two numbers dur
ing the evening.
Craig, Harris,
Wells Present
Music Recital
Harold Craig, tenor, Alma Har
ris, pianist, and Dollie Wells,
coloratura soprano, gave the last
recital of graduating music majors
of the year. May 5, in the college
auditorium at eight o’clock.
On the program Harold sang
Caccini’s Amarilli, Arne’s Preach
Me Not Your Musty Rules, Han
del’s Where E’er Ye Walk, Harn’s
I’ve Been Roaming, Rasbach’s
Trees, and MacDowell’s Thy
Beaming Eyes. Mr. Craig Was ac
companied by Miss Patricia Ro
berts.
Miss Harris played Haydn’s
Sonata in C Major, and Debussy’s
Arabesque. Miss Well’s sang Mo
zart’s Alleluia, Godard’s Lullaby,
Liebling’s Mother Dear, Delbes Les
Filles de Cadiz, and Strauss’s 'Voci
di Primavera. Miss Wells was ac
companied by Miss Beverly Cline.
Rutledge Speaks Tuesday
At Honor Club Banquet
Number 15
Attired in white satin, Maclyn
Mackie was crowned queen of the
May Court last Saturday after
noon in the amphitheater during
the annual May Day program. Joe
Miller, king of the May Court
crowned Maclyn, and Netta Sue
Caudill, Maid of Honor;, sat at the
left of the throne wearing a pale
blue gown.
C-II attendants were Anne Hol
brook, Barbara Myers, Janette
Jones, Laura Skinner, and Betty
Styles; C-I attendants were
Thelma Angell, Carolyn Ellington,
Margaret Lee, Jo Sloan, and Jean
Stevens. The girls wore lavender,
pale green, blue, and pink gowns.
Trumpeteers were Betty Harper
and Ruby Putnam, and pages were
Barbara Mori-is and Betty Hous
ton.
“Cinderella,” a May Day adap
tation of the old fairy tale, by
Phyllis Ann Gentry, Mars Hill
alumna, was presented also with
Seroba Ware starring and with
accompaniment of the college
band.
Miss 'Virginia Hart, director of
the woman’s physical education
department, directed the program.
B.S.U. Banquet
Held April 28
Mars Hill College annual Bap
tist Student Union banquet was
given for the new officers on the
evening of April 28, in the Home
Economics Department. Music was
the theme of the banquet, and the
maestro for the evening was Frank
Ingle, retiring B. S. U. president,
who turned the baton over to John
Claypool, president for next year.
Included in the program was an
original story about all the B. S.
U. members read by Janet Harris.
Dean Prince gave a talk; then C-II
B. S. U. members sang “The Or
chestra Song.” After remarks by
Mr. Kendall, the program was
closed by the singing of “Spirit of
B. S. U.”
MHC Students
Win Places In
Forensics Meet
At the annual Grand National
Forensics Tournament held at
Mary Washington College, Fred
ericksburg, Virginia, during April
13-16, Mars Hill College made an
excellent showing. One of the few
junior colleges invited to attend
the tournament. Mars Hill won
more contests than any other col
lege represented.
Headed by Mr. Ramon De-
Shazo and Miss Imogene Cowan
of the Speech Department, the
group representing the College
was comprised of the following:
Janet Harris and Doris Ann Link,
composing the negative debating
team; John McAllister and Shirley
Schellenberg composing the af
firmative debating team; Elaine
Gibson, winner of the College
dramatic reading contest; and
Dale Hooper, winner of the Col
lege oration contest.
Doris Ann Link won first place
in the book review and poetry
reading contests; Janet Harris
won first place in the infoi’mative
Speech, and Shirley Schellenberg
won first place in the response to
the occasion. Miss Harris was also
voted outstanding in the discus
sion on world affairs. The affirma
tive team won four debates out of
seven; and the negative team,
three out of seven. Elaine Gibson
won second place in the national
dramatic reading finals.
Archibald Rutledge, prominent
author of Hampton Plantation,
MoClellanville, S. C., will speak
at the joint honor club banquet in
Coyte Bridges dining hall, Tues
day, May 17, at 7 o’clock on the
subject “Nature and Human Na
ture”.
For many years a professor at
Mercersburg Academy, a noted
Pennsylvania preparatory school,
Mr. Rutledge has a wide repu
tation as a teacher, a contributor
to magazines, a lecturer, and an
author of both prose and poetry.
Among his books are Home by
the River, God’s Dark Children,
and Wild Life of the South. Mr.
Rutledge has been officially desig
nated poet laureate of South Caro
lina.
Walter Smith, president of the
Scriblerus Club, will preside at
the banquet. The invocation will
be given by Dr. Hoyt Blackwell,
president of Mars Hill College.
Musical numbers will include:
“Ah May the Red Rose Live Al
ways” by Foster-Riegger, sung by
a girls sextette, with violin obli
gato played by Kathleen Robinson;
“Sun Down” to the Londonderry
Air, by the string ensemble with
Martha Maxwell as soloist; and
“The Year’s afthe Spring”, Noble
Cain, under the direction of Allen
Brown.
The program will close with the
entire assemblage singing the col
lege “Alma Mater”.
Recognition Day
Observed On
Campus; Awards
Presented
Recognition Day was observed
at Mars Hill College Monday, May
8, with a program in the audi
torium.
Awards were presented by spon
sors of the respective groups to
students who had done outstand
ing work in the following fields:
religious activities, publications,
forensics, dramatics, music and
athletics.
Dean Lee introduced the new
Marshals, who came forward to
receive their regalia from the out
going 1948-49 Marshals.
Mr. L. H. Winkle of Asheville
presented football trophies, which
he donated, to outstanding foot
ball players. Bill Myer, John
Saunders, and Dudley Nelson.
Barbara Morris sang a solo and
a brass quartet played a selection.