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MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS HILL, N. C„ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1950
Number 9
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Make
in’s List For
odeo Ass«st Semester
as their teJ
Veek. Wildly C-I’s and forty-five C-II’s
“enforce*i^rned on the Dean’s list this
ve days, and of those, two C-II’s
ful week C-I’s made fifty or more
il Intercoll^- Gene Stewart, a C-II from
Tex. N. C., made the highest
)f the everf®^’ fifty-seven. C-I’s listed
of the Altman, Newberry, S.
} will reigi^'*®®” Ammons, Stocksville;
from all N» Anderson, Mars Hill; De-
odeo Sch^ Balnton, Kings Mountain;
iouthwe^^ Bowen, Chesnee, S. C.;
luib will Newton; Roy Camp-
1 which Ga.; Lellon Carden,
jh class Alda Jean Clarke, Mars
mpete. Alice Cook, Clinton; William
Southport; Joseph Davis of
iibethton; J o s i e Douglas,
htdale; David Early, Winston
lation ha^; Bonnie Sue Eller, Pickens,
)us of W..; Jo Ann Ferguson, Sonora,
e German James Forte, New Smyrna
r you malh, Florida; John Thomas Forl-
3 a rather Rutherfordton; Mary Alice
s institu^an, Chapel Hill; John Hurt,
in, no o-lotte; Sammy Jean Johnson,
other th%h; Thomas Kostic, Pottsville,
to the gi.; Dixon Lackey, Asheville;
up in the'Lide, Greenville, S. C.; Win-
langua^Luffman, State Road; Wilma
ae drawW Lynn, Raleigh; Betsy McGee,
rhe collegston-Salem; J a n i e v e Mast,
oiwards fston Salem; Robert Melvin, St
ember, n«ls; Farol Metcalf, Stocksville;
valuable 'bie Nicholson, Penrose; Vivian
rticipant.5, New Orleans, La.; Julian
rs the coks, Halifax; Talmage Penland,
c is at ni«®yBle; Carey Perry, Louisburg;
ests are®n Jean Poston, Mooresville;
les Reeves, Walnut; William
be inau/^,'®’ ^^Fnapolis; Patsy Rogers,
e with Rumbough, Mars
semester^ Kannapolis;
of tViP Ellen Swann, Statesville;
College B®tty
nnhasisD^ Turner, Mocksville; Helen
te The Wisner Washam
s On List
/'^I ® who were named on the
einer, jm’s List were Thelma Angel,
of the Jlonapolis; Marjorie Barnes, Suf-
-.ake Va.; Mary Chambless, Savan-
all to t , Ga.; John Claypool, Nash-
:d by tire, Tenn.; Rebecca Cumby, Rin-
rartmen'd, Va.; Erma Jean Danner,
the Ai*>napolis.
-^lark Davis, Greenville; Jean
ige: al, Gastonia; Jimmy DeBruhl,
''inkle, "Zander; Dorothy Dixon, Wil-
0®, Bert Clay Edwards, Mars
irrived , Gerry Possum, Miami, Fla.
16. a n c e s Foster, Wilkesboro
inning’arles Clanville, Baltimore, Md.,
lince la-ldred Hendrix, Murphy; Lou
neetingiffin, Albemarle; Richard Herr-
ecided inn, Dundalk, Md.; Mae Prances
Id coiJi^hnson, Waynesboro, Ga.; Mar-
ret Lee, Mars Hill; Barbara Lil-
Mars Hill; Doris Link, Hic-
^^ncy McCracken, Knox-
nt Li” le, Tenn.; Gordon Middleton,
Barbara Morris, Durham;
iny Ruth Parker, Asheville; John
Ashevlle; Jo Pittard,, Al-
•ny, Ga.; Jeanne Ramsey, Kin-
( 3n; A.nne Reagan, Asheville;
Aa Sue Richardson, Richland,
3-; Betty Jean Riddle, Kanna-
*hs; Nancy Rogers, Asheville;
»yce Sherrill, Canton; Katherine
h C*Ltes, Hickory; Jo Sloan, Char-
tte, S. C.; Gay Smith, Ludowici,
Cl Class Officers (1. to r.): Jack Price, president; Betsy Baker, treas
urer; Joyce Phillips, secretary; Ted Haggai, vice-president.
Cl’s Here Are The Facts
About You And Your Class
Of the 912 students we have
enrolled at Mars Hill, 529 of these
are C-I’s. The C-I class has 291
boys, while the girls fall a little
behind with 238. There are 38
veterans in the class, which is an
equal number with the C-II’s. In
the entire student body, we have
1C states represented. We have 1
from the British Indies, 1 from
Brazil, 2 from Cuba, 2 from
Hawaii, 2 from Guatemala, and 1
from Portugal.
On the campus we have 718
Baptists, including both classes.
The C-I class, however, claims 432
of this number. The next highest
religious sect in the C-I class is
the Methodists, who have 67. We
have 18 Presbyterians, 7 Episco
palians, 6 Christian, 3 Congrega-
tionalist Christian, 1 Protestant, 3
Lutherans, and 2 Moravians. Of
the entire C-I class we have only
8 non-members.
Student.=> From
Many Areas
Perhaps you would like to know
the states from which the C-I’s
come. North Carolina leads, of
course, with 374. Virginia comes
2nd with 49, with South Carolina
almost tieing them with a total of
43. Florida boasts of 27, Georgia
of 16, Tennessee of 7, Pennsyl
vania of 5, Maryland of 5, New
York of 4. Kentucky, W. Virginia,
Alabama, and D. C. have 2 each,
while Indianna and Louisianna
have 1 each.
Buncombe county has the larg
est representation here with a total
of 78. The next five are: Mecklan-
burg, 43; Madison, 42; Forsyth,
34; Wake, 30 and Caldwell, 25.
Did you know that 142 of the
C-I’s do not know what they plan
to take as their profession? We
have, however, 46 ministerial stu
dents, 42 business students, 32
engineering students, 27 teachers,
Ga.; Williiam Snyder, Asheville;
Gene Sewart, Andrews; Thom
Sumner, Asheville; Eveleen Tay
lor, Valdese; Lacy 'Phornburg,
Huntersville; Dewey Wells, Hen
derson; Martha Whitehead, Le
noir; and Guy Wiggins, Franklin.
Cl's In Athletics
The C-I’s have 4 of their class
mates on the cheerleading team of
the school. Charlie Tomlinson, that
tall blondheaded fellow came from
Winston Salem, North Carolina,
and is interested in dramatics.
Louise George, who comes from
the capital city of our state, is un
decided as to her vocation. From
Boone, North Carolina, comes Ila
Graham, and she plans to be a
teacher. Ruth Ellen Monroe repre
sents High Point, North Carolina,
and she plans to be one of those
secretaries, too.
The class has something to be
really proud of in the C-I basket
ball team. Right now they are
leading in the intramural sports
with 8 wins and 1 loss.
Everyone is invited to the brief
informal parties in the girls’
dorms immediately afttr the
Glee Club concert on Tuesday
night.
‘‘Christ Only, Always” Theme
For Youth Revival, Feb. 19-26
36 secretarial students, and 24
Religious Ed students. Thirty-nine
different fields are represented by
the choices of the remaining C-I’s.
Let’s introduce you to our out
standing C-I’s in their different
activities. Beginning with our class
officers, we find that Jack Price
is a veteran who hails from Roan
oke, Virginia, planning on being a
minister. Ted Haggai, that veteran
with a mustache, comes from Bing-
hampton. New York, and his
interest lies in being an electrical
engineer. The red-headed gal who
takes all those $1 bills is Joyce
Phillips. Joyce comes from Port
Mill, South Carolina, and is in
terested in welfare work. Betsy
Baker, who is the treasurer of the
class and in the May Court, was
born in nearby Asheville. She is
interested in being an X-Ray Tech
nician. The other members of the
May Court are: Jane Holtzclaw,
who comes from Asheville, but has
no preferences for a vocation;
Carolyn Havner, who plans on be
ing one of those secretaries, comes
from Charlotte; Mary Howard
Frank, from Fayetteville, plans to
be a teacher.
Furman Singers
Stage Concert
The Furman University Singers,
an eighty voice mixed chorus, will
appear at Mars Hill College on
February 14.
Directed by DuPre Rhame, pro
fessor of voice at the university,
the Singers will present a program
of sacred music, operatic and light
operatic selections.
The program will open with the
Furman University Alma Mater
and will be followed by a group of
sacred songs including “Unfold Ye
Portals,’’ “How Lovely Is Thy
Dwelling Place,” and Adams’ “The
Holy City.”
Miss Jeannine McDonald of
Louisville, Kentucky, soprano, and
Miss Betty Jean Seymour of Flor
ence, contralto, will sing the duets,
“Tutti, Fior” from Puccinis’ “Ma
dame Butterfly” and the “Barcar
olle” from “The Tales of Hoff
man” by Offenbach.
The mixed chorus with the
solists. Misses McDonald, Seymour,
Craft, and Cator, Messrs. 'Wilton
Fowler and Boyd Hicks, will pre
sent the Easter Scene from Masca
gni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana,” the
chorus of the ‘.‘Cigarette Girls”
from Bizet’s “Garmon” and “When
The Foeman Bears His Steel”
from “The Pirates of Penzance.”
The Furman Men’s Glee Club
will sing ‘Matona, Lovely Maiden,’
Schubert’s “Ave Maria” with Bob
by 'Watson of Anderson as solist,
“Were You There,” Ezekiel Saw
De Wheel” and the Drinking Song
from Romberg’s “The Student
Prince.”
One of the highlights and prob
ably most enjoyed numbers will be
portions of Tchaikovsky’s “The
Nutcracker Suite.” •
The program bill be concluded
with McLean’s arrangements of
Victor Herbert favorites, “Dry
Bones,” “You’ll Never Walk
Alone,” and “Battle Hymn of the
Republic.”
The chorus this year is compos
ed of members from eleven States.
Included in the chorus are three
former Mars Hillians, Eunice
Hiatt, Ann Holbrook, and Mary
Lou Joyce.
Volunteers Hold
Meet January 31
The Volunteers for Christ held
their monthly meeting Tuesday
night, January 31, in the Clio-Phi
hall. A devotion on “God’s Minor
ity” was given by Julia Almeida,
and Bonnie Pearce introduced the
speakers. Martha Stallings related
her experiences conducting Vaca
tion Bible Schools last summer;
Lou Griffin told of her work with
the Training Union department,
and Louise Norwood told of life
as a Ridgecrest staffer.
Mission work of the Volunteers
was reported by Jeanne Ramsey.
“Christ Only, Always” will be
the theme of the annual Youth
Revival of Mars Hill College which
will be held February 19-26. Dr.
Theodore Adams from the First
Baptist Church in Richmond; Vir
ginia is to be the guest speaker.
He and ten of our students will
have alternating chapel programs.
The students are Milton Snyder,
Jean Mason, Jean Ramsey, John
Claypool, Thelma Angel, Harold
House, Sarah Peedin, Bob Melvin,
Bill Huff, and Charles GlanviUe.
Services are to be in the church
each evening at 7:30. John Clay
pool will preside over the evening
services.
In preparation for the revival,
a student service was held Thurs
day, February 9. The theme of this
service was “Hour Of Power,”
and was sponsored by the Minis
terial Conference.
It was decided to have this
spring an outstanding minister to
lead in the Youth Revival rather
than have the services . wholly
student-sponsored. Students will,
however, play a major role and the
active participation of everyone is
urged. ‘
College Band
Gives Concert
The 45 piece Mars Hill College
Concert Band will give its annual
Winter Concert Saturday night,
February 18, at 8:00.
Soloists for the program include:
Miss Lucille Sawyer, who will per
form the Greig “Piano Concerto in
A Minor” with the band and Messrs
Joe Pritchard, Allan Mills, David
Gaddy, and Max Harless, who will
present two modern trumpet quar-
let numbers accompanied by the
band.
The program- will consist of the
“First Movement of the Piano
Concerto in A Minor” by Greig,
featuring Miss Sawyer and the
band; “Kom Susser Tod,” a power
ful chorale by Bach; the famous,
lively classical “Overture to the
Bahber of Seville” by Rossini; “The
Klaxon,” a terrific new march
based on the tones of the old
Klaxon auto horn; three selections
from “Gayne” filled with Russian
vigor, and special numbers from
“South Pacific,” the great Broad
way show of 1949-50. A special
attraction will be the first public
performance of “Tocatta and
Fugue in C Minor,” -written by
Mr. J. R. Hall, director of the
band.
Included in the program also
will be “The Thunderer,” an old
favorite march featuring the
trumpets and the drums; “Futur
ama,” a new overture in the
modern style; “The Trumpeters”
and “Gracious Lord from Whom
All Blessings Flow,” featuring the
trumpet quartet, and a stirring
arrangement of the old favorite,
“A Kiss in the Dark.”
The personnel of the Mars Hill
College Concert Band includes^—
flutes: Martha Snow, Charlottes
ville, Virginia; Eugene Boone,
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