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MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS HILL, N. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1950
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ns Announced For Choral Festival;
Spanish clul tian Schinhan To Direct Choruses
•ogram on %n North Carolina College
Cuba, Spai’estival will be held at this
members ®*April 15. The combined re-
a tman, qj various college
leve Mast, i will be under the direc-
es, Langfoi(br, Jan Philip Schinhan of
aig- Hill.
:lub initiate* for the festival were an-
nbers: Faye Mrs. Schinhan, festiv-
Jreen, MaxiiO^^n. The program will in-
er, Etta songs and sacred songs.
i.rly. Worth®® >s now known, it is the
:ks, Shirley of its kind to be held
c, Ha Grahai’ Carolina.
arsons, andi colleges have registered
d the day’s festival and to
assical Glut 7^ ® Hill
Hnff Dni ^PP'^^^ohian State Teach
er and ®°one. Western
, ^ ® ^ Teachers College at Cul-
Montreat College, St.
3 of the ® Asheville, Ashe-
Rogers, Pr^^^ore, and Brevard,
irdson,' vic®nnual Junior Festival for
impton, sestern District will also be
treasurer, fMars Hill, Saturday, April
;er. New t
meeting i>
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d. Richard,
“Importance Of Being Earnest”
Presented By Dramateers Tonight
Tonight at 8 o’clock in the col
lege auditorium the Dramateers
of Mars Hill College will present
Oscar ilde’s The Importance of
Being Ernest.
This well-known drama, under
the direction of Miss Imogene
Cowan, is a difficult play to pro
duce and much rehearsal, costum
ing, and backstage work have gone
into the production. Entirely new
sets have been designed and con
structed for the play under the
expert supervision of Lamar Brig-
man of Cheraw, South Carolina.
Charlie Tomlinson of Winston-
Salem is stage manager for th«
performance; and Sue Page of
Wake Forest and Mary Frances
Silver of Asheville, are in chai’ge
of costumes.
FORT Y-VOICE GROUP TOUR SOUTH
h EBe?r^^**^ Conducts Discussion Of
D ’ rt ^^UHtship, Marriage, April 3-7
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Dr. W. D. Perry, director of the
University of North Carolina’s
Testing Service, will discuss the
subject of “Love, Courtship, and
Marriage” in chapel serrtces dur
ing the week of April 3-7. He will
speak three times in C-II chapel
and twice in C-I chapel, and alter
nate speakei-s will talk also so that
the whole week will be devoted to
the same subject. Dr. Perry will
also conduct evening seminars each
day. Some of the topics for discus
sion will be Emotional Maturity,
Basic Personality Needs, and
Parenthood Facts.
Mars Hillians To Spend Holidays
Singing, Touring Three States
Five members of the cast are
C-I's on our campus. They are;
Betty Ann Turner of Mocksville;
Grace Maxwell of Roanoke, Ala.;
Everett Gill, Richmond; Wisner
W Hsham, Cornelius; and Lvnn
Cashion, Sanford. C-IPs are: Beu
lah White, Appomattox. Va.; Mar
tha Kelly, Chester, S. C.; George
West, Louisburg; and Willard Cal-
lis, South Hill.
On Friday, March 17, the select, forty-voice Glee Club of Mars Hill
College will begin an extended 10-day tour into Florida, South Carolina
and Virginia. Under the direction
iefly..
College students
^ . are ap-
fire Aof* the folk dance festival
11 Agent now in progress in Texas.
:es Sneb^nal faculty members will at-
DORMU^ Junior College
ence in Roanoke, Va., Mar.
Dr. Perry has taught courses in
the general field of courtship,
marriage, and family relationships,
both at the University' and at N. C.
State College. He was chairman of
arrangements for the Family Life
Workshop last summer and worked
with that group in Chapel Hill.
During the week of February 8,
Dr. Perry was in Puerto Rico
working with educators and public
health workers on mental hygiene
problems of school children in that
country.
of Mrs. Jan Schinhan, the group
will present daily concerts in
churches and schools. The reper
toire for the performances will be
made up primarily of sacred num
bers, including works by Bach,
Handel, and Schubert. There will
also be a secular group of popular
Fred Waring arrangements for use
in the schools visited along the
way.
The schedule of performances
The personnel of the chorus will
include the following singers:
Sopranos: Caroline Barker, Vir
ginia Bridges, Tressie Brown, Mary
Ellen Gregory, Betty Houston,
Martha Kelley, Ruth Ellen Mon
roe, Barbara Morris, Cora Mae
Rickey, and Margaret Stewart.
Altos: Vera Brown, Rowena
Gee, Joanne Greene, Mary Evelyn
(Chorus - Back Page)
Students To Get
Yearbook May 1
Harold Newman, editor of the
LAUREL, announces that the
1950 edition of the annual will
arrive about the first of May.
Copy material has been
checked and returned to the
Raleigh publishing house, and
Newman anticipates that the
finished yearbook will be ready
for circulation the first week in
May.
is not complete yet, for there have FA*. WT’ K it-. . .
been more requests for engage- ■L'ramatcers Win Awauds, Recognition
ments than the group can meet. At Drama FcStival HcId March 2-3
However, the line-up as it now v/ii ^ kJ
M.H.C. Dramateers, directed by Miss Imogene Cowan, won extensive
recognition at the Western Carolina Drama Festival held at Lee H.
Edwards High School in Asheville,
stands is as follows:
Zimmerman, MHC ’48,
accompanist to UNC Glee
Smith, former sports
cf the HILLTOP is on the
of the Baylor University
‘■T. Walter has by-line
3 in recent editions.
Cornelia Vann, president
Modem Languages Divis-
■ the N.C.E.A., attended the
ueeing in Raleigh, March 9-
Personal conferences with Dr.
Perry for students who are in
terested will be held in Spilman
parlor on Monday through Friday
of that week from two P.M. to five
P.M. Dr. Perry ivill also bring with
him a wide variety of pamphlets
in the marriage field which he will
lend to students.
Sunday morning, March 19, at
Leesburg, Florida; Sunday night,
March 19, Tampa, Florida; Mon
day afternoon, March -20, Wa-
chula, Florida; Monday night,
March 20, Bartow, Florida; Tues
day night, March 21, Miami, Flo
rida; Wednesday night, March 22,
DeLand, Florida; Friday night,
March 24, Camden, South Caro
lina; Saturday night, March 26,
Roanoke, Virginia; Sunday morn-
ing, March 26, Roanoke, Virginia;
Sunday night, March 26, Roanoke,’
Virginia.
Remember Students: Midterm
grades go in March 17. Better
finish all that back work. Also,
absences before and after holi
days count DOUBLE.
The Saturday night conceit at
Roanoke will be in the First
Baptist Church, the Sunday morn
ing one in the Melrose Baptist
Church, and the one Sunday eve
ning in the Hotel Roanoke. The
final performance in the Hotel
Roanoke will be before a national
March 2-3. After two days of plays
the contests, Friday night at 10:00
0 clock the awards were finally
presented to a tired but enthusi
astic group.
Three one-act plays were pre
sented by M.H.C. at the Festival:
Joanne Cordell’s Man Wanted, di
rected by Elaine Gibson; Rachel
Crother’s The Rector, directed by
Jo Pittard; and Elaine Gibson’s
Whitewashed Saint, directed
Miss Imogene Cowan.
by
Whitewashed Saint was given a
“superior” rating at the Festival
by critic David Morris. Miss Gib
son also received the best actress
award, and Bill Ray was given
special mention as the best sup-
and Elaine Gibson of Durham.’
Stage Manager was Willard Callis
of South Hill. The next perform
ance of Whitewashed Saint will be
on March 20 at the Carolina
Drama Festival to be held ir
Chapel Hill.
Because of the collapsing of £
couch during the performance of
Man Wanted, the play was dis
qualified for a primary rating;
however, it was given an honorable
mention for its “vitality,” and
Miss Cordell was recognized as the
best trouper in the Festival. Miss
Cordell is a freshman from Black
Mountain. She is a member of the
Dramateers and was recently in
itiated into Delta Psi Omega. Man
Wanted is her first outstanding
meeting of the American Associa- fncluded: Beulah ^Wh7te”"of ^Appf dramatics,
K pemai, get acquainted of Mar^all; Jo Pittard of Albany, Mars Hill, were entered in the con-
Ga.; Bill Ray of Louisville, Ky,
dinner.
(Dramateers - Back Page)