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Volume XXV
MARS HILL, N. C.. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1950
Number B
Students to Attend
BSU Convention in Raleigh
Approximately one hundred Mars Hill students will make the
hip to Raleigh to attend the Annual North Carolina Baptist Stu
dent Convention. The convention will be held in the Pullen Me
morial Baptist Church on November 3-4-5.
Students who ore attending the convention will be excused
horn all classes, and will travel to Raleigh by way of chartered
Duses. The buses are scheduled to
leave the campus on Friday morn
ing, November 3, and will leave
Raleigh for the return trip on Sun
day afternoon. The cost of attend
ing the convention will be around
seven dollars, meals excluded.
Bob Melvin, MHC Baptist Stu
dent Union president, and Harold
House, Superintendent of Sunday
Schools, will represent the College
by leading panel discussion groups.
Mars Hill will be well represent
ed among the speakers for the
event. Boyce Medlin, a former
student here, will preside over the
meeting in the capacity of State
BSU president. Dr. Wayne Oates
of the Department of Pastoral
Care and Counseling o f the
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Covernor’s Visit
Gives Boys a M
Governor Kerr Scott was on the
campus on October 19 to pay
a short visit to Mother Lane, house
mother of Melrose Dormitory. In
town for a political rally, he came
over, he jokingly said, because he
■w^s afraid Mother Lane had turn-
ed Republican.
Several of the students living in
Melrose received quite a shock
■when they discovered that the
governor was in the house. One
boy showed him down to Mother
Lanes room quite casually, and
then almost keeled over a few
minutes later, when he discovered
that the visitor was the Governor
of North Carolina. Another boy
declared, after he had shaken
hands with the governor, that he
would not wash his hands for a
month.
: Mother Lane said that the
;rovernor was a friend of her
. amily and his visit had seemed
-ilmost like a visit of a father or a
'brother as well as a good friend.
Thanks To Dr. Hale
Our thanks and appreciation
are extended to Dr. Albert S.
Hale, from the First Baptist
Church in High Point, N. C.,
for aiding Mars Hill College in
its great revival. This was Dr.
Hale’s third visit to our cam
pus. He preached the Baccalau
reate Sermon, and two years
ago he held a revival here for
the town people during the
summer.
Wmsamj
Johnson, Phillips and Wells
Lead Societies for New Term
United Nations Day
Is Observed Here
United Nations Day, October 24,
was observed on the Mars Hill
campus by a program under the
auspices of the International Re
lations Club. Dewey Coin, presi
dent of the club, presided over the
chapel program from a stage dec
orated with the flags of many
nations.
After a prayer for peace by
Demouth Blanton, Jean Poston
gave facts concerning the organi
zation of the U. N. and the desig
nation in 1945 of October 24th as
United Nations Day. In 1949 the
day was celebrated in forty-four
countries.
Richard Hicks pointed out that
the U. N. has been successful in
the use of armed force in Korea,
in mediation in Palestine, in the
establishment of a world health
organization, and an international
refugee organization.
Ceremonies attending the dedi
cation of the Freedom Bell in
Berlin, including the ringing of
the bell itself, were heard from a
loudspeaker on Little Circle. Camp
us bells were rung at 12:02 for a
moment of prayer observed by
everyone.
Euthalian President David 'Wells and Nonpareil
President Sammy Jean Johnson
Portrait of MHC Vice-President
Unveiled at Carson-Newman
By Nancy Crcdg
A portrait of Dr. Oscar E. Sams, only living ex-president of
Clarson-Newman College, Jefferson (Eity, Tenn., was unveiled on
October 7. One of Dr. Sams' granddaughters, eight-year-old Betty
Sams, come down from Kalamazoo, Mich., to do the unveiling.
The three-quarter length portrait was painted by Kcmoffl & Bro
thers Studio in Knoxville, Tenn.
Sammy Jean Johnson and David
Wells were chosen to lead the
Nonpareil-Euthalian Literary So
cieties for the Anniversary-
Reception term, while Joyce
Phillips will lead Clio as president
at the other end of the hall. The
Philomathian Society was unable
to elect their officers as scheduled
because of a meeting cancellation.
Sammy Jean Johnson, Nonpareil
president, is from Raleigh. She is
a member of the Scriblerus Club,
a dormitory officer, and a mem
ber of the Laurel staff. David
Wells, Euthalian president, is from
Coeburn, Virginia. After serving
for thirty-three months in the
army in Italy, he entered Mars
Hill College to study law. David
is an outstanding member of the
Forensics and cross-country track
teams, but is unable to finish the
term here. He left on October 26
to re-enter the army for twenty-
one months, after which he will
continue his education. Joyce
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Shoaf, Burgess, secretary; Betty
, vice president; and Joyce Phillips, president
Dramateers Plan
Open House
Dramateers have tentatively set
November 2 as date for an open
house and program, attended by
the faculty and student body, at
the Rivermont Playhouse. A gypsy
theme will prevail throughout the
evening’s entertainment, and one
of the gypsies, an artist in palm
istry, will reveal to the guests
their pasts and futures. Members
of Dramateers will act as hosts
and hostesses and conduct the
guests through the house and ex
plain the use of the various
rooms.
A one act play, “A Quiet Little
Place,” will be presented. It is a
light comedy in which a young man
of few words finds himself with
even fewer words when he is
alone, or “thinks” he is alone with
a certain young lady in a “quiet
little place.” Neither the waitress,
bread-man, repair man, or police
man are able to contribute to the
young man’s medium of expres
sion. The cast will consist of the
following Dramateers: Betty Ann
Turner, Kenneth Byrd, Nancy
Craig, Durwood Hill, Everett Gill,
and Dennis Stiles. Ed Dowdy,
Dennis Stiles and Nancy Craig
will assist in the production.
An excerpt from Cyrano de
Bergerac will be given by Harold
England, who portrayed Cyrano’s
pride in:
“This lengthy nose, which go
where’er I will, pokes yet a quart
er-mile ahead of me.”
Dr. Sams was born in Flagpond,
Tenh., on February 5, 1877. He is
the oldest son of J. P. Sams and
Clarissa Blackstock. The family
moved to Mars Hill while Dr. Sams
was a small boy, and his childhood
days were spent here and at Ivy
(now Beech Glen). He attended
grade school at Mars Hill and after
graduating from high school he
came to Mars Hill College, which
was very small at the time. In
working his way through Mars
Hill, he helped to make the bricks
for the present Music Building.
From here he went to Wake
Forest and then to the Rochester
Theological Seminary in Rochester,
N. Y. Dr. Sams had ten cents in
his pocket when he reached Roch
ester. He went into a cafe to get
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Phillip Morgan of W C
To Present Concert
Phillip Morgan, assistant pro
fessor of piano at the Woman’s
College of the University of North
Carolina, will be the guest pianist
at a concert in the Mars Hill Col
lege auditorium, November 11, at
eight o’clock in the evening.
Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Mr.
Morgan received his Bachelor of
Music degree from Tulsa Univer
sity and his Master of Music from
Eastman School of Music in Roch
ester, New York. He has recently
studied under Egon Petri.
At present he is a soloist with
the Rochester Civic Orchestra,
pianist with the Woman’s College
Trio and accompanist to Jacques
Gordon, John Gurney, John Sealy,
Jean Schnick and Jean Bradley.
Among Mr. Morgan’s piano se
lections will be “Variations and
Gugue on a Theme of Handel” by
Brahms, “Etude, Opus 10, Number
3,” by Chopin, “Rhapsody in C
Minor” by Dohmanyi and “The
Fountain of the Acqua Paola” by
Griffes.
Society Social Year Gets Underway
With Clio-T^hi Joint Meeting
Opening the year with a glitter
ing array of talent, Clio and
Philomathia held their first joint
meeting on the evening of October
12, featuring a large amount of
C-I talent.
Opening the program was Cora
Mae Rickey, who rendered a vocal
selection, accompanied by Larry
Power at the piano and James
Heiser at the violin, with a chorus
of Clios and Phi’s singing in the
background.
A humorus feature, “The Casey
Coffin Program.” starred Jim Mc
Kee as M. C., who was assisted
by Boyd Brogdan, Bob Milikin
and David Early. Music was fur
nished for the number by Ed
Bangs at the piano.
Lionel Cornell and Iris Sum
mers entertained the group with
an impromptu, “Candy Kisses.”
This was followed by a piano solo
by John Humber, and a solo,
“Bless This Hall” by past presi
dent, John Adams.
The program climaxed in a
realistic rendering of Poe’s “The
Telltale Heart” by Demouth Blan
ton, and a brief message from
John Adams.