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CThe Hilllop
Volume XXVI
Published by the Students of Mars HiU College
MARS HILL, N. C., SATURDAY. APRIL 19. 1952
Number 13
Graham Heads Student Union;
Johnson Gets Vice-Presidency
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Campus In Lyceum Performance
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umni Meeting
— -^sing tjjg theme “Christian
at sin^lJ^ation in Business,” the thir-
begai annual meeting of the
allowcl^^ss Club Alumni Associa-
AmefP ^gins this afternoon at
agaiiw^^ Hill College with a busi-
:ine b^^^^p^ting at 4:30 in Moore
1 HunSi^bis meeting will be follow
’s reb, y ® banquet at 6:30 p. m. in
[ungailp Bridges Dining Hall.
' 'vill also be an informal
at 9:30 in Huffman
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•dge banquet, the graduat
es of the present Busi-
r wroif^ lub will be welcomed as
er tha ’^^nibers of the Association,
idicin^l^ be winner of the Business
:r wha^j Alumni medal will be an-
the medal will not
commence-
Robert Lansing, noted choral
conductor and former Metro
politan Opera basso.
The first group of numbers on
the program will use as a basis
the familiar “Soldier’s Chorus”
from the opera Faust. Arias and
e n s e m bl e s are co-ordinated
around an explanatory narrative
which unifies the whole into a
“streamlined opera.”
The second and third por
tions of the evening’s entertain
ment will include such numbers
as “The Whiffenpoof Song,”
“Swedish Slumber Song” and fa
vorite selections from “South Pa
cific.” The concluding section is
in a different vein and consists
of “Church in the Wildwood,”
Pitts; “The Lord’s Prayer,” Ma-
lotte; “De Ol’ Ark’s a-Moverin’,”
and “Steal Away,” both Negro
Spirituals.
Robert Lansing, director of
the quartette, has sung with a
score of opera companies, per
forming practically every basso
role in opera repertoire.
Carolina B.S.U.
Names Tunstall
As Missionary
Ann Tunstall, C-II from Pe
tersburg, Virginia, has been
chosen by the Baptist Mission
Board to do summer mission
work in Hawaii this year. The
selection was made from a num
ber of applicants among the var
ious colleges of North Carolina.
Ann has served this year on the
B. S. U. Council as third vice-
president and leader of morning
watch.
The nature of the work which
Ann will do in Hawaii is simi
lar to the type of work our sum
mer workers do in the associa
tions here in the states. Former
representatives have been used
mainly for conducting Vacation
Bible Schools, assisting in Youth
Revivals, counseling at young
people’s camps, and personal
evangelistic witnessing. All work
will be done under the direction
and supervision of missionaries
on the islands who are appointed
by the Foreign Mission Board
and who are familiar with local
situations.
Next year Ann plans to enter
State College where she will take
an agricultural course in prep
aration for her work as an agri
cultural missionary.
-oblert^u^
truA / ^ be winner is chosen by
itAis a^^by members of the busi-
ha'^o iP^^tment as being the one
ristm!* the *^be ideals
uestio’p_ r>L which are scholar-
follo''fi ^ bristian character, com-
:ause b 1 e deportment, and
' le, ‘’ie future attainment.
will be B. M.
sijjP’ ^ former head of the
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Johnston And Wells Are Editors
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^i^iorful experiences of club
Kay Wells gained the editor
ship of the Laurel and Margaret
Johnston became editor of the
'Hilltop as a result of publica
tion elections held shortly be
fore the Spring holidays.
Other publication offices will
be held by Harriet Rudd who
was elected associate editor of
the Hilltop; and George Pull
iam associate editor of the Lau
rel. Heading the business staffs
of the publications will be Jim
mie Jones, business manager of
the Laurel, who will be assisted
y as they jour-
Ip in their goal; member- - - - ,, ,.
Ibusiness Club Alum- by Ted Buckner. Volina Dixon
isitie^^^bon and service in the was chosen business manager of
L World.
as ago B. C. A. A.
‘ Of f Pi'oject the contribu-
r the stage furniture
• L. Moore Alumni Au-
‘s ^ $2000.00
Pate ; amount collected
'' $1,214.50.
' S ^'atiQp^^^sent officers of the as-
^.> S. c Joel Hinton, Pick-
PPese, ■’jP'^esident; Troy Day,
Sug C., vice-president;
' C., sg^'chardson. Mars Hill,
*^^*^ary-treasurer.
as ^ eoming from as far
No; „ l.exas, about thirty
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Lj^ess guests, and present
I Members are at-
e meetings and ban-
the Hilltop. Frieda Smithwick
will assist her in the capacity of
assistant business manager.
An oddity occured in the elec
tion of the Hilltop^ Staff as all
four officers were girls and they
all were South Carolinians.
Kay M'^ells is from Jonesville,
where she served as feature edi
tor of her high school paper, and
also as editor of the annual. Kay
is a Clio and is planning to be
a nurse.
A ministerial student, George
Pullium, is from Andrews, where
he worked on the annual staff,
being its editor one year. George
is a Phi.
Jimmie Jones, a Phi from
Pembroke, has worked both on
the newspaper and annual in his
high school, serving as associate
editor of the annual one year.
Jimmie is a pre-med student.
Ted Buckner, a commercial
student, is from Barnard. While
in high school he was editor of
the paper and associate editor of
the annual.
Margaret Johnston is a Non,
and comes from Greenville, S. C.
She served as associate editor of
the Greenville high school pa
per, and is a member of the
French Honor club.
Harriet Rudd, a Non and
member of the Business Honor
Club, is from Naval Base, S. C.
She was associate editor of her
high school paper.
(Continued on Page 4)
Drives Get
Underway
School-wide campaigns were
begun Tuesday by the campus
Baptist Student Union to raise
funds for Anne Tunstall, Mars
Hill student who has been chos
en as summer missionary to
Hawaii, and for Walter Ful-
brandt, a German student who
is to attend the Baptist Semin
ary in Zurich, Switzerland.
Bob Graham was elected President of the Baptist Student Union
for the 1952-1953 school session during the election of religious lead
ers of the campus. Jay Johnson, Dee Davidson, and Barbara Saun-
ders are to act in the capacities of vice-presidents for the Union in
the coming year. They are first,
second, and third vice-president
respectively. Gerald Brown and
Dottie Todd are recording and
corresponding secretaries. Sarah
Galloway is to take the position
of treasurer.
Other students who were
elected to serve on the council
are: Charles Story, Music direc
tor; Warner Bumgardner, Sun*
day School superintendent;
Leonard Lambert, Town repre
sentative; J. L. Bell, Training
Union director; Joanne Brooks,
Y.W.A. president; Jerane Page,
Volunteer for Christ president;
Virginia Wimberly, Youth Tem
perance Council president; and
Harold Gore, Mission Council
chairman.
Bob Graham, who will lead
the council, is from Charleston,
South Carolina. Bob has partici
pated in several religious activi
ties. He was president of the
John Laurence Training Union
and has conducted Sunday night
church services.
Jay Johnson, first vice-presi
dent, is from Charlotte. Jay is
vice-president of the John Lau
rence B.T.U. He has been very
active in the religious life of the
campus.
Second vice - president. Dee
Davidson, of Swannanoa, has
been elected dormitory chaplain.
She is in the beauty section of
the Laurel and a member of the
M-blem Club and of the May
Court.
Barbara Saunders, third vice-
president, is from Roanoke, Vir
ginia. She has been group cap
tain in her training union, chap
lain of Stroup Dormitory, and is
a member of Scriblerus Club.
Recording secretary of the
Union will be Geraldine Brown
of Fort Mill, South Carolina.
(Continued on Page 4)
Hilltop Receives
A.C.P. Rating
The Hilltop for the third suc
cessive year received a “first-class
rating” from the Associated Col
legiate Press which is sponsored
by the University of Minnesota.
This is the second highest
award offered by the association.
Forty additional points were
all that were needed by the Hill
top to receive the rating of all-
American. Points required for
All-American were 975, the Hill
top received 935. All-American
rating is the “superior” rating
while First Class signifies an “ex
cellent” publication.
Papers from the first semester
of the current scholastic year
were judged by the group.
Much favorable comment on
various features and sections of
the paper was penciled in on the
official rating book. Some of the
comments were: “excellent over
all coverage of events, personal
ities, and speakers,” “good or
ganization;” “good lead para
graphs;” and “excellent sports
coverage.”
Papers from all member
schools of the Associated Col
legiate Press are judged in this
annual publication analysis. The
purpose of this service is not to
create interschool rivalry, but to
provide an agency by which
staffs, may be aided in giving
their schools and communities
a significant publication, and to
help the staffs in the solution of
their problems. The system of
rating seeks to create within the
school a year to year effort to im
prove the quality of the school
publication.
Mrs. J. Elwood Roberts Succumbs
During Spring Vacation At MHC
Mrs. J. Elwood Roberts, a
member of the college music fac
ulty died during the spring holi
days in an Asheville hospital
after a short illness. Her un
expected death came as a shock
to the students and faculty of
the college.
Mrs. Roberts taught voice and
piano and had been an assistant
in the college library.
Prominent in social activities
in the college, church, and com
munity, she was a member of
the Mary Lee Ernest Circle of
the Women’s Missionary Society,
superintendent of the Junior
Department of the Sunday
School, director of the Cherub
Chorus, and soloist for the adult
choir.
Prior to joining the faculty at
Mars Hill, she was a Baptist stu
dent secretary at Appalachian
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Louise Lone Roberts