.ril 19,1
(The Hilltop
Published by the Students of Mars HiJl College
ume XXVI
MARS HILL. N. C., SATURDAY. MAY 3. 1952
Number 14
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Dttie Ti
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U. T. Holmes of U. N. C.
To Address Banquet
The annual honor club banquet, sponsored by the French, Ger
man, and Spanish clubs, will be held May 10, in the college cafe
teria. All members and sponsors of the honor clubs are invited to
attend. The welcome will be given by Joan McSwain, president of
the Spanish club, while Dr. Hoyt
Dramateers Take
First At U. N. C.
enceinij^
for N'l
I, Rad"
Marshals: (1st row, left to right) Louise McCall, Doris Rhyne, Frances Drake (Ass’t. Chief), Carolyn Gragg,
Bumgardner. (2nd row) John Vance (Chief) , Bill Jones, Dottie Todd, Jerane Page. (3rd row) George Pullium,
omas Bates, Phillip Scott. Not present when the picture was made were Carolyn Anderson and Tommy Morris.
n, Fdfc=s^—
Is Assistant Chief
Fran!
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1, Wes
ter, 4
ill marshal for 1952-53 will
;tt RC John Vance, with Frances
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*ohn Vance Is Chief Marshal
as assistant chief. From
Gre^o'a, John finished at Cross-
P^'gh. Afiss Drake
i
:ne
offices^^O’j graduate of the William
are | ^ high school, Atlanta, Ga.
marshals are George
from Andrews, vice-
is an
tHerf^'niuni
ean,
a*'esicl,
ent of the C-I Class; War-
ntgarner, Charlotte, presi-
mem-
Bu
— g of the C-I Class and ...v,...-
ertS' Jhe newly elected B. S. U.
:e 1) Philip Scott, Hillsboro,
She Science Club;
lill Morris of Albemarle;
itteiiJig Todd from Plum Tree, a
:al Sf]ag Oor of the B. S. U. Council;
^>'ai Tnderson, Mars Hill;
srts ’’.Iqj Page from Asheville;
ic Bates, Roanoke, Va.;
;ha; McCall, Lenoir, new
MrS’ ont of Huffman Dormi-
ere,
Music Graduates
lory; Carolyn Gragg, Brunswick,
Ga.; Doris Rhyne, Spruce Pine;
and William Jones from Ra
leigh.
Marshals are chosen by a com
mittee consisting of Miss Caro
line Biggers, Dean Lee, Mr.
Lance, and Mr. Huff, on the
basis of high scholarship, camp
us conduct and a general spirit
of cooperation.
la.
ch/^*‘form May 8
second in the series of
recitals, the music
° ^dient will present Alma
('('Uth Durham of Hick-
Bllen
k monq Asheville, organist,
' Vdock.^
On j
an T
of d^^ncl 1^5'^an, Carolyn Redding,
night. May 5, --
T 8(h, three pianists,
jdffioa.
ch ‘’’''Be n'i^''^J'^hne Ammons, and
nd Geraldine Ott, will
r^n T graduating recital.
—Bffoi^jj pj,jy Song
lords’’ by Mendel-
tSE^^^di’s ^Teets of Laredo” by
others. Among those
Nil By Carolyn Redding
^eti^jp^^^unibers by Beethoven,
and Macdowell.
Is the Color of My
iN ...Rove’s Hair” by Harris
Nl bpBy Bach-Hughes
IB
V selections played
"O'' Oq Ammons. Geral-
‘ J (0 ’ P^^y nmong other
°ntinued on Page 4)
Dot Shields Wins
Tour Of Europe
Dorothy Shields, a C-I I from
Marble, has been chosen by the
4-H International Youth Ex
change as a North Carolina dele
gate to accompany other young
people on a five-month’s tour of
Europe.
A member of the 4-H club for
eight years. Dot has completed
seventy-two projects. Among
these were food preparation and
preservation, sewing, and study
ing and applying better methods
in the use of electrical ap
pliances. Among the highest
honors any North Carolina 4-H
girl can achieve, being tapped
into the state 4-H Honor Club
and going to the National 4-H
camp in Washington, D. C.,
have been hers.
The trip abroad is a culmina
tion of all of Dot’s previous 4-H
work. Her trip will begin in
June in Washington, D. C.,
where she will spend a week in
orientation. Afterwards, she will
go to New York where she will
take various tours, receive fur
ther orientation, and attend din
ners given in honor of the 113
students from this country who
have been chosen by 4-H organ
izations for overseas study. Later
she will sail from Montreal, Can
ada, for Le Havre, France. While
abroad. Dot will study and
travel in the Netherlands and
seven or eight other countries.
Students Choose
Dorm Councils
Dormitory government chang
ed hands last week as elections
were held for dormitory leaders
for the ’52-’53 term. Dudley
Smith, Melrose; Ted Buckner,
Treat; Louise McCall, Huffman;
Mary Jean White, Stroup; Hilda
Young, Edna Moore were select
ed to lead the dormitories.
Officers were not elected in
Spilman and Brown dormitories
as Spilman is to be vacated by
the boys. This building will be
turned over to the girls for the
coming year and the Spilman
boys will be moved to Brown.
Bob Watson and Jim Ziglar
will be vice-presidents of Mel-
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Dramateers took a first place
rating at the annual Carolina
Dramatic Festival, held in
Chapel Hill, April 23-26. The
award-winning production was
“The Boy Comes Home,” a one-
act comedy by A. A. Milne.
The setting was the living
room of a prominent English
home shortly after the close of
World War I. The plot dealt
with how the nephew, Philip,
revolted against the domineer
ing influence of his wealthy un
cle. The characters were Uncle
James, Jack Loadman; Aunt Em
ily, Rowena Gee; Phillip, the
nephew, Gordon Luther; Mary,
the maid, Patsy Stubbs; Miss
Higgins, the cook, Betty Ann
DeBorde.
The group received many fa
vorable criticisms on their char
acterizations, accents, make-up,
and costumes, from the judges.
Rowena Gee was in charge of
the make-up. Mrs. Elizabeth
Watson directed the production
and accompanied the group to
Chapel Hill.
Out of the forty schools repre
sented ten were given a first
place rating and twelve were
given honorable mention. There
were approximately 350 students
participating in the festival.
The play was presented April
24 at 9:30 in the Carolina Play-
makers Theater. It will be given
again May 6, at 7:00 p.m. in the
Alars Hill College .Auditorium.
Jose Martinez, Cuban Student
Dies of Drowning in MHC Pool
Jose Martinez, a member of
the C-I class, was found dead in
the college swimming pool on
April 23. The autopsy showed
death from drowning.
Jose, a student from Cruces,
Las Villas, Cuba, was 21.
His body was found submerg
ed in the swimming pool by a
girl physical education student
at 1:40 p.m. He was last seen at
his regular physical education
class at 9:40. lie answered the
roll at the end of the period.
College officials said that Jose
may have returned to the pool
following dismissal of the class,
although no one saw him do so.
Jose, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Andres Manuel Martinez, was
taking an accounting course
here.
His parents were contacted
immediately and Dr. Blackwell,
president, was summoned from
Raleigh. Dr. Blackwell saw that
the body was taken to an Ashe-
H
\
i
ville hospital until arrangements
could be submitted by the par
ents. The president later flew
to Cuba to accompany the body.
Blackwell will offer the invoca-
ticn. Recognition of the honor
clubs will be made by Sarah Ab-
ernethy, president of the Erench
club; and Mary Ruth Linville,
president of the German club,
will introduce the main speaker
of the evening. Dr. Urban T.
Holmes. Special music will be
furnished by the music depart
ment.
Dr. Holmes, professor of mod
ern languages at the University
of North Carolina, has studied
at the University of Pennsyl
vania, Harvard University, and
the University of Paris. He is
the author of numerous lan
guage books and articles.
Decorations will be in keeping
with the theme, “South of the
Border.”
Thomas Reigns
As May Queen
Sarah Thomas reigned as
Queen over the annual Alay Day
program, sponsored by the Wo
men’s Physical Education depart
ment, which was presented this
afternoon, Alay 3, at 4 o’clock,
in the college amphitheater.
Others of the Alay Court were
Gaynelle Chandler, Maid- o f -
Alonor; Marion Powell, King;
and John Eddie Marr, Crown-
bearer.
Attendants were Virgie Cog
gins, Gladys Draper, Kathy Hy
att, Janet Ponder, and Aloma
Thomas from the senior class,
and Carol Benfield, Alaxine
Chappell, Dee’ Davidson, Mar
garet i\farr, and Dottie Todd
from the junior class. Pages were
Cleo Jones and Marguerite Sta-
pleford. Trumpeteers were Jack
Burnette and Gerald Johnson.
The program was adapted
from “Hansel and Gretel” by
Humperdinck. -In the first act
the father and mother went to
sell brooms, leaving their chil
dren, Flansel and Gretel, at
home to work. The second act
revealed the children wandering
through the woods filling their
baskets with strawberries, until
eventide found them bewilder
ed in the darkening forest haunt
ed by fairies and witches. The
third act showed the children
awakening at daybreak to find
a beautiful little house built of
good things to eat.
The cast was as follows: Gret
el, Iris Summers; Hansel, Caro
lyn Anderson; Mother, Ruth
Durham; Eather, John Dean;
Sandman, Larry Power; Dew
Fairy, Julianne Sinclair; Witch,
Ellen Sprinkle.
Angels were Sarah Aberntehy,
Carole Altman, Jo Anderson, Jo
anne Brooks, Martha Coggins,
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