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Published by the Students of Mars Hill College
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MARS HILL, N. C.. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 27. 1952
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mber 1.
Number 6
HILL WELCOMES
ALUMNI
ars Hillians sei
ecently include]
ssie Thompson,
irothy “Pokey”
ell Beauford,
red Ruby, Dan
I n Harper,
' Ed McGowan,
. Larry Glenn,
son.
McLeod, Jr., f
Mars Hill and
od, Sr., faculty
y became enga]
Coble of Burli:
ng will take
17.
Tars Hillian
one of sixtee:
1 to represent
■sity in Who’s
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ich year on the
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,'hered before
NIZE Ol
raditional Thanksgiving Pageant Is
rst On Agenda Of Day’s Activities
R T T e F t? Forget,” a pageant in-
Thanksgiving both past
~ — —present,^ will be presented in
win uc presentee in
^ Hill church this morning
*:45 o’clock.
B I G G E llowing the organ prelude, Dr.
better Blackwell, president of the
RSaTVTM(- *^1*^ invocation.
in Spivey of the music faculty
SUPPLIES >sing "Thanks Be To God.”
Tg- T Waller will give the pro-
I I I pageant. An adaptation
JmJ M J le poem, The Landing of the
Rk'RT' Fathers in New England,”
tVJVE/l be read by David Morrow,
North Caroliii^ the first American Thanks-
ig will be portrayed by the
CXXXXXXXXtl'l'ers of the B. S. U. council and
"Retrospection and Exhorta-
of the three centuries
of
OCKETS
imedy Presented
Barter Theater
lACV
rhe Late Christopher Bean,” a
edy by Sidney Howard, will be
ented by the Barter Theater
"‘Sht, December
.. 0 o clock in the college
itorium. ^
around the
L.1 take place after a neg-
|j in dying, leaves be-
lirb w' \ “IlfIon of paintings
ch his bewildered friends sud-
1 y discwer to be masterpieces.
Robert Porterfield, who Ls ap-
harlw ^onty-eight
the B^^'^^lons, is director
L be^ past sum-
J t rn^b members of his
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it year.
Thanksgiving will be given by
Douglass Dixon, with responses by
Phyllis Anderson, Tommy Funder
burk, Shirley Owen, David Pitt
man, and Anne Wakefield.
Dean R. M. Lee will read the
President’s Proclamation, after
which A. R. Whitehurst of Char
lotte, president of the Alumni As
sociation, will extend greetings
from the alumni. The Thanksgiv
ing address will be made by the
Reverend Lowell F. Sodeman, pas
tor of the Mars Hill Baptist church.
Music will be furnished by the
Men’s and Women’s Glee clubs and
by the college orchestra.
Pilgrims will be represented by
Carolyn Anderson, Barbara Barr, J.
L. Bell, Wilda Bell, Holmes Baum
gardner, Warner Bumgardner, Ger
aldine Brown, Harold Collier, Dee
Davidson, John Dean, Arthur Fore,
Sara Galloway, Harold Gore, Bob
Graham, Libby Jordan, Freddie
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Glee Clubs Give
Special Music
on campus
The Women’s and Men’s Glee
clubs, with Carolyn Royal as so
prano soloist, will provide the mus
ic for the annual Thanksgiving pro
gram in the church this morning.
Accompanists will be Miss Pearl
Frances at the organ and Sara Atha
Hudson at the piano.
For the Christmas concert, the
Women’s Glee club has selected a
group of sacred numbers. Janice
Adylette, soprano, and Barbara Con
ner, alto, will be soloists, while the
college string ensemble will ac
company the ladies.
'The Male Choir will sing two
sacred arrangements, one of which
was composed by Warren Benson,
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Optimism at its peak will be pre
sented at the Anniversary-Recep
tion term joint meeting of the Non
pareil and Euthalian Literary So
cieties Friday, November 28, at 8
o’clock in the college auditorium.
Nonpareils and Euthalians are
presenting this program especially
for the Non-Eu alumni and all oth
er visitors who will be on Mars Hill
campus over the Homecoming
weekend. Jeanne Upton, president
of Nonpareil, will preside with Jim
Hall and Tommy Morris, president
and vice-president of Euthalia re
spectively, assisting her at the desk.
Under the leadership of Jim Hall
and Tommy Morris, the Euthalian
Society is planning its sixty-second
annual Anniversary program to be
given in honor of the Nonpareil sis
ters in the college auditorium on
Thursday night, December 4, at 8
o’clock. In return Nonpareil will
entertain Euthalia with a Reception
Saturday night, December 6. At
this time a serious program will be
presented in the Non-Eu hall with
a humorous one being presented in
the Clio-Phi hall. Refreshments
will be served in the classroom be
tween the two meeting places.
"The plans are under the direction
of the president and vice-presidents,
Ada Robinson and Marcie Johnson.
Members of both societies have
been working for some weeks on
their respective programs to make
them successful in this annual com
petition with the Clio-Phi societies.
During the past week the Nons
and Eus have decorated the cafeteria
in blue and white and provided
music at mealtimes in honor of the
Clio-Phi Anniversary and Reception
this weekend.
Full Schedule Of Events
Planned For Homecoming
Mars Hill College welcomes alumni and friends back to "the hill” to
day with a full schedule of events.
The day’s activities will begin with the traditional Thanksgiving ser
vice, sponsored by the Baptist Student Union Council, to be held in the
church at 10:45 this morning. After the program a typical Thanksgiving
• dinner will be served to the
Phi’s Honor Clios
With Anniversary;
Reception Nov. 29
nd participatic: beiore a reconstructed church building on the M.H.C. campus are the members of the Thanks-
lar and acadad Kend^ail ^9]"’ Eddy Marr. Susan Sodeman,
- - -•— --v; Betty Albert Sodeman,
izenshio and selraham o’x (kneeling) Bob Wood, Jonatha Roberts, and Eric Blackwell. Seated is
snip and sei anam, B.S.U. President. Standing in the rear are other college students participating in the program.
. and promise ■
iss to business!
Tonight the Philomathian Liter
ary Society will present its annual
Anniversary program commemor
ating the founding of Philomathia
and honoring Clio, its sister society.
The program is traditionally kept a
secret among members of the so
ciety until the various scenes ap
pear on the night of presentation.
Non-Eu To Feature
Optimistic Theme
Philomathian president, Jim
Heath, will preside over the pro
gram which has been planned and
directed by vice-presidents Bob
Watson and Jim Jones with the as
sistance of members of the society.
Tonight will mark the climax of
several weeks of diligenr and per
sistent efforts and will culminate,
for this term, the ever-present Phi
ambition of keeping Clio-Phi "on
top.”
On Saturday night Clio will re
ciprocate with a Reception given
for Philomathia. The program tra
ditionally includes both humorous
and serious episodes and this theme,
too, is kept secret.
On Friday evening, November 21
at 7:30, the Clio-Phi second term
joint meeting was held with Jim
Heath, president of Philomathia,
presiding. Roger Martin opened
the program with "The New Pio
neers.” Carolyn Gragg and Warner
Bumgardner debated the affirma
tive and Mitchell Cornell and Nan
cy Porter debated the negative of the
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Tom Waller Made
C-l Class President
The C-I Class elected Tom Wal
ler president and Benny Barr vice-
president at a meeting held Novem
ber 14. Janice Edwards was elect
ed secretary and "Skeeter” Mc
Cauley, treasurer of the C-I class at
a later meeting held Wednesday,
November 19.
Both Tom Waller of Dublin,
Georgia, and Janice Edwards of
Wilmington are preparing them
selves at Mars Hill to do religious
educatonal wiork. "Skeeter” Mc
Cauley of Charlottesville, Virginia,
is also planning for a future in re
ligious educational work. Benny
Barr, who is also from Charlottes
ville, is taking the commercial
course to prepare himself for work
in the business world.
to tne ap
proximately 300 returning alumni,
as well as to other visitors, and
members of the college family.
Barbara Barr and Roberta Mc
Bride will reign as homecoming
and football queens respectively
this afternoon as the annual home
coming game, this year being
played against North Greenville Jr.
College, gets under way at 2:30.
Accompanied by four attendants,
Lou Mary Switzer, sponsor for the
C-I class, Margaret Marr, sponsor
for the C-II class, Sharon Ford, for
the M-Club, and Courtney Isenhour,
for the band, they will star in the
half-time activities.
An extensive program including
the ceremonious coronation of the
two queens has been planned by
the band, under the direction of
Warren F. Benson. Members will
form the shape of a crown in mid-
field, in which the queens will be
crowned. Wearing corsages of yel
low chrysanthimums tied with
royal blue ribbons, the queens, es
corted by the three boy cheerleaders,
will proceed from the right goal to
the center of the field, passing
along an aisle formed by the four
attendants and the girl cheerleaders.
Eric Blackwell, son of the college
president, will act as crown-bearer
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Dramateers Present
Cbristnias Program
Christmas will be the theme of
the program to be presented at the
regular meeting of the Dramateers
club to be held December 2.
For the devotion. Dr. Ella J.
Pierce’s religious drama class will
present a choral reading, Christmas,
by J. B. Dillard. The Traveling
Man, a miracle play by Lady Greg
ory will also be presented by mem
bers of the religious drama class.
An adaptation of Byrd’s Christ
mas Carol and a scene from The
Fool by Channing Pollock will be
given by Mrs. Richard Watson’s
drama class.
Tryouts for the Dramatic Read
ing contest will be held at the Dra
mateers meeting January 6, at 7:30
p. m. in the Playhouse. One boy
and one girl will be selected to rep
resent Mars Hill at the Grand Na
tional Forensic Tournament which
is to be held at Fredericksburg, Md.,
in the spring. Persons interested in
entering this contest should see Mrs.
Watson immediately to select a
reading.
Eteadline for the submitting of
original one-act plays for the Spring
Drama Festival competition will be
January 15. "Those persons interest
ed must submit their manuscripts
to Mrs. Watson by this date.