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Hilltop
Published by the Students of Mars Hill College
MARS HILL. N. C.. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1953
Number 10
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Spivey To Appear
In Recital Tuesday
Orman Spivey, baritone, a mem
ber of the Mars Hill College music
faculty, will appear in recit'd Tues
day evening, February 24, at 7:30
p. m. in the college auditorium. He
will be accompanied at the piano
by Miss Alice Martin, also a mem
ber of the music faculty as instruct
or in piano and violin.
The recital program which con
sists of six groups, begins with an
aria from The Creation (Haydn),
"Rolling in Foaming Billows”.
Group two features three old Eng
lish Art Songs — "Come, Again
Sweet Love” (Dowland), ‘Next
Winter Comes Slowly” (Purcell),
and "Arise, Ye Subterranean W inds
(Purcell). The Italian group in
cludes "Deh Contentatevi” (Caris-
simi), "Plaisir d’amor” (Martini),
and from Verdi’s opera. La Travita,
the aria, "Di Provenza il mar, il
suol”. Among the German Art
Songs are "In Meiner Heimal
(Trunk), "Auf Eines Altes Bild^
(Wolf) and "Midsummer Night”
(Grieg), which will be sung in
English. After an intermission Mr.
Spivey will sing the popular French
aria from Massenet’s opera
Herodiade, "Vision Fugitive”. The
program concludes with a group of
Contemporary Art Songs including
"O 'Thou Billowy Harvestfield!
(Rachmaninoff), "To L i zb i e
Brown” (Finzi), "Rollieum-Ror-
um” (Finzi) and "I Hear An
Army” (Barber).
Mr. Spivey is an instructor in
voice and piano, and is the director
of the Women’s and the Men’s Glee
Clubs. He received his Bachelor of
Music Degree in applied voice
from Houghton College, Houghton,
New York.
All students having poems,
essa5’s, or other articles which
they wish to submit for the
Literary Edition are reminded
that all material must be in the
Hilltop office by February 28.
Scholastic Honor Clubs
Initiate New Members
During the past week honor clubs have been initiating new members.
On Monday night, February 16, the Science and Spanish Clubs held
their meetings, and on Tuesday, the I7th, the German, Business, Inter
national Relations, Scriblerus, French and Orpheon clubs met.
The new members of the German Club are Sue Waldrop, Gary
Lee Tillman, William Boyce Hegler, Charles Green, Betty Pike, Mar-
tha Swanson, Britt Hudson, and
Present for the signing of the ehurch contract were: Seated: R. V.
Moss, Secretary-Treasurer of the Hickory Construction Company;
Bruc Sams, Chairman of the Building Committee; Henry I. Gaines,
Architect. Second row: R. Key, estimator; Bryson Tilson, Dean Ralph
M. Lee, and the Rev. Lowell F. Sodeman.
Church Contract Signed;
Construction Begins April 1
Op Tuesday morning, February 10, officials of the Hickory Construc
tion Company of Hickory, N. C., signed the final contract for the con
struction of the new Mars Hill Baptist Church. Construction will begin
on or before April 1, and the new building is expeaed to be completed
by the first of June, 1954.
The contract price of the build
ing, which will include separate
rooms for each of the college Sun
day School classes and an auditor
ium with a normal capacity of 1100,
is $284,996. Room for recreation
al facilities is planned, as well as a
large general assembly room, facil
ities for the presentation of relig
ious drama, and a choir loft which
will seat 60. The total Sunday
School capacity will be 700. The
building is being constructed on a
lot purchased for the purpose and
adjacent to Edna Moore dormitory.
A planning committee is also at
work on plans for a new personage,
to be constructed on a lot on the
high school ridge road. Construc
tion will begin as soon as possible,
and the house will be completed by
the first of September. The college
is purchasing the property on which
both the church and the present
parsonage stand.
In commenting on the comple
tion of plans for the project, pastor
Lowell F. Sodeman said, "At long
last, after many years of planning,
we shall have adequate facilities for
a well-balanced and comprehensive
program of Christian education
within the local church. Week by
week, student contributions to the
unified church budget are helping
to cut down the amount of money
which must be borrowed to com
plete the project.”
Societies Prepare
For Society Day
With Forensic Term well under
way both boy’s societies are mak
ing preparations for Society Day
activities at the end of the year. So
ciety Day pits the Euthalian and
Philomathian Societies against each
other in competitions including
temperance readings, orations, dec
lamations, and debate.
The Philomathian Society has
already held contests in temperance
readings and orations. Debates are
scheduled for February 23, and dec
lamations will close the Forensic
Term events.
Winners in Phi temperance read
ing contest were Wayne Cooper and
Bobby Wyatt. Emmett Elledge is
the alternate. In orations Clinnie
Reddick and Bobby Wyatt were se
lected to represent Philomathia.
Euthalian contests will be held in
the near future. Twenty-four Eu-
thalians have signed up for the
various events.
Delegates To
Attend Mock U.N.
The International Relations Club
is planning to send five delegates to
the Student United Nations to be
held at Cumberland University in
Lebanon, Tennessee, February 26,
27, and 28. Mars Hill College will
be the only North Carolina school
taking part in the model of the
United Nations General Assembly,
and will represent the country of
Israel.
Three of the delegates, C-II
members of the club, are Bill Jones,
Talmadge Williams, and Ira Green.
C-Is who will attend are Hey
ward Moore, Jimmy Potts. Other
delegates will attend the assembly
from such schools as Alabama Poly
technic, the University of Mississip
pi, Ohio State University, East
Tennessee State College, and Van
derbilt University of Tennessee.
Prizes will be offered in the form
of three cups which will be award
ed according to points scored by the
delegations. Speakers at the as
sembly will include Senator Estes
Kefauver, Senator Sherman Cooper,
and Congressman Pat Sutton.
The assembly is sponsored by the
School of Law at Cumberland, in
cooperation with the Nashville
schools, the Collegiate Council for
the United Nations, and the Amer
ican Association for the United Na
tions.
Charles Varni. The program was
divided into three parts: the influ
ence of German colonists and cul
ture in the early history of our coun
try, German games, and German
songs.
Business Club met in Huffman
Parlor. The program centered
around the ideals of the club. After
the program the initiation service
for new members was held. The
new members are Peggy Huss,
Charles Bobo, Bobby Coley, Viola
Gallimore, Donald Hammond, Jan
et Spangler, Jane Cook, Barbara
Priddy, Juanita Hill, Joanne
AVatson, Joyce Strickland, Jean
Smith, Barbara Beasley, Sadie
Rae Dixon, and Geneva Greer. 'The
newly elected officers of the Busi
ness Club are as follows: President,
Ted Buckner; vice president, Har
riet Rudd; secretary, Betty King;
treasurer, Thomas Lamb; reporter,
Doris Hearon.
The theme of the Science Club
program was "Great Men of
Science.” Taking part were Frances
Jenkins, Frieda Smithwick, John
Lee, and Phil Scett. The new mem
bers that were inducted after the
program are Alildred Ayers, John
Bhke, Ruth Bramlett, Bob Brown,
Helen Brown, Cozette Draffin,
Mary Ann Elliott, Albert Emory,
David Heizer, Richard Hughes,
Marie Kornegay, Nan Long, Patsy
Meats, Alicia Osteen, Ruth Poston,
and John Spicer.
New members of the Internation
al Relations Club are: Kenneth
Freeman, John Madison, Carolyn
Royal, Tommy Funderburke, Dot
Childer, Geraldine Simmons, Gean
Gilreath, Doris Miller, Jackie Rob
erts, Wanda McCurry, Violet Over-
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Dramateers Select
Play For Festival
"The Will”, an English play by
James Matthew Berry, has been se
lected by the Mars Hill Dramateers
Club to be given at the annual Car
olina Dramatic Festival, to be held
April 15-18, at Chapel Hill. The
play covers a period of twenty years,,
dealing with events which occurred
during the reigns of Queen Victoria,
King Edward and King George V.
The cast consists of one female and
six male characters. Tryouts for
these parts are to be held March 5,
with all interested persons invited
to try for the parts.
David Morrow, Dottie Phillips,
and Alva Wallace were winners
at a final dramatic reading con
test held in the Playhouse, Feb.
18. They will be a part of the
forensic team which will represent
the college at Fredericksburg, Vir
ginia, at a tournament the first
week in April.