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Page Two THE HILLTOP. MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS HILL. N. C. FeM CThe Hilltop PLAIN LIVING AND HIGH THINKING Published by the Students of Mars Hill College Volume XXVII February 21, 1953 Number 10 A Great Week It is true that we have all re ceived some kind of blessing dur ing the recent week of religious focus. Some of us have felt the im pact of the dynamic leaders more than others. Many of us will forget a great deal we have heard, but the real beauty and usefulness of this week will appear somewhere in the future. Perhaps someday we will be faced with problems and responsibilities that we thought could never come to us. This will be the time when Christian Focus Week will prove its worth. For during crises, we here on our campus who listened intent ly to the advice of these experi enced Christians will call to mind principles and facts pointed out to us during Focus Week that will be sufficient to show us the way. Truths have been burned into our hearts that cannot be erased by There’s More To Be Done The new Mars Hill Baptist Church is going up. The years of planning and hoping are over, and the contract itself has at last been signed. The task of bringing into being a new church, however, is far from done; for there is more to a new church than the building itself. There must be furnishings and equipment to make a church useful, and they must come from some where. A great deal of money has al ready been contributed, and a great deal must be borrowed. The less that has to be spent in the future, the less will have to be borrowed. Having been asked how students could help in bringing to comple tion the project, pastor Lowell F. Sodeman replied as follows: "Our students have a wide range of contacts and have opportunities of directing the interests of many people toward our needs. We need a great deal of help in providing suitable equipment. This includes furnishings for the sanctuary, such as pews, choir seats, and pulpit furniture. Furniture for the Sun day School department may be giv en as a memorial or as a direct gift to the church. Much can be done during these months when the building is being constructed to en list the interest of your friends and to inform them of our needs. "The contribution by campus or ganizations and classes of gifts to the church as memorials to them selves will be accepted. Anyone who wishes to discuss means of do ing so should see me as soon as possible.” Since the church is expected to reach completion by the end of the next school year, it is hoped that the class of ’54 or those who are now C-Is, will be able to hear their baccalaureate sermon delivered within its walls. Let us hope and work for the greatest possible suc cess of the project. Tribute To Miss Ruth ’^Fhe students, faculty, and per sonnel of Mars Hill College ex tend deepest sympathy to Miss Vera Ruth in her illness. She has been deeply missed by the Huff man girls and by all others who came in contact with her while she served as dormitory house mother. Her guiding counsel and sympathetic understanding have encouraged and strengthened those who came to her for advice. Miss Ruth’s cheerfulness, pa tient manner, and wisdom in help ing to solve the problems of her girls have served her well in her position. To Miss Ruth go best wishes for a speedy recovery and thanks for the work she has done for Mars Hill.—Amy Fisher. It’s Up To Us Entered as second-class matter February 20. 1926, at the Postoffice at Mars Hill, North Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published semi-monthly during the college year. Editor-in-Chief Anne Thompson Associate Editor Mildred Scroggs Managing Editor Sarah Adams News Editor Mitchell Carnell Feature Editor Joyce Ellis Sports Editor Fred Young Assistant Sports Editors Richard Young - Rex Robertson Girls’ Sports Editor Sybil Lennon Advertising Manager Dot Alley Assistants in Advertising Janice Dennis - George Payne Circulation Manager Calvin Metcalf Assistants in Circulation Don Payne - Gena Jo Fant Exchange Editor Clara Brincefield Typists Helen Haines - Joanne Watson CONTRIBUTORS Betty Stacy, Amy Fisher, Helen Brown, Claire Buckner, Joanne Den ton, Ouida Ott, Tom Waller. Five calendar pages have been torn from their places since that ninth day of September when we as green freshmen, peering from behind high-brushed sets of teeth, trying to prove how brave we were, stepped into the first line we saw and made with some bits of inane small-talk. That hour we became members of the Mars Hill family. Our presence, therefore, has be come either a detriment or a bless ing to the college life. May 1 be presumptuous and assume the lat ter. Indeed, the spirit and co-opera tion of new students is of vital sig nificance to any college; for the freshman class is usually in the vast majority. From the standpoint of Mars Hill it is of primary im portance. During this school year the C-I’s outnumber the C-II’s considerably. By reason of number we therefore dominate the spirit of the campus. Next year the picture will be re vealed quite differently. If we are a normal class, one fourth of our group will not return to Mars Hill; the C-I class of 1953-54 will then be in the majority. It is our duty to see that they grasp the spirit of Mars Hill. The student is extraordinary who agrees with every policy and rule of the college. The fact that we are here demands that we obey all whether or not we agree. We should remember that we are a basic part of Mars Hill. In fact, we are Mars Hill.—Tom Waller Spirit of Hearts, Flowers, and Cupid Reign Over Mars Hill Campus Again time. As for the days just at hand. Mars Hill students have been drawn near- to God and have enjoyed a refresh ing and new fellowship with God that few of us want to forget. Through the team of Christian workers, we have been shown the down-to-earth Christianity that ap peals to every person in one way or another. We have seen what God can do with a person who de cides to let the Lord have His way. It has been a week of wonderful experiences. It is all up to us now. Let us not be afraid nor ashamed to take God as a permanent partner and to seek together with Him a life of victory. Furthermore let us not fear that God has given up hope for our lives long ago because we have failed to be maximum Christians. —Claire Buckner We knew all along that February 14 was Valentine’s Day, but that it was in the very near future did not dawn upon us until most of the Stu dent Center was filled with Valentines both comic and tender. Unfortun ate members of the male sex were taken in hand and were dragged (by force, and with protests) to the "Hearts and Flowers" counter. Upon arriving, they displayed an unusual amount of interest in the plumbing, the floor, or (more generally) the door. Regardless of their position, they avoided (or attempted to avoid) the inquiring, sick-calf eyes of their companions. One Mars Hillion informed us that her boy friend was in a Mili tary Academy. She also assured us that she did not care whether he sent her a gift or not, but she won dered if he would. Thirty minutes later she was still assuring us that she did not actually want him to send one, but just wondered. After she left, we swept up her finger nails. Then too, we all knew that the moans and screams from the post office did not indicate any individ ual’s physical illness, but only that no Valentines had been received, or else that the box was loaded. On Friday night as the boys were rendering their heart breaking songs, the girls assumed various at titudes. Those who had boy friends in the group calmly fainted upon the floor, but they did so with an ear in the direction of the window. Those who had only "prospects” in the crowd, settled themselves se curely upon the heads, shoulders, and backs of the other girls, and no one was allowed to listen to the music until they, with the aid of the entire group of girls, had found each and everyone of their "S.P.’s”. The remainder of the girls were either longing for lovers far away, lost loves, or loves never known, or shuffling nonchalantly down the hall because they just did not give a hang, or pretended they did not. MH Faculty Attends H. S. College Days at- Those attending these programs which were held in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Flor ida, were President Hoyt Blackwell, Robert R. Chapman, Dean R. M. Lee, Dr. Raymond Nelson, M. H. Kendall, and Miss Frances Snelson. The purpose of these college days is to give the high school student an opportunity to investigate various colleges and to cause them to be come college conscious. In addition college days give the college rep resentative an opportunity to be come acquainted with prospective students, check scholastic records, and to confer with teachers of pros pective students. Snelson Attends I Miss Snelson attended college day in North Wilkesboro last ’Thursday and plans to be in six other North Carolina schools between now and April. Previously she has represent ed the college in twelve North Car olina cities, eighteen in South Caro lina, and four each in Virginia and Florida. magtne Imagine angels sliding down sun beams And fairies imprisoned in raindrops. Imagine elves plaiting the moon beams And nymphs combing the sky. Imagine the world in a snowflake And people swinging on stars. Imagine the valleys full of comets And mountain covered in starweed. Imagine the clouds full of diamonds And the wind bathed in gold. Imagine the sky is a playhouse And every body in space a chair. Imagine the weather’s your house- guest And pour out your dreams in air. —Clara Brincefield Dean Lee spent February 16-20 presenting students from eight South Carolina cities with informa tion concerning Mars Hill. Earlier in the year Dean Lee visited North Charleston High School in South Carolina. Representing the college at Ashe- boro High School College Day was President Blackwell, who also plans to go to several South Carolina schools in the near future. At a College Day program held m Andrews, Dr. Nelson talked to students from Hayesville, Hiawassee Dam, and Andrews. Also repres enting M H. C. were Mr. Chapman who spoke to Greenville, South Carolina students concerning col lege and Mr. Kendall, who visited Betiueen BaoA Something new on tf shelves is the Interpret^ 'The complete set consi®^ volumes, covering every WYI Old and New Testamejl^l tague Library at present' volumes. These are: 3^1 General and Old Testai?*)| ides. Genesis and Exoduf VII, General Articles on le ament, Matthew and Mthl ume VIII Luke, and John; iJ ume X, Revelations. EaCiel is complete with a guid%| to use it. u; Mars Hill College, since October 27, 1952, has been represented by various members of the faculty and administration at fifty-one college day programs at which 529 smdents representing eighty-one high schools have been interviewed about tending Mars Hill College. The Interpreter’s purpose—"to interpret Pa| timeless truth of God’s Hoi It is a modern commentaio Holy Bible representing ers from almost every braipo: Christian Church. It toC) years to gather the inform* essary to complete these Each volume contains iiP^ outlines. Each volume cdS* introduction to Scripture individual book, an exege^r text, and relevant expositife An interesting little fere will probably enjoy readings t o/ the Spirit, by F. B. Harl>r. Iain of the United States Scare Minister of the Foundry Jrul Church in Washington, I T book of informal meditaiet. deals directly and helpfully he individual spiritual needs :h and women today. It is ritfeta trated with anecdote and .deJ from literature and from Ibei ris’ own experience and ob&= during extensive travel in ed States and Europe. DeShazo Condr Classes At Cat; he Iru; o; Ramon DeShazo, spe^' English instructor at Mars ^ lege, has for the past thf*j conducted a course in ^ | Speaking and Group Disci(^ the Champion Paper Company in Canton. This course is open to j ployees of the company aO*^ in a series of fifteen whidj] fered free of charge to dj employees. These courses ^ fered by the company in improve the community li^( employees. They are also the employees’ records. [ All types of speaking at^; including group discussib after-dinner speeches. In year of the course when tW; was w' o r k i n g on aftef^ speeches, one of the comph ficials gave the group a baf^ order to create a proper attdt for the speakers. The course has been so ^ ceived that plans are unde^'j start an advanced course nt'l however, Mr. DeShazo ss'': these plans are not definite ^ college Marion’s annual gram. Recently a projector at viewer were purchased so • ored slides of Mars Hill cart can be shown to prospect dents. High school studt supplied with catalogues, pai stickers, and college newsp' the college representatives the students additional infO'
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