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MARS HILL. N. C.. SATURDAY. MARCH 7. 1953
Number II
' National Focus Week
oegin Next Monday
cake was baked innual Vocational Emphasis Week will be held on Mars HiU
in a collection campus March 9-13. Men representing various fields of work
ation p i c t u r e^ess the student body each morning at the regular chapel hour.
demonstration Jng at the Monday morning
ly to bathe a balvill be Chappell Wilson of
two girls modeled nl of Education and director
lade during the fifisummer session at Appa-
State Teachers college. He
)abbs and Carolyff^ opportunities in
welcomed as new ^ teaching.
I Cla2ener, farm agent of
nf T-r T- county, former trustee
f Ecrtalumnus of Mars Hill col-
dl artp opportunities in
Fl'errr'^otk and home demon-
Elecmc Cooking.on Tuesday morning.
tesday morning N. H. CoUi-
ty . e-president of Ecusta Paper
close of each c(^^t°n in Brevard, will show
on the food waS'Ptties in the business world,
in the audience h^tnson was director of an
t stubs. One suc?^ commission in western
I'as won by Mrs. }i two years.
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Mars Hill college was represented
at the South Atlantic and South
eastern Forensic Tourney held at
Lenoir-Rhyne college in Hickory,
March 5-7.
The events of the tourney were
divided into men’s and women’s di
visions. Dudley Smith and Bill
Jones debated the affirmation and
Barbara Saunders and Mary Jane
White, the negation of the national
college debate query, "Resolved:
That the Congress of the United
States should enact a compulsory
fair employment practices law.”
Tom Waller represented the col
lege in orations, radio announcing,
and radio poetry reading. In addi
tion to debating Barbara competed
in orations, after-dinner speaking,
impromptu speaking, radio an
nouncing and poetry reading.
Mary Jane entered the extempo
raneous speaking, radio extempo
raneous, and group discussions,
while Bill gave an extemporaneous
speech.
Dudley competed in after-dinner
speaking, impromptu speaking, and
radio group discussions.
Senior colleges from Virginia,
Georgia, South Carolina, North
Carolina, and Tennessee took part
in the tourney at which Mars Hill
on special invitation was the only
junior college represented.
Mrs. Wayne Sloan
MHC Welcomes
NewHousemother
Mrs. Wayne Sloan, from Char
lotte, arrived on February 22, to
become house mother for Huffman
dormitory. Before accepting this
responsibility, she was employed by
Garcrest Mills in Charlotte.
Mrs. Sloan is a member of the
Allen Street Baptist church of
which Martha Yates’ father is pas
tor. She has done extensive work
with young people and taught a
Sunday School class of seventeen-
year-old girls. In addition she has
been a choir mother, counselor of
Y. W. A., and a counselor in the
Young People’s Training Union.
Mrs. Sloan has helped with Fel
lowship programs in her Charlotte
church and each summer is house
mother for the young people’s
groups going to Ridgecrest.
A widow for fifteen years, Mrs.
Sloan has three sons, the youngest
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Annual Concert Given
By Little Symphony
The little symphony of the North Carolina Symphony Society, under
the direction of Dr. Benjamin Stvalin, will present its annual concert
in the college auditorium at eight o’clock on March 7.
■ Dr. Swalin received his M. A.
degree from Columbia University
and his Ph. D. from the University
of Vienna. He studied violin un
der Leopold Auer and Franz Knei-
sel, and did advanced study at the
Institute of Musical Art in New
York. For ten years he served as
a member of the faculty at the
University of North Carolina be
fore becoming in 1940 full-time di
rector of the Symphony.
'The program will consist of Vi
valdi’s Concerto in G Minor, ar
ranged by Nachez; Prokofieff’s
Classical Symphony, Opera 25; Alf-
ven’s Elegy; and William’s Suite of
English Folk Songs, which includes
"Seventeen Come Sunday,” "My
Bonny Boy,” and "Folk Songs From
Somerset.” ’There will also be ex
cerpts from the opera Carmen by
Bizet, Torch’s "Shooting Star,”
Liszt’s "Liebestraum,” and Hun
garian Rhapsody No. II.
'The North Carolina Symphony
originated as a WPA project under
the leadership of Lamar Stringfield.
It developed into a permanent or
ganization with the aim of taking
good symphonic music to every part
of the state. The Symphony has
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Eight Honor Clubs
Scheduled To Meet
March 9 and 10
March meetings of the honor
clubs will be held next Monday
and Tuesday, the 9th and 10th.
The theme for the Spanish club
meeting is "Spanish Sports and
Amusements.” Those taking part
in the program are Carole Altman,
Ellyn Gardner, and Beverly Gage.
At the last meeting Carole Altman
was elected president; Wilma June
Angel, vice-president; Danny Gry-
der, secretary; and Ada Robinson
and Sybil Lennon, co-social chair
men.
New officers of the Science club
are Frieda Smithwick, president;
John Lee, vice-president; Frances
Jenkins, secretary; Phil Scott, treas
urer; and Nan Long, social chair
man. New members not previously
announced are Sallie Everhart, Bet
ty Stacy, Shirley Schuette, and James
McBee. Plans for the March meet
ing are not complete.
Ted Buckner was elected presi
dent of the Business club at the
February meeting. Other officers
include Harriett Rudd, vice-presi
dent; Betty King, secretary; Thomas
Land, treasurer; and Doris Heaton,
reporter.
At its regular meeting Scriblerus
club will have as guest speaker,
John Foster West of Eton College.
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John Foster
Is Featured
John Foster West, 1942 gradu
ate of Mars Hill who is now an as
sociate Professor of English at Eton
College, will be the speaker at the
March meeting of the Scriblerus
Club next Tuesday evening. Mr.
West specializes in creative writing,
Riabikoff To Render
College Performance
George Riabikolf, pianist, will
perform at Mars Hill Tuesday
night, March 17, at 7:30 in the
college auditorium.
Mr. Riabikoff has gained a rep
utation of excellence in his inter
pretation of Russian works. On
the first half of the program will
be featured “Picture at an Exhi
bition” by Moussorgsky.
At present the pianist is a stu
dent of Gina Bachauer, renowned
Greek concert pianist.
As a child, Mr. Riabikoff per
formed for many of Russia’s out
standing composers and leading
performers.
West, MHC
On Scriblerus
Graduate,
Program
and has published a volume of col
lected poetry as well as sold several
short stories and poems to national
publications.
During his senior year at Mars
Hill, Mr. West was editor of the
Hilltop. After graduating, he at
tended the University of North Car
olina for three years, where he re
ceived his M.A. in English. He has
also done work toward his Ph.D. in
English at the University and at the
University of Iowa.
Mr. West has received several
honors in the field of literature.
His novel, Unto the Hills, was run
ner-up in the Intercollegiate Novel
Fellowship for 1941, sponsored by
Dodd, Mead Co., and he was first
prize winner in the North Carolina
Poetry Contest for 1951, sponsored
by the North Carolina Poetry Coun
cil, of which he is now a member.
He was also regional winner in the
Poetry Day contest for 1950 spon
sored by the North Carolina Poetry
Society, and is an honorary lifetime
member of the International Mark
Twain Society.
His book of poetry, entitled Up
Ego!, contains twenty-seven pieces
and is dedicated to the poet’s more
than twenty friends who died in
World War II. One of his poems
is soon to be published in the Cur
rent Anthology of Poetry by Teach
ers, published by the National
Poetry Association.
Exhibition Features
Cellocuts By Margo
The Art Department is showing
an exhibition of 17 cellocuts by
Boris Margo, New York artist, in
Moore Hall, March 1-20.
Mr. Margo, who is internation
ally known as one of the leading
exponents of cellocut printing, has
works exhibited in the Metropoli
tan Museum of Art, the National
Gallery in Washington, the Art In
stitute of Chicago and other public
and private collections.
The exhibition consists of twelve
interpretative prints, "The Months”,
and five other cellocuts of more
variable subject matter.
The Studio Guild of New York
City is sponsoring the exhibition.
Home Ec Club
Sponsors Show
The annual fashion show to be
presented by the Home E-ronomics
club in the college cafeteria March
11, will be supplemented by a
fashion show of Vogue patterns,
under the direction of Mrs. Turner
of Ivey’s in Asheville.
Mrs. J. V. Howell, sponsor for
the club, is general supervisor of
the fashion show. Working with
Mrs. Turner is Betty York, vice-
president and program chairman of
the club.
Other students working with the
show and their committees are re
freshment, Ann Craft, Geraldine
Rhymer, Sylvia Dabbs, and Ruby
Mays; music, Sybil Lennon and Sal
ly Everhart; decoration, Becky
'Trammell, Becky Poteat, and Bar
bara Epting; publicity, Nancy Buck
ner, Joyce Sinclair, and Edith Brad
ley; script, Lora Hossley and Jean
Smith; and models, Betty York and
Sybilene Blenson. The executive
committee is composed of Shirley
Mitchell and Jean Echols.
Spring Holidays
Begins March 27
According to information from
De.in Lee’s office, spring holida)"s
begin for each student at the end
of his last class on Friday, March
27.
Everj'one is expected to attend
his first class on Tuesday, April
7. Cuts before holidays count
double. No cuts are permitted at
the end of holidays.