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1 e, IQ s’ 1- d- le le ed S. al as en na ies of ig. :nt an li en irk ng he id. ts, id- u- 3e- in CThe Hilltop Published by the Students of Mars Hill College Volume XXVIII MARS HILL, N. C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1953 Number 2 “Tweedles” To Be Presented Nov. 17; Cast Is Complete Casting for the annual fall pro duction of the Dramateers, which is this year to be Booth Tarking- ton’s Tweedles, has been com pleted. The production will be staged on the evening of No vember 17, in the auditorium. The following cast was selected from approximately seventy-five tryouts held October 1-2, in the Rivermont Playhouse: Mrs. Rick etts, Florrie Patrick; Mrs. Alber- gone, Violet Overton; Winsora, Elizabeth Powell; Julian, John Westbrook; Mrs. Castlebury, Dale Johnson; Mr. Castlebury, David Morrow; Adam Tweedle, Carl Barker; Ambrose, Dick Agee; Philemon, James Parton. On Monday night, October 19, at 7:30, the Dramateers also plan to present She Stoops To Con quer, a miniature three-act play based upon the English drama by Oliver Goldsmith. The cast in cludes: James Ewart, Mr. Hard- castle ; Florrie Patrick, Kate; Barbara Rhyne, Mrs. Hardcastle; William Hegler, Young Mar lowe; and Howard Webb, Tony. Vivian Jenkins will be student director of the show. Other mem bers of the acting class will work on staging, make-up, and cos tuming. Also discussed at the October meeting were membership qualifi cations in Dramateers. “Active Dramateers,” remarked Mr. Hol land, “must play in at least one drama.” Other short plays will be pre sented by the acting classes at the Dramateers’ meetings, and stu dents are invited to work in these, regardless of whether they are members of the Dramateers. The first meeting of the group was held on September 14. Pro gram for the meeting was a stu dent variety show consisting of nine separate acts. The active dra mateers who participated were: Katy Katsarka, Clara Brincefield, (Continued on Page 4) Laurel Staff Fills Positions On Annual Work on the 1954 Laurel has been progressing since early Sep tember, with promising results, and staff members have been cho sen to fill most of the various posi tions, although the editors point out that several openings remain to be filled by interested students. Skeeter McCauley and Bobby Coley are co-editors of the annual, and Beverly Beauford and Charles Bobo head the business staff. Doris Miller and Amy Fisher are lite rary editors; Gena Jo Fant, fea- p^re editor; Shirley Schuette and Conrad Godshall, sports editor; j ^1^. Jiossley, art editor; Vivian Jenkins, copy editor; and Irene Upshaw, Ethel Nobles, Shirley {xr ji^^’ ^^ry Sue Brown, Doris Wpdlaw, and Mitchell Carnell, "’^rtters and typists. With a great deal of work and some new ideas, the 1954 Laurel will be the best yet,” say the edi tors. Two boys and two girls make up the slate of officers for the 1953-54 C-II Class, elected Thursday morning, October 1, in a meeting of the Class. Standing is Paul Johnson, class president. Seated, left to right, are: Jackie Roberts, Treasurer; Janet Scent, secretary; and Art Fore, vice-president. Four Sectional Clubs Organized On Campus Students from Virginia, South Carolina, Florida, and Haywood County have met and organized clubs representing those areas. Other regional clubs will get under way in the near future. The Cavaliers, as the Virginia Club calls itself, chose Harold Collier for president, Douglas Spencer for vice-president, and Ada Lee Deacon as secretary treasurer. Faculty sponsors are Mr. and Mrs. Ramon De- Shazo. Dixie Ann Jordan is president of the South Carolina Club, which is the largest regional club on the campus. David McKee is vice-president, and Jean Gilreath IS secretary. Mimi Devine was named pub licity chairman, and R o d o 1 p h Dixon, social chairman. Miss Vir ginia Hart is faculty sponsor. The club has planned a picnic to be held on Little Mountain this af ternoon. The Florida Club elected Doris Stephens, president; Palmer Mills, vice-president; Jean Hamilton, secretary-treasurer; Lewis Collins, social chairman; Earl Livingston, publicity chairman; and Myrtle Dick and Margaret Tomberlin, program chairmen. Joe Chris Rob ertson is the faculty sponsor. The Haywood County group has formed the first organization. Bob Fulbright was chosen presi dent; Margaret Rogers, vice-pres ident; and Grace Blanton, secre tary, Miss Evelyn Underwood and Miss Collie Garner, both natives of Ha y w o o d County, are co sponsors. Shepard To Play Volney Shepard, of the Rich mond School of Music of Wil liam and Mary College, in Williamsburg, Va., will be pre sented in the first piano concert of the season to be held tonight at 8:00 o’clock in the college auditorium. Included in tonight’s pro gram will be the following se lections: “Romance,” by Schu- man; “Sonata,” by Beethoven; “I m p r omptu,” by Schubert; “Prelude,” by Chopin; and “Berceuse,” by Chopin. John £. Lawrence To Speak Dnring Revival October 18-24 The annual fall revival of the Mars Hill Baptist Church will be held October 18-24, wfith John E. Lawrence, of Sunset Park Baptist Church, Wilmington, as the speaker. Services will be held both at the regular evening hour and during the morning chapel period, when the C-Is will join the C-IIs in the church. John Law-rence, from whom one Mars Hill training union takes its - ' ' - name, was born December 21, ■i r\ ^ • n*.i ixT 1 1 SclioUip (IlDbs To InM Memhersi Magnus To Direct MH College Band Phillip Magnus, band director at Mars Hill High School, has ac cepted a position as director of the Mars Hill College Band, replac ing Warren F. Benson. Mr. Mag nus received his B.A. in Music from Western Carolina College and has since done graduate work at Peabody College in Nashville, Tenn. He attended Boston Uni versity, and was also a member of the armed forces. He came to Mars Hill last year as director of the high school band. He con tinues that work also. In discussing the band this year, Mr. Magnus said that they are fielding forty-five members and plan to play at all the home foot ball games and at some of the out- of-town games. Jimmy Ballard has been elected president of the Band. Members of the Band include: Reba Flem ing, Phyllis Ware, Barbara Culp, Shirley Sumner, Mary Martin, Linda Messer, Laurie Hardin, Barbara Sellers, Sarah Donahoo, Carolyn McCaskill, Larry Aus tin, Bob Brown, Dewey Young, June Connell, Tommy Webb, Jim Ballard, Bruce Wayland, Flay Reid, Rodolph Dixon, Kim Cole, Gene Ellis, and Bill Marlow. Also included are: Audry Mc- Croskey, Tom Anderson, Mar shall Crawford, Phinalia Black- stone, Bob Wiley, Redell Mc- Lamb, Jennie Sue Johnson, Gene Austin, Charles McKinster, Mary Becton, Caryl Guth, Jane Wells, and Richard Page. (Continued on Page 4) October meetings of the honor clubs will be held Monday and Tuesday evenings in the parlors of the girl’s dormitories at 7:30. At that time persons who became eli gible at the close of last spring semester will be admitted to clubs. The Business Club will meet in Huffman parlor on Tuesday even ing, at which time the initiation of new members will be held and old members will present speeches on the five ideals of the club. Scriblerus, the English honor club, will present in Edna Moore parlor a program centered about the writings of Archibald McLeish and Ernest Hemingway, Those on the program are Alva Wallace, Dottie Phillips, Roberta McBride, Shirley Owen, Dan Pace, Phin alia Blackstone, Wanda Chason, and Pat Loving. Members of the Spanish club will give accounts of their summer vacations at their first meeting, in Huffman parlor. The French Club program will be based on three French musicians and their works, Chopin, Gounod (composer of Faust), and Bizet (composer of Carmen). The meet ing will be held at the home of Miss Nona Roberts, and ten of the old members are expected to return. Other clubs have not as yet completed plans for their meet ings. was 1916, in Scitland Neck, and at tended grade and high school there. At Wake Forest College and Law School, he received his B.A. and LL.B. degrees, and sub sequently practised law in the of fice of the late Senator Willis Smith. Feeling the call to full-time Christian work, Mr. Lawrence became state B.S.U. secretary of North Carolina in 1940. From ’42 to ’45 he served in the Navy as a line officer aboard the aircraft carrier Intrepid, where he later became Lieutenant, Sr. Grade. Following his two years in the Navy, he entered the Southern Baptist T heological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., and served as pas- (Continued on Page 4) Forensic Group Announces Plans Mars Hill College Forensic teams will be using as debate topic this year. Resolved: United States Should Adopt A Free Trade Pol icy. The teams have not yet been picked, but there are several mem bers of last year’s debate club ex pected to try out. Harley E. Jolley, sponsor for the club, has received an invitation for the debaters to attend a tour nament sponsored by Agnes-Scott College on November 20, 21. They also hope to attend during the year the Mountain Tourna ment sponsored by Appalachian State Teachers College, the South Atlantic Tournament, sponsored by Lenoir-Rhyne College, and the Grand National Tournament sponsored by Mary Washington College at Fredericksburg, Vir ginia. In these tournaments represen tatives of the college will partici pate in after - dinner speaking, poetry reading, extemporaneous (Continued on Page 4) Work Advances On New Church With construction work on the new M ars Hill Baptist Church well on its way toward comple tion, plans have been made and committees assigned for the vari ous departments of operation. It is hoped that the building may be finished by late February of 1954, several months earlier than was previously expected. The Building Committee, con sisting of Mrs. Locke Robinson, Bruce Sams, Kenneth Anderson, R. M. Lee, J. A. McLeod, Ed ward Smith, and Br3'son Tilson, has appointed the following sub committees: Kitchen, Mrs. J. V. Howell, Mrs. D. M, Robinson, Fred Anderson, and B. H. Tilson. Music, J. A. McLeod, Miss Mar tha Biggers, Mrs. P. C. String- field, and Elwood Roberts. Finish ing and Decorating, Mrs. Charles Bruce, Miss Francis Snelson, Rob ert Chapman, and Mrs. Locke Robinson. Equipment, R. M. Lee, Otis Duck, Plato Reese, Mrs. Fred Sams, Charles Bruce, Irene Olive, Bruce Murray, and Mrs. Dan Carter. Approximately one hundred thousand dollars is still needed to complete payment for the build ing, plus an additional twenty-five thousand to make a start toward securing equipment for the church. The original contract price was $284,996, part of which was con tributed by the State Baptist As sembly and part of which was made up of the contributions from the local church, and other inter ested persons. The new church will have an auditorium capacity of 1100, and a 700-person capacity in the Sun day School department with sepa rate rooms for each class. Also in cluded will be a choir loft seating 60, a large general assembly room, and facilities for recreation and for the presentation of religious drama.
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