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Published by the Students of Mars Hill College
Volume XXVIII
MARS HILL. N. C., SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 1954
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Shakespearean Play
The Ba rter Theater will pre
sent Shakespeare’s comedy, “Two
Gentlemen of Verona” on the
stage of the college auditorium
next Saturday evening at 8 :00.
The first twentieth century pro
duction of the comedy in the U.S.
was given by the Barter players.
The play is thought to have taken
lor its plot the story of the shep
herdess Felismena in the Spanish
pastoral, “Diana Enamorado.”
Featured in the cast will be Jerrv^
Odo as Proteus, a gentleman of
Veronna; resident-director Owen
Phillips as Panthino; Kay Ken
dall as the vivacious Julia, beloved
of Proteus; Nancy Green as Lu-
oetta; and Laura Farr as Valen
tine, the other gentleman.
The only professional theater in
the country receiving financial aid
from a state government, the Bar-
for theater had its beginning dur
ing the depression years as a “bar-
theater under the leadership
o Robert Porterfield. Today it is
^ going concern and is recognized
the State Theater of Virginia.
^ Director Owen Phillips, a na
tive of Cincinnati and head of the
rama department of the Cincin-
^^ti Conservatory of Music, has
^red with the players in “Ah,
ilderness!” and has appeared in
arner Brothers movies.
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far East Expert
To Speak Soon
Robert Aura Smith, Far East-
correspondent for the New
ork Times, and world traveler,
fK ^^^^tess the student body on
0 subject, “Student, and Let It
NO At That,” March 13, at 8:00
he college auditorium..
In
the effort to find out what
th ■ were thinking about
ha^^ P°^icies and ours, Mr. Smith
, recently completed a compre-
Pa survey trip through the
such 1 ^here he talked with
Tan , ^^^rs as Syngman Rhee,
Premier Yoshida, Chiang-
sftek. President Quirino and
PaV^^^ Minister Nehru, of India,
istan s Prime Minister Nazi-
News
Briefs
mudd
111 and others.
as
^ addition to an eventful career
^^rrespondent and journalist,
his ' in 1940 brought out
co^ book on the forth-
Japanese attack, Our Fu-
year h^ followed the next
in Foreign Policy and
hy Divided India.
fhe B ^ lecturer at
Off Institute, the Staff
sity'^^^^ Yale Univer-
College of Co-
Policy A Yhe Foreign
hirp ^sociation has presented
most ^ PDtform speaker in al-
si’ze e American city of any
north Mississippi and
“f Washington.
Representatives from Mars Hill
are attending a series of academic
departmental conferences along
wu'th those from each of the other
Baptist junior colleges in North
Carolina as well as Meredith and
Wake Forest, it has been announc
ed by the Dean’s office. Each of
the participating colleges is acting
as host for various conferences.
Next Friday and Saturday, a
conference dealing with natural
sciences will be held at Campbell
College. It is to be followed by a
modern language conference at
Chowan, March 26-27, a mathe
matics conference at Wingate Col
lege, April 9-10, and an English
conference at Mars Hill April 23-
24. The social studies conference
at Gardner-Webb was held Feb-
ruarv 19-20.
Dean R. M. Lee will represent
Mars Hill at the American Junior
College Association meetings in St.
Louis, March 7-12. Dean Lee
serves on the administrative com
mittee of this organization.
The debate team, under the di
rectorship of Harley Jolley, re
turned Thursday night from a trip
to Milligan College in Johnson
City, where they participated in a
practice debate.
Vocational Week
Activities Slated
The Sixth Annual Vocational
Emphasis Week will be held this
year on March 8-12. Each year
members of various professional
groups come to Mars Hill to help
acquaint the students with differ
ent vocational opportunities. This
program of guidance will be given
each day during the chapel period.
On Monday, March 8, two rep
resentatives of the Baptist Hos
pital Medical and Nursing schools
will speak. “The Challenge of the
Teaching Profession” will be the
topic of the Tuesday chapel ser
vice. A. J. Hutchins, for many
years superintendent of Canton
schools, will be the speaker.
Dr. Robert L. Holt will speak
on “Opportunities in Ministry
and Religious Education” in the
C-II chapel, while Nane Starnes,
West Asheville minister, will pre
sent the same subject in C-I chapel.
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Virginia Oonrerto Orchestra
To (live Performance Tonight
The fourteen-piece Virginia Concerto (Orchestra, under the baton of
William Haaker, will present a program of concert and chamber music
at 8:00 o’clock tonight in the college auditorium. The orchestra con
sists of fourteen lirst-chair musicians of the \’’irginia Symphony, who
make an annual tour through eleven Southern States.
Highlighting the concert will be piano concertos by the orchestra’s
soloist-conductor William Haaker on the orche>tra’s own Baldwin
Eleven members of the 1954 May Court which will attend May
Queen Barbara Barr in the annual spring celebration are, front row,
left to right: Cathy Crain, Martha Swanson, Maryanne Long, Edna
June Funk, and Bert McBride, maid of honor. Back row: Kitzi Miller,
Pat Loving, Molly Fennel, Lou Mary Switzer, Virginia Lake, and Toni
Snider. The court is composed of five representatives each from the
C-I and C-II classes, chosen by student vote.
SS study Course Books
To Be Taught March 1-5
Sunday School Young People’s Department B will sponsor a series
of study courses next week, March 1-5, during the chapel hour which
will begin at 9:45 A.M. and will be extended to 10:45 A.M.
Following is a list of the books and the teachers for the, courses:
“Building a Christian Home,” Dr. Robert Holt; “Good Stewards,”
Mr. D. T. Holland; “My World Too,” Mrs. D. C. Richardson;
“What Baptists Believe,” Dr. D. C. Richardson; “God’s Hurry,” Miss
Mildred Bingham; “Every Chris
tian’s Job,” J. A. McLeod;
“Abundant Living,” Mr. Ramon
DeShazo; “Vacation Bible School
Manual,” M iss I rene Olive ;
“Fields of Service in the Church,”
Rev. Lowell F. Sodeman; “Work
ing Together in a Spiritual De
mocracy,” M. H. Kendall; “The
Book We Teach,” Miss Evelyn
Underwood; “The Bible and
Prayer,” Dr. Ella J. Pierce; “Al
cohol the Destro\'er,” Vernon E.
Wood; “Building a Standard Sun
day School,” Emmette Sams.
(Continued on Page 4)
Construction Started
On Electronics Plant
A $200,000 electronics plant
will be constructed in the near
future at Mars Hill by the Ham-
marlund Manufacturing Company
of New York City.
The plant to be located just
northwest of the town of l\Iars
Hill will occupy 2,000 square feet
of floor space and will employ
some 200 persons. The site of the
building will be a 20 acre tract
purchased by the New York firm.
Electronic capacitors and com
ponent parts for highly specialized
radio receiving equipment will be
produced at the plant.
An employee training program
will be set up “soon” under the
direction of Rudolph M. Gibbs of
Asheville., Gibbs has been until
recently electronics instructor for
Lee H. Edwards High School vo
cation classes and in addition has
operated a radio service shop.
Selection of the Mars Hill loca
tion, composed chiefly of the W.
Locke Robinson tract, was made
following a visit to the site several
weeks ago by the Hammarlund
officials.
concert grand, which the group
carries with it. Haaker is one of
the two pianists tutored by Jose
Iturbi, and graduated with honors
from the Eastman School of Mu
sic. He also tours the United
States presenting piano recitals.
Opening with the “Water Mu
sic” by Handel, the orchestra pre
sents moods of Allegro, Air, Horn
pipe, and Allegro deciso. The
string quartet is featured next in
Tschaikowskv’s “Andante Can-
tabile.”
Climaxing the first half of the
program will be Mozart’s E flat
piano concerto, with William
Haaker, conductor. 'The ever pop
ular” Rhapsody in Blue” by Ger
shwin opens the latter half of the
Dramateers Plan
Spring Activities
Plans for the Spring semester’s
activities are going forw^ard rapid
ly among the Dramateers. “The
Doll House,” a one-act play by
Carolyn Byrd, will be presented
over radio station WWNC to
morrow afternoon at 5:30, and
try-outs for the “Corn Husk
Doll” the one-act play to be en
tered in the Chapel Hill drama
contest will be held March 16. It
has also been announced by direc
tor D. T. Holland that the Spring
production is to be either “The
Little Foxes,” or “The Silver
Chord.”
The cast for tomorrow’s radio
play includes Howard Webb, Dot-
tie Phillips, Bill Delk, Katie Kat-
sarka, and Margaret Tomberlin.
“Hold the Books Open,” a one-
act play by Carolyn Byrd, was
presented as part of the program
of the Dramateer’s last meeting.
The cast included Brooks Allen,
Geoirge Estes, Bert Adler, Char
lotte Venable, Pat Loving, and
Fay Pierce. The play was directed
by Florrie Patrick.
William Haaker
program with Mr. Haaker again
returning to the piano. The orches
tra’s woodwind quintet will be
featured in two selections, “The
March of the Little Tin Soldiers”
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Some college graduates who
think they have drunk at the
Fountain of Knowledge seem only
to have gargled.
Easter Marks
Church Opening
Plans have been made for the
first services in the new church
sanctuar)^ on Easter Sundav, April
18. On IMay 23, a dedication ser
vice will be held in t’:e morning,
with an open house in the after
noon, and a recognition service in
cluding former pastors, state lead
ers, and associational pastors and
churches in the evening.
Ordinances of Baptism and the
Lord’s Supper, and Ordination
service for Tommy Funderburke
Mull also be observed in connec
tion with the opening and dedica
tion of the new building.
This Georgian st}de building
has in the auditorium a seating ca
pacity of 1100, and approximately
sixty Sunday school rooms. These
rooms, painted various pastel col
ors, will provide adequate space
for all departments of the church.