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Easter To Mark Opening
Of New Church Building
The new Mars Hill Baptist Church will open its doors for its first
full service tomorrow morning at eleven o’clock. Sunday School in the
new quarters will begin as usual at nine forty-five, and both groups as
well as the various training unions have set attendance goals for the
xLaster service,
_ On Sunday evening, the 8:00 o’clock service will including the sing-
ing of John Stainer’s Crucifixion by the adult choir and two soloists,
Beane, and Mrs. Fred Pop-
Violinist To Play
Here This Week
PROPOSED NEW DORMITORY FOR MEN
Construction On Library,
Dormitory To Begin Soon
Construction work on the new library and the new dormitory for
l^en is expected to begin within the next thirty days, as Mars Hill Col-
eges rapidly progressing building program goes forward. Both will
e built by the Interstate Contracting Company, of Charlotte, North
awarded the contract on the basis of a bid of
i>^^2,924 submitted for the two buildings.
^Architect for the library and dormitory is Henry I. Gaines, of Ashe-
- ville s Six Associates. The above
Glee Club Plans
Choral Concert
News
Briefs
Mary Freeman, noted violinist
of Rutherfordton, will appear
in concert, April 20, at 7:30 p.m.
in the college auditorium.
Aliss Freeman studied for seven
years at the Juilliard School of
Im. Following the anthen twenty
candidates for Baptism will re
ceive the rite.
Preparation for the opening of
the new church has been in prog
ress since early this week, when
the Sunday School room furniture
was moved in and the offices set up
for occupanct^ General assembly
and individual training union
meetings will be held in the Sun-
The Spring Choral Concert is
Scheduled for the evening of April
at 7:30 in the auditorium. Un-
the direction of Mrs. Fred
poplin three groups, the Women’s
Clee Club, the Men’s Glee Club,
^*^d the two combined will sing
®|k songs, popular ballads, and
Religious choruses.
, Highlighting the program will
^ Beethoven’s “Hallelujah Cho-
from the Mount of Olives,
®Ung by the mixed chorus. An
^cra, Bastien and Bastienne, by
^pzart, will be presented by the
Cirl’s Glee Club. The opera is set
^ring the latter part of the eigh-
^enth centuty and costumes of
period will be worn.
Accompanists for the groups
jjj’I be Iris Jo Cundiff, Molly
Irtish, and George Payne.
Publications SMs
Pbosen For 195455
e-^^incipal positions on the 1954-
Hilltop and Laurel staffs have
filled by the respective nomi-
committees of each, and
^U^t body has approved the
^.Mary Long will edit the Laurel,
gj.h Mimi Devine as associate
Business manager for the
^hook will be Jackson Hooper,
gj. Hdys Stamper has been chosen
Surv?^ of the Hilltop, and Shirley
*^ner will be associate editor.
illustration and the one at the bot
tom of the page are architect’s con
ceptions of the outsides of the two
structures.
Located on the Marshall high
way, diagonally across from the
Science building, the new library
will consist of two stories in front
and three in back, where the slope
of the hill drops away. In addition
to the main library room, a spa
cious lobby and offices and work
rooms for the staff will be provid
ed, as well as a ground-floor audio
visual room seating 200.
In addition a reading room and
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Editor Bobby Coley has an
nounced that the 1954 annuals
should arrive some time around
May 10. The proofs of both the
copy and the pictures have been
received, and although the date of
delivery is not certain, there is no
reason to believe that the Laurel
will not be ready by that date.
Congratulations to the John
Marrs on the latest addition to
their family, a baby girl named
Joan Adele.
Margaret Johnston, last year’s
Hilltop editor and a class of ’53
graduate, has been elected co-edi
tor of the Furman University
Hornet, the campus weekly. Mar
garet is in her first year at Fur
man, from which she plans to
graduate in 1955.
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,l^orts editor is Leon Rooke; ex-
editor, David Stooke. Ad-
managers are Betty Pear-
lat‘ Campbell, and circu-
Q, *on -vyjij jjg handled by James
^^er and Shirley Daniels.
"Antigone" Cast
Begins Practice
Trjmuts for the commencement
play, “Antigone,” adapted from
Sophocles by Lewis Galantiere,
were held on April 2 and 3 in the
college auditorium. This play is
different from the usual ones at
Mars Hill College in that this is
a classical tragedy.
The following cast was selected ;
with the second person named act
ing as understudy; Chorus, Billie
Jane Hall and Toni Snider; Anti
gone, Dottie Phillips and Betty
Threatt; Nurse, Vivian Jenkins
and Dot Childers; Ismene, Katy
Katsarka and Charlotte Venable;
Halmon, John Westbrook and La-
Verne Henson; Creon, Howard
Webb and James Parton; first
guard, A1 Peacock and Bill Heg-
ler; second guard, Dick Agee and
Carl Barker; third guard. Brooks
Allen and Lewis Collins; messen
ger, Gayle Brown and David Pitt
man; page, Kitzi Miller and Bill
Delk; Eurydice, Faye Pierce and
Joann Denton.
Rehearsals are now in progress.
On Monday, April 19, the Dra-
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At 7:30 this morning the seniors
the annual Senior Day ac
tivities by leaving for an outing at
North MiBs River, near Ashe-
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5/T • • u 1’i.iiuui VI will ue neui in tne bun-
Music in the Preparatory Division day School rooms for the first time
and graduated from the Grammar tomorrow evening
School and High School of Music Goal of attendance set by the
fhe hiuhe . J“l"'ard for town is 300. The auditorium has
T » opacity of 1100, and the total
e has appeared at Town Hall Sunday School capacity is 700
as guest arttst for the Texaco Construction on th^ new chuS;
o„“T"V?- . V* '’’“""o'” a vear ago, on
on the Artist Concert Summer April 1 of 1953.
Series at Juilliard. She has given
many concerts in the South-as well m
as in and around New York. « lA I.IUA
' While attending the High 10 UlVe
School of Music and Art, she was At
elected to the Honor Music AI I 6SuV2l
League and the Honor Service The Aiars Hul Dramateers will
League. She was chosen one of the present “Cornhusk Doll” at 9-00
four violinists among twenty-one A.iM. on April 23, in the annual
sical l^lZ"" " ^ b Pl-rke?s
sical lalent m our schools contest. Theatre, Chapel Hill
^onsored by the New York The cast includes: Dottie Phil-
1 . , actress; Brooks Allen as
She has played solo with the Jake Roberts, her manager- Toni
Music and Art Symphony Orches- Snider as Dorothy Gates^a report-
Ua, and was awarded the La er; Vivian fenkins as Katie,^ the
Guardia award for outstanding maid; and La Verne Hinson as
rnusicianship and contribution to Walden, the butler
the school community. For the last Carl Ba.kcr is s’tage manager
f • '''' Billie Jane Hall is property and
with the Belgian violinist Eduoard make-up chairman. D. Holland
Detnier. jg director.
Miss Freeman made a concert A large number of high schools
tour of the South in 1950 at which and colleges from over the state
time she played for churches, will participate in the Drama Fes-
hospitals, and schools. tival.
PROPOSED NEW LIBRARY
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