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THE HILLTOP, MARS HILL COLLEGE, MARS HILL, N. C. May 15,1954 cTKe PLAIN LIVING AND HIGH THINKING Published by the Students of Mars Hill College TLe Casiia.1 Olkserver Graves Addresses Banquet; Speaks On Theme “New Look” Speaking with Southern charm and delightful flashes of humor, Dr. 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. Voluma XXVIII May 15. 1954 Number 15 Editor-in-Chief ^ampei Associate Editor Shirley Sumner Snorts Editor Girls’ Sports Editor Exchange Editor David Stooke Advertising Managers Betty Pearson - Pat Campbell Circulation Managers Shirley Daniels - James Connor CONTRIBUTORS Sebelia Williams, Lucia Holder, Sylvia Corless, Shirley Bradley, Rossie Newsome. We Pledge Ourselves ... Imagine yourself sitting in airplane looking down upon a small mountain college. Would you think that because the college is in the mountains away from the bustle of city life it would be dull? Many people think that Mars Hill is a college removed far from the culture of large cities, but their ideas are incorrect. Think for a moment of May 15, issue number 15, less than a week till final exams, two w^eeks till graduation . . . and the Hilltop closes shop for another year. It’s been a good year, in spite of the tight deadlines and the news we missed and the feeling we sometimes got that the whole thing was hopeless. And none of the worry, none of the weariness that came to us through the whole thing was ever quite as bad as the empty, lonely feeling we have as we sit here in a quiet office, and stare at an empty copy-basket, and a typewriter gathering dust. Our job is finished; who will come after us: Will they spend hours thinking of possible arrangements for the front page make-up? Will they check and re-check to see if they missed anything? Will they wmrry just a little about each and every issue, even though they know it will come out on schedule as it aWays has? Will they love it as we have? Of course. And yet, you learn the hard way in this job that your most dependable help is yourself. John Temple Graves, II, held spellbound an audience of honor members and sponsors as he developed the theme of the New Look at the annual honor club banquet, sponsored this year by the Business Club, on Alay 8. Dr. Graves defined the “New Look” as an inward look by each individual. He began his address with the statement that honor club members should not onh^ know some thing but also should be and we can’t help wishing we weren’t leaving our job in the the celebrities who have visited our campus this year. The college lyceum program brought to our campus Robert Aura Smith. Mr. Smith, Far Eastern correspondent iox thcNewYork^ Times, informed our students on conditions in Asia. Shortly, before his visit " to Mars Hill, Mr. Smith completed a comprehensive tour through the Far East, where he talked with such leaders as Syngman Rhee, Japan’s ^ CECuCrS X lEIl Premier Yoshida, Chiang-Kai-Shek, President Quirina and Defense Minister Nehru, of India, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nazimuddin, and many other political leaders of our world. Vacation Jobs Mars Hill has been fortunate in having the North Carolina Little Symphony Orchestra and the Barter Players on our campus. Had it not been for careful planning by the lyceum committee, we would not have had the opportunity of hearing them. Dr. John Temple Graves, II, was speaker at the Honor Club Ban quet. Dr. Graves, educated as a lawyer and historian, is one of a long line of writers and orators. He is the author of kighiing South, He writes a syndicated column in morning and afternoon editions of the Birmingham Post-Herald. One of Mars Hill’s graduates will return as a Commencement Speaker. The Honorable John S. Battle, ex-governor of Virginia, graduated frorn Mars Hill in 1908. He served as governor of Virginia from 1948 urrtil 1952. It was his father, the Reverend Henry W Battle who applied to Aiars Hill the descriptive title, “A gem in the emerald ring of the hills.” At present, Mr. Battle is an attorney-at-law in Charlottesville, Virginia. Yes, Mars Hill is only a mountain school isolated from the busy city life, but there are many opportunities which one would not find else where. The culture of our nation reaches into our small mountain com munity. Not So Small We are experiencing mixed emotions. We rejoice in the fact that you, the C-IFs. have attained the goal which you have been working toward for the past two years. Won’t you feel proud of yourself when you walk across the stage and reach for your diploma? We are proud of you. Wc.havc learned from you during this past year. You were the ones who told us where iMoorc 31 was when \\e ^^ele late for histor} class at the first of school. You encouraged us to join a society. You advised us to put first things first. You said that we must study, but that ^we needed some extra-curricular activities, too. You have been our “big sisters.” You have been our prayer-mates. We love you for all that you have been to us during our first year in college. We hope that we may be as much to the incoming C-1 s as \ou ha\e been to us. You have been a great influence in our lives. You have accomplished much. Do not feel sad when you think of the things that you have left undone. One cannot‘do all the things that need to be done m two years. The things that vou have not done present to us a challenge. Since you are leaving us to carrv on the Mars Hill activities, we will strive to do our best As you go forth to better things ahead, we aim toward higher -oals than you have reached. We hope to have a stronger religious in fluence on campus next year. We hope that since we have a new church, more Training Unions and Sunday School Classes may be organized. It is our desire to have every student an active B. S. u. member. Since our scholarship has been questionable this year, we pledge our selves to study harder next year. We hope to have more students on t e Dean’s list and Honor Roll and fewer on the delinquent list. We pledge ourselves to be true to the ideals of Mars Hill as jou have been. It is our desire to make next year the best in the 99 years of Mars Hill’s historj^ We are indebted to you. Alay the best be yours. The clock has ticked out an other year. Already, the joyous students are planning for a gay, carefree summer of fun and fel lowship. Tanned young men and sunburned girls will soon be in habiting the beaches and swim ming pools. Of course, some of the more industrious ones will be working at various jobs and even a few will—yes, a few will be go ing to summer school. So much for the students and now for a brief bit of attention to the teachers’ summer! A few lucky faculty members may be seen at the beaches. Coach Hart will cer tainly be somewhere in the out doors. Others may be working at summer jobs other than teaching, but the majority of Mars Hill’s teachers will still be in school in some capacity. Those who are not teaching in summer schools will themselves be learning. Mrs. Fish is going back north to New York to resume her stu dies in Spanish at Columbia Uni- versiiy. Mr. Holland, at North western University, will continue his pursuit of a Ph. D. degree. At the University of North Carolina will be Miss Smith studying French and Mrs. Nelson doing library science. Mr. Magnus will be studying at Peabody College. Nashville, Tennessee. Mr. Jolley will be teaching at Appalachian. Finishing one phase of his edu cation, Mr. Chapman will at the June commencement of WCUNC receive his degree of Master ot Science. After that, his attention will no doubt be concentrated on the new home that he is building- Mr. and Mrs. McLeod \\nll be journeying down to Winston- Salem to see their son, Johi^ re ceive his M. D. degree from Bow man Gray. We hear that Alother Wilson is assured of a trip to Texas. Her ten-year-old granddaughter has al ready sent her an installment on Iier tram fare in order that she will “not have to get off and eat in hot bus stations, to quote the young donor. hands of an endless cycle of peo ple whom we’ve never met. So in deed must have felt every editor down through the years, as he or she sat in a quiet office with an empty copy-basket and a dusty typewriter. Wherever we go, whatever we are doing, we will remember the Hilltop and the job of editor, and in our hearts it will still be our job. But before we leave, there are things to be said. The man who made the remark that a newspaper has the largest staff on earth was pretty close to the truth; we could not have done it without the help of the large majority of the facul ty and students at one time or an other. To these, in particular, we of the Hilltop say, “Goodbye, and thanks a million 1” Now we are down to the last couple of inches of space, and I want to drop the time-honored editorial “we” at this point, and use a personal first person, because what I have to say is very per sonal. To my staff and its ad viser : Running down elusive stories isn’t the easiest job in the world; you did it without complaint, and got your stories in on time. Stay ing in the office and working while ev'eryone else prepared for tomor row’s test wasn’t always fun; }^ou did it, and the paper went to press on schedule. And when all the things that go wrong on a newspaper can people of convictions. He closed on the same note declaring “Hon or means not only I.Q. but the character to be optimistic, and ar dently to believe.” Pointing out the fact that in the last forty years have occurred two world wars, three social revo lutions, and four mechanical revo lutions — transportation, radio, television, and atomic fission and' fusion —- Dr. Graves stated that we have passed the saturation point in horror, speed, space, and' size and, as he put it, “have given up and come home to ourselves.” He suggested that perhaps the real': answer to the world’s problems lies after all in the tastes, powers,' and talents of individuals. Persons should educate themselves to be excellent individuals. Dr. Graves urged strongly the importance' of simple religious faith. He declared that for twenty years the socialists, psychiatrists,' and bio-chemists have tried to ex plain away Sin and relieve man of individual responsibility by blam ing everything on circumstances. In his opinion the individual must take the ultimate responsibility for his own life and character, “Safe-mindedness” was charac terized as “deadly to young peo ple.” It was pointed out that America was built by hope, cour age, and daring. Students present were challenged to cultivate im agination and enthusiasm. The audience was warningly reminded that Communists possess more firmly rooted convictions and more flamingly passionate enthusiasms than any other group in existence today. In the face of that fact the speaker urged that we remember went; when all the stories fell through, and the make-up would not fit, and there were two pages "r . • u i ^ . 1 .u • ..-It k that America is the only country to type and three minutes till bus ; t i i ' Lu 1 . devoted to the proposition that we time, there was always someone to K * turn to, someone without whom we couldn’t have done it and cer tainly wouldn’t have tried—our adviser, Miss Collie Garner. On recognition way, she stood on the stage of the amphitheater and thanked everyone else on the staff, and most of those of us who sat can have freedom and material well-being at the same time, and that we cultivate an attitude of faith and optimism. In his concluding words Dr. Graves asserted that even scien tists are realizing the limits of their knowledge beyond which and most ot those « ““ “phvsics turns to metaphysics and lnd\r’:he"'S'drgoUha;\ed. mathematics turns to God,” We are doing it in the only way we know how; in the pages of the very publication into which she has put so much of her time and effort. Wherever \ou go, whatever you will be doing when we think of you in succeeding years, goodbye, the very best of luck, and God go with you. n Tie Irll’s Two wonderful years have ended Some of the best years of your lives. Now you must go out and face the world As teachers, as preachers, as wives. Correction, Again! We just can’t seem to get this thing straight. In the last issue it was stated that Pansy Collins (in stead of Pansy Gaynor, as previ ously reported) was the president of the W. A. A. This was again in error. The president of the W. A. A. is Alollie Fennell; the vice- president is Pansy Colli Many will go to different schools Others, various jobs will do. Some will be starting a happy home I With the partner that God gave you. tins. The end always seems a little sad, But remember life’s just begin- ning; You are like a young ball player Starting out in the second inning. Mr, and Airs. Alilton G. Joslin and children have been named by the Family Service Society as Ra leigh’s “Family of the Year.” Their oldest son, Ivan, is a mem ber of the Mars Hill freshman class. This little school on a 'mountain top Oh, remember her all your days As being so close to Heaven and God That he dwells in her heart al ways. —Svlvia Corless. JV E A C H c JD F C C c G C Bi M B, G( Di Bi H; Jo T(
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