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Volume XXIX
MARS HILL, N. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1954
Niunber I
HC Selects
ollege Choir
Mars Hill’s College Choir, bet
ter known as the touring choir, has
)een chosen for the 1954-55 school
i^ear. William P. Whitesides, Jr.,
the new director of the group, an-
|nounced the selection of the quota,
some 49 students.
Among the activities of the
[group this year M'ill be the annual
[tour in the Spring, programs given
*in Chapel, and programs given at
[several high schools. Also the choir
is scheduled to appear on radio
and television programs this year.
It will make its television debut
October 1. During the Christmas
season the group will appear with
the college band and Women’s
Glee Club in a concert December
11. In the spring the choir will
sing at Commencement and for
the graduation exercises.
For eight years this organization
has represented Mars Hill in
churches throughout the south,
giving concerts of sacred music in
Florida, Virginia, Washington, D.
C., and in many North Carolina
towns.
Students who have been chosen
for the group are as follows: Rob
ert Austin, James Beane, William
Blalock, J. C. Boone, Hannah
Blackwell, Ann Collins, Shirley
Coppedge, Hetty Corey, Joe Cur-
rin, Mimi Devine, Shirley Dock-
cry, Thomas Edwards, and Ever-
ette Elledge.
Also included in the choir are
William Delk, Mary Farmer,
Reba Furchcs, Keith Gage, James
Grant, Stanley Griffin, Wilson
Hasty, Robert Hensley, Gerald
Hewitt, Robert Holloman, Sara
Hull, Mona Hyde, Katy Katsar-
ka, Charles Kinney, Earl Kirk
land, Lasell Light, Faye Ligon,
Marianne Long, Doris May, Don
Midkift, C. Paul Miller, James
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Summer Graduates
Receive Diplomas
Sixteen students were awarded
their Associate in Arts degree in
summer school this summer. Of
this number five were girls and
eleven boys.
Newly appointed vice-president,
Dr. Robert L. Holt, was com
mencement speaker. Diplomas were
presented by Dr. Hovt Blackwell,
president.
The liberal arts graduates were:
Gw}*n Cole of Gastonia; Paul
Johnson of Bronson, Texas; Car-
^^Cracken of Canton; Lin-
a. Messer of Waynesville; Doug
bpencer of Halifax, Va.; Bill
Wallace of Clover, S. C.; Bob
yatt of South Boston, Va.; and
axie Lancaster of Roanoke
Rapids.
. remaining ones were ma
jors in business, pre-med. ministry^
n ^engineering. Those in business
ere Bill Cheek of Durham; Bill
ar owe of Statesville; and Jean
me^\°^i Va.; pre-
a't Funaki of Hawaii,
Md John Westbrook of Chatham,
Mars^^lf^’ Crayton of
rnl engineering, Bill Bo-
cook of Asheville
Nine new members of the Mars Hill College faculty and staff are,
left to right, Mrs. Ellison Jenkins, secretary to Dr. Holt; Miss Irma
Helen Hopkins, music teacher; Mrs. Don Henderson, assistant bursar;
Miss Martha Gillon, library assistant; Walter Smith, publicity director;
Dr. Ellison Jenkins, Bible and English teacher; William Whitesides, Jr.,
music teacher; Robert Hopkins, music teacher; and Donald Caldwell,
general manager of the college cafeteria.
Foreign Students Enroll
At Mars Hill College
Mars Hill has become the home of fourteen students from nine
foreign countries this yea.r. The countries represented are Cuba, Japan,
Korea, Italy, Chile, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Greece, and Burma.
From Japan comes Sarah Ellen Dozier, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Edwin Dozier, missionaries to Japan. She is a music major. Thomas
Masashiro Gamakwa is enrolled from Fukuoka City, Japan.
To Cuba goes the recognition of having the largest number of stu-
— iM dents from any foreign nation.
Teresita Liana Portilla is major
ing in secretarial science. Teresita
plans to work in an office in a
bank in Cuba when she graduates
from Mars Hill. Martha Nella
Perez, also secretarial science ma
jor, is from Santa Clara, Cuba.
Alpha Delgado, a 1954 graduate
of Mars Hill, influenced these
girls to decide to come to Mars
Hill to school. Enrique Hernan
dez, and Jose Arias, both C-II’s,
are majoring in business. Enrique
is planning to enter a university in
the States after graduation from
M ars Hill. Jose plans to go to
Cuba after graduation and work
in the export and import trade.
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Nine Are Added
To MHC Faculty
Mars Hill College this year has nine new members on the faculty
and staff. Four of the new personnel are teaching; the other five are
performing administrative and staff functions.
Dr. A. Ellison Jenkins, who holds the bachelor of arts degree from
Furman University and a bachelor of divinity degree from New Orleans
Baptist Theological Seminary, is teaching courses in Bible and English.
He recently received the doctor of theology degree at the New Orleans
■■■ ' ' seminary and was ordained a min-
Magnus Releases
MHC Band Plans
News
Dean’s
Is Announced
On the Dean’s list and honor
roll for the spring semester of the
past school year are a total of 166
sophomores. One hundred and one
of these students made from 30
through 39 quality points and the
remaining 65 made the 40 or more
required for the Dean’s List. Han
nah Blackwell leads the list with
5814 quality points.
Special recognition goes to Stu
art Carlton, Charles McCall,
Kim Cole, Hannah Blackwell, and
Janice Lou Pipes for their all A
grades.
The following are on the Dean’s
list: Joanne Adams, Larii^ Austin,
Jim Beane, Mar^’ Lee Becton,
Monte Bishop, Hannah Black-
well, Grace Blanton, Patricia
Brasington, Stuart Carlton, Louise
Cash, Kim Cole, Cecil Cole, Nan
cy Craddock, Fred Crisp, Marilyn
Donnell, and Loretta Freeman.
Also, Doris Gibson, James
Greene, Max Greene, Jack Grose,
Caryl Guth, Riley Hagan, Bar
bara Hamilton, Arnold Hannah,
Ann Hendrix, John Howe, Mary
Hunter, Lloyd Jackson, Charles
Jenkins, Jennie Sue Johnson, Katy
Katsarka, Juanita Kirby, Chris
tine Kirk, Martha Lamar, Lasell
Light, Charles McCall, Janet Mc
Neil, and Betty McKary.
Others are Mary Martin, Mol-
lie Parrish, Betty Pearson, Janice
Pipes, Curtis Porter, Sandra Pul
len, Ruth Putnam, Faye Reeves,
Helen Register, Elizabeth Reid,
Romulus Roberts, Grove Robin
son, Jimmy Southern, Mary Seel,
Shirley Styles, Kemp Swain, Scott
Thomas, Patricia Thomas, Col
leen Vann, Catherine Wilson, F. takes John Hough’s position as
C. Wood, Jr., Phyllis Yates, and vice-president. Rooke was replaced
Horace Youngblood. ... as censor by Kenneth Small.
Briefs
An eventful year has been plan
ned for the Mars Hill College
Band by Phil Magnus, director,
and the thirty-five students who
make up this organization. The
fall events this year will be much
the same as they have been in the
past with the football games head
ing the program.
In addition to the four out-of-
town games that the band will at
tend, it will make scheduled visits
to the Asheville radio and televi
sion station for musical presenta
tions. As the football season sees
its end, the band will be found re
hearsing for its Thanksgiving and
Christmas festivities.
After the students return to the
campus for second semester, tr>-
outs wilL begin for the College
Concert Band. Then Mr. Magnus
will start the season of Spring con
certs. A tour of high schools is be
ing planned for the group and will
probably take place prior to the
annual Spring concert on the cam
pus.
The students who comprise this
group are as follows: French horn,
Flay Reid; trumpets, William
Gobsin, John Lackey, Gene Ellis,
Tom Anderson; cornets, Everett
Robinson, Hugh Freeze, Harold
Nicholson; clarinets, Morris
Church, Jane Linder, Andy Horn,
Reba Fleming, Charles Bentley,
John Borders, Noel Watson, Shir
ley Sumner, Judy Rot^al.
The trombones include: Jane
Wells, Redell McLamb, Harry
Mamlin, Russell Wilkinson, and
Mary Lee Becton. The two bass
horn players are Kim Cole and
Paul Caudill. Others include:
drums, June Connell, Larrv’ Aus-
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Belated congratulations go to
Dr. and Mrs. Hoyt Blackwell
who celebrated their 25th wedding
anniversary’ on September 12.
Benny Barr and Maxie Lancas
ter, ’54 graduates, were visiting on
campus this week. Benny enters
military service this week. Maxie
is planning to attend Western
Carolina College.
Nonpareil - Euthalian Literary^
Societies announce the following
changes in the desk officers. In
Nonpareil, Winifred Moore re
places Ann Joy Feezor, who did
not return to school, as secretary\
April Flowers replaces Winifred
Moore as censor. Leon Rooke
ister by the First Baptist Church
of NeAv Orleans. Mr. Jenkins is
taking Mr. D, T. Holland’s place.
Mr. Holland is away on leave of
absence continuing his studies.
Dr. Jenkins’ wife has assumed
the duties of secretary to the vice-
president, Dr. Robert L. Holt.
Mrs. Jenkins, the former Miss
Dixie Hollowell, was graduated
from Mars Hill College in 1946.,
and received a bachelor’s degree
from Furman University in 1948.
There are three new instructors
in the music department. They are
William P. Whitesides, teacher of
voice and director of the ton ring
choir; Miss Irma Helen Hopkins,
teacher of voice and violin, and
Robert E. Hopkins, piano instruc
tor.
Mr. Whitesides has just com
pleted a summer job as music di
rector of the drama, “Horn in the
West,” at Boone. He is a gradu
ate of Davidson College and holds
a master’s degree in music from
the University of North Carolina.
Miss Hopkins is from Texar
kana, Ark., and attended Ouchita
College, where she received a
bachelor of arts degree in 1952 as
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Dramateers Choose
Fall Production
Casting for the annual fall pro
duction of the Dramateers, which
is this y^ear to be “Come Out of
the Kitchen” by A. E. Thomas
from a story by Alice Duer Miller,
has been completed. The produc
tion will be staged on the evening
of October 30, in the college audi
torium.
The following cast was select
ed: Olivia Dangerfield, Sandra
Hickman; Elizabeth Dangerfield,
Shirley Styles; Paul Dangerfield,
Nathan Brooks; Burton Crane,
Paul Caudill; Mrs. Falkener, Jo
Anne Denton; Cora, Lasell Light;
Thomas Lefferts, Leon Rooke ;
Solon Tucker, La Verne Hinson;
Amanda, Sue Bishop; Randy
Weeks, Tommy Pearce.
Honor Clubs
To Meet
Plans are being made for the
first honor club meetings of this
semester. Those C-II’s who are
eligible and who are not in an
honor club will be invited to join.
The Scriblerus Club will hold
its first meeting in Edna Moore
parlor on October 5. The program
will be centered about Southern
Renaissance. The program will be
in the form of a syunposium discus
sing the poetry of Allen Tate,
John Crowe Ransom, and Donold
Davidson.
The French Club plans its first
meeting at the home of Mrs. Nona
Roberts on October 12 at 7:30
P. M. The Club consists of 12
members.
The first Spanish Club meeting
of the semester Avill be held Octo
ber 4 in Huffman parlor. Spanish
culture will be the theme for the
programs for the first semester,
with the October program center
ing around Spanish music.
Science Club will hold its first
meeting in Edna Moore parlor on
Monday, October 4. Mike Miller,
president, will preside at the meet
ing. Candidates for the vacancies
in desk officers will be nominated
then.
Information concerning plans
for the International Relations,
Logothia, German, Business, and
Orpheon Clubs was not available.