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MARS HILL, N. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1955
Number 8
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•ert Tonight
Iwas rend tr-i, ,,
|f North ( presents to-
* and L ^ concert Phillippe
■sang. Til ^ °twenty-year-old
^ears” making his
Nise sanS" the United States.
^ntremont s repertoire in-
weddwj'both classical
trn, C-Ik composers. This eve-
ler of fhf open with a
I'edding Chopin
St. Au5io."-„ T'l"'*
e f,,;,,’ Waltz in A Flat,
apartmS ’ “Third Scherzo
'’““"'Sharp Minor, Opus 39.”
■ig a from Bach and Brahms
gradual
•s 'will ac.5t**ttemporary Russian com-
South CTtokofieff will be repre-
who is I kis “Toccata.” Num-
VTars Hil^ Maurice Ravel will be
t Furma/t^ Pour Une Infante De-
and “Alborada Del Graci-
WATCIJ'’ ^ concluding portion of
Entremont will
Tk • of “Roumanian
^ ®^^tok and the well-
^hmakervn “Hungarian Rhapsody,
Bu,Idmg 2’by Franz Liszt.
Entremont’
Forty-Three New Students
Enter Second Semester
Mars Hill College is admitting forty-three new students for the
second semester of 1954-55. Of these thirty are men and thirteen are
girls. Six of the students have attended Alars Hill previously and are
returning. Eighteen of the men are veterans.
The new students represent four denominations. Thirty-one of the
students come from Baptist Churches in seven states. Other denomina
tions represented are Methodist, Presbyterian, and Church of God.
■ These new students will add
Julius Caesar To Be
Presented Here Soon
Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”
will be presented here on Febru- Electrical Engineering, Law,
thirty-three members to the C-I
class and six to the C-II class.
Classification of the remaining
four is unsettled.
Among the courses to be takerr
by the students will be: Liberal
Arts for Men, Civil Engineering,
ary 26 at 8:00 p.m. by Players
Incorporated, of Washing
ton, D. C.
The cast, all former students of
the Speech and Drama Depart
ment of The Catholic University
of America, have appeared in ma-
por cities such as Chicago, Phila
delphia, Milwaukee, Minneapolis,
Dallas, and Houston. During
f , concert, a
. college entertainment
^ke management
rr TTiest and the
-v^LJxr Celebrity Bureau.
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E g 'ry MB Student
moUrged To Write
Literary Issue
does not pub-
a literary periodical, it has
y^ars been the
nn the first April
rve tivA Hilltop to the
tive efforts of students.-^
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h
les
' published in magazine
Rh the beginning of the
^ ■ semester, students will
oriP English class an
er tvrite a creative
^eachers will give advice
n^ruction on that assign-
o^^^'^ever the staff hopes
3 u from students
tine- ^ ^ special interest in
"^'■iencL'?° °£ past
al trx i interesting ma-
■tan to
■tl Wort “tly. Truly
■evision revision and
-Red tnP? material are
Ufmal *^^avel accounts,
shnr!^^^^’ R^^ef anecdotes,
-To ‘‘^Res, wittf descriptive
man humorous bits,
etry. ^^est stories, and
L ^^Ptablri/^P uiaterial to be
Rividual’ .should be original,
^ trite sincere.
jli ^"^Pressions^ n subjects
tnethin» ^^t imitate
-?rd. T) y®ti have read or
before v
tanged ‘ ou have probably
then. Matured greatly
Recent heavy snows have furnished material for some fancy statu
ary around the campus. Shown admiring their handiwork are (1. to r.)
Dottie Phillips, Jimmy Beane, Howard Webb, Molly Parrish, Doris
May, Marion Rector, Gene Ellis, and Billie Marie Peek,
MHC Alumnus Presents
Movie Camera To College
An alumnus of Mars Hill College, who prefers to remain anonymous,
has presented to the College a Bell and Howell, 70H, 16mm, movie
camera. The camera, a $1600 machine, was bought in Asheville.
Although the camera is not equipped for sound, sound can be put
on tape and sent to the film processing plant where it will be trans
ferred to the film to make sound film.
The camera has a number of attachments such as: electric motor to
___________ wind camera, four-hundred foot
reel; three lenses — a standard
lens, a wu'de-angle lens, and a
two-inch telephoto lens. The last
named will be useful in taking
movies of MHC football games.
Other apparatus includes tripod
and cariidng case for the camera.
Commerce, Premedical, Liberal
Arts for Women, Nursing, Ele
mentary Teachers, Music, Pre-
Agriculture, Business, and Physi
cal! Education.
Eight states, the District of
Columbia, and one foreign coun
try are represented by the stu
dents.
Those students returning are
1952 and 1953 the company made Qlen Breland and Lucia Holder
two tours in the Far East under of South Carolina, Donald Ray
the auspices of the Department of Leach of North Carolina, Modena
Defense. They entertained troops Avery of Florida, Harriet Cleland
in Japan and Korea during the of Virginia, and Marjorie Norris
Korean war. ’ of New York.
Scholastic Clubs
Slate Elections
Four of the nine scholastic
honor clubs on campus completed
their elections of second semester
officers at their January meetings.
Scriblerus Club elected Janet
McNeill to the office of president.
Monte Bishop was chosen vice-
president and Clara Herron, sec
retary-treasurer. Stella Smith is
incoming president of the French
Club. Other officers of the club
are Carolyn Killian, vice-president
and Jennie Sue Johnson, secretary-
treasurer.
Elizabeth Reid was chosen as
president of the Spanish Club.
Shirley Rymer is vice-president.
Edna Hawkins is Secretary and
Jean Myers, treasurer. Interna
tional Relations Club chose Lloyd
Jackson as president and Riley
Hagan as first vice-president. Sec
ond vice-president is Ann Wilkins
and secretary-treasurer is Barbara
Vanover. Jean Carter will serve
as hostess.
In five seasons of touring Play
ers Incorporated has given more
than 500 performances of Shake
speare’s “Much Ado About Noth
ing”, “Othello”, “Macbeth”
“Twelfth Night”, and “Love’s
Labour’s Lost”; George Bernard
Shaw’s “Arms and the Man”, and
Moliere’s “School for Wives” and
“The Miser.” On this their sixth
annual tour the company is offer
ing two productions, “Julius Cae
sar” and “The Would-Be Gentle
man”, Moliere’s comedy.
Players Incorporated is con
sidered one of the nation’s out
standing repertory companies. The
company is directed by Leo Brady,
and the company manager is Joan
Delehaunty. Dr. Josephine M.
Callan is the performance coach.
Entering from North Carolina
are: Roy Yates Ammons, Emil
Everett Bennett, Charles Edward
Britt, Howard A. Buchanan,
Ralph William Carter, Carroll
B. Clontz, Lonnie LaVerne Dean,
De Witt Pierce Dowdle, John
Craig English, Sidney William
Fox, Herbert Hoover Garland,
Fred Gloss, John Harvey Laugh
ter, Don W. Norman, Arnold
Parker, Thomas Curtis Pitt, Dal
las Wayne Whitaker, Joe N.
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Donation of the camera was
made for the purpose of promot
ing radio and TV activities at
Mars Hill.
Mars Hill has presented one
program over WLOS-TV in
Asheville. It is hoped that regu
lar programs over this station may
begin soon. William Whitesides
of the college Music Department
is chairman of TV activities.
Dean Lee has been contacted
by the TV station at Chapel Hill
—the new educational channel,
WLNC-TV — about the possi
bility of Mars Hill presenting ma
terial over that station from time
to time. Dr. Holt, director of
Public Relations, emphasizes the
opportunity of increasing Mars
Hill’s TV work now that the
movie camera is available.
In the radio field, Mars Hill
now presents weekly programs
over WWNC in Asheville and
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Montreal Duet
To Appear Here
Victor and Sallie Schoen of
Montreat College will be pre
sented in a two-piano concert in
the Mars Hill College auditorium
on the evening of February 12, at
eight o’clock.
Sallie Schoen has her B.M.
from Oberlin Conservatory of
Music, Oberlin, Ohio, and Victor
Schoen has a B.A. from Miami
University in Oxford, Ohio. Mr.
and Mrs. Schoen met while study
ing at Indiana University toward
M.M. degrees. At that institution
they studied with Walter Robert
and Anis Fuleihan.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Schoen are
faculty members at Montreat Col
lege. During the past summer
they studied with Heinz Scholz
at the Mozarteum in Salzburg,
Austria.
Next Hilltop Is
C-I Publication
C-I’s will head up the Hilltop
staff as the annual C-I edition
of the paper goes to press next
week. Nathan Brooks will serve
as Editor-in-Chief, and Jo Brad
ley, Ann Collins, Edna Staunton,
and Shirley Sprinkle will take
over other editorial staff positions.
In the sports department, Hugh
Wilder and Bob High will serve
as co-editors. Juanita Horton will
write up the girls’ sports.
“Faith at Work” will be writ
ten by Nancy Fant. Mary Jane
Rowan will canvass the adver
tisers. The circulation staff will
consist of Patty Sandlin, Mary
Frances Collis, Ann Pate, and
Louis Ensley.
An announcement will be made
concerning a meeting of all C-Fs
who would be interested in writ
ing for this edition.
In years past, the C-I edition
of the Hilltop has compared fav
orably with the regular edition.
It is hoped that this year’s C-I
class will uphold the tradition by
their support of the forthcoming
issue.