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MARS HILL. N. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 12. 1955
Number 11
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was elected commencement term society presidents are pic-
from t^imn "^^^^.left to right they are Joe Matheny, Philomathia;
isic at 1. Clio; Winifred Moore, Nonpareil, and Bob Hensley,
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terary Societies Choose
Term Officers
Went i
hterarj^ societies elected officers for Commencement
presidents for Clio and Non are Mouise
•ct^d Moore, while their brother societies, Phi and
'ell, h' ^ Matheny and Bob Hensley as their leaders.
^iicge ^ officers are Laselle Light, vice-president; Betsy Wood,
^Ir- j Johnson, censor; Ann Wilkins, chaplain; Mary Long,
Colie/ ’ Lottie Phillips, pianist.
Nonpareil officers are Foy
Lennon, first vice-president; April
Flowers, second vice-president;
Ellen Barlowe, secretary; Pat
Campbell, censor; Doris Phillips,
chaplain; Sara Dozier, chorister;
and Doris Gibson, pianist. Chief
jJo Cundiff, organist - James hostess is Mary Jane Northen.
l Mritonc; and Sandk Pul- , l>as served as vice-presi-
^‘‘jnst, Were featured in the secretary for Clio, and
recital nresented in secretary- of the C-I class.
Hill College Audi- Council.
Thursday evening, March ^he hails from Charlotte. ^
Winifred was Nonpareil Lit
erary- vice-president during Anni-
td on
in Sal
■tals Given By
isic Majors
Cundiff^ organist; James
Jtitone; and Sandra Pul-
" G VlLn versarjf term. She has also served
le a la ctn She is president of the
and''nf ° Girl’s Student Council and of
'• She also Huffman Dormitortn She
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^^vis, “Communion”
‘“'rata Festiva
to Mars Hill from Lenoir.
L nuniberr K ^^arc, and
“Tb ^T. ' Vaughan Wil-
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terial student from Asheville.
Joe served as vice-president of
Philomathia for two terms and
also as secretary. He came to
Mars Hill from Nashville, Ten-
is very lessee.
is
Dean R. M. Lee
Is Honored
Dramateers Plan
Chapel Hill Plays
Mars Hill College Dramateers
will present “The Far-Away
Princess” by Hermann Suder-
mann as its entry in the Western
District Drama Festival to be
held in the Lee Edwards audi
torium in Asheville on April 1.
Should the play- receive a first
class rating in Asheville, it will
be presented at the Spring Drama
Festival at Chapel Hill in mid-
April.
The cast includes Shirley Rig-
gan as Frau Lindermann; Joyce
Cherry as Rosa; Joann Denton
as Frau Von Holldorf; Faye
Pierce as Liddy; Dale Johnson as
Milly; Mouise Simpson as Bar
oness Von Brook; Sandra Hick
man as Princess Von Geldern ;
Larry Tucker as Herr Strubel;
and Gayle Brown as the Lackey.
“The Black and the Blacker,”
original play by Leon Rooke, was
chosen to be presented at the
Spring Festival. Appearing in the
play will be Sam, the father,
played by Lloyd Jackson; the
sons: Johnny Mac, A1 Bobbit
and Bo, Tom Hendrick; Percy,
Grady Harmon; the grandfather,
Eddie Wilson; Mr. Lewis, Bob
High; the sheriff. Bill Archer;
and singer, Earl Kirkland. Other
characters have not been selected.
came
Serving with Bob in Euthalia
W Clumbers Mr. Beane Glynn Bolch, vice-president;
“Recitative” and Gerald Leonard, censor; Kim
ion St. Matthew Cole, secretary-; Lester Trenham,
’ by W ,^^ch; “Verborgen- chaplain; and Earl Kirkland,
RosenV and “Le Manoir chorister.
Philomathian officers include
Tommy Pearce, vice-president;
Bill Geiger, secretary; Jack Mont-
Jss Pullen } ^ u . gnniery-, censor; Paul Caudill,
^inor n Rhapsody ’ chaplain; Gene Ellis, chorister;
^hms; «p’ P- 79, No. 2, by and Khun Kung, chief marshal,
nor, On C sharp
he Cat Chopin; and ^nb is a member of the college
pland ^be Mouse” by Touring Choir. He is a minis-
b of the Mars
?Panist apartment was ac-
His Jq ^ ^ne concert.
jrainent She
a is also ^antpus activities
club, of the Or-
Jintnay n .
Ug .o^ce major, is from
and chorister for Dean R. M. Lee was chosen a
i,^nting J.L . a member of the
'. n baptist St chorister for
.bandra^ ^ • ^^t Union. member o fthe Board of Directors
ashvihg’ -T?^ano major, is from of the National Association of
Mrs VA She rep re- Junior Colleges at the recent
I joint^c MacDowell meeting in Chicago which he at-
P^ngram • ^‘blerus-Orpheon tended. The 1956 meeting will be
; given recently. in Salt Lake City.
Art Department
Features Exhibit
The Art Department is show
ing, during the month of March,
twenty watercolor and casein
paintings by Dorothy Cogswell, a
member of the art faculty. Mount
Holyoke College.
Miss Cogswell has traveled
abroad in Scotland, Ireland, Nor
way, and Mexico, and her paint
ings are largely based upon sub
ject matter derived from these
trips.
The exhibition, which is spon
sored by Studio Guild, Redding,
Connecticut, may be seen in the
art room Moore 31.
North Carolina little Symphony
To Present Concert Tonight
The North Carolina Little Symphony, under the direction of Ben
jamin Swalin, will present a concert in the College Auditorium here
Saturday, March 12, at 8:30 p.m.
This will be the Symphony’s ninth concert in Mars Hill during
its 10 years as a touring orchestra.
Under auspices of the Mars Hill College Concert Series, the pro
gram is open to the general public.
State Workshop
ToMeet AtMHC
Mars Hill College HomeEco-
nomics club is to be hostess to
the State Workshop of the Ameri
can Home Economics Association,
April 15 and 16.
Delegates from sixteen North
Carolina colleges and universities
will register in Huffman dormi
tory at 4:30 on Friday evening
for the two day meet. “Careers
for Better Living” is the theme
to be used during the entire pro
gram. The speakers will discuss
foods and nutrition, homemaking,
fashions, and journalism.
Mrs. Morrison from Asheville
will be the principal speaker Fri
day night. Eleanor Sutherland is
scheduled to give a report on the
American Home Economics As
sociation convention held in Los
Angeles, California. Other speak
ers include Mrs. Elizabeth Hedge-
cock Sparks, home economics edi-
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MH College Choir
Plans Annual Tour
On April 24, the Touring Choir
will leave for its annual spring
tour. Some of the places that the
choir will visit this year are Co
lumbia, South Carolina, Dublin
and Atlanta, Georgia, Jackson
ville, Lakeland, and Lake City,
Florida.
The Marshall Baptist Church
will be host to the choir on March
13. On March 15, the choir will
sing at the State Women’s Mis
sionary Union in Asheville. The
choir will be at the First Baptist
Church in Canton on April 17.
The choir sang at the Hocutt
Memorial Baptist Church in Bur
lington last weekend. The State
Evangelism meeting which re
cently met in Greensboro and the
State Baptist Convention which
met in Charlotte had special mu
sic by the Mars Hill Choir under
the direction of William White-
sides.
Whitesides Gives
Concert At DNC
William P. Whitesides, tenor,
of the Mars Hill College music
department was presented in the
opening concert of a series of six
Petites Musicales, which are being
given ■ in Graham Memorial at
the University of North Carolina
in Chapel Hill.
For his program Whitesides
chose two Elizabethan love songs,
a set of six German lieder, a
cycle by Ravel, and five songs
arranged by the American com
poser Aaron Copland.
The concert was enthusiastical
ly received. We quote parts of
the Chapel Hill reviewer’s com
ments. “Mr. Whitesides presented
a varied and well-chosen program
of songs in four languages . . .
He displayed a voice of beautiful
quality which is evenly^ developed
throughout most of its range, and
his performance was characterized
by individuality of style and in
terpretation together with excel
lent diction.”
At Mars Hill in addition to
teaching students of voice, Mr.
Whitesides directs the College
Chorus. He sings in the choir of
the First Presbyterian Church of
Asheville, and will again direct
the chorus of “Horn in the West,”
an outdoor drama to be presented
in Boone for the third consecu
tive summer.
Soloist for the performance is
Dixon Thomas, pianist, States
ville. A symphony auditions win
ner many times over in the Chil
dren’s Concert Division, Thomas
is making his appearance this sea
son for the first time as an adult
soloist.
He is currently working toward
his Bachelor of Music degree at
Dixon Thomas
Rollins College, Winter Park,
Fla., where he is studying with
John Carter.
Thomas will play Liszt’s Con
certo No. 1, in E Major.
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Mars Hill Squad
Places In Meet
Mars Hill’s debate squad tied
for third place in the South At
lantic Tournament held at Lenoir-
Rhyne College, Hickon% March
3-5.
Speaking on the affirmative of
the national query were Charles
Jenkins and Norman Hupp. Don
Kroe and Steve Blackwell upheld
the negative. The team competing
exclusively with senior colleges
and universities won nine of four
teen debates.
Among the thirty colleges and
universities participating were
such institutions as Duke Uni
versity, University of South Caro
lina, Georgetown University and
Lenoir-Rhyne College.
First place went to the Uni
versity of South Carolina, whose
team won 12 out of 14 contests.
Lenoir-Rhyme’s team placed sec
ond.
Of the Mars Hill debaters
Blackwell, Hupp, and Kroe are
C-I’s. Jenkins though a C-II did
not debate last year. The Mars
Hill squad attended the tourna
ment by special invitation. Of
ficially it is limited to senior col
leges.