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The Hilltop
Literary Edition
GLADYS STAMPER
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
LEON ROOKE
JOANNE DENTON
^tion managers
JAMES CONNOR, SHIRLEY DANIELS
BARBARA STEWART. FRANCES JARMAN
MISS COLLIE GARNER
PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF
Mars hill college — mars hill. n. c.
XXIX
APRIL. 1955
Number 12
second-class matter February 20, 1926, at the Post Office
iLfli ’ Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Issued
L-Jliy during the college year. __—====
Foreward
Contents
Stamper Page 1
)PDT Marion Lee 2
LTFP JCNEER—Lester Trentham Page 5
Hunter - Page 5
Bill D , GLORY—Bill Cobb Page 6
Parker Page 6
[ OF —Barbara Scott Page 7
MirLrr^T?'^^^^C)THER—Jo Denton Page 7
Robinson Page 8
JA'noKT'^®™ Anderson Page 8
RACTlSf'^^-^ '^HE dawn—Jim Otis Page 11
r ON HILL—Katy Katsarka Page 13
iL- Lmr ^CK HOUSE—Mary George Pennell Page 14
'ATinx/^^ Cash Page 14
INEVlTAn¥P SCHOOLING—Wayne Nunn Page 15
STAND —Shirley Bradley Page I6
Kroe Page I6
Jatchabt
IN PIRF xiadison Page 17
TE ALL MV Eloyd Page 17
ILLEL r PRIENDS—^Janet Lett Page 18
'GRY
IEMBER—_pi ^EDAL—Richard Wright Page 23
' OF MANv^~7J‘"^ 24
Leon Rooke Page 24
The Literary Edition of the Hill
top is now in your hands. Many of
you have waited anxiously, wonder
ing if your contribution would be
published. The contributors whose
work was accepted have been no se
cret; however, the contents have not
been generally known. Look slowly
down the table of contents. Now,
read the stories, the essays, and the
poems. Who knows, maybe a Spen
ser, a Tennyson, or even a Milton
is among us!
One has a difficult time in com
piling such an edition as this. There
are creative papers to read and re
read, choices to make, revision and
typing to do, in addition to make
up. Everyone seems too busy to
help. When one is desperate, some
one will come to the rescue. The
Hilltop staff wishes to express ap
preciation to Barbara Stewart and
Frances Jarman who did the typing
for this edition. The staff appreci
ates your contributions even though
all of them could not be used.
An anonymous author has de
fined good writing as "one-tenth in
spiration and nine-tenths perspira
tion.’’ Many of you have an abund
ance of inspiration—but lack the
persistence to see a job through.
You should not expect to see your
unfinished work in print. Others
have the potential persistence, but
lack the inspiration. Neither, should
you expect to see your work pub
lished. The few of you who have
the inspiration and persistence to do
a job well may be rewarded by see
ing your name attached to a short-
story, essay, or a poem in this—your
Literary Edition of the Hilltop.
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