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Volume XXXIX
Music Department
Presents Recitals
The Mars Hill College Music
Department will present Doris
May, Molly Parrish, and Marion
Rector in graduating recitals on
May 12, in the college auditorium,
at 8:00 p.m.
Molly Parrish will play “So
nata” in D major by Mozart;
La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin,”
Debussy; “Three Bagatelles,”
Tcherepnin; “Nocturne” in E
minor, Chopin; “Nocturne” in D
major, Scriabin; and “Impromp
tu” in A, Schubert.
^ Doris May, soprano, will sing
Pre Son,” Mozart; “Cara Selve
from Atlanta,” Handel; “Come
and Trip It,” Handel; and “In
the Silence of the Night,” Rach
maninoff.
^ Marion Rector, bass, will sing
Ombra Moi Fu,” Handel; “The
Magic Flute,” Mozart; “Die
Past,” Schubert; and “When I
Have Sung My Songs,” Ernest
Charles.
Molly Parrish is a piano major
from Atlanta, Georgia. She has
served as president of the Orpheon
club^ and Baptist Student Union
pianist.
Doris Ma)^, a voice major, is
from Greensboro. She is a mem
ber of the college choir, the Or
pheon club and is corresponding
^cretary of the Baptist Student
Council.
Startex, South Carolina, is the
home of Marian Rector, a voice
major. He is a member of the
college choir and Orpheon club.
Miss Dorothy Blakely will ac
company Doris and Marion in the
recital.
j UNTIL
i Commencement
Number 14
Arkansas Congressman To Speak
At Annual Honor Clubs Banquet
ic-rx At
Fred Crisp, Pittsboro, and Edna June Funt P • !
May King and Queen, will reign over the ann^Ll
The program is under the direction of Coach Vi^inia Hart
The entire action takes place
Cominencement Ends
Ninety-Ninth Year
Adams, Dixon
Win Contest.
Joan Adams took first place for
Nonpareil while Rodolph Dixon
took first place for Philomathia
m the temperance reading con
tests held in C-I and C-H chapels
on May 2.
Suzanne Nordstrom, a Non,
was placed second in the w'omen’s
contest and Charles Bullard, a
Phi, was second in the men’s con
test.
Mars Hill’s r Phillips, and Richard,
Mars Hills 1955 commence- Jim Beane, college roommate of
ment program will begin on May Jeanie’s brother Phillip, portrayed
opening of the Art by J. C. Boone. Colonel Staunton
Exhibit and continue through the disapproves of this romance and
graduation exercises on May 30. orders Richard from his home
lonfi Mars SiirSlf""'^ ^^ds
On V / ^ ^ I?"' . excitement and Richard’s
Un Friday evening. May 27, the heroic capture of the criminal
^mmencement play, Harriet, by brings about a happy ending,
orence Ryerson and Colin Others in the cast include Mari-
J-e Poplin. Jim
^ CC41VCO piciCC
m the garden of Colonel Staunton’s
ome. Colonel Staunton is Adarion ' ~
Rector. A delightful old southern TT • 9?^ 7
CowT Barnett LJiosen
Uoionel Staunton s niece played
T T 1 ^ ^ i 71_ 1 I * t - —
Hi'S £~" Sssi'-i- ts;
of Arkt^sas wTbrg«st“,Ser'’lrt''k
evenings program "AtTe D
a program. Ada Lee Deacon, Logothia vice-president, is in
charge of banquet plans while
Cobb Chosen ' “S'
Head Marshal 3.,"*.
Bin Cobb has been chosen chief ^^Mr^^H D
marshal and Jane Blake as as- Democratic Repre-
sistant chief marshal to serve dur- ^he Fifth District of
mg commencement exercises and ^^ansas m the House of Repre-
at events during 1955-56 sentatives, is a well known church-
Other marshals chosen on the J"" received the an-
basis of scholarship and camnus Laymans Award given by
citizenship are Eileen GerrinLr ^^misters of Washington for
and Tom Cogdill, Wavnesvill- service. He is a mem-
Juanita Horton, Shelby; Doris the Southern Baptist Con-
Pbillips, Roanoke, Virginia* San ^ Social Service Commis-
Scruggs, Cliffside; Benny Helton '^^"'Ser of years
Hendersonville; Glenn Kirbv’ Joint Public Rela-
Rhodhiss; and John Vance Alars Committee maintained
Hill. ’
Memphis, Tennessee is the
home of Bill Cobb who is a min
isterial student. He is first vice-
president of the Baptist Student
Union Council and a member of
the International Relations Club.
Jane Blake, assistant chief mar
shal, is from Lumberton. She is
corresponding secretary of the
Baptist Student Union and a mem
ber of the Scriblerus club.
PL
Others entering for Clio-Phi
were Gail Fullbright and Hetty
Core)^ Euthalians were Frank
Adyers and Grady Ha rmon.
Other winners in Nonpareil
events and the contest in which
participated are as follows: Es
says—first place, Doris Phillips
and second, Eileen Gerringer;
dramatic reading—first Alarianne
Long and second Lexvne Stack-
house.
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Dramatics Department.
Saturday is Society Day, when
declamations, readings, orations,
and essays will be given in com-
petition by the four societies.
X annual meeting
of the Board of Trustees and also
the business meeting of the
Alumni Association on Saturdav
afternoon. At 5:30 the Alumni
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Harpist To Present
Concert Here Tonight
Libby Jones, harpist of Atlanta,
Banquet wiif-be'b;rd.“,:ith"B;uc"e tt'exIa^gT'iu^jriu,:
stX'r „7',r « S:00 p. This is
Those winning honors in the
Clio essay contest are first place
Katy Katsarka and second, Pat
Thomas. Others participating
were Polly Osteen, Alartha
Barnes, and Alary Hall.
Whinners in these and other so
ciety contests will represent their
^spective societies on Society
Day, May 28.
speaker of the occasion.
T. he baccalaureate sermon will
be preached on Sunday by the
Rev. Robert T. Deneen of Salis
bury. At 3:00 on Sunday after
noon there will be a band'concert
r. , ; t'- “*• A IS Liie
inal event in the annual Ivceum
series.
^’ambers on the evening pro
gram are “The Harmonious
Blacksmith” by Handel; “Frai-
cheur” by Salzedo; “Believe Me,
and at 8-On o C --‘iccn uieur by balzedo; “Believe Me
lege E/'j--ing Tung
It 9-45 o“‘‘Vr r‘“ hy‘'cTrel]k”"Bourer’“bv Bich'
c t 9.4,5 on Alonday with the aca- and “The Alaid With tb'p F1^^’
dem.c process,on^ The address will Hair” bv D bussy
P e!ide“t "of S Ae p;ogranr will be
TSoIorica, R^e^’s “Rigaudon”; Debussy^
ineological Seminary. Awards “Clair de lunc”- Fe K *
and scholarships will be presented “En Passant Par’ 1 ^
by Dean Lee anH rt.'rvi 1 . -Lassant Par la Lorraine”;
Dr. BlackweU. SaLdo'™“* >>y
As Spring jTiay
“Harriett,” a three-act play by
Forence Ryerson and Colin
Clements, will be given by the
Dramateers on AJay 27, at eight
o clock, in the college auditorium
Z . performance on
Mars Hill s ninety-ninth com
mencement program. Sandra Hick
man will play the leading part of
Harriett Beecher Stowe.
The play, a dramatized version
of the life of Harriett Beecher
btowe opens in Cincinnati on the
day that a gay Harriett returns
irom her honeymoon with her
professor husband asserting her in
dependence and announcing her
intention to lead her own life. It
continues through motherhood
housekeeping, poverty and drab
ness to eventual authorship and
fame. The action includes a visit
to President Lincoln. The curtain
mils to the stirring strains of “The
Battle Hymn of the Republic ”
“Harriett” has been widely
produced and highly praised.
Helen Hayes has said “Always
w en the curtain rises on my play
Harriet I feel that I am enjoy
ing the greatest privilege of mv
career. That is what it means to
me to portray the character of
Harriett Beecher Stowe, the dy
namic little crusader who worked
liberty of all humankind.”
Other members of the Beecher
family and those playing them are
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AVashington by four branches of
the Baptist denomination. His
service to his church was recog
nized in 1947 when he was in
vited to address the first postwar
meeting of the Baptist AVorld
Alliance in Copenhagen, Den
mark. In Alay 1950 he was elect-
ed a vice-president of the South-
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Students To Be
Honored Monday
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The annual recognition day
program will be held Alonday
morning, Alay 9, during the regu
lar chapel period in the amphi
theater.
All students who have taken
part in special activities or have
won various honors will be recog
nized before the student body,
i he groups to be recognized are
the Baptist Student Union execu
tive council, mission council. Hill
top staff, Laurel staff, student
council, band, Choralettes, foot-
tennis, basketball, and
baseball teams. Ad-club officers
and standouts, commencement
marshals. Dean’s list students, and
other students who excel in foren
sics, dramatics, and home eco
nomics.