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January I'l 7' Hear 1C SlJUCIuHE Concert 1/S To I nsics squad will ion-Newman or enter a two-day^ ducted by Pr(^ ivisions will 5etry readinyr, f ring, and exte! current events, ickwell and constitute one Don Kroe and ill make up the e session will ctice debates, ion each team sides of the qui : national que wage, and mus ate until it is final winner vi of the elimii ting and traini as prospects foi !. In a meeting a demonstratic 1 by Jimmy M(! Gail Elliot, ailctured above are the members of the May Court who will reign he benefit of b annual spring festival. Seated on the front row, from thf. maot-’ rr bright, they are Margaret Griffin, Maid of Honor; Anne , May Queen; Paul Caudill, May King, and Sandra Hick- .ny branch of I attendant. Other attendants standing in the same order are: ted to attendscca Keller, Gail Love, Jerrie Preston, Lucia Holder, Jo Weber, ngs. »• Furches, Paddy Wall, and Suzanne Mims. Mona Hyde when the picture was made. CThe Hilltop Published by the Students of Mars Hill College See The Art Exhibit Honor Ms Hopkins Is Soloist For Elect Leaders Three honor clubs have se lected officers for the second semester. Scriblerus, Spanish and French club members held elec tions at their last meeting. Officers of the English group for the 1956 term include Mar tha Barnett, president; Ella Fran ces McKnight, vice-president; and Mary Redwine, secretary-treas urer. Boyd Falls will serve as the new Spanish Club president, as sisted by Kathryn Davis, vice- president, and Jane Linder, secre tary-treasurer. The Spanish Club will hold its initial meeting of the second se mester on February 14 in the Little SpphoHf The North Carolina Little Symphony, under the direction of Dr. Benjamin Swalin, will present its annual concert in the college audi torium at eight o’clock on February 4, with Robert Hopkins, a member of the Mars Hill music faculty, featured as the piano soloist. Mr. Hopkins will present “Concerto No. HI” for piano and orchptra by Bartok. Other selections by the Symphony will include: “The Merrv Wives of Windsor” by Nicolai; “Symphony No. 92” in G major — (“Oxford”); “Deep Forest” by Forendcs Team Attends Tourney was Durt Chosen To Reign fered By ' B.BairdQring May Festivities TORE HING 5. Anne Robinson will reign as Queen of May, attended by iret Griffin, Maid of Honor, and escorted by Paul Caudill, King, in the special spring program. The king, queen, and maid lor are chosen from the senior class and will have five junior !ve senior attendants. Anne was C-I class secretar>^ and is C-H Mars Hill College is being rep resented in the Smoky Mountain Tournament, which began yester- Audio-visual‘room"of the Libra^ day at Careon-Newman at 7:30. The program will begin by nine students. y , ^ with a colored movie entitled ticipate in men s and women ora- “The Land and People of Spain,” torical contests, after-dinner speak- and conclude with the initiation ing, poetry reading, ex emp of new members. ous speaking, and debating.^ French Club elected Bill Moore the women’s oration division president. Thelma Kimble and Peggy Frith and Bonita Benfield Mary Welbourne will fill the of- are representing the college. Bob fices of vice-president and secre- Gray is competing in the men s Daniels: and “In a Vienna Park” by Strauss. The Symphony will conclude with the two selections: “Ballet Music from William Tell” and “Overture to El Signor Bruschino” by Rossini. Soloist Hopkins attended high school at High Point, and re ceived his Bachelor of Music de gree in 1953 from Eastman School of Music located in Rochester, N. Y. Also, he received his M.M., or B.M. with distinction, degree from the University of Rochester in 1954. Mr. Hopkins worked as a graduate assistant in Piano at tary-treasurer, respectively. Other honor groups will hold elections at their next meetings. Programs of the various clubs at )r ed .ve senior attendants. Anne was U-i class secretar>^ and is t^-ii ^ secretary. She was C-I Football Queen and C-I I Home Coming ^be first gathering of second se- 1. She served as an attendant in the She I Reducejy£3 To Head asuals ' yientStorl News Slarf May Day court as a C-I. was Nonpareil hostess and president during C-I term. In the W. A. A. Anne has served as re porter; recorder for the M-Blem Club; editor of Girls’ Sports; and Training Union vice-president. le next edition of The Hilltop Anne is a Business major. written and edited entirely __Paul was chosen “Ideal Mars '-Is. The following staff has Hillian” and has served as chap- selected to be responsible for plain and secretary for Philo- 7-1 edition: mathia. He is also Sunday School jA itor-in-chief, Nancy Hayes; superintendent in the college de- editor, John Blevins; feature partment. Don Powell; associate edi- Margaret Griffin served as Rachel Mixson and Carolyn vice-president of Shining Light ert; managing editor, Peggy Training Union. She is taking a mester will consist primarily of inductions for new members. Requirements for membership in an honor club as stated in the college catalogue are as follows: A student must make “B” on the subject represented in the club, (Continued on Page 4) religious editor, Suzanne exchange editor, Helen :h; sports editor, Wayne cil; girls’ sports, Nancy Ed- Is; advertising manager, Phyl- IViley; circulation managers, Ira Owens and Kenneth kwell; typists, Shirley Hines Jo Anne Thornton. C-Is who are interested are to contribute to this C-I liberal arts course. The following girls were elect ed by freshman student vote as (Continued on Page 4) This afternoon students are invited to participate in a volleyball game and other indoor sports. This event is under the direction of the M-blem Club. Tonight a movie will be shown at 8 p. m. Movies will also be shown on Monday and Tues day nights at the same time. division. Paddy W^all, and Peggy Frith, Don Kroe and James Shur- lin are presenting extemporaneous speeches on topics of current events in the divisions of extempore speaking. Paddy and Bob also are contributing poetry readings. Gail Elliott and Paddy Wall, recently proclaimed winners in the society competition of after dinner speaking, are presenting their speeches in the tournament. The Mars Hill debate team will be made up of Steve Blackwell, James Shurlin, Don Kroe, and Norman Hupp. Each contestant in this division must debate both sides of the question, which is the national query of a ^ guaranteed wage, and must continue to de bate until he is eliminated. The final winner will be the survivor of the elimination contests. Robert Hopkins Great Books Of W^.stern JVorld Memorial get :y jpel Players, and are special ig in religious drama. They e joined the Carolina Dra tios Association, and therefore, eligible to participate in the lual dramatics tournament, ey are planning to present braham and Isaac” by Law- ice Houseman at the district irnament to be held in Boone, March 8, 9 and 10. The Dramateers have also been (Continued on Page 4) Information has recently been quired eight years’ work by one received that the Mars Hill Me morial Library will be the recipi ent of a fifty-four volume set of Great Books of the Western World. The Library is one of ...—j — == _ - 1600 to receive such a set, dis- authors. It represents the only which comprises volumes two and three. The Syntopicon is an idea- index through which it is possible to trace one hundred two “Great Ideas” and their 2,987 subordinate rama Groups o Enter Meet L new group has been added ;ntly to the dramatics depart- .. — -- --- . - It of the college. They are the tributed by the American Library publication in English, or the only Eastman School of Music, while working on his M.M. degree. Son of Rev. and Mrs. Julian S, Hopkins, Mr. Hopkins received the George Eastman Honorary Scholarship, Rochester Prize . - — Scholarship, and w^as a member The two-day meet is under the of j-fie Delta Phi Alpha Honorary direction of Professor Conklin. German Fraternity. He is also the organist choirmaster for the First Baptist Church in Marion. Dr. Swalin, director of the Symphony, received his M.A. de gree from Columbia University and his Ph.D. from the University of Vienna. He studied violin under Leopold Auer and Franz Kneisel, and did advanced study at the Institute of Musical Art in New York. For ten years he served as a member of the faculty chins has written the introductory hundred scholars chiefly engaged volume, the Great (7onvepation. on the Syntopicon, a unique idea- The associate editor, Mortimer J. .o « .nw index. The set contains entire Adler, edited the Syntopicon and the University of North Caro works rather than excerpts, and wrote one hundred two essays introducing this part of the set. rather than includes the works excerpts, and of twenty-one Association under a grant from the Old Dominion Foundation. The 1600 libraries chosen to re ceive the books were selected from several thousand which sent in ap plications. The set contains fifty-four vol works edition aside from rare or expen sive printings, of key works by Aristotle, Hippocrates, Galen, Euclid, Archimedes, Ptolemy, topics through all the writings in Copernicus, Galileo, Harvey, Des- the remaining volumes of the set. cartes, Pascal, Newton, Montes quieu, Kant, Lavoisier, Fourier, Faraday, and Freud. The set is produced by Encyclo- umes encompassing the works of seventy-four authors and spanning _ , _ . Western thought from Homer and pedia Britannica, Inc., in collab- the Bible to the twentieth cen- oration with the University of tury. It totals 32,000 pages. Edi- Chicago. Editing the work is Rob- torial preparation of the set re- ert Maynard Hutchins. Mr. Hut- It is as though all these 443 works had been read 2,987 times, each time with a particular topic in mind. They Syntopicon operates in the field of ideas as the dic tionary does in the field of words and the encyclopedia in the field of facts. lina before becoming full-time di rector of the Symphony in 1940. The North Carolina Symphony originated as a WPA project un der the leadership of Lamar Stringfield. It developed into a permanent organization with the aim of taking good symphonic music to every part of the state. The Symphony has played in al most every county in the state, and travels annually approximately six thousand miles. Through opportunities to per form with the symphony or to have their compositions played, young (Continued on Page 4)
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