Newspapers / Mars Hill University Student … / Feb. 11, 1956, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Mars Hill University Student Newspaper / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
January 2h The Annual inounci J XXX ry Moore, Jane^ ^ Smith, Ruth L,, s, Jane Poplin, Furches, Nancy Barnes, Martha illiams, Carol devotions, Jo rman, Frances B fy; recipe bookf ■n, chairman. Cl venia Martin; ! Hudson, cha^ :e, and Patsy an gave the he programs f(v which will f ‘ ' kers and filni ons. Money ored by the wa} ttee will includ« ndwich selling rms, catering “t in the spring! :aculty clean-upf eady underwail fashion show The Officers of the class of 1957 are (1. to r.) Cecil Greene, Jr., of fashions begiinrlotte, treasurer; Esther Milligan of Alberta, Canada, secre- 1856 and contiry^' Paddy Wall of Winston-Salem, vice-president, and Bobby c of Brevard, president. CTKe Hilltop Published by the Students of Mars Hill College MARS HILL, N. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1956 C-I Edition Number 9 Grant;, Aldrick iSpeaker5 F or C-I class Leads I Dean’s List By 35 ipea Empka5i5 W ee Worth Grant, missionary to Japan, and Douglas Aldrich, pas tor of the Forest Hills Baptist Church in Raleigh, will be the visiting speakers for annual Re ligious Emphasis week on the Mars Hill College campus Febru ary 20-25. Services will be held at the morning chapel hour and each evening at 7:30 in the Mars Hill church. At these services the speakers will alternate, with Mr. Grant presenting the needs on for eign fields and Mr. Aldrich speak- ^ ^ v^ianssu nam ajculuc, xvu...,. ing on needs in our own country, pastor of the First B^tist Church Mr. Aldrich, a native of Flor- in Washington, D. C., will give Borders, Muncy Boyd, ida, IS an alumnus of Mars Hill, the address at the program cele- Bradley, Donald Bratton, While a student here he was brating Charter Day on Ihurs- Briddell, Barbara Can- unanimously elected BSU presi- day, February 16, m the church Carpenter, Grace dent. He held several other pas- auditorium. . Carswell, Robert Carter, Toni Dr. Robert R. Holt will give Cheek, the invocation and Dr. Hoyt Clifford, William Collins, Blackwell will give the H^tori- Colvard, Lynne Courtney, - cal Background of Charter Day. Qgrald Davis, Nina Dellinger, Japan, Mr. Grant is also a former The collep choir will ^ng under pigjdy Di^e, Sarah Ellen Dozier, _ _ Mars Hillian. While in college he the direction of Rufus N. Norris. Nancy Edwards, Beverly England, College distinguished himself in athletics The original charter of Mars g^^j-jj^^j-a Ann Eubanks, Grady ^ week’s f an approximate 670 students who are now members of this year’s as well as in religious activities. Hill College was ratifie e ru gyans, Billie Everhart, Boyd This Iclass, 468 are from North Carolina. Second highest is South From Mars Hill he went to Fur- ary 16, 1859. ^ Falls, Alma Ferguson, Edward ur North Caroiljna with a total of seventy-seven students. The other states repre- man and thence to the seminary, and amended in 1861. ^ e c ar perrell, Betty Carole Fleming, ,s are now bid are as follows: Virginia, thirty-two; Florida, twenty-four; He and his wife have spent several ter provides for a rotating oar Sidney Fox A total of 157 Mars Hillians made the dean’s list for the first semester of 1955-56. Of these students, ninety-six were C-Fs and sixty- one were C-II’s. There were seven C-I’s who made all A’s; these were Carolyn Cauthen, Doris Cole, Katherine Collins, Elizabeth Forbes, Ward Madison, Mary Ann Robertson, and Donald Shaw. The ten members of the C-II class who made all A’s are Lloyd . Richard Bailey, William Cobb, William Deal, Eileen Gerringer, 1\ J I’ Cwi/vrtlr Donald Kroe, Wanita Luffman, I rUuCn 10 uPCflR Suzanne Nordstrom, Francis Nor- _ ris, John Reaves, and Joe Wright. Am P||m|4a|> flQy These students also made the Ull vlUlllvl I/ftJ dean’s list: Barbara Abernathy, Dr. Edward Hughes Pruden, Beattie, Ruth rails Piai(liteeii Slates, Sii Coantries ; tecer^rescDted Id C-I EnrollDient torates in Southern states before going to his present pastorate in Raleigh. Now on leave from his work in isic which willgia and Maryland, thirteen; Tennessee and Washington, D. C., to be sold at each; New Jersey, three; and New York and Delaware, two each. he following states have one each: West Virginia, Alabama, Ohio, years in Japan. i^ould like for are interested Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. There are two students from Cuba and one each from Korea, Alaska, Canada, China, and Formosa. The women’s liberal arts course, Players Troupe Presents "Lear” at each successive annual meeting select and recommend trustees to fill vacancies. Those appointed must then be approved by the imcresreo _ ♦ _ ^1 * the choir to estmmster Choir le Men’s CbojU 'orarily been*"* ViMIP I- ^ o t,, t j x r r Jme its reheafhe Westminster Choir, under Course VII, has more C-I students The Player Baptist State Convention before Jge Choir in direction of Dr. John Finley than any other of the nineteen Washington, D^^ C. they are invested^ with the privi- lliamson, will present a pro- u Choralettes n here at eight o’clock on Feb- for their Spfry 20, in the college audi- lopkins, direch of trustees consisting of not less Janet Francis, Jane Frank- than five nor more than twenty- Charles Hugh Freeze, Peggy five persons. The board of trus- pnth, Thomas Fryer, Barbara tees meet annually at the college Runderburke, Herbert Garland, during commencement week, and Richard Green, Hugh Gregory, '‘um. 1 some week'Qrganized in 1921, Westmin neighboring hi Choir has performed from one courses offered. There are 215 taking this this course. The men’s liberal arts course, Course I, is second. Others are science, ten; chemical engineering, eight; civil engineering, twenty-one; electrical Shakespeare’s “King Lear” in the Mars Hill College Auditorium at 8 P.M. on Saturday, February 25. All members of the Company are former students of the famous Speech and Drama Department of the Catholic University of Amer ica, Washington, D. C. The Company has toured the major cities and towns in Amer ica and has toured Europe, Japan, leges, rights and powers of trustee. • rs. W. Philharmonic - Symphony four; elementary teaching, fifty- and Korea where they have played \hestra. ™usic, forty-four; art, ten; before troops on the battlefields. pre-agriculture, six; general busi- This is their seventh annual tour. lies. These woi of the country to the other, engineering, twenty-three; law, :ograms in pil also in Canada, Cuba, and fifteen; commerce, fifteen; pre- 5ring Concertst of Europe. The choir re- dental, pre-medical, or lab tech- tlv gave its hundredth perform- nician, fifty-two; nursing, twenty- md Mrs W years with the New seven; home economics, thirty- e, Georgia; Mocksville. Williamson has received • i • honorary degrees as well ness, and secretarial science, sev- international acclaim. By de- enty-five; accounting, twenty-one, loping a new philosophy of the ^*^d ^ business teaching, thirteen, ice of music and the church Taking the one year accelerated isiVIan in rhp mnrlprn rhnrnh bp COUrseS are these: Secretarial SCI- credited w^th a IgnifiLt con- ence and accounting, thirty-eight; played more than a hundred roles, ibution to the spiritual life of physical education for men, two. In King, Lear , he plays Lear, ir times. He is known for the physical education for women, six, armth, enthusiasm and personal The remaining thirty-four students H gor which he projects across the ^^d not list their course choices. otlights into the very hearts of C-I’s have chosen various yoca- s audience. tions. Of the vocations listed. His showmanship is proven by teaching is most popular with le scope of appeal of his program thirty-four students, while the dections, which range all the way ministry is second with twenty- fom the choral classics to Ameri- nine. Others are as follows: en- an folk music and music by con- gineering, twenty-seven; business, ;mporary composers. The com- twenty; nursing, ten; contractor, oser speaks through his music di- one; accountant, four; physical ectly to the audience. therapy, one; commercial art, one, Through his own achievements commercial advertising, one; cheni- ind also through the work of those two; law, eight; pre-agricul- le has taught. Dr. Williamson has ture, four; religious education, von lasting fame for his contri- nineteen; pharmacy, four; medi- lutions in establishing high stan- cine, eleven; music,^ twenty-two; lards in American choral music statesman,^ one; dentist, three; art, and in helping this to become a three; social service, four; county singing nation in a singing world. (Continued on Page 4) liling :y Joining Players Incorporated in the middle of last season to play the title role in “The Would Be Gentleman,” Dick Sykes has Henry Sutton, playing Kent, has performed many times before tour ing audiences. Included among the plays in which he has starred are “Macbeth” and “Twelfth Night.” After a year’s work in tele vision in Chicago, Pat Barnett re turned this year to play Regan. Although acting is only one of her many talents, Jeanne Davis, who plays Cordelia, made a highly ac claimed debut in “Julius Caesar”. Being a writer also, she has pub lished children’s stories. With the Players on the fourth tour, Naomi Vincent appeared in the leading feminine role in “Love’s Labors Lost”. She has played many lead ing roles since that time. In “King Lear” she has the role of Goneril. (Continued on Page 4) Dramateers Choose Casts For Plays “The Birthday of the Infanta” by Oscar Wilde and “Abraham and Isaac” by Lawrence Hous- man have been selected for en trance in the spring Drama Fes tival at Chapel Hill on April 12, 13, and 14. The Nonpareil Literary So- The Dramateers will take these ine P , Hi'nnpr rof- District Festival. fee" for the Clios on February If. the plays ^survive the compe- 9 at 7 o'clock in the Huffman ™on there they will be taken to parlor. The program which was , written by Pat Smith and Mar- Members of garet Griffin was presented in the parlor. After the program, re freshments were served in the playroom. Committee chairmen who were Clios, Nons Give Xeas the cast of the “Birthday of the. Infanta” are Carol Deaton, playing the Infanta of Spain and the Indies; Charles Parker as the chamberlain; George Spittle in the part of Don Pedro responsible for the coffee were as of Aragon; Sandra Brothers as follows: Srikanchana Sujjapunthu, Duchess of Albuquerque, Don welcome; Mary Lou McClung, Guffy as Carlos, the young Count Phi'lli'nc dpr- of Fierra JNueva; Len Evans as program; Martha Ehillips, aec- , ^ i i j Barbara Culp and the Dwarf; Gene Kirkman and orations; Elaine Pegram, props; and Effie McKnight, refreshments. The Nonpareils gave a coffee this year because many girls have afternoon classes and would not have been able to attend a tea. Carlisle Driggers as pages; Joan Adams and Joyce Pope as children of the nobility; and Billie Ever hart as the lady in waiting. Appearing in “Abraham and Isaac” will be Harry Mamlin in The Clio Society will return the role of Abraham; Don Guffy the Nons’ Coffee by honoring .as Isaac; and Marcia Taylor as their cousins at a tea on Thursday Sarah. afternoon, February 16. Jane Heading the technical staff as Blake, Clio vice-president is in stage manager is Ronnie Sparrow, charge of the program. Commit- Carlisle Driggers is in charge of tees for decorations, program, re- lighting for “Abraham and Isaac,” freshments, welcome, and proper- and the sound effects for “The ties have been appointed and work Birthday of the Infanta” are to has been begun. be done by Harry Mamlin.
Mars Hill University Student Newspaper
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Feb. 11, 1956, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75