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MARS HILL, N. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1957
Number 7
ss ******F Home Economics Club officers are (seated)
pe secretary; Kathryn Harper, president; Doris Jones,
r^nc Mrs. J. V. Howell, faculty adviser. Standing
. ■ publicity chairman; Ramona Lawton, chaplain;
“Sldef^loise McBee, treasurer.
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Spring Officers
of Kathryn Harper, spring semester president, and other
^ was the major item on the Home Economics Club
lIR night, January 7.
with Kathryn will be the following: Doris Jones, vice-
en , Janice Avery, secretary; Eloise McBee, treasurer; Ramona
n, devotional leader; and Betsy Stroup, reporter.
going president, Frances Anderson, presided over the initiation
’^nies.
e second portion of the meet-
i?’as devoted to a discussion
e theme “The Importance of
A^ise Use of Time,” with
:y Smith as leader.
rrently, members of the group
ewing cloth octopuses which
3e sold f^ seventy-five cents
inimal. These were popular
on campus last year as they
r be purchased in the Mars
colors or the respective so-
colors. The octopuses will
>n sale by the middle of
uar}\
February the officers of next
I s club will attend the North
%. Home Economics work-
Honor Clnb$
Varied Top
"s
^ open house for all high
i girls in Madison County
^ sometime in the
.Uk members of
Will give a fashion show
1 exhibition from
abs and various other home-
g departments.
Economics club is
• 1 ^^^”g ^ fashion show for
Dresl.V • will
Resented m May.
Sisn Up!
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udentc February 9,
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1 A. • . Frances Snelson
J Assistant to the President
On January 7, the Honor Clubs
held their first monthly meeting
of the new year with the pro
grams centering on timely subjects.
At the International Relations
Club conducted in Stroup, three
topics were discussed by members
of the club. Luanna Krause gave
a discussion on “Should We Have
an American Ambassador in the
Vatican?” John Stockett present
ed a talk on “European Schools.”
A current issue which has gained
much attention recently, “Should
Red China Be Admitted to the
United Nations?”, was discussed
by Don Shaw. Len Evans pre
sented the devotion.
“The Emerald Ring and the
Ancient Jewel” was the subject of
Dr. Nelson’s talk to members of
the Logothia Honor Club in Spil-
man parlor. The link between
Mars Hill in North Carolina and
the Mars Hill in Greece was the
theme of his speech.
At the Business Club, the topic
of discussion was “The Qualifica
tions of a Successful Salesman.”
Aided by Kenneth Horn of the
business faculty, the group carried
out scenes depicting incidents of
a salesman’s job. One of these
scenes represented an interview in
which a salesman attempts to se
cure a job. The meeting was held
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fflatiewsToReip Folklorist Lunsford Plays
Over May Court
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ome Economics Club
Margaret Ann Matthews of
Florence, South Carolina, will
reign as queen of the 1957 May
Court. Margaret was a freshman
attendant in the 1956 May Court
and served as secretary of Non
pareil society. She is majoring in
secretarial science.
Herbert Bullard, king of the
May Court, is from Fayetteville.
He is majoring in engineering and
plans to attend Wafford next
year. He is chorister of Euthalia
for the Forensic term.
Jo Ann Weber, maid of honor,
is from Statesville and is a music
major. She was president of Non
pareil society.
Brenda Briddell, Dot Walker,
Jerrie Preston, Suzanne Mims,
Hannah England, Barbara Car
michael, Rose and Ruth Corum,
Jackie Davenport, and Bea Cham
pion comprise the attendants for
the May Court.
A music major, Brenda Brid
dell of Crisfield, Maryland, plans
to attend Furman next year. She
is a member of Nonpareil society
and president of the Young
Women’s Auxiliary.
Dot Walker from Burlington
is majoring in engineering. Her
interest at present is in chemical
engineering and she plans to at
tend N. C. State. She is a mem
ber of Nonpareil society.
Jerrie Preston of Raleigh is
taking the liberal arts course. She
plans to major in English and
drama. Jerrie is active in cam
pus dramatics and is a member of
Clio society.
Also taking the liberal arts
course is Suzanne Mims of Edge-
field, South Carolina, who plans
to major in English. She is Train
ing Union director for the college
young people and is a member of
Clio society. Hannah England,
from Weaverville, is majoring in
music. She is a member of Non
pareil society. Barbara Car
michael of Thomasville is taking
a liberal arts course. She is a mem
ber of Clio society.
Rose and Ruth Corum are
from Louisville, Kentucky. Rose
is majoring in art and Ruth in
home economics. Both are mem
bers of Clio society. Jackie Dav
enport from Southern Pines is
taking a liberal arts course. She
expects to major in elementary
education. Jackie is a member of
Clio society. Also taking liberal
arts is Bea Champion of Dublin,
Georgia. She is a member of Clio
and is a cheerleader.
At Scriblerus-Orpheon Meet
Clinic To Be Held
On M. H. Campus
The eighth annual Choral
Clinic for high school students
will be held on the Mars Hill
campus, February 8 and 9.
Dr. Elwood Keister from East
Carolina College will direct the
event. Around 200 students and
several choral instructors are ex
pected from approximately 24
Bascom Lamar Lunsford, author, lecturer, folklorist, and folk
singer, appeared as guest speaker and entertainer at the annual joint
meeting of the Orpheon and Scriblerus honor clubs, January 8, in
Huffman parlor.
Mr. Lunsford, a native of Mars Hill and a resident of South
Turkey Creek in Buncombe county, has been a pioneer in reviving
among the American people an appreciation of their heritage of
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Harry Orr, president of the
Dramateers, is submitting an
original play, “Landslide” in the
contest sponsored by the Carolina
Dramatic Association. If the
judges consider the play worthy of
production, the Dramateers will
present it together with the usual
professional production in the
Spring Tournament to be held in
Chapel Hill in April.
The Dramateers’ January meet
ing will be a “coffee” held in the
Playhouse on Monday, January
21, at 6:30. Officers for the sec
ond semester will be elected. An
nouncements will be made con
cerning the plays which will be
given during the spring semester.
Slides of the fall production will
be shown and still pictures will
be on display. The meeting will
be brief because of examinations.
Bascom Lunsford received his
education at Camp Academy in
Leicester, Rutherford College,
Trinity in Durham, and at the
Trinity Law School. Several
years following completion of his
schooling, Mr, Lunsford became a
teacher at Rutherford College.
Later he centered his interests in
turn in law, politics, and journal
ism, as he edited a country paper,
and in judicial matters, serving
for a short time during World
War I as a Department of Justice
agent in New York.
Mr. Lunsford enjoys a three
fold distinction in the folklore
field: as performer, collector and
festival-founder. Becoming inter
ested in balladry while studying
with R. W. Gordon in Washing
ton, D. C., he originated the first
festival of authentic native Amer
ican folk musicians in 1928, the
Annual Mountain Dance and
Folk Festival, running in Asheville
for three days during the first
week of each August.
Robinson Obtains
Painting Award
Grove Robinson, son of Mrs.
Locke Robinson and the late Dr.
Robinson, a 1955 graduate of
Mars Hill and now a student at
Columbia University, received a
purchase award for his painting,
“Regional Landscape No. 5,” in
this year’s North Carolina Artists’
Exhibition in the State Art Gal
lery, Raleigh, December 5-31.
This painting was one of three
selected for this award from 47
accepted works of art in the show.
Over 300 entries were submitted
by artists from North Carolina.
Another of Grove’s entries, “Cal-
vander,” was given consideration
by the purchase committee, who
annually allot $1000 toward pur
chase awards in this show.
Fred Crisp, also a 1955 grad
uate of Mars Hill and now a
student at the University of
North Carolina, is represented in
the exhibition by a piece of
statuary. Both Robinson and Crisp
were pupils of Joe C. Robinson
while at Mars Hill.
Bascomb Lamar Lunsford
high schools of western North
Carolina.
Participants will be entertained
at a banquet in the Coyte Bridges
dining hall on Friday night.
On Saturday night, February 9,
at 7:30, a concert will be present
ed in the college auditorium by
the combined efforts of these stu
dents.
In 1946 he inaugurated a simi
lar event at Renfro Valley, Ken
tucky. In 1948 he added the Caro
lina Folk Festival sponsored by
the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill.
The “Minstrel of the Appa
lachians,” as Mr. Lunsford is fa
miliarly known, claims to have
spent the night in more different
mountain cabins than any other
person living, as he has traveled the
mountains from Harper’s Ferry in
Virginia to Iron Mountain in
northern Alabama in search of
knowledge of folk songs and bal
lads.
Mr. Lunsford has recorded
over 350 traditional folk songs and
ballads for the Library of Con
gress — seven times more than
any other person in the country.
Prior to 1949 when he recorded
for the Library of Congress, he
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