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Forensic Team
Enters Rounds
Of Competition
Honor Clubs
(Continued from Page One)
THE HILLTOP, MARS HILL COLLEGE. MARS HILL. N. C.
February 23# 1
Mars Hill’s forensic team is en
tering three tournaments through
out the South during the next two
weeks. The squad is coached by
Harley E. Jolley.
This week end the debaters are
attending the Smoky Mountain
Forensic Tournament at Mary
ville College in Maryville, Ten
nessee. The Tournament there in
cludes debating, oration, poetry
reading, and after-dinner speaking
contests.
The next trip of the debaters
will be to the South Atlantic Tour
nament at Lenoir Rhyne College
in Hickory, March 14-16. This
tourney will consist of debate only.
The Grand National Forensic
Tournament held annually at
Mary Washington College in
Fredericksburg, Virginia, during
the first week of April, will be the
next event on the agenda for the
speakers. This tournament will
consist of all types of speaking.
Any additional persons interest
ed in trying out for the team should
contact Mr. Jolley, as there is still
room on the squad for more mem
bers.
Edmund Torrance
King Henry in Henry IV
Players Inc.
(Continued from Page One)
songs and played several games in
F rench.
The International Relations
Club accepted the following mem
bers: Patricia Curry, Charlton
Davis, Sonja Snyder, C)lga Sprin
kle, Barbara Elliott, Ann Garner,
Sherrel Jean Humphries, John
Tyner, George Parker, Glenda
Lawrence, Oleta Murphree, Jo
seph Britt, Linda Christopher,
George Hord, Dan Compton,
Leonard Wagner, David McMan-
away, Frank Baker, Robert Fitts,
Horace Hawes, Wanda Harris,
Marjorie Keith, Wanda Whitson,
and Melba Murphy.
Members newly inducted into
the Scriblerus Club are: Rubynell
Austin, Barbara Ann Brackett,
Martha Caudle, Ralph Cauthen,
Bea Champion, Lynda Crawford,
Beverly (jibbs, David Haynes,
Charles Huffstetler, Ronald Kes-
ter, Joel Land, Coleman Mark
ham, Dixie Monroe, Ann Vaughn,
Ann Walton, Dee White, and Ann
Wilson.
The new officers of the Logothia
club were installed at its meeting
on February 11. The new officers
are as follows: Pattie Sue Hack
ney, president; Barbara Eubanks,
vice-president; Jo Ann Massingill,
secretary-treasurer; Libby Price,
chaplain; Lorene Poteat, social
chairman; and Ruby Hickman,
publicity chairman.
The vice-president presented a
program which gave the purpose
of the club, and the initiation of
the new members followed. Fol
lowing the custom these new mem
bers signed the roll book: Patsy
Long, John Simpson, Lethia
Archer, Ann Cross, Ted Purcell,
Phyllis Brown, Ophelia Hildreth,
Derenda Gulledge, Pauline Hil
ton, Doris Daniels, Shirley Wilds,
Genene Bailey, Yukie Tomooka,
Jane Davis, Alice Turk, Peggy
Hughey, David Leary, Jim Gibbs,
Elizabeth Simmons, Jean Fleming,
Elizabeth Moore, Ann Gallimore,
Ingrid Cooper, and Jackie Brown.
At the Science Club, twenty-one
new members were inducted. They
are as follows: James Ball,
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Charter Day
Ends In Party
prominent figures in the American
theatre today.
This is the eighth season on the
road for the Players Inc. Each
year they trek approximately 35,-
000 miles through thirty states
and Canada taking the best in
entertainment to big cities and
small hamlets.
Henry IV is under the direc
tion of Leo Brady. The set and
lighting is the work of James D.
Waring, while costumes are by Jo
seph Lewis.
This play has been consistently
repeated since Shakespeare’s time,
partly because of its gallery of
memorable characters and partly
because of its album of famous
Steve Ball, Jim Bennett, Bobby
Bolinger, Johnny Brown, Shelby
Buckner, Donald Carr, Peter
Evans, William Fisher, Jerry
Glover, Robert Key, Gene Knoe-
fel, George Mann, Herschel Mc-
Daris, Stanley Peek, Bill Prevost,
Charles Ramsey, Orville Rood,
Georgia Todd, and Sonja Watson.
For the program, the Science
Club used the theme of vocational
night. Jim Massey presented a
talk on civil engineering. Lynda
Reep discussed medical technology
which was followed by a report
on medicine by Frederick Ander-
The Business Club welcomed
sixteen new members at their meet
ing. They are as follows: Betty
Mae Bagwell, Rosemary Bolton,
Norma Jean Crew, Margaret Ann
Gidney, Barbara Ann Griffith,
Loretta Frances Hester, Mar
garet Ann Hood, Clara Ann
Hughes, Carol Ann Jones, Patricia
Kenyon, Shirley Ann King, Mary
Lee Latta, J. W. Rhyne, Ralph
Lee Shoemaker, Imogene Voyles,
and Ann Walker.
The topic of their meeting was
“Know Your Club.” Frances
Poole gave a talk on the Business
Club in review. Then Chad Bum
garner discussed the Business Club
Alumni Association. Shirley Tripp
gave an informative talk on the
BCAA Medal. Carolyn Tolbert
spoke on the stage furniture proj
ect, and then Carolyn Lewis ex
plained the Business Club Em
blem.
Inducted into the German Club
were Barbara England, Fred
Glass, Kathryn Johnson, Nan^
Leiby, Milton Massey, David
Milligan, and Charles Pierce.
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Watson Wins Award!
For Religious Play
The Baptist Student Union
sponsored a Valentine party Sat
urday night, February 16, with
the music, decorations, and re-
. freshments carrying out the Val
entine’s Day theme. This climaxed
Mars Hill College’s ninety-eighth
Charter Day, which was not as
publicly recognized this year as
it has been in former years.
Mars Hill College was founded
in 1856 as the French Broad Bap
tist Institute. Founder’s Day is
celebrated on October 12, the
birthday of Edward Carter, who
was responsible for the inception
of the school and who gave the
plot of land on which the first
building was erected.
Just when or how the name was
changed from the French Broad
Baptist Institute is not known,
but it appeared as Mars Hill In
stitute in the charter which was
drawn up during the administra
tion of John B. Marsh and rati
fied on the sixteenth day of Febru
ary, 1859.
Since this date the charter has
been enlarged and amended, but
the original charter reads as fol
lows :
The winning entry in the Carolina Dramatic Association playwri“^Y .
contest in the religious play division was “The Sparrow” by Elizs^J
Webster Watson. She won the Pearl Setzer Deal Award. The P'
is scheduled for presentation at the State Drama Festival in CW
Hill on April 11-13. It will be given at chapel time in Mars
on March 20 and 21.
In the words of one of the judges:
‘The Sparrow is an arrest*|
It
Nonpareils list
Events
rendition of some incidents ff*
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welded together, and brought it
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Section 1. BE IT ENACT
ED BY THE GENERAL AS
SEMBLY OF THE STATE
OF NORTH CAROLINA,
AND IT IS HEREBY EN
ACTED BY THE AUTHOR
ITY OF THE SAME, That
J. W. Anderson, E. Carter, Thos.
Carter, Thomas S. Deaver and
Lewis Palmer shall be, and they
are hereby declared to be, a body
politic and corporate, to be known
and distinguished by the name and
style of the Mars Hill College;
and by that name shall have suc
cession, and so continue for the
term of fifty years. Said corpora
tion may hold and convey real,
personal and mixed property, to
an amount not exceeding fifty
thousand dollars.
The Nonpareil Literary Society
has scheduled several events for
the coming weeks.
A “Howdy-Do” social is
planned for the members of Non-
Eu societies on February 26.
Tryouts for the Temperance
Reading Contest will be held in
the Non-Eu Hall for Nonpareils
on February 28.
On Thursday evening, February
14, the Nons entertained the Clios
with a Valentine Tea in Huffman
parlor. Decorations and refresh
ments followed the traditional pat
tern of St. Valentine’s Day.
A situation Oration Contest
was sponsored by the Nonpareils
last Thursday evening in the hall.
Results are not available as the
Hilltop goes to press.
very charming and moving in .
duction.” g'’
The play gives the story
conversion of King Edwin
Christianity in 627 A.D. j
February 13, 1957 the Draff'
teers presented “The Sign ‘
Jonah” by Guenter Rutenbo'^
The cast consisted of ToffJ
Hogan, Bob Holland, Chaff
Huffstetler, Ed Spence, Bill
rin, Helen Lucas, Jan Hensk
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Pattie Hackney, Ronnie Quach^ ''
Section 2. BE IT FURTHER
ENACTED, That any real estate
over and above three hundred
acres, which may be needed for
the erection of convenient build
ings on the same, or which may
be acquired by donation or pur
chase, in addition to those already
erected for the benefit and objects
of this institution, shall be sub
ject to taxation, as now or here
after may be directed by law.
Section 3. BE IT FURTHER
ENACTED, That the faculty of
the said college, that is to say, the
president and professors and
teachers, by and with the consent
of the trustees, shall have the
power of conferring all such de
grees or marks of literary dis
tinction as are usually conferred
in colleges and seminaries of
learning.
Section 4. BET IT FUR
THER ENACTED, That it
shall not be lawful for any per
son or persons to retail spirituous
liquors, or sell in any quantity
less than five gallons to any stu
dent in said college, within five
miles of said college, and such
selling or retailing within the dis
tance aforesaid by any person or
persons, shall subject such per
sons to a penalty of ten dollars
for each and every offense against
the provisions of this section,
which said penalty shall be recov
ered by any person suing for the
same, in an action of debt be
fore a magistrate of said county;
one half to the person suing for
the same, the other half to the use
of the college.
Section 5. BE IT FURTHER
ENACTED, That this act shall
be in force from and after its
ratification.
RATIFIED THIS THE
16TH DAY OF FEBRUARY,
1859.
bush, and Gwen Nanney.
Rutenborn’s play combines
holism with the modern audieff^
participation approach. ,
The content draws upon
story of Jonah, the account of ^
three Hebrews in the fiery f®
nace, and various other bits ' q-
Biblical literature. The sepff^* (jfj
portions are skillfully interwo', p)
and applied to the situation,
Nazi (^rmany during World
II. in,
The fundamental theme of ^ •
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play is the question of shared ^
sponsibility for tragic
Prominent parts are played by ‘ sej
Man and Woman in the stret^
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Each shape perfectly balanced ,
Each connecting straight and
And yet, when outside force d''
rupts.
No sound.
No confusion.
Each separate shape—remains ^
Quietly on its own axis
Revolves in its world.
At peace.
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