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THE HILLTOP. MARS HILL COLLEGE. MARS HILL. N. C.
April 26. 195! April 5
PLAIN LIVING AND HIGH THINKING
Published by the Students of Mars Hill College
Q*he Hilltop
Volume XXXn
April 26. 1958
Crying Needs
One of the major deficiencies in American education at present
is the emphasis upon life adjustment courses at the expense of
many vital courses in science, mathematics, and basic English.
Many of these life adjustment courses fail to prepare the student
to face the rigorous and unsympathetic competition of the post
graduate business world. Such failures lead to social maladjust
ment and plainly reveal the fact that there is no substitute for
a well-rounded education in the basic courses. The humanities
are also vitally important, for in a world of strife and tension
each citizen should be instilled with a sensitiveness to the needs
of others and an appreciativeness of human values. The United
States cannot afford to sacrifice her reverence of the human
element in her efforts to compete with and surpass Russia’s tech
nological advances. If she sacrifices this reverence she will have
been conquered already by the Russian doctrine. But as one
commentator said, competitive coexistence may go on for a long
time; great values are at stake. The educational problem is to
produce graduates with human sensitiveness as well as with the
abilities necessary to meet the challenge of the world’s techno
logical advances. Thus the educational system becomes a long
term investment which will in large part determine our position
in the world in the years to come.
It is the teacher who is the vital instrument of the educational
system. Far too little prestige and recognition are given to these
teachers of tomorrow’s citizens and leaders; the teaching profession
needs to be made more attractive and rewarding materially.
Salaries and prestige should be raised for the teacher in order to
draw as many as possible of the best students into the teaching
profession. There is a great need for consecrated teachers who
are alert to the complexities of the modern world and who are
dedicated to preparing each student to face and overcome these
complexities. But the teacher is greatly limited by the large
number and variety of students which make up each class and
by pressure from the students and parents to lighten the study load.
The viewpoint of the teacher must necessarily be from a group
standpoint, but the parent can and should take a deep personal
interest in his child’s education. It is the parent who can have
the greatest influence upon the child’s early education; the
personal interest of the parent can do much to instill a determina
tion in the student’s heart to study and to succeed. Parental
encouragement and direction can make learning a source of enjoy
ment and can help the student escape the feeling that school is
a temporary but necessary evil. The parents should also take
the responsibility of directing their children in the selection of
their high school courses; many students of the high school age
fail to realize the importance of a well-rounded education.
In many high schools there is almost an unspoken agreement
among the students that none of them will work hard in order
that the standard will be lowered and none of them will be
expected to work hard. In many high schools and colleges com
petition between students on a scholastic basis is practically non
existent, and it has become almost a mark of abnormality to
enjoy studying. The courses offered, the preparation and dedica
tion of the teachers, and the interest of the parents are all im
portant factors in each student’s education; but in the final
analysis it is the attitude of the student which spells out his
ultimate success or failure in obtaining a balanced and useful
education. Many persons have successfully educated themselves;
modern facilities of education serve only as aids in the growth
of the student’s mental prowess and alertness. The student should
not be over eager to terminate his formal education. One does
not lose time by stopping to sharpen his tools. It takes time for
a student to become a scientist, or doctor, or minister, or lawyer,
or businessman. In the meantime each student should follow
Tennyson’s advice:
To follow knowledge like a sinking star.
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
M ar5 Hillians
Take H onors
Second-Class mail privileges authorized at Mars Hill,
N. C., February 20, 1926, at the Post Office at Mars
Hill, North Carolina, Under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Published semi-monthly during the college year.
Number 13
STAFF
Editor-in-Chief Eleanor Boyd
Associate Editor Tommy Tillman
Managing Editor Barbara Elliott
News Editor Barbara Griffith
Sports Editor Leslie Timms
Girls Sports Ouida Gayle Schuman
Advertising Manager Eugene Burris
Charles Greenway
Circulation Manager Ophelia Hildreth
Ron Searcy, Hilton Bonniwell, Vanetta Karegeannes
Typists Sarah Gay Simerson, Derenda Gulledge
CONTRIBUTORS
Carol Ann Lawton, Wanda Davis, Mildred Ketner,
Ava Gosnell, Claiborne Hopkins.
Grove Robinson, Mars Hill
alumnus of 1955 and son of Mrs.
Locke Robinson and the late Dr.
Locke Robinson of Mars Hill, has
been awarded a Fulbright fellow
ship to study in Paris, France,
during 1958-59.
Mr. Robinson attended the
University of North Carolina for
a year following his graduation
from Mars Hill. He is now at
Columbia University, where he
will receive his Bachelor of Fine
Arts degree in June.
Charles Webb, ’57 graduate,
was elected state BSU president
at the recent spring leadership
conference held in Greensboro.
Charles is now a student at Appa
lachian State Teachers College,
Boone.
Jo Ann Weber, also a ’57 grad
uate, was elected director of the
State BSU choir at the same
meeting.
Paddy Sue Wall, another ’57
grad, was named recipient of the
Jane Craige Gray award which
is given to the outstanding junior
girl at the University of North
Carolina. In the recent spring
elections. Miss Wall was elected
secretary of the UNC student
body.
Bill Cobb of the class of ’56
has been awarded a Danforth
Foundation fellowship for gradu
ate study next year. Currently at
Wake Forest Bill plans to at
tend Union Theological Seminary
in New York City.
Joe Mamlin, MH ’56, Wake
Forest, has been awarded the
Mary Reynolds Babcock scholar
ship of $23,000 for graduate and
postgraduate work in research at
Bowman Gray School of Medi
cine.
David Lynch, a senior at Mars
Hill High School and son of Dean
and Mrs. W. L. Lynch of Mars
Hill College staff, has been award
ed $1,800 scholarship distributed
over four years for study of music
at the Oberlin Conservatory,
Oberlin, Ohio.
David is valedictorian of his
class, a member of the Beta Club
and the Glee Club. He represent
ed the high school as a member
of the Choral Clinic group; he is
literary editor of the yearbook
also.
“Who broke the spider’s web.
Pale, delicate in the dawning.
Crusted with jewels in the
morning,
Under the morning sun?”
I broke the spider’s web
Spun with slow turning toil.
Broke it with one quick blow,
A single turn of my hand.
The spider very patiently
Began to build again
Laboring steadily
Turning and toiling
Under darkening skies.
Mary Elizabeth Moore
too.
Sunny Florida Day had a few
slight interferences this year. In
spite of a rainy day and frozen
oranges, they had scores of willing
vacationers. It seems that this
balmy Spring weather is accom
plishing more than blossoming
dreams. For instance, remember
that Talent Show that was can
celled last winter because of snow.
It is now re-scheduled, farewell
party fashion, for May 6.
The nursing club made a two-
hour tour of the Memorial Mis
sion Hospital Saturday, April 12.
Hmm — Band tour. Choir tour.
Hospital tour. . . .
And also a Mission trip. Dur
ing Spring Holidays twelve mem
bers of the student body assisted
in a revival held at the Temple
Baptist Church of Washington,
D. C. of which Eddie Moore is
a member.
Miss Bingham and Miss Snel-
son, the Maryland-D. C. Club
wishes to express its appreciation
to you for the buffet dinner Sat
urday, March 15.
Felicitations and best wishes to
the newly elected BSU officers,
and to the incoming officers for
dormitories. All this seething ac
tivity spells out the year is almost
over. My well-used hour glass
indicates that we have only four
weeks of classes left and one week
of exams. Makes you remember
what a great war we have had,
doesn’t it?
Library Has
Book Plates
From where I sit the birdies
have at last taken their storm
windows down for an enchanting
Spring. Maybe now those opti
mistic girls who labeled their doors
“Spring, We Hope!” can find
assured consolation. A botany
student tenderly described the
blossoming of the trees in this
way: “The little terminal buds
have escaped through the epi
dermis of the younger twigs.”
Mars Hill students eagerly-
heard their own Touring Choir,
Wednesday and Thursday, after
reports from their Spring tour
into Maryland, Virginia, Wash
ington, D. C. and North Caro
lina. Congratulations to both the
Touring Choir and the Band for
their great success on recent tours.
Maxie Welch put his Spanish
class in an uproar when he exem
plified the comparative adjective:
“Me gustan muchachas para mas
fuete.” Liberal translation: I
like girls because I’m stronger.
During spring holidays our own
co-eds evidently participated in
the Spring Fashion parade. Re
sult: Sack dresses on our campus.
Word has leaked to us that dur
ing one fashion parade a sack of
potatoes fell from a passing truck.
It was accidentally awarded first
prize. Coach Hart told of a man
who was going “to hit the sack.”
She couldn’t understand if he was
going to bed or to beat his wife.
There is also the interesting in
quiry, “Where do you buy your
flour? I’d like a sack like that
Do you have a book that you
would like to give to the Librar)
in the memory of or in appreci
ation of someone? If so, we will
put one of our beautiful neV
Bookplates in it with your namt
and the one whom you are honor
ing. This will be a living me
morial that will bless many lives
In a recent letter, Tom Sheariri;
Library Assistant for January
who transferred to Carolina this
semester, says, “My job at th
library was one of the most re
warding that I have ever attempt
ed. I learned more while working
there than anywhere I have evei
worked. Thank you all for being
so kind and patient with me. Youi
understanding encouraged me and
made me want to do well in mj
work.”
Have y-ou looked in the Reader^
Guide for articles, and then wheJ
you called for the magazines the)
were not there? Probably thf
reason was that someone had
mutilated or even destroyed at
issue so that the volume cannoi
be bound until it is replaced. II
you have any extra old magazine*
that have not been cut or torn
we would like to have them tt
help complete our periodicals col
lection. Then you will get bettei
service.
Watch the bulletin board (b)
the drinking fountain in the firs*
floor lobby) for news and vievf*
items.
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A bus arriving a moment too soon
Waiting—
Then homeward, but no special
plans.
Passing streets, houses, and trees-
“Hi” to a stranger I chance t
meet.
Home at last, and part of
smiles.
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the sqi
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The telephone rings.
A familiar voice.
All of me smiles.
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St a ff M emhers
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Announcements have been mad'
of the engagements and approach
ing marriages of two members n*
the College Staff, Misses Beth
Shoaf and Earline Martin.
Miss Shoaf, the daughter of Mt
and Mrs. O. E. Shoaf of Ka^
napolis, is engaged to Coy L-
Privette, of Wake Forest. Plan-
for the wedding will be announce*'
at a later date. Miss Shoaf is *
graduate of Mars Hill Collet*
and of Baylor University and ha'
been for two years in the alum”'
and publicity office.
Miss Martin, dietitian in th
college dining hall, is engaged ”
Frederick Guy Walker of Alb''
marie. An early summer weddi”!
is planned. Miss Martin is tb|
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ea'
Martin of Eagle Springs.
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Come in to me. Night!
Come kiss me, cool and tender.
Bring sweet dreams, love dreams.
Tell me truth that never was.
I’ll believe it all
. . . until the morning.
HYATT GIBBS
Gail Ray
Brown tweed . . .
Close cropped hair . . .
A playful grin . . .
His crushing arms . . .
Big feet . . .
BIG BROTHER
Barbara England
Rumpled hair . . .
Jelly-smeared face . . .
tl
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Worm-filled pockets . . •
Toothless grin . . .
Heart of gold
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LITTLE BROTHER clT
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Barbara Englc*^