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Published by the Students of Mars Hill College
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MARS HILL, N. C., SATURDAY. OCTOBER 25. 1958
Number 3
all semester-
Jonita Ha
d Sandra
Has Annual
Lominac, e Conclave
bara Dill, i
ayes, C. VViplined For Today’s De-
Ison. will be the theme for the
Jail convention of the llap-
Union of North Caro-
^®^‘’-“eting October 31-Novem-
^11 First Baptist Church
Flier, SaravJiig
Stainbad
rles Allard^ayne E. Oates, Professor
Linda Podl'on at the Southern Rap-
heological Seminar>' in
cretaries a(le^ vvill deliver three main
Florence is on the theme. Other
Raye Dd speakers will be Dr.
an, Jan ‘Baird from the Baptist
Frankie i School Board’s Depart-
Ann Stoncf Student Work in Nash-
ice HowellTennessee; Mr. Elmer
Aliller, JaPersonnel Secretarj' of the
Don Steen Baptist Foreign Mission
Richmond, Virginia; and
in, Barbar/^^W. W. Lancaster, Pas-
Elizabetl^"^ First Baptist Church
tiffin, South Carolina.
ill were Stewart A. Newman, Pro-
:atives. T'f Theology and Philosophy
sses will feion at Southeastern Bap-
, Mrs. Oeological Seminary, Wake
N. Lance, will deliver two Bible
enkins, Df* to the group Follow-
Smith, Mr presentation, the entire
Edna Eave'on delegation will divide
s, John P small groups to discuss
aby Sparl^as been said.
_ Ruth Durham, Educa-
.Director of the First Bap-
turch of Beaufort, North
nnfl Au’ charge of a
lUUll />. *P period on Friday night,
John Dyer, Minister of
I First Baptist Church
Vllllvston, will lead the 50-voice
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Departmef
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are con'
toon panel
which is
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MHC Enrollment Hits Thousand Mark;
Six Countries, Many States Represented
Mars Hill College has enrolled exactly one thousand students at
the close of enrollment for the fall term 1958-59. The total number
of college students is 952. There are 641 freshmen, 368 men and
273 women, and 311 sophomores, 170 men and 141 women. There
are 48 special students, 16 boys and 32 girls, making the grand
total of 1,000.
Although the majority, 609, are from North Carolina, almost
every section of the United States,
In the above scene of the last act of Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus”,
the jail warden, Frank, who has just returned from the gay party
given at Prince Orlofsky’s, is surprised by the appearance at his jail
of the two pretty ballerinas he met at the party.
Grass Roots Opera Company To Present
Strauss’ Operetta “Die Fledermaus’’
lilner-Webb;
Hill Debate
maX teams of Gard-
1 and Mars Hill clashed
t tnlL.' on October 16.
Me«rs T”^^ctice debate was the
Corpori^^^ the season for
ibuting t teams.
' basis i' headers for the Gardner-
to be . torce were Mrs. Dorothy
book Registrar and F. B.
pring. ,^nd, Head of the English
Jt^ent. Debating negative
^^ner^Webb were Timmy
reason' Ray SutUe, Janelle Queen
excell'^'^tce Anderson. The fol-
The National Grass Roots
Opera Company will present
Johann Strauss’ operetta “Die
Fledermaus,” Monday, Novem
ber 3, at 7:30 in the college
auditorium.
Gert E. Muser, a native of
Mannheim, Germany, will di
rect the operetta, having over
2,000 operatic performances to
his credit. Taking leading roles
will be Naomi Blake, colora
tura soprano, in the role of
Adele, a talented maid; Hayden
Blanchard, lyric tenor, in the
part of Alfred, who is mistaken
ly imprisoned; and William
Blanchard, baritone, as Frank,
the prison warden, who falls
prey to a sadistic practical joke.
A gay story of revenge, “Die
Fledermaus,” or “The Bat,” is
laid in Old Vienna in 1873. It
centers around a rich Viennese
banker and the manner in
which he seeks vengeance for
being left sound asleep on a
park bench following a mas
querade party at which he was
dressed as a bat. The action
moves from the banker’s home,
to an elegant party given by a
Asheville Lions
fabulously wealthy Russian
prince, to the humorous finale
in the city jail.
In 1948 the National Grass
Roots Opera Company, formed
by an attorney and Raleigh
businessman, A. J. Fletcher, set
out to prove that opera in Eng
lish, even the old standards,
could be enjoyed. Since that
time almost 900 performances
by the National Grass Roots
have been given, all in English.
Called America’s unique
Opera A La Carte” opera
troupe, the National Grass
Roots continues to bring live
opera to the American public.
Each singer has the opportunity
of singing from 30 to 60 per
formances of several different
roles during the season. For ten
years the company has brought
entertainment to varied spon
sors, including schools, college
lyceum courses, civic groups and
concert associations.
Home Economics
Hilltop Receives
AGP Rating Book
The Hilltop has recently re
ceived its rating from the Asso
ciated Press for the second se
mester of last year. All aspects
of a new'spaper are rated by the
Associated Collegiate Press in a
Newspaper Guidebook, an over
all rating given, and the guidebook
is sent to the newspaper con
cerned.
The departments in which The
Hilltop rated are as follows: cov
erage, very good; content, excel
lent; department pages, excellent;
makeup, very good; headlines,
very good ; typography, excellent;
and photography, good.
The judge, Dick Kobak, com
mented, “Very restrained, adult
work. More attention to features
and pictures would bring marked
improvement. I enjoyed your lit
erary supplement ver>' much.
Excellent writing.”
The overall honor rating for
The Hilltop was Second Class.
This rating was awarded after a
comparison with other papers in
The Hilltop classification and is
based on the scoring scale used
in that group only.
The primary job of a college
newspaper is self evident; to cover
the college field. It should be an
organ of information for students,
parents, faculty and alumni.
The Hilltop staff strives to
produce a newspaper worthy of
the school and the students. They
will appreciate any constructive
suggestions that may be offered
by the students.
as well as five countries and terri
tories outside the United States,
is represented. There are students
here from twenty-two states and
the District of Columbia. States
that are on the list that were not
represented last year are Massa
chusetts, Missouri, and New
Hampshire with one student each.
States that are not represented
this year that were last year are
Louisiana, Michigan, Rhode Is
land, and Texas.
For the first time in the recent
history of the college, Virginia
with 87, has more students at
Mars Hill than South Carolina
with 73. Florida, 57, is fourth
on the list; followed by Tennes
see, 35; Maryland, 24; and
Georgia, 23.
Students come from as far north
as Connecticut with 4, as far west
(Continued on Page 4)
Date Set For
Auditorium Bids
The board of trustees of Mars
Hill College have set March 17,
as the date to receive bids on
construction of a new $1,150,000
auditorium at the college.
Construction is expected to be
gin next spring.
The board of trustees, meeting
in Morganton, also discussed ways
of raising further funds to be used
toward construction of the audi
torium. About half the necessary
money has been raised to date.
The auditorium building itself
is expected to cost about $1 mil
lion. Its furnishings, including
two pipe organs, will cost
$150,000.
Carl Meares of Fair Bluff,
chairman of the board, presided.
Dr. Hoyt Blackwell, president of
the college, met with the trustees.
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Church Sponsors Series Df BTU And
SS Study Courses For MHC Students
j,.,::‘**“iaiive lorce: Jim
)„ ^ . Ureen, Harold Har-
Borch, Paula Win-
jnl ^ .Joan Parker.
! _ Hill debating team
F Ksh Gentry Crisp of the
^ * , j^^Partment and Harley
111 ^he History Depart-
Mars Hill affirmative
„ '^’ere Ron Geiger, Mar-
•arUr^'’ Schryver
j^. Hotter. Composing the
> negative teams were
7o Claiborne Hop-
is. Cuice and Wayne
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s for debate this sea-
cle ^^Mved: That the fur-
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Mars Hill College will be
host to the Asheville Lions Club
on Wednesday, November 5.
The approximately one hun
dred club members will arrive
on Trailways buses. They will
be taken on a tour of the cam
pus and then be guests of the
College at luncheon at one
o’clock on the mezzanine of the
Coyte Bridges Dining Hall.
Girls from the Home Economics
Department will serve.
Myron C. Peterson is presi
dent of the Asheville club,
and Cecil B. Hoskins of WWNC
is program chairman in charge
of arrangements. The Lions
Club has as its major project
work for the blind.
On November 3, the Home
Economics Club will initiate sev
enteen new members. Initiates
are Rena Cook, Geraldine Doan,
Verna Dryden, Martha Sue Haw
kins, Carol Kendall, Ann Reese,
Juanita Windsor, Bonnie Brady,
Nancy Dillingham, Martha Fish
er, Virginia Gibbs, Annette Hall,
Connie Linville, Ann Moore,
Ajiita Secrest, and Judy Miller.
At the meeting of the club on
October 20, delegates were chosen
to attend the North Carolina
Home Economics Association
meeting in Durham, November 7
and 8. Highlight of the program
for that evening was a skit on
“Etiquette on a College Campus.”
All students who are taking
courses in home economics .ire
urged to become members of the
club. It is believed that they will
receive much benefit from attend
ing the club meetings. The mem
bership now numbers twenty-two.
Beginning Monday morning,
October 27, the Mars Hill Bap
tist Church will sponsor a group
of thirteen study courses for
students of the College. Groups
will meet in the Church build
ing from 10:00 to 11:00 each
morning for five consecutive
days. The sessions will wind up
on Friday, October 31.
Chapel services will be held
during the week for those not
attending study courses. At
tendance will be checked for
all students.
I’he courses, which have been
held for a number of years, are
designed to help students be
come more familiar with such
subjects as Church history,
Christian service, and social de
velopment.
The meetings will feature lec
tures and discussions and will
be conducted very much like
courses in college. Students who
wish to receive credit for com
pleting the course from the
Sunday School Board of the
Southern Baptist Convention
will have a small amount of
outside work to do, but most
of the material will be handled
in the classroom.
Instruction in the courses
will be provided primarily by
church officials and members of
the College faculty. Dr. Robert
Seymour, pastor of the Mars
Hill Baptist Cliurch, will in
struct in Fields of Service in
the Church.
Other courses to be offered
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