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Q'he Hilltop
Published by the Students of Mars Hill College
Mors Hill, N. C.. Saturday, January 31, 1959
Study
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Number 8
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Way, the World, and You,” is the theme for the Focus
inspired beginning on the Mars Hill campus Februar>^ 16.
h overhaul, '■^P^'esenting many vocations will be chapel speakers during
■he could private sessions and seminars for all
rovement wish to talk personally with them. They will emphasize
A glance *^®cd for Christian witnessing in even' area of life. The
her that si *^^^ntselves are steadfast in faith and dedicated, well-trained
)le Marilyc" professions.
women Harold Cole of Raleigh,
:ti to wof-arolina will be the co
does prit for the activities. Mr.
a few pdhe Secretary for the Stu-
beauty pa^Partment of the Baptist
omise not^nvention.
1 s toupee asizing the need for Chris-
laugh at pie in politics will be Mr.
children ' Deane, former con-
I Hubby t^.^rom Rockingham, Mrs.
: a club ^Ho be a speaker em-
:at Grand^ ^l^e home. Mrs. George
of the Cc,.^ homemaker from Ashe-
the Salt • ^Ho represent the home.
Tuesday,Robert Spiro from Black
r (and oc'n. North Carolina, will
e club. counsel on world af-
daughterl i® President of
0 make ub Assembly.
ig dirty Chapman, Jr., sur-
r, to usej.'P. Asheville, will repre-
le at a tiir!^‘"^- Dr. J. A. Southern
one no « counsel on another
: a stretcl *Hence. Dr. Southern is
a week, the Division on
brother, Mathematics at Fur-
'ould resok'''''^J®ity in Greenville,
as best hc^^'^^hna.
s per weft®«nting the ministry will
:p broken!
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Harold cole
*^^tor of Activities
Broach, pastor of
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on the
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)ej]^ Pobert Seymour will
Good ministry as a
>S a missionary'
TT^je I * counsel on missions.
* Ds ^ .*Pcak on human Co-
i.secr * Mr. Wendall
iXon Interracial Co-
Haptist State Con-
Raleigh.
at th^p Stroud, Music Sec-
'vii[ ^ Hnptist State Conven-
tepresent the field of
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Jacobs
Attendants For
May Court Given
Attendance for the 1959 May
Court have been elected. The
Queen and King, Sandra Rogers
and Jim Langford, and the Maid
of Honor, Mary Lawrence were
selected in previous balloting.
Sophomore attendants will be
Mary Richerson from Spartan
burg, S. C., Peggy Beshears from
Boger City, Jonita Harris of At
lanta, Ga., Karen Hopkins from
Raleigh, and Beverly Rogers of
Miami, Fla.
Freshman representatives will
be Helen Kelly from Richmond,
Va., Deloris Wilson from Chapel
Hill, Marietta Mann, of Concord,
Ann Woodall of Spindale, and
Doris Jacobs from Roanoke, Va.
Hilltop *$ Literary
Edition Coming
Spring semester brings two spe
cial editions of the Hilltop, the
Literary Edition and the Fresh
man Edition.
In order to give everyone an op
portunity to contribute to the Lit
erary Edition without too much
extra work, creative papers will be
assigned in each English class at
the beginning of the new semester.
It is the hope of the staff that
students will look upon the as
signment as a challenge, and not
as mere routine.
Any type of material is accep
table, provided it has the qualities
of freshness, originality, and un-
usualne.ss. Style of writing has
more to do with acquiring those
qualities than does startling sub
ject matter. In fact anyone writes
best about things with which he
is thoroughly familiar. The origi
nal slant is the trick.
Think of the “characters” in
your home town, the trials and
tribulations (amusing now) of
your youth, trips you have taken
or planned and not taken, imagi
nary conversations with persons
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Co ,L Bertie Joyce
is, 'ibairnien for the com-
^ ^I'l
'''ills Hingham, sponsor
'le \^JVeek, said, “1 hope
i^'ike advantage of
opportunity to
experienced people.”
Jim Harris Now
Enters NavCad
James Troy Harris was gradu
ated at the close of last semester,
which ended January 23, with a
major in Liberal Arts.
From Erwin, Tennessee, Jim
will enter training at Pensacola,
Florida, as a naval aviation cadet.
While at Mars Hill, he lettered
in football, was a member of the
M-club, lettered in track, and
made the honor roll.
DANIEL LLORDS
Llord's Puppets will be in the
college auditorium February 14.
This one*man concert puppet the
atre has thrilled audiences from
Hollywood to the opera houses in
Europe. Called **the Greatest
^Little show on earth/* Llord’s
Puppets promise to be fine en
tertainment. Consult your next
HILLTOP for further information.
Lee's Compilation
Found Favorable
According to statistics compiled
by Dean R. M. Lee from reports
received from 79 colleges and uni
versities to which Mars Hill grad
uates have transferred within three
years, 89.6 per cent of these trans
fers were rated “average” to “su
perior”.
The information was taken from
questionnaires sent to institutions
to which transcripts of Mars Hill
graduates were sent and is being
used as a part of the self-study
program now in progress at the
college.
The following facts were taken
from Dean Lee’s study; transcripts
sent to 79 colleges and universities,
582; number actually enrolled in
the colleges and universities, 500;
number who graduated, 366; num
ber who had not graduated at the
time of the reports, 134; number
who were dropped or who with
drew, 22; number acctually rated
by the colleges and universities,
491. These were rated as follows:
superior, 54 of 11 per cent; good,
203, or 41.3 percent; average, 183
or 37.3 per cent; poor, 46 or 9.4
per cent. Nine made Phi Beta
Kappa.
The ratings by three N. C. in
stitutions to which a large number
of Mars Hill students transfer
are given in the report. Wake
Forest; 106 enrolled, of which 85
or 80.2 per cent graduated; 9 or
8.5 per cent rated superior; 40 or
46.2 per cent rated good; 37 or
34.9 per cent rated average; 11
or 10.4 per cent rated poor. The
Woman’s College of the Univer
sity of North Carolina: 31 en
rolled of whom 28 graduated; 4
or 13.9 per cent rated superior; 22
or 71 per cent rated good; 5 or
16.1 per cent rated average. The
University of North Carilona: 32
enrolled, of whom 28 graduated;
6 or 18.8 per cent rated superior;
15 or 46.9 per cent rated good; 8
or 25 per cent rated average; 3 or
9.3 per cent rated poor; 3 made
Phi Beta Kappa.
North Carolina Little Symphony
Performing Here On Next Saturday
Saturday, February 7, will be “Symphony Night” in Mars Hill.
On that date. Director Benjamin Swalin and the 25-member Little
Symphony group will perform at Mars Hill College. The concert
will be at 8:30 p.m. in the College Auditorium.
Featured soloist for the evening will be Kenji Kobayashi, Japanese
violinist, who will be heard in the Wieniawski Concerto for Violin
and Orchestra No. II, Opus 22, A native of Japan, Mr. Kobayashi
made his debut as soloist with the
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra at
the age of sixteen. Before receiv
ing a scholarship at the Juilliard
School of Music in 1952, he
played numerous concerts and was
heard on radio broadcasts through
out Japan. In 1953, he was pre
sented by the Japanese Society of
New York at a reception honoring
Crown Prince Akihito. Mr. Ko
bayashi has also appeared as soloist
with the National Orchestra As
sociation and the Juilliard Or
chestra. The Nippon Philhar
monic Orchestra of Tokyo has in
vited him to become its concert-
master upon his return to Japan
in 1960.
The Orchestra will play Gold
mark’s Air from Concerto for
Violin and Orchestra; J. C. Bach’s
Symphony no IV; Beethoven’s
Minuet from Septet; Tschai-
kowsky’ Dance of the Queen of
Swans, from the ballet SWAN
LAKE; Larsson’s Pastoral Suite;
Delius’ Prelude to the opera IR-
MELIN; Strauss’ In a Vienna
Park and Voices of Spring; and
Smetana’s Three Dances from the
opera THE BARTERED
BRIDE.
The Little Symphony is an in-
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Baptist Student Union
Having Talent Show
The BSU is having a gala talent
show tonight in the cafeteria at
7:30. “Everyone is invited.” says
Karen Hopkins, entertainment
chairman for the event.
The show will be centered
around a king, and his court with
its many attendants. The cafe
teria, in keeping with the atmos
phere of the evening’s entertain
ment, will magically assume the
guise of a palace. Allan Page,
BSU prexy, will reign as king,
with David Price as Lord High
Chancellor, and Albert Blackwell
and Nelson Tunstall as heralds.
A prize will be given for the en
tertainment which most pleases the
king. Randy Chandler will act
as the court jester.
The talent show will be com
posed of the following: solo. Van
Ramsey; skit, Nancy Brunt and
Nancy Carroll; quartet, Ed
Wood, Clifton McClure, David
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Reporter Delves InCo Exhibit,
Examines Artistic Talent
All is silence. The only sound
is the faint buzz of fluorescent
lights overhead. You are alone in
the long visual aids room down
stairs in the library. Surrounding
you on all four walls is the art
exhibit just put up by Mr. Robert
son and the art classes.
No one should skim through an
art exhibit, carelessly stopping only
at the works which catch his eye.
And so, you go slowly from frame
to frame to examine admiringly
the products of six months of hard
work and painstaking effort.
Displayed first as you enter the
room are several woodcuts, one
especially interesting one entitled
“Win or Lose” by Jill Browne, a
second year art major. In the
woodcut Jill has pictured a ballet
dancer bowing before her audience.
The spotlight shines on her alone,
but you notice her lover with head
in hands in the right foreground
as he realizes his great loss to
fame. Woodcutting is one of the
most tedious forms of art work.
A skeleton head, a bottle, and
a piece of driftwood make up a
“Still Life” done in pencil by Tim
Murray. “Buildings at Evening”
by Marlene Guthrie, also a sopho
more art major proves fascinating.
Its watery blue buildings and grey
streets present an enchanting pic
ture of dusk in casein paint.
Robert Poe, one of the depart
ments most promising art majors,
has several collages' around the
room, as well as oil and chalk
work. One of Robert’s collages,
“Cityscape”, is made up of torn
strips of black, grey, and brown
paper fitted together and placed
in such a way as to give the viewer
an imaginative study of a big city
with its throng and. activity.
In minute detail the Fortune
magazine cover by Jim Meador
shows an oil field in Texas. The
delicate tracery of orange piping
around three oil drums and the
skillful use of complementary blue
and orange combine to give this
cover a fine apearance of realism.
Other examples of Jim’s work are
also on exhibit in different media
around the walls.
A crayon resist, ink over crayon,
entitled “Treasure House” is by
second year art major Carol Ann
Lawton. It features a dilapidated
old house done in warm browns,
yellows, and faded blues. Its ap
pearance hints at priceless mem
ories left within.
An advertisement stretching two
feet in length by Ray Otis, de
sign student, is found between a
chalk piece and a collage. De
signed on newsprint paper with
illustrations clipped out of a news
paper, Ray’s ad has cut down on
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