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Feriel Forbus, treasurer; Faith Edwards, secretary; Ronald Stamey,
president; and Ronald Cooke, vice-president.
Yule Parties Bring Festive
Activities To Women s Dorms
With Christmas just around the comer and a festive spirit in
the air, the holiday mood sets in around our campus. This season,
as in others past, the women’s dormitories will give their annual
Christmas parties. They will take place Saturday night, Decem
ber 12, 1959.
Huffman dormitory will have its party in its parlor. A panto-
mimezation of the poem “Twas The Night Before Christmas” will
be presented with the choral group. The Accents, singing. The
part of Old Saint Nick will be played by Pressley Jameson.
The father will be portrayed by ■ —- ■
Joe Stanley with Belva Hudson
and Brenda Ruth Vinson as the
children. Graydon Hudspeth
will be the Master of Cere
monies. Anette Hall will be the
soloist. A devotional will be
given by the dorm chaplain,
Mary Etta Mann. Christmas
carols will be sung, games
played, and refreshments served
as a finale to the affair.
Edna Moore dormitory will
have a three-scene play written
by Linda Thompson. It is the
story of college girls preparing
to go home for the holidays
and their thoughts and expecta
tions. Their parents also have
the same thoughts. The last
scene is the glad reunion of the
family on Christmas Eve. Those
in the cast are Sara Spoon, Betty
Spoon, Connie Joiner, Ray
(Cont. on Page 4, Col. 2)
Loretta Millsaps has been
chosen as May Queen by the
student body and Charles
Stevens as King. Connie Lin-
ville of Spartanburg has been
elected as the Maid of Honor.
Loretta, a sophomore from
Concord, is active in dra
matics, the BSU council, and
is president of Treat dormi
tory. In reaction for the new's
of her election, Loretta said,
“I’m so thrilled: I still can’t
believe it, and my daddy
won’t either when he hears.”
German Students
To Give Program
On Thursday evening, De
cember 17, Mr. Valentine Far-
kas, instructor in German at
Mars Hill College, and members
of the German class will pre
sent a special program “Christ
mas in Germany”, in the audio
visual aids room of the library.
The program will begin at
eight o’clock and will feature
films, a poetic reading and mu
sical recordings.
Mr. Farkas, who lived in Ger
many for a short time after
World War II, will give a short
talk on what Christmas has
meant to the people of Germany
over the years. There will be
a reading of Goethe’s poem
Heidenroslein followed by a re
cording of the musical adap
tion by Franz Schubert. Record
ings of traditional German folk
songs will also be heard. Mr.
Farkas has obtained through
the German Embassy some in
teresting films on Christmas in
Gemiany and German news.
Not only students of German,
but all other students and fac
ulty members are cordially invit
ed for an enjoyable and infor
mative evening.
College Choir To Present Messiah;
Campus Group, Christmas Concert
“The Messiah” by Handel will be presented by the Mars Hill
College Choir at 8 o’clock Sunday night, December 13, in the
Mars Hill Baptist Church. Joe Thomas Cole is the choir director
and will have a solo part, “Comfort Yet My People.”
Other soloists will be Van Ramsey, Nancy Bowers, Jane Stephen
son, Mel Luther, Lowell Dotson, and Barbara Warren. They will
be featured in such selections as “I Know That My Redeemer
Liveth,” “Rejoice,” “Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart,” and
“Behold and See If There Be Any Sorrow.”
This presentation is the major
one that the touring choir has
given on campus this year. Many
training unions will be present
ing programs about Handel and
“The Messiah” in preparation
for better understanding the
program.
The Mars Hill College Cam
pus Choir will give a Christ
mas Concert at the college audi
torium on December 12, 1959
at 8:00. Accompanying the
Choir will be the College Band
and a String Ensemble, all di
rected by Mr. Joe M. Naff.
The evening’s Program will
be as follows: Sibelius’s “On
ward Ye People”: Bach’s “Christ
mas Cantata”: Franck’s “Panis
Angelicus”: Handel’s “Gavotte”:
Warrington’s Festival”: Berlin’s
“White Christmas”: Verrall’s
“Christmas Fantasy”:
Also the Campus Choir has
recorded for a special Christ
mas concert to be presented over
Station WLOS Television, Chan
nel 13. This program was
filmed on December 8, 1959 in
Asheville. The program direc
tor is Glen Atkins of Asheville.
“A Child is Born ”
To Be Chapel Play
The Christmas play, “A
Child Is Born” by Steven Vin
cent Benet, will be given Dec.
14 and 15 in Chapel.
The cast is narrator, Charles
Stevens; innkeeper. Tucker Gib
son; his wife, Brenda Levy;
Leah, Fay Stone; Sarah, Betty
Leonard; Soldier, Jeff Griffin;
Joseph, Richard Dillingham;
Mary, Lil Creech; and Dismas,
John Morrow.
Also included in the cast are
Tommy Smith, Ed Bagwell, Jim
my Showalter, Richard Brassell,
C. W. Mass, and Lowell Dot-
son. They will take the parts
of the shepherds and King’s sol
diers.
The stage manager is William
Culver. Owen Triplett will
work with the lights, andjudy
Elam is in charge of the sound.
The Dramateers will present
“The Other Wise Man” at a
meeting of the Mars Hill Wom
an’s Club, December 17. Wil
liam Culver has the title role.
The religious drama classes
are working on the properties
and setting for the Christmas
play which will be given in the
Church, December 20. The
townspeople will play the parts.
Judy Elam is the only student
who is in the cast.
Chap
man
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on S. A. Program
Dean Ralph M. Lee and Reg
istrar Robert R. Chapman at
tended The Southern Associa
tion of Colleges and Secondary
Schools in its annual session in
the Brown Hotel, Louisville,
Ky. November 29-Dec. 3, 1959.
Dean Lee met with the Ex
ecutive Committee of the South
ern Association of Junior Col
leges, of which he is secretary-
treasurer, having held that po
sition for the past seven years,
on Sunday afternoon. As chair
man of the Junior College Com
mittee on Standards and Re-
(Cont. on Page 4, Col. 5)
Mission Council
Carries On Work
Vollis Summerlin, chairman
of the student Mission Council,
reports that the work of the
Council has been carried for
ward steadily through the fall
semester.
Each Sunday morning ap
proximately 30 students under
the leadership of Larry Harris
journey, by government bus, to
Oteen Veteran’s Hospital. There
they hold services in four sepa
rate wards under student ward
leaders; and then hold a general
service, which is broadcast over
the entire hospital and the sur
rounding territory.
The administration of the hos
pital has expressed appreciation
of the Mars Hill students’ serv
ices.
Charles Ritchie directs the
group which goes to Mt. Olive
Baptist Church twice each
month to teach Sunday School