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Published by the Students of Mars Hill College
23 Days Till
Graduation
MARS HILL. N. C.. SATURDAY. MAY 6. 1961
Number 14
Ichison Head
Marshal List
I^olick and Mart'
Serve as chief mar-
istant chief marshal
the coming year,
is from Maiden
'iected to head the
'* Council for next
^’as recently elected
yuffman Dorm and
the Women’s Stu-
She hails from
as college marshals
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of Whittier, Ann
, ^orth Wilkesboro,
New Brunswick,
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garter of Maiden,
“town of Erwin,
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is president of
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President next year
arter is Sunday
'Pdent.
* Were selected by
faculty members
Outstanding schol-
^*0t, commendable
*Pip and Christian
Honored
Banquet
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^ fo, president of
Ptory, has been
^ as president of
ii| Student Council
school year.
I*'dent, Suzanne
am W vice-president
ft*''on and Audrey
t^Pesident is serv-
secretary of
i]j Parry on the de-
L Stoup serving as
ij^S'e Bolick of
“Py will serve as
i jP Men’s Student
Kun Edward’s of
'^P-president and
''f Myers as Sec-
J"* as well as the
! and old Men’s
j^^Udent Councils
. u Banquet held
the cafeteria,
the theme of
•]/* roses were the
Aerations. A col-
ij'* and pink was
■||?''rell Wood was
V challenged the
ti|j, 'he responsibil-
{''’omen council
^^|hresented “pot-
J ,'ch are flower
lji|'''th rare spices,
Biggers in ap-
“ir work during
jl^n was recently
S of the 1961-62
3nd Larrv is presi-
SB'TOnish Honor Club,
'fcently received a
Participants in the May Day celebration are (I to r) Peggy Hill
and Marsha Ezell, pages; Faith Edwards, maid of honor; Joyce
Lockhart, queen; Ron Stamey, consort; and Mary Anne Glasgow,
trumpeter. (Audrey Bunce, trumpeter, could not be present for the
picture.)
Lockhart, Stamey to Reign Over
Afternoon sMayDayFestivities
The Women’s Physical Education Department and the Dramatics
Department present the annual May Day program in the amphi
theatre at 3:00 p.m. today.
Queen of the Court is Joyce Lockhart and Ronald Stamey is
consort. Maid of honor is Faith Edwards with Silas Sauls of Ra
leigh as escort. Sandra Murray and Julie Narron will be crown
bearer and flower girl respectively.
_ j Sophomores and their escorts
Stephenson To Give
Graduation Recital
Jayne Grace Stephenson, mezzo-
soprano from Fuquay Springs, will
present her graduation recital on
Monday evening, May 15, at 8:00
in the Owen Building.
Jayne will sing “Tet Al” by
Bach, “Ombra Mai Fu” by
Handel and “Vai Che Scepete”
by Mozart to begin her program.
Following will be “O Be Joyful
In The Lord” by Sowby, “Ye
Now Are Sorrowful” by Brahms
and “With Verdure Dead” from
The Creation by Haydn.
Four French folk songs by Ravel
will make up the middle section
of the evening’s program. Con
cluding will be “Loveliest of
Trees” by Duke, “Four Nursery
Songs” by Mussorsky, “The Green
Dog” by Kingsby and “Men” by
Mopper. Jayne Grace is a pupil
of T. J. Cole.
She is the third member of her
family to graduate from Mars
Hill College Department of Mu
sic. The others are a brother Bill
and a sister, Joyce.
Ray Luther will be accom
panist for Jayne Grace.
who are members of the court
include the following: Cynthia
Cochran, Johnny Baskin; Rosa-
lyn Creel, Jerry Knotts; Sandra
Daniel, Joe Thomas; Zella Gray
Moore, Bo DeLoach; and Mary
Thore, Walter Altizer.
Freshmen and their escorts in
clude Sunny Nell Browning,
James Brown; Sandra Merri-
mon, Larry Snead; Joyce Pinto,
Blake Davis; Judy Poyner,
Smith Goodrum; and Thora
Belle Worley, Pender McElroy.
Trumpeters are Audrey Bunce
and Mary Anne Glasgow. Pages
are Marsha Ezell and Peggy Hill.
The program for May Day is
Happily Ever After by Rachel
Field. The cast consists of the
following: Lady Caroline, Kay
Shadoan; Lady Arbelle, Martha
Compton; Cinderella, Judy
Elam; Nannie, Belva Hudson;
Prince Charming, Fred Linken-
hoker; and Robin, Jerry Thomp
son.
Music for May Day will be
furnished by the College Band
under the direction of John N.
Sumrall. Miss Virginia Hart is
the director for the May Day
events.
Boys* Dorms Elect House Officers
To Serve On 61-62 Student Council
Officers of the boys’ dorms
who have been elected to serve
during the year 1961-62 com
pose the men’s student coun
cil as well as provide leadership
for the dorms and cottages.
Myers Dorm elected Moses
McCall president of the third
floor; Gary Stiffler president of
the second floor; and Wayne
Fisher president of the first
floor.
Reginald Bolick was elected
by the boys in Brown Dorm to
serve as president; Benny Eliott,
vice-president; Smith Goodrum,
secretary - treasurer; and Stan
Wrinkle, chaplain.
Officers elected to serve Mel
rose Dorm are Ronald Edwards,
president; Larry Sparks, vice-
jjresident; and Randy Vincent,
secretary.
The president’s position in
Spilman Dorm will be filled by
VVayne Moore; the vice-presi
dent’s by Kennon Roberson and
the secretary’s by Henry Davis.
The newly elected chaplain of
Spilman is Paul Clark, who will
be assisted by Charles Carver,
co-chaplain. Spilman’s new fel
lowship chairman is Woodrow
Hart; chorister is Joe New-
some; and pianist Ray Morrison.
Josh Pritchett has been elected
president of Landers; Don Mc-
Lane, Humphrey; and Larry
Billings .Mrs. Wail’s Cottage.
Business Club Alumni Hold Annual Meet;
Awards To Be Given At Banquet Tonight
The Business Club Alumni Association is holding its twenty-
second annual meeting on Mars Hill campus today.
At 4:30 the business session convenes with Mrs. Carole Benfield
Garren, of Greeneville, Tennessee, presiding. Other officers are
Bryan Coates, of Charlotte, vice-president and Miss Patsy Kenyon,
of Mars Hill, secretary. Graduating members and accelerated mem
bers of the college Business Club will be inducted into membership
in the Alumni Club at this meeting.
— The annual banquet will be
held at 7:00 P. M. in the Coyte
Bridges Dining Hall. Approxi
mately 100 guests are expected
to be present. Features of the
banquet will include the presen
tation of new officers, the pres
entation of the BCCA medal
and the announcement of the
runner-up, presentation of the
outstanding accelerated student
and the runner-up, and the
presentation of the BCCA schol
arship of $150. The above
awards will be made publicly at
commencement.
The banquet program is as
follows: invocation, the Rev
erend Charles Davis; welcome to
guests, Mrs. Carole Garren,
BCAA president; response. Pres
ident Hoyt C. Blackwell; wel
come to new members, Mrs.
Garren; response, Mrs. Jennie
Lou Hunter, Business Club pres
ident; and solo, “The Bells of
Mars Hill”, Miss Myra Putnam.
In the group “The Sound of
Bells” the “Class Bell” will be
represented by Judy Ferguson;
the “Dinner Bell” by Joyce
Lockhart; Miss Caroline’s
“Bell”, by Elaine Teague; the
“Typing Bell” by Jane Fogle;
The “Bells of Sarna” by San
dra Pope; “Wedding Bells” by
Ruth Ann Carter; and the
(Cont. on P. 4, Col. 4)
Old Council Fetes
New BSU Officers
The 1960-61 BSU Council pre
sented the newly elected members
of the 1961-62 BSU Council their
annual banquet in the Blue Room
of the Coyte Bridges Dining Hall
on Monday evening. May 1.
The program, centering around
space, was entitled “Adventures in
the Unknown.” Vernon Wall of
the Western Carolina Sanatorium
was the speaker for the evening.
Music was provided by the BSU
Quartet.
Outgoing BSU president, Bobby
Davis, welcomed the new mem
bers and challenged them to
“strive toward leading your fel
low students to feeling an urge for
worship of our Lord and Master.
This is your calling. You must
guard your life against any hypo
critical tendencies—showing a gen
uine interest in every passing
student.”
Archer Turner, incoming BSU
president, gave the response on
behalf of the new council.
M. H. Kendall gave the invo
cation and the Rev. Charles Davis
pronounced the ben'ediction.
Nelson-Neal Piano Duo Returns To MH;
Give Annual May Day Concert in Owen
Two brilliantly gifted young
keyboard artists from opposite
ends of the world, who met as
fellow-students at Phiadelphia’s
famed Curtis Institute, cast their
marital and musical lots together
ten years ago, and have since
played nearly a thousand concerts
in 47 of the 50 United States,
will be the attraction this evening
at 8:00 o’clock in the Owen Build
ing.
They are Harry Neal, from
Paris, Tennessee, and Allison
Nelson Neal, from Adelaide, Aus
tralia. Nelson and Neal, as they
are known professionally, have be
come a regular feature of the May
Day festivities at Mars Hill. They
travel in a unique custom-designed
bus, which is a rolling home seven
months of the year for themselves,
their three young children, and two
Baldwin grand pianos.
Their on-the-road-living has pro
vided material for an article in
the Ladies Home Journal, a tele
cast of Ralph Edwards’ “This Is
Your Life,” and Harry Neal’s
own autobiography Wave as You
Pass, which takes its title from
the legend painted across the back
of the bus.
Nelson and Neal began their
barnstorming with Beethoven and
Brahms in 1951 traveling in a
dilapidated farm truck in a tour
whipped up by a home-made con
cert management. Soon afterward
they hit the musical big time fol-
Nelson and Neal
lowing their New York debut at
Town Hall on October 6, 1953.
Since then they have chalked up
more than 400,000 musical miles,
averaging 100 concerts a season in
cities large and small.
Their programs include not only
the standard two-piano classics but
many rarely heard duets for four
hands on one keyboard, duo con
cert! written especially for them
by leading contemporary com
posers, and specialty groups, in
which they supply their own witty
and sophisticated spoken introduc
tions, narration and commentary.
Between concert seasons “Neal’s
Folly is garaged on the two acre
grounds surrounding the ante
bellum house in the heart of Paris,
Tennessee, which is the family’s
stationary home. The home is
being restored by the Neals and
furnished with antiques collected
on their travels.