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THE HILLTOP. MARS HILL COLLEGE. MARS HILL. N. C.
Spring Exam Schedule
May 19 - 25, 1961
Class
Date
Exam Time
9:00 MWF
3:30 TT
1:30 MWF
Friday, May 19
( 8:00-10:00)
(10:30-12:30)
( 2:00- 4:00)
11:30 TTS
2:30 TT
11:30 MWF
Saturday, May 20
( 8:00-10:00)
(10:30-12:30)
( 2:00- 4:00)
10:30 TTS
1:30 TT
10:30 MWF
Monday, May 22
( 8:00-10:00)
(10:30-12:30)
( 2:00- 4:00)
8:00 MWF
12:30 TT
8:00 TTS
Tuesday, May 23
( 8:00-10:00)
(10:30-12:30)
( 2:00- 4:00)
Commencement practice in Owen Building
(4:30)
2:30 MWF
12:30 MWF
9:00 TTS
Wednesday, May 24
( 8:00-10:00)
(10:30-12:30)
( 2:00- 4:00)
3:30 MWF
Others
Thursday, May 25
( 8:00-10:00)
(10:30-12:30)
Students Voice Opinions
PLAIN LIVING AND HIGHER THINKING
Published by the Students of Mars Hill College
Q*he Hilltop
Second-Class postage paid at Mars Hill, N. C. Published
semi-monthly during the college year.
Volume XXXV
May 6. 1961
Number 14
Models Stage
Fashion Show
About two weeks ago the Student Body of Mars Hill College
was given the opportunity in Chapel to express in writing their
criticisms about Mars Hill College and to suggest ways in which
Mars Hill might be improved.
There is a feeling among the students that we should definitely
be given more privileges and responsibilities. We are now college
students and in the next few years we will be the rulers of our
country. The time has come for each of us to be given little more
freedom than heretofore, and we need to begin making decisions,
whether big or small, for ourselves.
Mars Hill is a small college nestled in the Blue Ridge Moun
tains all in a world of its own. To many students once we come
to Mars Hill in September, this is the only world which we are
aware of until June. Then suddenly we are back with our old
friends, and things are different. No longer are we high school
teenagers, but now we are college students and more is expected
of us. Friends and parents are watching us as leaders of tomorrow.
What seems to be the main trouble with Mars Hill from the
students’ point of view? How do the students themselves feel that
Mars Hill could be improved?
The majority of the students feel that Mars Hill needs a Stu
dent Government run by the students themselves. Other colleges
universities and high schools have very efficient Student Govern
ment systems in which the students make and enforce their own
rules and regulations. Why are Mars Hill students denied this
privilege?
Students of Mars Hill feel that the dating system is outdated.
Most students are more restricted now than they have ever been.
Most girls have been allowed by their parents to date in cars since
their sophomore year in high school. Why is it that suddenly we
are denied this privilege? Why are we suddenly treated like jun
ior high schoolers by having to be in at 7:15 during the week
and 10:30 on Saturday?
There has been much unrest among the students of Mars Hill
especially during the past month. Could the reason for this be
the fact that for the past eight months the only recreation the
students have had is a movie once or twice a week and ocasionally
a trip to the skating rink (to which only a limited number may
go), and for the boys a trip to Asheville every now and then?
True the main reason for college is to get an education, but if
students are “coped up” and not allowed to get out, soon they
find they can not relax and studying becomes harder.
A very serious problem at Mars Hill among the students is
that of the cafeteria. Students are required to buy a certain num
ber of mealbooks at the beginning of the semester and often they
find that they still have mealbooks at the end of the year which
are absolutely of no use to them — wasted money. Money does not
come easy for anyone these days and college is expensive. The
burden placed on families is increased when they have to pay
for food which is never received by their children.
The students of Mars Hill are ready for some changes. We all
realize that a perfect institution is out of the question and every
one has a different idea of what is right, but we feel that Mars
Hill has something to learn from the students if only she will heed
the calling with the idea in mind that this is the twentieth century
and the world has changed considerably since the founding of
Mars Hill.
The girls preferred pinks, blues,
lavenders, conservative prints and
drip dry fabrics for their suits and
dresses. Sport clothes featured
plaids and solids of green and
brown.
Birthday Girl
As Judy Campbell approached
the runway, she was surprised to
hear the sounds of “Happy Birth
day” fill the cafeteria by John
Morrow at the piano and Judy
Powell, Dixie Chastain and Zella
Moore singing. John provided
background music for the Fashion
Show and the girls’ trio enter
tained the audience while the
models were changing dresses.
Other members of the sewing
class modeling their own clothes
were Alice Robbins, Judy Poyner,
Joyce Almon, Beverly BeSbears,
Mary Catherine Bass, Antonia
George, Linda Smith, and Joyce
Craft.
It was interesting to note the
reasonable cost of the outfits
which the girls had made.
The second half of the Show
featured the members of tbe cook
ing classes modeling clothes from
Winner’s. Sport clothes included
bermudas, toreadors, and a ber-
muda skirt. Everyday dresses were
again pinks, blues, and lavenders
of dacron and cotton fabrics. Girls
modeling for Winner’s were Mary'
Helen Burch, Betty Jane Foster,
Lynette Robinson, Reba Perry,
Martha Nanney, Anne Graham,
Alda Jean Cantrell, Naomi
Honeycutt, Betsy Plemmons, and
Phyllis Ann Gores.
The highlight of the evening
was Martha Nanney in a mint
green bridesmaid’s dress followed
by Alda Jean Cantrell modeling
a formal wedding gown with
applique trim. Strains of “The
Wedding March” filled the cafe
teria as the blushing bridegroom,
Ron Cooke, escorted the lovely
bride down the runway and the
audience sighed and dreamed.
Dr. George Faile, Jr., Mars
Hill alumnus and Southern
Baptist missionary to West
Africa, will speak in chapel
Wednesday and Thursday
and will address the WMU
at the church on Wednesday
night. A medical doctor with
special training in surgery.
Dr. Faile is currently on fur
lough from his mission post
in Ghana. He and his wife
and their four children are
living in Greenville, S. C.
CottonBlossom VisitScht
Showboat” Cast A ll Set I
Coyte Bridges Dining Hall was
transformed into a hall of glamour
on April 24, as members of the
Home Economics Department in
cooperation with Winner’s Depart
ment Store of Asheville modeled
new spring fashions.
With Mrs. Mary N. Howell,
head of the Home Economics De
partment, acting as narrator, the
members of the sewing class mod
eled suits and dresses which they
have made this spring. Light
weight pastel wool suits with
rolled collars and loose fitting
sleeves seemed to be liked by every
one for dressy occasions. For more
informal dress, the girls preferred
pastel cottons with scooped neck
lines and fitted midriffs.
The Cotton Blossom will be tied up at the levee a'
Captain Andy (Bill Masten) will be ballyhooing
entertainment on May 13, in the Coyte Bridges Di®'
Cotton Blossom, Cotton Blossom
Captain Andy’s Floating Show
Get Your Girl and Go.
as the freshmen, under the direction of Mrs. Elizabetl
Thomas J. Cole, present the Jerome Kem - Oscar ^
version of “Showboat”, based on the novel by Edna*
performance honors the sophomore class.
Julie LaVerne ~ — -
By MORRIS 1
Thora Belle Worley was an in
spiration to the fad of the now
coming-back culottes. She had
made hers during the spring va
cation.
(Patsy Clark)
will be singing “Can’t help Lov
in’ That Man of Mine” and
Ravenal (Bud Derrickson) will
woo Magnolia (Betty Morgan)
with the sweet strains of “Only
Make-believe . . .”.
Stepping out of her sweet old-
lady role into the character of
a nagging wife, Jill Richardson
will appear as Parthy, wife
of showboat’s Captain Andy.
The comedy team of Elbe and
Frank will be played by Cookie
Alexander and Arliss Suttles.
The cast will appear in the
first act in colorful post-Civil
War array and in the second act
in 1890 Gibson girl era cos
tumes. Various scenes of Act I
will represent the interior of the
Cotton Blossom, including the
kitchen, box-office, and decks.
Act II takes place in Chicago
with scenes at the Trocadero
Music Hall, a boarding house,
and St. Agatha’s Convent.
The closing scenes occur some
forty years after the opening of
Act I. Again we are back on
the Cotton Blossom, now tied
up at the levee at Greenville,
Miss. The play closes with
Joe (Ralph Halliwill) leading
the chorus in singing “Ole Man
River.”
MH Alumni
Take Honors
Many Mars Hill students as
sume places of leadership in the
senior colleges to which they trans
fer. We have heard about the
honors which have come to a few.
At spring convocation at Appa
lachian Teachers’ College, Susan
Shepard, Mars Hill ’59 was hon
ored as the senior having the
highest quality point rating. She
gave the response after Dr. Will
iam H. Plemmons, college presi
dent presented the honor students.
Susan is a math and French major
at ASTC.
Maryan Smith, Mars Hill ’60,
has been awarded the Civitan Club
scholarship at the University of
Tennessee for being the junior
with the highest scholastic stand
ing. Maryan was an all-A student
at Mars Hill and was active in
extra-curricular activities.
A campus leader at Mars Hill
(1959) and a Morehead scholar
ship winner, David Price, UNC
’61, has been elected to Phi Beta
Kappa and awarded two scholar
ships, the Woodrow Wilson and
the Rockefeller scli®|
will give him a
training at Yale.
Sallie Rigsbee,
Phi Beta Kappa
College. She am
BSU president
married in June
the Durham
year, while Allen
seminary training
Seminary.
Dorthy Gilliam,
elected president of
Education and Sen'
will be on the sta' ,
this summer. Don |
student, was actnf
activities, was a
lerus Club and a
Malinda P'
Secretary-treas
Forest BSU for '
linda Duncan,
Malinda will le^'^
on June 8,
studying in the U*"'
waii for the sun'O’^
the family of P^^^t
’60, in their chuff,,
ticipated in a nui
activities here.
At Meredith ,
Yates ’60, is YWA*
1961-62. Doris
offices in sevem'
was a member
Honor Club nn
Dean’s List.
Glenna Halsef
aO'
'Uter Johnny Riddle take
'*ith co-captains “Moe”
ml)f' third base, Pare pitc
S^Jbrst base.
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YWA president
religious activities
at Appalachian. ( J-
latter position. jjjal
sports and re
in
at Mars Hill un
of Scriblerus Cluj'
Peggy Hill,
the
chairman of
Committee of the *'
lachian for 1961' ''
here was a memheU
Choir, the WR.^
gothia Honor Cln^fjj
Stan Jackmaif’
recently elected P i
Wake Forest
Stan who hails -i
shire, was vice-f' ^ ^
Freshman Class. .
Meets Millig
hack team, under the
if first two meets of th(
*hgan defeated the Lie
Mars Hill thinclads
there were several very
.San meet, co-captain I
'•He of 56 seconds, am
Gary Goodwin came ii
'tvin and Ford Parker
from Carson-Newn
, - events. He ran the
ixO low hurdles in 25.4,
jh hurdles and the bro:
^ most exciting race of
|.*ost by a half-stride ai
h won the javelin for
,”ary Goodwin finished
%ot put, and Phil McI
Iches Lions
ward, 9-5
phi
of the band,
bate team. !/■
Roger ShaW, j))i
’60, has taken fip f
of the VIP Rprp.
inging year. Ji’”
was the Busiii^*|,()l
the Laurel in
position on thu
RfiecJi Ojf
I left my room at break of day, y
And followed Christ down life’s high"'*’'
Hand in hand with Him I walked.
And heart to heart with Him I talked-
I saw some trees all clothed in white,
Of which an eye ne’er saw such sight-
A robin red breast sang to me.
So happy he did seem to be.
I turned mine eyes toward God above,^
And thanked Him for his precious Ifi'
Oh what a friend of all mankind, ^),
When you, by chance. His love do f'P
Yes, I met Christ at break of day.
And now He’s in my heart to stay. t j
—Patricia Raye
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