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THE HILLTOP. MARS HILL COLLEGE. MARS HILL. N. C.
September 23. 1961
Septembi
The Campus Paper
Begins Anew
With this issue the Hilltop marks a new be
ginning — a new year, a new staff and a new
faculty advisor. We hope it will be the begin
ning of a fruitful and enjoyable year. At pres
ent the staff is incomplete and inexperienced, but
we are eager to learn. A smile when you offer
your criticism will go a long way toward making
the latter more welcome.
A new feature of the paper is the addition of
Dick Bibler’s famous cartoon “Little Man on
Campus.” We chuckled over the 140 samples,
and we believe you’ll chuckle over the 14 selec
tions we made. (If you want to see the other
126, drop by the Hilltop office sometime after
we finally get established in The Office Building
— formerly The Old Music Building.)
If you want to get a little ink on your thumb
and try your hand at helping put out a bi-month
ly campus newspaper, watch the bulletin boards
for an announcement of the first staff meeting
early next week. There’s work enough for every
one who’s willing to.
Next issue is scheduled for October 7. If your
club or campus organization is doing something
newsworthy, let us know. If you ve got an idea
for a good editorial, develop it, write it out and
let us talk with you about it. The Hilltop is
supposed to be a student newspaper!
Library Staff Is
Eager To Serve
The library staff and student library assistants
welcome you to Memorial Library for study and
research.
The advantage of knowing how to use the
library facilities properly will enable you to take
part in college activities sooner. By knowing how
to find library materials you can get your assign
ments faster and will make better grades.
Do you have a sheet of the New Library Poli
cies for this year? You will profit by carefully
reading it. It is newer than the one in the red
Library Handbook. It is posted on bulletin
boards throughout the library. The Library
Handbook is like a road map to you on your
important college journey. You are encouraged
to keep it with you all the time and use it for
reference.
All organizations, including the societies, are
asked to talk with a library staff member about
available materials for programs and projects.
Every student is invited to enjoy our displays
and bulletin board in the library lobby. A list
of the new books in the library will be posted
on the bulletin board.
—Thelma Taylor.
Published by the Students of Mars Hill College
QTie Hilltop
PRESS
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
College Nurse Starts
African Adventure
A life-long dream of being a foreign mission
ary has come true for Miss Eva Brewer, resident
nurse in the college infirmary who flew to Africa
earlier this month.
She will be back in time to resume her duties
when school opens in September 1962, but this
year will be the thrill of a lifetime for the mis-
sions-minded volunteer who was 60 in August.
" Now WMV CANT TH' OP YOU QUN& i4lT HAKO iN
UKe WlTZSKY^
Miss Brewer’s assignment to the Baptist hos
pital in Nalerigu, a northeastern city in the new
Republic of Ghana in West Africa, climaxed an
intense search by the Foreign Mission Board of
the Southern Baptist Convention and by Dr.
George M. Faile, Jr., a young South Carolinian
who is head of the hospital.
A Mars Hill alumnus in the United States on
furlough. Dr. Faile came here in May to speak
at the college and in the church. He told of his
medical work among 105,000 natives in the
vicinity of Nalerigu, where 12,000 patients were
treated in a five-month period soon after the
hospital opened.
A nurse in the hospital is due to come to the
U.S. on a year’s furlough this month. Failure
to replace her could lead to confiscation of the
hospital by the government of Ghana, but there
is a shortage of nurses volunteering for mission
ary service and the Foreign Mission Board had
no one to send.
Summer Brouglit
Campus Clianges,
N
umerous
Improvcmerits
During the summer, while
most of us were away, several
major changes were effected on
the campus. Finishing touches,
changes and improvements were
wrought on the new auditorium
and fine arts building, the old
music building, Spilman, the
gym, various cottages and fac
ulty homes and the campus un
der the direction of the depart
ment of buildings and grounds.
Requiring most in time, ef
fort and expense was the task
Presbyterians
Meet Tomorrow
The Westminster Fellowship,
which is composed of Presbyte
rian students, meets every Sun
day night at 7:00 in the B. S. U.
Room.
Program topics for the com
ing meetings are: What Is a
Christian? Christian Vocation,
and Missions. Filmstrips will
be shown in connection with
the programs. Refreshments
will be served during a social
period after each meeting.
]im Little is president and
John Reagan, vice-president.
Second-Class postage paid at Mars
'' Hill, N. C. Published semi-monthly
during the college year.
Volume XXXVI September 23. 1961 Number 1
STAFF FOR THIS ISSUE
Advertising Gary Murdock, Franklin Calhoun
Circulation Manager Ken Huneycutt
Editorial Assistants Janice Elland, John Grier,
Dick Ergenbright, Roy Bowers,
Joyce Craft, Pat Phelps
Reporters Walt Whittaker, Arlis Suttles,
Thelma Taylor, Don Andrews, Marietta Atkins,
Kim Fletcher, Jean Jernigan, Tina Stokes,
Sandy Sheffield, Miriam Jones
Faculty Advisor Walter Smith
Lyceum Series
(Continued from Page 1)
A visiting artist. Miss Kath
erine Bacon, will present a piano
recital on Nov. 28; then, on
Dec. 5, Miss Anna Hines, an
other member of the music
faculty, will give a' piano re
cital.
Climaxing the semester’s
musical menu will be a concert
by Metropolitan baritone soloist
William Warfield on Jan. 5.
Movies, which have been an
integral part of the entertain
ment planned by the college in
recent years for students and
faculty, will be announced as
soon as the installation of mod
ern new equipment is com
pleted.
of making ready the new Rob
ert Lee Moore Memorial Audi
torium and Fine Arts Building.
The 1800-seat auditorium was
completed in time for the
North Carolina school superin
tendents to hold their annual
meeting in it early in August,
but some areas of the beautiful
and useful structure still have
not received the final touch.
Those responsible for the job
hope to have the building com
plete by the formal dedication
in mid-October.
Elsewhere on the campus
changes have taken place. The
old music building, which is
now officially called Office
Building,” was converted into
office space for faculty members
and the Hilltop and Laurel
St3.ffs»
The space in Spilman Annex
formerly used for faculty offices
was converted into dormitory
rooms for 14 boys, and the large
open bay area on the ground
floor of Spilman is being made
into a lounge for commuting
students.
No longer do we have “Moore
Hall”; it is now called _ “The
Administration Building.
The gymnasium has a new
floor on the basketball court.
Miss Hart’s office has been
moved to the street floor level,
and the former WRA office
downstairs will be converted in
to a weight-lifting workout
room, according to Coach Hen
derson.
New flooring and accoustical
tile have been laid on the
ground floor of the Science
building, Robinson Cottage
next to the library has been torn
down, several other cottages
and faculty homes have been
equipped with new heating sys
tems and walks from the library
to the Student Center and Sci
ence Building have been hard
surfaced.
One of the changes which the
Hilltop applauds most is the
new seating arrangement in
chapel, where the young ladies
and young men have been “in
tegrated.”
Leave of Absence
Dr. Faile considered Miss Brewer and ap
proached President Blackwell, on the possibility
of her being given a year’s leave of absence.
“I told bim,” Dr. Blackwell recalls, “although
it would be difficult to find a replacement for
Miss Brewer, I could not let that stand in the
way of her having this opportunity. It will be
a rich and rewarcling experience.”
(Fortunately, the College was able to secure
the services of Mrs. Mary McCall, who has had
extensive nursing experience including super
visory responsibilities at St. Joseph’s Hospital in
Asheville for the last four years.)
When Dr. Faile broached the subject. Miss
Brewer was skeptical of his sincerity at first; but
after they talked for a long time, she accepted
the offer with gratitude. It was an answer to a
life-long prayer.
Back in 1919, long before her red hair be
came streaked with gray. Miss Brewer entered
the high school division here. She felt called by
God to be a missionary nurse and had volun
teered her life to that goal.
After four years of high school here she under
went three years of nurses training at Birming
ham Baptist Hospital, not far from her home m
northern Alabama. Then she studied a year at
Carver School of Missions in Louisville, Ky->
which was then called Woman’s Missionary
Union Training School.
Despite such elaborate preparations, however,
her hopes of going overseas as a missionary nurse
were thwarted. Family obligations kept her
working in the States. She served as nurse a
the school in Louisville for nine years before re
turning to Mars Hill in 1940 as college nurse-
Loves Missions „
“Although I never got to the mission field,
she explained, “that phase of our denomina
tional work has always had first place in roy
heart; so you can see why I readily accepted
Fade’s invitation. This will be a great clima^^
in my life.”
When summer school ended, she packed away
many personal effects she had to leave in stor
age and drove to Collegedale, Tenn., where her
80-year-old mother and a brother live. Early n'
September she boarded a plane in Birmingham
for the first leg of the flight to Africa for a long'
awaited taste of missionary life.
A brief account of the trip came to Miss Edna
Eaves in a recent letter from Miss Brewer:
. . had a fine trip over. Flying 34,000 fe^‘
up in the air and above the clouds is quite »n
experience. I came by jet and we made the trip
from New York to Accra, Ghana, in 24 Itonm-
Daylight at 2 a.m. and breakfast at 3 were su
prises to me. Sunrise and sunset over the ncea
were sights to behold! The trip caused me *•,
comprehend more fully the greatness of Got
and the beauty of his handiwork.”
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