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Watkins Elected Frosh President
Lindsay Doub Watkins III of
Clemmons, near Winston-Salem,
•s the new freshman class presi
dent. He will
direct the under
classmen d u r-
i n g 1961 - 62
with the help
of James Edgar
Bennett, Mary
Horton and
Darla Sanford,
who were elect
ed vice presi-
LINDSAY dent, secretary
JABBO
and treasurer,
respectively.
The election,
in which 330
persons voted
Monday, was a
close one with
slim margins
separating the
winner from
the three losers
in each cate
gory', according to Mr. Emmett
Sams, head of the committee which
tallied the ballots.
Other candidates were as fol
lows: president—A. D. Frazier,
Windy Privette and “Chip” Wil-
kining; vice president—Ben Boney,
Harold Keown and Michael
Rock; secretary — Kay Brooks,
Mimi Jones and Sue Lee; treas
urer — Pat Everhart, Sandra
Griggs and Maxine Moore.
Watkins, 17, is a pre-medical
student. He was graduated in
May from Southwest High School.
He is a member of the Clemmons
Baptist Church.
Holding a student body office
CThe Hilltop
Volume XXXVI
Published by the Students of Mars Hill College
mars hill. N. C„ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18. 1961
1 wish R and Mrs. Farkas and Miss Swen posed in front of the Federal
I ou 1 after thev were sworn in
^-■mng in rsheville Wednesday shortly after they were sworn in
^tajfers Now Citizens
p.,^tee members of the Mars
jj. * College family became Amer-
** ^^itizens this week.
^Irs.
^uby Swen of the library
p Mr. and Mrs. Valentine
of the modem language
Uie IIIUUCIU
(,j. ttment were sworn into the
A'Zenry of the United States dur-
.^^temonies at the court house
Asheville at noon Wednesday.
Swen first came to
she • States in January 1947,
yea '”*-®nded to stay only one
however, because of tlw po-
For several years the Farkases
lived in Argentina; then, on Aug.
14, 1956, they and their four chil
dren arrived in the U.S. They
went to Bridgeport, Conn., where
they lived for a year. In 1957
the family came to Montreat to
visit some friends. They liked it
so well there that they bought a
house next door to their friends.
One of their neighbors was the
famous evangelist Billy Graham.
Parkas Joins Library
situation on the China
she ‘L‘^”^ at the end of that year.
inland
unable to go home.
it)^ enrolled at Eden Seminary
®^®ter Groves, Mo., to study
education, and she later
music at St. Louis Uni-
terJ/' S^ill later she became in-
in library science and en-
1 George Peabody College in
Tenn., where she
ia ij?“ a Master of Arts degree
Ihg science. She worked in
brgj.^ebster Groves Public Li-
staff and then joined the library
. at Southern Methodist Uni-
*n Dallas, Tex., where she
for eight years before
ag here.
Parkas was studying lan-
at the University of Berlin
Mr 1940’s when she met
'Vas Parkas, a Hungarian, who
studying there on a
They were married
f ^*nce then life has been
'Or story of travel and search
place to settle in peace.
Mr. Farkas began working at
Memorial Mission Hospital in
Asheville and polishing up his
speaking ability in English and
his wife began teaching Spanish
at Montreat College. During the |||fJH||ofppi|*Q T|V
1958-59 school year he taught I/l CllllCllvd O iU
German at Warren Wilson Col- , -* AOA^
lege, .ten he invittd ,0 t'OrtTaV S
join the Mars Hill faculty'. For J ^
a year he commuted to his home
in Montreat on weekends; then,
in September 1960 he found a
house here and moved the family.
Shortly thereafter Mrs. Farkas
joined the library staff, and this
year she has begun teaching Span
ish.
“T he Happy Journey,”
1 hornton Wilder’s humorous
one-act play in pantomime, will
comprise the program for the
monthly meeting of the Drama-
teers, at 8 p. m. Monday in the
Dramatics Auditorium.
In view of its varied experiences
it is not surprising that the Farkas
family, including four teenagers,
is multi-lingual. Mr. and Mre.
Farkas speak German and all six
of them speak Hungarian, Spanish
and English.
Participants in the corny, but
enjoyable, trip will include
Rosalyn Skelton, as Ma Kirby;
Bob Kemp, as Pa Kirby; Arlis
Suttles, as the Kirby’s young
son, Arthur; Ja Whatley, as
Beulah: and Laura Nash, as
Caroline.
Anyone interested is invited
to attend.
Number 5
is nothing new
to Bennett,
who was presi
dent of the stu
dent council at
Griffith High
School in his
hometown
of W i n s t o n-
Salem. He was
an outstanding
basketball MARY
player there, winning all-confer
ence honors and being named
“Player of the Year.” He is
currently seeking a starting po
sition on the Mars Hill basketball
squad.
Active in the Key Club and
the Monogram Club in high
school, “Jabbo,” as he is called,
was the “Most Popular” boy in
his junior and senior years.
Already well-known around the
campus because of her selection as
1961 Football Queen is the new
class secretary, Mary Horton from
Concord. Mary graduated from
Hastell High School, where she
was valedictorian of her class, art
editor and edi
tor - in - chief of
the school paper
and the annual,
respectively, and
won the beauty
titles of “Miss
Merry Christ- I
mas” and “Miss
High Miss.”
She holds a ]
D aughters
of the American
zenship award and is planning to
become a teacher.
Darla Sanford, who will keep
the freshmen till, is the only out-
of-stater. A liberal arts major,
she hails from Savannah, Ga.,
where she was a member of the
Bull Street Baptist Church and
was graduated from Savannah
High School. She is also a DAR
winner.
DARLA
Revolution citi-
B.S.U. To Present
Thanksgiving Piay
The Baptist Student Union
will present its annual Thanks
giving program Tuesday, in
chapel. This year’s program,
"Lest We Forget,” is un
der the direction of Mrs. Wat
son and Dr. Pierce. The pro
gram will consist of a prologue
and three scenes. The first
scene will portray the landing
of the Pilgrims: the second, the
first American Thanksgiving;
and the third, three centuries
of Thanksgiving.
Members of the B. S. U. Coun
cil who will compose the cast
are Archie Turner, Ralph Hal-
liwell, Sherry Green, Jayne
Tomlinson, Sharon Purcell, Ha
zel West, Ann Brookshire, Regi
nald Carter, Gene Hawkins,
Starr Keller, Jane Milam, Dan
Keels, and Douglas West, all of
whom will have roles as pilgrims.
Faye Coker and Gene Hawkins
are B. S. U. Council members
who will play roles as Indians.
Faculty members’ children
who will appear in the program
are Melanie Chapman, Susan
Chapman, Augusta Jenkins,
Buddy Cox, Johnny Roberts,
Jinny Roberts, Paula Sams,
Mary Wood, Jean Wood, Ivan
Wood, Robert Briggs, Julie Nar-
ron, Vickie Narron, Janet Lee,
and Anne Fish.
Faculty Decides Degrees
To Be Offered by M.H.C.
Four degrees — Bachelor of
Arts, Bachelor of Science, Bache
lor of Music and Bachelor of
Music Education — will be of
fered by Mars Hill as a senior
college, the faculty decided at
its last meeting.
Ten majors will be offered
in the B.A. program: art, classi
cal languages, elementary edu
cation, English, French, Ger
man, history and social science,
music, religion, and Spanish.
Majors in biology, business
administration, business educa
tion, chemistry, home economics,
mathematics, and physical edu
cation will be offered in the
B.S. program.
A major will consist of 30 se
mester hours, at least 18 of
which must be junior and sen
ior level; a minor will be 18
semester hours, at least 6 of
which must be of junior or sen
ior level.
C Required
A total of 128 semester hours
and 128 quality points (a “C”
average) will be required for
a degree. The senior year and
at least 30 semester hours in res
idence also will be required.
Courses will be offered to
meet the academic (subject mat
ter) and the professional (how
to teach) requirements of the
North Carolina State Depart
ment of Education for the Class
A certificate in both the ele
mentary and high school fields.
The business department will
continue its one- and two-year
programs in secretarial science
and accounting.
Special consideration will be
given students who transfer to
other institutions for the com
pletion of certain |nofessional
courses.
A student who can secure ad
mission to a school of law, med
icine or dentistry at the end of
his junior year at Mars Hill
will be awarded a B.S. degree
after he has successfully com
pleted the first year at the pro
fessional school.
A student desiring to become
a medical technologist may com
plete a three-year program at
Mars Hill and a 12-month pro
gram at an approved school of
medical technology; following
certification by the Registry of
Medical Technologists, he will
be awarded a B.S. degree by
Mars Hill.
A similar program in nursing
is being worked out.
Engineering Continues
Although Mars Hill does not
plan to offer the junior and sen
ior years of engineering, the
college does plan to continue
its well-recognized program of
freshman and sophomore en
gineering study. If an engineer
ing student wants additional
work in the humanities, he may
take a three-year program at
Mars Hill and be eligible for
a B.S. degree from Mars Hill
when he completes his engineer
ing program at another institu
tion.
Details of specific subjects to
be added to the present curricu
lum are currently being worked
out by a faculty committee.
Debate Team Wins
At Novice Tourney
The Mars Hill College de
bating team won its debates with
Duke, Belmont Abbey, and Ap
palachian at the Novice Tour
nament which was held at Wake
Forest November 3, 4. Members
of the Mars Hill team who en
tered the tournament are Su
zanne Beck and Don Rothwell,
who debated affirmative, and
Tom Halyburton and Don Dal
ton, who debated negative.
The University of Pittsburgh
was the top team at the tourna
ment, winning the sweepstakes
trophy. Georgetown University
won the trophy for the best af
firmative team, and Davidson
took the honors as the best nega
tive team.