December 14,
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^The Hilltop
Published by the Students of Mars Hill College
MARS HILL, N. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1964
Number 8
udent Teachers Set
or New Experiences
VO new experiences for Mars
College students — a “block”
|emic program and practice
— are on schedule for
rsons second semester.
6 prospective teachers will
up for a block of education
rses, explains Mr. John
h, of the Education Depart-
t- Classes will be held daily
1 Jan. 27 until Mar. 14; then,
'students will report to their
ective schools for practice
r to the first hing until May 29. They will
Scott Conner.lu which they are
and Bobby FiUiug observes them,
mes before the le Mars Hillians will return
■ Apr. 16-18 for a period of
'^tion and interviews for
ible jobs. Numerous school
*rintendents will be invited
■ during that time.
le only grade the students
receive during their practice
h, this year's will be passing or fail-
tically every n'. Quality points will be
Staubach but the teaching will
Iso became or'* us six hours toward grad-
3f honor in lhe°"-
lose scheduled to participate
aks for itself, ►y® block program and their
>ed for eight iF'^g assignments are as fol-
points shy of Mars Hill High School, Bill
am this year.''®’ Irene Metcalfe, Larry
to a season W^y^utt and Don R. Martin;
the history of® River High School (near
its per game. ''®’'^iHe), Ed Morton, Scott
vy game was c*'®'" und Don D. Martin; East
ler-in-chief, Job®®y High School (also near
0 yard line in P^viHe), Ted Mathis, Buddy
•die and Terry Postell; North
oved why he '®°'ube High School (near
drove the bal'*^'''''Ile), Glenda Sue Camp-
lore. He later ’ Mrs. Jennie Lou Hunter, Al-
e yards. Staub Hetty Ann Sherrill,
r on him, depeJ Huuderson, Mary Linda Mc-
work load as Howard Ingle, Ada Lou
vns. und Mary Ella Phillips,
ne Saturday h'^"' High School (near Ashe-
New Year's Hobby Edwards, Naomi
[n beat the Dale Maxwell, Shirley
mpany. No Hrank Watkins and Car-
Mball game of '^ieegood; Reynolds High
r AsheviUe), Jud Hall and
r! Enka High
' p > Elizabeth Ammons, How-
1 iwr u'li T Marsha Byassee, Hil-
.Mars HillI W®ean, Gwen Franks, Grover
Idem body fofe Gillis Jr.. Brenda Carol
me awme th^eavervilie Elementary School,
here at Marshes Reagan and Robert Wat-
Ived in the ajh Weaverville Primary School,
and support Hensley and Derith Morris
T. , C3 ’ HarnardsvUle School,
Livengood, ^ Simplon and Sara Sellers;
M-Club ^ eek School, Quanita Boone
1st heritage
ti a great sucm Lackev m r
s Hai has be« Robinson, DorotS^ Wallace
♦ u 11 rt4cp Hunt; Aycock,
s at the ball Q*ue, Newton an,i t,.., t i
1 u 1- and Ira Jones ele-
if hooting, b^Wy schools in Asheville,
isacertom^resa Davis and Trina Rath-
j m chorus DeLms Harris, Pauline
1 them, are d'* and Brenda Rozier, respect-
wise.
of the integritt''uctice teanbir,™ ■ ,-r.
ally our plaJMec^enburg School Saltern
r players or be Marv i
ury Horton and Laura
we «„ouxa ^ North Mecklenburg High
ample ol ■’“'“j'' Ca,„,y„ compton JoL
D b* tur j, • ®yhil Roberts at Alex-
y Daughtry Junior High School; James
Bone and Mackie McClendon at
Harding High School; Wanda
Baker, Marsha Ezell and Virginia
Blackwood at Huntersville Ele
mentary School.
Those practice teaching in the
Leaksville Township Public
Schools are Morris Wray, Gene
Hawkins, Dan Keels and Joyce
Henson at Morehead High
School; Bonnie RusseU and Mar
garet Bruce at Leaksville Spray
Junior High School; Sandra LyeU
at Central Elementary School;
Sara Long and Lois Nicholson at
Burton Grove Elementary School.
Martha Ruff will be at Chase
High School in Rutherford Coim-
ty.
Teaching in the Statesville City
Schools will be Becky Young
blood, Susan Walker and Verna
Kay Popplewell at Statesville
High School; Dave Hughes at
Oakwood Junior High School;
Betty Lou Shaver and Betty Starr
Glover at Davie Avenue Ele
mentary School.
The Hilltop staff express
es sympathy to eight per
sons who suffered deaths in
their families during the
Christmas holidays.
Rita Propst, Marsha
Hodgson and Jenny Cooper
lost their fathers. Mr. Pegg
of the math faculty lost his
father in Pennsylvania. The
sister of Mr. Vernon Wood,
head of the science depart
ment, died in Florida; and
the brother of Mrs. Ruby
Sparks, housemother in
Spilman, died in Oklahoma.
The brother-in-law of Mrs.
Elsie Teague of Edna Moore
passed away unexpectedly;
and the 16-year-old son of
Mr. Howard Edwards, one
of our Hilltop advertisers,
was killed in a hunting ac
cident the day after Christ
mas.
Word has also been re
ceived on campus that Har-
rylynn Mizell of Auburn,
Ala., a 1963 summer session
student at Mars Hill, was
injured in an automobile
accident on Dec. 20 and
died on Dec. 21.
On The Mars Hill Scene...
The History Club, a student in
terest group founded just before
Christmas holidays, is off to a
good start. Twenty-five members
have joined and the first regular
meeting is scheduled for Feb. 20.
Newly elected officers include
Frank Watkins, president; Jim
Reagan, vice president; David
Waites, secretary; Buddy Call,
treasurer; and Paul Nuckolls,
parliamentarian.
Only two females are in the
club and President Watkins says
he is hoping other coeds will join.
The art exhibit for the month
of January is a display of con
temporary Italian prints. The
prints are made from linoleum
and wood cuts and etchings. They
are being shown in the second
floor gallery of the Moore Audi
torium.
The Music department has
scheduled several recitals at the
beginning of second semester.
On Jan. 28, Virginia Blackwood
will give a piano recital in Spain-
hour Hall, and on Jan. 31 John
Lackey will give a French Horn
recital in Moore Auditorium.
NOTICE
Any student who has paid his
bills for first semester and who
will not be back second term
may have a copy of the 1964
Laurel sent to him by leaving his
correct address in the Laurel of
fice in the Montague Building.
Committees
Focus Week
Christian Focus Week, Feb. 10-
14, is approaching our campus
and there is bustling activity
from various committees which
are organizing the activities of
the week. Each committee is
composed of co-chairmen, faculty
advisor and several student mem
bers.
The co-chairmen for the entire
week are Sharon Purcell and
Gene Hawkins; faculty advisor,
Mr. Robert Melvin, College chap
lain.
The Program Committee chair
men are Barbara Pate and David
Shaw; faculty advisor, Mr. Rob
ert R. Chapmen. Music Commit
tee chairmen are Rebecca Guffey
and William Rotan; faculty ad
visor, Mr. Douglas Therrell.
Books and Literature chairmen
are Jenny Cooper and William
Witt; faculty advisor, Mrs. Loren
Bridges. Publicity co-chairmen
are Dolly Lavery and Joe Line-
berger; faculty advisor, Mr. Wal
ter Smith.
Visitation Committee, Miss Bir
die Hill and Jack Hughes; faculty
advisor. Miss Virginia Hart. So
cial Committee, Diane Price and
Andy Morley; faculty advisor.
Coach Harrell Wood. Seminar
Committee, Mary Horton and
Jack Heath; faculty advisor, Mr.
Gaston Booth. Spiritual Commit
tee, Brenda Reid and John David
McGee; faculty advisor, Mr. Page
Lee. Hospitality Committee, Faye
Shaw and Mack Keller; faculty
advisor. Miss Frances Snelson.
Evaluation Committee, Nancy
Stackhouse and James Fisher;
faculty advisor, Mr. Richard Hoff
man. Informal Discussion Com
mittee, Sara Long and John
Steen; faculty advisor, Miss Mary
Ihrig.
A chapel program February 6
will introduce the week’s theme,
“Life Is Commitment,” the title
of a book written by J. H. Olden.
A group of six speakers will be
on campus to participate in Focus
Rides-Riders Board Gets Results
This thing on the post office
wall called a Rides ’N Riders
board is new and really a time
saver. There was a time when
a student who wanted to go
somewhere from Mars Hill had
to go to a lot of trouble to get
himself a ride. He would first
have to see who was going his
way, and then spend hours try
ing to find someone who had less
than a car load and would give
him a ride. It was a challenge
and it took a real hustler to keep
from riding a bus. Often the
eager-to-travel person wouldn t
know for sure until the day be
fore it was time to go. Times
have changed now for this new
fangled gimmick in the post of
fice has taken most of the worry
out of getting a ride.
It is as easy to work as 1, 2, 3.
All a person has to do is (1) fig
ure out where he wants to go (2)
fill in one of the forms from the
right side of the board if he
wants a ride or from the left side
if he wants some riders, and (3)
put the form in the proper box
at the bottom and wait. Pretty
soon someone is going to find his
form, look him up, and he will
have himself a ride or a rider, as
the case may be. That is the
easy-does-it way!
Some folks have been asking
how the thing got to Mars Hill.
The truth of the matter is that
it originated at Clemson College.
It seems that Joyce Dunlap was
visiting the Clemson campus (for
unknown reasons) when she spied
their Ride ’N Riders board. It
looked like a good idea to her,
so she spoke to the Student Com
mission about it. The Commis
sioners also liked the idea and
decided to sponsor the project.
Roily Reel consented to help her,
and with Mr. Tilson’s tools, some
lumber, and paint they made the
thing themselves.
The big question everyone is
asking is, “Does it work?” It
seems that many Mars Hill stu
dents have ridden many miles
because of the board. Some have
gotten clear down to Florida. The
writer applied for a ride to Pu
laski, Va., to New York and to
Spartanburg, S. C., just to see
what would happen. A strange
thing did happen. Ben Reed of
fered a ride nearly to Pulaski,
which is many miles from here,
but no one has mentioned Spar
tanburg which is just “down the
mountain.” The board is not
guaranteed to work every time,
and if you are one of those peo
ple who would rather get a ride
the old fashioned way, go right
ahead. If you are just not satis
fied with the old methods, go on
down to the Post Office, give it
a try, and get your ride the easy-
does-it way.
P. S. If anyone wants to go to
Brevard, N. C., for semester
break, I will be leaving about
10:30 on Wednesday.
—Tom Hall
Planning
Activities
Week. Mr. and Mrs. James Cans-
ler of the University of North
Carolina will direct a seminar on
Sex, Courtship and Marriage in
the Library Auditorium each
afternoon at 4.
The Rev. Douglas Aldrich, pas
tor of the First Baptist Church of
Gastonia will be one of the speak
ers for the evening worship
which will be in the auditorium
at 8 o’clock.
Virgil Moorefield, a former
missionary to Rome, and Zeb
Moss, missionary to Northern
Rhodesia, will spend two days
each directing a seminar on mis
sions in the auditorium at 7 each
evening.
The Rev. Dick Myers, Eissociate
pastor of the First Baptist Church
of Florence, S. C., will also lead a
seminar at 7 in the auditorium
on world affairs.
Informal discussions will be
held each night in the dorms by
the visiting team members. Top
ics have not been selected for
discussion, but question and an
swer periods will be filled with
the interests of the students.
Prayer chairmen have been se
lected for each hall in the girls’
dorms and hall prayer meetings
are already in progress.
News Briefs:
Miss Carolyn Hinton of the
music faculty wiU give a piano
recital in the main auditorium on
Feb. 4. The annual Choral Clin
ic, supervised by Mr. Elwood
Roberts, will be held on Feb. 7-8.
Newly elected president of the
Oscar E. Sams Ministerial Con
ference is Larry Patton. He was
elected at the conference meet
ing Jan. 9, at which 23 of the 50
members were present.
Others elected to office for the
second senfester were Ellis Ful-
bright, vice president; Joe Line-
berger, secretary; Gary Parker,
reporter; and Bryce Whitmire,
pianist.
Y. D. C. members and officers
have been following the “transi
tion in government” phase which
our nation is now involved since
the death of President Kennedy.
Their study is including most
phases involved, including such
things as congressional action, and
foreign policy changes, and spec
ulation by top party leaders on
what will come from the second
session of the 88th Congress.
The first meeting of the Mars
Hill College chapter of the Amer
ican Home Economics Association
for the second semester will take
place on Feb. 3. Mrs. Hollifield,
interior decorator from Morrison’s
in Asheville, is scheduled to
speak.
CAMPUS MOVIES
Jan. 18, Gidget Goes to Rome,
8 p. m.
Jan. 23, Diamond Head, 8 p. m.
Jan. 24, Jason and the Argo
nauts, 7:30 p. m.
Jan. 25, War Lovers, 8 p. m.
Jan. 27, Heaven Knows, Mr.
Allison, 7:30 p. m.
Jan. 28, Little Shepherd of
Kingdom Come, 7:30 p. m.