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MARS HILL. N. C., SATURDAY. MAY 16. 1964
Number 15
Becky Y
lection a?
Or. and f
the school year approaches
1 the assignment of faculty
0iy0n®*>nel for 1964-65 is already
■ joining to take shape.
■etiring ®an R. m. Lee, who has the
5 Vaughi'i^®*’ responsibility for recruit-
r, Jane tf faculty members, has an-
1 were r6{;**'^ed several changes and ad-
for next year. One of Mars
nitial Degree Class Numbers 146
ean Lee Announces
H-65 Faculty Changes
eporter,
social *Wost serious needs is for a
They su£j^ter number of faculty mem-
rtis CoH’t* ^^th earned doctors degrees.
Coach ? persons who have taught
^tallationr will be returning to
i *^ate schools to work on doc-
axed an
vities for y ^age Lee of the department
ducationL*^®^*&ion and philosophy is ta
lers froh'i,^ ^ leave of absence to at-
the surro'j Southern Baptist Theologi-
. ®®minary in Louisville, Ky.,
a film, toward a Th.D. degree.
which Knisley of the history
the ban'I and Richard Hoff-
Also o5j| ’ Assistant professor of politi-
Lee who I ^*®nce, also are taking leaves
dion, Both will be attending
omed th^l '’Wersity of North Carolina
V York
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Home
L5
Home
P^’japel Hill,
peers
* the term
who will be
IS over
leaving
include
i^^ed Mrs. Haskell Ezell, Miss
^ Hines and Wayne Nunn.
• and Mrs. Ezell are going
If ® State University of Iowa
|„„^aduate study, she in home
K aics and he in physical
Hines, who teaches piano,
to the University of In-
to Work on a doctorate in
Hunn has accepted an as-
. 'P at the University of
which will give him an
yPity to pursue graduate
French there.
Plans
OR ■
eing Made
I tot our spring semester
^ plans are already be-
lhi ^'1® for the students’ re-
fall.
. Week of orientation and
will be Sept. 8-12.
le ™ts of this period will be
ft ^®sident’s tea on Sunday,
and the BSU “Get-Ac-
i*'0o.. Party on Sept. 19.
'e hall season will begin with
bi
12.
at Catawba College on
Our first home game
played the following Sat-
^^Sept. 19^ against Marion,
far the calendar of enter-
ht is well mixed. The Chad
: Trio, which was unable
Ntv^ar
. A
K:
i Seli
as scheduled in Feb-
If
I
k h ^as been rescheduled. Joe
L Aronson, husband and
5 a singers, will be here on
I 5.
% f th ^*‘ama will be brought to
" Ku>sh
the production of
and music by the Har-
a® Club. Howard K. Smith,
1, w.i’aPally famous news ana-
,+f ' '^ill
Speak on Mar. 1.
At least one member of the
faculty is retiring and perhaps
one or two others will be return
ing to graduate school, but Dean
Lee declined to identify these at
this time.
Mars Hill will also be losing at
least two members of its staff.
Mrs. Mary Jolley, secretary in
Dean Lee’s office, will be going
to New Orleans, where her hus
band Jerry will enter seminary.
Miss Lina Gough, hostess in Fox
Dormitory has resig:ned.
Six new faculty members have
signed contracts. They include
James Jordan, who is near the
completion of a doctorate at
Duke, replacing Mr. Lee; and Ed
win Cheek, who is completing a
doctorate in English at UNC in
Chapel Hill.
John Chay, who will soon re
ceive a doctorate from the Uni
versity of Michigan, will join the
history and social science faculty;
and Dr. John Pyle, who has a
Ph.D. in chemistry from the Uni
versity of Georgia, will join the
science faculty.
Miss Anne C. Hall, who has a
masters degree from Michigan and
has completed a year’s work to
ward a doctorate in musicology,
will replace Miss Hines.
Two MHC alumni are return
ing. Carol Kendall, daughter of
M. H. Kendall, head of the re
ligion department, will succeed
Mrs. Ezell in home economics.
Miss Kendall is currently com
pleting a masters degree at the
University of North Carolina in
Greensboro.
Jack Grose, who is getting a
masters at the University of
South Carolina, will replace Mr.
Roy Wood, who has resigned to
join the faculty of Asheville-
Biltmore.
New Publication
Seems Possible
The possibility of publishing
an arts and literary journal on
campus during 1964-65 was an
nounced this week by members
of the departments of English and
Art.
Mr. McLeod of the English de
partment and Mr. Haycraft of
the art department have discus
sed the matter with Mr. Smith of
the public relations department
and with students Craig Greene
and Reid Potter. Final plans must
still be worked out and submit
ted to the administration.
“The appearance of such a
journal next year has excellent
possibilities, it seems to me,’’
Potter said; “however, its success
will hinge largely on the interest
of the student body.
“If you like the idea or if you
would be interested in submitting
material, please see one of the
members of the planning com
mittee before the semester ends.’’
Band Gets
New Togs
The Mars Hill College Band
will have a new look next fall.
Seventy handsome new blue
uniforms have been ordered from
the Ostwald Company of New
York and will be delivered in
August, Director Wayne Pressley
announced Monday.
A slightly darker blue than the
ones now used by the band, the
new uniforms will be of 16-ounce
wool whipcord. They will have two
gold bands around the cuff of
each sleeve, three gold buttons on
the coat and a scrambled-eggs de
sign in gold on the epaulet. There
will be a gold citation cord around
the left shoulder with an insig;nia
on the top of the sleeve.
A gold stripe down either pants
leg and a visor-type military style
cap will complete the uniform.
Mr. Pressley said a gold plume
attachment will be worn on the
hats during football games and
other marching performances.
A special feature is an adjust
able waistband on the trousers
which will eliminate most of the
alterations made on uniforms at
the beginning of the school year.
The attractive new suits, each
of which will come in a heavy
plastic zipper bag for storage,
will cost the college $5,000.
Mr. Pressley said he is ex
tremely pleased by the prospect
of having a band attired in new
uniforms. Some of the old uni
forms were originally purchased
in 1947.
SGA Plans
Scholarships
Student Government, a new de
velopment in campus life this
year, will pay a $300 “dividend”
to a trio of lucky students, SGA
President Ken Pearce announced
recently.
The Senate voted in its final
meeting of the year to use the
balance in the SGA treasury to
give three $300 scholarships. One
will go to a rising sophomore, one
to a rising junior and the third
to a rising senior. The wards
should be made before the end
of this term, Pearce said.
The funds from which the
scholarship money will be taken
came from a student fee of $1
per person collected at the start
of school last September. It
turned out to be more than was
needed for the operation of stu
dent government, and thus the
scholarship idea was born. Pearce
said it is hoped that the scholar
ship program can be continued in
the coming years.
Student reaction to the pro
posal was surprisingly favorable.
Typical was the comment of Tom
Hall, “I’m tickled to death that
we finally spent some money
wisely.”
One hundred eight years old.
Mars Hill College will climax its
transition to full senior college
status by awarding its first bac
calaureate degrees to 146 stu
dents at commencement exercises
on Sunday, May 31, in Moore
Auditorium.
The 146 includes 66 who will
receive Bachelor of Arts degrees,
72 Bachelors of Science and four
each who will get Bachelor of
Music and Bachelor of Music Edu
cation degrees.
Seventeen others will be award
ed diplomas and commercial cer
tificates. Ten of these will be
completing two - year business
courses and the other seven, one-
year commercial courses.
Two outstand
ing men from
the capital city
will a (| dl r e s s
members of the
graduating class,
their parents and
other friends and
the faculty. Dr.
John M. Lewis,
pastor of the
Lewis First Baptist
Church of Raleigh, will preach
the baccalaureate sermon at 11
a.m.
The service, normally consider
ed part of the regular program of
the Mars Hill Baptist Church, will
be held in the college auditorium
instead of the church sanctuary.
The chancellor of State College
in Raleigh, Dr. John T. Caldwell,
will (Jeliver the commencement
address in the auditorium begin
ning at 3 p.m. President Hoyt
Blackwell will award the degrees,
diplomas and certificates; and
Dean R. M. Lee will present the
winners of various commence
ment honors and awards.
Special recognition will be ac
corded the top-ranking degree
graduates. Any who have a qual
ity point ratio of 2.9 will be grad
uated “summa cum laude.” Those
with quality point ratios between
2.7 and 2.9 will receive diplomas
inscribed “magna cum laude.”
Calendar
May 16: WRA Planning Day;
College Chorus picnic, noon; band
concert in auditorium, 7:30.
May 17': recital, Norman Selby,
organist, 3 p.m., Moore Auditor
ium.
May 18: recital, vocalist James
Sides and the Madrigal Singers,
8:00, Spainhour Hall; History
Club, reorganizational meeting,
library auditorium, 7:30.
May 19: Physical Education
Majors’ Club picnic; Classical
Club meeting. Blue Room; movie,
“The Ugly American.”
May 22: Final exams begin.
May 23: movie, “To Kill a
Mockingbird.”
Caldwell
and those with ratios between 2.5
and 2.7 will be graduated “cum
laude.”
A full sched
ule of activities
concluding the
year will offic
ially begin at 4
p.m. Friday, May
29, with the for
mal opening of
a student art ex
hibition on the
mezzanine of
the fine arts
building.
That night a special musical
program will be presented in
Spainhour Hall.
The board of trustees will hold
its semi-annual business meeting
in the Science Building on Sat
urday. Adoption of the college
budget for 1964-65, granting of
leaves of absence and other bus
iness will occupy the agenda.
During the afternoon the Al
umni Association will elect new
officers and the classes of 1899,
1904, 1909, 1914, 1919, 1924,
1929, 1934, 1939, 1944, 1949,
1954 and 1959 will hold reunions.
The annual alumni banquet,
during which members of the
Class of 1964 will be inducted
into the Alumni Association, is
scheduled in the cafeteria at 5:30
p.m. Dr. Spencer Thornton, an
ophthalmologist who has appeared
10 times on the Jack Paar Show,
will be the dinner speaker. An
alumnus of 1949, he has received
nation-wide publicity for his ex
ploits in the field of extrasensory
perception.
All members of the Class of
1964 and their guests will be wel
come at the alumni banquet. Res
ervations may be made in the
Alumni Office in the Montague
Building.
Following the banquet the
drama department will perform
George Bernard Shaw’s famous
play “Pygmalion” in Moore Audi
torium.
Student Teaching
Program Readied
The college’s teacher education
program, a big success in its
first year, seems headed for an
even bigger year during 1964-65,
according to John M. Hough Jr.,
head of the education depart
ment.
He reports that 140 students
have already made application for
student teaching for next year.
Seniors who will participate in
the block program during the
fall semester will attend classes
from September 14 through Nov.
5, Mr. Hough said, and will do
their student teaching from Nov.
9 through Jan. 22.
The block program schedule for
the spring term lists cla.sses from
Jan. 27 through Mar. 18 and stu
dent teaching from Mar. 22
through May 21.