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Published by the Students of Mars Hill College
Volume XXXIX
MARS HILL, N. C. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1964
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Progress, Discuss Gym
Trustees of the college viewed
new laboratories, classrooms.
Workrooms, parking lots and other
improvements which have been
added to the campus since Jtine
during their semi-annual meeting
Thursday.
Scene of several of the major
improvements was the Science
Proposals
Rejected
North Carolina Baptists faced
two major proposals at the state
convention in Greensboro last
Week. The passage of them would
have permitted the seven North
Carolina Baptist-supported col
leges to broaden their basis for
electing trustees and would have
niade it possible for the colleges
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etruction of buildings. Both pro
posals were overwhelmingly re
jected by the convention.
The first proposal stated that
North Carolina colleges could
have trustees from out-of-state
and who are not Baptists. The
Pew structure would have provided
tor 75 percent of the trustees to
® in-state Baptists and up to 25
Percent out-of-state and/or non-
baptists.
After serious consideration and
iscussion the proposal was de
feated by a 2,247 to 1,666 vote.
The second proposal was the
Acceptance of federal aid for
•gher education. The Higher Ed
ucation Facilities Act is a new
program enacted into law by the
ederal government to meet a
crisis in higher education. By this
Act the federal government helps
Private institutions construct cer-
Ain types of buildings while guar-
Anteeing that those participating
*^^he program will in no way be
oject to any government con-
however, there are certain
restrictions on the use of the
Pildings. This proposal was de-
iCAted 2,567 to 1,029.
til ^^^Prials and information about
c two proposals were collected,
® Pdied and presented by the Con-
'^ention’s Council on Christian Ed-
cation. Consisting of 25 North
Arolina Baptist leaders, the
ouncil Worked long and hard on
e preparation of this research
jAAterial, so that North Carolina
Aptists could know the facts re-
A ^Pg to the issues.
Following are comments from
g^'^®ral Mars Hillians who attend-
the convention:
r- Hoyt Blackwell; Even
PPgh I was in favor of the two
^^^PpaaIs I accept the verdict
^ Pout any complaint. It is my
Pose to go on working in har-
"^ith all of our Baptist peo-
As I have been doing for the
PAst 36 years.
Ralph Lee: In view of the
j.A c taken at the convention I be-
out^ ^^At our people should move
now in a positive program, for-
all these differences in
®PiPion.
Sue Fitzgerald: Because I
PPed both proposals for higher
th,
Building, where three new labs,
two workrooms, a work-lab, four
classrooms and five offices for
faculty members have been con
structed since the trustees met at
commencement. Much of the work
was done in the areas previously
occupied by the society halls.
The parking lot improvements
include newly paved and curbed
areas behind the Science Building,
the cafeteria and the gym.
Another addition pointed out
to the trustees was a spacious
sidewalk constructed recently on
the east side of the Memorial Li
brary to serve the rear entrance
to the library auditorium.
One of the major topics of dis
cussion on the trustee agenda was
the proposed combination gym
nasium-physical education build
ing, for which ground was broken
at homecoming.
Bryson Tilson, superintendent
of buildings and grrounds, told the
trustees that layout and map work
for the building site have been
completed and the architects are
now preparing blueprints. A de
tailed study of the planned struc
ture was made.
The trustees also heard a pro
gress report on the athletic field
project. They were told that the
main entrance and certain neces
sary rock walls have been added,
bids are in hand for the erection
of chain link fencing along the
side of the stadium paralleling
Athletic Street and that the grid
iron proper is finished and the
grass is progressing satisfactorily.
Mr. Tilson reported that com
pletion of a prepared cinder track
around the football field will be
governed by winter weather. Five
hundred tons of foundation have
been added recently, but a four-
inch intermediate coating and two
inches of finish coat are still to be
added.
The trustees also viewed a re
cently constructed road up the
south side of Little Mountain and
surveyed the possible site of some
new faculty homes to be con
structed there next spring.
Several fiscal matters and other
routine business occupied the
well-filled agenda for the day.
149 Give Blood
Veteran’s Day was just another
day to most people, but to some
149 Mars Hillians it was a special
day—it was blood donation day.
For those who had given blood to
the Red Cross Bloodbank before
it was a mild experience, but to
those who had never given blood
it was a shaky one.
Of the 149 donors there were
100 men and 49 women. Eighteen
donors gave blood in replacement
for three local residents who had
recently received transfusions.
Christian education, I was def
initely disappointed in the vote
and especially by the large major
ity who were against the issues.
It is a reflection of how the North
Carolina Baptist churches feel
about education.
Holidays Commence
At Noon Wednesday
Miss Laurel
Nominations
Due Dec. 5
The preliminary judging of con
testants for the title “Miss Laurel
of 1965” will be held in Moore
Auditorium on Tuesday evening,
Dec. 15, yearbook staff member
Tracy Heath announced this week.
The beauty pageant, enhanced
by local entertainment and the
comments of “Miss Laurel of
1964,” Jo Wells, will be designed
to reduce the large number of
contestants to seven finalists.
An effort is currently being
made to get a prominent televis
ion star to judge the seven final
ists and pick “Miss Laurel,” who
will be featured as the beauty
queen of the 1965 annual.
Campus organizations are in
vited to nominate Mars Hill coeds
for the title. Details of the con
test and official entry blanks are
available in the Laurel office in
the Montague Building.
According to Walter Smith,
advisor for the yearbook, each of
ficial campus organization is en
titled to one entry. The organiza
tion must have the consent of the
coed it nominates and all nomin
ations must be in by Dec. 6.
Frosh To Elect
Officers Monday
Freshman class elections are
scheduled for Monday from 7:46
a.m. until 6:16 p.m. in the Stu
dent Center, Student Body Presi
dent Gary Brookshire has an
nounced.
The candidates include Carroll
Reed, Jake Stone and Perry
White for president; Jim Dyer
and Ruff Wheeless for vice presi
dent; Richard Brown, Sandra
Duck and Margo Jarvis for treas
urer; Ginger Eddleman and Jane
Randall for secretary; Robert Da
vis, Norman Eller, Henry Moon,
Alice Crutchfield, Bee Mayo and
Mary Owens, senators.
The long-awaited Thanksgiving
holidays will begin at noon Wed
nesday and extend until classes
resume at 8 a.m. the following
Monday, Nov. 30.
Before the students and faculty
leave the campus, however, they
will pause for a special service of
thanksgiving. This will be during
the chapel period Tuesday.
The religious drama class, un
der the direction of Mrs. Eliza
beth Watson, will dramatize the
‘Messiah ’
Set Dec. 11
The Mars Hill College Choir
and the Chorus will combine to
present “The Messiah” by Han
del in Moore Auditorium on Dec.
11.
The large choral group will be
under the direction of Robert C.
Rich of the music faculty. Junior
organ major Norman Selby will
be the accompanist.
Rehearsals for the performance
began several weeks ago and the
soloists have been chosen. The
soprano solos in the famous mu
sical creation will be sung by
Mary Ann Smith, Angharad Car
michael, Janet Snead and Phyllis
Corbett. Aileene Lawson and Car
olyn Rhodes will sing the mezzo
soprano parts. Larry Smith will
be the tenor soloist. Baritones
performing will be Jim Sides and
Ned Willis, and Bill Thomas will
sing the bass solos.
^ Several of the less familiar
choruses in “The Messiah” will
be performed, Mr. Rich said.
well-known hymn “America the
Beautiful.” The production will
have no basic plot but will simply
dramatize the four verses of the
song, which deal with the beauty
of nature, the Pilgrims, heroes
and brotherhood.
Taking part in the service will
be a rhythm choir, a singing choir
and a speech choir. Angharad Car
michael will conduct the singers,
and Mrs. Margaret Bridges will
play the organ.
Missing from the campus scene
this year will be the familiar Pil
grims and Indians of previous
Thanksgiving celebrations. A pag
eant, utilizing members of the
BSU Council dressed in the cos
tumes of Pilgrims and Indians,
was a traditional part of the
Thanksgiving observance at Mars
Hill for nearly 35 years. When the
practice of taking a short holiday
from classes was instituted a few
years ago, the time-honored cele
bration was abandoned.
For two students unfamiliar
with the strictly American holi
day there will be some indoctrina
tion. Dalen Chiang and Grace
Huang, both from Formosa, will
attend the eighth annual Interna
tional Student Retreat at Wil
liamsburg, Va., Nov. 26-29.
Sponsored by the Southwide
BSU, the retreat is designed to
give foreign students in the United
States a better understanding of
this country and to help them get
acquainted with each other. In
addition to having g;roup discus
sions and international-flavored
entertainment, the students will
tour historic Jamestown and col
onial Williamsburg.
Home Ec, PE Conventions
Attract Two MHG Groups
Professional meetings on a
state-wide level have claimed the
attention of two groups from
Mars Hill College.
Two Mars Hillians moved into
prominent positions in the North
Carolina Home Economics Asso
ciation following the recent
NCHEA convention in Raleigh.
They are Mrs. Mary Howell,
head of the Home Economics De
partment, who moved up from
vice president to president of the
Association; and Mary Lynn Wil
son, who was elected state report
er for the colleges division of
NCHEA.
Next meeting of the local home
ec chapter will be on Dec. 7, when
the topic of discussion will be
“Music in the Home.”
Delegates agreed at the recent
convention to continue their over
seas benevolence, sending money
to a former NCHEA member now
in Turkey doing social work. The
Mars Hill chapter will raise its
share of funds for the project
by selling sandwiches in the
dorms.
Fifteen students and three fac
ulty members will represent Mars
Hill College at the annual meet
ing of the North Carolina Asso
ciation for Health, Physical Edu
cation and Recreation on Dec.
3-5 at Wilson.
The staff members going are
Miss Virginia Hart, Don Hender
son and Ron Bromley.
The students include Nancy
Morgan, Diane Vaughn, Delores
Baxter, Rosa Pittman, Ruth
Smith, Ruby Byrd, Sue McCall,
Barbara Rector, Virginia Ford,
Patty Richards, Grace Carter,
Gerald Lankford, Don Love, Ben
ny Mac Carter and M. O. Brink-
ley.
Miss Hart has been nominated
for vice president of the physical
education division for the coming
year.
Coeds Play Faculty
Volleyball, featuring the WRA
varsity team versus faculty wom
en and wives of faculty members,
is scheduled in the gym at 7 p.m.
Monday.
The varsity includes Diane
Vaughn, most outstanding player
in recent WRA play, Nancy Mor
gan, Ruby Byrd, Barbara Rector,
Delores Baxter and Sue McCall
plus honorable mention perform
ers Betsy Glasgow, Patty Rich
ards and Diane Coltrain.