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Page Two THE HILLTOP. MARS HILL COLLEGE. MARS HILL. N. C. February 20. Ifebruory Questions Linger From Focus Week Quo Vadis — Where ore you going? — has not been a question in a poll or a census. It has been a question we all must pose for ourselves in self-inventory in order to evaluate our direc tion, our purpose and our goal. It has been a question based not on the mere facts of our per sonal history but on our need for commitment for future living. Months hove passed since the Christian Focus Week steering committee began its planning. The preparation has certainly brought rich re wards to us all. The thought-provoking play by Mike Yelton, the beautiful worship experiences by the BSU choir and the work of numerous committees hove added all that has been nec essary to make the week complete. Leading us in finding answers for "the" ques tion were adult Christians who have served and ore serving their Christ as engineers, doctors, missionaries, homemakers, pastors and teachers. In their willingness to listen to us and to allow us to air our gripes they hove helped us find a channel for expressing our feelings, and they hove also led us by giving us the fine exarn- ples of their own Christ-committ^ lives. We have attended their seminars, their special ser vices, their dorm discussions and even the non- compulsory chapel periods in mass numbers. For some of us our teachers hcrve made it difficult by their assignments to receive the max imum benefits of hearing these speakers, reap ing the harvest of much prej^ation or even having time to ask ourselves. Quo vadis? For some the extra periods on Monday, W^- nesdoy and Friday were merely for gossip, study or "goofing off." Maybe we do not core where we are going. For many of us, however. Quo Vadis? has been a challenge to higher goals, new direction and new purpose. We do not all hove our ans wers complete, but by continuing to ask our selves, Quo Vadis? we need not be ashamed to answer the Master when he asks, "Where hove you been?" —^W. Dennis Hill LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS Perfect Age Ahead ^ } "While the ke$t of the aise Of=F fop a~wh47 week-enp,' WbPTHAL ALV/A\S ^AKPICAPeS ON THE THIEP fLOOfZ. IN CX2PEP.TC) PEVCTEAU- Hl^■n^AE TO tme\c../r Scratchpad Scribblings... Tragedy Touches Tragedy does not strike our campus very of ten. Perhaps that is why, when it does, the shock is widespread and deep. The sudden death of Jim Bradley right here in our midst has given us all a jolt. It has caused us to stop and to reflect on the real meaning of life and to realize afresh just how true it is that our destiny is in God's hand. Perhaps it has emphasized how essential it is that we get our lives in focus. This tragedy should also cause us to be ap preciative — to be grateful for on instructor who is capable and calm in a crisis, to be thankful for a dedicated Christian nurse who stands ready to minister gladly day or night, to be en couraged that a skilled physician will respond in moments. True, they could not save Jim Brad ley's life; but how reassuring it is to know that we ore among Christian friends who can and will respond to our needs. Published by the Students of Mars Hill College The Hilltop Box 486-T. Mars Hill. N. C. ® Second-class postage paid at Mars Hill, N. C. Pub- lished 16 times during the college year. press Volume XXIX February 20. 19B5 No. 9 STAFF Editor-in-Chief Chris Pappas News Editor Cecelia Butler Advertising Manager Bill Fowler Sports Editor Rocky Transou Feature Editor Bessie Cline Circulation Manager Ricke Cothran Typists Nellie Jolley, Ron Whitworth Religion Reporter Dolly Lavery WRA Reporter Pam Hunt Reporters Eugene Richardson, Jerri Beck, Marietta Atkins, Martha Penley, Jimmy Daughtry, Joy Conier Faculty Advisor Walter Smith The love bug apparently is still busy on the campus judging by the number of engagements an nounced recently. Latest to re veal plans for a trip to the altar are Laurel Editor Allen Hayes, senior Lora Jean Reese and re cent graduates Lynda Whitaker and Don Rothwell. Congratula tions! Dr. Jolley’s car may not be exactly musical, but from the rear it does look somewhat like an ac- cordian. Story behind it is famil iar: he stopped and the woman driver behind his car didn’t. Con dolences! The 106th anniversary of the chartering of Mars Hill College slipped by Tuesday almost un noticed in the midst of Focus Week activities. Former students of David Knis- ley, assistant professor of history here last year, will be interested in hearing that Mr. and Mrs. Knisley are the proud parents of a daughter born last week in Chapel Hill, where Mr. Knisley is in graduate work. English Professor John McLeod seems to be recovering nicely from a jarring fall on ice in front of the Administration Building recently. A conference to promote better understanding of college publica tions and journalism will be pro posed to the academic deans of the member schools of the Pied mont University Center at a meet ing in Winston-Salem Feb. 27. Dean Lee will represent Mars Hill. Some of our readers keep in sisting that on the basis of its publication roughly every two weeks the Hilltop is a “bi-month ly” journal, but they are mistaken. At least if the dictionary is right, they are wrong. Bi-monthly means “occurring once in two months,” but bi-weekly means “occurring every two-weeks.” First semester graduate Betty Jean Crawford is teaching Eng lish at John Motley Morehead High School in Spray (near Greensboro). She writes that she finds “teaching a rewarding ex perience” and is “happy in by new role.” faculty at Furman. Mars Hill’s Dr. Blackwell was on hand to in troduce his kinsman. Focus Week brought at least two old friends together, local minister Charles Davis and Bap tist Student Editor Bill Junker. They were fellow students at Van derbilt back in 1945. It’s encouraging to learn that several faculty members really know what they’re asking when they assign term papers; they are in the midst of writing disserta tions. Mr. Jordan of the religion department just lacks his disser tation in having completed work for a doctorate from Duke, and Mr. Chay is busily trying to com plete (with his wife’s help on the typing) his dissertation that will finish his Ph.D. work at the Uni versity of Michigan. Also engaged in writing these days is Dr. Jolley, who is prepar ing a volume on the history of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Wedding bells rang last Sun day (Valentine’s Day) for Nata lie Soos, who was enrolled here first semester. The ceremony was at the Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte, and a sizeable dele gation of Mars Hillians was pres ent. Members of the Math Club and several visitors enjoyed a fine ad dress Wednesday night by Dr. R. C. Blackwell of the mathematics Editor’s Note: *‘This Week, a nationally syndicated ma^t supplement for Sunday newspapers recently carried a clever interesting article by columnist Charlie Rice on age and sur With hopes that we won't be sued for plagiarism we reprii here for the benefit of our readers who may not have seen i -I-he by sev Calling all teen-agers, from 9 to 90! ' You are told that this is on age of grecrt _ c tunity. You are told that there ore practicall-yf'^.® limits to success. yari] But maybe you're curious as to when. youp^P"^^^* most likely to achieve success? Well, I can prf” well pin-point it for you: AGE 35. B V It's no joke. I ran across a fascinating b recently: "Age And Achievement." In this 1^'!® Univ Professor Emeritus Harvey C. Lehman of University, carefully studies the careers of thi^^.™ cmds of great composers, authors, scienti,„_ painters, philosophers, and what hove you. I^y acres; findings are startlingly consistent: In aln ,and. He wen Was th. every field, a man reaches his greatest stal in his thirties — generally about 35. I Now, this doesn't mean that old goats likejj^ should rush to the Brooklyn Bridge and plu^j.^®. into the billowy wove. There are enough h^^^, ^ warming exceptions to keep us senior citi^ happy (and I'll tell you about them later). I think Professor Lehman's book is pretty uoble to teen-agers. It not only gives on idi what to expect in life, but when to expect it, For instance, the peak age for painters is 34; for playwrights, about 35; for philosopl 37; for inventors, 32; for discoveries in medi 37; and Professor Lehman even narrows studies down to hymn writers (34). This is all based on the amount and quolil work. And if you test it out, you'll find surp: results. Hove a look: LEWIS "Main Street' EDISON Electric Light GERSHWIN "Porgy and Bess" CARROLL "Alice In Wonderland".. EINSTEIN Relativity Theory .. NOBEL Dynamite .. SHAKESPEARE "Hamlet".. ' m I wc one If you want to feel alone Go to the city where you are thrown With the crowds of restless men. All strangers, but no word or pen Can tell the loneliness you feel That no anodyne can heal; But do not go to mountains still Or to the slope of grassy hill. For every bush and every tree Seems jocund company. The crows’ caw and squirrels’ patter Seem to be full of social chatter And when you are out walking All the forest folk seem to be talking To you in friendly wise. Even the skies Seem like a pal. So to be alone. Go to the city of brick and stone. But if you want to be with folks. Go to the forest of pines and oaks. —Roman S. Gorski Well, dear reader, if you ore fortyish or you may be feeling a little downhearted by Nonsense — be of good cheer. As I said be! there's a wondrous list of exceptions that sb keep you going imtil you're 100! Titian was still painting masterpieces In fact painters seem to hold up very well: sider Picasso (83), Chagall (77), the late M( (85) and Grandma Moses (101). Even aiH' painters ore hardy — Winston Churchill (9 Cervantes wrote "Don Quixote" in his Goethe finished his "Foust" when he Tennyson wrote "Becket" at 75. ^ Rossini was still tickling the ivories Meyerbeer wrote his last great opera at 73. turned out a cute bit called "Falstaff" at ' The exceptions on the other end of the are interesting too, and they prove that no bf teen-ager must necessoritly wait till he's 35 lAr Mary Wollstonecroft Shelley wrote "FL enstein" at 21. > William Cullen Bryant wrote "Thonatof | at 18. I Jane Austen finished "Pride and Preju^ i at 21. I Mendelssohn wrote "Qverture to a Mii^' mer Night's Dream" at 17. | But to return to the average person: I red i ran across a quote that exactly bears out 1 lessor Lehman's findings. John C. Villaume, • | ident of the International Correspondence Sd' (with a world-wide alumni of 7,000,000), std*'! "Judging from ICS records there seems *! Feb. Feb. Feb. Mar. Mctr. Mar. 21 2! 2! 1 4 6 Oi some uncarmy awareness — like a built-in fH** clock — that warns people in their late 20'^^^ ’*’**"*"^ the time for self-improvement is at hand. Fd at that magic age, on the very threshold maximum achievement level, that the grec^ jority sign up for a home-study education.* . Well, good luck, teen-agers. And a 1985 — which should be, approximately, a ^ \ fine year for you! — C. R, Give It a Try! ■’Pen 8 The success or failure of the opprod | campus-wide symposium on "The Southern | olution" rests upon us os students as ra'f' \ it does up>on those who hove planned upon other members of the faculty. If we 1 to face it with on open mind, it will no do^ | a flop. On the other hand, if we give it an b | try — if we attend the seminars and lector®: i enter into the discussions, perhaps we it a profitable and enjoyable method of Mi Sun(
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