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Volume XXXX
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Dedication Highlights Homecoming
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In addition to several hundred
orrner students the campus will
about 400 other visitors to
day.
^ chartered Southern Railway
•■ain will bring about that many
arson-Newman students to Mar-
to® ’ the nearest depot, enroute
n the campus for today’s game.
Carson-Newman Booster Direc-
Ed Hall said the train will
®ave Jefferson City at 9 a.m.
®nd arrive in Marshall about
.•45. Buses and private cars
.’ J be utilized to transport the
•sitors to the campus and back.
The large delegation from Ten-
essee is the result of an invita-
*®n extended to the C-N student
°dy hy Mars Hill’s Student Gov-
^_^^ninent Association. The invita-
n reciprocates a courtesy ex-
‘®nded to
j’^en the
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®noming and football queens.
^^hrel Proofs Due
the ^eofs of pictures made for
4966 Laurel continue to be
as *n the Montague Building
^ ^ocessed film is returned,
ate ^46 sent to the appropri-
as their proofs are
Sojj Photographer Russ John-
Sefy®^^® that students please ob-
On dates and times indicated
card.
who missed his ap-
Piay **4®*it to look at his proofs
foj. ^''ticipate that a selection
he^jj 4he yearbook has already
44>ade, Johnson said.
Mars Hill students
game was played in
Majorettes
Outfitted
Eye-catching new uniforms will
ett^ Mars Hill College major-
th ^ appealing new look when
*; perform locally for the first
today^s game.
Johnson is the newly-
.^osen leader of the group.
Ig *^''«ing with her are Ann Peeb-
gjj’ Janis Elam and Loy Baird—
^ '’eterans of last year’s squad
®hd freshman Betty Elliott,
ap ®'^is will miss today’s perform-
•h p ^®cause of her involvement
tj^^®***ecoming activities at half-
Peninger, junior from
ba^l*'®4on, will again direct the
^ the field as drum major,
■vyjlj^^d Director Wayne Pressley
cj- bave approximately 50 musi-
Ijg ® 4n his marching unit today,
invited Director Wesley
and the Carson-Newman
6aia participate in both pre-
and halftime ceremonies,
eigi ,^4sitors will give a seven to
bgg.. ’^inute performance at the
bjg'baing of the half, and the
Hill band will play for the
bo^bation ceremonies of the
NEW LION’S DEN—The gleaming new, handsome-ai-a-picture gridiron and stadium long awaited
by players, coaches, students and alumni will be formally dedicated in brief pre-game ceremonies at 2:15
p.m. today- The 3500 seats in the new concrete bleachers will be filled for the first time, and the flawless
green turf will get its first real test of game usage. The 216,000-watt lighting system will not get its
initial performance until next Saturday night when the Lions entertain Western Carolina.
‘Miss Laurel’ Nominations Open
Plans for a December pageant
to select “Miss Laurel of 1966”
are being made by the newly-ap
pointed director Jim Alexander,
73 ‘Scholars’
On Dean’s List
A total of 73 students — 20
seniors, 21 juniors, 14 sopho
mores and 18 freshmen — made
academic records earning them a
place on the dean’s honor list for
the spring term. Included were:
Judy Ball, John Baskin, Dwight
Childers, Mrs. Carolyn Davidson,
Hilda Gilpin, Russell Grogan, Ken
Hale, Mrs. Judy Halyburton,
Melba Hawkins, David Inman,
Dolly Lavery, Rhea Lineberger.
Dorothy McIntosh, Jackie
Mitchell, Andy Morley, Ronnie
Owen, Martha Penley, Rita
Propst, Beverly Silverio, Vernon
Thomas, Carol White.
Jean Moore, Wade Davis, Mary
Jean Ellis, Jane Fleming, Cath-
ryn Formy-Duval, Da-vid Hostet-
ter, Estelle Jordan, Douglas Jus
tice, Holland Kendall, Judy Mel
ton, Rita Gail Motley, Martha
Page, Janet Snead, Royster
Washington.
Ron Aldridge, Nancy Berry,
Eric Blackwell, Beverly Cansler,
Dalen Chiang, Paul Early, Sylvia
Fulbright, Judy Henson, Mrs.
David Inman (nee Marie Ann
Liles), Mary Owens, Peggy Plem-
mons, Maxie Rayford, Carroll
Reid, James Richardson, Gary
Stephens, Catherine Tilghman,
Jozef VanDerMeer, Eddie Way.
who is ready to receive nomina
tions.
Official entry blanks will be
available from him beginning
Monday. Absolute deadline for
their return is Nov. 19. The
pageant is scheduled in Moore
Auditorium on Monday night,
Dec. 6.
Several changes in the beauty
pageant have been made by Alex
ander and the yearbook editors.
For the first time since the pag
eant’s inauguration three years
ago the dimension of talent will
be added to the contest. This
will necessitate a reduction in
the number of contestants to 19,
Nominations for the contest
will be accepted from each dor
mitory, the combined men’s cot
tages, commuters and two each
from the four classes. The voting
for class nominations will be
handled by the Student Govern
ment Association’s committee on
campus elections.
“The girls will be judged this
year on talent as well as beauty,
poise, etc.,” Alexander said. “We
plan to have the judges select
five finalists and the new ‘Miss
Laurel’ from those five. The
winner will be announced the
night of the pageant rather than
in May when the yearbook is dis
tributed. We believe this will give
added importance to the title and
permit the queen to enjoy a
longer and more useful reigpi.”
The four runners-up will com
prise the queen’s court as pre
sented in a special section of the
annual.
The current “Miss Laurel,”
sophomore Jean Miller, will crown
her successor at the pageant.
Founders Day
Set Tuesday
The annual observance of
Founders Day is scheduled for
Tuesday at the chapel period.
Dr. Dale Gramley, president of
Salem College and president of
the Piedmont University Center,
will be the convocation speaker.
Usually held in conjunction
with homecoming, this year’s ob
servance of the founding of Mars
Hill College is being held sepa
rately to give it added import
ance. It falls on the birthday,
Oct. 12, of one of the founders,
Edward Carter.
A host of descendents of the
dozen or so men who founded the
college in 1866—some of them
current students—will be on hand
for the occasion.
Established as the French
Broad Baptist Institute, the col
lege was chartered under its pres
ent name by the North Carolina
General Assembly in 1869. Its
light as an educational institu
tion often flickered during the
Civil War and the bitter years
thereafter.
A second founding, in a sense,
was achieved in 1897, when Dr.
R. L. Moore became president.
He and his ■wife served the col
lege for more than 60 years.
The dedication of a long-
awaited new football stadium will
highlight the annual homecoming
celebration today.
Hundreds of former students,
parents of current students,
Carson-Ne-wman College boosters
and Mars Hill fans are gathering
on the campus for the occasion.
A brief but meaning-filled
dedication ceremony will take
place at the new stadium just be
fore the opening kickoff. Robert
Wren of Gastonia, chairman of
the building committee of the
board of trustees. President Hoyt
Blackwell and College Chaplain
Robert Melvin will participate in
the historic moments.
At 2:15 p.m. sharp, just prior
to the dedication, the freshman
class, celebrating the climax of
Rat Week, will crown its queen,
Pam Culler of High Point.
At halftime the Carson-New
man band will perform; then, the
Mars Hill band will play for the
crowning of the 1966 homecom
ing queen, Judy Hill of Mt. Airy,
and the football queen, Betty
Pate of Locust.
Dr. Blackwell will crown Miss
Hill; and the co-captains of the
team, Jimmy Few and Doug
Echols, will crown Miss Pate. Miss
Hill will be escorted by Bill Gib
son; Miss Pate, by Echols.
A court attending the queens
will be comprised of a represen
tative from each class. The senior
class has chosen Carolyn Senter,
who will be escorted by Andy
Good. Kathy Broome, escorted by
’65 graduate David Montross, will
represent the third-year class.
Sophomore attendants will be
Janis Elam, who was last year’s
“Rat Queen.” She will be es
corted by Eric Blackwell. The
freshmen representative will be
Mary Shepard. Freshman James
Wiles will be her escort.
The dedication of the stadium,
as yet un-named, will mark a sig
nificant milestone in the achieve
ment of a dream which has been
shared by Mars Hill players,
coaches and fans for many years.
Former varsity athletes will be
seated in a special section and
will be recognized during the
game.
Cast Announced
Title roles in the fall drama
production, “My Three Angels,”
have been landed by three fresh
men.
Chosen for the roles of the
angels on the basis of recent
tryouts were Paul Wright, Brick
Tilly and Jack Sanders. Veteran
Dramateers David Jones and Di
ane Jaynes have the other lead
ing assignments.
Others in the cast include
Nancy Wyatt, Mike Yelton, Mil-
ton Joyner, Mary Owen and
Wayne Slagle.
Performances are slated No
vember 6-6.