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Published by the Students of Mars Hill College
MARS HILL. N. C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1966
Niunber 7
I Sr > ''oudly polishing up a new highway sign pointing to the campus,
* * Sp Traffic Committee Chairman Bob Hoots tells freshman Sally
how the handsome marker was secured.
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^GA Committee’s Efforts
'•^"t^ecure New Highway Sign
j^^®tential campus visitors com-
j_ c^x aji ^rom Asheville will not be
off tlie Highway 36 cut-
^^•idsome green and white re-
ri
ton Bromley-vvifi,
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reported Ijg erected recently on
_ • Ifi-oo ^}jg intersection
rds in phyS''a 1 Mars Hill now, thanks to
,"^ndso
Wive ,
did 16 pull"'the two miles south of
the old rec*
Shealey’s clf'ia ^ well-placed sign
Of .^^‘‘‘igible tribute to the work
•ickler and Traffic Committee of the
i Ruff Whel'liead Government Association,
cit line in ' 0 sophomore Bob Hoots,
d 81 and 80, Hithe difficulty
othej. students, parents and
dtered the
1 ^ TliDiie their way to the cam-
fjhis ’ SGA asked Hoots and
® ^ oviiO Hn'^'^'^^riittee to look into the
Larry i, r of a possible solution,
ince in contacted 13th District
kler and Commissioner James G.
plaj. ®^ther in Asheville and ex-
the problem. Stikeleather
cord of 53 P ^ ed signs would
j still stand i^ ^i-ected promised other
said the “'^ernents.
ipread nee 8)^^^ Htee Carl Meares of Fair
ivities ][Staj^’ Mso a member of the
n and shod,^ ^ Highway Commission, and
d was ind'd^ Wld' Tilson, superintendent of
:vely low d and Grounds, have
e men coold in contact ivith Stikeleather
in 50 see
Hy^!*'***S other signs and high-
. ^ill *’'*Provements in the Mars
;|^^area.
® ®GA committee, which in-
Martha Penley, Susan
’'Of ®r, Jerri Beck, Ken May-
Jackie Mitchell, is also
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^ traffic rules and fees
1 Once
^bditi campuses and planning
efforts to promote
traffic safety.
"f 5^®’' members and divisions
ly ^ have been active recent-
YEAR '^n Hresident Art Earp, who
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return for the spring
>*■ the ^'^^**'itted his resignation
Wiof meeting last week.
Ijas Senator Dianne Freeman
bin) appointed to succeed
1
''bri ,, barer Louis Turner, who
Degree Work Is Completed
By 39 During Fall Semester
'Rned in December in an
ticipation of not returning sec
ond semester, was re-instated by
the Senate last week after he
learned he would be able to con
tinue in school.
The graduation of senior class
president Rick Cothran will cre
ate a vacancy which is to be
filled in a special election on
Feb. 1. Candidates will be Tom
my Shoe and John Baskin. Also
to be elected is a junior senator.
A poll to determine student
opinions on various campus, na
tional and international problems
will be taken by distribution of a
questionnaire during the chapel
period on Feb. 3.
A bus trip to the Mars Hill-
Maryville basketball game on
Feb. 5 is being planned, and the
Senate has agreed to contribute
99 cents for each student who
goes. (The different classes al
ready have or are expected to
announce similar contribution
plans for their members.)
Plans are also being made for
a spring event to be called
“Derby Day.” SGA President
Chris Pappas says the day -will
feature outdoor games and other
events and perhaps a popular
singing group. The day, pattern
ed after a similar event held at
Carson-Newman, could be as im
portant as Homecoming, he says.
He expressed appreciation to
all who helped make “Operation
Santa Claus” a success. An abun
dance of toys was collected for
local children and over 400
pounds of articles were sent to
servicemen in Vietnam.
The project also brought a
link-up with students of Ashe-
ville-Biltmore, who gave $70 for
postage.
Magazine Available
Copies of the college Quarter
ly, a twice-yearly alumni maga
zine, are available to students
and faculty members in the Mon
tague Building, gratis.
SAM Unit
Organizing
A college chapter of the So
ciety for the Advancement of
Management, a national profes
sional organization, will be
formed here Tuesday, Jan. 25, at
7:30 p.m. in the Library Audi
torium.
Sponsored by the Asheville
chapter, the campus unit will be
dedicated to bringing together
business executives and students
who are preparing to go into
business careers. The organiza
tion will not be limited to busi
ness students, however.
Sophomores, juniors and sen
iors who are interested in joining
should see one of the following
who comprise the organizational
committee: John Howell, Thomas
Sparks, Harold Corn, Vernon
Thomas, Clement Hunt and Re
becca Gurley.
Charlie Narron and Mrs. Ruby
Cox of the faculty of the De
partment of Business Administra
tion, will co-sponsor the chapter.
Plans for the organizational
meeting call for an outside
speaker, a reception in the facul
ty lounge and a brief business
session at which officers will be
elected.
Field trips, dinner meetings in
Asheville and other activities to
bring Mars Hill students in con
tact with business executives are
already being planned for second
semester, Narron said.
Films Booked
For Term Lull
Six full-length movies have
been scheduled during the next
two weeks for the entertainment
of the student body. The follow
ing listing, with such comments
and information as was available
in the files of the dean of stu
dents, should be helpful:
Jan. 15, 8 p.m. — “Stolen
Hours,” a heart-tugger starring
Susan Hayward, Michael Craig,
Diane Baker and Edward Judd.
Jan. 21, 7:30 p.m.—“13 Fright
ened Girls,” starring Kathy Dunn
and the Teenage Diplomats. This
is a suspense-comedy concern
ing* 13 international teenage girls
who become caught in a desper
ate candy-web of political in
trigue.
Jan. 22, 8 p.m.—“The Brothers
Grimm.”
Jan. 24, 7:30 p.m. — “The
Train,” starring Burt Lancaster.
Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.—“The Vic
tors,” starring Vince Edwards,
Peter Fonda, Melina Mercouri
and Jeanne Moreau. This is prob
ably the most accurate film ever
made about war.
Jan. 29, 8 p.m.—“The Long
Ships.”
The next showing in the series
of art films, being sponsored by
the Art Department, is scheduled
at 7 p.m. Jan. 31 in the Library
Auditorium.
A total of 39 seniors have already completed or (hopefully)
are in the process of completing degree requirements at the end of
the first semester.
“The “sheepskins” will not actually be awarded until com
mencement the last Sunday in May, but several of the new gradu
ates have already accepted jobs and are at work. Others have
aligned themselves for jobs, graduate study and other pursuits fol
lowing the conclusion of the current term.
Although most of the new graduates still face one or more final
examinations, their names were announced earlier this week by
Registrar Robert Chapman. Included are the following:
Bachelor of Arts
Linda Gray Barbour, Linda
Carol Brooks, Mary Cecia Chil
ders, James David Clapp, Bessie
Belle Cline, Trudy Arlene Davis,
Patricia Juanita Dixon, Hilda Lee
Gilpin, Russell Leon Grogan, Vir
ginia Ellen Havens, Martha Jean
Hickson, Mary Ann Holland,
James Wesley Ingold III.
Donald Charles Liles, George
William Morgan, Fred William
Overton, Nancy Lee Piper, Peg
gy Ann Roberts, Cheryl Virginia
Robertson, Steve Randall Spain,
Carol Ann White, Marion Lu
cinda White and Tony Morris
Yates.
Bachelor of Science
Saundra Elizabeth Anders,
Edith Sandra Baker, Malcus
Thomas Beard, Sarah Lee Bird,
Richard Garrett Broadwell, Mar
vin Leonard Carriker Jr., Sarah
Higgins Cole, Oscar Richard
Cothran III, Jimmy Eugene Few,
Judy Woodard Halyburton, Lin
da Lois Hawes, Barbara Joan
Rector, Patricia Burton Rhoads,
William Harry Sprouse Jr. and
Robert Truett West.
Bachelor of Music
Education
Brenda Kay Harris.
Approximately 80 new stu
dents will enroll second semester,
the registrar’s office reports.
This will push the enrollment
figure for the year well past the
1400 mark.
No figures are available to in
dicate how many non-graduating
students will not be back for the
spring term; however, a list in
the registrar’s office shows 35
students dropped out of school
during the period from Septem
ber to immediately after the
Christmas holida^.
Registration for the spring
semester will be held Monday and
Tuesday, Jan. 24, 25. The sched
ule calls for sophomores and
juniors to meet their faculty ad
viser at 8 a.m. on Jan. 24 and
to register in the gym at their
appointed time between 10:30
a.m. and 5 p.m. Freshmen and
seniors are to follow a similar
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John Cameron Swayze
Newsman
Due Here
John Cameron Swayze, famed
television-radio broadcaster and
commentator, will lecture on “The
Worl^ Today” in Moore Audi
torium at 8 p.m. Monday, Jan. 31.
Also well-known for his com
mercials in behalf of Timex
watches, Swayze does two daily
news programs over the ABC
radio network and is host narra
tor of a television travel pro
gram, “Sightseeing with the
Swayzes,” filmed around the
world.
His reporting and commentary
on the air and from the lecture
platform are refreshingly differ
ent from other newscasters and
commentators. He does not con
centrate upon the woes of the
world and the evil men do. In
stead, he searches out the events
of our time and their background
which are oddly revealing, color
ful, warm and human. He has an
all-pervasive sense of good humor
and goodwill. He suggests that
although troubles do exist, this
mid-20th Century is an exhilarat
ing period in which to live.
Born in Wichita and schooled
at the University of Kansas,
Swayze hoped for a career in the
theater. He studied drama in
New York and made the endless
rounds of theatrical producers
and talent agencies before turn
ing to the old Kansas City Jour
nal-Post as a cub reporter.
By 1940 he was feature editor
for the paper but left the job
to take a full-time position in
the news department of local
radio station KMBC. He went
East in 1947 and has been suc
cessful in network broadcasting
and telecasting ever since.
Annual Is Mailable
Any student who hat satisfac
torily settled his account with the
bursar’s office and does not plan
to return to the campus for the
spring semester is entitled to a
copy of the 1966 yearbook. The
Laurel, and may have it mailed
to him by leaving a forwarding
address with Walter Smith, the
adviser, in the Montague Build
ing.
The publication is scheduled
for release in mid-May.