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10 Vol. XLII, No. 4
MARS HILL. N. C.
November 4, 1967
dministration had
As a result the^ ^ _ _ m rm
uo„ of obtaimnfConvenfion votes Affect
College on Two Matters
ts ceased demon-
lys of spirit such
that the student When the North Carolina Bap-
iter, while demon-tist State Convention meets in
in recent years.Asheville Nov. 13-16, Mars Hill
we want footballCollege will be affected in at
least two points of business.
ved from Atlanta The convention sessions will
Oct. 10. Eveiibe held in the city auditorium,
talked with in- Dr. Fred Bentley indicated that
ht. In addition, both matters are routine items
les. This shouldneeding convention approval and
e interest of thewe not causes for alarm.
The first is a request for con-
tley, sports publi-'mention approval for the college
ae, Walter Smith, to borrow $2 million with which
various students, to construct the Blackwell Build
dropping football, log.
sides of the issue. The convention will not at all
I have reached be responsible for the debt. Dr.
football at Mars Bentley pointed out, but its ap-
erest of everyone proval is necessary. The Board of
Trustees has arranged for the
Mars Hill could money to be repaid, along with
g sufficient funds the interest, over a 30-year
ontinue to suff el Period. An application has been
ipetitive with oul made to the federal government
liliation) and con-to borrow about 80 per cent of
the money.
told that his first The other matter to be con-
In light of thissidered by the convention is the
that the college appointment of seven persons to
°ser. the Board of Trustees to replace
this may seem aS those whose terms are expiring,
ey, he showed me Those rotating off the Board are
his case. E. Lee Cain of Winston-Salem,
cerning the effect
: it will hurt Mars
to be determined'
Choir Busy
ng football mainly Mars Hill College Choir,
to keep Mars HiH f**"®*^^®*^ hy Robert Rich, has a
h'lsy schedule ahead of it includ-
rallies and games, might be described as a
s tonight. Every *aini-tour” Nov. 11-14.
be there, vocally singers will leave the cam-
P'ls about noon next Saturday
llullowhee to take journey to Stuart, Va., for
t too far to travel. ^ concert at the First Baptist
w the Lions! ^^urch. The following morning
College in Ports- bus back to Mocksville
too far for most !l®ar Winston-Salem for another
”*rst Baptist Church perform-
t you’re there i®
ance.
Jesus and Amazing
sible manner, that That evening they will be in
isider their action ^’^^^"aboro for the state conven
tion of the Music Educators Na-
tional Conference. Along with
students from the School of Per-
utming Arts, they will present
Varied program of religious
Pieces including, O Clap Your
"ands. Bright Canaan, I Hear a
oice A-Prayin’, Ezekiel Saw De
^beel. Oh, My Spirit, Hallelujah,
i Want
Grace.
The four-day excursion con-
c udes Monday and Tuesday, Nov.
o and 14, with concert engage-
tiients in connection with the an-
Pual meeting of the North Caro-
’^'a Baptist State Convention in
-1 -Asheville.
Monday afternoon the choir
sing at the Pastors’ Confer-
®Hce at the First Baptist Church
^ad at the conference of minis-
music and education at
® Calvary Baptist Church. That
Sht they will sing at the open-
®®ssion of the convention in
® city auditorium.
Tuesday evening the group
. * Perform at a dinner meet-
g® of alumni of New Orleans
aptist Theological Seminary who
-> ‘ be attending the convention.
lOPPE
egular Meals
5HING
to 11 PM
^ERS
John Corbett of Marshall, Her
man Eggers of Boone, Rev. Wal
ter N. Long of Belmont, Mrs. O.
Leon Seymour of Southern Pines,
J. David Taylor of Charlotte and
Rev. Charles B. Trammell of El
kin.
The appointment of trustees is
an annual task of the convention.
The Board is composed of 28
members appointed for four-year
terms. One-fourth rotate off each
year.
Dr. Bentley explained that the
college is given the privilege of
recommending persons for pos
sible appointment to the Board.
He said the convention generally
honors the recommendations of
the college but is under no ob
ligation to do so.
The new trustees will first
meet with the Board during its
December meeting.
One matter which should be
discussed at the December meet
ing of the trustees is the appoint
ment of two new administrative
staff members, a business mana
ger and a director of develop
ment.
Dr. Bentley said persons are
currently being interviewed for
these two positions but no deci
sions have been made concerning
definite appointments. The ideal
situation would be for the two
new posts to be filled by Janu
ary 1, he stated.
The hiring of a business mana
ger to handle the fiscal affairs
of the college was suggested by
the inspection team which visited
the campus last spring in con
nection with Mars Hill’s bid for
accreditation by the Southern As
sociation of Colleges and Schools.
The director of development
will handle major fund-raising
efforts among business, industry,
foundations, alumni and other
sources.
Lamar Stringfield
44'
Teachers'
Another crop of future public
school teachers—44 in all—have
left the campus and begun nine
weeks of student teaching in
school systems throughout the
state.
The list, released last week by
the Department of Education,
shows the Mars Hill seniors are
getting their classroom experi
ence in 22 different schools from
Canton eastward to Charlotte.
For some of the so-called
“practice teachers” — which in
cludes only eight men—the off-
campus stint will fulfill the final
requirements for g^raduation and
for certification. A few have al
ready completed their college
work and are doing the teaching
for certification, and several will
need to return to the campus
next semester to complete their
requirements for a degree.
The student teachers and the
schools to which they are as
signed are as follows:
Thomasboro School in Charlot
te: Nancy Black, Beverly Cans-
ler, Ruth Clyde, Sybil Marie
Fain, Kitty Jo Haigh and Mrs.
Sandra Johnson; Coulwood
Junior High in Charlotte: Made-
lyn Davis, Mrs. Myra Malone
Hoyle and Mrs. Willa Plemmons
Wyatt.
Paw Creek School near Char
lotte: Charan Dibert, Karen Lee
Jones and Patricia Kaye Parker;
North Buncombe High School: Jo
Ellen Carpenter, Catherine Mar
tin, Georgia Kaye Howard, Mrs.
Joyce Shook and Mrs. Patricia
Hale Waldrop.
Barnardsville School: Eugenia
K. Caldwell and Mrs. Jacqueline
M. Ray; Weaverville Primary
School: Mrs. Ruby English and
Teresa Gale Metcalf; Lee Ed
wards High School in Asheville:
Lee Craufurd Forrest and Bren
da Kay Withers.
A. C. Reynolds High School
in Asheville: Philip Mark Bry-
College Pays Tribute
To Famous Composer
Drama Group
Entertains Club
The annual awards luncheon
of the Asheville Junior Women’s
Club recently was highlighted by
the performances of students
from the Drama Department.
The program, directed by
James Thomas, was held in the
Red Carpet Room at Buck’s Res
taurant.
Brick Tilley, junior drama ma
jor from Ocala, Fla., opened the
three-part program with “Comedy
Tonight,” the first song in the
musical “A Funny Thing Hap
pened on the Way to the Forum.”
Next came a selection from “The
Spoon River Anthology,” a col
lection of epitaphs by the Ameri
can poet Edgar Lee Masters.
Giving the characterizations were
Katie Swofford, junior from '
Charlotte; Jim Roberts, sopho
more from Asheville; Ken Goble,
sophomore from Clinton, N. J.;
Andy Biro, leader of the popular
campus singing group, Decem
ber’s Children; and Tilley.
Swofford, Tilley and Goble
concluded with a reading of the
famous Robert Frost poem, “The
Death of the Hired Man.”
Mars Hill College, through its
Department of Music, will pay
tribute today to the memory of
one of its most illustrious former
students, Lamar Stringfield,
who won fame as a composer,
conductor and flutist before his
death in 1959.
A three-part celebration, which
begins in Moore Auditorium at
3 p.m., will attract distinguished
musicians, teachers and music
lovers from throughout the state
and from several other states.
In addition, several members of
the Pulitzer Prize-winning musi
cian’s family will be on hand for
the occasion. One of them retired
from the college faculty in 1967
after more than 40 years of
teaching here.
In addition to honoring the
memory of Stringfield and recog
nizing surviving members of his
family, today’s celebration will
mark the first anniversary of the
inauguration of Dr. Fred Bentley
as president.
The tribute will feature the
performance of nine Stringfield
compositions by members of the
faculty in the Department of
Music, by the college instru
mental ensemble, the choir and
the chorus and by several out
standing musicians or musical
groups from off campus.
The afternoon program will
open with the ensemble, directed
by Wayne Pressley, playing
“Cripple Creek,” the fourth
movement of the suite “From the
Southern Mountains,” for which
Stringfield was awarded the
Pulitzer Prize in music in 1928.
Charles DeLaney of the Uni
versity of Illinois, one of the na
tion’s most talented flutists, will
play two flute solos, “Mountain
Dawn” and “Nocturne.”
Others taking part on the pro
gram will be Dale Roberts, oboe;
Experience
son, Thetis Irene Henry and
Stephen Hamrick Taylor; Pisgah
High at Canton: Terry Childers;
Ira B. Jones Elementary School
in Asheville: Cecelia Butler, Ger
aldine Greene, Julia Alice Greene
and Brenda Robbins.
Aycock School in Asheville:
Sylvia Gore and Elizabeth Anne
Young; Claxton Elementary
School in Asheville: Efstratia Han-
zas, Kathryn McLennan and Mrs.
Joyce Snipes; Enka High: Bill
Harrell, Judy Henson and Joe
Secondine.
Rosa Edwards School at Hen
dersonville : Mrs. Linda Ricks;
Owen High at Swannanoa: Paul
Peninger; Drysdale School at
Hendersonville: Aurelia Jane
Pryor; David Millard Junior High
in Asheville: Stuart Arthur
Thompson.
Elaine Marie Harris is teach
ing elementary school music at
four Asheville schools: Rankin,
Randolph, Vance and Newton.
Mrs. Carolyn Lamberson and
John Adams, pianists; and Mrs.
Mollie Rich, soprano.
At 6 o’clock in the college din
ing hall there will be a special
dinner, at which playwright Paul
Green of Chapel Hill will speak.
Dr. Green wrote the successful
outdoor historical drama at
Manteo, “The Lost Colony.”
Stringfield wrote the music, and
the two men were closely associ
ated in other important musical
ventures.
At 8:30 p.m., back in the audi
torium there will be another
musical program. This one will
feature the North Carolina String
Quartet playing the delightful
Stringfield composition, “Moods
of a Moonshiner,” and the col
lege choir and chorus singing a
cantata entitled “Peace.” Rob
ert Rich will direct the latter
with accompaniment by the en
semble and the organ, played by
Mrs. Donna Robertson.
Stringfield founded the Ashe
ville Symphony and the North
Carolina Symphony. He left a
legacy of more than 160 pub
lished compositions.
News of Lamar Stringfield Day
has been carried by numerous
newspapers throughout the state.
Symposium Plans
Taking Shape
Formal plans for this year’s
spring symposium, scheduled for
Feb. 26-Mar. 1, are quickly com
ing into focus. The theme is
“United States: 1968,” and the
group of leaders already selected
should prove to be able to inter
pret today’s world.
The team includes Edward P.
Morgan of the ABC network
news staff, speaking on the
American crisis in the Far East;
Kenneth Crawford of Newsweek
magazine, discussing the political
issues in 1968; Dr. C. Emanuel
Carlson of the Baptist Joint
Committee of Public Affairs, lec
turing on church-state relations;
and Dr. Nevitt Sanford from
Stanford University, talking
about education in the 1960’s.
Other areas of discussion are
cities and their problems, crime,
and states and the federal gov
ernment.
Each year the symposium
brings a team of scholars, scien
tists, educators, and other such
persons to the campus for a week
of lectures, discussions, and
seminars for the educational and
cultural enrichment of the stu
dent body and faculty.
Dr. Evelyn Underwood, head
of this year’s symposium commit
tee, has announced a new addi
tion to the event. A student com
mittee is to be organized to “pre
pare for and carry out the week,”
she says. This committee will
involve between one and two
hundred students in various ca
pacities, she said.