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VoL XLII, No. 6
MARS HILL. NORTH CAROLINA
December 2, 1967
Senior College Accreditation Is Gained
tie and spirit de-'
'New Home Ec
unch we’ve ever|
lould be.”
oyed playing. ^ _
I can’t sayQfflCerS S©t
Cats
y Spaulding will serve as pro-
chairman for the state-wide
Meeting.
Recently coeds from the de
triment and members of the fac-
y participated in a state home
Economics convention in Ashe-
scoreboard oncSviUp
ived in from onejty®; Inuring the conclave Helen
i it 47-12. Thcth elected reporter of
mrsion attempt chapter for
Job
The
Hunting?
uarter, Western
ints on a safety
) punter Larrf
his head and out
On the ensuing c Greensboro Chamber of
pradling ran 7^ sq *^**^®rce and the Personnel As-
lal WCU touch'Greensboro will spon-
ixth PAT madShei ^ special event Dec. 28 to
irhere it stood at j,.? 'uform college graduates and
Q ®®tial ’68 graduates about job
WCU MHC Qj/°’’^®aities in the greater
17 iJ ®®®sboro area.
217 18^ ■Approximately 20 firms will be
304 3^ ^j^^®sented and students may talk
17-12 19-8 h ag jjg wish.
* n 7 qn 1 t® participate in
■ ' 'o ®vent, which is similar to
gO North Carolina’s “Native
ield at Frederick The MHC Chapter of the
ball club’. ThatAmerican Home Economics Asso
ciation elected officers for the
but this is the^Pring semester at a meeting
They had un-^°uday night and chose Martha
there were only®’'®ce as its new chairman.
5 one of the cap- Others elected were Nancy
Clements, first vice chairman;
)all means moreSusan Lyday, second vice chair-
example.” tnan; Claudette Cooper, secretary;
e team. “These^icky Brannan, treasurer; Bren-
just looked as if^^’ Cummings, reporter; Emma
Jean Pegg, historian; Lynette
re Times-Herald,^uughan, publicity chairman;
T to the Hilltop^^unne Mahon and Ann Wilson,
^refreshments co-chairmen; and
ill to know that^^ndy Spencer, devotional chair-
>1 feels that this***^u.
g the most cour- In addition to electing new of
ficers the chapter members heard
an overmatchedMrs. David Walker of Weaver-
e has been stu-y^lle discuss her experiences as a
missionary in Africa. Mrs. Walk-
e field, knowing®'^ s husband is a new member of
is monumental^® faculty in the Department of
Education.
ressed with these On Thursday (Dec. 7) from 1
nd the waterboy,Until 6 p.m. the House Furnish-
Laboratory Class, assisted
y the remainder of the Home
’economics Department, will have
®Pen house for all campus stu-
®nts and for some students
,'^®m high schools in the surround-
'u? area.
Einss members will display
neir own works of refinished fur-
mture, crystal glass, draperies,
nipped candles and Christmas
decorations.
Eeyond the current events the
Unpter members are looking for-
^urd to the spring when they will
® hostesses to the college chap-
ers section of the North Caro-
Home Economics Association.
Sail
r
IpfPiiWi ■
The quartet of candidates who campaigned for the presidency
of the freshman class congratulate each other in a pose made before
the votes were counted Thursday. The ladies are Betty Boyd (left)
and Linda Baldwin; the men are Tom Reece (left) and Johnnie
Lamb. The men will have a run off.
'Impossible Dream' Coming
True for Beauty Contestants
SO Sou»j .
14 13 15-6«fcon; r
o ^ 324g Thomas L. Pickard, Box
Greensboro.
With the eventful night just
a little more than a week away
plans for the annual “Miss
Laurel” Pageant are taking final
shape.
Rehearsals begin the 7th and
continue through the 10th. The
colorful beauty contest—forecast
by several of its Laurel staff
planners as “the prettiest yet”—
is scheduled for Monday night,
Dec. 11.
The serious task of judging
the various contestants for the
campus beauty queen title begins
on Sunday afternoon, the 10th,
when a get-acquainted reception
will be held in the faculty lounge
of Memorial Library.
Lovely Pam Culler, a former
“Miss Laurel,” and singer Bill
Gardner will serve as mistress and
master of ceremonies for the
pageant, which will center on the
theme “Impossible Dream.”
Contestants will display a va
riety of talent in the competition,
ranging from piano solos to a
dramatic reaction skit, from sing
ing to ballet. Music for the vari
ous events of the evening will
be provided by the MHC Stage
Band.
The audience will have a better-
than-ever opportunity to do its
own judging of the lovely con
testants. A ramp will he installed
over the orchestra pit and the
coeds will parade before the
audience at close range.
Laurel Editor Mike Swaim an
nounced this week that Howard
Williams of Asheville, who has
previously agreed to be one of
the judges, had withdrawn from
the panel. As manager of the
current “Miss Asheville,” Mr.
Williams found it necessary to
withdraw when an engagement
was scheduled elsewhere for “Miss
Asheville” on the same night as
the “Miss Laurel” pageant.
Mike was attempting to secure
another judge when the Hilltop
went to press Tuesday.
The other two judges are Mrs.
Wallace Hyde and Tuck Gudger,
both of Ashe'ville,
Mr. Gudger has judged the
“Miss Illinois” and “Miss South
Carolina” pageants; Mrs. Hyde,
a former resident of Mars Hill,
has judged many pageants
throughout the state.
One contestant, Mary Belle
Lawton, who was to represent
Melrose Dormitory, has withdrawn
from the contest due to previous
engagements, Swaim reported.
This leaves 17 girls to bid for
the title now held by senior
Beverly Cansler, who will be on
hand to crown her successor.
Although there have been nu
merous Miss Laurels in previous
years, only four have been chosen
in pageant competition. In addi
tion to Miss Cansler they were
Jo Wells ’64, Jean Miller ’66 and
Pam Culler ’66.
The accreditation of Mars Hill
College Wednesday by the South
ern Association of Colleges and
Schools culminated an eight-year
process of transition from junior
college.
The Baptist State Convention,
which controls the school through
the appointment of trustees,
adopted a recommendation in May
1969 that Mars Hill “proceed to
convert into a senior college as
soon as its seems desirable and
possible to do so.”
Three years of careful planning
by the faculty and administration
preceded the addition of the third-
year curricula in September 1962.
The senior year’s courses were
addd a year later, and the first
degree were awarded in May 1964
to 146 students.
Southern Association rules in
effect at the time required that
Mars Hill g;raduate at least three
such classes before making ap
plication for accreditation as a
senior college.
In the meantime Dr. Hoyt
Blackwell, who has been president
since 1938, announced his inten
tion to retire in mid-1966. The
trustees chose Dr. Bentley, then
an assistant dean at the Univer
sity of Louisville, as his successor
in December 1966 and he assumed
office on July 1, 1966.
During the 1966-66 session the
faculty conducted an extensive
self-study of the college and com
piled its findings into a two-inch
thick volume, which was sub
mitted to the Southern Associa-
Clubs Active
Honor clubs have a variety of
activities scheduled within the
next two weeks.
Monday (Dec. 4) the Scriblerus
Club will hear an address by Dr.
Guy Owen of Appalachian State
Teachers College in Boone, who
is the author of the movie “Flim
Flam Man” and who is featured
in the November issue of State
Magazine. Dr. Owen will remain
on campus to speak in chapel
Tuesday.
Club sponsor Paul Sorrells has
announced that the officers are
working to get the club affiliated
with a national honor society.
Plans for raising money to fi
nance a special project will occupy
the discussion time of the Decem
ber meeting of the International
Relations Club. The club needs
funds to endow, through CARE,
a school room in one of the back
ward countries of South America,
A Christmas program is
planned for the meeting of Logo-
thia Honor Club Monday night
in the faculty lounge of the Pine
Arts Building.
Members of the Business Honor
Club will have their Christmas
party Dec. 12 at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Chapman. As
has been the custom in years past,
the members of the club will ex
change gifts. The president, John
Stancil, is expected to MC the
affair for the second straight
year.
tion in September 1966.
Last April a committee of ad
ministrators from other accredited
senior colleges visited the campus
for a three-day inspection- They
made recommendations for cer
tain changes with regard to the
curriculum, fiscal policy, faculty
preparation, the library and stu
dent affairs.
Dr. Bentley and his staff, the
heads of departments and other
faculty members immediately set
about implementing the suggested
changes. In October they filed a
supplementary report with the
Southern Association, describing
their efforts; and early in No
vember Dr. Bentley went to At
lanta to appear before the As
sociation’s admissions committee.
One of the points at which Mars
Hill had its greatest problem was
in academic preparation of the
faculty. The Association requires
that 30 percent of the teachers
hold an earned doctor’s degree
and 60 percent have at least three
years graduate study beyond the
baccalaureate degree. At the be
ginning of the current school year
Mars Hill had only 22 and 40
percent respectively. A program
of faculty improvement financed
by federal funds was planned and
its implementation was approved
Nov. 14 by the Baptist State Con
vention meeting in Asheville.
Another problem area for the
college was indebtednes for capi
tal outlay. The coUege has a
short-term note of approximately
half a million dollars on its huge
new physical education complex.
Paying off this indebtedness and
still having sufficient funds to
finance sharply increased expendi
tures for the academic program
posed a serious threat to accredi
tation, In May, however, the
trustees grpatly relieved the situ
ation by agreeing among them
selves to raise $350,000 of the
money needed to retire the debt.
The accreditation, a sign of the
professional acceptance of Mars
Hill College by its sister institu
tions, is expected to make it easier
for Mars Hill graduates to en
ter graduate and professional
schools. It should also open new
avenues of potential financial re
sources among foundations, indus
tries and other supporters of
higher education.
Dr. Bentley flew to Dallas Sun
day with Dean Lee but returned
unexpectedly Tuesday. He was
elated when Dean Lee called
Wednesday with the news.
“We are pleased to see that
many years of hard work have
brought this recognition to Mars
Hill College,” he said.
“The excellent administration
of Dr. Blackwell, during which
the beautiful campus was built
and turned over to me debt-free,
has allowed us to concentrate on
the senior college program. The
trustees, also, are to be com
mended for their dedication, hard
work and financial support,” he
said. “In fact, we owe our
thanks to the entire community
and to alumni and friends every
where.”