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i an places* -ly accent' sing it? ;elevisiot* re from the roads a^e on dit*" il truckit? hat cli®^ k of 8,000 ti»e old pital' at all' cause! it it' mist' I wa® lid I’® ) les® ve unti d not te ed to at^ wers itaV ing whet^ rrying ^ all int®' t»s be®! rater at^ not se- set rau dot in iiiy ronvint lei Through Hardship, Joy Jolleys Treasure MarsHill Experiences Tis the season to be jolly," Harley l°Uey, Professor of History, told his fut •ure wife, Betty, Associate Professor '’f History, in the fall of 1949. After it had been three years since they had ®et. Harley had a good job teaching Mars Hill. More importantly, they Vere ' '" Ih in love—so why not get married? ‘®y did just that on a chilly Christ- Eve, 1949, and ever since both have ^®ined a wealth of impressions about Hill, and about each other. ll®ither Dr. or Mrs. Jolley's first ‘^®®embrances of Mars Hill were very fav- “^able. Mrs. Jolley came as a freshman , riLa. JUJ-Xey L-cxuic aa a j-i. 1945, only to have to leave a few later because of serious illness. is understandable that she would "ey , er want to return. Dr. Jolley hitch- ked from Asheville to Mars Hill for first teaching position at the col- and thus had some very graphic ‘ories about the long and winding nrwa had travel to reach the one had to Eluded campus. and Mrs. Jolley met at what was Appalachian State Teachers Col- in the spring of 1946. Since it ® close to home, Mrs. Jolley went U instead of returning to Mars Hill* Jolley had just returned from.World ll and was completing his education the GI Bill. Though social life at PPalachian was just as limited as that { Mars Hill at that time, the Jolleys ®*itid time to date before Dr. Jolley f^^t on to the University of Tennessee his Masters degree. In 1949, Mrs T'lley graduated from Appalachian and «Cc . . '^epted , a teaching job in Winston- while Dr. Jolley finished at UT a teaching position at accepted Hill. , t. Jolley had always teased Mrs. ... . tley about the possibility of her re- jj.^bing one day to her "beloved" Mars j. '■*•41^ uiit: Ucty Lu iici. but she never took him seriously, when she knew that marrying Dr. would mean doing just that,. Mrs. still hadn't changed her opinion ■t 4.1 - — .1-1 .._i_ .. T.^1 1 rixrc the place. Ironically, the Jolleys '^t their honeymoon on the Mars Hill (* cneir noneymoon uu uuc i.ic.-*.' * j^Pus. Since Dr. Jolley was a house (. ther in Humphrey House, they stayed , until Mrs. Jolley had to return ^inston-Salem to complete her teach- ^ Contract. ^ter teaching music in the Asheville Hi hr-^ic schools for two years, Mrs. 4?^ley was hired as assistant librarian Mars Hill while at the same time s,?^ing on her Masters degree. In the t-Hter of 1955 Mrs. Jolley had her last VMicKpnd at Appalachian.(Dr. Jolley had been in vited to be a guest professor at Ap palachian.) There, she says, she never worked so hard or learned so much. Con sequently, Mrs. Jolley concludes that any greatness in her teaching has to be attributed to her husband. Later that year, almost exactly a decade after she left the campus, Mrs. Jolley was hired as a teacher at Mars Hill College.Since then,both Dr. and Mrs. Jolley have done additional graduate work,with Dr.Jolley acquiring his Ph.D. from Florida State in 1964. Needless to say, both Dr. and Mrs. Jolley's impressions of Mars Hill have changed greatly over the years.The col lege Itself has. When they spent their honeymoon in Humphrey House, Mars Hill was part of a much smaller world. Stu dents' values and activities were dif ferent because they were "stuck" here— they had few cars with which to"escape" .to Asheville each week—so their main social activities were daily classes (6 days a week) and Sunday School. But according to Dr. Jolley, students have not changed in their interest in learn ing. He says that the freshman class this year is one of the most enthusias tic he has seen in all the years of his teaching. The college has also changed in some ways; it has grown and matured with the times. Yet, in the same sense as the students,it has stayed the same. What is now called competence was once known simply as quality. The commitment to excellence and to academic freedom has been the same over all the years that the Jolleys have been at Mars Hill Both Dr. and Mrs. Jolley have had numerous offers to teach at other col leges.Both have been offered deanships, but they have refused. The college community can surely count Itself lucky that the Jolleys love Mars Hill so much. We, in turn, are sure that the feeling is mutual. Dr. and Mrs. Harley Jolley^ professor and associate professor of history^ re spectively, find Mars Hill College campus one of change^, growth, and at the same time, one that holds onto its basic founding principle of quality education. Both see the campus youth of today as enthusiastic and eager to learn about many different areas. Above, Dr. and Mrs. Jolley demonstrate some of the enthusiasm they readily give their students daily both inside and outside the classroom. . Photo by Gisele Luttrell
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