Hilltop
HILL, N.C. 28754
Vol. LIL,No. 13, Mayl2 1979
Officers
feted for CSM
dng: and Three
Plays- , j,, week'
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Dr. Bennett To Preach Baccalaureate Sermon
by Wright Culpepper
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lasde h officers were recently elected by the
Sl Dlr««'i:L"‘y for the Christian Student
le courses sche'l ot council. These officers will be in
he Appalachis",„ra 5. Coordinating religious activities for
Vppalachian f '^0 school year,
ian Religioa® joyles, a rising senior from Kings
The America^ (jj '> NC, was elected president of the
L fnr t-.LJ,iicil, Bruce has been involved in
'Pect
Search ‘or .fliiL —
ither and 'jjioi CPoots of the CSM including the
„ lonn’s: Tel® He has also served as director of
oO- ^11 Baptist Church in Mars
'homas se* h, bring fresh enthusiasm and
the Elderhost ^ 0 the CSM program,
ampus in ^tCjHcers are: Amy Hamrick, vice
lupied by ® gjjgets i, ’ Lynn Flemming, secretary; Kerry
chool year- Pgjlli* j'treasurer; Danny Fincannon,
d pillows .Worship director; and Chuck
articipating l (fraction chairman. Tim Taylor has
in the campo tinted CSM Choir Director,
ed in the v council hopes to offer a varied
rted being
uality and v
„ "'■th new ministries and services for
of Mars Hill College. Already,
A ®‘f®"ded planning sessions and a
> academic “w>',
j participanj co.
;ular activit'®® fori» tiUg
preparation for next year. They
®bout the responsibility which has
tiavens im i,'''‘’'cil is open to any ideas or sug-
il concerts Concerning the activities of the
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Dr. Harold C. Bennett, executive secre
tary-treasurer elect of the Southern Baptist
Convention, wHl preach the baccalaureate
sermon at Mars Hill College during gradua
tion weekend. May 18-20.
Dr. Bennett, an Asheville native and a
Mars Hill alumnus, will assume the duties of
the top administrative post of the Southern
Baptist Convention June 1. He will become
only the fourth person to head the Execu
tive Committee, which handles business for
the 13 million-member-convention between
annual sessions of the convention. In addition
to administrative and coordinating respon
sibilities, the Executive Committee also
handles approximately $75 million per year
in contributions from member churches.
Commencement weekend will officially
open with an exhibit of student art Friday
afternoon. May 18, in the Fine Arts Building.
The Board of Trustees will hold their semi
annual business meeting Saturday morning.
May 19; and at noon the trustees will meet
with the Board of Advisors in a joint lunch
eon. On that evening the college will honor
graduating seniors and their parents and other
guests at a banquet in Coyte Bridges Dining
Hall. In addition to recognizing the seniors,
the occasion will also provide recognition of
five long-time members of the faculty who
are retiring and several other faculty-
staff members who have served 25 years.
Those retiring include Miss Mildred Bing
ham, former chairman of the Department of
Business and Economics who joined the
faculty in 1937; M. H. Kendall, Bost Profes
sor of Religion and former chairman of the
department who has served for 40 years’ Dr.
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CO-OPS:
People
Working
T ogether
^ ogathon for the March of Dimes
w ?31arday, April 21. Of the nine
'';'Pating as runners, two MHC
”■11 Chase and Jesse Cowan,
L'^jPants ran an average of five miles
- ignboH® '^nnditioning. The result was a
r RaPP' ''bi!!!’ '^®'ning from pledges, for the
inc bill’s comments on his part
ntinuing^, C. ^ Wl’^n. and why he decided to run 30
Vj *0 help out the March of Dimes,
for the ability.” Bill feels that
K*^ nf helping out and at the same
Personal goal for himself. Jesse
K"’ reason, he was paralyzed at
\j nnd feels that he is sharing
Vti,''® 3ble to run. Bill and Jesse won
|lii|f®'r efforts.
FCA plans to sponsor an-
tcg "'■^h a slightly different
,'li(jj°''ding to Chris Watts, who
' a ' ®''ent. The next one is planned
°3d course, as opposed to the
^ ®cd in the last one. Checkpoints
° set intervals for the runners.
more people will be ititer-
■Pating in the next Jogathon.
When people work together to help each
other, instead of simply themselves, all will
benefit in the end. Such is true of a co-ops.
What is a co-op you may ask? Well, it’s when
a group of people decide to eliminate the
‘middle-man’, and go straight to the whole
saler in purchasing their food. In this way they
cut down the mark-up prices in grocery stores
put on products in order to pay for employees’
salaries, advertising, etc.. (Although there is a
10% mark-up with a co-op; still there is a con
siderable savings compared to the markup in
commerical stores.)
Now you have the chance to be part of such
a venture. John Senechal a student who has
had past experience in working with co-ops,
is leading a small group of interested students,
faculty, and community people in establishing
one in Mars Hill. Presently, this group has
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Evelyn Underwood, former chairman of the
History Department who joined the.faculty in
1944; Dr. L. M. Outten, professor of Biology
who occupies the Chair for Ecological Re
search and who is also a former chairman of
the department, having joined the faculty in
1946; and Mrs. Marian Tisdale, assistant
professor of French who has been at Mars
Hill since 1965.
The baccalaureate sermon will be held the
next day at 11 a.m. in Moore Auditorium.
The college community meets at this service
with the congregation of the Mars Hill Baptist
Church. Finally, the highlight of the weekend,
the graduation ceremonies, will be held in
Moore Auditorium at 3 p.m. with Dr.
Richard Hoffman, vice-president for aca
demic affairs, presenting approximately 277
seniors, to whom Dr. Fred. B. Bentley, presi
dent, will present degrees.
Dr. Bennett grew up in Asheville where he
was a paper boy for the Asheville Times, a
doorman at the Plaza theatre, and active in
the First Baptist Church. He is a member of
the Class of 1948 at Mars Hill and holds a
bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest Univer
sity. He studied at Duke University’s divinity
school and earned a divinity degree from
Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Ky.
He was a Navy pilot during World War II,
and has pastored churches in North Carolina,
Kentucky, Arkansas, and Louisiana and
served as chaplin of the Kentucky State
Reformatory and Kentucky’s Women’s
Prison.
In 1960 he joined the staff of the Baptist
Sunday School Board as Superintendent of
new work. Since then he has held administra
tive positions with the Home Missions Board
of the Southern Baptist Convention, and the
Baptist General Convention of Texas, and
since 1967 has been head of Southern Baptist
work in Florida. He was awarded an honorary
degree from Stetson University in Deland,
Florida in 1968.
The Bennets have three childrei), the
youngest of them, Cynthia, graduated from
Mars Hill last year.
A Senior’s Reflection
by Ellen Peterson
In pondering over my four years at Mars Hill College, I realize I have
experienced what may be some of the most memorable moments of my life.
This is not to say I will not have any more, or that I will no longer have any
better times, (I simply refuse to believe such rubbish) but these years may have
molded me into what I may or may not be in future years to come. I am not
considering the academic aspect only, but my social and spiritual life as well.
As a senior about to embark from these sheltered moments, I will be the first
to say that as the time to graduate grows nearer, the more I reminisce about
my past years here.
Imagine this, (and perhaps relate to this, too) a scared, excited, freshman
girl soaking in the novelty of college life. Suddenly the door of independence is
introduced to her, and she cannot seem to consume enough at one time.
Signing out past curfew, or even coming in at one o’clock on weekends when
your high school rules were for eleven o’clock is a dream. Staying up all night
to talk with you “roomie” and eat and discuss your dating life (or lack of it)
until wee hours in the morning, and then decide to look over your Logic
homework you suddenly remembered you forgot to do is even more exciting to
recall. I remember dressing up for Halloween and seeing a movie at Mars
Theatre, going to Yogi’s and then visiting the guys in Melrose. Wearing a nose
warmer into the cafeteria with six of your other friends and causing snickers
was perhaps the most fun of all. In between all of this, I managed to make it
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