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, tainment:
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festivities intrigued students.
J. Wesley Grayson, Mars
Hill college’s greatest bene
factor, died at his home in
Laguna Hills, California,
Tuesday, March 31. He was
95.
Grayson gave Mars Hill
$1.1 million in 1978 to estab
lish a scholarship program
which bears his name. Sub
sequent gifts to the Grayson
Scholars Program by him
and his wife, the former Pau
line Wall of Mars Hill, in
creased the total to $9
million. He was appointed
to the school’s Board of Ad
visors in 1977, and a grateful
college awarded him the
Doctor of Laws degree in
1979.
"Dr. Grayson’s contribu
tions should not be mea
sured simply by the millions
of dollars he gave Mars Hill
College," said college presi
dent Fred B. Bentley, "but by
the lives of the young people
he touched through the
Grayson Scholars Program."
The son of a Methodist
minister, Grayson earned
both bachelor’s and master’s
degree from DePauw Uni
versity, Greencastle, Indi
ana. His professional
experience included teach
ing positions with the Uni
versity of Kansas and Ohio
State University, managing
an office of a N.Y. Stock Ex
change member, as a finan
cial analyst for private
corporations and various
government agencies, and as
a tax economist for the In
ternal Revenue Service. He
retired to California in 1950.
His ties to Mars Hill were
established through his wife,
Pauline "Polly" Wall of Mars
Hill. She is an alumna of the
school’s Class of 1934 and
her uncle, Robert Lee
Moore, was president of the
college from 1897 until 1938.
A memorial service is
planned at the college on
Thursday, April 16 in Broy-
hill Chapel. After the ser
vice, the Grayson scholars
will lead the assembly to the
site on the campus grounds
where Grayson’s ashes will
be buried and a tree planted
in commemoration.
Dr. John Wesley Grayson, (1896-1992)
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IV of the live-part Spring
Administration Vows to
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IS MAY 1,1992!
Band and More
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® April 11th from 9:00pm until
*tti^ the Haywood Park Hotel
VMars Hill College will hold its
r^bp Formal. Music this year
■ e provided by the live band, 10 til
!e fa?, performed at Mars Hill during
Gateway orientation
!oiil plays a variety of music and
If. Contribute greatly to the festiv-
Park was the location for
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^^ormal and hope the evening
'^ep^^kjoyed by all, according to
IV^bp Doug Searcy.
for buying tickets for
|)\i IS today (April 10th) in the
'5oIf during lunch. The cost is
Per person.
To avoid the possibility that
Mars Hill’s financial aid program
might be severely dilutecf by
yearly boosts in tuition charges,
the college administration has
pledged to hold down tuition in
creases.
"Although Mars Hill is among
the least expensive fully accred
ited private colleges in the South
east," said President Bentley, "we
feel it is important to try to keep
tuition increases to a minimum
and to raise financial aid as much
as possible. I am strongly com
mitted to keeping tuition down.
We are doing several things to as
sure that it will not rise above
$7,000 within the next four years."
(The current tuition charge is
$6,150, and an increase of $250
has been proj'ected for 1992-93).
A 29.25 percent increase in fi
nancial aid for new students be
ginning this fall was reported
earlier by the Hilltop. This in
crease, which will cost the college
almost $250,000, is intended to
offset anticipated decreases in
state and federal assistance to stu
dents. This increased financial
aid to new students will take the
form not only of scholarships and
loans, but will also include grants-
in-aid for athletes in four new in
tercollegiate sports which will be
added to the colleges athletic
agenda at the start of the 1992-92
school year.
"We have the best program of
endowed scholarships of all the
small colleges in our area," Dr.
Bentley said. Statistics show that
almost 80 percent of Mars Hill’s
students receive some form of fi
nancial aid. The college boasts
$10 million worth of endowed
scholarships.
The college was founded to
f rovide educational opportunity
or young people lining in the area
immediately adjacent to the cam
pus, and it has long acknowledged
a special obligation to assist such
students financially. Currently
there are several special pro
grams to accomplish this goal.
One is the Madison, Mitchell,
Yancey (MMY) Assistance Pro
gram, which offers graduates of
high schools in those three coun
ties a 75 percent discount on tu
ition. Another aid program
provides a $1,000 tuition grant to
graduates of hi^h schools in both
the Asheville City and Buncombe
County systems.
Additional information con
cerning financial aid, tuition
charges, and similar matters may
be obtained from the Financial
Aid Office, third floor of Black-
well Hall, or from the Admissions
Office, second floor.
Senior Testing
Arrives
Michael S. Roten
editor-in-chief
The annual Senior Assessment
Program has already started and
will continue until graduation. Dr.
Larry Stern, who is directing the ef
forts, reminds seniors of the import
ance of completing their forms.
"Each senior is required to com
plete one of these assessment in
struments," Dr. Stern reminds
students. One unit of community
life credit will be given for comple
tion of the survey.
The Assessment Program was
formed to help MHC continue to
improve their curriculum. Through
the Southern Association of Col
leges and Schools (SACS), the reg
ulating body for many institutes in
the Southeast as well as Latin Amer
ica and Africa, requirements have
been credited for institutes to show
how effective they are in achieving
the goals of the mission statement of
their college.
For completing SACS require
ments, MHC helped form the Appa
lachian College Assessment
Consortium six years ago. This con
sortium makes decisions on testing
and surveying students, as well as
acts as a forum to talk about the
colleges and share data on senior
responses. Several surveys created
by the ACAC were reviewed by the
office of Assessment and the Cur-
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