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11? ? A TBAOBERS COLLEGE IN THE 0F2N COUNTRY (Coniinnou Prom Page 3) Q , . 'V 'i ( . Whiteside Mountain /ind the one lo the George \anderbilt Estate. Tomorrow We arc makii-g what I < onside? the outstanding tri.j of them all?the one to t.'c (fip.iI Sm >ky Mountains National ParX; One feature of this tri;; wiii he a nine-mile hike to the top of Mount LeConte. We have made anar jrements for forty. Thos? who have not made arrangements ^i'l "l'1 "t the office We leave the ?loyner Building p. omp: y /it N A. M. (Applause). N'ED: Miss Dorothy -Moore will nov -insr J or u*. with Mrs. Gulb*v accompanying. DOROTHY: I shall .skg Joyce Kilmer's "Treea" ? (Siags. Ap plause.) NED: The Double Quartet A\ii! <*:\e us a number. Mrs. Gulioy at # - the piano. QUARTET: (Sing J minute io I.minutes, music dying .nway). ? 'Tyrolienne by Bullard. ??.?.7!.e. u' Soner ; '? ? .'/ > SCENE 17. TSir TO THE PARK, Episode I. Lcivivg the Campus MISS BEX TON": I-; ?v?'prybo.7y jeydy? Charles, arc the lunches a 'l in tho ears ? 3IORGAX: Yes, Tienton. even tiling* Is rc.r.dy. ?I. C.: Ali aboard! AH aboard for the Park! HIGH: Carolyn, yon..- ? iii'*;" C'. he'll get lost in the woods. ?J.O. e-a-h! you don't i vi "'e to rhe woods to get 'lost. f You'r.?. already lost. BELLE: I hope everybody In* a ? '-c I time. Good-bye! Good-bye! MAW VOICES: Good-bye! Gu?i-; bye! Good-bye! (Simulate bus going away) RUTH: Boy, I wish I could c;o vviGi them. Don't you, Claude? CLALDE: I sure do. I've never been to the Groat Smokies. lY , / -Thome Scrg Episode 2. Air.vai at Newfound Gap MORGAN": Well, here's whore w i;it off, is it Miss Bentou? BENTON: Tin's is New&umt i.taj?. ui the Smokies. CAROLYN": Wasn't that *<>....? i-jiaib! I wonder how high we are Miss Benton? BENTON: The ?ap here is ?li';Ii:ly over live thousand feet above sea level. But wait till we r? >' Ii .Mrunt LcConte: tnnt'a nearly tj,600 feet high. BELLE: Talk a'.cut e'lmbh . v! The view from here is good enough for me. thatsimply , c:vr-????;?.! Don't you think so, Hugh? ; HUGH: It couldn't Kv In/.t. .-'-i;, Miss Benton, is that Tennessee just across this ga^? BENTON: Yes, thai'-, Team-*.??. DOT: Did you see the l:.<ii:: Squaws as wc came through the Cherokee Reservation ? J. C.: Yes, oepee !/.!!;* F" bi ?. ?!< with a papoose on her back BELLE: Are we withr.i H ? < ;,-at Smoky Mountains National Park now, Mr. Morgan ? , MORGAN: Indeed we ljv. RUTH: \yhere does thu voaii U> t> left lead to, Miss Benton? BENTON: Thai's the ! ' y.i.l to Clingman's Dome?7 miles ' out. It's the hi 'best p tl: >. .Li- :-ection, higher than Mount Le Conte. We'll take that .liivc .hi tl., jioxt trip to the Park. J. C.: Fine! I'll he jia! ! t'. BENTON: Is everybody jy 'o Iravel? Remem&er, we've nine miles out to LeConte and nin? back. Take your time. Don'l rush. We don't want .anybody g.vi <:* out on the way. Boy?, dn you have the lunches? -Theme Song Epfcoi.3 3 Oi the Way Up BETTY: Home.% what lok* that *i?n sry? . HOMES: "200 yardato i/.i-i Out Point". BETTY: I*t 'ti S<*P i'\TOjt !'?"???;' !i?'V ' ;?> to SPC. JACK: Como on, girls, fil i:tip you rp this j-teep place. (five m" your hand, Marg-ret. (Pause). MISS M UK PI IV: Oh, did \ou cv.:- see such a view? Mountains, mountains, as far as the eye can see! Ajll covered with forests. 8CHACHNER: And th-.=; u-r - ?! It ,ooks like it's a mile deep! MISS M.: Folks, look at tl.is } <ak to our right. I wonder what that is. * Jack: I don't know, Xw-i *'t::o!iy, unless it is Mount Gnvot or Clingman's Donw, it's fc'> ^ BETTY: And jint think, nli. ine mountains bfefpre us are in North Carolina. ' ? , HOMES: And I doubt seriously that we can see one fourth of all the North Carolina nouutaiv.s. Remember, Virginia is three or four hundred mites frorn hr'i'<\ 'ind nearly every foot of that dis tance is mountainous. BILLY: No wonder that people come to these mountains by the thousands to spend the /rammer. SCHACHNER: Do you t&\ k:.ow tt. F. Jarrett's recent song, "Tho Carolina Mountains"? SEVERAL VOICES: Yea, lat's ?"'g it. (They sing about one stan za, being sudenly interrupted). JANE: Oh, Look! Do you see that hawk sailing beneath us? MARGARET: Oh, its back shines like polished copper. Watch it circle. ? SHOCK: Say, I don't believe (hat's a hawk. Thai looks like an eagle to me. ?\ JANE: An eaglo! Let me have that field glass, Home#. (Pause). I can't sec through these glasses, Shock, see if you can. SHOCK: Yes, that's an <eagle, a bald ea^le. I saw ona once in Virginia. i i #.}|| JANE: They say the bald eagle is i!most an extinct bird in Ameri ca. I certainly hope there ar ? \ Lew left in this Park that wil*. be safe from the rifle of gunners. (Bird call during conveitfation, also during paufcc). BILLY: Listen! Did you henr that birdf 4 , , itygtl (Voiee hallooing in the distunce) )' ? , J. MARVIN: They're calling w. We must be going. BILLY: How much farther is it to the HOMES: About six mile.s.v ? # BILLY (Whistling): Whew! and my legs are nearly gone. J. MARVIN': Say, there's ?nc thing which interests me about theso ?> mountains. (? BETTY: What's that, Mai'v\rtf "c> " . j' J. MARVIN: Geologists tell us that the Appalachians are axr*ong the oldest mountains in the world. SHOCK: Well, boy, you ou?ht to know, for you were here when they were born. (Laughter) Come on, let's catch up with the crowd. -Theme Song Episode 4. At Spring by the Trail CAROLYN: Hey, you-^U, hurry up, here's a spring by the trail with the coldest water yon ever tasted. SEVERAL VOICES: (From distance) Claude: Coming-up?Inenc: Hooray! for I'm literally famished. 1 * DOT: Well, glory be! Water at last. Let toe have a drink, please. J. C.: Dot, have a drink, Carolyn, how about yon, and you, BdSle? (Tinkling of eups heard). BBLLE: ** ?trtainly was thoughtful at yon, J. C, to hfing a cap T1UU oloflg wit ? JOHNNY: I'll dexJarc, it seems-that PrOtidencfi must hate jJaced this spring hero 011 purpose, to refresh tired hikers. CAROLYN: Yes, I'm pure, Johnny, that Providence knew that, in May, 1936, a eiwd from Cullowhco, N. C., would come along: tired and famished for a cold drink. JOHNNY: Now, Carolyn, you would he funny and make my per fectly nice speech ridiculous^ DOT: -Say, you folks look nronnd you and take a peek at nature. Elavo you seen ihose great beds of ferns down there and the rocks with moss all over them? BELLE: Oh, these trilliums! Look at them, won't you! White, red, purple?all colors. I never saw such variety. J. C.: And these trees! Thousands of them. What massive trunks! Sec the three big spruces down there? and the twin poplars? I U leg a poplar tree. DOT: Did you know that Joyce Kilmer got his inspiration from a poplhr or tulip tree? "I think that I shal!l nev?r fee a poem loveiy a* a tree" (Humming) J. C.: loot's sing it, Dot. (Dot and Carolyn sing. Others hum). NED: Say, you know, that Joyce Kilmer was a soldier in the World War. I read somewhere the other day that the Government hai set aside 15,000 acres in the NantaliaLa National Forest?almost in sight yonder?in honor of hinv They say th'.s 15,000 acres cmbracc hundreds of large tulip trees. ? RfTTII: Well, Isn't that appropriate? HlTOH: (Quoting): '"The groves were God's fin=t temples. Ere man learned to hew the shaft or lay the architrave?" JOHNNY: Fellow citizens, I hear the call of the wild. Before Hngh gets too poetic, let's he trudging on toward LaContc. IRENE: How much farther ig it? * OLAUDE: It's four miles, my dear, or near it. Brace up; you 11 make if. IRENE: Well, you may have to carry me. I didn't know I could get so tired. Theme Song ? Episode 5 On the Summit (Voice heasd yodoling in the distance) .MORGAN: Hey, eome on up. The view is simply glorious. SHOCK: Well, this is tlu? top. is it? It must be the top of the world. By George! Isn't it great! Hurry up, you 11 mina some of this. It 's worth elambuDg a hundred miles to sec. BILLY: Here, Shock, give me a lift?Uh!?and something to *it on. I'll view the scenery when I get a few breaths and rest my feet. JACK: B31y, have you tuckered outf HOMES: Where's Miss Benton? I told von, sha* good .sport, to undertake hikes like this. SHOCK: She seems to enjoy it as much as any of us. MARGARET: There she is now, Mr. Morgan, with the re&t of the party. BETTY: Isn't it great, Margaret, that the weather is so fine? Wc ran see for miles. Hardly a cloud. J. MARVIN: Mr. Morgan, how high did Miss Benton say this peak is? MORGAN: Rcccnt surveys show it to be 6,593 feet. J. MARVIN: What is that peak way across there? It looks 33 high as LeCoate. MORGAN. AVait a minute; don't ask me" so many questions. Here, Miss Benton, you are our bnreau of information. Tell Marvin what that peak is to the southwest yonder. BENTON: That's Clingman's Dorfie. It is forty-nine feet higher that LeConle, and ten miles distant the way the bird flies. JANE: O, T can't take it all in at once. It's so grand,so impressfce HOMES: Miss Benton, what is that range of mountains far away to the southwest?yonder? BENTON: That is the Blue Ridge, the eastern member of the three ?firs:Tel ranges which make up the Southern Appalachians. The ?Iuo Illume extends mors than a thousand miles, from Northern Georgia In Pennsylvania. You know, of course that we are now in the .Smokies, the central parallel rr.nge of the Appalachians. To ? he west are the Cumberlands. Between those ranges are many ross ridg<^ and interlocking mountains. Ypnder to the oast, for nstance, are the Balsam Mountains, tying the Blue Ridge and the Smokies together1. You recall! that some of you, in coming to Cul lowhee, passed through the Bafcam Gap. A little farther to the right, in the foregrouna>^ure the Cowees. Farther* to the west are the Nantahalas. - ^ JACK: Miss Benton, it looks as if we can see several river basins from here. Tell us about them. BENTON: Well, we came down the Tuckaseigce River as we came on tliis morning. You can see the gorges through which it passes yonder toward the Blue Ridge. At the Cherokee Indian Reserva tion we were coming up the Oconaiufta. Far, to the right, some what behind Clingman's Dony?, is the Nantahala River. To the left, beyond the Balsams, is the Pigeon River. Farther away, the French Broad. Far off yonder?almost directly south?in the moun tians of Macon County, the Little Tennessee River takes its rise Now, turn and face the westf. Here's the Tennessee River basin. AB the North Carolina rivers mentioned are tributary to the Tennessee. The Holston River to the right is also a tributary cf fche Tennessee. HOMES: I'D declare, this is worth a month of classroom teaching in Geography. ?&. BILLY: I should say it is. BENTON: Now, I suspect you are ail hungry and ready for luneh I know I am. Just across this little depression, and beyond the erest of that little eminanoe yonder, is a springy We'll eat our lunch there. <?, JANE: 0. K., but let us take one more good look at this gorgeous scenery before we leave. BETTY: Look at the colors in the ravines and goiges?lavender and blue and purple. HOMES: I never expected to gee s) mueh beauty in one day. -Theme Song Episode 6. Near Spring JOHNNY: Well, I feel refr-eshel after that lunch and rest. IRENE: You know I feel perfectly rested. I'm not a bit tired. CLAUDE: I hate to leave this spot. I'm afraid IH never get to come baek. JOHNNY: You bet your life I'm coming back, if I -five. RUTH: Isn't it wonderful that the College arranges these tripe for us? We hardly realize how valuable these tripe are in our edu cation. Don't you think so, Mr. Morgan? ' MORGAN: You know, I was thinking, while Miss Benton was pointing out that vast mountain territory from the peak op there, that Western Carolina Teachers CoBege is the most fortun ately-located college in America. Why, CuTIorwhee is right in the center bf all this natural beauty. Isn't that an educational challenge ? I have often heard President Hunter speak of Cullowhee's unique situation?how does hd say it ? "The only State Teachers College in America right out in the open country". DOT: Yes, that*s Mr. Hunter alt right. CAROLYN: Look yonder at those tinted clouds gathering in tho west! The sun has already begun to paint his beautiful colors! BELLE: That scene'reminds me of JohiT Charles McNeill's "Sun set". You know he was our North CarAaft-poet, LetV see, how dooi the poem go! "Hills, wrapped In gwy, tUndmg ting the *gt< Chads, dimly-lighted, gathering alowly; The star of Peace at watch above the crcstj' Oh, holy! holy! holy!" HUGH: I think I know what the Psaltoi&t meant when }?. "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, whcnce. conu th mv fon!' CAROLYN: You know, I have often thought how direct er*'" ence with nature reveals the meaning of many a piece of l:te ' " which would otherwise remain obscure. BENTON: Well, travelers, I hate to say it, but if- timo , getting off this mountain, if we don't want d.-*kucs;s :o or.! * m the Smokies. SEVERAL VOICES: SHOCK: Ready to travel! CLAUDE: Well, we've seen an eyefiVIl this day. JOHNNY: Good-bye, old Mountain! SEVERAL: Good-bye, LsCotitc! -Theme Sone . Episode 7. Back at Gap BENTON: Mr. Morgan, has everybody returned to the Gap? \y,. don't want to lose anybody. MORGAN: Yes, Miss Benton, I think ail your babes ar, the woods, safe and sound. IRENE: Well, I don't know about being soiuid. My fut awfuiiy tired. BILLY: 3Line are, too, Irene, but I wouldn't have missed \h,. tlj., tor anything 1 know. HOMES: Neither? would I, Billy. But a good blltll, bOHK J alcohol and a sound night's sleep, onil sore feet and legs will ancient history. (Sound of car heard approaching) HUGH: I wonder who that is? J. C.: Why, it's President Hunter and Dean Bird. ( MANY VOICES: Heigh! Heigh! Itah! li-..h! lJ.i!.! ri.,,% t, spirit! Aren't they good sports? etc. DEAN: Well, you fc^ki seem to have plenty of life in yen I thought some of you might be to carry home. JACK: Billy and Irene camc near caving in, Dean l;h.l; ?#u! I think they arc a|il right now. BETTY: President Hunter, the views up there are inayvi-.uu--, uv?. derful. Sotae of us were! talking, as we came down i he :i.nl, ui4 ii; educational value of these trips. We've wondered it ? 1m. L^li.uc would find it possible to foster inoro trips like thi?-luwn trips in Botany, Geology and Geography, you know. Pit EI DENT: Well, now, Betty, you wouldn't want ui to ??l??u;ut. fle^d trips for classroomi work. I'm beginning to uar that y>. would prefer fun to real educative experknees. BETTY: No-o-o, President Hunter. But this soil ol txpericiiuc i part of a real fducatiou-^sure-'y it is. CAROLYN: Yes, field trips make ela^ioom i;?:tiiti-!.i..i more. They make it rife her. PRESIDENT: Now, gii\',s, you're double-teaming o;< m?-. li i??': fair. But I'll give in. I'm more convinced than ever that givr. minds do run in the same channel. Our Curjnn uium Coannittfj In ? been in session this afternoon. Ask Dean liii u u hat tallied about. DEAN: The very thing we've- been di<i*.u.*?siug was lite nutter a fuller enrichment of our curricula. Everybody wants mot courses which will meet the challenge of our mral emironmci't. Betty, you would make a good member of the Currici'buui Commit tee. We arc planuiug, as soon us feasible, to introduce more coiuv's 23 in Botany and Geography, and to add courses in Geology a*;?l perhaps in Forestry and Landscaping'. Wc felt, too, that f,d?iiri?<!.'< courses in Social Sciences?Rural Sociology', Economic ing ficfd trips and social surveys, should be introduced. T!- wi nded Late plan now is, to give the whole educational offeTin; <? Summer School a special emphasis. We plan to stress (i' -I ln;> and many eourses Will have a strong out-of-door, ruraMlii? 'en sis. We are engaging experts in Runal life to help u- ia t'. Summer School. iUTli: Go-o-od! DEAN: But now I've got a rea! secret to ie'l you. Don't >:>' ? cited. MrA Hunter, Mrs. Bird and Deoii Albright /on.?ivd ^ lotion that at [least one or two of you iqfight be hungry aiVr oiW' ing to LeConte. They're now at ths .camping place d<-wn tl ? ? ? tain; and when President Hunter and I left a few minute-: u:->: looked as if bacon, eggs, Tremor* and hot coffee might a v:v by the time we get back. MANY VOICES: Ray ! Ray! Ray!? Hot do-!?Supp-1 r.-ad>! Et?, NED: (Calling from distance): Just a minute! H??d your Sreatb. Corrfe ovielr hcrte and look at the colors hs the sun $sic. & west. (Pause). JANE: O-o-h! Just look! MARGARET: It 's glorious! ALL SINJGING (Dorothy leading): "Day is Dyin? in tl" ^'1' (As song dies away, cars start up) Baby Chicks READY TO GO We offer Chicks from State Blood Tested Flocks Onty WE PRACTICE THE LATEST Mt'fHODS CARE AND MANAGEMENT KNOWN ; THE POULTRY INDUSTRY, y We are members of the International Baby ^ Association. Alto belcng !o tl.e Slale Organization. We still comply wilh the Ba y j Code. 'TE FOR PRICES AND INFORMATION FznnersFederatiofl .*.3 ^tchery rt- Johl> R. Jones, Mgr. Syl" *
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