Ben Lippen School - Challenge Yearbook (Asheville, NC)

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Edward Toews Cllfton He1ghts Pennsylvarua Toe Toe Although a Yankee mn Southern terr1tory Ed d1dn t waste much t1me bemg homes1ck He got around Ashe vllle Weaverv1lle or about ten rrules south of Hendersonvllle on the Green v1lle h1ghway there was always some one or somethmg to rermnd you of Ed He tr1ed to exert h1s 1nfluence wlth all the faculty too Way to go Toews you re ID there p1tchxng hay ust don t bel1eve all you hear and only half of what you See Soccer 4-9 Co Captaln Track 49 50 Football 49 Photography 48 49 50 M F' 49 Muslc Appl-ec1at1on 49 50 To enter Undec1ded .Quin-'

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Stanley Plepgrass Sllver Sprxngs Maryland Plpey Another M K born ln Ethxopla P1pey IS the bra1n of the class often toppmng the Honor Roll Caught 1n a North Carolxna snow storm pxctures seem to xnspxre h1m most effectxvely He was once dubbed Old Falthful HIS favorxte pastxmes are hstenmg to I Drearn of 'lame wxth the Dark Brown Ha1r blow1ng h1s trumpet crackxng cormes 1n Physzcs and wrltxng themes for Mrs Latham Mrs Latham says he s what keeps up our Sen1or Enghsh standards Good luck to you Stan and may God bless you Football Nlgr 49 Soccer 49 50 Track 50 Valedlctorxan 50 Student Court 50 Challenge Co Edltor 50 S M F 50 Llppen L.1te 50 Choral 50 Muslc Apprec1at1on 50 Student Chrxstlan Assoclatlon Presldent 50 To enter Undecxded Paul Ta1t Ch1cago Ill1no1s C B Tal er This wlndy k1d from the Wlndy C1ty was qu1te a character Records had h1m Wlth qu1te an IQ He even got good grades when he put h1s feet to the f1re h1s back to the wall or a hot coal 1n h1S mouth dependlng upon the occaslon He was another one of the wlts only of a d1fferent specmes As for fr1ends he usually strung a couple along Good luck Ta1t and don t forget to keep your rrund harnessed Soccer 50 Track 50 Llppen Llte 49 S M F 49 50 Photo graphy Club 49 50 Mechanlcs Club 49 50 To enter lll.1no1s lnstltute of Technology l ln- DI ,, ,. . .. .., , ... ... - I I ,, . .. on - - .., . . . I 7 ,, .... . .. I , . ' ! , . .Q .., ' l Q I '. ' I l- 5. , , , . .. .- ,... , . ., . . l I .. ., .. 7 .. . , l .. .. .. - ., .. or t -... ... ... . ! , . l ' 1 ' J . , . , . . r ' x 1 . . . ! i . . ,

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,lik wpvn nic Vol XXX No ll Tuesday, Aprrl 18 1970 Ashcvrlle, N C GITLIN HEADS SUPREME COURT SENATE APPHOVES APPOINTMENT Specral Drspatch from Cbrcago Tnbuno-Aprrl 22 The Senate passed unanrmously today upon the Presrdentral apporntment of H Joseph Grtlrn to Chref Justrce of the Supreme Court Joseph Grtlrn whose skrllful handlrng and debatrng rn the no torrous Lewrs L Johns case brought hrm world wrde acclarm accepted the ap rntment wrth mrxed emotron I'l7:modestly ex pressed hrs apprecratron and stat ed that he felt unfrt for the posr tron but trustrng the decrsron of our Presrdent would serve to the best of hrs abrlrt News flashes rom Washrngton report that the natrons caprtal rs rn a state of hrlarrty and Joy over thrs great step towards the res toratron of our natron from rts present crrsrs Grtlrn announced hrs determrnatron to brrng the natron out of the crrtrcal slump rt has suffered srnce Johns severe attack on rts constrtutranal foun datron He stated he wrshed to see Justrce and freedom once agarn returned to our natron Grtlrn promrnent drstrrct attor ney rn Illrnors came before the natronal eye last month when as rosecutrng attorney rn the Lewrs Supreme Court of Johns undemo cratrc and unconstrtutronal actron The attentron of the whole world was focused on thrs tremendous three week contest between H Joseph Grtlrn and New Yorks fa mous Wrllram F Hammerstock defendrng attorney who has won every case for srx years Puttrng all hrs knowledge of law hrs sense of Justrce and hrs rntense love for democracy and freedom rnto the terrrfrc struggle Grtlrn untrrrngly hammered hrs pornts across to the Court and effected the rmprrson ment of the notorrous Lewrs L Johns who began hrs rrse to pow er rn the 1940s Alumnus Donates To Alma Mater Alumnus Donates to Alma Mater Dr Henry E Hale graduate of Ben Lrppen School 1950 and now owner of the famous Gar govle Hosrery Mrlls rn Ewrng vrlle Va donated to Ben Lrppen last week the generous sum of of S5000 Dr Hale especrally re quested that the money be used to frnrsh payments on the re cently campleted classroom burld mg connected to the gymnasrum A student at Ben Lrppen rn hrs Junror and senror years Ted for so he was known proved hrmself a screntrfrcally mrnded boy many ways He was wrdely known even then for hrs accom plrshments in the freld of ancrent Ford corls and lantern batterres Upon the completron of hrs hrgh school work he entered the Unr versrty of Vrrgrnra magorrng rn scrence So brrllrant was he rn hrs courses that he was offered tContrnued page 3 col 21 The grateful people of the na tron are not sparrng rn therr prarse and thanks to Mr Grtlrn for hrs bold stroke for freedom and de mocracy Therr opportunrty to show therr gratrtude to hrm came last week when Chref Justrce Thomas R Crarns passed away Realrzrng Grtlrn s capabrlrty Pres rdent Halleck appornted hrm to the offrce and the Senate passed unanrmously today upon the ap porntment Joseph Grtlrn a quret modest man orrgrnally from Chrcago stated that hrs rnterest rn law had been aroused whrle he was rn at tendance at Ben Lrppen School Ashevrlle North Carolrna It was at Ben Lrppen he sard whrle recervrng much practrcal as welr as academrc trarnrng that I began to consrder a career as a lawyer Mr Grtlrn contrnued hrs trarnrng at the Unrversrty of Illrnors grad uatrng from the Law School rn 1956 He entered the practrce of law the followrng year rn Sprrng freld Ill and by reason of hrs skrll and common sense was ap pomted to the offrce of drstrrct attorney rn Cook County Illrnors The father oi three boys Mr Grtlrn has sent hrs oldest son Jo seph Jr age 16 to Ben Lrppen School where the boy now rn rn hrs fathers footsteps Concert Features Choral Symphony Clrmaxrng a tour through the Southern States the Boston Sym hony Orchestra conducted by avrd Brrdgman gave Ashevrlle rts brggest musrcal presentatron rn the hrstory of the crty A graduate of Ben Llppen School Class of 50 Davrd Brrdg man had planned for months to grve the crownrng presentatron of ,the Southern tour at Ashevrlle land to donate the proceeds to hrs beloved Alma Mater In hrs honor and rn rts appre cratron therefore the entrre school attended the concert rn a body The concert opened wrth three short prelrmrnarres Slavonic Dann No l rn C Major bv Anton Dvorak Prelude to Act III from Lohongnn by Rrchard Wagner and 'hll Eulonspregoll Luntigo lstrorcho by Rrchard Strauss I-'ollowrng the prelrmrnarres was a frfteen mrnute rntermrssron be fore the evenrngs frnal and great feature Symphony No 9 In D Minor lChorall by Ludwrg von Beethoven performed on thrs oc casron by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Westmrnster Chorr and Quartet A thrrll of rrde surged through the breast o each Lrppenrte as Mr Brrdgman stepped onto the stage before the vast orchestra and chonrs A thunder of applause from the Jam packed audrtorrum greeted hrm as he stepped upon xhrs pedestal and rarsed hrs baton tContrnued page 2 col 31 I 1 r l ALUMNI MAKE NEWS Hr gms Crashes Bootleg Shebeen Hot off the wrres of the Unrted Press rs the story of a Kentucky sherrff's smashrng a mrllron dol lar bootleg system Monday Aprrl 27 Wrnd Cave Ky At 400 a m thrs mornrng Sherrff Paul Hrggrns of Jackson County led a posse of mountarn eers up a heavrly wooded hrllsrde about 8 mrles from here to sur prrse a dozen bootleggers and capture a huge strll Three of the bootleggers were krlled and two of the offrcers suffered mrnor wounds from a short that ensued Wrth the skrll of a genrus plannrng a ba gms had organrzed hrs twergtdy erght men Havrng sta tron frfteen men rn posrtrons where they could ard rf needed the Sherrff led a srlent frle of thrrteen prcked men armed wrth rrfles up a concealed pathway to the srte of the strll Under cover of prtch blackness the norse of therr approach smothered by a gentle rarn the posse arrrved at the srte of the strll undetected by the law dodgers struggle mrlrtary le I-Irg force of Court Martial To Hear Elefson A court martral of top rankrng Naval offrcers wrll meet rn Wash rngton Monday to hear an rndrct ment brought agarnst Rear Ad mrral Mrlton L Elefson The thrrty erght year old offrcer rs charged wrth cruelty to subordr nate offrcers and men whrle on a recent exploratron crurse to Bor neo A student at Ben Lrppen School for a year and a half Mrlton Elef son graduated wrth the Class of 50 Followrng hrs graduatron Elefson enlrsted rn the Navy where for three years he acqurred experrence durrng boot trarnrng and sea duty Trarned under the stern drscrplrne of Headmaster Falconer and the faculty of Ben Lrppen Elefson found rt easrer than most boys to accept the Irrm hand of the Navy At the close of three years Elefson was accepted at Annapolrs upon hrs applrca tron He was graduated wrth hrgh honors four years later a tough rron wrlled man capable of un dertakrng and completrng any task rn the Navy In a year he was grven com mand of the crurser U S. 8. Cha! Lak: named rn hrs honor for hrs home town At the outbreak of the trouble wrth rrates m the Chrna Sea rn I 3 Lleutenant Elefson was assrgned to represent the U S Navy rn the rntema tronal sea sweep whrch cleared the regron of that shrpprn men ace Upon hrs retum home e was promoted to the rank of Captarn for bravery rn mayor actron that l ALUMNUS REVEALS UNIQUE DRAMAS , Once agarn a Ben Lrppen alum ,nus makes headlrnes as Dr R rStanley Prepgrass LrttD fclass of 509 uncovers a lost treasure of unrque lrterary content rn th heart of dark South Afrrca Here rs Dr Prepgrasss story as he told rt to the A P news 'men I have been a mrssronary rn Afrrca a number of years and desrred to brmg the Gospel to a ,group of pagan uncrvrlrzed na trves yet unreached rn the heart of South Afrrca I had heard many rumors about thrs people lbut nothrng offrcral and whrle there desrred to leam for myself the trarts of thrs trrbe You can well rmagrne my sur prrse when I drscovered that not only could these people read and wrrte but also had rn therr pos sessron an old wom volume of the Brble For thrs reason my messages were much more readr lly understood My astonrshment reached a peak when that evenrng I was rnvrted by the chref to the trrbal gatherrng and saw a plav deprct rng the story of Job Thrs seem rngly savage people had taken the materral from the Brble and had wrrtten and produced one of nessed by human eye Such e r sodes were repeated perrodrca ly through the month of my vrsrta tron Upon rnvestrgatron I drscover ed that twenty one years ago a mrssronarv had been assaulted and thrs Brble taken Three years later havrng translated and stud red thrs volume Mtoto a semr crvrlrzed natrve took these storres and wrote some of the greatest dramas yet developed b mor fContrnued page 2 co Z3 took place off Hong Kong In 1966 he was promoted to tl- rank of RearAdmrra1 for comm ndable duty on an Arctrc crurse On the e two occasrons he establrshed a reputatron of berng an unnatural ly hard borled offrcer I Last fall he was recommended to drrect a crurse to Borneo for urposes of explorrng the rsland or deposxts of uranrum The De lense Department gave Elefson three months to complete the work and retum to the Unrted States On November 29 1989 the Rear Admrral embarked from San Dre o on the mrssron rn com mand o the U S S.AshoviIlo a cnrrser especrally constructed and equrpped for research and explo ratron as well as self defense In mrd Pacrfrc the shrp ran mto a typhoon and a young seaman blunderrng rnto some of the shrp s mechanrsm put the rudder out of ear and the shrp nearly foun ered When the storm passed rt was found necessary to put rn at a nearby base for re rn causrng a delay of two wee Enraged b thrs mrsfortune Eletson had t e poor sarlar beat tContrnued page 4 col ll ' Y 4 1.14 .1 ' -.4 '25 ' ,Sf . . l , . . 5 , . . , . . 9 . , - . - . . .. 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