Ben Lippen School - Challenge Yearbook (Asheville, NC)

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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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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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Tuesday, Apnl 28 1970 LIPPC n LIte Page 2 ALUMNI NEWS We receIved a letter today from another alumnus of Ben LIppen School of the dIstInguIshed class of 50 Jerry Allan An under taker In Hevenlldaze Pennsyl vama he fInds hIs work thrIvIng and consequently very Interest lhg We quote from hIs letter For three years I have been U19 only mortIcIan lh thIs town of 10000 populatlon Up txll sIx months ago I had had Just enough work to keep me faxrly busy The reason for thIs seems to have laIn In the qualxty of medIcal servIce thIs town was famous for There were twentv M D s herwall of them top notch physIcIans surgeons den tIsts and specIalIsts Last October dIsaster In an unexpected fomm struck the medx cal professIon of HevenlIdaze A new suxgeon a young sprout fresh from school hung out hIs shmgle In mv sectlon of town In three months he had establxsh ed a record heretofore unequaled In modern llmES only four out of all the patIents who had passed under hIs hand In the operatIng room ever lIved long enough to tell theIr storv to anyone besldes SaInt Peter Thexr hltherto untarmshed professxon vllely blotched bv thIs upstart Intruder seven of the former doctors commItted SUlClde sIx dxed of shame four left the country In self exxle and three swapped thetr scalpels for shovels and took up grave dxggmg MeanwhIle there was such a tremendous boom In my busIness that I was forced to rent a four story buIldIng and set up a re u lar assembly lIne method I ha t Increase my VChlCleS from one ambulance and one hearse to a fleet of sIxteen ambulances sIx teen hearses and two trucks- the latter to carry caskets bad that In order to take care of all the DUSIDCSS we were forced to forsake conventlonal funerals and slow processIons and use a system co ordInated somewhat lIke taxI servIce at Grand Cen tral statIon When an ambulance delIvered a patlent at the surgeons front door It moved to the rear where 1h about twenty mInutes the corpse was loaded In for delIvery to my plant On an average of every twenty mmutes a full cas ket was set In a waItIng hearse to be hurrIed away By a new streamlmed process we prepared a body In one and a half hours and usxng four assembly lmes we kept up wlth the doctor As In the days of the forty nIners people were crazed be yond help at the slght of easy money Hundreds of busInesses closed down as bay wmdowed managers bespectacled clerks overall clad Jamtors and even some pretty secretarles dashed out to help reap the profIts of grave dlgglhg wood choppIng casket makmg or as was usually the case wtth the secretanes ar rangmg bouquets Money so blmded these poor IdIots that they could not realIze the source of the awful tragedy People kI11ed themselves worklng a fact whIch only added to the confu S10h Mme was not the only busI ness whose profIts skyrocketed l- lorIsts doubled theIr Incomes In Sld6 of two weeks Lawyers swanned to the town to sexze a share In the legal transactIons re gardmg PFOPCITIQS of the deceas ed The casket factory at Ded manton was swamped wIth orders from Hevenlldaze and lumber companIes were fast c1earIng out theIr yards Fortunately one old Judge re tamed hIs sense of sound Judg one evenIng for a meetmg that lasted far Into the nlght I under stand that the doctor was brought In for questIonIng at that tIme but rumors have so bungled the truth that one cannot belleve anythmg he hears Nevertheless Just before thlngs settled back to normal I was glven the mangled body of the doctor In questIon to prepare for crematxon In connectxon wIth the Clam of 50 we cannot neglect to men tIon Kenneth Duggan He was one of the boys Ken was the class entertaIner responsible f good share of the mIschIef orI eInatIng In the SenIor dorm In 1950 He supplemented hIs hxgh school educatIon by a full course at CecI1s Busmess College In Ashe vIlle After hIs graduatIon he dIsap Deared Into Tennessee But bad penny alwavs comes back thev say-only the maxIm doesn t apply lh thls case Yes Ken came back ten years ago and set up busIness on Patton Ave Before long Duggans Hot Doc JoInt be came so popular wlth Ben LIppen bovs that they patronlzed no other fountam But there Is more than Just good busmess relattons between B L and Ken Duggan He IS a personal frIend to each of the bovs alwavs chattmg pleasantly wIth them as thev sIt In hIs store Ben LIppen teams can always depend on Ken to be at the game Hes our fan In every sport and Its a mxghty good reason that keeps hxm away from any event Kens hangout popular wIth all the school kIds has grown out nf threee buxldxnes In ten Vears It was hlS easv gomg manner and cheerful personalIty that made hIs success AFRICA THEAS tCont from page 1 col 41 suroassed that of OlIver Gold smIth lh depIctIon of character But the greatest was yet to come Fourteen years later Mtotos accomplxce Ndugando began a most brI1lIant career second onlv to that of the great master of drama WIllIam Shakes oeare Some of the greatest that have been revealed to me thus far Include such romances as the storv of Ruth others concern Gldeon In hIs battle agalnst the MIdIanItes Job Moses etc I am under the convIctIon that these dxscoverres wIll Inaugurate a revo1utIon In the development of the worlds great llterature specIfIca1lv In the fIeld of classI cal drama Dr Plepgrass has been wxdelv accepted as one of the greatest lIterarv crItIcs of the dav second only to the late Mrs T H Lath am HIs reports have been readI lv accepted bv the llterary cxrcle and matenal Is to be Inspected bv a group of the most promment crItIcs of our country fo1lowIng Dr Pxepgrass s translatlons lt IS suspected that these dramas wIll soon be performed In every playhouse and theatre o fthIs and many forelgn coun trIes M98hWhlle plans are belng for mulated for the Introductlon of Ndugando Into our countrv wlth a formal educatlon In the EnglIsh language by manv of the promI nent professors of the day Dr PIepI!rass Is to be awarded the 1970 PulItzer PTIZE for his brIngIng to 1Ight these fabulous dIscoverIes Dr Plepgrass states that he receIved hIs Introductxon and basIc knowledge as a foundatIon for hIs study In lxterature under the renowned crItIc the late Mrs T H Latham Instructor of Eng lIsh at Ben LIppen School Upon graduatxng from Ben LIppen Dr ment He called In the selectmenlmepgrass commued study at Prmceton UnIversIty where he recelved HIS LItt D degree He then enrolled In PrInceton SemI nary where he receIved hIs tram Ing In theology and hIs bachelors degree In dIvInIty From the Semmary he Salled for South AfrIca under the AfrI ca Independent MIssIon and has served there to date CONCERT FEATURES- tCont from page 1 col 21 The audIence became hushed wlth an almost reverent SIIBHCE as the beautxful openIng chords of Beet hovens Nxnth Symphony poured forth and after a few mInutes a murmur of approval rlppled through the audItorIum as the crowd sat back to remaln spell bound for the remamder of the composltxon WIth grace and skIl1 worthy of hIs great predecessor Arturo Tus canInI DavId Bndgman led hIs orchestra on through the Intrlca C165 of the great symphony to the grand fIna1e The voIces of the chorus In the Ode to Joy and the trIumphant Joyful spIrIt of the Impressxve German words and the muslc swelled forth Into a mlghty fInal crescendo lt was not untIl the last chord had completelv dled away that the enraptured audIence dared break the sacred QUIEIDCSS of the moment In a tremendous burst of applause Wlth the termInatIon of hIs re cent tour DavId BrIdgman wI1l return to New York to make a serles of recordmgs wIth the Bos ton Symphonv Orchestra Through the fall months the maestro plans to be In London as guest conduc tor of the London Phllharmonxc Orchestra lh some specIal presen tatmns Uoon hIs return to the UnIted States In December he hopes to beevn plans for a tour throueh the Western states lIkelv IncludIng a vIsIt tn HBWBII wIth hIs famous Boston Symphony Or chestra HIGGINS CRASHES- Cont from page I col 31 The offtcers surrounded the buIldIng whIle HIggIns hImse1f ooIntIng a submachme gun through a small aperture In the wall called In Surrender up yo stIllIe an reach HIS demand was answered by a wIld round of shots from tlfle frelghtened men 1hS1de At thIs the deoutles battered down the door whIle HISQIHS fIred a burst at the bootlegeers who were Dre oarIng to defend themselves Three men fell and after a short hand to hand scuffle wIth the at tarkers the rest surrendered Hundreds of cases of lll1Clf whIskey were stored In one room of the buIldIng and It I5 sus pected that as much more 15 cached away lh the near vIcInItv The whole was valued at S1 000000 The offIcers placed a charge of dynamlte In the JOlhf and blew up the apparatus and 1Iquor The onsoners were escorted back to WInd Cave and sent to the Coun ty JaIl ImmedIately When asked to comment on the 9DlSOdE Hxggms drawled Wal thar wamt much to t When ah heered bout thet thar carn lIkker back up thar lh the woods ah les called In mah depIty an told hxm ah sez JIm thars some voung tellers up thar a makIn whlte lIghtnIn agln He sez 'Wal ah reckln well les have to ketch em So we ketched em Thats all thar were to t ah reckIn LIppenItes mIght be Interested In a lIttle more about HIKZIHS Paul came to Ben LIppen as a freshman graduatmg four years later wxth the famous Class of 50 Although he was Oflglhally IntendIng to be an engxneer HIg gms changed hIs mInd soon after graduatmg and declded on a polIcemans lIfe He attended Dell School of CI-Imnology In Ashe vxlle WIth the comp1etIon of hIs schoolxng there he JoIned the RaleIgh N C polIce force re maInIng for four years whIle re CEIVIDQ valuable tralnlng ln 1957 he moved to Jackson County Kentucky and In 1959 was elect ed deputy shertff for two years In the succeedmg electIon he was voted sherIff and by hIs merI IOFIDUS accompllshments has kept the offIce for eIght years DISC JOCKEY Howdy kIds' TIme to BIVE you latest scoops on current platters Pull up your easy chair If you re lucky enough to have one and Just settle back and dream whIle that sIngIng coach carrIes you off on one of hIs sentImenta1 moon trIps Our own Tucker Graham took tIme off from sprxng practlce to cut another wax for ColumbIa under the name of And You Were There StrIct melancholy sentlment 15 the theme and Tuck ers rendItIon Is golng to sway everv fxbre of your feeble mascu lIne frames On the other Slde of the record Tuck slngs an old hIt Hung Chow Blues For the gentlemen who prefer the hIghest form of culture one of our alumnx agaIn hIts the spot 1Ight as Maestro Bndgman takes hIs baton before the Boston Sym phony Orchestra for a recordxng of DImItrI ShostakovItchs Sym phony No 9 Op 70 Other popular hIts makmg ra Id advance up the rank of the t Parade are Now That I Need You Papa Sentlmental Rhap sody and Maxwell Street Paper Bo Summary And You Were There-Hung Chow Blues Tucker Graham tCo lumbIa 7 dIsc 33 U3 Symphony No 9 tShostako man Conductxng fCo1umbIa 12 d1SC 33 U3 Now That I Need You Papa Chastam and hIs Smoky Mountam Flddlers fVIctor 10 dIsc 78 Sentxmental Rhapsody DInah Day Vlctor 10 dIsc 78 Maxwell Street Paper Boy Paul Taxt Decca I0 dIsc 78 TWENTYYEARS OF PROGRESS The past twenty years has seen a great Improvement In the cam pus and facI1ItIes of Ben LIppen School ThIs Issue of the LIppen LIte has been dedxcated to alumnl news therefore our edItors de cIded to EIVE a bnef resume of the development of our school In 1950 the campus was com posed ol the maIn buIldIng whIch then housed the dormItorIes of flees classrooms and dInIng room Then the gym had only the playIng floor and an unfmxshed basement The other buxldmgs were the chapel Huston Hall and Jumor Hall the facult apart ments The only playIng Ield was the athletlc fleld whIch had only a hard clay surface The fxrst step In the progress of development was the completlon of the basement of the gym pro vIdIng for a FQCTBBQIOD room and showers and lockers for home and vIsItIng teams F0ldlhg bleachers were also Installed In the meantxme as the enroll ment Increased to 100 the maIn buI1dIn underwent a process of remode Ing to accommodate the Increased number of students The wIng was modeled and fm Ished to accommodate 58 students In 1957 a glft of a quarter of a mIllIon dollars was donated to Ben LIppen School by a frIend wIth IDSSYUCIIODS that lt be used tContInued on page 3 col 41 , ' . . 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