Mars Hill College - Laurel Yearbook (Mars Hill, NC)

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Mr. M. C. Treat of Pennsylvania -n - .' 1 .w V. Mars Hill College, 1911 The growth of the campus during Dr, Moores first fourteen years as president is evident with the increase in the number of buildings from 2 to T. The summer home of Dr. B. W. Spilman was obtained in 1902 as a residence for girls. In 1906. the Treat Annex fncw Treat Dormitory? to the Spilman home containing an assembly room, ci dining rooni and kitchen, and laundry room was completed. The auditorium was completed 1n 1906: the Treat Hall for Boys fthe front part of the present Sprlman Dormitorvl was completed in 19071 and the building which now bears the name Moore Hall was completed in the spring of 1910. K 5f'40L5 'rsh X s ' gf :HTH . 7 Emial' . e st e ll ML, :mme I , T.. I 4 .- Y MY: L Af-z,.-,A M ' 7' 1- ,-l -- - Rivermont Dormitory, razed in 1954, was formerly the twenty-room Riddle Hotel. The property was purchased in 1914 and named River- mont after the church in Lynchburg, Virginia. which made its purchase possible.

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'B-ol .28 Mars Hill College as Dr. Moore found it in 1897. Dr. Moore did not have the physi- cal strength, however, to press the cam- paign for buildings and endowment. Yet Mars Hill College, competing with the growth in other colleges, especial- ly state colleges, was compelled to go forward with her expansion program. Thus on February 6, 1935, Dr. Hoyt Blackwell, since 1928 teacher of Greek and Bible in the college, received at the office of the American Express Com- pany in Jerusalem a letter from Dr. Moore. appealing to him to return to Mars Hill College to direct the endow- ment and enlargement campaign. Dr. and Mrs. Blackwell, then traveling in the Near East, turned their faces home- ward and another new day dawned for Mars Hill College. In a meeting of the Trustees May 26, 1938, Dr. R. L. Moore submitted his resignation as president of Mars Hill College, asking that he be allowed as long as vigor of body and mind be vouchsafed to him to teach and to strengthen as he might the ties which bind the college and the former stu- dents, now numbered by the thousands. The trustees reluctantly accepted the resignation of President Moore, and after silent appeal for God's guidance and without comment the trustees unanimously elected Professor Hoyt Blackwell president of Mars Hill Col- lege, his term of office beginning on the eleventh day of June, which date marked the expiration of Dr. Moore's forty-one years of service and also his forty-fourth wedding anniversary. The Expansion Program continued. On Founders Day, October 14, 1940, the Charles M. Wall Science Building was dedicated. During the ten years following World War ll, the Endowment and En- largement Program continued its ex- pansion under the consecrated and sacrificial leadership of President Hoyt Blackwell. On May 30. 1946, the dorm- itory for women, constructed in 1941, was named for Mrs. Mae Cline Stroup '. ' '?'ur ag .,- Q Iii, . .. --, tH7:'9?iX . ffl I fi- 4, .. M Xt ix if .391 , fy fp, A i 'Rf .V1 , L,J in 1 ff. 7. -fy 1 s l 1 .r bw. QL? -71 ,ff--.in

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0 if-. E q i ,, ev, '7 0 Q t H. wr 0. . 'i:fffiVg ,U .ae if . X Robert Lee Moore, president 1897-1938: president emeritus, 1938-1949: known as the second founder of Mars Hill College, Mrs. Edna Corpening Moore served the college from 1897 to 1950 as dietitian, housekeeper, nurse, mother to the girls, and finally as Bursar. Looking west on College Avenue: Spilman Dormi- tory, built in 1907, enlarged in 1921, and remodeled in 19213 Moore Hall. first used in the spring of 1910, con- tains the administrative oiiices, the art studio, and eight classroomsg McConnell Gymnasium, planned by the late W. C, McConnell, the most liberal contributor, and later fostered by the Alumni Association, was erected in 1924. Looking east across the little circle: The auditor- ium. with a seating capacity of 800, was erected in 1906 largely by donations from people of the com- munity: Montague Building, a gift in 1919 from the late 'Viv Colonel H. Montague of Winston-Salem in honor of his wife, enlarged in 1933, served as the college library until the fall of 1955. It now houses the Department of Public Relations. Music Building, erected in 1892 for classrooms and one of the two buildings Dr. Moore found when he arrived in 1897, has since been divided into studios for teachers and small practice rooms for piano and organ. W. F. Robinson Infirmary, completed in 1935, was made possible by an initial gift by Mrs. W. F. Robinson in memory of her husband, gifts by the college facul- ty, and gifts from others who aided in the undertak- ing. Melrose Dormitory, the last large gift from the late M. C. Treat, was opened to students during the fall of 1924. Brown Dormitory, a duplicate of Melrose, was completed in 1925. I f