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THE PILOT
DECEMBER, 1951
Editor-in-chief
Associate Editor _
News Editor
Sports Editor
Feature Editor
Reporters
GARDNER-WEBB PILOT
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STAFF
EDITORIAL
Gene Washburr,
. Martha Coffej
Grace Nielse:.
Bob Myer.
Glenn Pettyjoh:
^ Carolyn Harless, Christine Hyde, Zeb Wrigh
Joyce Hoover, Jim Trantham, Dorothj
Bell, Valeria Shearon, Martha Stone
BUSINESS
Business Manager Peggy Jone:
Assistant Business Manager Alton Dove
Circulation Manager Martin Nichoft
Typists Mary Suddreth, Rache
Scroggs, Jonelle Teague
Faculty Advisor M, A. Mosely
Editorial
“Merry Christmas, everybody.” This is a statement that
we will all be hearing and saying a lot from now until after
December 25. Most of us are sincere when we wish others a
“Merry Christmas,” and most of us usually think of Christ
mas as being merry. But how are we going to help make
Christmas merry? We cannot do it by excessive commerciali
zation, or by trying to see just how many gifts we can get.
Nor can we do it be drinking or overeating. Christmas is a
time to have lots of fun; but Christmas should never be fun
ny. We must never forget this.
True happiness comes with a feeling deep down inside of
us that we have helped someone less fortunate than ourselves
along life’s way. Someone has said, “People are funny crea
tures. They spend money they don’t have, to buy presents
they don’t need, to impress people they don’t really like.”
Ttiis is not always so, but when we give expensive presents
. to people who don’t really need them just so they will give us
gifts, we are about as bad. Christmas is rightly considered
as a day of giving because it is the day we remember as the
coming of Christ into the world to be our Saviour. On this day
God gave His Son for us. All of us should give some of what
we ordinarily give to friends, who really don’t need it, to
people who really need all the help they can get.
A very worthy cause which should be considered is the
March of Dimes program. The Drive will start January 2 and
continue all through the month. It will last four weeks this
year instead of the usual two because of the devastating im
pact and aftermath of polio in the last three years. At the be
ginning of this year, the National Foundation was pledged to
pre for a cumulative caseload of 45,000 patients. In addition,
help was sought for four out of five of this year’s victims,
whose numbers still are growing.
Won’t you please remember these unfortunate polio vie-,
tims on your Christmas shopping list this year. We believe ty'
that this type of giving is the way to make Christmas “mer- ^
j there before you
- — - - i dreamland court
I with their glossy
ry.” — (G.W.)
Rook Society
Boys of Decker Hall have
ly organized a new recreatio
.ciety known as the Rook Society.
The new organization held its first
meeting on November 28 at which
time a constitution and by-laws
drawn up.
The new club has nine charter
members. Joe Cole was elected presi
dent of the society at the initial
meeting; Roy Carson, vice-presi-
dent; and Buddy Tugman,
tary.
Officers hold standing positions
for a period of six-weeks at which
time a new election is held. New
members may come into the club
by unanimous decision of charter
members.
This organization is strictly for
recreational purposes, having no
initiations for new members, and
no dues are charged.
Meetings are planned only by
presidential request.
Poll Of Opinion
Shown above is a group of industrious Gardner-Webb girls and boys
setting: out plants to help make our campus beautiful. The tulip bulbs
were given to Miss Starnes, our Dean of Girls, by Mr. Will Goodale,
of Camden Floral Company of Camden, South Carolina.
A Dreamland Beautification
Hear ye! Hear ye! Lend your shell-like ears to our com
ments on Charms of Dreamland Court. My! what a beauti-
4 unforgettable view of the wonderful beauties
of Gardner-Webb College. No, the lawn obviously isn’t carpet
ed with grass but with glamorous |
flowering plants. ; lovely garden seats. These flower-
This combination was beautiful ing plants help to make this a
beyond description. There were rows dreamland court of sunshine and
of red tulips surrounding the Girl’s beauty and a Home where each lives
Home on the front nearest the high- I for the other and all live for God,
way, and a bed of red ones in front | Miss Starnes, the Dean of Women,
of the picture window. Pure yellow, I dreamed of making the Girls’ Home
pink, and bright red ones were ' beautiful within and without, and it
planted in large beds in front of the | was last year that she confided her
Girls’ Home and along the drive- i dream to Carson Stout of High
way. I Point, who gave approximately $2,000
Was it true? Had you suddenly worth of furniture to help make the
caught a glimpse of a peculiarly lux- j Girls’ Home beautiful. This year
urious appearance of an iris? Yes,! she told her dream to Mr. WiU
standing there before you were at- | Goodale, of Camden Floral Com-
tractiye beds of not only iris, but I pany of Camden, South Carolina,
jonquils, narcissus, and various | who immediately sent her 1000 tu-
° flowers as well. I Up bulbs for the beautification of
Their buds were open and the bios- | the campus,
soms danced like little fairies in the i Garden seats for the court were
sunlight. Some had touches of gol- I donated by Dr. and Mrs. Robert
I den yellow upon their petals which Dyer, and Dr. Washburn provided
I glistened so brightly that you be- | fertilizer and additional labor.
their fascinating beau- Charles Ray Hill, Charles Ledford
i and Jeri-y Merrill helped in the
You glanced up astonished for ' planting of the flowers.
front of this I Early in the spring dogwoods will
re dogwoods | be planted and the campus will no
,. blossoms I longer be a dream but a real Dream-
shmning like diamonds upon the ' land Court of lovely color.
What improvements do you think i _ .. .
Tommy Beard — Longer sleeping
Two Main Reasons For Bulldogs'
Geraldine Woodie
senior class
Charles Rabon — Pour c
a week
Ruth Roberts — Better
Longer sleeping
junior and
date nights
b facili-
er-collegiate
Bobby Pettyjohn — Tutors for the
.ore unfortunate ones and I’
of them!
Betty Hinson — I
girls basketball
Sue Vance — Amen!
Doris Upton — More recreational
activities
Bates — It suits me just the
way it “
Success - Coaches Bradburn & Harris
Two very important figures in j might t
Gardner-—j— I —
ship are the champion coaches
Leadership, team spirit, and the
have been the driving
s successful
The thing he admired
s boys was their spirit
ird. He likes boys who
it on.” It’s the nature
eet the bumps, but with
a man use him around to say just
the right thing, problems seem to
1 easier. There is a fine pros-
future for him in athletics.
of'life*^to”
Just before the bruising Gordon
Military game. Coach Bradburn |
made a statement that carried its
weight into a championship role.
The following is his words: “Boys
hbeat-can’t be |
beat. piose words weren’t forgot- I tively, have raised the standards of
:n and the team record speaks for I athletics, and have contributed a
u TT • J I deal toward putting the school
Coach Harris made deep impres- on the map. This ’51 season will live
Miss Watkins — A cleaner campus I He is one fellow who°carHes ^hirf
rcont an Pjip-p r\ I ^T,r.o^ ^^iiuw wno carries a na- j ship, and skill m the techniques of
(Cont. on Page 6) I tural appeal to whatever his goal' good, clean football.
Coaches C. W. Bradburn and Nor
man Harris, having been at Gard-
er-Webb six and two years respec-