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Keeping GWU on
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Wednesday, September 30,1998
The Official Campus Newspaper
Volume 2 No. 2
Hamrick Hall renovation celebrates
Gardner-Webb history and growth
Mary Jones
Pilot staff
“It is alive,” said Dr.
White, Wednesday, Sept. 23
at the dedication service for
the newly renovated Hamrick
Hall held in the building’s
auditorium. Harvey B.
Hamrick, representing the
family who gives Hamrick
Hall its name, also spoke.
“This building has been a
lot of things over the past 73
years, but, most importantly,
it has never ceased to be,”
said White in his address.
“While fires and deterio
ration took their licks on
Hamrick Hall, the spirit of
the building remained. Even
over the last 11 years, as this
giant lay sleeping and vacant,
one could not pass by its
looming facade without a
‘haunting’ sense of integrity,
tradition, nostalgia and char
acter.” Hamrick Hall is the
oldest building on campus.
Now, said White, “tech
nology pulses through the
veins of this building, giving
it a lifeforce that is essential
to the success of all who seek
a 21st century education.”
' White also reflected say
ing, “Hamrick Hall in many
ways symbolizes the essence
of Gardner-Webb University.
It has had new life breathed
into it, and has become
unequaled in its stature - its
mission to not only meet the
expectations of Christian
higher education, but to
exceed them . . . So, too has
Gardner-Webb.”
He gave thanks to
Gardner-Webb’s supporters
saying, “I see the faces of the
people who made this possi
ble. And, in my opinion, I see
the face of Gardner-Webb.”
The service closed with a
prayer of dedication by Tracy Refreshments were served in visit the multimedia class-
Jessup and the Alma Mater the Tucker Library and rooms,
sung by “Disciple.” guests were encouraged to
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Photo by Carla Catoe
Workers put the finishing touch on the sidewalk before the opening of the remodeled Hamrick Hall
G-a-P brings GWU ministries together
Carla Catoe
Pilot staff
The only clothes there are on
bodies. It’s not in a clothing store, but
in the Gardner-Webb University
chapel. You can’t buy clothes there,
but you can go to G-a-P to worship.
“Matt Walton, Daniel Call,
Jeremy Burger and I were sitting
down eating at an ice cream social in
May,” said Tracy Jessup, Campus
Minister.
“We were thinking of a name for
our new joint worship service. I don’t
remember if it was Burger or Walton,
but someone said ‘GAP.’ Then some
one else said ‘Yeah, God and people.’
It just came out and it was really cool.
I immediately thought of the verse
Ezekial 22: 30, ‘. . . look for a man
will go into the gap. .
The group then looked at ways to
emphasize the meaning. The hyphens
were used to show the gap visually.
Jessup e-mailed Tim Veek, Christian
Ministries United cooridinator andhe
agreed it was a great name.
But what did the original Gap, the
clothing store, have to say about the
name for GWU’s new joint worship
service?
“I wanted to avoid any type of
legal dispute with the Gap, so I called
the outlet store in Gaffney and they
gave me the number for their corpo
rate headquaters. The lady I talked
with said she appreciated the thought.
“They all had the
same format—
they would sing
songs, do skits
and have a
speaker”
but they are very protective of their
name.”
Jessup felt strongly about the
concept and asked if he could call her
back and talk more about it.
“I told her we were going to spell
it with a capital G, have a space, then
a lower case A, a space and a capital
P. I told her it would only be promot
ed on campus and not advertised in
the community,”Jessup said.
This distinction made the GAP
official more agreeable. She said that
as long as it didn’t go off campus and
there was no clothing with G-a-P on
it, that GWU could use the name.
Veek believes that a joint meeting
of all Christian organizations, which
has been named G-a-P, is where God
has been leading Gardner-Webb.
“Probably since my freshman
year, God has been putting it on my
heart that we needed a joint meeting
of all the groups on campus. The
more I’ve talked to people about it,
the more God has put it on my heart.
Last year, the CMU council took a
survey at the end of the year and it
was unanimous to have a joint meet
ing. I was obvious where God wanted
to take things this year,” Veek said.
Jessup has also had it on his heart
that GWU needed a unified meeting
since he first came to Gardner-Webb
three years ago.
“I thought the possiblity of a joint
worsship service would be a good
idea the summer before my first year
here. I didn’t think it would be a good
idea to start my ministry making a lot
of changes though.”
Jessup felt that the leadership was
already in place and that changes
would cause a lot of rearranging. His
first year was spent evaluating, then
in his second year, some things start
ed changing. According to Jessup,
this year just seemed right to jnake
the move from several different meet
ings per week to just one joint wor
ship service per week.
Jessup, Veek, members of the
CMU council and other students
believe that G-a-P is the best source
of worship for students for several
reasons.
“Last year it just seemed that we
had all these meetings like FCA on
Monday night, Wednesday night
Celebration and BSU on Thursday
night competing with each other that
were all doing the same thing. They
all had the same format— they would
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