FROM ONE ALUMNUS TO ANOTHER
Fellow Alumni, I wish it were possible for us to again
walk across the campus of our dear Alma Mater, chat
together on the porches of the girl’s dormitory,—now
Huggins-Curtis Hall,—or eat one of those delicious meals
Mrs. Ritch used to serve us in the dining hall. Since
this is impossible for most of us, I want to renew our
fellowship by writing you in this alumni issue of the
Pilot. During the years of our institution’s infancy and
struggles you have been faithful, loyal, generous, prayer
ful, and helpful. This spirit has had much to do with
making possible a development of our college beyond
our fondest dreams. I wish I had space in which to give
you the story of this growth. My intention in writing
you, however, is not to reveal what is being done here,
but to better acquaint you with the activities of some
of our alumni. I hope this magazine will be the medium
through which we may find out more about all of you—
your work, your. success, your family and your friends.
T. N. Farris, a member of the first graduating class,
is now teaching at the University of Louisiana at Baton
Rogue, La. He has had phenomenal success with
his work and is an alumus of whom we are justly proud.
Others of this first class are Dt. T. C. Holland, who
took his Doctor’s degree in theology and is now in the
reserves of the U. S. Army, Mrs. W. F. Mobley (Louise
Atkins) and Miss Ollie Moore, who are graduates of
Limestone College and are now successful teachers.
The group of Alumni who possibly have had the
most influence are those who have become pastors of
our churches in the Kings Mountain and Sandy Run
Associations, and elsewhere. Some of those who are
most prominent in this field are Dr. R, C. Campbell, now
pastor of the First Baptist Church of Little Rock, Ark.
Rev. W. T. Tate, pastor of the Pacolet Baptist Church,
Pacolet, S. C.; Rev. Boyd Cannon, a leading pastor in
our own Kings Mountain Association and president of
our Alumni Association; Rev. H. G. Hammett, pastor
of the Temple Baptist Church in Durham, N. C.; Rev.
M. D. Blanton prominently associated with the work
in the Sandy Run Association and Rev. W. G. Camp,
one of our most loyal Alumni.
Many of our graduates have become doctors and
dentists. Among these are Dr. X. I. Green of Jackson
ville, Florida, Dr. A. B. Crowell of Lincolnton, Drs.
D. F. and Victor Moore of Shelby, Dr. John Hamrick,
well known surgeon of Shelby, Dr. Allen Cash of Char
lotte, N. C. and Dr. Wyan Washburn, now Gardner-
Webb College physician.
At least two of our number are in the latest edition
of Who’s Who in America—^Ray Brown of Chicago, 111.,
who has become an authority on the operation of hos
pitals and Dr. M. D. Whitaker, President of Lehigh
University.
Jay Jenkins, a journalist, who was former editor of
The Wilmington-Herald is now on the staff of the
Raleigh News and Observer.
Those among our Alumni who have become successful
business men are: Arnold Kincaid of Kings Mountain,
who operates his own mill machinery shop; Roy Arnette,
a manager of an ice cream company in Winston-Salem,
N. C.; Dufaye Barber, manager of a telegraph company
in Columbia, S. C.; L. W. and C. E. Hamrick, who operate
a mercantile firm in Boiling Springs; Grady Putnam,
manager of the S and W Cafeteria, Washington, D. C.;
S. C. Lattiomore, Vice President of the Federal Land
Bank, Columbia, S. C. (recently retired); Carl Latham,
who is an insurance underwriter in Gastonia, N. C.;
Maynard Allen, manager of a telephone company in
Charlotte, N. C.; Huber Gold, who married Selma
Mauney, is a ginner and farmer of the New House sec-
C. C. Horn and Audie Powell, lawyers in Shelby and
M. A. Stroup, a lawyer in Cherryville.
These are a few of our Alumni who are begiiming
to greatly influence their communities. There are many
others that it will be impossible for me to mention in
this brief communication.
Not only have many of oui- men been prominent in
the various fields but also a great number of our women
have rendered outstanding service.
One of the most important of these fields is nursing,
the following Alumnae have entered this profession, and
are rendering much needed service: Lunette Odom, who
has for the past twelve or fifteen years been a nurse in
the Walter Reed Hospital of Washington, D. C.; Eunice
Hamrick, who saw over-sea service in World War II;
Mrs. Vess Palls of Lawndale and Marie England are
graduates of the Shelby Hospital; Leila Jones, a graduate
of the Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem; and Mar
jorie Hamrick, a cadet nurse during the war.
So many of them have become teachers in our ele
mentary, pubhc and private high schools and colleges
that it will be impossible to name them all here. They
are rendering a distinct service to the boys and girls
and are influencing students to come to Gardner-Webb.
Business has also claimed many of our women grad
uates. They have become secretaries, stenographers,
cashiers, and some have even established businesses of
their own.
Those of us who still live in Boiling Springs have
been impressed with the number of students at Gardner-
Webb who are sons and daughters of our Alumni. This
group is growing and will soon become one of the chief
sources of students for our college. Mr. Elliott and other
college authorities tell me that these are worthy off
spring of their parents and are making an enviable
record in school.
I have enjoyed this little visit with you. So sorry that
space and adequate information have prevented me
from mentioning more of you. I hope the time will soon
come when we can have an Alumni secretary through
bring our organization together into a living, vital force
for the college we so dearly love.
—O. P. Hamrick, ’11