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VOLUME XVI NO. 2
GARDNER-WEBB COLLEGE, BOILING SPRINGS
OCTOBER, 1948
Vision, Courage, Effort, Results
.1. J. EDWARDS
What Is A Monument?
By JOHN
Forty-three years ago a group of
men met to organize in this
tion a school where worthy boys and
girls might get an education
nominal expense. One might well
wonder i( these men realized
lull import of their deed. Were they
thinking merely of building a high
school to serve the needs of the com
munity for a few years until bettei
transportation and state appropria
tions made such a school obsolete?
Did they have a distant dream that
went into tomorrow to vision ar
tive school of higher education? The
answer to that is found in the fact
that there has been no need fo,
change in the basic policy of the
school since its beginning in 1905,
In li,28 it was made into a junior
college. This was a step forward to
ire, but the policy of providing
. ce to obtain an education under
Christian influence is still in ef
fect.
The credit for making Gardner-
Webb cannot De given to any one
individual. The men who founded
the institution launched a noble
ability and sincerety to carry on the
work of these founders. During the
depression years when operating
funds were inadequate, and when the
central administrative building was
icked by fire, there were still
a who dared to carry on. These
nds of the school, trustees anc
teachers alike, often put the school
ahead of their personal comfort.
In 1942 The Hon. O. Max Gardner,
)rmer governor of North Carolina,
Undersecretary of the Treasury, and
the time of his death Ambassador
the Court of St. James, took a
renewed and vital interest in the
school that now bears his name.
This interest aroused the Baptists
ROBERTS
of the Kings Mountain and Sandy
Run Association to new and un
heralded ambitions for a greater
Gardner-Webb College. The story
since that time is one of rapid and
startling growth. The college how
ever, has not attained its goal;
the greater work is yet ahead. So
it is with every growing institution,
it is well for those who are now
vitally concerned with Gardner-
Webb to remember that it is the
affectionate haunt of those men who
were so concerned with the future
as to cast their lot with the spirit
ual efforts of a small but cultural
community.
Vividly, as the centuries roll into
history, the recording hand of time
has proved that men who seek to
obtain personal greatness lose their
fame with the changing of time. No
monument to personal glory has
withstood' the satire of the ages.
Even the Egyptian pyramids, which
resisted the elements for five
thousand years, have made no out
standing contribution to humanity.
In just twoscore years, on the other
hand, a small college, our college,
has helped in molding the lives of
thousands of the leaders of men.
These in turn go out and join in the
fight to sustain social standards
id preserve the spiritual value.
Not on this side of the eternal can
the true value of the works of a few
who had the ability to see into
the future and the courage to strive
rd that future be revealed in
ultimate essence. Their steps
along these paths left four monu-
s to the vision that was theirs,
the courage that enlarxed that vis
ion, the eifort that answered that
courage, and the results which are
AARON qXJINN
K. B. HAMRICK
PROF. J. D. HTJfSGINS
J. F. MOOKE
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