O. MAX GARDNER MEMORIAL STUDENT CENTER
DEDICATION
TODAY
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ALUMNI
ISSUE
VOLUME XVI, NO. 8
Gardner-Webb College, Boiling Springs, N. C.
Gardner Memorial Dedication Today
HOEY TO SPEAK
By JOHN ROBERTS
North Carolina’s senior United States senator, Clyde R. Hoey, will
ieliver the major address dedicating the new O. Max Gardner Me
morial student union of Gardner-Webb College this Easter Sunday
afternoon at 3 o’clock.
Other principal speakers for the occasion will be the following; Mrs.
O. Max Gardner; Dr. W. Wyan Washburn, chairman of the college
board of trustees; Holt McPherson, managing editor of the Shelby
■_ Daily Star; President P. L. Elliott, of the college; Ben C. Fisher, execu-
~ tive assistant to the college president; and John Arndt, president of
the college government association.
A campus audience, gathered to dedicate the new
iviemorial and to rememoer the late Ambassador
O. Max Gardner, will include county, state, and
national friends of the late Tar Heel governor, as
well as trustees of the college, faculty members,
and the entire student body. Included among the
expected notables are North Carolina’s Secretary
of State Edwin Gill, the Greensboro Daily News’
Tom Bost, and State Senator Lee Weathers.
Early in the 1940’s, Max Gardner had a vision of a
useful and prosperous college at Boihng Springs,
and at that time the small campus had only a
tew worn buildings and a handful of teachers and
students, representing an area hardly larger than
2'0-miles radius of the campus. Instead of being
discouraged by these prospects, the late bene
factor was merely inspired by them, and it is the
realization of such an inspiration that brings us
to this day of dedication and the midway land
mark in the first Gardner-Webb decade of growth.
Perhaps above everything else this afternoon,
the new O. Max Gardner Memorial student union
represents a landmark-reminder of the man who
started the revitalization of the college in 1942.
Colonial in design, the building represents an in
vestment of $200,000, and above all, it is one of
the few buildings on any college campus erected
and furnished exclusively for the benefit and con
venience of the students.
The Gardner building is the newest look in col
lege student centers. It houses the college cafe
teria, postoffice, soda shop, day lounges, club
rooms, student activities offices, the college guid
ance department, and a reading room. A large
picture of Ambassador Gardner has been placed
■ ! spacious main lounge,
expected to offer much
)f the college and the region gen-
g hall will be used by the Cleve-
Club on April 29 when Phil La-
Follette, three times governor of Wisconsin, will
VERBAL TOUR
on the ground floor. Entering the building from one of the cement
walks leading to the front, we cross a spacious cement terrace-patio.
The spacious main lounge, 42 by 68 feet in dimensions, is furnished with
a score of leather upholstered sofas and as many coffee and end tables
and overstuffed chairs. Pull vision windows on two sides of the lounge
are decorated by aqua drapes that blend with the waUs and maple
Venetian blinds operated by brass chains. The oval ceiUng gives an
indirect-lighting effect. The floor Is of asphalt tile, and at one end
of the lounge there is an open'fireplace over the mantle of which
hangs a portrait of the late Ambassador Gardner.
We leave our wraps in the cloak room to the left and walk into a large
■oom, 24 by 30 feet in dimensions, with an
open fireplace. This is a reading and study room
where students may work, or receive counsel and
placement tests by the college guidance depart
ment. Through a door, we see a smaller room,
17 by 18 feet, where students may have private
conferences with the director of guidance, Dl-
Robert A. Dyer.
Crossing the lounge again, we find two rooms
exactly similar to the ones just visited. The larger
one is used as a meeting place for all student
clubs and organizations. The smaller room is used
by the student officers for meetings of the col
lege Government Association, the student publi-
c_oions staffs, and other student officer work
We go down a landing stairway into a dining hall
capable of seating over 400 guests at special ban
quet functions. The west side of the college cafe
teria is well lighted by full-length windows. To
the right is a spacious kitchen and cafeteria
equipment, and beneath that cement terrace we
saw m front is a maze of storerooms, all of which
are equipped with the most modern kitchen and
cold storage facilities, from a new bakery oven
to the latest dishwasher, steamer, and dryer.
Across the cafeteria, opposite from the stainless
steel serving counter, we enter the vestibule to
the student bookstore, snack-bar, and postoffice.
Although we think we’ve seen it all, there’s stilt
the furnace room to visit. Here a modern, elec
trically controlled oil burner sends heat to all
parts of the building and hot water to the kitchen
Out of the boiler room, a quick gaze into the
i shop again, and we mount the stairs lead-
5 bookstore to the main lounge. In
e find several boys talking
The Gardner Memorial possesses the kind of
quality worthy of lengthy description for Such an
issue as this, worthy of a verbal tour from the color
ful terrace at the entrance to the modern kitchen
Pictured above is North Caro
lina’s senior United States sena
tor, Clyde R. Hoey, who will be
the principal speaker for the
dedication of the new O. Max
Gardner Memorial student
Union this Easter Sunday aft
ernoon. A close friend and
compatriot of the late Ambas
sador Gardner, Senator Hoey
gracio’is'y accepted President
> liiott’s invitation to speak, aft
er Senator J. M. Broughton’s
untimely death necessitated the
procurement of a new speak
er. Senator Hoey has been a
friend of the college since its
beginning.
ing from t
the lounge this time w
about the latest baseball scores'.'A 'half~'dozen*Srlt
are wondering what they will wear to the fresh-
man-sophomore banquet. Some of the fellows are
comparing notes for the coming history test, and a
teen-age lad is reading a hometown newspaper.
Resting in one of the leather couches, we find our
selves looking at the portrait over the mantel. For
1 moment it seems to smile upon us, and why
IS long as these halls contain young
shouldn’t , ^ ,
people with a purpose i:
O. Max Gardner s' "
life, the spirit that made
"”"r die.