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THE PILOT
APRIL, 1949
Future Plans Stated
By Guidance Head
. WILLIAMS
2 shall be
r program ;
able to e .
to give our students the 1
sible help in making their adjust
ment to life and in choosing their
vocation with a minimum of ex
penditure of time, energy, finances,
and emotion.”
This is the aim of the Gardner-
Webb Guidance Department as ex
pressed by Dr. Robert Allen Dyer,
organizer and director of the ef
fective guidance work on the cam
pus.
This ideal is a new thing to be
emphasized in educational technique,
and Dr. Dyer has put Gardner-
Webb out in front with his ef
forts toward attaining his goal.
The Guidance Department came
about because of the ingenious in
sight of P. L. Elliott, president of
the college. President Elliott —
ognized the need for some so
aid to ■ help the students adjust
themselves to college life.
The Gardner-Webb Guidance De
partment had its official opening ir
the fall of 1947, with office and per
sonal file records in the old dormi
tory for boys, now the girls’ auxili
ary dorm.
The main problem with which the
Guidance Department
fronted in the beginning was that
of selling the idea to the students.
The attitude they took in the be
ginning was that the officials wert
meddling in their affairs. This
problem has at last been eradi
cated and the students’ attitude to
ward the Guidance Depai’tment if
totally one of respect.
Other problems have arisen, how
ever. There has been the problem
of inadequate space. The offices
the boys’ dormitories heretofore
were not able to house adequately
the equipment necessary to carry
on a program of this type.
This problem has been solved in
ihe moving of chc Guidance Depart
ment to the Gardner Memorial Stu
dent Center. There is now room for
two separate offices: one for a re
ception room which also contains
a reputable library of tests, inven
tories, and vocational information;
and an inner office where private
conferences may also be held. Space
is also now provided for a guidance
reading room.
Other problems have been that
of equipment and personnel. The
Guidance Department is expecting
one thousand dollars worth of equip
ment to be installed at the be
ginning of the next school year.
The problem of personnel remains
yet to be solved. Heretofore there
has been an almost complete re
liance on student help to carry out
the program of guidance. Dr. Dyer
has forseen the need for. a full
time secretary and other staff mem -
bers to complete the guidance pro
gram. There has arisen the need
for full-time counsellors trained in
counselling techniques.
Dr. Dyer contends that “a good
guidance program should include a
constructive system of development
for the student along scholastic, vo
cational lines.”
In the realm of scholastic train
ing, the Gardner-Webb program as
signs each student to a member of
the faculty who acts as the stu
dent’s counsellor. Once each six
weeks grading period, the student
meets with his counsellor, who is not
only a professor, but also the stu
dent’s confidant and friend, who
makes any needed arrangements for
personal interviews for the more
specific problems.
In the category of social adjust
ment, the Gardner-Webb
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hown the (jiirdner-Webb Bulldogs ot th; diamond. Iroiit is Bob (Creep) McMiirry. Sitting,
, are: Harry Rogers, Tom Parker, Ken Best, Jonas Bridges, Bill Barkley, John Arndt, Hal Ma-
Oakes, Max Fish, and llov Lee Smith, standing, led to right: Coach Revis Frye, “Whitey”
I shook, Leonard Keever, Ronald Ileafner, Joe Hamrick, Jim Manuey, Tom Painter, and
Women’s Sports
Director Leads G-W
May Day Plans
By JIM HULLENDER
Although the Women’s Athletic
Department is one of the least pub
licized departments on the Gard
ner-Webb campus, it comes to its
own during the early summer each
year, in the month of May to be
exact, when the King and Queen
of the May Court and all their
court attendants are trained by Miss
Saranan Morgan, director of wo
men’s athletics, in the finer arts of
“May Daying.” These May Day fes
tivities are one of the major events
of the college year.
This year’s May Court will be
under the direction of Coach Morgan
for the first time. She is a Gard
ner-Webb graduate, having receiv
ed her first experience in the ath
letic department during her second
year at Gardner-Webb under Pro
fessor J. Y. Hamrick, who was at
he time head of the department.
After receiving her degree from Pea-
oody Teachers College of Nashville,
Tennessee, she received further ex
perience at athletic direction work
in the summer of 1948, working with
toe Shelby Parks and Recreation
Concerning the coming May Day
plans. Coach Morgan stated to the
Pilot, “The Women's Athletic De
partment is striving to make the
May Day festivities of ’49 exceed all
such previous pageants held on the
Gardner-Webb campus. The pro
gram will be entitled, ‘An Old Sou
thern Dream.’ ”
May Day is always a form of
homecoming for the alumnae, as
well as alumni, of Gardner-Webb.
A record attendance is expected for
the pageant this year, due to the
rising state-wide interest in the
many activities of the college.
Implying that she would be in
terested in beginning women’s intra
mural athletics at Gardner-Webb,
Coach Morgan expressed hope for a
more complete athletic program for
women in the future.
Miss Evelyn Sue Hamrick, a pretty brunette of Shelby, and Max
ot East Gastonia are to be enthroned as Queen and King of the May
on the Gardner-Webb campus next month. Both are sophomore
students. Miss Hamrick is a music major, and Mr. Fish is majoring
in Physical Education. The royal court will include ten boys and ten
girls, half from the freshman class and half from the sophomore
class. All were elected recently by the students.
program interprets social life as
“living and getting along with
other people—that is, with the other
students and the faculty.”
Playing an instrumental part in
trying to prevent the student from
getting his social life out of pro
portion to his other college activi
ties, the Department of Guidance
attempts to balance and to de
velop the personality of every stu
dent, proving throughout the
process that the loud and i
and the shrinking and timid . _
be properly adjusted and balanced
through the right kind of guidance
and encouragement. Social adjust
ment is further developed on the
campus through directed reading
and personal interviews, as well as
wholesome group living.
To insure the further growth of
the Department of Guidance, Dr.
Dyer has registered for further
study in psychological testing and
vocational guidance this summer at
Columbia. University, the foremost
educational center for study of this
type in America.