Historic Attempt
Gardner - Webb Choir Travels
To WMIT Mi
From the highest peaks east of the Rockies on the transmitter terrace of
southeastern America’s pioneer FM radio station, the widely-known a
capella choir of Gardner-Webb College will attempt the first concert
of human voices ever to originate from the airwaves of Mt. Mitchell’s land
of the sky.
The program from WMIT, the Mt. Mitchell station, is scheduled for
2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21, at 107 on the 200,000 FM radio dial throughout
seven southeastern states, and it will feature 45 voices directed by Prof.
Stephen Morrisett, well known organist and college choir builder of the
South. According to the transmitter station supervisor, J. L. McFarland,
and WMIT’s Charlotte manager, John M. Dunnagan, the weather will
be the determining factor in the scheduled presentation from the Mt.
Mitchell transmitter terrace. Since the broadcasting studio at the peak-
land station will accommodate only a quartet, the choir will sing from
the terrace, free from the noises of the giant monitors in the spacious
transmitter room and of the large caterpillar Diesels in the engine room.
In a statement to the college news bureau today, Director Morrisett
agreed with the WMIT officials and added that he anticipated little voice
difficulties from the change in altitude.
Constituting the choir’s annual fall outing, the concert will include for
the college students a trip of over 200 miles to and from the peak, a
noon hour lunch on the Blue Ridge Parkway, special servings of hot coffee
before and after the program on Clingman’s peak, and a sunset drive down
Mitchell along the Parkway from Buck Creek Gap to Little Switzerland
and back to the college through Marion, Rutherfordton, and Forest City.
The October 21 program will include the following selections; Two old
German Chorales, “O Lord, How Shall I Meet Thee?”, by Martin Teschner,
and "Jesus, Priceless Treasure,” by J. S. Bach; three favorite hymns,
“Beneath the Cross of Jesus,” “I Need Thee Every Hour,” and “When I
Survey the Wond’rous Cross”; “Built on a Rock,” by Christiansen;
“Beautiful Saviour,” by Christiansen; “The Song of Mary,” by Fischer;
and “Grant Unto Me the Joy of Thy Salvation” by Brahms.
Members of the choir taking the trip Friday are: Sarah Blanton, Shel
by, 2nd Sop.; Jewell Brackett, Belwood, 2nd Sop.; Jo Bradshaw, Belmont,
2nd Alto; Wayne Bridges, Rutherfordton, 2nd Tenor; Alan Browning,
Elkin, 1st Tenor; Don Cabiness, Shelby, 2nd Bass; Anna Laura Cope
land, Marion, 1st Alto; Sue Curlee, Morganton, 1st Alto; Joyce Digh,
Rutherfordton, 1st Alto; Clarence Everhart, Winston-Salem, 2nd Tenor;
Wayne Foster, Montana, 2nd Tenor; Gene Freeman, Mayodan, 2nd Bass;
Joan Graham, Columbus, Ohio, 2nd Sep.; Doris Grigg, Gastonia, 1st
Alto; Leonard Harrill, Forest City, 2nd Tenor; Eleanor Henry, Hender
sonville, 2nd Sop.; Jeanette Hughes, Shelby, 2nd Sep.; Polly Ann Hull,
Mt. Airy, 1st Alto; Eula Mae Keener, Canton, 2nd Alto; Bill Kincaid,
Gastonia, Baritone; Evelyn Krause, Union Mills, 1st Sop.; Bernice Lane,
Lowell, 1st Sop.; Betty Logan, Chesnee, S. C., 1st Sop.; Bob Long, Elkin,
Baritone; Mrs. Julius Mahon, Belmont, 1st Alto; Jimmy Mize, Belmont,
2nd Bass; O. G. Morehead, Summerville, Ga., 2nd Tenor; Zeb Moss,
Aberdeen, Baritone; Herman Motsinger, Winston-Salem, 2nd Tenor; Bob
Mullinax, Summerville, Ga., 2nd Bass; Wilma Nichols, Elkin, 1st Sop.;
Mary Nolan, Casar, 2nd Sop.; Ben Norman, Shelby, 2nd Tenor; Charles
Shelton, Spartanburg, S. C., 2nd Bass; Jeanette Smith, Belmont, 2nd
Alto; Roy Lee Smith, Stanfield, 1st Tenor; Wade Sparks, Tampa, Fla.,
1st Tenor; L. B. Thomason, Summerville, Ga., 1st Tenor; Patricia Thomp
son, Statesville, 1st Alto; Geraldine Turnmire, Marion, 2nd Sop.; Charles
Stafford, Lowell, 2nd Bass; Doris Walker, Cramerton, 2nd Alto; Bill Wal
ton, Salisbury, Baritone; Beth White, Rutherfordton, 1st Sop.; Nyal Wil
liams, Spindale, 1st Tenor; Paul Williams, Union Mills, 2nd Bass; and
Bobbie Wray, Mt. Airy, 2nd Alto.
Shown above are two G-W Bulldogs getting some pre-Mars Hill
game experience and a liberal arts scholar helping to dish it out in
central dorm’s new kitchenette. The ladles and their aids-de-pot
are from left to right: Lois Loftis, Buddy Gantt, Alan Browning,
Betty Logan, Ellen Clary, and Red Painter. Gantt and Painter ap
plied some of the savory dishes to their energ^s in helping the Bull
dogs tie IVT
elsewhere.
s Hill last Saturday night, and Browning applied them
Gardner-Webb College, Boiling Springs, North Carolina
Volume XVII, No. 2 — October, 1949
Foniider’s Day, Homecoming
Marl[ Autumn Hipli^hts
by RAMONA CORNWELL
Next Saturday, Oct. 29, Gardner-Webb College will observe its 42
Founder's Day, with a 10 o’clock address by Dr. J. Glenn Blackburn,
chaplain of Wake Forest College, in the college auditorium, and a Home
coming football game with Lees-McRae College on the athletic fiel.d at
These festivities will mark a climax in the major steps taken this fall
by the college expansion program. By Oct. 10 the college registrar, Mrs.
Dorothy Hamrick, had announced that the record enrollment had run
over 430, and on the same day Prof. Ben C. Fisher, executive assistant
to the president, launched the $85,000 campaign to liquidate the debt on
the new $230,000 J. W. “Decker” Gardner Dormitory for men.
Open House will be observed in the various dorms on Pounder’s Day
from 11:10 to 12:30, and lunch will be served at 12:30. The half-time
activities at the homecoming clash will feature the Shelby High and Gaff
ney High bands as well as the presentation of the sponsors of the va-
ous student organizations.
Nine states, 47 North Carolina counties, and one territory of the U. S.
•e represented in the record student body. The state-wide county re
gions run from Onslow and Pender in the east to Cherokee and Hay
wood in the west and from Granville and Surry in the north to Robeson
and Anson in the south. North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Tennessee, Montana, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia are the states
represented.
There were over 44 career choices state,d on the registration cards, and
eight religious denominations are represented this year on the campus.
The veterans total 90 as compared to 125 last year, showing a drop of 35.
With summer school having an enrollment of 113 and the fall term be
ginning with 270 men and 160 women, the accumulated total for 1949,
including 65 duplicates, runs to 543 students.
Campaign director Ben C. Fisher stated recently that the committees
for raising the necessary $85,000 on the new dorm debt will be headed
by North Carolina industrial, business and professional, and agricultural
leaders. In addition, the college anticipates support in the campaign from
private alumni and friends throughout the Greater Gardner-Webb area.
The Rev. Mr. John W. Suttle, former president of the North Carolina
Baptist State Convention and venerable Cleveland County pastor for
over fifty years, said in support of the college’s latest expansion cam
paign “This campaign is one more of many steps already completed and
always to be completed in the rise of Gardner-Webb College as one of
North CaroUna’s effective junior colleges. The college can’t serve the
boys and girls who nee.d it without facilities. The ideal part of any col
lege consists of its service; the practical part consists of the facilities
with which to serve. In my judgment, this latest campaign for the liquida
tion of a dormitory debt means for Gardner-Webb the practical fa
cilities for ideal service.”
Something New
Has Been Added
ty MARY LENA PATTERSON
Well, girls, you have it now. The
hope and dream of the girls m days
of yore has come true. We now
have a lOom which says to the girls,
“Bring your boy friends in and re
lax”—a room that is ideal for a Sat
urday night campus date or Sun
day afternoon one—a place in which
the old saying, “The way to a man s
heart is through his stomach” may
be tested. We now have a fully
equipped modern kitchen on the
first floor of central dormitory for
girls.
The walls of the room are green,
with a gray counter-top table and
tile floor. Shelves .display colorful
dishes. The refrigerator and range
have been placed within arm’s
reach of one another. A door at
the right leads to two small clos
ets. To the left of the refrigerator,
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Surprising Bulldogs
Tie Mars Hill
In the last four minutes of a mud
and tussle North Carolina junior
college football classic, Gardner-
Webb College’s stubborn Bulldogs
shook loose their thoroughbred tail-
■ , Buddy Gantt, for a 25-yard
touchdown dash that gave G-W a
well-deserved 6-6 tie with the
valiant Mars Hill Lions in Legion
Stadium, Forest City, last Saturday
night.
The entire first quarter was a
punting duel between Garvin Mar-
tain of the Lions and Ervin Shook
of G-W. 'The Bulldogs threatened
twice in the second stanza, driving
to the 9 on one occasion and to the
10 on another. With Bob Smith, a
Syhvia, N. C., boy, teaming with,
Bill Cashion and Bill Puckett in
the ball carrying department. Coach
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