G-W Friends Start Fund
With approximately half the $15,000 fund already under
written, a group of Gardner-Webb alumni and friends set
forth last week seeking the remainder to cover an operating
deficit occasioned by withdrawal of some 60 students, virtu
ally all of them boys entering military service, in the second
semester of the college year.
President Phil Elliott, addressing a luncheon session of the
canvassing g:roup yesterday, said colleges face two or three
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This Week Club Qualifications
years of financial stringency due to
lowered revenues from students and
higher costs of operation. The situ
ation at Gardner-Webb now is the
same thing faced by all schools in
which fees furnish a substantial part
of the operating cost.
Charles I. Dover, vice-chairman of
the finance committee presided over
yesterday’s session at the Charles
Hotel. Ben Fisher, executive as
sistant to the president, outlined:
the situation and said the institu
tion would have to lean on friends
and alumni to help it through the
present emergency without curtail
ing the school program.
sident Elliott, in his remarks
said it thrills him to see the day-
by-day widening of the good namf
of Gardner-Webb, an Institution he
sees “destined to permeate
transform its area both economical
ly and sociologically.” He said h
can’t express fully his gratitude fc
the unselfish support given Gard
ner-Webb by its community and "
said he is thankful every day fcjr
the opportunity of living and work
ing there. He said the school will
not be found napping in the present
; emergency, that it will continue to
seek and train studer
make Gardner-Webb indispensable
to the life of its community.
Gardner-Webb College, Boiling Springs, North Carolina
Volume IV FEBRUARY, 1951 Number 5
Current Affairs
Contest Held
Sixty-nine took part in the an
nual Current Affairs Contest, con
ducted at Gardner-Webb College by
the International Relations Club,
sponsored by TIME, the Weekly
Newsmagazine, with prizes present
ed by the publishers.
Many junior colleges all over the
country shared this year in the intra
mural competitions, which have de
veloped from successful experiments
a number of years ago. In each col
lege a prize book or a 12-inch world
globe will be awarded to the student
in each participating academic year
who made the highest score on a
comprehensive factual test covering
events in the last four months of
1950.
The winners of the contest here at
Gardner-Webb were: sophomore;
Bobby Howe, with a score of 78 out
of a possible 105, and freshman. Bob
Ward with a score of 71.
Other high scoring sophomores
were: Marion Benfield, Robert
Wright, Carl Bradley, Max Harris,
Dan Roberts, Tommy Newton, J. C.
Trammell, Charles Shelton, Ray
mond Morgan, Milton Noblitt, James
Jenkins, Julia Hancock, Tony Izzi,
M. Harrelson, D. Stallings, Ellen
Clary, Bill Elliott, Walter Jenkins,
and Gene Cornwell.
Other high scoring freshmen were;
T. W. Estes, H. Alexander, Hugh
Miller, Zeb Wright, Joe Medford,
Bobby Heffner, Kenneth Dettmar,
and W. P. Lattimore.
The test, prepared especially by
Alvin C. Eurich, President of New
York State University and Elmo C.
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Freshmen Give
Variety Show
By
GAYLORD LEHMAN
e Freshman Class took its first
stride in raising funds to sponsor
Freshman-Sophomore banquet
-esenting a variety show in the
college auditorium on Friday night,
February 16.
This program, which uncovered
wealth of both student and faculty
talent, marked the beginning of
high-school week-end or "
^ The program ranged
personations of- the faculty and
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Night School
Enrollment Up
ere are at the present da
total of 140 pupils enrolled in
college courses offered on Tuesday
night at seven o’clock.
These people represent 26 churches
1 Cleveland and surrounding c“
es. The following churches are
resented: Patterson Grove, I
Hamilton’s Crossroad, Mt. Beulah,
Fairview, Dover, Pleasant Hill, East-
side, Beaver Dam, Calvary Baptist,
Second Baptist Church of Kings
Mountain, Bethel, Kings Chapel,
First Baptist Church of Kings
Mountain, Zoar, Haynes Memrial,
anion, Trinity, Mt. Sinai, Mt. View,
Unity, Lowell, Grace Methodist,
Grover, Temple, and Casar Baptist.
On Thursday night Mr. Garland
Hendricks teaches a class of Negro
pupils. This class has ten members.
NELL GRANTHAM
Religious Emphasis Week will be
observed on our campus this week,
February 24-March 1. We are for
tunate to have as our guest speaker,
[iss Mary Herring.
Miss Herring is a very interesting
personality, being the daughter of
Dr. David Herring. She was born in
China. The Herrings are a rather
ous missionary family. Pour of
children have returned to the
missionary field in China, Celia,
Gordon, Alec, and Mary. There Gor
don died as a very young man. An
other member of this great family
and one whom we all know and love
Dr. Ralph Herring, pastor of the
First Baptist Church of Winston-
Salem. Dr. Herring was a great in
spiration to all the students here
last year.
Since the war necessitated Miss
Herring’s return to the States, she
in great demand as a Bible
teacher and as a conference leader
in Baptist churches and assemblies,
and on college campuses.
While here she will bring mes
sages at the chapel hour every day
at the vesper hour. Her
;age was at the fellowship
hour on Sunday, Feb. 25. Her theme
for the week will be centered around
the Book of John.
Miss Herring is accompanied by
her secretary, Miss Beth Davis, for
merly of Charlotte.
Grantham, Linnens
Make "A" Honor Roll
Over thirty students of Gardner-
/ebb College have averaged Honor
Roll for the Fall Semester, Mrs.
Dorothy Washburn Hamrick, regis-
:, announced this week.
'he “A” average honor roll is com
posed of students carrying at least
hours load and making
age of 95 or over. These students
Nell Grantham, Marietta, N. C.;
and Max Linnens, Graham, N. C.
The general honor roll is compos
ed of students carrying at least
load and making an ave
age of 92 or above for the grading
period. These students are: Doris
Adair, Gastonia; Thurman Allred,
Graham; Marion Benfield, Belwood;
Eugene Biggerstaff, Shelby; Billy
Bingham, Lawndale; Jo Lena Brid
ges, Shelby; Martha Coffey, Caro-
leen; Quinn Fisher, Asheville; Bryan
Gillespie, High Shoals; Doris Grigg,
Gastonia; Julia Hancock, Franklin-
ville; Joyce Hoover, Spindale; Mary
Grances Howard, Statesville; Wal
ter Jenkins, Mooresboro; Faith
Johnson, Magnolia; Gaylord Leh
man, Inman, S. C.; James McAlis
ter, Lowell; Agnes Mull, Li ’ '
Grace Nielson, Edneyville; Milton
Noblitt, Shelby; Geneva Osn
Gaffney, S. C.; Sara Reece, Jc
ville; Marquean Ross, Morganton;
Andy Sealey, Shelby; Mickey Shull,
Shelby; Rachel Smith, Mt. Holly;
Alice Swann, Statesville; Margarett
Swann, Statesville; and Alma Mae
Thrift, Grover.
^-six students have qualified
for membership in the Science Club,
it was announced recently by Miss
Jean Devlin, secretary of the club.
The Science Club is composed of
students who have a B average on
all their science courses and a C
average on all school work. The of
ficers of the club are as follows;
president, Wayne Bridges, vice-presi-
Bryan Gillespie, secretary,
Jean Devlin, and program director,
Robert Wright. The faculty spon-
Mr. Dixon and Mr. Mos
ley.
Those eligible for membership are
the following: Doris Adair, Pran-
Allen, Billy Bingham, Wayne
Bingham, Joan Bridges, Troy Bridg-
Ray Carnes, Iris Champion, Elea-
r Cogdill, Bobby Denny, Betty
Edwards, Nell Grantham, Doris
Grigg, C, D. Hendrick, Jack Holt,
■■ )well, Mary Dorcas Howell,
Joyce Hoover, Barbara Huggins,
Christine Hyde, Walter Jenkins,
Faith Johnson, Rufus Johnson, Gay-
■ Lehman, Jack Meacham, Freida
Moss, Winfred Morrow, Grace Neil-
Julius Pinkston, Bill Puckett,
Reece, Andy Sealey, Rachel
Smith, Ray Snyder, Robert Stegall,
Jacky Stone, William Stout, Alice
Swann, Margaret Swann, Alma
Thrift, Jonelle Teague, Bob Ward,
Gene Washburn and Ruby Wardell.
Bulletin
SCIENCE CLUB MEETING
Professor M. A. Mosley lectured
■St week to the Science Club on
le classes of vitamins and the re
sults of their deficiency. Mr. Mosley’s
lecture was the first of the regular
monthly Science Club programs se
ries on scientific subjects this se
mester.
Summer School
For Teachers
Will Be Here
Western Carolina Teachers Col
lege will sponsor a summer school
for teachers, June 5 through July
13, on the campus of Gardner-Webb.
The teachers school will run con
currently with the regular summer
school of Gardner-Webb.
The Western North Carolina Tea
chers College summer school will be
under the direction of Dr. Maurice
B. Morrill, who will conduct work
shop courses. Dr. Morrill received
his M. Ed. degree from the Uni
versity of Vermont, and his Ed. D.
degree from Teachers College, Co
lumbia University. He joined the
staff of Western Carolina in Sep-
The \
5 in t
summer
session can be used for raising or
renewal of certificates: undergradu
ate college credit, or for graduate
credit. Approximately 40 teachers
from Gaston, Cleveland, and Ruth-
erfordton counties have already ap
plied for admission.