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PAGE SIX THE PILOT FEBRUAEY, 1951 Students From G-W Help Take Census Sixteen students from Gardner- Webb helped the First Baptist Church of Shelby In taking a re ligious census. Those who were tak ing part were a part of Miss Starne’s class in Church Organization. Those taking part were as follows: Margaret Jackson, Alta Beck, Eunice Haas, Eleanor Cogdill, Frieda Moss, Nadain Oswalt, Marianna Vance, Joan Bridges, Rachel Smith, Beth White, Frank Haddox, Jim Trant- h‘m, Troy Bridges, and Robert Bo- lick. Citizen—“I’ve nothing — and i watch has only sentimental valU' Robber—“Fork it over. I feel 11 a good cry, anyway.” Dill—“He has a head like ; knob.” Gill—“How come?” Dill—“Any girl can turn ii HIGH SCHOOLERS WHO RECENTLY VISITED THE CAMPUS Thoughts Of Winter By BILL ABERNATHY The deep stillness of earth asleep under its blanket of S) Enjoying its much deserved rest and privacy, Awakened only now and then by the wind. Shifting its cover of snow. Scantily dressed trees si While sympathetic pine ti The naked trees showing dispair. While the green of the pine whispers hope. An outlaw wind stealing the morning paper, Scattering the pages in hopeless disarrangement. Then rushing on to grab some man’s hat, And roll it gaily down the street, As a small boy would do with a hoop. The emptiness of the vacated bird’s nest in the rose bush. With thorns guarding it to no avail against the rollicking wind. Which moves and strains and tears above it, Trying to loose its structure of twigs and hair. The lonesome howl of wind calling for someone To come and share its coldness. Pleading as it whines through screen doors. Gone for awhile but always coming back like breakers on a beach. Snow-flakes never bumping each other, Gliding noiselessly to the ground. Weaving themselves into a''smooth blanket That paints the landscape white. Bubbling brooks struggling against the cold, Finally being gripped to stillness and ice. Imprisoned, its wanderlust at a standstill. Until a friendly sun frees it with warm rays. It will sing all summer at having been loosed from winter. Symmetrical beauty of icicled daggers hanging without handles. Some loosened by unseen hands. Drop like live sun rays to the ground. The crunch! crunch! of walking boots in the snow. Leaving tell-tale tracks that look like links of a chain. Dumb snow men standing, looking. Oblivious of all their surroundings, Like statues out of place in the snow. Paper that haS burned itself black. Trying to heat a frozen pipe, Lying as an ink blot on the snow. Smoke winding upward from a chimney. Telling of a friendly log fire, \ , That begs you come in and sit by it. The sharp excited laughter of children. Watching, the first snow of winter arrive As one of them blows his frosty breath and says, “Look! I’m smoking.” The crisp cleaness of a morning. That seems born of a virgin nature’s womb. Lasting thoughts of beauty and cold. Which with days of thinking you could not have foretold. Wally—“I has to make e by my wits.” Sally—“Well, a half a 11 better than none.” High Schoolers Visit Campus Twenty-seven members of the Beta club, high school graduates of 1951, accepted an invitation by Miss Mabel Starnes, dean of women, to spend the week-end on Gardner-Webb campus. They arrived on Friday after- Activlties planned for the young ladies included the Variety Talent Show presented by the Freshman class on Friday night. Saturday, Dr. Robert Dyer, director of guidance, gave inventories and vocational guidance tests. Saturday afternoon was devoted to a tour of the campus and personal in terviews with faculty members. The following accepted the invitation for the week-end: Miss Martha Vance and Miss Grace Erwin, Canton; Miss Lucy Luffman and Miss Fran ces Burcham, State Road; Miss Prances Royal, Miss Martha Regan, Greensboro; Miss Dorothy Canipe, Miss Carrie Belle Barton, Henderson ville; Miss Betty Clary, Miss Aurelia McGraw, Mooresville; Miss Billie Sue Richardson, Miss Pat Lowe, Miss Jean Suratt, Miss Jean Thomas, Miss Margaret Noblitt, Bessemer City; Miss Robeana Gribble, Miss Faye Bum garner, Gastonia; Miss Kaye Wells, Miss June Wells, Jonesville; Miss Sue Vance, Miss Doris Love, Vilas; Miss Joyce Hamrick, Miss Ellen Baucom, Winston-Salem; Miss Mary Catherine Sloan, Startex, S. C.; Miss Rebecca Luffman, State Road; Miss Sara Hamrick, Bessemer City. A Country Spring A lamp was lit. The farmer’s wife rose to a day of toil and joy. The mares woke up, the birds sang a song of summer, Smoke curled up. The moon withdrew to a warm, invlsable world. The stars fled, the fall of an ax was heard. The dew sparkled; Where it lay on the young green grass. The rich, warm spring day was born to live, Till better night. On the dusty road a cloud of dust rose up. A pick-up truck, a farmer up earlier than some. Hurried to town. “Woo, Haw.” another shouted to his mule in the field, is plowing his cotton with a single foot plow. Now from every house the people came to the fields. With a large straw hat and in one hand a hoe To chop cotton. These had nothing and were happy still, they laughed; ■ d nature was theirs; better,
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