Big Field Day
To Be Held
College officials announced sever
al weeks ago that a big field day
will be held on the campus Friday,
April 20, with many races and other
events being planned for the day
which will see high schol students
from the neighboring counties on
The day’s activities will get under
way at 9:00 and will conclude with
a baseball game that afternoon
ing at 3:00. In case of rain, the _ _
mittee headed by Coach Wayne
Bradburn has drawn up a schedule
by which as many of the events
is possible will be held indoors.
Literary events are also being plan
ned for the different classrooms '
the Hamrick Building starting
9:00. Musical events will be held
the auditorium beginning at 9:
and continuing until 10:30.
The field events will get under
way around 11:00 and conclude with
a softball game between the Fresh
men and Sophomore classes at 12:00
The schedule for the boys from 1]
to 12:00 is as follows: 11:10—50 and
100-yd. dashes, 11:20—440-yd. Re
lay, 11:25—300-yd. shuttle run, 11:35
—broad and high jumps, 11:45—
three-legged race, 11:55—Football
throw for distance and accuracy.
The girls’ schedule runs like this:
11:10—50-yd. dash, 11:20—softball
throw for distance and - ^,
11:35—basketball throw for distance
and accuracy, 11:50—potatoes’ race,
11:55—sack race, 12:05—volley ball
game, and 12:25—softball contest.
The Black Widows of North
Greenville will play G-W’s Bulldogs
on college field at 3:00 as a grand
climax to the big day.
The day is to be declared Fresh-
men-Sophomore day with the
classes competing In the c
events. A grand trophy will be giv
en to the class compiling the most
points. Several individual trophies
are also to be awarded. The facul-
cy members of the school will st
as judges. All those who wish
enter any of the events should
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Only 44 Pass
Spelling Test
Only 44 students (20 men and 24
women) out of the many who took
the Sophomore spelling test on
March 15th made the required grade
(95 or above).
All Sophomores who graduate
must pass this spelling test as one
of their requirements for gradua
tion. J'or each time a person takes
Those who passed the first test
are as follows: Iris Atkinson, Eugene
Biggerstaff, Angela Black, Troy
Brioges, Ellen Clary, Doris Early,
Ethel Edgerton, Bill Elliott, Clar
ence Everhart, Nell Grantham, Pol
ly Anne Greene, Bryan Gillespie,
Doris Grigg, Eunice Haas, Alberta
Hamrick, Milton Hidgon, Bobby
Howe, Mary Prances Howard, Tony
Izzi, Rudy Warden, Beth White,
Evelyn Young, Lillian Maynard,
Jim McDaniels, Jimmy Mize, Her
man Motsinger, Agnes Mull, Bob
Mullinax, Peggy Newton, Tommy
Newton, Milton Noblitt, Mary No
lan, Frances Quinn, Sara Reece, Sue
Seism, Andy Sealy, Mickey Shull,
Curtis Sidden, Rachel Smith, James
Stamey, Alice Swann, Alma Thrift,
Ben Wall, and Paul Whitley.
Frosh-Soph Banquet
Plans "Nearly Done"
While the freshmen are buzzin’
around like little bees, shaping
plans and working out details, that
very important date of April -■
1E51 is drawing nigh.
The student body of 1950 put
icing on the cake when they elected
to have an all-out campus holiday,
which will be culminated by' the
banquet after a full.dky of “field
day” activities. We are all aware,
however, that our deep gratitude for
this is to our loved president-friend,
P. L. Elliott and to the faculty.
The banquet theme, chosen by the
executive committee of the class, is
•‘Moonlight and Roses”—the very
essence of sentiment. Accompany
ing the flower decorations will be
the lovely song by the same name.
Joe King, the popular ventrilo
quist of Winston-Salem, and promi
nent figure in the state legislature,
is being sougjit after as the speak
er. If we are fortunate enough to
get him, in the program will be in
cluded the other two members of
his family-Earline King, his wife-
and “Brandywine,” the little Negro
dummy, who has more wise cracks
than we have students.
The departing sophomores, as well
as the rest of us, are eagerly await
ing a pleasant and momentous oc-
May Day Plans
Near Completion
by
ELEANOR COGDILL
The Physical Education Depart
ment will make a beautiful herald
10 spring when they present the an
nual May Day pageant. May 5 at
4:30 o’clock in front of the Girls’
Dormitory.
Highlighting the occasion will be
the crowning of the Queen of May,
Miss Sara Reece of Jonesville, ” ~
The King is A1 Homesley from ;
ley.
The attendants from the sopho
more class will be the following:
Rachel Smith, Mt. Holly; Julia Han
cock, Franklinville; Iris Atkinson,
Hampstead; Doris Grigg, Gastonia;
—' Beth White, Rutherfordton. Es-
3 will be O. G. Morehead, Sum
merville, Ga.; James Stamey, ’ '
colnton; Rudy Warden, "
Jim McDaniels, Win;
and Milton Noblitt, Shelby.
Freshmen attendants are Faith
Johnson, Magnolia; Nancy Lincoln,
Lynchburg, Va.; Shirley Dedmon,
Shelby; Jonelle Teague, Hickory;
and Joan Kincaid, Gastonia. Escorts
are Bill Morehead, Summerville,
Ga.; Glenn Pettyjohn, Winston-Sa
lem; Gaylord Lehman, Inman, South
Carolina; Jack Holt, Winstc
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Gardner-Webb College, Boilmg Springs, North Caroiiny
Volume IV MARCH, 1951 Number 7
A Portrait
Mrs. J. D. Huggins
by
GLENN PETTYJOHN
It was a day in early June 1907
when a couple of enthusiastic edu
cators drove up to the campus of
what was then Boiling Springs De-
-“ational High School. With
bubbling over with joy, en-
m, and determination, Mr.
and Mrs. Huggins settled themselves
down to their life’s work.
Coming from Betheny High School
,n York, South Carolina, the job
;hat lay ahead wais by no means
m easy one. There were many brid
ges to cross, new ways to be cleared,
ind it required much courage,
strength, and perseverance to ac
complish the tasks. But this young
couple were way ahead in one
thing. They both had a profouiid
love for young people, and for
their profession.
Mrs. Huggins reminisces that mo
mentous day of her arrival. The
Huggins-Curtiss building was under
construction, and it isn’t hard for
JS to visualize what a beautiful
itructure it must have been when
t was complete. Those were the days
)f infancy for our coUege, the days
)f the foundational buUding of a
vigorous Christian educational in
stitution—Gardner-Webb College.
Forty-one graduating classes have
been witnessed by her during the
joyous years she has spent here.
Watching boys and girls as they
were educated here, following them
MRS. J. D. HUGGINS
into higher fields of education, and
into all walks of life, high and low
—all of them have been a joy for
Mrs. Huggins, as she watched them
come and go as Gardner-Webb be
gan to progress in great strides.
Yet she has seen the dark clouds
pressing on the light of survival,
hope for the continuation of tht
institution. Gardner-Webb College,
on the brink of fatility, was seen
by her to repress and overcome the
barriers which attempted to prevent
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Dramatics Dept.
Presents
"The Hill Between"
by
GLENN PETTYJOHN
The Hill Between, a folk play in
three acts, was presented by the
Dramatics Department on the even
ing of March 29. This is a perform
ance that you definitely should have
Under the careful direction of J,
Y. Hamrick, this production was
shaped into perfection, and
proved to be very stimulating
to everyone who saw it. The setting
of the play is deep in the southern
mountains where most of the peo
ple are so ignorant that they can’t
read their own names after some
one else has written them. On the
other hand, their morals and codes
are as sacred to them as their Bible.
As the story goes, there is a young
doctor who has come back to his
mountain home after twenty years.
He has brought with him a wife
whom the mountaineers call a “fer-
riner”, because she is well poised
and refined. Her proper speech is
foreign to their illiterate dialect,
which is used almost exclusively
‘ 1 the mountains.
When only eighteen years old, the
young doctor had gone out from his
home leaving a childhood sweet
heart who had stuck by him all his
The purpose of his leaving was
et his education, but while he
gone, he married a doctor’s
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63 Students Receiving
Scholarships
by
NELL GK.ANXitiA]Vx
According to Mr. Frank Richard-
)n, bursar of Gardner-Webb Col
lege, approximately sixty-three stu
dents have been awarded scholar
ships for the current year. These
scholarships were awarded to mini
sterial students, missionary volun-
religious education majors,
ligh school valedictorians, salu-
tatorians, and citizenship winners,
“hose receiving scholarships in
religious education field are the
following: Marion Lineberger, Bob
Mullinax, Joe Maye, James McAlis
ter, John Price, Bernice Queen,
Flossie Slater, Richard Spera, James
Stamey, Mariana Vance, Bobby
Whitlock, Frank Wilson, Don Wag
ner, Pat Withers, Dorothy Maye,
Peggy Millen, Kenneth Brady.
Howard Laney, Harold Bishop,
James Sullivan, Hoyle Alexander,
Cline Borders, Frank Saddox,
Charles Rabon, Gujr Helms, Martha
Hawkins, Margaret Jackson, Bryan
Putnam, A. M. Kiser, Jr., Paul Al-
1, Doris Adair, Robert Bolick, Joan
Bridges, Rebecca Browning, M. A.
Conrad, Mollie Hawkins, Cecil Kirk-
lan, and Evelyn Leigh.
Those receiving valedictorian
scholarships were the following: Ray
Snyder, Frances Allen, Jo Lena Brid
ges, Faith Johnson, Freida Moss, '
Billy Bingham, Martha Coffey, Doris
■■’pton, Bob Ward, and Bobby Den-
y-
The following students received
salutatorian scholarships: Bobby
BJackburn, Gene Washburn, and
"azel Belcher.
Being awarded the honor of best
tizen in their respective high
;hools, these students received the
tizenship scholarships: Sammy
Metcalf, Martin Nichols, Grace Neil-
son, Margaret Swann, Doris Adair,
Bill Mize, Bobby Heffner, Bobby Nix,
Mary Helen Humphries, Jay Den
ton, W. P. Lattimore, and Hester
Martin.