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Volume V OCTOBER, 1951 Number 2
SEC. 562 P. L. & R. BOILING SPRINGS, N. C.
U. S. POSTAGE PERMIT NO. 2
Science Club
Purposes
of scientific subjects; second,
keep the members informed concern
ing progress made in the scientific
fields.
The club seeks to accomplish its
purpose through monthly meetings
featuring scientific reports by its
members, lectures by guest speakers,
and films.
Membership is extended to stu
dents having a grade of “B” on bi
ology, ■ chemistry, or mathematics
for one semester provided they have
a “C” average on all their subjects.
Mr. Dixon, Mr. Mosely, and Mr.
Stacy are members.
The officers of the club for the
first semester are: President, Jack
Mecham; Vice President, Bobby
Denny; Secretary-Treasurer, Mar
garet Swann.
’ The entire student body is in
vited to the monthly meetings if the
program, is of such nature to be of
iii*-'rest to everyone.
Good Deed of
Dr. Stephen Morrisett
Holt McPherson, who is making a
)ur of Europe and Palestine, wrote
) his paper. The Shelby Daily Star,
last week from Nazareth, in Gali
lee, Israel, a portion of his report
'5 as follows:
“High on a hill, overlooking this
lome town of Jesus, where he spent
lis childhood and early youth
while working with his father in
est trade of carpentry, there
shines a light that reaches back to
Boiling Springs in Cleveland Coun-
■ North Carolina.
“It is the Edinburgh Medical Mis-
on in Nazareth, established many
. 3ars ago by the good people of an
Edinburgh that now has run into
such austerity and financial hard
ship it no longer can maintain that
mission which for so many years
his ministered to people of Naza
reth and surrounding territory and
kept the bright light of Christian
service shining from its eminence
The Christian
Volunteer Band
The Christian Volunteer Band of
ficers for first semester are: Presi
dent, Max Linnens; First Vice
President, Joyce Hamrick; Second
Vice President, T. W. Estes; Secre
tary, Jo Lena Bridges; Chorister,
Joe Jackson; Pianist, Joann Rhine-
hart; Publicity, Jim Trentham.
Contrary to popular belief, the
Christian Volunteer Band member
ship is not composed entirely of
ministerial and missionary students
but is open also to students study
ing to be educational directors, as-
sociational missionaries, and other
phases of Christian work.
The Christian Volunteer Band
meets each Tuesday at 10:30 in
Room 33, at which time helpful and
inspiring programs are presented
by visiting speakers, members of
the faculty, or the students them-
Opportunities for service are to be
fo ;-d through the Christian Volun
teer Band. Last year a program to
carry the Sunday School lessons into
the hemes of the sick and the shut-
ins WES begun, and plans are under
way to continue and enlarge this
again this year. Many opportuni
ties were found to help the needy
families in the community and the
surrounding area. The Christian
Volunteer Band hopes to have the
vision to see the physical and spiri
tual need all about us, and to be
willing to be used by the Lord te
help remedy this need day by day
while we prepare for our life work.
“Woid
1 just (
1 the
Mission’s secretary in Edinburgh
close the hospital when Dr. Stephen
Morrisett of Gardner-Webb Col-
ege chanced to come this way on
his visit to the Holy Land last year.
The staff was so impressed that they
offered to work without wages just
:(■ maintain the service, but even
ffith such sacrifice there was -still
1 deficit that somehow would have
:o be met. Dr. Morrisett surveyed
he situation, went home and short
ly sent several thousand dollars
worth of medical supplies
chased, begged or otherwise wheedl
ed out of folks he knew and in
whom he developed interest with
his story of how that institucif"
m.ustn’t be allowed to die.”
Sunday School
To give the people who attend
the services a better knowledge of
our Creator and His Book is just
one of the purposes of the Sunday
School Organization.
We hope that each student will
be active in Sunday School. We fe'’l
that is is necessary in the spiri
tual growth of a Christian to
'n to all the teachings he
1 get.
iVe are very proud of ou
day School Teachers for this year.
They are: Mr. Felix Hamrick, Mrs.
tiConard Allen, Mr. Carl Weaver,
Mr. Lansford Jolly, and Mrs. Hal
Green.
We hope that each student will
feel the need of these great privi
leges being offered us, and will at
tend Sunday School at ten o’clock
every Sunday morning.
Marshal Club
e Marshal oluD is tne Phi Beta
pa orgaiuzabion at Uardner-
j uoiitge. Its pm-puse IS to seeii
to noixor tne aevelopment oi
ii rounued perbonality.
.e Marsnai uluD. jaoth ij'reshmeu
lu bopnomores are eligiBle Il-i
eiiibcrsnip. iiiection is cased on
laracoer, scholarship, (a B aver-
nai .^lub, first organized
01 194U, had as its first
Jam Greene of Moores-
. The young man and
an receiving the great-
elected, automatically be-
le Chief Marshals ana
respectively tne president and vice-
presiuent of the ulub. rhe following
served as presidents and vice-
presidents since the organization of
'le Ciub in the fall of 1945:
1944-1945—Sam Greene, Moores-
Dro, N. C.
lb4o-iy‘iti—Louise Martin Ander-
m, Gastonia, N. C.
1946-1947—John Beam, Crouse,
N. C.
1948—John Worth Long, Gas-
N. O.; Betty High, Dallas,
N. C.
•1949—Ruth Maston, Elkin,
Jim Spivey, Kings Mountain,
N. C.
1949-1950—Ruth Borders, Shelby,
. C.; Zeb Moss, Aberdeen, N. C.
1950-1951—Sara Reece, Elkin, N. C.
Gaylord Lehman, Inman. S. C. is
president and Chief Marshal for
1.951-’o2. Faith Johnson, Magnolia,
vice-president and Chief
Marshal for 1951-’52.
The following are active
for 1951-’52. This indicates they were
sleeted to this honor by the faculty,
Mollie Hawkins, Gastonia; Mar-
S.OSS, Morganton; Jo Lena,
Bridges, Shelby; Frieda Moss, Aber
deen, Grace Nielsen, Edneyville;
Robert Bolick, Gastonia; Max Lin-
Graham ; Thurman Allred,
boro; Jack Meacham, Sum
merville, Ga.; Gene Washburn, "
The following are honorary n
;rs of the Marshal Club having
jen chosen by members of the
club and faculty for 1951-’52; Mrs. Jo
“elmont; Margaret Swann,
Statesville; Bob Denny, Nantahala;
Doris Adair, Gastonia; James Ward,
Caroleen; Joan Bridges, Spindale;
./lartha Coffey, Caroleen; James Mc
Allister, Gastonia; Alma Thrift,
Shelby.
The highest honor that can come
to a student at Gardner-Webb is tc
be tapped for membership in the
Marshal Club. One is not chosen be
cause he or- she excels in only one
of the ideals of Scholarship, Chara
cter, Leadership and Service, but be
cause he or she has demonstrated
through out the year that he
sesses all four of the ideals of the
Club.
The members of the
Club serve at all public functions
of the college, such as lyceums, ban
quets, recitals and commencement.
Last year the Active Marshals
spent a week-end at Ridgecrest in
the early spring as a social event
and they plan to make this a tra
ditional outing each spring. Other
social events for the entire club are
planned for the year by Miss Mabel
Starnes, Faculty Sponsor.
Enrollment at
G-w Spreading
e are happy to announce that
influence of Gardner-Webb is
definitely spreading. It is reaching
out to areas that have not been
represented at the school before.
Lexington, Thomasville, Winston-
Salem, High Point, Jacksonville,
and the states of Florida, Ohio, Ken-
, Virginia, Tennessee, South
Carolina, Texas, and Louisiana, and
Georgia are some of the sections
sented. The enrollment of thi ee
hundred and forty-two is a little
short of last years total. This total
includes sixty-two freshmen girls
and thirty-two sophomore girls.
; are two hundred boys en
rolled. Of these two hundred boys
are 132 freshmen. The day
students total 140. In addition
. _ _ ese day students there are 19
nurses and some special and un
classified students to total 350. The
night school has grown to a total
iven hundred and forty-five pu-
Forty-five churches from Kings
Mountain, Sandy Run, South Fork,
and Gaston Associations are rep
resented in this enrollment. These
churches represent the membership
ire than twenty thousand Bap-
In addition to the churches
mentioned, one Baptist shurcn in
South Carolina and two Methodist
churches are represented in the
night school. The off-campus adult
training program at Morganton has
enrollment of more than seventy,
representing some fourteen churches
of the Catawba River Association.
success of the program of the
adult education has been a source
3f gratification to the teachers and
trustees of Gardner-Webb. In all
probability extension courses will
be offered at Gastonia, Lincolnton,
and Rutherfordton. Some of the
courses offered are: A Church at
Work, taught by Professor Garland
H. Hendricks; Church Organization,
taught by Miss Mabel Starnes; The
Bible, by Professor Robert Dyor;
and Church Music, by Professor
Stephen Morrisett. This is part of
Gardner-Webb’s public service pro
gram which includes the health pro
gram, guidance department, radio
program, and the miracle farm pro-
Mr.' and Mrs. Claude Henson
of Belmont recently established
a student loan fund of several
hundred dollars at Gardner-
Webb College as a lasting me
morial to Marion Allen Henson,
their four year od son, whose
picture Is shown above. Marion
Allen died in 1948 of polio. These
loan funds will be availabe to
young Baptist men and women.