Gardner-Webb Has New And
Improved Heating Plant
The results of all the ditch-digging and piping on the
campus will soon be realized in the completion of Gardner-
Webb’s new heating plant. With one of the most modern and
completely equipped heating units in the state, we will have
no more heating and hot water difficulties. I
Heretofore, the college has relied on several small heating
units in the various buildings of the campus. This has been
both a financial and a maintenance liability. It is estimated
that the fuel bill this year will be ' ' —
$6,500 with the central heating plant,
as against $13,500 last year under
the old system. This represents a
net saving per year of $7,000 on fuel
and maintenance cost. In addition
to the financial saving yearly in fuel
costs the new plant will increase
operational efficiency as well as the
safety factors involved.
The $140,000 debt on the heating
plant will be met with the aid of
churches and friends of the college.
Already, many of the Baptist
churches in the Gastonia, the Green
River, the Kings Mountain, and the
Sandy Run Association are in
cluding the college heating plant in
the regular church budget. The
plant is being financed by the Wa
chovia Bank and Trust Company
over a five year period. It is hoped
that $25,000 can be paid on the
principal this year.
A system of underground tunnels
will carry the steam pipes and re
turn lines to each building on the
campus. Two Bison Two-Pass Tu
bular boilers rated at 200 horse
power each will generate the steam
to heat the following buildings; the
church, the James Webb Gardner
Memorial Dormitory for boys (Deck
er Hall), the O. I'
morial Student Union Building,
Dover Memorial Library, the Hug-
gins-Curtis Dormitory, the Mac-
Murry, the Suttle, the Hoey-An-
thony, Padgett-Younge Dormitories
for girls and the E. B. Hamrick
Administration Building and Audi-
The heating plant will be able to
meet all the needs of the future ^
building plans. It will be ready for j
use by December 1, 1951.
Alumni News
w edi-
KERMIT KING
Mr. Kermi
,e Train-
y for South Caro
lina will be the speaker for the
Thanksgiving Banquet on Friday,
November 16. in the College Dining
The ALUMNI NEWS is
tion at Gardner-Webb. There will
be four publications during the
school year and will be sent to the
former students of Gardner-Webb.
There will be a column in the paper
for news of former students telling
where they are, what they are do
ing, whom they have married, names
and ages of their children, and any
other information about them. In
this way the alumni will stay in
formed on their former classmates.
The following is news of this kind
from the first edition of the Alumni
News.
Maynard Austell, (’49)
Football Coach and Science Tea
cher at Oxford Orphanage
George Khea Barber, (’38)
Shipping Clerk, Margrace Mills,
Kings Mountain; Marrieji Jean
Moore Thompson, (’35)
Robert H. Season, (’4S) '
Pharmacist, Boiling Springs Drug
Company
Mrs. Robert H. Season, (’46) (Iva
Jean Kincaid)
Teaching at Boiling Springs High
School
Leonard S. Selcher, (’45)
Lodge, S. C.
Pastor of Carter’s Ford, Ashton
and Colston Branch Baptist
Churches
Mrs. Floyd R. Bennett (Elizabeth
Melton,) (’49)
11 West Haven, Raleigh, N. C.—
Secretary
Mike L. Borders, (’39)
Chadburn, N. C.—Pharmacist Der
rick Drug Company
Mrs. John D. Bridges (Edith Ham
rick), (’38)
Housewife—301 S.E. Kolash Road,
NP, Warrington, Florida
Volume V NOVEMBER, 1951 Number 3
SEC 562 P L. & R. SOILING SPRINGS, N. C.
U. S. POSTAGE PERMIT NO. 2
Haggai And Post Conduct
First Evangelist Rally
Tom Haggai and Bob Post, young Southern Baptist evan
gelistic team, visited the campus Sunday afternoon, October
21 for the first monthly Evangelistic Rally sponsored by
the Baptist Student Union. Mr. Haggai, a graduate of North
Greenville Junior College and former student at Furman Uni
versity, preached on “Victorious j
Christian Living.” Athough only ,
twenty years old, he has held cam- rl©Q]ft
palgns in several Southern cities and
in some of our larger churches. Mr. I /~V. ■ U
Post, well-known gospel musician! L/lllla
and concert artist, led the song i
service and played several numters , heart of a child is a scroll,
on the piano. Until recently he has j ^ jg lovely and white;
been directing the music in city- fleeting years roll,
wide campaigns with Charles Well- hands with a story to write,
born. Baptist Hour speaker. | gg g^gr so careful, O hand;
This monthly service is a new ex- ; ^j-ite thou with a santified p
campus. Its pur
pose is to be a spiritual "pep rally”
and serve as an insentive to great
er Christian living and a greater
Christian atmosphere on our cam
pus. The success of such a venture
depends on the interest of the stu
dents, but is is hoped that this pro
gram can be continued throughout
the year. Next month’s speaker has
not yet been selected, but will be an
nounced at a later date.
Youth Revival
The Gardner-Webb campus re
vival was held during the week of
October 8 through 12. Inspiration
al services were conducted each
morning at 10:30 o’clock and each
evening at 7:30 o’clock by Dr. H. H.
Stembridge of Forest City.
It was a series of spiritually up
lifting services climaxed by an im
pressive dedication service on Fri
day. Truly God’s presence was felt
in our revival. We feel grateful and
priviledged to have had such a con
secrated Christian as Dr. Stembridge
to lead our worship during the week.
Thy story shall live in the land
For years in the doings of men.
It shall echo in circles of light,
Or lead the death of a soul.
Give here but a message of right.
For the heart of a child is a scroll.
—Author Not Known.
Mary Hes
r Clar
Millers Creek, N. C.—Office Sup
ervisor
Ewis S. Davis, (’39)
Egypt, Massachusetts—Electrical
Room. Engineer
Mr. King is a most interesting G. Basil Dixon, (’39)
speaker and is doing a most out- Rout 4, Marion, N. C.—Vocation-
standing work as Associate Secre- al Agriculture Teacher, Pleasant
tary of South Carolina Training Gardens High School; Married
Union. Louise Lowery, (’39) who is teach-
He is a graduate of Carson-New- ing 6th grade. Pleasant Gardens
man College and Southwestern Bap- Mrs. Hollace Eisenberger (Margaret
list Theological Seminary. He is a Tedder), (’39)
featured conference leader and in- 809 Priority Road, York, Pennsyl-
spirational speaker at Ridgecrest As- vania—Stenographer U. S. Naval
sembly each summer in addition to | Ordnance Plant
the many demands on his time in Mrs. J. Warren Gamble (Aileen
South Carolina conventions and as- Jones) (’39)
semblies. Shelby, N. C.—Secretary
We eagerly look forward to this i Rev. Samuel High, (’42)
annual Family Banquet and to hav- Pastor Garner Baptist Church;
ing Mr. King as our Guest- Speaker Married Rachel Brown, (’43)
this year. Bertie Lee Kendrick, (’41)
Lost
LOST; Lost yesterday, some
where between sunrise and sun
set two golden hours, each
with sixty diamond minutes,
reward is offered for they
No
goi
; fore
Brown was taking his boy through
the zoo. When they came to the go
rilla, THE YOUNGSTER ASKED,
“What is that, Daddy?”
“That’s one of our ancestors, ray
“Gee! I wish I could show that to
Jimmy Peabody, who’s always
blowin’ about his that came over in
the ‘Mayflower’.”
TYPICAL “RATS”—1951. Shown
above are Jim Weaver and Carolyn
Harless in the “Rat Attire” of G-W
College. Both Jim and Carolyn are
“part sophomore” but they were fine
sports and entered in the fun of Rat
Day. Rat Day is an annual event
at G-W when the freshmen are
initiated and become full-fledged
students of Gardner-Webb College.
nsurance
Widow, writing to ai
company: “You have a
fill out so many proofs of claims
and I have had so much trouble in
getting my money that I some
times wish my husband hadn’t
died.”