GARDNER-WEBB OPENS 46th YEAR
Banner Year Expected
At 10:30 o’clock on September 15, 1952, the formal open
ing of the 46th year of Gardner-Webb College was held. The
speaker of the day was the Rev. T. L. Cashwell of the East
Baptist Church of Gastonia.
Most of the students here on the campus have no idea of
the struggle for mere existence which the college has gone
through in order that it might offer every opportunity for
the young people of the state and nation to secure a wide
and varied scholastic education. Certainly it has been a slow
process, just like a house that is being built. At first the foun
dation must be laid, then step by step it goes up and up re
gardless of its complexities. But, if due to some unforeseen
\ circumstances work is impaired, the builder must wait until
means to clear all obstacles have been secured.
Why c’o we have such a great
school in which we may seek th.it
’o'g desired truth called Knowl
edge’ Probab’y the first impart-
ant th ng that has made our schoo!
what it :'s today is the life's de
sires of those men and women who
have worked hard in order to pave
the way.
In 1905on December 2, the school
was cfiarteTBti''T'Tie“Boiring Springs
High School Inc.” In 1S07, the mo.st
collegiate building on our campus
was erected, the Huggins-Curtis
dormitory. Mr. J. D. Huggins, hus
band of our beloved Mi-s. Bessie
Adkins Huggins, was the first Sup
erintendent. During the forty-s'x
years that our school has progress
ed, it has been marked with the
fulfillment of its leader's highest
ambition. During this time, there
has been a steady increase in the
number of buildings and the endow
ment funds of our school,
r Our President, Dr. P. L. Elliott,
the gentleman, who, to the students
here at the school has proven that
1 “Life can be Beautiful,” has brought
\ our school into the present by leaps
' and bounds.
Dr. Elliott has served our school
faithfully for ten years. Others
w'ho have been struggling with him
all the while are Mrs. Pollock, Miss
Wray, Miss Miller, Dr. Stacy and
Dr. Dixon. Others who have been
here since 1945 are Dr. Fisher, Dr.
Dyer, Dr. Morrisett, and Dean Ter
rell.
The most outstanding buildings on
our campus are: Decker Hall, in |
memory of James Webb (Decker' I
Gardner; the Huggins-Curtis Dor
mitory, in memory of two great men
in the history of our school; The O.
Max Gardner Memorial Building;
Dover Library; the Hoey, Anthony,
Padgett, Young-McMurry and But
tle dormitory for girls; and certain
ly we all know of the E. B. Ham
rick Auditorium.
•' When Dr. Elliott became presi
dent, there were thirty-five acres of
I land and five buildings dotting the
campus. Today, there are one thous-
1 and one hundred and twenty-three
\acres of land and twenty-two build-
\ings. There have been five buildings
tni-n down .since his ai'rival.
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Five Join Faculty
i The faculty of Gardner-Webb has five new members this
year. They are Miss Kathleen H. Davis, Mrs. J. R. Barnett,
Mr. William F. Troutman, Jr., Mr. F. B. Dedmon, and Mrs.
Dorothy Sink.
Miss Davis, a quiet, modest, grey-haired lady, is a gradu
ate of Western Carolina Teachers’ College. She did graduate
work at the University of North Carolina and Columbia Uni
versity. Miss Davis’ home is in Shelby, but last year she was
supervisor for the practice teachers at W. C. T. C. and was as-
^ sociated with the commercial department. Although her of-
I ficial capacity is Secretary to Dr. Elliott, she teaches short
hand. Miss Davis says that she likes
Gardner-Webb and is especially im-
1 pressed by the friendliness and co-
n of the students.
DR. P. I,. EIJ,I()TT
During the next ten years there
is great expectation of the erection
of five new buildings, from an al-
loted $810,000 donated by the Bap
tist State Convention in 1951. These
buildings are: one dormitoi-y for
boys, and one for girls, one Science
building (3 stories', a gymnasium
and an administration building. The
total cost is expected to be close to
$1,000,000. In 1943 and in 1944 the :
total value of our school was ap
proximately $2,500,000. In these same
years there were 71 students—59
girls and 12 boys. Today, there are
400 students in this our banner
year.
Dr. Elliott maintains that the
loyalty and work of the faculty and
students, the Trustees, and the back
ers of the school has made our in
stitution what it is today. A faculty
that was willing to put forth, stu
dents who were willing to work, and
backers who pitched in cheerfully
the necessary funds to carry on a
school. Our school has some forty
professions represented within its
halls of learning, with ministerial
and religious majors constituting
the greater part. The future plans
; of our school as far as scholastic
; education goes are; to enlarge and
enrich the music department, to
construct a Science Department for
Organic Chemistry and Physics, to
c.stiiljli.sh ii Deparl.ment of Art, ;uul,
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Mrs. Barnett, Counselor to the
Gn-ls, comes to us from Asheville.
Mrs. Barnett is a widow with one
son, a senior at Wake Forest. She
graduated from the Slippery Rock
Normal School, Slippery Rock.
Pennsylvania, and has attended
A- S- T, C. at Boone and Columbia
University. Mrs. Barnett, whose
calm air of efficiency is especial
ly impressive, says she likes our
school because of its Christian ideals
and cooperative students. She thinks
we are very democratic and our sys
tem of student government is de
veloping leadership.
Mr. Troutman is not new to Gard-
: ner-Webb, but he is new to the stu
dents. He has been away for one
year and two summers of graduate
work at Duke University. A gradu
ate of Biltmore College at Asheville
and Western Carolina Teacheri
College at Cullowhee. He has com
pleted three years work toward
Ph. D. at Duke. Mr. Troutman
teaches world history, sociology,
and government. Noteworthy for his
quiet dignity and intelligence, Mr.
Troutman says that the fact he
keeps returning proves that he likes
G. W.
The lovely lady with the sparkling
personality, whom you ’
around the campus these past weeks,
is Mrs. Dorothy Elliott Sink, 1
tern known as Dot. Mrs. Sink
tended Gardner-Webb and gradu
ated in 1951 from W. C. U. N. ~
Home Economics.
rom Lieutenant Max Sink. He
ailed this month for Germany.
Mrs. Sink, who teaches Home Ec.,
says she has always loved Gardner-
Webb. , ^
. P. B. Dedmond, our new head
of the English department, is a bril-
nt man with a fine sense of
mor. Mr. Dedmond graduated
)m Catawba College with an A. B.
gree, Southern Baptist Semin-
ry with a Th. M., and Duke Uni
versity with a M. A. He has also
work toward a Ph. D. at the
University of North Carolina. He
taught for four years at Oak Ridge
Military Institute, serving as head
of the English department for two
years. Prior to coming to Gardner-
Webb, he taught and took graduate
k at U. N. C. He thinks Gard-
■Webb is “a fine place.”
Phones Installed
Number, please! No, that isn’t
hat we’ve been hearing on the
Gardner-Webb Campus this year,
because we have dial telephones.
Telephones have been installed in
every office and in the dormitories
the campus. The students and
especially the faculty are very glad
they have been installed. It saves
members of the faculty from buying
pair of shoes each year, be
cause now they can just take a few
steps and pick up the phone instead
of running all over the campus try
ing to locate a certain individual.
We have our own switchboard, too,
and efficient workers which make
things very convenient.
If you want to make a call, you
surely won’t have to go far. Go to
the student center or to one of the
dormitories. Gardner-Webb campus
native of Fallston, N. C., she worked j is very lucky to have telephones
last year as a.ssistant home agent' and we appreciate the per.son or
ill CSuilford County. In Fcljruary of i pcisoii.s wlio made l.lipiu pcj.snible
this year she received her M. R. S. i for us.