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T HE PILOT
APRIL-MAY
GARDNER-WEBB PILOT
Member Intercollegiate Press
STAFF
Pete Banus Editor
Bob Workman Business Manager
Mr. Mosely Faculty Adviser
EDITORIAL STAFF
Wilma Gathings Associate Editor Wray Hill Sports Writer
Rachel Scroggs News Editor Ernie Diaz Reporter
Richard Yearwood Feature Editor Jean McCrae Reporter
Doug Fitzpatrick Art Editor Adrian Littlejohn Reporter
Martha Brooks Literary Editor Bob Morrow Reporter
Jean McSwain Club Editor Bill Wallace Reporter
Darrell Wilson Sp. Feature Editor Gwen Wright Reporter
Andy Saris Sports Editor Doris Vance Reporter
Charles McManus Humor Editor Jo Wright Reporter
Wayne Sorrells Religious Editor Charles Rich Reporter
Sam O’Neill Feature Writer Paul Eller Reporter
Keith Snyder Feature Writer Eloise Bumgarner Reporter
David McHam Feature Writer Pat Smith Reporter
Bill Byrd Feature Writer Ann Scott Reporter
Glenn Henson Feature Writer Don Sturkey Photographer
r BUSINESS STAFF
Betty Le^i^l Asst. Business Manager
Joanne Rhmehardt Circulation Manager
Harvey Cannon Asst. Circulation Manager
Auf Weidersheim
David Austin
Our student officers for the ’53 and ’54 school year have
been chosen, and we know that we have picked for each of
fice capable persons, who are interested in making Our
School, Gardner-Webb, the most prosperous college in the
south. Through Christian co-operation, intuition, and rational
decision this will be accomplished.
As a most successful school year comes to a close, we
complete a chapter in the biography of our lives, and the
history of Gardner-Webb College. This means the disjunc
tion of a great organization in which each individual has
played a major role. The big task is to say good-bye to friends
that you can never forget. Friends that have meant so much
to you in Christian Fellowship.
We must turn our moistened eyes upon the faces of those
people we have learned to love as brothers, and bid them
Godspeed as each steers himself through different channels
of the River of Life. We hape the courses might cross oc
casionally, but we cannot expect them all to interlace, neither
can we let the memory of these acquaintances keep us from
recognizing new ones, but rather we should let this memory
better enable us to make new friends from the experiences
we have had here at Gardner-Webb. Until that time when
all shall rejoin at Life’s Great River Delta.
stop SigTis: On rear of car, “BE- A GI returned to camp exhausted
WARE OP SUDDEN STOPS — after a week-end of Wine, Women
TEACHING WIFE TO DRIVE.” On and Song. On the bunk that held his
back of Austin, “HIT SOMEONE recumbent form, his buddies hung a
yOUR OWN SIZE.” sign: “Temporarily Out of Order.”
—Copied —James T. Shav/
Today's Look By Our President
Dr. P. L. Elliott
The recent building program at Gardner-Webb has been
regarded by some as outstanding. Of the twenty-three build
ings comprising the present plant, nineteen have been built
within the last ten years. All of these are paid for except
the heating plant on which we owe $129,COO.
It is the purpose of this article to point out to you the
essential expansion program for the next ten years. At the
present there are five buildings with preliminary plans al
ready drawn. These are as follows, but not necessarily plac
ed in the order of their importance:
First, the physical education building. This will not^ be
merely a gymnasium, but a thoroughly equipped physical
education plant to meet all the needs of an up-to-date col
lege of 500. This would require basketball courts, ^wimm'ng
pool, bowling alley, classrooms, first aid rooms, locker rooms,
showers, remedial rooms, as well as provision for boxing,
wrestling, and many other milder sports. In addition it
should be a first class community recreation center for a
first class community. Such a plant will cost at least $259,000,
and will be located between the road and the athletic field.
The second building planned is the science building. This
is to be a three story building, located just south of the Do
ver Library Building. The first floor will have approximately
10,750 square feet of floor space and will house the Business
Education and Home Economics Department. The second
floor with approximately the same space will afford lecture
rooms and laboratories for biological sciences and psychol
ogy. It will also have a small auditorium which will seat 150
for lectures and pictures. The third floor will contain lec
ture rooms and laboratories for organic and inorganic chem
istry, physics, and mathematics. This building will cost $300,-
000 or more.
There is likewise planned an administration buildinfjr to
consist of two floors. The first floor is planned for Alumni
and student offices, such as for the Pilot and the Anchor,
in addition to a photo laboratory, work room, and storage
room. On the second floor will be all the administrative of
fices of the college.
In addition to the above there is planned two dormi
tories, one for fifty girls located west of and adjoining the
quadrangle; one for fifty boys located in the pines across
the road from Decker Hall.
This expansion program will cost in the neighborhood of
a million dollars. According to the schedule of the nine year
program of the Baptist State Convention, Gardner-Webb
will receive $810,000 from the Convention by 1960.
The realization of a cherished dream is in sight. How
ever, it will take the best of all of us to achieve it.
The Editor Notes
My sincere thanks to the student body for its support
m my recent election to the Editorship of the “Pilot.” In the
coming school year I shall certainly do all possible to steer
this paper in the direction of greater success through the
means of a rudder designed of reporting news and creative
literature.
In this last issue I especially wish to thank and congratu
late the ’52-’53 Pilot Staff for its industry, talents, time, and
skills in making the Gardner-Webb Pilot a proud posses
sion.
As for next year’s paper, several appointments have al
ready been commissioned. These are as follows: Lela Burgin
as News Editor, Virginia Huggins as Business Manager,
Gene Weathers as Assistant Business Manager, Joy Lynn
Bell as Circulation Manager, Richard Harrill as Distribution
Manager, and David Austin as Associate Editor.
Sincerely yours,
Pete Banus