E D I T 0 R I A L
INDEX
Activities 8, 9
Editorial 1
Feature 2, 3, 4
Literature 10
Personalities 5
Religion 6
Sports 7
Editor - in - Chief
Mary Philbeck
Assistant Executive Editor—Betty Staton
News Editor—Bobbie Oxford
Assistant News Editor—Deree Mayberry
Associate Editors—Lois Hoyle, Clubs; Sara Ballard, Literature;
Mac Hill, Sports: Richard Plyler, Religion; Pat
Stout, Personalities; Lib Moore, Activities
Editorial Assistants—Betty Jo Williams, Joyce Hedrick, Cynthia
Covington, Donnis Philbeck, Billie Sue Bullard, Jo
Ann Bridges, and Grace Rollins
Photographer—Bill Sitton
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Business Manager—Houston Wease
Assistant Business Manager—Louise Gladden
Circulation Manager—Hugh Wease
General Staff—Charles Starnes, Bill Kiser, Jo Ann Bridges,
and Joyce Stephenson
Advisory Board
Mr, John Roberts Miss Kathryn Copeland
HOW ABOUT YOU?
There are still several openings on the Pilot staff in both
the editorial and the business departments. If you have any
journalistic ability or a knack for wangling ads, why not come
to the next meeting of the staff?
Now, if you're one of those people who demand concrete
reward for your efforts, please note that a quality point is
given for membership on the staff. Moreover, the experience in
newspaper work will be valuable for future use, in addition
to the fact that having your name appear on the staff will no
doubt make a favorable impression.
But, if you are one of those rare creatures who like to
participate in school activities for the sole purpose of being
academically patriotic, then membership on the staff would
be for you a great pleasure. The Pilot is for you—Gardner-
Webb College—and only you can make it what it should
How about you?
OUR VARSITY AMBASSADORS
BY JOHN ROBERTS
The cause for most of Gardner-Webb’s visits to other
schools, and for other schools visiting us, is varsity athletic
competition. More athletes and spectators go to other college:;
in our area for varsity games than for all other purposes
combined.
Many of the students and faculty at the schools we visit
know all too little about Gardner-Webb, To them, we are
Gardner-Webb. They will remember our school by the things
we do and say. In the minds of all too many of them, Gardner-
Webb will already be established as the villain, because of the
athletic opposition.
Ours is the task of selling Gardner-Webb to these people—
not necessarily at the expense of their own school, but to
prove to them that we are tops as individuals and as a school.
Athletes can win a name for themselves and for their
school by clean, fair, and ever-so-determined play. It is better
to win commendation for fairness than for the ability to win.
Of course, it is better still to be a good sport and win, too.
The point, however, is that a more lasting influence is estab
lished by traits of character than by feats of sti'ength.
Pans, too, are ambassadors for Gardner-Webb. Spectators
should have a noisy good time at a ball game, but their yells
should be positive ones for their champions rather than boos
and catcalls for the opponents.
Our varsity games this year will take players and specta
tors to a number of other colleges. Let’s make sure we con
duct ourselves in such a way as to cause favorable comment
about ourselves and our school.
THOSE LYCEUM PROGRAMS
College studies and extra-curricular activities leave little
time for introspection to discover whether we are distributing
our appreciation properly—if, indeed, we have any. Still, there
are a great many privileges and benefits that are ours to use
as we will—wisely or unwisely. To discuss these “boons” at
great length would be sermonizing, and since such a practice is
disastrous to any editorial, we shall merely touch upon one or
two subjects, leaving the reader the conscience-pricking privil
ege of meditating upon them.
“The finer things of life” is the phrase we Americans use
(no doubt feeling it impressionable) to describe painting music,
literature, etc., more specifically, the Arts. Life however,
should be “fine” within itself, needing no extra cultural in
fluences to accentuate it, since life, in its spiritual sense, is
not apart from culture, or the Arts. For example, we sha,U use
the lyceum programs presented to us in assembly. These pre
sentations—whether they be literary, musical, or otherwise—
are not merely “extra bits of learning” we pick up along the
road of education, nor are they designed to teach us mental
perseverance. They are (or should be) representative of the
very soul of life, so intricately and intimately bound up into
the daily process of living as to be indistinguishable.
Concrete assurance that we don't have to go looking for
the greatness in life is evident through observing our own
president. Dr. Phil Elliott. Truly, those who would be great
must see men of greatness—and see greatness in all men.
Let’s do a little introspecting and see how our appre
ciation rating tallies up. Let’s enjoy those lyceum programs!
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