May, 1955
THE PILOT
Page One
Staff of Pilot
Editor - in - Chief
Mary Philbeclc
Assistant Executive Editor — Betty Staton
News Editor — Bobbie Oxford
Assistant News Editor — Deree Mayberry
Associate Editors — Sara Ballard, Literature; Mac Hill, Sports;
Richard Plyler, Religion; Lib Moore, Activities.
Editorial Assistants — Joyce Stevenson, Betty Williams, “Phil”
Henderson, Donnis Philbeck, and Gay Fisher.
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
To The Seniors
By Dr. Phil Elliott
These have been difficult years. First there
was the difficulty of adjustment from high school
to college. To some of you this was a problem. Then
there was the adjustment to the matter of leaving
home. You were not entirely conscious of it, but
many of you were breaking home ties that had held
you all your life.
But you made the transition and have stuck with
it. However it was hard. Sometimes teachers
seemed unusually hard in their assignments, and the
Bursar seemed heartless in his always needing
money. Some of you have not been received as
cordially as you had hoped, and some have had to
struggle with the means to stay.
You have also learned, I hope, that only those
who have made your work difficult, though attrac
tive, have really cared about you. Fifteen years from
now you will know that. You have learned too per
haps that when a blow comes the little person
swivels, and the really great one expands. Your
adjustment to your future college life will not be as
difficult as this has been. You have climbed the
most difficult hill.
Next Year's PILOT
This month the Pilot is being issued by Jerry
Keeter, new editor, and his prospective staff, under
the direction of the retiring staff.
To this incoming staff we extend our best
wishes and encouragement as they assume the re
sponsibility and privileges of gathering and issuing
the Pilot. To those of you who will return to Gard-
ner-Webb next year, we would remind you that the
Gardner-Webb Pilot can be a successful publication
only as you, the students, cooperate with the Pilot
staff in making it so. The purpose of the College
newspaper is to record accurately, yet entertainingly,
the events, activities, and other items of interest to
the students.
The college newspaper is of importance, not
only as a means of forming and entertaining the
students on the campus, but it also serves as an
Jerry Keeter, Editor
Betty Jo Williams, News Editor
Editor's Note
Our sincere thanks to t>ie student body for their
support in our recent election to the positions of
Editor and News Editor of the Pilot. We will do
everything possible next year to steer this paper in
the direction of greater success.
In this last issue we especially wish to thank
and congratulate the 54-55 Pilot staff, and especial
ly its editor, Mary Philbeck, for the time, talent and
skill which have gone into making the Gardner-Webb
Pilot a proud possession.
As for next year’s paper, several appointments
have already been made. These are as follows: Shelia
Mayberry as Associate Editor, Joyce Stephenson as
Business Manager, Ed Scruggs as Associate Business
Manager, Paul Stedman as Circulation Manager,
and Bill Sitton as Photographer.
ambassador of Gardner-Webb College. Well over
one-third of the copies of the Pilot printed each
month are mailed out by the circulation department
of the staff. These papers go to alumni, trustees,
our advertisers, other colleges, and other persons
and organizations interested in the activities and
progress of the college. In addition (and, perhaps,
the most important destination of the papers) a vast
majority of these circulation copies go to surround
ing high schools. To many people, the Pilot may
serve as an introduction to the college and could well
figure in a student’s decision to come to Gardner-
Webb.
Co-operation and industry are essential for any
job well done, so if you have the opportunity to
work on the Pilot in any capacity, do so, and consider
it your privilege of service to a college that exists
to serve. —Mary Philbeck.