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Volume X, Number 4
THE PILOT
JANUARY, 1956
G. W. Receives $10,000 Toward Expansion Program
MULE FIGURES IN MEMORIES
OF OLD GARDNER-WEBB PUPIL
Perry Sellers of Shelby,
one of the first students to
enroll at G. W. in 1907, en
joys nothing more than the
chance to tell of his school
days.
“I remember most all of my
classmates, and have kept
track of a lot of them, but
one of the outstanding things
I remember about the school
was a little black mule named
Katie,” commented Sellers.
“Katie didn’t belong to the
college. She belonged to
Tommy Goode, who lived near
by and rode her to school. I
was working my way through
school, and used to borrow
Katie to haul and do odd jobs.”
He went on to relate that
Quinn Circle, the main street
through the campus, is his
handiwork.
He and Katie laid out the
road and dug the ditches on
each side, using a twister plow
as their road building equip
ment.
“Tommy Goode and Jake
Ware (Dr. J. 0. Ware of
Fayetteville, Ark.) helped in
making the road. We had to
chop down about 25 trees and
get Katie to pull them out of
the way. Then we blasted out
the stumps and smoothed out
the road.”
The street fronting the
Huggins-Curtis building still
maintains its original location.
It was paved in 1941, and was
named Quinn Circle in memo
ry of the late J. H. Quinn, an
original trustee of the college.
When the school opened 49
Perry Sellers Likes To Remember
divide the two,” he chuckled,
years ago, according to Sel
lers, the building which hous
ed the whole school was still
under construction.
Sufficient rooms were ready
to house the girls and hold
classes, but the boys had to
find lodging elsewhere. Later
in the year the building was
finished and the boys moved
“The boys lived on c
3 end
Girls Negative Team Wins
In Appalachian Mountain
Forensic Tournament
Gardner-Webb College will receive a gift of $10,000 from
Carson Stout of High Point toward its expansion program,
says Dr. H. Hansel Stembridge, Jr.
Stout, who is president of Carson’s, Inc., High Point fur
niture manufacturers, retired from the Gardner-Webb board
of trustees January 1.
Stout has made a number of substantial contributions
to the college in recent years and four years ago completely
refurnished the
Boiling Springs
Lions Vote Fund
For G. W. College
Boiling Springs Lions Club
has voted to donate $500 to
Gardner-Webb College expan
sion program and set up $325
for use in community agricul
tural projects.
One of the agricultural pro
jects will be a calf chain. Two
calves will be bought with
$200 of the fund. The other
$125 will be used for prizes in
corn and cotton contests and
a speaking contest.
The club also voted to do
nate $100 for a public address
system in the community.
Previously the club had given
$300 for development of a pic
nic area around the spring on
the college campus.
of the building and the girls
occupied the other end,” he re
calls. “The school principal
and a heavy padlock served to
Sellers has operated a shoe
shop in Shelby for almost a
half-century. He learned the
trade from his father, the late
Eli Sellers of Cherryville.
“Gardner-Webb has grown
into an excellent school,” the
early alumnus says. “I expect
to see it go on making pro
gress for years to come.”
Dr. E. V. Hudson
Pictured above is the Gardner-Webb’s Debating Team. On your left
are: Lee Jefferies, Donnis Philbeck, Margie Lattimore, and Eddie Hudson;
on your right are: Ann Ellis, Kitty Ixjgan and Prof. F. B. Dedmond.
The Gardner-Webb girls’
negative debate team won
third place in the girls’ nega
tive division in the Appala
chian Mountain Forensic
Tournament, which was held
at Boone, December 1, 2, 3.
The girls’ negative team of
Gardner-Webb is composed of
Ann Ellis of Shelby and Kitty
Logan of Mooresboro.
There were 10 teams in the
tournament: University of
North Carolina, Appalachian,
Maryville, Emory and Henry,
Mars Hill, Tennessee Tech.,
East Tennessee, Carson New
man, Lenoir Rhyne, and Gard
ner-Webb.
These teams debated the
national query, “Resolved:
That the Non-Agricultural
Industries of the United States
should guarantee their em
ployees an annual wage.”
The girls’ negative team of
Gardner-Webb won decisions
over Tennessee Tech., East
Tennessee and two teams from
Maryville College.
Other Gardner-Webb stu-
the girls’ dormitory with cus
tom made furniture valued at
close to $2,000.
“This is the third largest
contribution we have received
for the expansion program,”
Dr. Stembridge, director of
G. W. enlargement campaign,
said in making the announce
ment.
The Boiling Springs Bap
tist Church has pledged $36,-
000 which it is paying at the
rate of $1,000 per month; the
0. Max Gardner Foundation
and the Gardner family have
given $25,000.
Another substantial gift to
the college, apart from the
campaign, came last summer
from the George Blanton fam
ily of Shelby which placed
$10,000 in the trust depart
ment of the First National
Bank for G a r d n e r-Webb
scholarships.
“Our campaign for $1,750,-
000 is well underway. But it
has a long way to go. We can
expect roughly a half million
dollars from the Baptist State
Convention. That leaves $1,-
250,000 to come from people
who believe in Christian edu
cation and church-related col
leges,” commented Dr. Stem
bridge.
Dr. E. V. Hudson, pastor
of the First Baptist Church in
Cramerton, founded the Pilot
of Gardner-Webb College in
1912.
Dr. Hudson, “Dubbie” to his
dents participating in the de
bate tournament were—Don
nis Philbeck of Boiling
Springs, Marjorie Lattimore
of Rutherfordton, Lee Jeffer
ies of Raleigh, and Eddie Hud
son of Cramerton.
Prof. Francis B. Dedmond,
coach of the G. W. debaters,
accompanied the debaters and
acted as judge in a number of
forensic events in the tourna
ment.
classmates, attended what was
known as Boiling Springs
High School in 1912-1915.
“My main interest besides
putting the Pilot out monthly
was debating. We used to hold
debates among the groups at
school and in the spring we
all traveled by buckboard to
Shelby to debate against the
two other high schools in the
county, Shelby and Piedmont.
Senator Hoey was always
present to hear and give to
the best debater a gold medal.
I got one medal from Senator
Hoey and sure am proud of
it,” he went on to say.
“I don’t remember too much
about the Pilot except that it
was 8” x 12” in size and con
sisted mostly of feature ar
ticles. I used to travel with
the president of the school,
Mr. Huggins, to associational
meetings over the county to
sell subscriptions for the pap
er.”
Dr. Hudson’s son Eddie is
at present attending G. W.,
where he is president of the
student government associa
tion. Eddie plans to enter
Wake Forest this fall.