OCTOBEK, 1956
WHAT BRINGS
ME HERE?
What is that force behind the fact
that I am now In college?
Is it insatiate mental thirst which
lures me to this reservoir of learn
ing?
Is it the ambition of another who,
denied what is mine to have, has
stinted self that through me those
ambitions might be realized?
WHAT BRINGS ME HERE?
Is It disguised desire for earthly
things which prompts me now to
fortify my mind with knowledge
that I might acquire that which
“moth and rust” corrupt?
Is it a secret lust for power to
control the actions of my fellowmen
that I might gain through their
subserviency?
WHAT BRINGS ME HERE?
Is there within my soul a motive,
pristine pure, which draws me to
these hallowed halls to learn more
that I might serve best?
Is it a sense of mission which
burns within and will not let me be
content with limitations which are
mine today?
Is it that Christ, my Saviour, is
also Lord of all I am and hope to be,
and he commands that I expand my
mind and soul that I might enlarge
my ministry to Hiunanity?
WHAT BRINGS ME HERE?
Oh, Christ, whatever forces have
converged to bring me to this place,
this now is my conviction: Thou
hast a work for me to do and in the
words of one of old “Here stand I”
with God within to motivate my life.
GOD BROUGHT MS HERE
G, Kearnie Keegan
CAMPUS CHATTER
Welcome Freshman, to the news
of the campus brought to you by
Patagonia Who’s the guy in
Decker Hall that all the girls are
swooning over ... you mean Ollie?
Why doesn’t someone bring Jackie
down from cloud nine How
about it Marilou? Sybil, don’t
look so blue. He’U be home this
weekend It was nice of the
boys who helped the girls move to
the new dorm
THE PILOT
Circle K Club
Under Consideration
A plan has been presented to the
male students of the Gardner-Webb
campus. A new organization called
the Circle K Club is under considera
tion and is now in the process of
IS it?! .
There’s a certain sophomore girl
who’s getting the eye A Mit
chell College tranfer maybe
Carolyn Sparks and E. J- Huff-
stickier are one of the many cute
freshman couples this year
Seems as though everyone has faUen
in love with Mr. “Psycho”
Congratulations girls upon pooling
your dimes and nickels; everyone
likes T. V.
HAVE YOU NOTICED:
The young teachers around the
campus after eleven at night
Cordie and John—a cute couple,
huh!? All the cute freshmen
Our new cheerleaders
That the Snack Shop has done some
improving Don Miller’s head
f after the Appalachian game
That the Student Center has had its
This Circle K Club is somewhat
similar to the Key dub, which is in
many high schools.
The president of the Kiwanis Club
of Forest City and Mr. O. W. Mor
ris, superintendent of the pubUc
schools of Forest City are the co
workers who are attempting to or
ganize this club on our campus.
We, the PILOT staff, are behind
this movement and urge the students
concerned to respond energetically.
face lifted. ... It gets loaded about
9:30 p.m that Ben Poston
likes red heads All the white
sSiirts and ties at Sunday dinner.
.... that everyone enjoys the privi
lege of the O. Max Gardner Build
ing. . . . The resident of Decker
Hall who dates 14 year-old girls
from Gastonia???? that far
away look in Ron’s and Clark’s
eyes??? Could it be Winston-Salem
and Berea. ....
See you next issue. Patagonia!!!
G.-W. ENROLLMENT
CLOSED WITH 481
Gardner-Webb closed its registra
tion books for the semester with an
enrollment of 481 students.
The enrollment figure represents
an Increase of 110 students in the
past two years. The college had 371
students in the fall semester of 1954,
and a year ago reported 435. Over a
longer period the student body has
increased sevenfoW since 1943 when
only 71 students reported.
The students represent seven
states and hall from 39 counties In
North Carolina. A great majority
are Baptist, but around 20 religious
denominations are claimed. Boys
are two-to-one majority on the cam-
The college is progressing with a
building program to keep pace with
the Increased student body. A new
dormitory for girls is now in use,
and a new physical education build
ing is expected to be in service by
next fall.
The fashions come, the fashions go
Now longer skirts, now shorter.
But every thing the women wear.
Some prude reformer tears his hair.
And says they hadn’t orter!
PILOT SALUTES FOR OCTOBER
CHARLES GORDAN ^ , HAROLYN SPARKS
Capturing the honor for this
“Personality plus” is the phrase month’s feminine “Pilot Salutes” is
that would best describe Charles a brown-eyed brownette by the name
Gordan, a conscientious worker and of Harolyn Sparks. Harolyn, 19, is
a character of wit and good humor, from Cliffside, and is the daughter
Charlie hails from Winston-Salem, of Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Sparks,
where he graduated from Gray High Harolyn grew up in Cliffside and
School in 1951. After high school graduated from Cliffside High
he joined the Air Force, where he School in 1955. While there she par-
remained four years. He came to ticipated in many group activities.
Gardner-Webb for the 1956 spring Besides her studies, her biggest job
semester, and is an accounting ma- was vice-president to the student
jor with hopes of continuing his body.
education at Wake Forest. His hob- Since coming to Gardner-Webb
by is golfing and he shoots in the Harolyn’s list of accomplishments
eighties. In addtion to his golf he has continued to grow. She is a
has a varied interest in athletic member of the Marshal Club and Is
events, and is an ardent admirer of president of Sigma Pi Alpha. She
the Brooklyn Dodgers. also a member of the girls house
Charlie’s courteous attitude and
friendly ways have won him a host
of friends and a salute from the
PILOT as this month’s outstanding
personality of the Gardner-Webb
campus.
Harolyn’s future includes further
schooling at Wake Forest. She is un
decided as to what she will study.
Whatever it may be, the personality
of Harolyn Sparks as displayed on
our campus will make for success in
any field.
WHAT IS A
COLLEGE STUDENT?
By PATSY WRIGHT
Between the awkwardness of the
high school student and the dignity
of adulthood comes a period of com
plete blankness found in what we
call the college student. College stu
dents come in assorted shapes, sizes,
colors, and ages, but they will have
the same creed; To enjoy each mo
ment of each day in each class; to
remember what they choose to re
member and to forget what they
ought to remember; to make the best
possible grades with the least possi
ble effort; to look forward to each
Saturday with a deep satisfaction of
knowing they are a week nearer the
end of the school year; and to dread
each Monday’s dawn.
College students are found every
where—in the stores, the movies, the
Snack Shop, hanging out windows,
cutting classes, and industriously
sorting materials in the college li
brary for a term paper or theme.
Mothers love them, of course; dads
beg for their services when the fam
ily car needs washing; younger
brothers and sisters envy their key
chains and pretty clothes; heaven
protect them; and the faculty, hat
ing to admit it, gets a kick out of
some of their mischievous pranks.
College students axe Truth with
catty language. Beauty with a little
conceit and pride. Wisdom—so long
as there are encyclopedias — and
Originality with a few quotations
from Shakespeare.
A college student is a composite—
he has the energy of the soon-to-be-
invented nitrogen bomb; the self
•assurance of a thoroughbred race
horse; the imaginations of the cre
ator of Beowulf; the loquaciousness
of a college professor; the friendli
ness of a cute puppy; and the wit
of Bob Hope.
He usually likes ball games, par
ties, Irregular hours (for everything),
gossip, the school song, fiction books,
driving dad’s car, going swimming,
and playing hookey. They dislike,
of course, school and all coimections
therewith — homework, conduct
grades, Monday mornings, rainy
days, quiet classes, and classic
poetry.
Nobody else is quite so energetic
after school, or quite so enthusiastic
over a ball game. Nobody else en
joys a holiday as much. Nobody else
gets so mixed up over a simple
algebra problem, or is quite so de
cided in his opinions of schools or
teachers, nor quite so lenient with
politics, people, and religion. Nobody
else causes parents as much anxiety
nor gives them as much pride.
The college student is a magical
creature. He can lock himself in his
room, but he carmot lock himself
out of your heart. You might as
well give up—he’s your lift when
you’re blue, your laugh when you’re
ready to scream, your look of disgust
when he Insists that he’s right, your
master when he wants the car keys,
your princess in her Jr.-Sr. gown,
your “cat” in pegged pants, and
your “little girl” with a pencil mark
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PROS AND CONS
OF DOUBTING
By PATSY WRIGHT
How should we feel towards doubt
ing? This question is one which,
like most others, has two viewpoints.
It is also one which has very force
ful statements concerning it—pro
and con. Robert Weston says point
edly, “I say unto you; Cherish yom
doubts”; Ella Wheeler Wilcox says
with an equal degree of forceful
ness, “I will not doubt.” Shakespeare
says, “Our doubts are traitors.” All
of these poets have beautiful lines
of poetry succeeding their state
ments, but that is beside the point.
For my personal satisfaction, which
should I believe?
If I decide to believe all things,
what wUl be the results? Not hav
ing doubts, I wUl be one of whom
anything might be presented, and I
will accept facts that wiU perhaps
be harmful to my way of thinking,
or hurtful in some way to those,
I love. I will be in bondage to faith,
necessarily creating a dull personal
ity that will not think for itself, but
rather wUl give way to statements
merely because they are statements.
How foolish to believe all things!
How unwise to have faith to the
point that I will never question
statements; even those made by the
ones in whom I have the utmost
confidence may be as misleading as
those made by strangers who would
have me believe fantastic things. 1
have decided, therefore, to cheri^
my doubts.
On the other hand, can I remain
sane while doubting all things? I
could possibly question everything
for approximately 24 hours without
becoming a victim of my doubts to
the point of insanity. If I doubt
God, then I have no answer to the
many questions, “Whence comes
this.” There are questions which
have no other answer than God.
Even the most thorough doubter
has no answer to the questions which
a believer would answer with the
word God. So, because I must have
an answer, I will believe in God. Is
this statement contradictory to the
one in the preceding paragraph in
which I said I would cherish my
doubts? It is not.
It is merely an admission of the
fact that I must draw a line and
decide at what point I will doubt
and at what point faith will take up
arms to defend me. This is that
line: Where doubts are concerned, I
will doubt men’s ways, their im
proved statements, their ability to
stand alone or to help me to stand,
and their speeches which would,
were they allowed, turn my thoughts
from Heavenly things. Where faith
is concerned, I will not doubt that
there is good in all men which I can
help to reveal through patience, love,
and faith in mankind; I will not
doubt that men are tacapable of
helping themselves stand, but I will
ever have faith that God is the Way
yhen men find no other way. Doubt
will be my guardian against myseU
and men; faith will be my contact
with men and God. I shall doubt
always, but faith shall ever prevail.
on her face. When you walk down the
street, downtown, or down the haU
with the edges of your silken dreams
and hopes badly ragged, the college
student can fix them up like new
in a flash with that one magical,
full-of-hope, friendly phrase—“Hi
there!”
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Boiling, Springs, N. C.