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IN THE PILOT
THIS ISSUE
Morrow’s Sports Bound-Up Page 4
Trend of The Times Page 2
Meet The Registrar Page 3
Volume XI, Number V
GARDNER-WEBB COLLEGE, BOILING SPRINGS, NORTH CAROLINA
FEBRUARY 27, 1957
Religious Emphasis Week Being Observed
SOBER MOMENTS To Each After His Will
CANNON HITS THE MARK—Gary Cannon, college postman, sup
plies the demands of the students as he goes through his twice-daily
routine of sorting out the mail and placing it in the student’s mail
boxes. Although confronted with a mass of letters and packages, Gary
efficiently heeds the postman’s traditional creed: “The mail must go
through.”
POSTMASTER
By BILL KINCAID
Have you ever wondered how it
would feel to be a postman; to
make people happy, or see eyes drop
in disappointment as they see their
empty box?
Gary Cannon knows; he is the
student postmaster at Gar(Jner-
Webb College. During an average
work day Gary puts up about 100
letters at the morning delivery, and
"Sun Up" To Be
Presented
By BILL KINCAID
The Gardner-Webb players will
present SUN-UP, a three act play,
by Lula Vollmer on March 7 and 8,
at 8:15 p.m. in the E. B. Hamrick
auditorium. Miss Jean McSwain is
director of the play.
Playing the leading role of Widow
Cagle will be Carolyn Proffitt, Bak-
ersville. Others are: Pap Todd, Ray
Rollins; Rufe Cagle, Gary Cannon;
Emmy Todd, Harriet Gibson; Sher
iff, Bryon Rippey; Bud, Frank Mc
Farland; The Preacher, Sonny Hug
gins; The Stranger,- Dillard Hiatt,
and Bob, Don Miller.
Regular rehersals have been held
in the past weeks and the play pro
mises to be a success.
SUN-UP is the story of people,
mountain people, living in their ig
norance, lack of knowledge of the
outside world, and superstition.
When one sees the play, though, he
wonders if they are actually so
ignorant as it seems.
In spite of their constant trouble
with the law they are a hardy,
self supporting group who live in
the mountains near Asheville, N. C.
Among them is Pap Todd, a brag
ging but harmless old veteran of
the Civil War. When he can man
age to stay out of jail for his con
stant lisuor making, he livens the
play up with his tales of the battle
of ’63, when he got his “ ‘lag’ shot
up.”
Carolyn Proffitt, as Widow Cagle.
20 at the afternoon delivery. There
are also quite a few newspapers and
packages at each delivery.
When asked of the merits and
demerits of his job Gary replied,
“There are those who will walk up
to-- their box, find it empty, and
then complain to me because they
don’t have any mail.”
Recently in the student center
after Gary had put up the after
noon mail, one girl walked up to
him and asked, “Did I get any mail,
Gai-y?”
Gary repUed, “No,” then added
aside, “Some people will go out of
their way to ask me if they have
any mail when all they’d have to
do is look'in their boxes,”
The job isn’t all receiving com
plaints, though, for there is that
satisfaction which is gained through
making people happy, for Gardner-
Webb students love to get mail. It
seems the only trouble is some stu
dents dislike writing it.
Gary is currently in the midst of
a campaign to collect the mail box
rent for second semester.
When asked at which time of the
swered, “Right after school starts,
there are more packages; someone
forgot some clothes; we get a lot of
packages.”
Gary is anxiously awaited in the
student center when mail time
cmes. As Soon as his door is closed
a crowd gathers in front of the
boxes and stays until his job is
is a strong willed widow with a son,
Rufe, who has ideas about marry
ing Pap Todd’s daughter, Emmy.
The only trouble to his plan is the
sheriff. The time comes when Emmy
must choose between the two.
News comes. War, war between
the United States and Germany. In
those days of the early twentieth
century the call for soldiers comes
and Rufe joins the ari^iy.
All this and more will be shown
when the play is presented on
March 7 and 8.
By REV. JOHN S. FARRAR
The life of youth is replete with
action. The ball game, the school
play, the church party, the club
outing—all of these call for action
and activity. Who would want youth
otherwise? No one! The days of
youth are the days when physical
and emotional buoyancy must have
their outlets. But let us stop for a
moment. Who ever thought that a
young person’s life would be con
sidered merely as a bundle of ner
vous energy which must find ex
pression? Young people have in
tellect and judgment and it takes
action to satisfy these basic capac
ities. But this action takes place in
life’s sober moments. Your writer
makes the observation that the deep
provocative moments are not only
necessary for youth, but that most
young people do experience times
when the weighty issues of human
existence and destiny are before
Planning for* one’s life work takes
earnest thought, if one tries to
measure his aptitudes, capabilities
and interests. Youth has to “think”
if he chooses aright. Trying to make
right moral decisions is not an easy
task, for one must take into ac
count what is right in each given
adventure. Along with the thrill of
dating ,is the ever increasing sense
of responsibility involved in making
the choice of
in the travelogue of life—each issue
demands the decision of a sober
moment with one’s self and God.
It is “natural” to desire to eat,
drink and be merry. Tomorrow we
die. But a solid, devout, earnest
young person will not be the victim
of this false estimate of life. The
commitment of our,decisions to the
counsel of the sober moment may
save us from faulty and regrettable
choices. I dare you to be sober in
your thought about the weightier
matters of your life. God will be
there to undergird you and you will
be surprised how'much more whole
some life can be. It is time for you
to stop letting someone else make
your decisions for you. You are
growing up. Allow your mind and
heart a chance. Think soberly! -
A Day In The Life
Of A Day Student
By WALTER POPE
My day begins at 7 a.m. with my
silver haired little mother tinkling
the breakfast bell and singing the
praises of hot coffee and a new
day. I ignore these pleasantries, and
by 7:15, silve^ haired mother is
screaming that she is going to come
up there and set that bed on fire
in about two minutes.
So I hit the deck and head in a
general westerly direction, toward
where the stairs would be. They
are, and so is the cat, who has
chosen this moment to make his
descent into the lower regions. Not
having gotten around to opening
my eyes yet, I trip over the cat, and
cat and day student land in an im-
happy heap at the foot of the stairs.
As I lie there trying not to bleed.
Mother calls out to stop pushing
Judy down the stairs.
7:15 to 7:30 is breakfast time. I
sit down to a plate of scrambled
eggs, remembering that it was
scrambled eggs just like these that
made me decide to become a day
student. Breakfast time is also home
By DR. P. L. ELLIOTT
Education is largely attitude—to
paraphrase Rabelais, a certain gay-
ety of spirit in spite of circum
stances. The process by which it is
achievfed is largely atmosphere. It is
growth; and growth, whether phy
sical, mental, or spiritual requires
approprite food and exercise of the
proepr quality and amount.
A college has some part to play
in the process. A college should be
a place where friendly attitudes to
ward intellectual pursuits are in
Dr. Philip Lovin Elliott
To neglect the painstaking ac
cumulation of knowledge is to create
a society swayed by superstition,
and whjch mistakes ‘meteors for
fixed stars and will-of-the-wisps for
a steady light’.
Attitudes vary. Of love there is
the attitude of Cassanova; there is
also the attitude of Dante. Life has
gutters; it also has sidewalks and
flower gardens. I heard of one who
keeps a little black book in which
he records the names of those who
slight him that he can remember to
hate them.
The other side of education which
is also honorable is the practical
use of knowledge. In order to write
well two things are necessary: you
must have something to say; and
you must know the technique of
saying it. Without applied knowl
edge, pure knowledge would tend to
deteriorate into speculation. A poem
is something well and attractively
said. It is also a mood, an attitude,
a vision of life. Often it allows one
to see the common things of life
through the eyes of one who is not
see life through the eyes of a poet,
we may also see it through those of
a historian, musician, mathemati
cian, or scientist. The important
thing is to see it accurately and see
it whole, for we shall not be the
same again.
“It is not a mind, not a body that
not make two parts of him.”
work time. While cramming parts
of myself with oatmeal, I am cram
ming the cranium with such per
tinent facts as: The cosine of thirty
degrees equals the square root of
cold coffee, and John C. Calhoun
is a credit to French toast and a
debit to BeOT^lf.
7:30 is take off time. At one min
ute before, I get in the car, press
the starter, and discover that the
battery is either dead or indiffer
ent. My Chevy is parked on a little
knoll for just such emergencies, so
I disembark and coax the car for
ward. Friend Chevy gets the Idea,
and, before I can say black mark,
plunges down the knoll and into
the ditch, pausing only long enough
B.S.U. Sponsors
Religious
Emphasis Week
The B.S.U. has been busy plan
ning a program for Religious Ehi-
phasis Week which will take place
jin the Hamrick Building Auditorium
during the week of February 25th-
30th. The planning for the program
was begun after the beginning of
the new semester by a special com
mittee appointed by the president,
Margaret Gold. This committee con-'
sisted of Faye Branch (chairman),
Margaret Gold, Louise Allen, Jim
Collette, Max Evington, Carolyn
Brownn, and Miss Kathleen Davis.
Suggestion blanks were given out
one day during chapel to give the
student bo% a chance to enter
their suggestions for the program.
The B.S.U. has made an effort to
plan the program for Religious Em
phasis Week according to the wishes
of the students, and is expecting
the students to participate in the
program.
The program will consist of var
ious talks and panel discussions.
There vrill be many well-known and
experienced speakers participating
and also presentations of special
music. Morning and evening pro
grams beginning on Monday morn
ing at 10:30 will continue through
Friday evening. The evening pro
gram wOl begin at 7 o’clock.
Some of the topics to be discussed
are: “What does life and society
expect of me?”, “What to do with
a life”, “Does your Christianity
show?”, and “Love, co.urtship, and
marriage”.
The Religious Emphasis Week is
an annual event and is always an
ticipated with enthusiasm and in
terest by the students. This pro
gram gives to the students answers
to many of their problems and in
spiration to live by. The B.S.U. is
expecting all of the students to take
advantage of this wonderful op
portunity. ,
ANCHOR NEARS
COMPLETION
The Anchor is nearly complete,
according to Patsy Cook, editor of
the yearbook. Only a small amount
of copy to be written and a few
pictures to be stamped occupied the
staff as the deadline, February 22,
approached.
The staff urges the students to
make arrangements now to pay for
their yearbooks to assure prompt
delivery to the student in the early
part of May. There will be some
extra copies which students may
reserve now by placing an order
with the editor,
to run over my foot.
Realizing that the absence com-
mittee is not apt to be impressed
, by this tale of woe (I have used It
before), I make preparation to drive
silver-haired mother’s car. I find
that said car has assumed a cocky
over one eye angle due to the fact
that one of the tires is flat. Day
student changes tire.
Before leaving, I check my list
of things I mustn’t forget, and find
that sister Judy is not in the car.
Five more minutes brush past me
while she does whatever girls do
that always makes them late. At
last we are really on our way, with
a Cloud of smoke and a hearty “I
forgot my history book I”
Soon we are away from the
sounds of a city waking up. We are
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