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Volume XIII, Number 1
GARDNER-WEBB COLLEGE, BOILING SPRINGS, NORTH CAROLINA
NEW TEACHERS JOIN G. W. STAFF
COMPULSORY RELIGION?
By Rev. T. Max Linnens
The new pastor of the Boiling Springs Baptist Church is
the Reverend Thomas Max Linnens. He and his family have
been living in this area since September and already have
endeared themselves to the community.
A native of Graham, Mr. Linnens is 38 years old. He is
married to the former Miss Ann Davis of Burlington, and
they have three children, Mackie, 12; Nancy Ann, 8; and
Stephen Davis, 15 months. Mr. Linnens is a veteran of Ma
rine Corps service and was in business for several years be
fore entering the ministry.
i2 graduate of Gardner-
Webb College, graduated with hon
ors from Wake Forest, and received
the B. D. degree In 1957 from South
eastern Baptist Theological Semin
ary, For the past 20 months he has
been pastor of the First Baptist
Church in Saint Pauls. Prior to that
he served Lystra Baptist Church,
Ohapel Hill, for four-and-a-half
years as pastor. WJidle at Gai'dner-
Webif he held interim pastorates in
Spindale, Kings Mountain, and
Gastonia.
We of The Pilot staff welcome our
new pastor and his family and hope
for God’s richest blessings on them.
Looking Backward . .
By Sue McClure
Let’s look back in retrospect a
few moments and see how the ac
tions of the Baptist Student Union
speak louder than their words. This
proverb really speaks for itself on
Gardner-Webb campus this fall. The
happy-go-lucky freshmen were wel
comed with friendly smiles from the
n. S. U, council members. The
B. S. U. made its first big hit with
refreshing lemonade for all the stu
dents, new and old, on Monday,
September 1, 1958.
The party given by the B. S. U.
made many life long friends. In-
No college student will flunk a troduotlons were many, and all
were able to learn a few of the stu
dents on campus.
The B. S. TJ. is interested in many
affairs of the students here on cam
pus. The progress of the devotional
life of each individual has been a
vital factor in the B. S. U. program.
Gardner-Webb students have ex
perienced a new awakening in their
spiritual lives through the daily ves
per services, Training Union, Sun
day School, and hall prayer mfiet-
ngs each week.
Under the leadership of Fred
Snipes the Sunday School has main-
itained an average attendance of
ninety-one. Our teachers for tihe
year are: Mr. Moseley and Mr. Os-
boys’ classes, Miss
course in religion if he has over
three unexcused absences from the
worship services of the church in
one semester. Attendance is not
compulsory. If you are compelled to
come to church it will be through
the constraining love of Christ and
your desire to find and follow His
will for your life. To help bind you
to the Lord and His church there
are the prayers of those who love
you and want you to have the best
in spiritual preparation for life.
The loss you will suffer from neg
lecting the regular worship services
will be far greater than the loss of
credit for a college com'se. You may
be able to make up credit for a col
lege cO'iurse in summer school.
for those who miss
ply have to take up where you come
in. A common complaint often
heard from the spasmotic worship
per is that he just doesn’t get much
from the worship service. This isn’t
hard to understand, is it? Those
who neglect the worship services get
out of practice, and forget how to
participate whole-heartedly in the
worship service. Many of these wind
up becoming spectators rather than
Charles W. Horner, State Secre
tary of the Student Department of
South Carolina says in the October
issue of the Key News: “I believe
s college church
e of the greatest experi-
e career . . . fur-
. A. Chandler,
; not repeated jones and Mr. Burris are the teach-
i. You slm-
ers for the girls. AU the classes have
elected their individual officers and
are ready to start out on a very suc
cessful year.
■Ehe Training Union has as its
■leaders, Carey Greene, Margaret
England, and Nancy Ann Carter. It
has maintained an average of fifty-
six. We urge eacli one of you to take
an hour and attend Training Union
on Sunday night. We are certain
you will gain much from your at-
Lloyd Green and his group are
urging all those who are seeking
God’s guidance in their life, whe
ther it be doctor, lawyer, nurse, or
most of his secretary to join the Christian Vol-
somewhere unteer Band. This band has had two
regular meetings and are ready for
their selection of officers at the next
meeting. The road is open to them
for a very meaningful and success
ful year in their Christian work.
The Y. W. A.’s star'ted off the year
with a bang with attendance of
around thirty-five girls. ’The Y, W.
A.’s are priviledged to have Mrs.
Godwin as their leader. Under the
watchful eye of Pat Crawley, the
Y. W. A. president, the Y. W. A.’s
will be a very active organization.
The B. S. U. organizations have
really shown how they plan to plot
out the life of students at Gardner-
Webb this year. Under the prayer
ful guidance of God, the B. S. U.,
along with the other students on
campus are sure to have a happy
and meaningful life.
Rev. T. M. Linnens
Looking Ahead . . .
Although many students think
that the Baptist Student Union
works only at the first of the year,
tills is not the case this year, be
cause the B. S. U. has a very ac
tive program planned for the rest of
the year at Gardner-Webb.
One of our most long-awaited af
fairs is the trip to Charlotte to the
Billy Graham Crusade one night
each week. We truly feel that these
trips will be an inspiration for all
the students who are able to attend
the services.
The fall convention of the Baptist
Student Union wiU be held
vUle, North Carolina, October 31s
through November 2, 1958. We ai
urging aU students to sincerely cor
slder going to Asheville with u
Any sophomore can tell you what
v/onderful time you will experience
at any B. S. U. convention.
The revival on Gardner - Webb
campus is truly one of the high
lights of the year. The theme for
oiu- revival this year is The Chal
lenge for Christian Youth. Rev.
Warren Carr will be our guest
speaker for the week. The dates of
our revial are November 10-14th.
Now is the time to start plaiming for
our revival. If our meeting is to be
a success, we need everyone’s daily
Another unusual treat we have
this year, is the appearance of the
Missions Team on oiu' campus on
Monday, October 20th, Our mission
ary speaker will be Dr. Hugo Cul
pepper. Miss Sara Ann Hobbs, the
State Y. W. A. Leader, and Mr.
Harold Cole from the Student De
partment in Raleigh will accompany
him. These leaders will be available
for conferences in Stroup Dormi
tory. We urge you to visit with these
leaders anytime after limdh.
The events most welcomed by the
students on our campus are the
Sunday night fellowships at the dif
ferent faculty member’s homes. The
first fellowsliip wUl be at Dean Ter
rell’s house. We have a social horn-
of games and entertainment fol
lowed by delightful refreshments.
Since food attracts many persons,
the B. S. U. is expecting a big turn
out every third Sunday night at the
different faculty
We wUl see you there.
We will close with our B. S. U.
news bulletin for now and will con
tinue in the next issue of The PUot.
May God’s richest blessings be upon
you aU.
Gardner-Webb Welcomes New Teachers
By Monty Mills
Six new teachers have been
added to the Gardner-Webb College
faculty this fall. Some of you prob
ably have become acquainted with
;them through their teaching. For
those of you who do not know
them, the Gardner-Webb College
Pilot introduces them to you:
Coach Robert Blackburn, a former
Gardner-Webb student, hails from
Mooresboro in Cleveland County.
Mr. Blackburn attended Gardner-
Webb College and Erskine College in
Due West, South Carolina. He ma
jored in Physical Education and
Health in college.
WThen asked his opinion of Gard-
Attention Freshmen!
By President P. L. Elliott
The business of going away to col
lege as Freshmen is not a simple
matter. There is the matter of ad
justment to new ways and new sur
roundings. Regardless of restric
tions there are a number of free
doms one is not accustomed to.
There, too, are certain pressures the
influences of which one must accept
or reject. The matter of choices
which at once is a person’s greatest
privilege and his greatest danger
cannot be avoided. One is forced to
grow up either with or against his
will.
Perhaps your most important
choice is whether you are godng to
seek to become educated or secure
skill only with which to hold a job.
Education in its finest sense Is at
titude which carries with it the de
sire to know the best and finest^
life’s gardens and not its gutters.
This attitude arises out of the at
mosphere or climate of what we do
and why and how we do it. It is
through the subjecting of our minds
and emotions to great literature,
music, art, and helpful deeds of
service to others together with the
discipline of conscientious study and
wholesome fun and fellowship that
we arrive at adulthood. The diffi
culty is that no one can make the
you; and once made they
have a way of becoming permanent.
The best the college can do for you
is to create an atmosphere that
might make right choices more at
tractive and cheap things less ap
pealing.
ner-Webb, COach Blackburn simply
stated, “I’m Back.” It sounds as if
Mr. Blackbm-n is really going to en
joy his teaching and coaching job
at Gardner-Webb.
Mr. Blackburn’s hobbies are na^
turaUy Sports. He disikes it very
much when the boys mess up, so
guys you better keep on your toes
and win those games. He enjoys lis
tening to popular music, and his
favorite food is—good food.
Mrs. C. A. Chandler, the new
house mother at Decker Hall, is
from the neighboring Rutherford
County. Mrs. Chandler attended the
University of North Carolina, where
she took extension courses in Social
Studies.
She thinks that Gardner - Webb
has a wonderful Christian atmos
phere, and she thinks highly of her
boys over at Decker. Since she has
six children of her own, Mrs.
Chandler is well qualified for the
position of house mother.
Mrs. Chandler has as her hobby
growing flowers. With her duties at
Decker, she probably won’t have
much time for flowers this year.
Mom Chandler’s favorite kind of
food is fruit, and her favorite music
is just good music.
The new History teacher, Mr. C.
Allen Burris, is from Wingate. He
and his wife, a former teacher, have
one child, a two year old daughter.
Mr. Burris attended Wingate Col
lege, Wake Forest, Southern Semin
ary, Southeastern Seminary, and
Duke University; he majored in
History and Government. ’This is
Mr. Burris’ first year as a regular
teacher, and I hope that it is a re
warding year.
Being very familiar with junior
colleges, he is very impressed with
Gardner-Webb. Golf, tennis and
singing are his favorite hobbies. Mr.
Burris enjoys most any type of
music, but he particularly enjoys
choral and group singing. His fa
vorite food is homemade bread.
Another of our new teachers this
year is a former student of Gard
ner-Webb; she is Mrs. Martha C.
Dedmond from Cliffside. Mrs. Ded-
mond teaches freshman English. She
attended Gardner - Webb, Carson-
Newman CoUege in Jefferson City,
Tennessee, Appalachian State
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