Volume XIII, Number 2
GARDNER-WEBB COLLEGE, BOILING SPRINGS, NORTH CAROLINA
November, 1958
RELIGIOUS WEEK EMPHASISED
TO SERVE YOU
BETTER
By David Moore
The Boiling Springs Olinic is still
on the upward trend. In orier that
the faculty and students of Gard-
ner-Webb and the people of the sur
rounding communities might receive
better and more e.'f'olent sen'ice,
three new rooms are to be added.
The first, which will be known as
the Faculty Room is dedicated to
Dr. P. L. Elliott by the faculty and
students of Gardner-Webb. The
second, which will be designated as
the Oarringer Room, is to be fur
nished and reconditioned by Dr. and
Mrs. P. L. Elliott in memory cf Mrs.
Elliott’s father. The third is the
Student Room. This room will be
used by the students of the college
whenever it is necessary for them
to stay at the clinic. This project
should be completed by the last of
November or the first cf December.
We, the Pilot staff, join with the
students in expressing our gratitude
to everyone who made these new ad
ditions possible.
Miss Gardner-Webb
Contest
By Monty Mills
A radiant and beaming Sylvia
Starnes was crowned Miss Gardner-
Webb College on Tuesday night, Oc
tober 21, in the college gymnasium.
Mr. Horace Carter, Vice-President
of the First National Bank of Shel
by placed the crown on the smiling
winner. Sylvia, a gracefufl blond
from Pageland, South Carolina,
looked very lovely and poised in her
white evening gown as she accepted
her crown. White must have been
the lucky color for the contestants;
Miss Gardner-Webb College and
both runners-up wore white evening
gowns in the contest. Second run-
ner-up in the contest was Shirley
Greene, a petite blond from Moores-
boro, and first runner-up was the
lovely Peggy Jo Puett from Rocky
Mount.
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G-W Forensic Squad
Will Enter Several
Tournaments
Byt Mary Hodgres
Plans of the Gardner-Webb For
ensic Squad have recently been vir
tually completed for the fall semes
ter of the 1958 academic year.
The Gardner-Webb squad opened
its current intercollegiate competi
tion against the Mars Hill College
debaters at Mars Hill on October
16. The debaters argued the na
tional collegiate debate query: “Re
solved, that the further development
of nuclear weapons shoiUd be pro
hibited by international agreement.”
Early debates are also planned be
tween the Gardner-Webb debaters
and the forensic squads of Davidson
College and Lenoir Rhyne College.
The Gardner-Webb debaters will
enter three tournaments during the
fall semester. An invitation to en
ter the Wake Forest Novice Debate
Tournament at Wake Forest College
on October 31-November 1 was ac
cepted. This tournament brings to
gether such colleges and universities
as the University of Pittsburgh,
George Washington University,
Duke, University of South Carolina,
nnd others.
The Gardner - Webb debaters
also accepted an invitation to par
ticipate in the 1958 Carolina Foren-
sics at the University of South Car
olina, Columbia, S. C„ on November
13, 14 ,and 15. This tournament,
v/hich draws some of the best foren
sic squads in the Blast, had six
rounds of debate on the national
collegiate debate question, plus sev
eral forensic events.
On December 4, 5, and 6, Gard
ner-Webb will enter the Mountain
Forensic Tournament at Appala
chian State Teachers College, Boone,
N. C. For several years Gardner-
Vvfebb’s forensic squads have parti
cipated in this tournament, which
brings together colleges from North
Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina
and Virginia. Gardner-Webb carried
away no less than nine awards last
fall at the Mountain Forensic Tour
nament.
The Gardner - Webb squad is
coached by'Prbfesof’Francis B. Ded-
m.ond, head of the English depart
ment at the Baptist college.
Ten students are on the 1958
forensic-debating squad. They are
Joan Parker, Concord, and Paula
Winstead, Lexington, girl’s affirma
tive; Janelle Queen, Spencer, and
Janice Anderson, Gastonia, girls’
negative; Bill Greene, Kings Moun
tain, Jimmy Wise, Mount Holly,
Dennis Porch, Mooresville, and Har
old Harris, Hazelwood, boys’ affir
mative; and Floyd Ray Suttles, Old
Port, and James Wix, Shelby, boys’
W. F. Scholarships
Open to Junior
College Graduates
WINSTON-SALEM —The William
Louis Poteat Scholarships have been
established by the Wake Forest Coll
ege faculty for students of the five
Baptist junior colleges in the state.
Five scholarships, ranging in value
up to $500 per school year, will be
awarded annually on a competitive
basis beginning with the 1959-60
school year.
An applicant must be enrolled in
one of the Baptist junior colleges in
North Carolina. He must have a
quality point ratio of at least 2,3
(2.00 is a B) on three semesters of
work and expect to be graduated
from the junior college in the spring
of 19S9. The scholarships are avail
able to both men and women and
are renewable for the senior year.
The scholarships will be awarded
on the basis of ability and need. Ac
cording to the Committee on Scho
larships and Student Aid, they are
“intended to aid young people who
are ambitious and who show pro
mise. Factors of leadership, person
ality, motivation, and judgment, as
well as scholastic ability, will be
considered in the selection of scho
larship holders.” Renewal for the
senior year will be conditioned upon
social conduct and a satisfactory
scholastic record.
Detailed information and an ap
plication should be requested prior
to Dec. 15, 1958, from the Committee
Dramatics Dept.
Holds Play
BOILING SPRINGS—Drama stu
dents at Gardner-Webb College will
present a play, “Under Milk Wood,”
Nov. 20 and 21 at the college.
Each presentation will be at 8 p.
m. in the lobby of the O. Max Gard
ner Student Center. The play is best
adapted for non-conventional stag
ing, and depends on lighting for
dramatic effect.
“Under Milk Wood” was written
by Dylan Thomas, noted Welsh-
American poet and plajrwright of
the current century. The setting is a
small coastal town in Wales.
The author shows the town’s in
habitants as lunatics, with the town
itself officially decreed an “insane
Fourteen students enact the 34
parts as the play re-creates a 24-
Actors include Irene Schmidt,
Cherryville; Suzanne Reid, Thomas-
ton, Ga.; Mai-vin Walters, Mebane;
Richard Ammons, Charlotte; Sonja
Hedrick, Boiling Springs; Mickey
Morrow, Sylvia Whitmire, and Bev
erly Turner, Shelby; Nancy Wilson,
Fallston; Elizabeth Pearson, Mor-
ganton; Margaret England, Marion:
Bernice Goodson, Lincolnton; and
Dave Nanney, Forest City.
Prof. Robert Flynn, instructor in
speech and drama, is director, as
sisted by student director Sara
Moore of Granite Falls.
on Scholarships and Student Aid,
Box 7305, Winston-Salem.
Students in the following colleges
will be eligible for competition:
Campbell, Chowan, Gardner-Webb,
Mars Hill and Wingate.
Dr. William Louis Poteat, for
whom the scholarships are named,
was president of Wake Forest from
1905 to 1927. All told, he taught at
Wake Forest for 61 years. He was
the father of Dr. Hubert McNeill
Poteat, Latin professor for 44 years.
When Dr. Hubert Poteat retired in
1956 it marked the first time in 79
years that a Poteat was not on the
Wake Forest faculty.
Revival Hosts
Reverend Carr
By Sue McClure
The time passed rapidly on our
campus these last few weeks, and
finally one of our long awaited
events was here. The highlight of
our campus every fall is the Relig
ious Emphasis Week or our fall re
vival. The Rev. Warren Carr, Pas
tor of the Watt Street Baptist
Church, Durham, was the preacher
for the Revival Services, Monday,
November 10 through Friday, No
vember 14.
Worship services were held in the
E. B. Hamrick building each evening
at 7 o’clock and at 10:30 a.m. on
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Religious Emphasis Week is spon
sored by our Baptist Student Union,
and we felt that our campus was
ready for a great revival. Prayer
services for the success of our revi
val were held for the week previous
to the revival.
Asheville Site Of
BSU Convention
Some eleven students from our
student body represented Gardner-
Webb College at the Fall B. S. U.
Convention held at the First Baptist
Church in Asheville, October 31-No-
The theme of the convention was
“Disciplined for Today’s Demands.”
Dr. Wayne Oates, from the South
ern Baptist Theological Seminary,
was the guest speaker. Highlights of
the convention were the B. S. U.
choir, dramas on LISTEN, and Bible
discussion groups.
One of the greatest treats of the
convention for all was the gracious
love shown by the many different
families with whom our B. S. U.’ers
stayed. For further word on this,
just ask anyone who went.
The B. S. U. is proud of the relig
ious atmosphere on our campus. We
feel that part of this has been
achieved by om- Vesper services di
rected by Doris Walters. We salute
her now. May God bless you till we
meet again in the next issue.
Mic's Message
Proverbs 3:6
Everybody has problems! Young
people are confronted everyday with
the problem of choosing. God has
blessed us with reasoning power in
making those necessary decisions.
There are, of course, problems we
cannot handle. God’s Word says that
if we will let Him take care of all our
problems, we’ll be led in the right
way. Allowing Gcd to lead makes
a person happier in all things.
“For every man who climbs to the
top of the ladder of success, there
is some woman who stays on the
ground and steadies it for him.”—
W. B. Garrison.
“Men and women, like all Gaul,
may be divided into three parts—
the neurotic, the erotic, and the
tommyrotic.”—M. H. Lichliter.
When John Barleycorn gets be
hind the steering wheel of your au
tomobile, the Grim Reaper is ever
ready to thumb a ride! Gasoline and
alcohol are becoming the initial
embalming fluid for many modern
motorists.