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Volume XIII, Number 7
GARDNER-WEBB COLLEGE, UOILING SPRINGS, NORTH CAROLINA
SPRING HITS G. W. CAMPUS
TO HELP YOU
By Joseph Godwin
What are the advantages to be
gained by attending a Christian Col
lege? That is a question to be faced
by boys and girls who contemplate
college training and by their par-
In our Ba^ptist colleges we teach
math that is just as mathematical,
b-'ology that is just as biological,
English that is just as grammatical,
chemistry that is just as chemical,
psychology that is just as psycholo
gical, and 'history that is just as his
torical as that in any other college
or university, regardless of size or
control. In the academic realm we
do not profess to do any better job
at this than other colleges are do
ing.
Baptists believe, however, that
there is more to an education than
learning facts. This is true regard
less of the number of facts learned
or the discipline in which they are
learned. Pacts are to an education
what a foundation is to a house:
We have no education without them.
But it should be remembered that
one can hardly look at a foundation
only and clearly visualize the com
pleted superstructure.
What are the elements of an edu
cation that our Baptist colleges give
that are not always found in other
colleges? Some say that it is a point
of view—a perspective. Others say
it is a proper sense of values. What
we are doing seems to embrace aJl
of these, and we do it by teaching
differences.
We teach the difference between
doing wrong and violating a law or
a rule. We deny that doing wrong
and getting caught are one. We
teach in our Baptist colleges that
there is a difference between being
popular and being right. We also try
to teach what that difference is.
We teach the difference between
going to school and getting an edu
cation. There has always been a
difference between these two, and
that difference is about
now as it has ever been.
There is a difference between
growing older and growing. Our day
demands—and cries for—men and
Shucks, tl-
good looking dolls,
women who have grown in maturity,
v/isdom, judgment, patience, cour
age, and faith. Human beings of
lesser qualities cannot perpetuate
our cultm-e and civilization in times
like ours. We teach this difference
in our Baptist colleges.
There is a great difference be
tween making money and being suc-
cesful. A person can leaxn to do
cess or wealthy—either without the
other. If total cultural and per
sonality development is one’s goal
and he attains it, he is successful
vrithout too much wealth. If wealth
alone is one’s goal, and if he is satis
fied with that when he attains it, he
is sealed in intellectual and moral
mediocrity, though, he may be a mul-
ti-millionaire! There is a difference
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Students To Serve Election Results In
Pour Gardner-Webb College stu
dents will serve as home mission
aries this summer for the Home
Mission Board of S'^athern Baptist
Convention.
They will work during June, July
and August in assigned areas under
supervision of missionaries in the
field. All are second year students
at Gardner-Webb and are active in
campus religious life.
Sandra Gibson, liberal arts major
from Shelby, will work in Jackson
ville, Pla.
Doris Walters of Gastonia, a stu
dent in religious education, will go
to Carbondale, 111.
Dean Bridges of Kings Mountain
and Louise Alford of Rocky Mount
are assigned to Jefferson City, Mo.
He is a ministerial student and she
a music major. Both honor stu
dents, they are co-chiefs of the col
lege honor society.
H. F. Wood, manager of the Gardner-Webb Cafeteria for the Slater
Food Service, watches food preparation by Miss Blanche Jolley, assis
tant. The Slater company assumed operation of the cafeteria on Feb
ruary 1. Student response to the new service has been enthusiastic.
These People Place
High
Twenty students are cited for out
standing scholarship at Gardner-
Webb College in the honor roll post
ed recently.
The recognition is for a nine-
week period dating from Jan. 25.
To achieve honor recognition a
student must maintain grades aver
aging above 92 per cent in all sub
jects. The 20 earning this standing
include six men and 14 women. By
classes, 13 are freshmen and seven
sophomores.
Only three students, all women,
received the coveted “AIl-A” recog
nition with grades averaging above
95 per cent. They are Mrs. Beth
Tarleton Biggerstaff, Cliff side; Jo
Anne Brittain, Hickory; and Joseph
ine Roper, Pranklin.
Other honor students include Su
san Abernathy, Hickory; Louise Al
ford, Rocky Mount: Janice Ander
son and Doris Walters, Gastonia:
Robert Bridges, Loretta Brooks, Ro
ger Gladden, David Putnam, and Jo
Ann Tessner, Shelby; Linda Cox,
Charlotte; Max Crowder, Cherry-
ville; Margaret England, Marion;
Sonja Hedrick, Boiling Springs; Mrs.
Paula Winstead Hughes, Lexington;
Mrs. Gerald Biggerstaff Pitchford,
Bostic; Ray Suttles, Old Port; and
Denny Turner, Waco.
By Monty Mills
Gardner-Webb College students
have elected Ned Duncan of Marion
to be president of the student body
for the coming school year.
Duncan, a ministerial student and
a member of the Gardner-Webb
basketball team, was elected April
17. Ponnal installation ceremonies
will be May 13, and his term of of
fice will be for the 1959-60 school
year.
The new vice-president will be
Dennis Porch of Mooresville, an en
gineering student. Recca Greene of
Shelby, a business major, will take
over the duties of secretary.
Retiring members of the student
government association are Mike
Logan of Mooresboro, president;
Phyllis Wilson of Shelby,
dent; and Janice Anderson of Geis-
tonia, secretary.
The new officers of the student
body will be responsible for all mat
ters of discipline with all cases sub
ject to review by a faculty commit
tee. Under the supervision of the
faculty, the officers will head the
college government association.
TWIRP DAY HELD
By Ann Holden
All the anxious females and
frightened males lined up for the
chase April 2, in front of the gym.
The girls eyed the boys like a choice
piece of chocolate cake.
Each girl had picked out her man
before the chase and all of them
were ready to go. Some of the girls
had been waiting to get their fangs
in these male specimens for two
years. Now was the big chance,
and they wanted to make sure their
catch didn’t get away.
Per the most part the boys co
operated beautifully. They had mer
cy on the girls, who were suffering
from stiff joints and campus fati
gue, and made the catch easier by
slowing down a little. A few of the
boys got real anxious and climbed
trees, but this didn’t stop our brave
co-eds. The girls climbed right af-
The general theme for TWIRP
Day in clothes and in actions was
Anything Goes.” The girls took full
advantage of the opportunity to
wear jeans, and came out with all
sizes, shapes, and colors. Generally
the attire for girls was shabby
jeans, a big shirt, and anything
imaginable on their heads.
After the girl managed to hook
her man she had to drag him off to
a “Marrying Sam” for a license to
prove that she was hitched to her
man for the day. Girls had to open
doors, carry books, carry trays, and
hold chairs.
All the girls were required to eat
with their men at supper. The girls
had the rare privilege of venturing
into the boys’ dorms. They were
required to call for the boys in the
To top off the crazy day, a party
was held in the gym for the girls
and their fellows. After several
games and a contest for the cutest
couple the girls took their men out
to ride around or kill time until their
ciu’few at 11:00.
presi- Anchors Given Out
By Monty Mills
On Wednesday, April 22, the 1959
copy of the long awaited yearbook,
the Anchor, finally arrived.
The dedication copy of the Anchor
was presented in chapel to Mr.
Prancis B. Dedmond, Professor of
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