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NW5‘) Pilot Volume XIV, Number 2 GARDNER-WEBB COLLEGE, BOILING SPRINGS, NORTH CAROLINA NOVEMBER, 1959 G-W Choir Preseiiling Impressive Program Choir Featuring Robes Of Black And Red The Gardner-Webb Touring Choir made its initial public appearance of the 1950-60 season when it participated in the One Hundred Ninth Annual Session of the Kings Mountain Baptist Association at Fallston, North Carolina, on October 22. Displaying new choir robes of academic styling in the college colors of black and red with the college letters G.-W. monogramed on the pointed stoles, the choir attracted the at tention of the annual session in no uncertain terms, both on the basis of appearance and in the quality of its rendition. Although the choir is not within itself a new organization on the campus of Gardner-Webb, the purchase of the choir robes this year by college officials has given a new impetus to this important phase of activity of the Music Department; and perhaps this also accounts for the unusual interest on the part of the students. From the Gardner-Webb Chorus, numbering more than fifty students, the Touring Choir of forty has been selected. This year both the Gardner-Webb Touring Choir and the Chorus are under the very capable direction of Mrs. Nettie Rayle Gidney, who has been on the faculty of the Music Department for a number of years. Commenting on the initial appearance of the choir, Mrs. O. Max Gardner, Sr. said, “I was greatly impressed with the rendition of the program. It was one of the very best young groups that I have heard. Their voices blended well; they sang with feeling and poise; and they looked so nice in those new robes.” Miss Loretta Brooks is accompanist for the choir, and Miss Sybil Queen has been elected President. Miss Beverly Turner was chosen as Secretary and Jack Gantt as business manager. Other officials in charge of the various phases of choir activity perfect the choir organization. The students consider it an honor to be chosen as choir members; and in addition to the training and personal satis faction gained by participation, college credit is also given. In the field of Public Relations, the Touring Choir should certainly be a credit to Gardner-Webb. Its second public ap pearance was its participation in Gardner-Webb College Founders’ and Homecoming Convocation on October 29 and 30. Future plans include the presentation of Handel’s Messiah on December 6 and a program of Christmas music prior to the holidays. During the second semester, the choir will visit various high schools and churches and will present a concert program prepared during the first semester. Shown here in their new robes are the members of the Touring Choir. The choir is directed by Mrs. Nettie Rayle Gidney and accompanied by Miss Loretta Brooks. Thanksgiving Banquet Planned Well, fellas and gals, with Thanksgiving coming up, the Gard ner-Webb Cafeteria a la excellente, not to be outdone, is planning a blow-out feast from turkey to cran berry sauce served on (now hear this) tableclothes! Decorations are also being planned aiong with a brief Thanksgiving program. The date for the occasion will be the evening meal on Tuesday, Novem ber 24th. Now with all this, dear students, you wouldn’t expect to arrive in bermudas or dungarees, so don’t! Fellas should wear coats and ties, and the girls will also dress in a manner suitable to the occasion. Since Thankgiving is one of the most beautiful and serious holi days, it is hoped that all will en joy the meal in a festive mood in overtones of a spirit of thankful ness, only realizing how fortunate Gardner-Webb’s students are. Too, it would be only fitting, as students count their blessings, to ask God from whence cometh all that is good, to grant a final wish: that everyone of us might have EVANGELIST DEFINES STUDENTS AS MIRACLES ABOUT TO HAPPEN During our recent campus revival, Gardner-Webb stu dents were given a very special opportunity—that of hearing Dr. L. H. Hollingsworth, the evangelist for the week of special services. Dr. Hollingsworth, who is now chaplain at Wake Forest College, has had much experiences working with col lege young people, and he is truly well-qualified for the task. The messages which he delivered both in the morning chapel services and in the evening services were interesting, mean ingful, and thought-provoking. Students attending the serv ices were challenged to give their best, to do their best, and to become their best. Pilot Staff Wishes Students and Faculty ct Happy, But Safe, Spring Recess With the ending of classes on Wednesday, November 11, the spring recess will officially begin, faculty and students will spread over the South Atlantic states for the few welcomed days of respite following the grueling mid-term sxaminations. The Pilot staff says, “Enjoy yourselves real good, but be care ful, please. We’d hate to lose even one of our readers.” In one of his sermons. Dr, Hol lingsworth related an incident wherein he and a friend had stood talking on a street corner as a cai driven by a young fellow down the street at a high r; speed and turned the corner accom panied by screeching brakes, squal ling tires, etc.; and the friend mented, “There goes a wreck, ing for a place to happen.” Hollingsworth said that shortly af ter the incident, as he was watch ing a student walk across campus, he thought of the words of his friend and then the thought came to him about the student—“There goes a miracle, looking for a place to happen.” Since the revival there have been several programs given in the local college Sunday School and Train ing Union in which groups discuss ed the revival, its results, what it should compel each student to work toward living a more dedicated, richer, and fuller life. What better result could the revival have wrought than for each Gardner- Webb student to realize that he is “A miracle looking for a place to happen,” and then for each student to be challenged to begin working for those things in his life which will provide the exact conditions under which that miracle can oc- meant and cc students, and the students still E 1 to t: t can be done by keep the revival 5 campus. Practi- all of the discussion groups came to the conclusion that the re vival was primarily for professing Christians and that the desired re sult of the revival would be for stu dents to renew their relationships with Christ and to begin living more dedicated, richer, and fuller Dr. Hollingsworth’s sermons truly Implanted thoughts and ideas which if r ‘k ■ • • r, Pictured above is the architect’s drawing of the proposed new science building. See editorial comment on page 2.