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THE PILOT
N ovember, 1959
Alpha Beta Gamma Prof. Mosley Writes Slide Rule Book
The “ETA” chapter of
tional Alpha Beta Gamma Frater
nity held its first meeting of the
year on October 10. New officers
were elected to the following posi
tions: Pi-esident, Jim Stokes; Vice-
president, Roland Yow; Secretary,
Fi-ed Childress; Ti-easurer, Steve
Dalton; and Program Chairman,
Irene Schmidt.
In the following meeting of Octo
ber 26, Miss Jo Anne Brittain was
chosen as the club sponsor for
Homecoming.
At the next meeting which will
be held eariy in November, Mr. M.
A. Mosley, faculty advisor of the
club, is to speak on astronomy and
Greek Mythology. At the meeting,
members will observe various con
stellations, planets, stars, craters on
the moon, and perhaps the “Rus
sian Man in the Moon.”
Three years ago Mr. Mosley started teaching the slide
rule. He could not find a book that would fit the needs of
his students, so he started writing one of his own. After
writing and revising for two years, he has come up with
Fundamental Function on the Use of the Slide Rule, which
is in the process of being published.
The slide rule is an aid and not an escape from mathe
matics. One should know some mathematics before he takes
a course in the slide rule.
year with trips scheduled to vari
ous sites of scientific interest in re
search and industry.
The object of the chapter at
Gardner-Webb is to promote inter
est in science and scientific re-
rejrch of today. It strives to cre
ate fellowship among those inter
ested in science with regard to self-
improvement, aid
dents, and support
fellow stu-
the college.
The club is
very active j
looking f(
The club extends an invitation to
those students interested in science
to apply for membership.
CROWNING OF QUEEN
HIGHLIGHTS HOMECOMING ACTIVITIES
Gardner-Webb observed the an
nual Homecoming activities during
the half-time exercises at the Gard-
ner-Webb and Lees-McRae football
game on October 31 at the Shelby
football stadium. The main attrac
tion was the crowning of the Home
coming Queen by Dr. P. L. Elliott,
president of Gardner-Webb College.
Gardner-Webb’s reigning Florida
beauty. Miss Jeri McCormick, comes
from Jacksonville. Jeri is a fresh
man and supports the Bulldogs as
one of the leading cheerleaders.
The sophomore attendant was Miss
Scottie Proffit, a beauty from Bak-
ersville. North Carolina. Miss Dinda
Sharpe, hailing from Lenoir, North
Carolina, attended the queen as the
Freshman attendant.
SuiTOunding t
:en and her
attendants were a number of
beauties sponsored by the sopho
more class, freshman class, and
other various organizations of the
college.
Even though the weather seemed
to hinder a complete performance,
the sponsors walked onto the field
among an outburst of applause
from Gardner-Webb fans.
After yeai’s of teaching Gardner-
Webb students and students out of
college, he found a great deal of
difference in the background of
students. The book deals with the
slide rule from the most basic and
fundamental level and is intended
for a self-study book as well as a
book to be taught in a classroom. It
begins with the simplest scales and
goes through to the log log, or en
gineering, scales. There is also an
interesting discussing on the Chi-
At the present the book is being
taught in several high schools and
some colleges. The book is intend
ed for high school and college use
and for people who may lack a for
mal background in mathematics.
Mr. Mosley will teach a course on
the slide rule this semester to
Gardner - Webb students. Next
semester he will teach the course
to interested people in the sur
rounding area. In the past three
years he has taught an average of
ninety-five students per year to use
the slide rule.
Mr. Mosley is working on another
book, which is a laboratory manual
for freshman chemistry. It will be
used next year at Gardner - Webb
in mimeographed form.
Besides writing for entertain
ment, Ml-. Mosley enjoys playing
with Arthur, his son, and playing
rag-time tunes in a honkey-tonk
fashion on the piano. Mr. Mosley
comments that Arthur has his own
slide rule and tells Pop how it can
be improved. Arthur is known as
the “co-Arthur” in the Mosley liter-
chell County,
“ha, look
Future Teachers Of
America
The Future Teachers Club held
its regular monthly meeting October
29. Although some of the mem-
Convocation program, those pre
sent had a very impressive meeting.
Nick Tsiros gave the club an idea of
the educational system in Greece.
His talk, though very informal,
was most interesting.
The club voted to be affiliated
with the National Future Teachers
of America. This move promises to
add more prestige and interest to
Any student interested in the
leaching profession is cordially in
vited to attend the next meeting
held on November 19, in the O. Max
Gardner Building at 7;15. The club
is under the leadership of Max
Crowder, president, and Mr. Thirlen
Osborne, sponsor.
Mr. Mosely explains the mimeographed copy of his slide
rule book to one of his chemistry students.
Anglish As She Is
Spoke In Them
Thar Hills
Dialects are common among all
English-speaking peoples. It should
be understood, however, that the
dialect varies a good deal from
Since the Appalachian people
have a marked Scotch-Irish strain,
we would expect their speech to
show a strong Scotch influence. But
So far as vocabulary goes there is
really little of it. A few words —
caigy, coglde, fernent, gin for if,
needcessity, trollop—almost exhaust
the list of distinct Scotticisms.
Scotch influence does appear,
however, in one vital characteristic
of pronunciation: with few excep
tions our highlanders sound “r” dis
tinctly—^though they never trill it.
Mountaineers don’t say “niggah” or
“No’th Ca’lina.”
Mountaineers waste a lot of
breath at times by inserting sounds
where they do not belong. Some
times it is an added consonant:
gyarden, acrost, cyards.
Sometimes they substitute one
sound for another. Hed (had), kem
(came), keerful, rifle (raffle), wrop,
fur, ruther, sarve (serve), chist, up-
mouth a
own. Instantly he will c
words by combination or by turn
ing the parts of speech.
“That here’ll meat me a month”
“They churched Sal for tale-bear-
ing”
“Granny kept faultin’ us all day”
“Are you fixin’ to go squirrelin’?”
“I disgust bad liquor”
“This poke salat eats good”
“I wouldn’t pleasure them enough
Then a verb will be coined from
an adverb: “We better git some
wood, bettern we.” Or from an ad
jective: “Much (pet him) that dog
and see won’t he come along,” “I
didn’t do narything to contrary
her.” “That onion’ll strong ye!” “Lit
tle Jimmy fell down and he benas-
tied himself.”
Conversely, nouns are created
from verbs. “Hit don’t make no dif
fer.” “You can get ye one more get-
tin’ o’ wood up thar.”
There are many corrupt forms of
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