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THE P I L 0 T MARCH, I960 IS THE CHAPEL PERIOD WORTHWHILE?? When asked their opinion of the Chapel programs, stu dents, without exception, voiced the need for variety in the programs. The students recognize the difficulty of always obtaining an outride speaker. They therefore suggest that more student parti"ipation be allowed in the future. How ever, the students know full well that there are interesting and qualiifed speakers available if they are but employed. It is no wonder that the Chapel period is used as a “brush-up” time for the eleven o’clock classes. Students almost know, instinctively, the nature of the Chapel program. Just as there is a need for programs of a religious nature, there is also a great demand for programs of an entertaining, educa tional, and even purely recreational nature. Since students are allowed three free Chapel cuts, they feel it would be to their advantage to have the Chapel programs posted a week or so in advance, thus eliminating hearing the same program more than once. The students questioned realized the time problem. However, they do not feel it would be worthwhile to lengthen the Chapel period unless the programs are in some way improved. Allowing for several outstanding Chapel programs and taking into consideration the students’ three free cuts, it has been estimated that G.-W. students waste more than twenty thousand hours a year. Is there no con structive way in which these countless hours can be used?? BACKWARD LOOK AT FOCUS WEEK Many students seemed to be disappointed in the Religious Focus Week held on campus in April. After giving the entire program some careful thought, the students decided on sev eral basic reasons for their disappointment. Many felt that there should have been one main speaker who could have re mained in campus throughout the entire week. If there were to have been several speakers and seminar leaders, they should have been introduced in Chapel in order that the students might know who they were and what topic they would be discussing. The students felt that the guests should have been invited into the classrooms where they could have gotten bet ter acquainted with both the professors and students. Some students felt that the Focus Week was held at an inconvenient time. It seemed to conflict with the preparation of term papers and with the Student Fund Raising Campaign. Sev eral students voiced their disappointment in learning that the seminar topics had been changed at the last moment. In spite of all the complaints, there were a number of students who attended the seminars, made it a point to meet the speakers, and who, through personal participation, re ceived some worthwhile and profitable help. AROUND THE WORLD IN MAY Continued From Page One can. Then the frolicking began. Various dances, each de picting folklore of other countries, were presented. An Eng lish folk dance, a French folk dance, the Highland Fling, a Chinese Dance, the Mexican Hat Dance, and the Maypole Dance all together actually did give an impression of a world wide trip. All these events were duly announced by Morris Lynch, the captain of the S.S. May Queen. But . . . the real show stealers were the four children, the Train Bearers, the Flower Girl, Chris Washburn, and the Crown Bearer, Jonathan Hiott. CeCe fell from the queen’s platform to the amusement of everyone including CeCe. Finally as the Recessional started, everyone stood up, that is everyone except young Master Roberts, who seemed glued to the spot. Despite, a few difficulties, Gardner-Webb’s May Day was a great success as alumni and visitors, who flocked to the campus for the event, all agreed at the reception following the festivities. EDITOR ELECT PROMISES BETTER PILOT, 1960 - 61 The 1959-1960 Pilot staff is to be commended for the splendid issues which have appeared this year. We under stand that The Pilot has made great progress under Miss Roper’s editorship. However, the 1960-61 staff feels that even yet The Pilot can be improved. The staff for next year pledges itself to produce the best school newspaper possible. Linda Sharpe Editor, Elect Lora Lipscomb Business Manager Elect GARDNER-WEBB PILOT Vol. XIV May, 1960 No. 6 EDITORIAL STAFF Editor Marilyn Roper Assistant Editor Linda Sharpe Advisers Mr. P. B. Dedmond Mr. John Roberts STAFF WRITERS Ray Suttles Jack Gantt Margaret Griffen Nancy Castle BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Jimmy Suramey Circulation Manager Charlotte Anderson Photographer Johnny Eller PILOT SAYS BON VOYAGE T O GRADUATES The Pilot staff wishes each grad uate the very best of all life has to offer. To those who go on to other colleges, we express our hope that yours will be academically success ful and happy years wherever you are. To those of you who will com plete your formal education at Gard- ner-Webb, we hope life will be re warding and full wherever you go and in whatever you do. Ban Voyage! FAREWELL 0 mighty fortress at the foot of the hill When my departure comes I will remember you still Of all the times I trampled upon your sod To bring glorification to my God. On winter days, winds that cut And heart and mind embedded in rut. 0 yes! Mighty One, I won’t forget To you I owe an invisible debt. The thoughts of old Joe And of how little I really know. How his simple words of jeer Seemed to make everything clear. A greater friend I will never find Then this beloved one I am leaving behind. God bless this one of know And make me just like good old Joe. Allan, I’ll render a thought your way. In payment of your toil to me each day. Even on occasions when we stood apart. Your pay will come still from the heart. It isn’t easy to make the past live again Unless, one like you, can teach it plain. My hope is that I may have another When in history I study further. Ah yes, I journeyed through the English era With her much understanding, she couldn’t have been dearer. A lesson for the teacher I must give. Heart-felt thanks to Miss Copeland as I live With a grateful memory of that first year To her, who was so close, so kind, and dear. We need more of one such as she Because it took a lot to teach one like me. The noise of the typing room Mrs. Logan’s cheeks all abloom A friendly smile that captured one so That made the subject simple, no 1 won’t forget your personality And I hope that you won’t forget me. Farewell to you of dual charm When I took your course, I meant no harm. The memory of the quiet bird Who chose to be seen rather than heard The one in charge of religious ed Used not his tongue, but his head. My, what a wonderful approach He the player and God the coach Lawson Allen, one who teaches And one who practices what he preaches. My heart will miss the joy of each day I spent with Miss Jones the only way In truth, in soundness, and in light Surely God honors those who do right. If I could only tell to you in speech The importance of what you teach. Has meant to me and mine Would matter not if it did not rhyme. The hard days will never vanish Of the toiling hours I spent in Spanish. Mrs. Pollock, I salute you in dignity. You killed my pride with my first D. Stand steadfast and push them slow To learn the language, hard tis so. Good luck to you and everything. I’ll think of you if ever in Spain. Francis B. as you can plainly see You taught me to appreciate poetry. Now tis your fault you find To have to read some of mine. My curse to you in life Is that you will find a wife. And every fourth year the students will see Some other one beside Francis B. The Dean of them all I will agree My choice of subjects is history. Of president’s past he has a wit Some of him rubbed off on me a bit. Dean Terrell, continue thy way Cracking nifty jokes every day. THE GARDNER-WEBB MERRY- GO-ROUND Some of you who read this column are going to be grad uated in about ten days. You’ll be alumni with an Alma Mater. You’re going to be telling people that you are a grad uate of Gardner-Webb College, and on that score this column ist wishes to offer you his congratulations. But it may be good before you leave these halls of learning to take another look at yourself as a student and your college as an institution of higher learning. Unless you have learned to think more deeply and real istically, unless you have sharpened your intellectual and ra tional tools, unless you imaginatively and intellectually can go beneath the surface where principles are seen in operation, unless you have cultivated a real interest in many phases and areas of human learning and endeavor, and unless you have some little degree of mastery in one or more of these areas, you have little right to consider yourself a student, for Gardner-Webb has not done for you what it principally’was designed to do. Gardner-VS^ebb does not find its reason for existence in the mere con veyance of knowledge. Its justifica tion is that it preserves the connec tion between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting teachers and stu dents in the cooperative adventure of deep learning and intellectual ma turing. Learning can be a true in tellectual adventure for minds athirst and beings hungry for food for thought. Colleges have trained the intellectual pioneers of our civiliza tion; colleges have been the homes of those ideals which lead men to con front the confusion of our times. But the ideals and the learning a true college should be concerned with can only be communicated by a faculty —a group of scholars—who are ded icated to the ideals and committed to the proposition that the full dev elopment of minds into fully trained rational instruments is a rewarding and satisfying adventure which de mands a total dedication for its achievement. Did you find your col lege and its faculty engaged in this noble effort? It is the function of a teacher to, as Whitehead said, “evoke into life wisdom and beauty which, apart from his magic, would remain lost in the past.” The faculty should be a band of scholars, stimulating one another as well as stimulating their students. The whole point of a college is to bring its students under the intellec tual influence of a group of imagina tive scholars to the end that the stu dents will be stimulated and guided in their own intellectual growth. Did you find Gardner-Web’s faculty so occupied? Let us hope you can go from this place being able truly to call your self a student and being able to say that your college is a real college with a real faculty engaged in the real task any good college should be Students Successful In Fund Raising Campaign The results of the Student Cam paign reveal the true spirit of the student body of 1959-60, who gave willingly to the development pro gram of our college. The steering committee are proud to give the following report of total solicitations Decker Hall $3,075 Stroup Dormitory 1,700 HAPY Dormitory 1,345 Cleveland County 1,240 Rutherford County 542 Gaston and other Counties 390 TOTAL $8,29; (Continued on Page 3 Congratulations to Walter Siniard, who obtained the highest number of individual solicitations, and to Deck er Hall for the highest number of di vision solicitations. Their hard work is deeply appreciated. The committee would like to thank each person who worked with the campaign and each person who made a pledge. All had a part in making the campaign a great success.
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