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Gardner-Webb College—Home of the Bulldogs
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 16, 1972
BOILING SPRINGS, NORTH CAROLINA
Twenty-Six Seniors SGA News: Senate Convenes
Among Who^s Who
Twenty-six seniors at Gardner-
Webb are included in the 1972-72
edition of Who’s Who Among Stu
dents in American Universities
and Colleges.
These students include: Armne
Abajian, Marcia Abernathy, Bev
erly Cash, Candy Cline, David
Ford, Deborah Gaskill, Dianna
Gilfillan, Richard Granger, Wanda
Haynes, Rebecca Henely, Gladys
Jones, Leland Kerr, Thomas Latti-
more Jr., Cathy Logan, James
Painter, Sharon Quick, Louis
Remy, Steve Riddle, Larry Rol
lins, Barbara Shook, Burton Skin
ner, Judy Stamey, Woody Wads
worth, Cathy Washburn, Jacque
Waver, and Belinda Yarbrough.
This honor is conferred annual
ly on students from approximately
1,100 colleges and universities in
the United States. The directory
was first published in 1934 and
it now includes listings from
schools in all fifty states the Dis
trict of Columbia, and several for
eign nations in North and South
America.
The basic concept of Who’s
Who is to provide a democratic,
national basis for recognition of
outstanding campus leaders. Nom
inees from Gardner-Webb were
selected by the teaching faculty.
Mr. Melvin Lutz, Instructor in
ancient languages and literature,
was chairman of the faculty com
mittee. The nominees were chosen
from a computed list of all seniors
with a Q.P.A. of 2.5. From these
eligible students the quota of
nominees allowed Gardner-Webb
was twenty-six. Each teaching fac
ulty member was allowed five
The nominees are to be selected
on the basis of their service to the
school and community, academic
standing, leadership in extra-curri
cular activities, and future poten
tial. '
The senate convened on Novem
ber 6, with Chairman Burt Skin
ner presiding.
An announcement was made in
reference to the SUSGEA meeting
in High Point on November 10.
Senators were encouraged to at
tend this meeting and also the
State SUSGEA Conference _ at
Catawba College in Salisbury on
December 1-2.
Three legislative acts were act
ed upon and received the appro
val of the Senate. One led to the
appointment of a committee to be
advised by the Director of Stu
dent Activities which would seek
to obtain a trophy case for the
awards and prizes bestowed upon
the Student Government Associa
tion and the individual classes.
The 1973-74 handbook committee
was designated as the committee
which would judge the entries to
“The Circle” Presented
Last Weekend
Record Enrolment
A complete check of registration
records shows that the registra
tion for the Fall term is a Gardner-
Webb record with a total of 1567
students registered.
Mrs. Doroth Edwards, college
registrar, reported that this total
includes 983 male students and
584 female students.
Among the classes the freshman
class is the largest with a total of
568. The sophomore class has 323,
the junior class 301 and the senior
class 333.
The total registration includes
students from 67 of North Caro
lina’s 100 counties and there are
twent states represented in the
student body. There is a total of
474 students from states other
than North Carolina including 310
from South Carolina. Virginia is
next with 45 students and Florida
follows with 25.
A total of 13 foreign countries
are represented in the 22 foreign
students on the campus. Countries
represented included, Bermuda,
Iran and Lebanon with three stu
dents each; Israel, Twaiwan, Tliai-
land, and Venezuela with two
each and one each from Brazil,
Colombia, Haiti, Hong Kong, In
dia, and Nicaragua.
The opening performance of
"The Circle,” presented by the
Gardner-Webb drama department
was on Saturday, November 11 in
Hamrick Auditorium. Per
formances were also given on
Monday and Tuesday nights.
Under the direction of Dr.
Charles Cox, chairman of the
Theatre Arts Department, the play
involves John Fowler as “Arnold”,
Pam Seagraves as “Elizabeth,”
Stan Napier as “Portious,” Sue
Hunnicutt as “Kitty,” John Speiss
as “Clive,” Eddie Bishop as “Ted
dy,” Benita Collins as “Anna,”
Bruce Wade as the butler and
Ginger Yates as the maid. Doug
Byers is the prop director, Rob
ert Cribb is the stage director,
and Clark Gather is the techni
cal and set director. Mr. M. A.
Setzer, associate professor of Span
ish is helping with the technical
production.
"The Circle’ ’is a three-act
comedy drama dealing with the
trials and tribulations of a shaky
marriage and on-coming divorce.
The main characters are Arnold
and Elizabeth Chene who suffer
through the hilarious heartbreak
of a one-sided marriage. This oc-
cured not to long ago to Arnold’s
mother, Kitty, and she just hap
pens to be visiting at the time.
Visiting drama department rep
resentatives from Winthrop Col
lege, Mars Hill College and var
ious high schools, attended the
performance.
the contest for the Handbook’s
cover design. Twent-five dollars
will be given to the person who
creates the selecfed cover. A let
ter to the Vice-President of Acade
mic Affairs was summitted to the
senate by the chairman and it was
given approval by a majority. The
letter suggested that departmen
talized schedules of classes be
given to students as well as class
time schedules during registra
tion to alleviate confusion and to
speed up the registration process.
Chairman Skinner stated that a
letter would be sent to those sen
ators who had over-cut the Senate
asking them to resign or
proceedings woudl
begin. Those senators include:
Walter Biggs, Gerry Vallencourt,
Rick Carter, Ed Cook, Nopporn
Suwanik.
Bill Briggs wsa recognized by
the Senate and he stated that there
are inconsistancies between the
college catalog and student docu
ments. A motion, was made to
form a committee which would
research documents and report
their findings.
Re’ Generation and Jim Croce
Final Concerts For 72
THE RE* GENERATION
The RE’GENERATION will be
in concert on Tuesday, November
21. A morning appearance will be
the chapel program for the week
and an evening performance will
be held at Boiling Springs Baptist
Church at 8:00 p.m.
The musical group is comprised
of ten multi-talented collegians se
lected from 1,000 adutitions na
tionwide. After being recognized
as outstanding musicians in high
school and college, all of the RE’
GENERATION spend time in
personal study, rehearsal and fer-
sonality development in prepara
tion for the national tour.
Along with their evening con
certs the group is active in day
time special presentations for high
schools, colleges and service or
ganizations. They have been fea
tured guests performing for ses
sions of both the California and
West Virginia State Legislature.
The musical style is a combina
tion and blending of solos with
the eight part choral sound with
a full orchestrations recorded in
London. They have produced
three stereo albumns, and will
soon be releasing two more.
Future concerts for the semester
include the appearance of Jim
Croce on December 9 at 7:30 p.m.
in Bost gymnasium. There' will
also be an opening act accom
panying Jim Croce.
This concert was scheduled as
a result of the cinflict of Home-
cocing weekend when Jim Croce
could not fulfill his contract. He
had been schedyled for two con-
This Saturday night concert
will be on the last weekend be
fore the Christmas holidays.