THE PILOT
Gardner-Webb College
Thursday, September 19,1974
BOILING SPRINGS, NORTH CAROLINA
G-W Professor Discovers
New Mathematical Techniques
DR. CHANG
by Doug Puckett
Dr. Chang, a Gardner-
Webb mathematics profes
sor, recently discovered a
new mathematical technique
that many mathematicians
before him have tried to find
but have failed. Sponsored
in part by the Office of Na
val Research, Dr. Chang
was successful in organizing
the use of more than two
variables in the Computer
Sciences. As a result of this
work and a dissertation with
Enrollment Increajse
Adds Faculty Members
Enrollment growth from
year to year has made it ne
cessary for Gardner-Webb
College to add nine new fa
culty members.
Coming from Virginia
Baptist General Board in
Richmond is Dr. Alice Rae
Cullinan, an assistant pro
fessor of religious education.
Dr. Cullinan earned her
bachelor of arts degree from
Carson-Newman College in
Jefferson City, her master of
religious education from
Southwestern Baptist Theo
logical Seminary in Fort
Worth, Texas. She received
her doctor of education de
gree in psychology and
church administration from
Southwestern Seminary.
'Busing' Comes
To Gardner-Webb
Transportation to football
games will be provided for
the student body through
the Student Servies Office.
Mr. Tom Poston will be in
charge of chartering the bus.
Arrangements can be made
through his office in the CID
Building room 114.
The price for the bus is
$1.75 per student and is non-
refundable. Tickets for the
game wiU be approximately
$1.50 and may be purchased
through the Athletic De
partment of the CoUege.
However, the price of the
tickets may vary from col
lege to college. The bus will
return to the campus im
mediately following the
games.
Transportation to the
games will be provided, if
enough students are inter
ested. If not enough interest
is shown by the student
body, no buses will be
chartered.
Dr. Cullinan had served as
a music and education direc
tor of the Triangle Baptist
Church, Triangle, Virginia.
She was also employed at
the Tarrant County Junior
College in Fort Worth and
worked in a marriage and
family counseling center in
Fort Worth.
ARTHUR RAY POPLE
Arthur Ray Pople, III, a
Tennessee native, is the new
director of counseling.
He earned his bachelor of
arts degree from Mississippi
College and a master of reli
gious education degree from
Southwestern Baptist Theo
logical Seminary, Fort
Worth, Texas. He has com
pleted his residence require
ments for a doctorate in psy
chology and counseling at
Southwestern Seminary.
Dr. Pople has held several
positions before coming to
Gardner-Webb. He has
taught high school English,
has entered the missionary
journeyman program of the
Foreign Mission Board of
the Southern Baptist Con
vention and served as a
counselor at the Drug Abuse
Prevention Center in Fort
Worth.
LIBRARY PERSONNEL
Added to the library per
sonnel is Mrs. Mary Jo
Bracken.
Mrs. Bracken earned her
bachelor of arts degree in
history from Manhattenville
College, and later earned a
master’s degree in library
science from Simmons Col
lege and has done advanced
work in library science at
Boston State College.
Coming from Marion
School in Shelby, Mrs.
Bracken has worked as a lib
rarian in Augusta, Georgia,
a teacher in Macon County,
Georgia and as a librarian at
Arthur Young in Boston,
Massachusetts.
PSYCHOLOGY
DEPARTMENT
Named as an associate
professor of psychology, is
Dr. Roger G. Gaddis.
Dr. Gaddis earned his
bachelor of arts degree from
U.N.C. at Charlotte and his
master’s degree in English
from the University of Ten
nessee. He earned his docto
rate of philosophy in educa
tional psychology at the
University of South Caro
lina.
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Rolf E. Bargmann entitled
“Internal Multi-Dimen-
sional Scaling of Categorical
Variables,” Chang received
his Ph D from the Univer
sity of Georgia.
Jeffrey Chit-Fu Chang is a
native of Canton, China and
served as an officer in the
Nationalist Chinese Army of
Chiang Kai-shek. In 1949, he
and his wife fled the invad
ing Communist Army and
settled in Taiwan. There,
Chang served as a specialist
in the Bureau of Statistics
office of the government
food bureau of Nationalist
China.
In 1963, Dr. Chang came
to America to continue his
education in mathematics,
and in 1967 his family joined
him. In November, 1973, the
Chang family was granted
citizenship in the United
States.
Dr. Chang was graduated
from Western Illinois Uni
versity in December, 1964
with a B.S. in Mathematics
and a minor in Accounting.
In December of 1965, he ob
tained a Masters degree in
Mathematics from Western
Illinois.
Dr. Chang joined the
Gardner-Webb faculty in
January of 1966 and in 1968,
he received a grant to study
at the University of Georgia.
In 1970, he completed the
preliminary course with an
average of 4.11, an “A-plus”
average. At the University
of Georgia, a 4.0 is recog
nized as a straight “A”
average. An “A” is a 93 to
98 average. To get an “A-
plus”, a student must aver
age 98 or above. Dr. Chang
achieved this in five courses
which enabled him to have a
better than straight “A’ ’
average.
The dissertation that
earned Dr. Chang his Ph D
degree was preceded by a
technical report he compiled
and entitled, “The Weibull
Distribution Estimation
through Computer Dis
play,” published by the Uni
versity of Georgia.
October 4
Mission Mountain
Wood Band
Science Moves To New Approach:
Mathematics Moves To Craig
Mr. Bill Lawson, speaking during Fall Revival
The Mathematics depart
ment, under the leadership
of Dr. H.C. Dixon is waiting
for the departmental move
to the Craig Building, for
merly the Dover Library. A
new course has been added
to the department this year,
entitled Mathematics 101. It
is designed to aid the slow
learner in math. Students
use workbooks and move at
a more adapted pace than in
regular courses. At this time
there are 28 freshmen en
rolled. The department has
received five new electronic
calculators which are pre
sently available for student
use. Also available is a key
punch machine for use in the
FORTRAN program.
The department is, ac
cording to the chairman,
very eager to make the move
and is pleased by the fact
that the entire building is
air-conditioned.
The science department,
headed by Dr. Harrelson, is
moving into a modular ap-
prbach to the teaching of
science. Individual projects
are becoming a significant
part of the program.
Dr. Harrelson said that
the college farm is an inte
gral part of the department
and a definite effort is being
made to improve the farm.
He also stated that majors
in the department are being
encouraged to take a more
active part in laboratory
work.
Dr. Harrelson mentioned
the importance of the science
club for majors. At the ini
tial meeting, individual and
group projects will be dis
cussed.
This semester the depart
ment has added a professor
in the Geology department.
He is Dr. ChaJcraft, a grad
uate of U.N.C. Chapel Hill.