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Friday, September 19,1975
GWC Purchases
IVew Computer
The Department of Business
Administration of Gardner-Webb
College purchased, on August 10,
1975 from Carolina Freight Car
riers of Cherryville, N.C., a
Honeywell 200 computer. This
computer will make many new
areas of instruction possible, and
fill many administrative needs.
Although enhancing the capa
bilities of the administrative
needs of budgeting, record-keep
ing, registration, grade reporting,
and financial reports of the col
lege, the new computer will be
used primarily in the academic
The new Honeywell computer
Rick Trexler
Communicates
Rick Trexler, is SGA President
for this year. Rick states that his
main objective for Student
Government this year is to in
crease the amount of student in
volvement on campus. He hopes
also that the communication lines
among administration, faculty,
and students will remain open.
Other plans for this year in
clude more activities for stu
dents, the possibility of better
and more tennis courts,, more
work on the parking situation,
more work on the constitution,
and an attempt to define the cam
pus code. Rick also wants to get
the Interclub Council into action.
A new committee being estab
lished is the Pep Committee, de
signed to generate more school
spirit.
is vastly different from the one
the college has been using. This
computer has a memory of 40,000
positions, an 800 card per minute
card reader, five magnetic tape
drives, and an 1100 lines per
minute printer.
On August 11, 1975 Mr. Duran
Johnson joined the administra
tive staff as the Data Processing
manager. His main duties will be
the general upkeep of the Honey
well 200 computer.
GWC ’75
Enrollment
1379
MR. JOHNSON DEMONSTRATES THE HONEYWELL 200.
Introducing Pierre Sidler
An unusual new student has
joined the Gardner-Webb com
munity. What makes this student
unique and different from other
new students on campus? He
comes from Paris, France and his
name is Pierre Sidler.
How did Pierre ever decide to
come to Gardner-Webb? This
summer;. Dr. Charles Andrews
and a group of students took a
tour of Europe, concentrating
their travels mainly in France.
Pierre met Dr. Andrews and his
FRESHMEM DISPLAY
UNIQUE TALENTS
(Ereatiue domer
Once upon a time, in the land of
enchantment, lived a family of
trids. The family of trids lived in a
deep, secluded valley surrounded
by high, protruding mountains.
Everyday the family of trids, (of
which there are three members,
by the way,) traveled to the high
movmtain tops to graze upon the
freshly grown grass. The only
passageway to the field went by
the castle of a mean old ugly ogre.
Everj^ime the family of trids
traveled to the freshly grown
grass, the mean, old, ugly ogre
would kick them thar’ trids down
into the valley. I mean this hap
pened everyday. Finally, one day
when the family of trids got tired
of getting kicked down into the
valley, they got an appointment
with the village rabbi. They said,
“Rabbi, everytime we trids travel
to the freshly grown grass, we get
kicked down the valley, every
time. ”So the next day, the village
rabbi and the family of trids went
up to the mean, old ogre.
When the trids went up the hill,
they got kicked down the valley
just like on the other days. When
the rabbi went up the hiU, the
ogre did nothing. This shocked
the village rabbi. He said, “Ogre,
why do you kick them thar trids
down the hiil, but not me?” The
ogre replied, “You silly rabbi,
kicks are for trids!”
One of the many events of
orientation this yestr included the
Freshman Talent Showcase. This
event was presented to the stu
dent body on Wednesday, August
28, at 8:00 p.m. in the Bost Physi
cal Education Building. Mr.
Robert Decker, Sr., a music pro
fessor, served as master of cere
monies for the program.
Three winners were selected by
judges from the variety of stu
dent talent. Those serving as
judges this .year were Mr. BiU
Briggs, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Pople,
Dr. Robert Morgan, Mrs. Mar
garet King, Jeannie Marlow,
Danny Cook, and Charlotte
Meyer.
The three wirmers from the stu
dent talent were Tom Query
(magician), first place, Heyward
Duncan (imitated a trumpet),
second place, and Dave Mingoia
(ventriloquist), third place.
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group, and was talked into at
tending Gardner-Webb. He would
also become a helpful addition to
the French department.
Pierre says he really likes Gard
ner-Webb and Boiling Springs.
He plans to stay in the United
States and become a naturalized
citizen.
One interesting thing about
Pierre is the fact he never did
leam how to drive a car. In
France, anyone wanting to learn
how to drive must take very ex
pensive, private driving lessons
in order to receive his or her li
cense. Pierre states that require
ments for driving are less strict in
the United States and plans to
get his as soon as he can. He also
plans to buy a car as soon as he
has enough money.
Pierre is very interested in join
ing some type of rock music
group as soon as he can purchase
an electric guitar. His other in
terests include soccer, electronics
(he has built his own amplifier),
photography, karate, and girls.
Pierre used to have a great in
terest in motorcycle riding, but
after having two bad wrecks, and
suffering through some broken
bones, he decided he was through
with motorcycles.
Pierre feels that his English
could be improved, and even
though he doesn’t like watching
much television, he has decided
that the best way to improve his
English is to watch television. He
thinks that American television
programming includes too much
violence and advertising.
Pierre is a business student
here and wants to leam all he can
bout computers. He hopes to get
his Masters Degree in Business
Administration upon completion
of his studies at Gardner-Webb.
We all extend a friendly wel
come to Pierre Sidler from Paris,
France.
welcome
Freshmen
Transfers