Page 2, THE PILOT
From Freedoms Foundation
Dr. Nuhrah Receives Awards
Usfen!
Dr. Arthur Nuhrah, pro
fessor of histoty, has re
ceived two awards from the
Freedoms Foundation at
Valley Forge, Pa.
The awards were pre
sented for a letter to the edi
tor entitled “Tyranny,” and
a radio program entitled
“What Kind of Government
is the U.S. Supposed to
Have?”
Jolley Expreses Ideas
This is the first of two in
terviews with the men who
are in charge of the Bicen
tennial celebration on the
Gardner-Webb campus.
Heading the activities of
the College’s American Re
volution Bicentennial Com
mittee is Professor Lansford
Jolley, chairman of the De
partment of Social Sciences.
He is also a member of the
school advisory board for
Boiling Springs Elementary
School, the local elections
board, a Sunday School
teacher and deacon at Boil
ing Springs Baptist Church.
Other duties Mr. JoUey per
forms includes being a mem
ber of the board of trustees
for Royster Memorial Hos
pital, and being a member of
the local welfare board.
Professor Jolley also leads
the Organization of the So
cial Science Teachers of the
Baptist Colleges of North
Carolina.
In regard to the Bicen
tennial, Mr. Jolley states
that we should “reflect and
evaluate” the events and
ideas which formed America
as a country to begin with
and those things which have
brought here to this place in
time.
He suggests that “we all
read the Declaration of Inde
pendence, or at least the Pre
amble to the Constitution,
to better enable us to cele
brate the meaning of this
year.”
This year marks the 25th
year of marriage for Profes
sor Jolley and his wife,
Cothenia and they will be
celebrating the event soon.
Professor Jolley expresses
a great deal of pride in the
accomplishments of his 11-
Mr. Lansford Jolley
year-old daughter, Lana. One interesting fact Mr.
Lana has recently won the Jolley brought up during the
county and district competi- interview was that he is the
tion for an essay she wrote only faculty member who
on the meaning of the Decla- was born and reared in Boil-
ration of Independence. ing Springs.
This is the fifth consecu
tive year he has received
awards from the Freedoms
Foundationi This year,
awards will be presented to
some 900 people.
Nuhrah called for more lo
cal government in his letter
that appeared in the March
14, 1975 edition of the
Shelby Daily Star.
“All of us must cease
looking to the federal
government to solve prob
lems that we should be meet
ing at state and local le
vels,” the letter said.
His letter also pointed out
a “human tendency to abuse
power,” and that the
“growth of judicial tyranny
has tended to weaken our
system of checks and
balances.”
Dr. Nuhrah’s radio ad
dress was aired on the Col
lege’s FM station WQWG,
Feb. 25, 1975. In describ-
Pam Smith
Wins Medal
Pamela Smith, a senior
from Charlotte, has been de
clared the district winner in
the category of persuasive
speaking in the Bicentennial
Youth Debates. Miss Smith
also represented Gardner-
Webb in the sectional con
test held recently, where she
was first runner-up.
In recognition of having
been declared the district
winner. Miss Smith received
a medal with the inscription
1789 and an engraved pic
ture of George Washington.
Dr. Arthur Nuhrah
Movies of the Week
February 27
Buster Keaton in “The General”
and
W.C. Fields in “Much Ado About Golf’
★★★
March 19
Jane Fonda in "Cat Ballou”
^ and
^ W.C. Fields in “The Barber Shop”
★
☆
★
ing the United States
government, he said the
U.S. is supposed to have a
republic and not a demo
cracy, explaining that a
democracy is an unlimited
government by majority
rule while a republic is
limited representative
government.
“If you carry democracy
to its ultimate conclusion,
you have a lynch mob,” Dr.
Nuhrah said. “The founding
fathers knew from history
that democracy could de
generate into mob rule and
dictatorship. We have been
transformed more or less in
to a democracy.
“For example, social se
curity wiU eventually make
every wage earner the slave
of an all-powerful - central
government. Things like
this and many, many other
things have added up.”
Dr. Nuhrah has been a
member of the Gardner-
Webb faculty since 1969.
Directories
Available
The Student Directories
have arrived and are now on
sale. They cost ten cents
each, and include the stu
dent’s name, the boarding
address, telephone number,
and post office box number.
Ken Warise, co-ordinator
of the Student Directory
Committee says, “I was
really pleased with the print
ing job and the low cost of
printing the directories.”
The directories wiU be on
sale in the cafeteria and
other various places on
campus.
The Editor Speaks Out
As stated in the first editorial of the 1975-
1976 Pilot, I wished that the paper might be
a vehicle in which to develop open and hon
est communication between all members of
the Gardner-Webb community.
Recently, some concerned students have
exemplified their desire for such communi
cation on this campus. The students to
whom I refer are the members of the Food
Committee, and those who not only volun
teered constructive criticism of the food, but
also provided their solutions to any prob
lems that might exist.
This committee (consisting of Diana
Crumpton-chairperson, Todd Blackwell,
Diana Crump, Debbie Hall, “Kojak” Keith,
■ David McLester, Gary Richardson, Bobby
Setzer, Mackie Sinclair, Tab Whitley, and
Myron Wise) has been instrumental in de
veloping much better relations between
cafeteria personnel and students, and I com
mend enthusiastically their ideas and
actions.
Also, in reference to the article on page 1,
I feel the meeting between students and
trustees tomorrow is possibly the most im
portant event of this academic year in estab
lishing better communications and wiU
serve to cause many suggestions to become
definite and unprecedented actions.
The spirit of communication which is be
ginning can only grow. Perhaps the ex
ample of the above mentioned students will
make us all aware of our rights and privi
leges as students here and we can thus chan
nel our thoughts into constructive reforms.
— Becky Best
The Pilot
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