'Bulldog Club Members (Continued From Page 15.)
Anatomy Of An Alumnus
Mr, Robert McKinney—Individual Membership
Mr. Marion L. McMillan, Jr.—PHD
Mr. C.C. McMurry, Jr.-PHD
Mr. Fay McSwain, Jr.
Mrs. Fay McSwain-PHD
Mr. Jerry W. McSwain- PHD
Carl L. Miller & Sons, Inc.—SAB
Fred G. Mills-PHD
Mr. Duane Mitchell-PHD
Mrs. Maryann Moffitt—Individual Membership
Mr. Dan W. Moore, Jr.-PHD
Morgan & Company, Inc.—PHD
Morrison Construction Company—PHD
Mr. Aaron B. Moss—Individual Membership
The Movie House Corporation—Family Members!
C. P. Nanney-PHD
Mr, John Neill-PHD
Mr. Paul Nipper, 111—Individual Membership
Mr. Keith M. Norris—Family Membership
One Hour Martinizing Co., Forest City—PHD
One Hour Martinizing Cleaners, Shelby—PHD
Mr. James i.. Padgett—Individual Membership
Mr. E Raymond Parker—PHD
Mr. Ed M. Patterson—Individual Membership
Mr. C.M. Peeler, Jr.—Individual Membership
Mr. Dewey H. Phillips-PHD
Piedmont Pharmacy—Individual Membership
Porter Brothers, Ind.—SAB
Vol. XIII No. 1
Published bimointhly —Sept., Nov.,
Jan., March, May—at Boiling Springs,
N.C. 28017. Second class postage paid
at Boiling Springs, N.C.
Bill Baucom Executive Secretary
Alumni Association
Debbie B. Putnam Editor
Gardner-Webb College
Alumni Association
Julius Pinkston, ’51 President
James Williamson ’52 V. Pres.
Ms. Sue Mlllen, ’59 Secretary
Mr. Lear T. Powell—Individual Membership
Dr. Dan Proctor—Family Membership
Mr. T.S. Putnam-PHD
Mrs. Bobby G. Pyron, Sr.—Family Membership
Mr. Johnny H. Ramsey—PHD
Rhoden Enterprises inc.—Individual Membership
Mr. Joe Robbtns—PHD
Mr. Dennis C. Roberts—Individual Membership
Mr. Howard Rollins— Individual Membership
Roundup Store—PHD
Mr. Tommy Royster—PHD
Mr. R.J. Rucker-PHD
Dr. Larry Sale—PHD
Mr. Thomas E. Saunders— Individual Membership
Mr. Jerry Scruggs—Individual Membership
Mr. James A. Seagraves—PHD
Seal With Company—SAB
Shelby Concrete Products, Inc.—PHD
Shelby Farm & Garden Store—Individual Membership
Shelby Glidden Paint Center-PHD
Shelby Supply Co.—SAB
Shorts Boat & Motor Service— PHD
Clyde A. Short Co., Inc.—Individual Membership
Mr. Heyward Shuford—PHD
Spangler & Sons, Inc—PHD
Mr. A. Donafd Spangler—PHD
Mr. Dale Spangler—PHD
Miss Dorothy Spangler—PHD
Ralph Spangler—PHD
Ralph Spangler-PHD
Mr. Pau.' Stacy—Individual Membership
Miss Charline Stamey—PHD
Mr. Harold C. Stowe—PHD
Mr. T.C. Strickland, Jr.—Individual Membership
Mr. J.L. Suttle, Jr.-SAB
Mr. Linton.Suttle—PHD
Mr. Robert Sweezy—PHD
Mrs. Sarah D. Tallent—PHD
Mr. Paul G. Taylor-PHD
Tedder Motor Co., Inc.—PHD
Jesse W. Thackerson—Individual Membership
Mr. Charles Thissen—PHD
Tillmans, Inc.—Individual Membership
Mr. Clarence R. Tolleson, Sr.—PHD
C. Thoms Antiques—PHD
Mrs. Shirley Toney—Individual Membership
Tri City Concrete Co., Inc — Individual Membership
Bill Turner Chevrolet, Inc.—RID
Mis. Felton Walker—Individual Membership
Mrs. Frances G. Walker—Individual Membership
Mr. Jerry R. Walker
Mr. Walter C. Walker-PHD
Mr. Glenn Wall-PHD
Phil Wallace—Pro Nothing
Mr. Thomas E. Walters
Mrs. Thomas E Walters—SAB
Mr. Wayne L. Ware—Individual Membership
Mr. Eugene Washburn—Individual Membership
Dr. Gene Washburn—SAB
Mr. Thomas W. Wease—Individual Membership
Mr. Bill Weaver-SAB
Mrs. Marie W. Weaver—Individual Membership
Mr. Fred D. West-PHD
Mr. Dean Whisnant—Individual Membership
Mr. David P. White—Individual Membership
Mr. Jim Wiles-PHD
Williams Oil Company-PHD
Mr. Billy Williams-PHD
Dr. Craven Williams—PHD
Mr. James Williams-PHD
Mr. F. David Wilson-PHD
Mr. Charles V. Wiseman, Jr.-SAB
Miss Andra Wood—Individual Membership
Mr. Paul C. Wylie-PHD
Mr. PL. Yelton-SAB
Mr, Robert W. Yelton—PHD -w
Young Brothers, Inc.—PHD
Zim Zimmerman-PHD
by Judge Harold R. Medina
G-W Grad School
The Board of Trustees and faculty
have qiven unanimous approval to
the administration concerning steps
for G-W’s graduate studies. The in
tentions are to initiate a Master of
Arts degree program in the 1980
Summer for concentrations in K-3,
Middle School and Physical Educa
tion.
Complete details soon.
What is it that binds us so closely to
our alma mater? Why do we respond
so warmly? Why do we do so much in
a myriad of ways to demonstrate our
love for the institution that brought us
to maturity and helped us to develop
our latent talents and capacities and
our sense of human values, to appre
ciate the beauties, and the harmonies
of art and literature, and to strengthen
and broaden our intellectual faculties?
I respectfully submit that there are
three reasons for this. Doubtless there
are others, but I stress these three
above all others. I shall discuss them
in what I think is the inverse order of
their importance, but I realize others
rnay have different views on the sub
ject.
First, there is the psychological urge
to be identified as a member of the
group, the notion of “belonging.” This
enhances one’s individual ego and
produces a perfectly human feeling of
pleasure and security. People like to
get on the band wagon if given a rea
sonable opportunity to do so. It is the
opposite of a feeling that one is on the
outside, more or less regarded as dif
ferent from the others. Class spirit and
class unity inevitably foster this idea of
“belonging.” After the lapse of a few
years not a single member of the class
thinks he is being left out in the cold.
Second, there is that spark of fire
between the teacher and the pupil,
between the institution of learning and
the student, that continues with us
through life and never ceases to en
gender a reciprocal feeling of wcirmth
and affection and gratitude. As the rip
ples go out endlessly when one throws
a pebble into a pond, the effect goes on
and on until we join our loved ones in
the great beyond. Some of us may
perversely seek .to extinguish this spark
of fire, while others nurse and foster it
with loving care; but, in either event,
and no matter what may happen to
us, the spark is never extinguished.
The third reason is not so widely
understood. I shall try to work around
to it on the bias, my favorite ap
proach. When I was a boy at prep
school I simply could not understand
why Cicero kept harping on his desire
to establish a reputation that would
continue down through the ages.
Think of the millions of books
that were thought to bring imperish
able glory to their authors, but now lie
buried away in some library and for
gotten or wholly destroyed and lost in
oblivion. A person does not have to
be so very bright to realize that
nothing he can do will be sure to con
struct an image of himself that will be
perceptible to anyone in another fifty
or one hundred years. Yes, the deeds
of men and women as well as those of
their friends and relatives and all that
is dear to them will pass into the mist
and be no more, as Horace so often
reminds us. But the college or univer
sity stands out as almost the only real
ly solid, permanent fact. It is some
thing we can cling to throughout life,
and thus become a part of its very
permanency and stability through the
ages. We may leave our mark upon it,
perhaps our very name, in a more or
less conspicuous way. Even the annals
of the college or the university and its
archives with their references to the
records of the students and the bene
factions of the alumni run back to the
time when the memory of man run
neth not to the contrary, as the
lawyers say.
So I think it is the most natural and
the most human thing in the world for
our alumnus to act as he does. And as
he comes back to warm himself in the
sun of the campus and opens his cof
fers and bestows of his substance to
the various drives for Annual Giving
and for the Capital Needs of his alma
mater, and for the establishment of
professorships and scholarships and
what not else, we may rest assured
that he is well repaid not only in the
happiness he enjoys with his class
mates and with the alumni of other
classes, but also by the satisfaction one
always feels in responding to an inner
urge and a subconscious motivation.
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rhetoric unless every faculty member
takes this set of principles seriously
and applies it daily in the classroom.
The faculty is on the front line, not the
president
We have a serious group of students
who want to learn and be challenged.
Above all, they want to be proud of
this college and proud of their de
grees. Whether they are proud de
pends on how the faculty does in the
classroom and in other activities they
participate in on campus. I am not do
ing my job, as president of this college
if 1—along with my administrative col
leagues—do not provide the faculty
with the resources they need to do
their jobs in the classrooms.
I welcome the fresh viteility on the
campus and among the alumni and
friends. We are a much better college
than many realize or dare to think. We
are making progress towards develop
ing at Gardner-Webb an inner percep
tion of greater pride in what each of
us does on a daily basis.
I am realistic enough to know that
at Gardner-Webb College, as at most
independent liberal arts colleges, re
sources—both financial and personnel
—are always going to be limited; the
issue for us will always be allocation.
On the other hand, I am an admirer
of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and I agree
with him when he says, “He only is
rich who owns the day.” Our insti
tutional audits may never reflect the
assets of some privately endowed in
stitutions, but with the support and
energies of alumni and friends, we can
be rich in owning “the day.” It is our
time in history. Let us claim it.