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‘‘Special O’s:
Really Special”
By Kim Harris and
Melissa Whitlow
On Thursday, April 21,
1988, a very special annual
event took place at Spangler
Stadium. As it does every
year, the Special Olympics
came to Gardner-Webb.
Dr. Lonnie Proctor is the
director of Special Olympics
annually and this year she had
over 70 GWC students to parti
cipate. Before the day of the
Olympics, student workers made
medals, put up posters, sell
buttons, sell donation dollars
from Hardee’s, and put dona
tion banks out in the communi
ty.
Early Thursday morning,
students put up balloons,
streamers, and other decora
tions, and set up stations. At
9:00 a.m., students met for
the Olympians to begin setting
up for the parade. The parade
started at 9:15 with the Crest
Senior High School Band lead-
ding the way.
After the invocation,
given by Dr.M.Christopher
White, the GWC sign choir
signed the National Anthem and
an amazing skydiving show be
gan. A specially training U.S.
skydiving unit known as the
Golden Knights performed a
variety of jumps, including
one which showed how a defec
tive parachute could be hand
led .
The Olympians were gree
ted by some special guests and
the torch was lit by partici
pants Danny Hall and Billy
Hamrick. The Olympians took
the Special Olympic oath, the
balloons were released, and
the games began.
Participants went to each
station to play the games. The
stations included: 50 meter
race, wheelchair race, race
walking, softball throw, bas
ketball dribble, running broad
jump, football throw, and
frisbee accuracy.. Bojangles’
provided lunch, and after
wards, the awards ceremony be
gan. Medals were given out and
the Olympians and coaches
formed a Friendship Circle by
holding hands, to signify the
end of the Games.
Special Olympics was
sponsored by the Civitans,
Plastic Oddities, Wagon Whee
lers Square Dancers, Bojan
gles’, Kate’s Skating Rink,
Triple D, Exchange Club, and
the Mental Health Association.
Says coach Melissa
Whitlow, "The kids are so
special. Each different per
sonality is a joy to work
with.”
THEATRE
PREVIEW
1988
By R. Shawn Lewis
Gardner-Webb Director of
Theatre, John Brock, has an
nounced two of the three plays
for the 1988-89 season at
Gardner-Webb. One of the two,
"Little Shop of Horrors", will
be a musical which will use
an orchestra as well as a
cast. The other play, a three-
act comedy by Larry Shue, au
thor of the hilariously funny
play "The Foreigner", is enti
tled "The Nerd". Tryouts for
the plays will be held two
weeks after the start of the
1988 Fall semester.
Also on the horizon for
thespianic affairs, the North
Carolina Shakespeare Festival
will present Shakespeare’s
"Macbeth" on October 1st in
the Dover Theatre. Mr. Brock
also mentioned that there will
be a few more goodies in store
for Gardner-Webb students.
Looking back at this past
season, the GWC players tic
kled our funny bones with Neil
Simon’s "Barefoot in the
Park". The comedy continued
with "The Foreigner", which
turned out to be one of the
most successful plays in the
history of Gardner-Webb’s the
atre program. Student-direc
ted one-acts followed the high
tide of "The Foreigner”. In an
attempt to renew what was once
symbolic of Gardner-Webb the
atre, the Greater Shelby
Community Theatre presented a
one act comedy to complete the
student-directed one-acts
playbill. Over 3,000 people
attended plays at Gardner-Webb
this year, and Brock’s aims
are even higher for the upcom
ing season. John Brock wishes
to show his appreciation for
the tremendous support given
to the theatre by students,
faculty, and members of the
community at large.
Softball
Roundup
By Burt Wilson
The Gardner-Webb Lady
Bulldogs suffered through an
early season slump before get
ting on track and playing .500
ball the second half of the
season.
Coming off the most suc
cessful season in the school’s
history, second-year coach Dr.
Dee Hunt was looking for even
greater .success in 1988. But a
slow start and four close los
ses of two runs or less left
the Lady Bulldogs with an 0-8
early season record.
They then won three
straight games, defeating
Wingate 6-5 in eight innings
and taking a pair of games
from Mars Hill, 5-4 and 18-6.
Following several close
losses, GWC rebounded and
swept a doubleheader from
Warren Wilson, 19-5 and 14-0.
They then defeated Lenoir-
Rhyne 6-5, Guilford 8-7, and
took tv70 more games from
Warren Wilson, 10-.3 and 7-2.
The Lady Bulldogs ended
the season with a pair of
close losses to Catawba, 10-9
and 11-9. Their final record
was 9-15.
Members of this year’s
team included: Mechelle
Hamilton, Lisa Sabbarth,
Gloria Campbell, Karen Kidd,
Shawm Medlin, Susan Harrison,
Lara Sellers, Donna Hendrix,
Lisa Clark, Karen Ward, Gina
Tipton, Rhonda Edwards, Amy
Dellinger, and Kim Haywood.
Several players had
exceptional individual sea
sons. Hendrix batted an incre
dible .544 with 21 RBIs, 5
doubles, and 5 triples to lead
the team in all four catego
ries. Harrison led the team in
hits with 42, while Ward and
Hamilton had three home runs
each.
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