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Alumni Banquet Saturday Night May 24, Make Reservations Now
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ALUMNI NEWS
“Serving all who
want her service;
Blessing all with
outstretched hands.”
Voli’me 1
Number 3
Boiling Springs,
C.
April, 1952
AliEmrsi Bonquef Expected To
Attract Largest Crowd In History
Business Manager, Frank Richardson asks that res
ervations for May 24th Banquet be sent in early.
Now hear this! Now hear this! Calling all Alumni! Calling
all Alumni! Come in! Come in immediately with your reser
vations for the big alumni banquet which will be held this
year on Saturday evening May 24 in the 0. Max Gardner
Building.
Because of the large crowd which
is anticipated, Mr. Frank Richard
son, Business Manager, is requesting
that dinner reservations be mailed in
at once.
Mr. Arnold Kincaid of Kings
Mountain, President of the Alumni
Association is urging all alumni this
year who can possibly make it to at
tend.
Mr. L. B. Harrill, for many years
head of the 4-H Club work in North
Carolina and a distinguished gradu
ate of our institution, will be on
hand to speak.
Following a custom of many years,
the graduating class of the college
will be guests of the Alumni As
sociation and during the evening
will be voted in as members.
Of special interest to the Alumni
will be unusually excellent program
planned in connection with the
commencement exercises;
May 23 — Testimonial Dinner for
Judge E. Y. Webb; Speaker, Judge
Wilson Warlick
May 24—Alumni Banquet: Speak
er, L. B. Harrill, State College.
May 25—Dedication of the Dover
Memorial Library 2:30 P.M. Speaker,
Grover Jones, President of the Bap
tist State Convention.
May 25—Sermon, Dr. Sydnor L.
Stealey, President of South Eastern
Seminary.
May 26—Address, Dr. J. Ollie Ed
monds, President of Stetson Univer
sity.
Music Department
To Be Strengthened
Dr. Charles G. Vardell, head of
the Department of Music at Flora
McDonald College and member of
the National Association of Schools
of Music, recently led the Gardner-
Webb administration and music
faculty in a two-day study for
strengthening and improving the
department of music. Said President
Elliott, “It is our hope to have on
the campus of Gardner-Webb Col
lege in the near future a much im
proved department of music which
will include an enlarged staff and
more adequate facilities.
After individual conferences with
President Elliott and Dean of In
struction, j. O. Terrell, and a care
ful study of the present instruc
tion program, Dr. Vardell conclud
ed his study by leading a group dis
cussion on the following subjects:
curriculum, personnel, equipment,
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DOVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY BUILDING
Troufman Returns
The return of Professor William
F. Troutman as head of the depart
ment of history and social sciences,
Gardner-Webb College, has been an
nounced by President P. L. Elliott.
Profesor Troutman has been away
on leave of absence for the past
year at Duke University where he
NEW DOVER LIBRARY
TO BE DEDICATED
Highlighting the commencement roster this year will be the
dedication of the new John R. Dover Memorial Library on
Sunday afternoon, May 25 at 2:30 P.M.
President Elliott recently announced that Grover Jones,
President of the Baptist State Convention has accepted the
invitation to make the dedicatory address.
Experts say that the new Dover Memorial Library is one
' of the finest library buildings in
the country. Built at a cost of ap
proximately 160,000 dollars the build
ing comes as a gift from the fam
ily of the late John R. Dover.
Although the building has been in
use since the first of the year, it was
only recently that the last of the
custom-built shelving was installed
by Remington-Rand.
Visitors from a wide area, especi
ally those who are interested in
building new libraries for their own
institutions, have come in a steady
stream to study the layout of the
Gardner-Webb plant which is a
modified Harvard plan.
The main floor of the library con
tains two large reading roms, the
librarian’s office, processing rooms,
a stack area for 55,000 volumes, and
on each end rooms for housing rare
books and special collections of
North Carolina history and litera
ture.
The basement floor of the library
has been given over to classrooms
and counseling rooms. At the pres
ent time, English, History, French,
Spanish, and Social Science are be
ing taught in the five large class
rooms which the building affords.
One of the features of the dedica
tion program will be the formal ac
ceptance by the college of several
rare and valuable collections of
books and manuscripts. These include
the Thomas Dixon collection consist
ing of several hundred volumes, the
Clarence Griffin collection centered
around North Carolina History, the
T. Parris collection of books in the
field of sociology, the John Charles
McNeil collection of original let
ters and manuscripts, and the re
cent gift of books to the rural
church department by members of
the State Grange.
Following the dedication cere
mony, Miss Carolyn Wray, librarian,
announced open house and cordial
ly invites all of the alumni to be
present for the ceremonies and to
visit the building afterwards.
has completed resident requirements
for the Ph.D. degree.
A native of Asheville, N. C., Mr.
Troutman has a B. S. degree from
Western Carolina Teacher’s College
and an M. A. from Duke University.
His doctoral thesis is on a subject
of definite current interest, “Theo
ries of the Relationship of Church
I and State in America.”