Boiling Springs, Mrs. Abbie
Miller Mitchell joined the
Gardner-Webb faculty in
1937. Fifty years later the col-
lege has honored her by nam-
ing her professor emerita of
music.
Mrs. Mithceell, a native and
current resident of Owen-
saboro, Kewntucky, had been
a private piano teacher in
Gardner-Webb
Owensboro for nine years
before going to North
Carolina and Gardner-Webb
college in 1937. For 27 years
she taught music at the col-
lege, later chairing the music
department.
Following her marriage in
1963 to the late clyde Mit-
chell, also of Owensboro, she
left Gardner-Webb and with
her husband spent a year in
Texas.
Upon her return to
Owensboro, she taught piano
students at Kentucky
Weslyan college for 10 years.
She served as organist at
several churches, retiring
last year as organtist of St.
Andrews Presbyterian
Church, Owensboro.
In 1965 she reopened her
piano studio, where she con-
tinues to teach private piano
students. Next year Mrs. Mit-
I III ETI
chell will begin the sixtieth
year fo her career in music.
Still active in the profes-
sion, Mrs. Mitchell says, ‘I
have been and am a member
of the Saturday Musicale at
Owensboro. I am the oldest
performing member.”
The status of professor
emerita is not the first
distinction Gardner-Webb
College has bestoweed on
Mrs. Miller. In 1964, she
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received a Citizens Citation
from the college in recogni-
tion of her outstanding
achievement and service in
the field of higher education.
Mrs. Mitchell earned
bachelor of music and master
of music degrees form the
Cincinnati Conservatory of
Music and the Bachelor of
arts from Kenturcky
Weslyan College.Upon
receiving her master’s
Gardner-Webb College Honors Abbie Miller Mitchell
degree, she was edected to
membership in Pi Kappa
Lambda, an honorary society
of musicians. Later she was
elected to Delta Kappa Gam-
ma, Society International, an
honorary society of women
teachers.
She was an active member
of the Cecilia Music Club of
Shedby while on the Gardner-
-Webb faculty and is a
member of the D.A.R.
Receives Gifts
Boiling Springs, Two
substantial gifts to Gardner-
Webb College’s $5.95 million
capital campaign have been
annnounced.
The Dover Foundation and
family has made a gift of
more than a half-million
dollars. The foundation has
given $250,000 and the family
has more than matched that
amount for a total of $540,100.
Contributors include Charles
I. Dover; Hoyt Q. and Anne
Bailey; Dorothy Dover
Dykers; and Harvey and
Kathleen Hamrick. The gift
will go toward revitalizing
the campus center building
named in Mr. Charles I.
Dover’s honor.
A $200,000 gift form Paul
Broyhill of Lenoir has been
announced. Broyhill, a
retired chairman of the board
of Broyhill Industries,
designated his gift for the
Broyhill School of Manage-
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