The Web Magazine 1979, November/December

Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The eW b Magazine Gardner-Webb Publications 1979 The eW b Magazine 1979, November/December Debbie B. Putnam Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/the-web Recommended Citation Putnam, Debbie B., "The eW b Magazine 1979, November/December" (1979). The Web Magazine. 94. https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/the-web/94 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Gardner-Webb Publications at Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The eW b Magazine by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. •mf Volume XIII, No. 2 "<=&*■ «« be* exeitzd of oat tAz yxowtA and dzuzfofimznt of tAz dotfzgz 's fixoyxams on so many fronts, wz Aauz aff trzzn ozxy mucA auraxz of tAz fact tAat tAz cAatfzngz of tAz donoocation dzntzx Aas stood as tAz ftaysAifi of tAz zntixz fixoyxam. " fPxzsudznt dxavzn iff Lams Groundbreaking Ceremonies Held! Under cloudy and slightly threatening remarks from College President Craven in total giving to the College, an increase important one for us. The completion weather conditions on October 20th, E. Williams initiated the series of events from 43% to 70% in faculty earned of this building will fill a void in the life several hundred persons observed preceeding the actual groundbreaking. doctorates, a 22 % increase in library of this campus as broad and desolate as groundbreaking ceremonies for Rev. Richard McBride, Campus Minister holdings and more than a quarter of a this barren ground is now. Our Gardner-Webb’s $3 million Convoca¬ gave an invocation. million dollars expended in the musicians have no platform. What we tion Center. President Williams opened his speech improvement and upgrading of campus do today will fix that. Our Health and Ten years of envisioning a structure to with remarks pertaining to the $10.5 facilities, as positive results within the Physical Education majors have no enhance the programs of Fine Arts and Million “Bold Dimensions” program past three years. laboratory and activity areas. What we Physical Education is finally becoming which encompasses numerous creative “As we have been excited about the do today will fix that. Our Basketball a reality to the campus. education concepts. “To date,” he said, growth and development of the team has no arena appropriate for their To be the core of the campus for “Gardner-Webb College has secured College’s programs on so many fronts, skills. What we do today will fix that. student life, the building will include $4.5 million in response to this program. we have all been very much aware of Our 1,400 students have no recreation¬ features as a student lobby area, class¬ As a result, significant Bold Dimension the fact that the challenge of the al area for free play. What we do today rooms, basketball arena and a fine arts objectives have already been realized.” Convocation Center has stood as the will fix that,” Williams stated. theatre. He sited a 10% increase in the flagship of the entire program. And that Completion date is set for April The College Band and welcoming College endowment, a 256 % increase is what makes this day a particularly 1981. Page 2 Former G-W Administrator Named Limestone President Limestone College has named Dr. ment and alumni affairs at Limestone “The 1980’s - William J. Briggs president of the four- for the past two years. year liberal arts college. Before joining Limestone, Briggs He has been acting administrator was director of development for Gard¬ A Good Time since May at the college. ner-Webb College. He also has served Briggs, 44, a native of Lincolnton, as dean of students and associate pro¬ for Us” N.C., had been director of develop- fessor of education at Pfeiffer College. Gardner Appointed To Executive Board Gardner-Webb Assistant Professor of Gardner will assist in planning the Health and Physical Education Dave annual conference for professional Gardner, Jr. has been appointed to a physical education and health education President Craven Williams 3-year term on the executive committee authorities. Also, he will keep abreast of of the North Carolina College Confer¬ Legislative acts in North Carolina and ence of Professional Preparation in give information on teacher prepara¬ During the decade of the 1970’s, 120 private colleges have closed their doors en¬ Physical Education and Health tions for the classroom. tirely; 40 merged with other institutions, and 16 shifted to public control. Truly this Education. is a new era in higher education, a time of reevaluation, restructuring, and re¬ thinking of old traditions. The struggle for survival is one. Professors Make National Presentation The nation’s institutions of higher learning, so long revered and held aloft as an American .ideal, are facing times of declining enrollment, shifts from the traditional Dr. Larry L. Sale, Dean, Continuing education at public school, under¬ 18 to 24 year old students to an older adult student population, and confusion Education and Summer School; and graduate, and graduate levels of over the role education should play in a time of changing American attitudes in the Dr. J. Allen Queen, Chairman, education. face of real economic struggle. Department of Education were selected Dr. J. Allen Queen, recently named Like puppets suspended by the tenuous strings of change, some colleges dangle to make a presentation entitled “Class¬ Chairman, Department of Education, uncertainly in the wake of recession, unemployment, and inflation. At its worst, it is room Management Strategies, Gardner-Webb College, has had a crisis in higher education; at best, it is a challenge for the nation’s colleges and Facilitating Self-Discipline in the Middle extensive teaching experience at the universities. School” at the National Middle School public school, undergraduate, and The rules of the game today are flexibility, adaptability, adjustment. The goal, for Association Conference, November 1, graduate levels of education. many colleges, is simple survival. I hope 1 am not being overly naive when I dis¬ at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Dearborn, Dr. Sale and Dr. Queen are currently claim survival as being a threat to Gardner-Webb. Gardner-Webb College will live. Michigan. providing leadership in the implementa¬ But, the challenge to us is this: In what form will we live? Dr. Sale is the author of Introduction tion of new Master of Arts degree In 1961, the number of babies born in America hit an all time high: 4.3 million. to Middle School Training, a college programs at Gardner-Webb College in The baby boom, coupled with surging college enrollments, precipitated a college textbook published by Charles E. Merrill areas of Early Childhood Education, boom and scores of new schools sprang up all over the country. Then the down¬ Publishing Company, Columbus, Ohio. Middle School Education, and Physical ward trend began. Births hit bottom from 1973 to 1976 when the national birth He has had extensive teaching and Education. rate hovered between 3.1 million and 3.2 million, the lowest numbers since World consulting experience in middle school War II. A Duke University Policy Analyst recently said, “Full time enrollments at private four year institutions, even for the most optimistic forecast, will decline 200,000 Crest High School To Begin New Radio Program over the next ten years.” He went on to say, “At least 200 of the nation’s 1500 Students of Crest High School are vein on Mondays at 8:00 p.m. There will independent colleges will close their doors in the coming decade. And I suspect, airing a 15 minute program each be interviews of radio personalities, they won’t all be spread out, they’ll be dumped together. By the early 1980’s, there Saturday at 12:30 p.m. on WGWG-FM. local citizens, and other artists. will be one college closing a week.” The program consists of news about The Cleveland County Agricultural The decline in the number of “traditional” college freshmen can be viewed in all student activities, club meetings, and Extension Service is reporting on two ways: as a catastrophe or, on the other hand, as an opportunity for institutions sports events. agricultural interests of the area each to serve a different kind of student. We’ve all been so eager to serve the needs of Another new program is HE IS THE Monday and Wednesday at 1:05 p.m. the 18 to 24 year olds that we have frequently ignored the varied and different MUSIC. The program is Christian and each Saturday at 1:00 p.m. needs of other groups, particularly women and adults. Adults are going to school music, mostly in the contemporary WGWG is located at 88.3 on the dial. in large numbers now because of the changes in the work force or because they want to retrain for other fields, upgrade their careers, or get the liberal arts enrich¬ ment they never had. These kinds of people haven’t really been dealt with by higher education before. I do not think it is too absurd to think they will likely Professor Leads Revival make up 40% of the total student population by the late 1980’s. R. Logan Carson, Assistant Professor Conference and revival at the Mount The challenges to Gardner-Webb College are going to be great-new admissions of Religion, who specializes in Old Bethel Baptist Church, Daytona Beach, procedures, more night classes, more off campus courses, and don’t be surprised if Testament Studies for the Department Florida, at the end of September. we start offering weekend classes.

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