Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The eW b Magazine Gardner-Webb Publications Fall 1984 The eW b Magazine 1984, Fall Gardner-Webb University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/the-web Recommended Citation University, Gardner-Webb, "The eW b Magazine 1984, Fall" (1984). The Web Magazine. 76. https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/the-web/76 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]. The Web Published For Alumni, Parents, And Friends Of Gardner-Webb College Fall 1984 Challenge Made, Challenge Met For Elliott Hall Renovation Ten major communities rallied by 60 “The Phillip L. Elliott Hall honors the workers raised in excess of the $150,000 memory of a beloved educator and a key needed to meet a challenge grant given figure in the development of the col- to Gardner-Webb College to renovate lege,” Williams said. “The building which Phillip L. Elliott Hall. carries his name must reflect the quality “The challenge was given in June and and elegance of Dr. Elliott, our seventh we met the October 15 deadline,” said president.” Hank Garrity, vice president for devel¬ Renovations planned include a new opment. “The key to our success was heating and air conditioning system, in¬ the help of those who had supported the terior painting, carpeting, a new roof, college in the past. We went back to our plus a redesigned front entrance. best givers and they provided the nec¬ Elliott served as president of Gard¬ essary gifts.” ner-Webb from 1943 to 1961 leading the Carrell J. Sigmon and Gardner-Webb College President Craven Wil¬ “We used ten major towns and cities school through a period of growth that liams stand in front of the mineral collection that Sigmon recently do¬ along with individual gifts from other was marked by the college’s admission nated to the college. The collection was gathered for 25 years by Sig¬ areas to surpass the $150,000 goal,” said to the North Carolina Baptist family of mon and is located in the Withrow Science Building on campus. Evans Whitaker, development associate. colleges, and accreditation by the There were 205 donors to the chal¬ Southern Association of Colleges and lenge fund Schools. Rare Minerals Displayed In Donated Collection ‘The response was phenomenal and Elliott Hall, situated on the front the turn downs were very limited,” campus, is a three-story classroom Carrell J. Sigmon recently donated a “I could have sold it, but by giving it to Garrity said. building constructed in 1950. The build¬ large mineral collection to Gardner- the college, maybe a student will get in¬ “Our campus development plans must ing served the Boiling Springs Baptist Webb College. terested and want to go into the busi¬ now focus on the renovation of class¬ Church as an educational building be¬ The collection was unveiled in a cere¬ ness,” Sigmon said. rooms and dormitories,” G-W President fore the church’s move to its new lo¬ mony that took place in the foyer of the Terri Sigmon Underwood and her hus¬ Craven Williams said. “The Elliott Hall cation approximately a mile further south Withrow Science Building Oct. 5. band, William Underwood, were both project has successfully launched this on Main Street from the G-W campus “We’ve been collecting them for 25 or graduates of G-W. phase of our development.” at Boiling Springs. 26 years,” said Sigmon. “Our daughter, “The mineral collection represents The college recently renamed the The building currently houses faculty Terri, finished school at Gardner-Webb. minerals from all over the world. It also Church Annex classroom building in offices and classrooms for several lib¬ She would carry rock and minerals to includes some rather rare and very spec¬ honor of the late Dr. Phillip L. Elliott eral arts departments, as well as the school to show her classes. She kept tell¬ tacular specimens from North Carolina,” on the recommendation of the college associate degree nursing program. ing me they didn’t have a good collection said Dr. Leslie M. Brown, professor of alumni association. over there. (continued on page 3) “No mystery to growth” Record Enrollment This Fall At G- W For the seventh consecutive year Opportunities for Adult Learners dents increased 100 percent in 1984. “We are met with many new chal¬ Gardner-Webb College has set a record (GOAL) program and the Bachelor of Gardner-Webb enrolled 30 deaf and lenges, to insure that Gardner-Webb high enrollment record. Science in Nursing (BSN) program. hearing impaired students in the fall College will indeed have a support ser¬ Figures for the 1984 fall semester show The BSN program has grown from 15 of 1984 compared to 15 the previous vice program for the blind equal to none,” that 1902 students enrolled at G-W, an students in 1983 when the program be¬ semester. Nell Kilpatrick, director of the program increase over the previous high re¬ gan, to 88 students enrolled this fall. “Quality of service is the reason for the blind, said. corded in the fall .of 1983, when 1859 Mitchell Community College and the hearing impaired students want to come GOAL is designed for persons with students were enrolled. Davis School of Nursing in Statesville to Gardner-Webb,” Carol Rellick, direc¬ two years of college who desire a four- “Gardner-Webb continues to grow in have experienced the greatest expan¬ tor of the program for the deaf, said. year degree. Classes are taught in the defiance of nation-wide predictions of sion with 76 students now enrolled. The “The students are very sophisticated and evening on Gardner-Webb’s Boiling decline in enrollment,” said Dr. John Boiling Springs campus has 12 students realize the importance of good inter¬ Springs campus and at 15 satellite centers Drayer, vice-president for academic in the BSN program. preting, tutoring, notetaking, and coun¬ in North Carolina and South Carolina. affairs. “In the Statesville program, the cam¬ seling services as a support to their “Our GOAL program continues to be “There is no mystery to the growth,” pus is growing because of the design of classroom activities. well received by adult learners at 15 lo¬ Drayer said. “It is the result of much the program,” Dr. Janie Carlton, direc¬ “Students, parents, and professionals cations in North Carolina,” said Dr. Larry hard work by our day school, graduate tor of the BSN program, said. “Nurses are pleased with Gardner-Webb and its Sale, assistant academic vice-president school, and evening school admissions don’t have to resign now to get a BS in services and are encouraging others to for special studies. staffs. An aggressive teaching and re¬ nursing. They can work full-time and enroll. I expect this program to become “We have experienced a significant cruitment program has insured for us go to school, too. one of the most important ones in the increase at our Forsyth center and we another very good year.” “Employers in the area are working southeast region in the next few years.” have opened new centers in Richmond The enrollment figures reflect in¬ closely with their employee-students to The program for the blind and visu¬ and Wilkes counties,” Sale said. “Our creases in all academic programs but accommodate work and class sched¬ ally handicapped has grown quickly from faculty and staff have worked very hard significant growth in the colleges deaf ules,” Dr. Carlton said. one to seven students since the pro¬ to make this possible.” and blind programs as well as the Greater The college’s enrollment of deaf stu¬ gram began in 1983. Gardner-Webb Remembers PRESIDENT’S CORNER Dr. Craven E. Williams Michael Wagner At Service Minnis Wagner of Thomasville, N.C. death of another human being dimin¬ attended a memorial service to honor ishes us,” Williams said. “It reminds us Gardner-Webb College her grandson, Michael Ray Wagner, of our own destiny.” on the Gardner-Webb College campus. “Who shall separate us from the love Wagner was killed in the bomb attack of Christ?” were the words of hope read at the U.S. Embassy Annex in Beirut from the Bible by Dr. Richard E Wilson, Sept. 20. assistant religion professor. Hazel Foster and Maude Thomas, “Lebanon, for a southern boy, is not A Webb Of Influence great aunts to Wagner, and Mrs. Claude a great place to die . it is shockingly Vassey and Mrs. Delbert Humphries, remote,” said Dr. William B. Stowe, Newsweek records the scene: family friends, also came from Thom¬ professor of English. “It was just before noon in East Beirut. Suddenly a Chevrolet Station asville to help Gardner-Webb remember “I thank God Mike came my way. It wagon raced through a checkpoint of concrete blocks. ... a British diplomatic a former student and friend. seems like only yesterday we were in bodyguard parked in a Landrover pumped five M-16 rounds at the runaway. The college responded to the death Bost Gym, in the classroom, and walk¬ The wagon veered sideways. Then it hit a parked car and exploded with the force of Wagner, with words from the college ing the campus together,” said Bill Ellis, of 385 pounds of TNT. president, the Bible, a teacher, and a a college friend of Wagner’s and assis¬ . .This time 12 were found dead- including 2 U.S. servicemen. .” friend. tant basketball coach at G-W.