Gardner-Webb University Digital Commons @ Gardner-Webb University The eW b Magazine Gardner-Webb Publications 1981 The eW b Magazine 1981, September/October Deborah B. Putnam Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/the-web Recommended Citation Putnam, Deborah B., "The eW b Magazine 1981, September/October" (1981). The Web Magazine. 85. https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/the-web/85 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]. SEE: President’s Comer Letters to the Editor Joe Mauney, Trustee-Attorney Graduate Programs Page 2 Page 4 Page 9 Page 11 CPAs See Tax Act As Beneficial Those Were The Years Basketball Outlook Distinguished Alumni Awards Page 3 Page 5 Page 10 Page 12 Gardner-Webb Trustees Approve $12.5 Million Development Program The Trustees of Gardner-Webb Col¬ neither seeks nor accepts direct govern¬ lege, meeting September 3, on the Boil¬ ment funds and our goal is to make it pos¬ ing Springs campus, approved a com¬ sible for our students to be equally inde¬ prehensive $12.5 million development pendent.” program. Lloyd C. Bost of Shelby, N.C., Vice-President for Development Bob Chairman of the Board, reported that D. Shepherd reported renovation funds more than $7 million had already been for dormitories and classroom buildings pledged to the new program, Bold to be additional objectives of Bold Dimen¬ Dimensions in Higher Education, Phase sion, Phase II. “Gardner-Webb College II. truly has an opportunity to offer creative Bost cited the success of Bold Dimen¬ educational services. The phenomenal sions in Higher Education, Phase I, en¬ enrollment growth of the last two years visioned by the College administration has made many educational oppor¬ arid Trustees \rv 1977, as having made tunities available,” said Shepherd. Fall ’81 possible many educational programs and enrollment at the Baptist liberal arts Col¬ additional campus facilities. lege has exceeded Fall ’80 by more than Meeting the permanent endowment 200 students. In the last two years en¬ needs of the College will be the primary rollment has grown by approximately For the fourth consecutive year, enroll¬ funds for student financial aid. “The es¬ objective of Phase II of the Bold Dimen¬ 315 and since 1977, by more than 420 ment at Gardner-Webb College has in¬ tablishment of the Charles I. Dover Inde¬ sions program. Foremost answering these students. creased as more than 1750 students sign pendence Scholarships and other such needs are endowed funds for faculty In concluding his statement to the Trus¬ up for fall classes. The figures exceed the funds enable the College to overcome development and support, academic pro¬ tees, President Williams quoted Emerson. previous year’s enrollment by approxi¬ many of those financial pressures,” stated grams, the library, plus funds for student “This time, like all times, is a very good mately 200, and make the current year Williams. “It is obviously a practical relief financial aid. one, if we but know what to do with it.” the largest in the 76-year history of the to have the enrollment growth,-and cer¬ John Ayers of Charlotte, N.C., Chair¬ Williams said, “Despite pessimism and College. tainly it is gratifying to know that this Col¬ man of the Trustee Development Com¬ negativism concerning the fate of private Since 1977, when enrollment was lege’s programs are increasingly attractive mittee, described the student aid funds as higher education, Gardner-Webb College 1330, consecutive growth years have in¬ to students,” Williams said. “But the real “critical to the growth of Gardner-Webb sees the challenges of the ’80’s as an op¬ creased enrollment by a total of more pleasure is that now we can continue CollegeLast year, through the gener¬ portunity to maintain the momentum of than 420 students or 32 percent. The im¬ planning academic program develop¬ osity of Mr. Charles 1. Dover and the several very good ideas that have com¬ pact of this phenomenal growth is even ment in such areas as a comprehensive Dover Foundation of Shelby, N.C., the bined to make this time a very good time more significant in light of the uncer¬ Communications Major, Interpreter College established the Independent for this College.” tainties surrounding federal student fin¬ Training Program, Masters of Business Scholarship Fund designed to make Williams cited a commitment to the ancial aid resulting from President Rea¬ Administration, and a Baccalaureate De¬ Gardner-Webb students independent of Christian value system, a highly com¬ gan’s budget-cutting measures. gree in Nursing,” Williams said. federally funded student aid. Ayers petent and patient faculty, and a steadfast Richard Holbrook, Director of Enroll¬ stated, “Our long term objective is to build independence as characteristics which ment Planning at the College, indicated this fund to the level that it will no longer have been successfully blended to make that the enrollment growth was the result be necessary for our students to depend this a good time for Gardner-Webb Col¬ of “a combination of factors.” “Enroll¬ on the federal government for scholar¬ lege. ment growth involves not only registering ship funds. Gardner-Webb College more new students, but also retaining Homecoming Day: October 24,1981 previously enrolled students,” said Hol¬ 10:30—Alumni Board Meeting 11:00—Parade* * brook. “As the academic abilities of stu¬ 11:30—Class Agents Meeting dents have increased, more and more 12:00 - BBQ and have been able to meet retention stan¬ Bluegrass dards and thus stay in school,” added PARENTS’ DAY 1981 in Bost Gym Holbrook. “Larger returning classes 2:00—Bulldog Football coupled with a larger freshman class GWC vs. Carson-Newman OCTOBER 10 make for a larger total enrollment - it’s as All Day-Book Sale at simple as that,” noted Holbrook. ; Dover Memorial Library President Williams reported to the ij 8:00— Student Disco Trustees that the enrollment growth was Open House, Dinner, Football (Alumni invited!) particularly satisfying in light of the con¬ **The Alumni Board is entering a fusion that has existed throughout the “float”! spring and summer concerning federal portray, and the concerns that bite deeply know that we stand for things concrete; into their youthful hopes. for classroom performance, for discipline Great moral issues are facing the in class and on campus and for a lifestyle young and old alike—In an educational necessary to achieve that for which this setting, students will perceive clearly college stands. where you stand on human rights, world President’s poverty and hunger, good government, family life, to mention but a few. As faculty and staff of a college~"of the Edith Bailey Corner churches the model you place before stu¬ Receives Award dents is vitally important to my way of Lt. Edith M. Bailey (formerly Couch) thinking. (Class of ’61—graduate of 76) of the U.S. Now, let me suggest some terms and Public Health Service has been awarded definitions which I hope our collective the Commissioned Officer Award for The following remarks were made by Dr. During the four years which follow, as model will portray: Outstanding Service. Edie is stationed at Williams at the 1981 Faculty Retreat held these freshmen progress through the hal¬ 1. Integrity—The standards of intel¬ at the Caraway Conference In Asheboro, the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, lowed traditions of quality points, general lectual and moral honesty on North Carolina. 210 State Street, New Orleans, Louisana, requirements, supportive studies, com¬ which are exposed daily indicate where she is the Deputy Chief of the plementary studies, and free electives (as this may be the one, single char¬ “A Presidential Challenge” Medical Record Department and Presi¬ distinguished from “captured” electives), acteristic most absent from today’s dent of the Louisana Medical Record As¬ their intellectual horizons will be extended leaders as well as the larger society. An educator of considerable acclaim, sociation. She received her commission, considerably: 2. Dedication — Dedication is devot¬ Comenius in describing the ideal class¬ as an Ensign, in 1976 following grad¬ — In astronomy they will learn how ing oneself to worthwhile work room pictured a teacher seated on a uation from GWC. She graduated from infinitesmal is the earth in its uni¬ with conviction, intensity, and un¬ raised platform at one end of the room the Health Record Administration Pro¬ verse and the universe in the gal¬ swerving commitment. while students “placed their attention like gram of the U.S. Public Health Service, axies. 3. Humility—This trait enables one to wide-mouthed jugs beneath the words of Baltimore, Maryland in 1977. She has —In geology they will learn that the retain a perspective about personal wisdom that flowed from his lips.” one daughter, Robin Le Anne Couch, earth, is so old it staggers the imagi¬ importance, militates against ar¬ No doubt each of you has wondered age 14. what has happened to those students nation rogance and brings with it an open¬ who are like “wide-mouthed jugs” thirsty — In chemistry they will learn to per¬ ness to the ideas of others. It en¬ for your words of wisdom. It’s difficult to form miracles ables us to say that my chances of find students who are passive recipients —In mathematics they will plot trips being wrong are as great as my of the drippings of knowledge, if indeed to the moon chances of being right. they ever were. And I am certain that —And in physics they will make the 4.