Gardner Webb University - Web / Anchor Yearbook (Boiling Springs, NC)

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OUR DRAMA IS DEDICATED TO DEAN J. O. TERRELL . . . PPRECIATION for his loyalty, devotion, and all-around interest in ardner-Webb. Every Student comes into contact with Dean Ter- during his stay on the campus. He is the Dean of Instruction. office at Gardner-Webb since 1945. For his service to this school icate the 1954 Anchor to Dean J. O. Terrell. n

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J cA ' .onS @ 1943 g05 TW C. cane(J e-dIrector, For a review of ' Gardner-Wlbb ' 54 ' . early as iQ W e idea of establishing a school of high school grade, cre the young . . . could have the best possible;Q; ation!Jtf n- Jge? under the distinctive Christian influence, ' .Was Jurmy fiijaM pe inds of the people of the Kings Mountain Assocrawn.- By 19TO Boil- ' ine Sjprings was selected as the location of such a schrolj ahd the school is chartered as The Boiling Springs High School, Incorporated. In instruction work on the main building (Huggins-Curtis Hail v ) waf tS ed, and tjiu corns stones %ere laid in June. l ' 1928 the school was opened as a jjyiior college with J- Blaine Davis ' in the plant until 1939 reirovated and beauti- S 150,000.00 o thirty-fivt ged k iWne dff the in- ior College in honor of two prominent ied. In 1942 the people were led «i«an as Its first president. Very little chani|»as amdt when the buildings a d ouffflTs were partially pie were led «i«ang|tfort to raise ; tsiSof the can Bs froi tivKc ir ffle tru t¥!ss c Riged re ifflni )r College in honor of t ' it Hi 3 t € Baptist tRB9 ' which resulted in the|e kcres, and in that sanje stitution to Gardner-Webi North Carolina families In 1946, the college was HMRId to ' t € Baptist IBlBiy of colleges of North Carolina on the condition that by November, 1948 the friends of the institution in addition to $75,000.00 for a plant, raise $250,000.00 for endowment. These conditions were satisfactorily and completely met. Also, in this year the college achieved the goal of attaining the highest accreditation within its reach — full and unqualified membership in the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Behind the curtain ' s mystic fold, the growing future lies unrolled. . » 1 I w I iVft ' TiiiliOi V.

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mm] DR. PHILIP L. ELLIOTT All the world ' s a stage The external drama we see going on about us is but an objective manifestation of an eternal drama that ever goes on within, whose actors are unseen, but whose outcome is ever consistent and true. On this page I have always tried to give you a picture in words taken from someone who could express it better than I. This time it is a critique of this inner drama by James Allen — As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. You cannot escape the result of your thoughts, but you can endure and learn, can accept and be glad. You will realize the vision (not the idle wish) of your heart, be it base or beautiful, or a mixture of both, for you will always gravitate towards that which you secretly most love. In your hands will be placed the exact results of your thoughts, you will receive that which you earn; no more, no less. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your wisdom, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.