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V% CJ VEN £. WI££17mS, Tresiknt Q. What attracted you to Gardner-Webb? A. In my own personal timetable, I felt like I was ready to accept a challenge. This was a North Carolina Baptist college and 1 am a North Carolina Baptist, so that obviously had a direct appeal to me. It was terribly important to me from a personal sense of responsibility to my family and to my career that I be placed at a college which had the basic ingredients to withstand the inflationary pressures of the 1980 ' s. Q. How would you characterize yourself? A. That ' s a very difficult question for me because 1 just don ' t find myself thinking about myself very much. 1 have thought about this college for 4 years and higher education for 15 years. I don ' t spend much time assessing myself. I think that one might say, based on personality and lifestyle, that I ' m a very intense person. 1 think that I ' m a competitive person. That has carried over into my daily work which suggests that I believe I have to make up with intensity, effort, and hustle what other people can do with natural talent. I would like to think that it ' s true that I am an open person. I would not want to think that anybody was afraid of me in any way though, inevitably, there may be some apprehensions about the office . Q. How would you like students to perceive you? A. There are times when I get terribly uncomfortable, times when I ' m alone and I realize I ' m dealing in futures. It ' s a very unsettling thought that there are 1450 people out there whose futures I may be affecting. That gives me a sense of real humility and sometimes apprehension. I hope that the students will believe the genuineness of my feeling that there ' s little else as important in life as serving their future developments through leadership of this college. Q. In order of importance what are your personal and professional priorities? A. For me, living is the church, my family, and Gardner-Webb College, and there are certain circumstances where one takes precedence over the other. Q. You are relatively young for such a prestigious position, what does the future hold for Dr. Craven Williams? A. I ' ve had other opportunities, even since I ' ve been here. As yet, 1 have not had any more interest than returning the call and saying, Not interested! Every bit of personal ambition that I now have is always involved with what I hope we can see happen for Gardner-Webb, especially To make our graduates as intensely sought after as any other graduates. My ambitions are ambitions for the college. It ' s a very peaceful kind of feeling, too. 18