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Gardner-Webb to Send 71 People on Spring Break Mission Trips
Office of University Communications
Six spring break mission teams, and 71 team members, will put Gardner-Webb’s core values of faith, service and leadership into action across the globe during March 8-18. The six trips in 2012 doubles last year’s number of spring break trips through the University’s office of Christian life and service. “We are especially excited about the great variety of projects and ministry activities our six teams are pursuing this year,” said Dr. Tracy Jessup, vice president for Christian life and service and senior minister to the University.
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GWU Choirs and Handbells to Perform March 8
Office of University Communications and Travis Sherrill
The Gardner-Webb University School of Performing and Visual Arts is pleased to present the GWU concert choir, chorale and handbell ensemble together in concert on Thursday, March 8 at 8 p.m. in Dover Theater. The community is encouraged to attend. The handbell choir will perform a hymn arrangement, a lullaby, a latin jazz tune, and a lively arrangement originally scored for a string orchestra.
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Community Invited to Annual GWU Health Fair
Office of University Communications
Dozens of local healthcare providers and organizations will be on hand to promote healthy living at Gardner-Webb’s annual health fair, Tuesday, March 6 from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. in Bost Gym. Admission is free, and open to the community. Every year, the GWU Health Fair enables students and members of the community to build relationships with local health agencies, promoting awareness about the latest health-related trends and offering the knowledge and resources necessary to pursue healthy lifestyles.
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NEEDTOBREATHE Tickets On Sale Now
Office of University Communications
Tickets for the April 28 NEEDTOBREATHE concert at Gardner-Webb University’s Paul Porter Arena go on sale Monday, March 5, through etix.com. Tickets are $20 person, $15 each for groups of 10 or more, and $10 for GWU undergraduate day students. Tickets can also be purchased in the Student Activities Box Office.
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Pop Up Politics: Episode 2 – “Delegates”
Office of University Communications
In this second episode of “Pop Up Politics,” Dr. Ben Gaskins, a professor of political science at Gardner-Webb University, discusses the role “delegates” play in helping hopeful presidential candidates secure their party’s nomination. Stay tuned for more episodes of Gardner-Webb’s “Pop Up Politics” throughout the election 2012 season.
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Remembering Jerome Scott
Office of University Communications
It’s been nearly seventeen years since Jerome Scott, the beloved vice president and dean of student development and the first African-American to serve on Gardner-Webb’s senior staff, last strolled the campus in Boiling Springs. But stroll up to 10 people and ask them what they remember about Mr. Scott, and you’ll quickly find that his spirit is still very much alive. Scott was only 40 when, during an administrative staff retreat in May 1995, he died suddenly of heart failure.
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Weekly Lenten Devotionals at Gardner-Webb University
Office of University Communications
For the fourth consecutive year, the Gardner-Webb Office of Christian Life and Service will hold weekly Lenten Devotionals every Wednesday until April 4th. The devotionals will take place in the Dover Chapel from 12:00-12:15 p.m. The University family and the greater community are invited to attend.
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GWU 2012 Spring Sports Preview
Office of University Communications and Travis Sherrill
Flowers are beginning to bloom and temperatures are beginning to rise, and Gardner-Webb Runnin’ Bulldog Spring Sports are underway. For complete coverage of GWU athletics, visit www.gwusports.com. The Gardner-Webb baseball team is eager for the 2012 season.
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Ancient Play, Modern Implications
Office of University Communications and Jeanie Groh
Gardner-Webb University will present Seamus Heaney’s “The Burial at Thebes” March 2, 3, 5 and 6 at 7:30 p.m., and March 4 at 2:30 p.m. at the Millennium Playhouse, located in the Communication Studies Hall. The play will be directed by James W. Thomas, interim dean of the School of Performing and Visual Arts at Gardner-Webb, and the sets designed by GWU’s award-winning technical director, Chris Keene. The production will feature Gardner-Webb students and faculty, with special performances by communication studies professor Dr. Joseph Webb as the leader of the chorus, and longtime professional actor Dr. Earl Leininger, associate provost at Gardner-Webb, as Tiresias.
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Gardner-Webb Alumnus Carl Cartee Nominated for Two Dove Awards for Christian Songwriting
Office of University Communications
Christian singer/songwriter and Gardner-Webb alumnus Carl Cartee has been nominated for two 2012 Dove Awards in the same category, Inspirational Recorded Song of the Year. The 43rd Annual Dove Awards, sponsored by the Gospel Music Association (GMA), will take place on April 19 at the Fox Theater in Atlanta, Ga. The nominated songs are “All Things New,” co-written by Cartee, Jeromy Deibler, Ronnie Freeman and Jason Ingram, on the album, “On Our Way Home,” by Nicol Sponberg; and “Hope of the Broken World,” co-written by Cartee and Jennie Riddle, on Selah’s “Hope of the Broken World” album.
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Distinguished Harpist Sivan Magen to Perform at Gardner-Webb
Office of University Communications
The Gardner-Webb University School of Performing and Visual Arts is pleased to present distinguished harpist Sivan Magen in concert on Thursday, Feb. 23 at 8:00 p.m. in Blanton Auditorium. The concert is free to the public. Magen teaches harp on the faculty at Gardner-Webb University.
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Gardner-Webb’s Life of the Scholar Conference Set for Saturday, Feb. 25
Office of University Communications
Gardner-Webb’s annual Life of the Scholar Multidisciplinary Conference (LOTS-MC) puts some of the University’s best undergraduate and faculty research on display. This year’s conference, set for Sat., Feb. 25 at the Boiling Springs campus, is free and open to the community. Lunch is available for $15.
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Gardner-Webb Divinity School Hosts Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Day
Office of University Communications
Gardner-Webb’s School of Divinity recently held Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) Day to spotlight the organization’s relationship with the University. The event brought together CBF leaders, CBF student scholars, GWU faculty and staff, and members of the faith community to worship, reflect, and plan for the future. At a worship service in Gardner-Webb’s Dover Chapel, CBF North Carolina (CBFNC) representatives encouraged the audience to better focus on knowing and relating to God, and to take inventory of individual spiritual gifts and put those to use.
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Nebraska Brass Quintet to Perform at GWU
Office of University Communications
Gardner-Webb University School of Performing and Visual Arts is pleased to present the Nebraska Faculty Brass Quintet on Friday, Feb. 17 in the Dover Theatre, located inside the Lutz-Yelton Convocation Center. Tickets for Friday’s Nebraska Faculty Brass Quintet performance are $5. The concert is the culmination to the all-day brass fest hosted by Gardner-Webb University and the School of Performing and Visual Arts.
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The Primary Puzzle – What Difference will N.C. Make?
Office of University Communications
Campaigns, caucuses, smear ads and stump speeches. The Times Square ball that drops on presidential election years might as well be a gauntlet, thrown down before not only the hopeful candidates but before an expectant nation searching for—depending on your brand of fervor—either the best person for the job or the next great Hope. What’s different about 2012, though, is that “the next great Hope” is an incumbent (remember the Obama “Hope” posters?) whose path toward another term is strewn not with palm branches as in 2008 but with four years’ mixed reviews.
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Senior Sara Jolley Crowned Miss Gardner-Webb 2012
Office of University Communications
Gardner-Webb University recently held its annual Miss Gardner-Webb pageant, awarding the crown to senior public relations major and former Miss Lincoln County Apple Queen 2008, Sara Jolley, of Lincolnton, N.C. Jolley was one of 20 applicants and 12 contestants to compete for the Miss Gardner-Webb 2012 title. Jolley’s poise and grace impressed the judges during the pageant’s fashion and interview portions, but it was her performance in the talent and platform portions that made her stand out.
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Undergrad Art Show Set to Open at Gardner-Webb
Office of University Communications
Gardner-Webb University’s School of Performing and Visual Arts is pleased to present the 2012 Undergraduate Art Show, which begins with an opening reception on Thursday, Feb. 16 and runs until March 8 in the Communication Studies Hall. The exhibit is free and open to the community. The exhibit will feature a variety of forms and styles including abstract collages, African style masks, self-portraits in oil, watercolor landscapes and florals, charcoal and graphite still-life paintings, figurative works, sculptures, pottery, and more.
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Gardner-Webb Uses “Hunger Games” Excitement to Strengthen Community
Office of University Communications
Gardner-Webb University’s Broyhill Adventure Course (BAC) and communication studies program are using the excitement for the upcoming “The Hunger Games” film premiere to strengthen the community. The BAC is proud to announce “The Hunger Games Challenge,” an event that will plunge participants into the thrill of the “Hunger Games” arena, without the violence. The event will take place throughout the day from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. on March 3 at the BAC.
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GWU Alumnus Artis Gilmore Eclipses Basketball’s Highest Peak
Office of University Communications
What a moment, when a giant of a man in stature and accomplishments—and a Gardner-Webb alum—strode past his friend and introducer Julius “Dr. J” Irving to the microphone on that hallowed stage and, to the guests in attendance, including GWU President Dr. Frank Bonner, said, “My name is Artis Gilmore, and I am a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame.” Gilmore was one of 10 individuals to be named to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2011, in August’s induction ceremony in Springfield, Mass. The seven-foot-two Gilmore, who was nicknamed “A Train” for his dominance on the court, enjoyed a 17-year professional career in basketball after shredding the nets as a Runnin’ Bulldog.
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Gardner-Webb Divinity Students Pursue Racial Reconciliation
Office of University Communications
It’s been more than five decades since the inception of the Civil Rights movement in America, a lifetime since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s nonviolent revolution against the inequality and injustice that permeated the American South. But as one Gardner-Webb Divinity student recently put it, “there is a residue of racial tension still lingering in our churches and communities, and it is ours to decide what to do about it.” An interracial group of dozens of Gardner-Webb Divinity students and professors recently took up that challenge with fervor by sharing in a conversation titled “The Future of the Church: A Listening Session on Racial Reconciliation.”
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Gardner-Webb Gospel Choir to Perform “Night of Celebration” Concert on Feb. 11
Office of University Communications
Gardner-Webb University’s E. Jerome Scott Gospel Choir will perform a “Night of Celebration” concert on Saturday, Feb. 11 at 7:30 p.m. at Green Bethel Baptist Church in Boiling Springs. The concert is free and open to the public. The “Night of Celebration” will cap off a two-day retreat for the Choir at Green Bethel Baptist, during which they will learn, rehearse, and perform several songs from scratch in just 48 hours’ time.
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Gardner-Webb University Donates Used Computers to Local Electronics Recycling Program
Office of University Communications
In what’s being called a “win-win” for both sides, Gardner-Webb University Technology Services is donating more than 150 used computers and electronic devices to Cleveland Vocational Industries’ (CVI) Electronics Recycling (e-recycling) program. The donation will cut down on environmental waste and bolster CVI’s efforts to take the lead in the local e-recycling industry. E-recycling is the reuse of still-functional computers and electronic devices, and the proper and environmentally responsible disposal of electronics that cannot be reused.
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Representative of Baptist Joint Committee Visits Gardner-Webb University
Office of University Communications
A leading Baptist voice for national religious liberty recently brought the issues of religious freedom and Election 2012 from the Capital to the Quad at Gardner-Webb University. K. Hollyn Hollman is general counsel for the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC) in Washington, D.C., and she recently spent two days on campus at Gardner-Webb discussing the importance of religious freedom and political engagement with Gardner-Webb students. As general counsel, Hollman monitors the church-state issues that arise before Congress, the courts, and administrative agencies, and provides legal analysis of those issues for Congress, the courts, various other agencies and institutions.
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The Race of His Life
Office of University Communications
It was 1964 and a young African American named George Surratt was determined to beat the odds. There had never been a black male to attend Gardner-Webb Junior College, but his dream was bigger than historical precedent. It was bigger even than the financial and familial circumstances that turned Surratt’s sprint through college into a marathon.
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Gardner-Webb’s Jessica Greer Gets “Tough” with Inmates
Office of University Communications
Jessica Greer, a marketing major and biblical studies minor, likes to sing and play the guitar. And she loves to go to prison. During her freshman year, Jessica learned about Gardner-Webb’s outreach to Livesay Correctional Institution, a minimum-security prison in Spartanburg, S.C., while attending a chapel service on campus.
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