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Gardner-Webb Theatre Presents “My Sweet Charlie”
Office of University Communications
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1960s freedom marches, the Gardner-Webb Theatre is proud to present David Westheimer’s award-winning play, “My Sweet Charlie,” for its winter production. Performances will be held in the Millennium Playhouse, located in the Communication Studies Hall, November 29 – December 3 at 7:30 p.m. “My Sweet Charlie” is directed by James W. Thomas, interim dean of the School of Performing and Visual Arts at Gardner-Webb.
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Cherokee Storyteller to Give Distinguished Lecture at Gardner-Webb University
Office of University Communications
The Joyce Compton Brown Lecture Series at Gardner-Webb University is proud to present GWU Distinguished Alumnus and accomplished Cherokee educator Freeman Owle, who will share the story of “The Cherokee of Yesterday and Today” on Wednesday, Nov. 30 at 7:00 p.m. in Gardner-Webb’s Ritch Banquet Hall, located inside the Dover Campus Center. The lecture is free and open to the public. Owle will intersperse traditional Cherokee myths and children’s fables into his greater lecture about the Cherokee heritage in the region.
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Gardner-Webb Rises to Rachel’s Challenge
Office of University Communications
Before April 20, 1999, few people knew of Rachel Scott, a Colorado high-schooler with big dreams and a bigger heart. But for those who did, it’s no surprise that she has managed to change the world – they just didn’t imagine it happening like this. Rachel was the first student murdered in the Columbine Massacre, when two embittered students killed 12 students and one teacher before turning their guns on themselves.
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Gardner-Webb University Anticipates Annual “Festival of Lights” Celebration
Office of University Communications
In 1985, Gardner-Webb University first ushered in the Christmas season with a “Festival of Lights,” a community-wide celebration of the birth of Christ that has become an annual tradition in Boiling Springs. This year’s Festival takes place in the Dover Theatre, inside the Lutz-Yelton Convocation Center on Thursday, Dec. 1 at 7:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
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Gardner-Webb Invites the Community to a Christmas Celebration for the Whole Family
Office of University Communications
Gardner-Webb University invites the community to ring in the Christmas season with its inaugural Christmas celebration “‘Twas the Night,” on Friday, Dec. 2 at 7:00 p.m. in Blanton Auditorium, located inside Gardner-Webb’s Hamrick Hall. Guests should bring an unwrapped, new toy as the price of admission, to be donated to the Salvation Army Christmas Toy Closet. Part concert, part drama, part sing-along and storytelling session, “‘Twas the Night” is a dynamic musical event based around two dramatic scenes—a contemporary Christmas fireside scene and the biblical nativity scene.
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Gardner-Webb President Announces New Awards to Support Undergraduate Art
Office of University Communications
Two new annual awards will enable Gardner-Webb University to purchase original art by its undergraduate art students for campus decoration, Gardner-Webb President Dr. Frank Bonner announced recently. Together, the Presidential Purchase Awards for Undergraduate Art and for Senior Art will enable the University to spend $1,500 per year to purchase students’ original artwork for permanent display in campus facilities. The money will be used to award artists for their work exhibited at the School of Performing and Visual Arts’ annual undergraduate and senior art shows.
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Annual Christmas Art Sale Open This Week at Gardner-Webb University
Office of University Communications
The Gardner-Webb University Art Department is proud to announce the opening of its annual Christmas Art Sale, a fundraiser to support individual artists and the GWU Art Club. The sale offers a variety of original artwork by local artists, and is open from Wednesday, Nov. 16 through Saturday, Nov. 19 in the Communications Studies Hall at Gardner-Webb. This year’s sale features handmade gifts, jewelry, pottery, fiber arts, and more, all made by local artists, GWU art faculty members, and GWU students.
Youtube: Annual Christmas Art Sale Open This Week at Gardner-Webb University
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Senior Art Show on Display at Gardner-Webb
Office of University Communications
The Art Department in Gardner-Webb’s School of Performing and Visual Arts is proud to present a Senior Art Show featuring the work of Katie Grace Kibler and Jack Zimmerman, currently on display in the Communication Studies Hall. The show features a variety of forms and styles including paintings, prints, pottery, sculpture, and photography.
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Gardner-Webb Opera Theatre presents “Hansel and Gretel”
Office of University Communications
The Gardner-Webb University Opera Theatre, a part of the School of Performing & Visual Arts, is proud to present its fall production “Hansel And Gretel” – composed by Engelbert Humperdinck. Performances will be held in the Dover Theatre, located in the Lutz-Yelton Convocation Center (LYCC), on Nov. 9-12 at 7:30 p.m. “Hansel and Gretel” is a familiar fairy tale of German origin that was first published in the early 1800s by the Brothers Grimm.
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Gardner-Webb to Dedicate the Bill and Sue Masters Athletic Facility
Office of University Communications
Gardner-Webb University will dedicate the Bill and Sue Masters Athletic Facility in a special ribbon-cutting ceremony on Saturday, Nov. 12 at 10:30 a.m. The Masters family will then be honored at Spangler Stadium during halftime of the Runnin’ Bulldogs football game against Stony Brook, which kicks off at 1:30 p.m. The ribbon-cutting and dedication ceremony will be held just outside the Bill and Sue Masters Athletic Facility, located on Stadium Drive behind the right-field wall of Masters Field, just next to the traffic circle.
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A Great Sign
Office of University Communications
Most architects insist that buildings have character, personalities even, much like individuals and communities. That is certainly true of Gardner-Webb’s Tucker Student Center, which GWU President Dr. Frank Bonner promised will be “the single-most impressive and most transformational building ever built on Gardner-Webb’s campus.” Complete with skylight ceilings and glass walls, open staircases and fresh-air balconies, the Tucker Student Center’s personality was designed to mirror that of Gardner-Webb’s community: open, relational, transparent and unique.
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Hunger and Homelessness is a World-Wide Issue
Office of University Communications
The Gardner-Webb University Office of Community Engagement is presenting various events this week to bring attention to the growing problem of hunger and homelessness in America. National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week is taking place now until Nov. 20, and it is co-sponsored by the National Coalition for the Homeless and National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness. The GWU community will have the chance to take part in programs on and off campus this week.
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“The Birth” Returns to Charlotte Stage for Sixth Consecutive Christmas Season
Office of University Communications
The unconventional nativity drama “The Birth,” developed by Gardner-Webb alumnus Nathan Rouse (’02), has moved to Uptown Charlotte for its sixth Christmas season on the Charlotte stage. The 2011 season opens on Dec. 12 and runs through Dec. 19 at the Duke Energy Theater, part of Charlotte’s Spirit Square. The season also features a special “Celebration Night” on Dec. 16, during which guests will enjoy a performance of the show at 6:30 p.m., followed immediately by a talk-back with the cast and a concert by singer-songwriter and cast member Sara DeShields.
Youtube: "The Birth" Returns to Charlotte Stage for Sixth Consecutive Christmas Season
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Gardner-Webb to Host Daughter of Chick-fil-A Founder
Office of University Communications
The Dimensions Program at Gardner-Webb University welcomes Trudy Cathy White, the daughter of Truett and Jeannette Cathy, the founder and CEO of Chick-fil-A, on Tuesday, Nov. 1 at 9:25 a.m. in Paul Porter Arena. White and her husband, John, have been involved in international missions for more than 20 years. “The main reason I wanted Trudy had to do with the fact that she and her husband have a real heart for young adults, particularly high school and college students,” said Dr. Tracy Jessup, vice president for Christian life and service and senior minister to Gardner-Webb University.
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Gardner-Webb Winter Sports Preview
Office of University Communications
A November chill is in the air, and for sports fans, that can only mean one thing: the fall sports season is hitting the home stretch, and Gardner-Webb Runnin’ Bulldogs winter sports are about to heat up! Enjoy this preview of the upcoming winter action, and visit gwusports.com for complete coverage of Gardner-Webb athletics. For ticket information, click here or call (704) 406-4340.
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Pro Angler Matt Arey Shares Time, Expertise with GWU Fishing Club
Office of University Communications
As a youngster on Moss Lake, fishing from a johnboat rigged to look like a bass boat, FLW (Forrest L. Wood) pro angler Matt Arey probably never dreamed that nearly a hundred collegiate and community anglers would one day hang on his every move during a casting demonstration. But that was exactly the scene earlier this month when Arey, a Shelby, N.C. native, shared his time, expertise, and the story of his journey into the world of professional fishing with the Gardner-Webb University fishing club. Standing before a crowd of onlookers at Gardner-Webb’s Lake Hollifield, Arey demonstrated casting secrets that have led him to 13 top-ten finishes on the FLW Outdoors Fishing Tournament Series since his pro debut in 2007.
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Registration Open for the 14th Annual Turkey Trot 5K Run/Walk
Office of University Communications
Registration is now open for the Ruby C. Hunt YMCA’s 14th annual Turkey Trot 5K and Kids’ 1/2 mile Fun Run, which begins at Gardner-Webb University on Thanksgiving morning, Nov. 24, at 8:30 a.m. The early registration fees are $20 for YMCA members and $25 for non-YMCA members. The late registration fees, which begin Nov. 20, are $25 for YMCA members and $30 for non-YMCA members.
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Serendipitous, to Say the Least
Office of University Communications
When people discover strange and unexpected connections, like random friends they share in common or obscure places they’ve both visited, they often remark, “Wow, it’s a small world.” But in the case of Gardner-Webb sophomore Kendra Bragg and GWU community engagement coordinator Stephanie Richey, that’s a bit of an understatement. Shortly after the fall semester began, Richey was sitting outside the cafeteria offering applications for community service opportunities when a new student she didn’t recognize approached and asked, “Hey, you’re Stephanie Richey, right?”
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Student Nursing Association Sponsors Blood Drive this Friday at Gardner-Webb University
Office of University Communications
The Gardner-Webb University Student Nursing Association (SNA) invites members of the community to join GWU faculty, staff, and students in giving blood to save lives on Friday, Oct. 28 from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. in Elliott Hall on the campus of GWU. The blood drive is organized by the Community Blood Center of the Carolinas CBCC). For more information about the blood drive, call 704-477-4888 or email creed@gardner-webb.edu.
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Gardner-Webb to Hold 20th Annual Beep Ball Game
Office of University Communications
The Noel Program at Gardner-Webb University will host the 20th annual Beep Ball game on Friday, Oct. 28 at 6 p.m. at the John Henry Moss Baseball Stadium, in conjunction with other Homecoming events. Gardner-Webb and the Boiling Springs community are invited to enjoy a different kind of softball, one that raises awareness about the challenges that face blind and vision-impaired individuals. Sighted players must wear blindfolds while trying to hit a beeping ball, run to beeping bases, and decipher instructions shouted to them by sighted spotters.
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Theado’s Thoughts on Beep Ball
Office of University Communications and Matt Theado
I’ll give you one word that describes playing beep ball: scary. I mean, you are blindfolded first of all, and how often does that happen in your life? Maybe we see hostages on TV or kidnap victims in movies, but when you’re blindfolded, you cannot see.
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Gardner-Webb Invites the Community to Enjoy Octoberfest 2011
Office of University Communications
Calling all kids! The community is invited to attend Octoberfest 2011 at Gardner-Webb University, a free fall festival that offers fun for the whole family, on Thursday, Oct. 27 from 6:30-8:30pm at Gardner-Webb’s Lutz-Yelton Convocation Center (LYCC). Octoberfest features games, crafts, prizes, and, of course, candy for children of all ages to enjoy.
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Pre-Game Tailgate Party
Office of University Communications
Join the GWU Alumni Association for a tailgate party before kick-off. As Alumni Director Meghan Dalton says, “This is a great opportunity to reconnect with friends and classmates, show off school pride, see all that’s changed and all that’s remained the same at GWU. We’re featuring a live performance by one of the Carolina’s favorite beach music bands, the Band of Oz, and serving an awesome game day meal from FATZ.
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Homecoming
Office of University Communications
Homecoming weekend at Gardner-Webb University is just around the corner, and if you’re one of our beloved alumni, we hope you’ll make the trek back to Boiling Springs to reconnect with your alma mater and reunite with old friends. The Office of Alumni Affairs has planned a variety of fun Homecoming activities, detailed below. For more information about Homecoming, call the Office of Alumni Affairs at 704-406-2586.
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Fall Break Gives Gardner-Webb Student Missionaries a Chance to Shine
Office of University Communications
Most students spend fall break vacationing or visiting family and friends. But later this month, several Gardner-Webb University students will spend fall break on the mission field, rolling up their sleeves and getting busy for a good cause. The Gardner-Webb Office of Christian Life and Service will send out two mission groups Oct. 21-25.
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