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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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Gardner-Webb University to Host NEEDTOBREATHE in Concert
Office of University Communications
Thanks to the passion, ingenuity and relentlessness of a group of Gardner-Webb students, Atlantic Records recording artists, NEEDTOBREATHE will be appearing at the Boiling Springs, N.C. campus. The concert is scheduled for Saturday, April 28 in the Paul Porter Arena, located in the Lutz-Yelton Convocation Center. Ben Rector is scheduled to open the show at 7 p.m
Youtube: NEEDTOBREATHE - Something Beautiful (Official Video)
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Italian Mandolinist Matteo Bevilacqua to Perform at GWU
Office of University Communications
The Gardner-Webb University School of Performing and Visual Arts is pleased to present Italian Mandolinist Matteo Bevilacqua on Tuesday, Jan. 31 at 8 p.m. in Blanton Auditorium. The concert is free to the public. Karen Hite Jacob will be accompanying Bevilacqua on the harpsichord and piano. Bevilacqua and Jacob will perform a variety of mandolin selections spanning nearly 300 years of music.
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Gardner-Webb Alumna Takes Game Show for a Spin
Office of University Communications
Like many Americans, Gardner-Webb alumna Kendra Hauser (’11) admits she is a “game show junky.” For years, she says, she and her mother have spent quality time with the Game Show Network, answering “Jeopardy” questions and solving “Lingo” word puzzles, often working crossword puzzles or word-search games in their laps all the while. So it’s no surprise that Hauser’s bucket list included “Win ‘Wheel of Fortune,’” or that she joined the “Wheel Watchers Club” when she turned 18.
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Gardner-Webb Mourns the Loss of Loving Student Ariane Noelle Patterson Dead at 21
Office of University Communications
It has been a challenging week for many friends and family members of Ariane Patterson. The Gardner-Webb religious studies major was celebrating her 21st birthday on Jan. 17 when she collapsed in class, and was later pronounced dead at the hospital. Her friends say she had an “outrageous love for Christ and people,” and that “her beautiful smile was as infectious as her loving spirit.”
Youtube: Ariane Patterson Tribute Video R.I.P. - Darelle Dupree Dove
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Gardner-Webb Students Attend Forum Discussing Media and Presidential Campaign Coverage
Office of University Communications
Students from GWU’s political science department got the chance to attend a panel discussion entitled “The Evolving Media Coverage of the Presidential Campaign” at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C. Panelists included Chuck Todd of NBC and Steve Brusk from CNN. The event was part of a consortium involving universities and colleges in the region as a means for students to become academically focused on the political process and to promote civic engagement.
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Civil Rights Champion Becomes Ambassador for Love and Hope
Office of University Communications
Gardner-Webb University devotes a January Dimensions program each year to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy of love and reconciliation. That legacy was, perhaps, never better honored at Gardner-Webb than this month, when Carolyn McKinstry, a native of Birgmingham, Ala., and a veteran of that city’s tumultuous Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, shared her testimony with the Gardner-Webb student body. A lifelong member of Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, McKinstry was present on Sept. 15, 1963, when white racists bombed the Church, killing four of her friends.
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Gardner-Webb Students to Participate in Discussions of Media and Politics
Office of University Communications
Just days before South Carolina’s GOP presidential primary, a Gardner-Webb government class will travel to Winthrop University to attend a panel discussion on media coverage of the presidential campaign, led by three of the nation’s leading political news analysts. On Jan. 19, NBC’s Chuck Todd, CNN’s Steve Brusk, and Steve Brook of Columbia’s The State newspaper will share their unique insight on “The Evolving Media Coverage of the Presidential Campaign” in an hour-long roundtable discussion beginning at 11 a.m. in the Richardson Ballroom of Winthrop’s DiGiorgio Campus Center. The event is free and open to the public.
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Key Voice for Religious Liberty in Washington to Speak at Gardner-Webb University
Office of University Communications
A leading voice on issues of national religious liberty in Washington, D.C., will give a distinguished lecture titled “Religion, the Presidency, the Election” at Gardner-Webb University on Monday, Jan. 30 at 7:00 p.m. in Blanton Auditorium, located inside Hamrick Hall. The event is sponsored by GWU’s Life of the Scholar (LOTS) program. K. Hollyn Hollman is the general counsel for the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC) in Washington.
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