Lipscomb University - Backlog Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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WILLARD COLLINS, Vice-President Collins Serves As Untiring Mediator And Advisor Eighteen years of service to thousands of students have endeared Willard Collins in the hearts of all who pass through the halls of this college. With a voice and appearance that command attention and respect, Lipscomb’s Vice-President has served as the untiring mediator between students and administration with a calm diplomacy that is rare. Faculty and students consider him a wise advisor. Acclaimed nationally as a dynamic gospel preacher, Collins has held area-wide evangelistic campaigns here and abroad. Between meetings he finds abundant ac- 48 tivity in supervising all campus athletics and extra- curricular activities, guiding student welfare and be- havior, keeping check on dormitory life, and planning and presiding daily in chapel. From under this awesome burden, Willard Collins emerges with a certain resiliency and sense of humor which reports confidently that the situation is well un- der control. Year after year he serves to make school policy run smoothly, transforming the somewhat cha- otic influx of fourteen hundred undergraduates into a happy, healthy, cooperative working unit.

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.— D.L.C. BOARD: M. N. Young, John High, H. R. Leathers, Claude Bennett, A. M. Burton, Lee Powell, J. E. Acuff, J. R. Byers, I. C. Finley, William Dalton Board ‘Tempers Vision With Experience And Wisdom “T have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths” ... profound words of Prov- erbs characterize the hopes and beliefs of the nine men who compose the Board of Directors of David Lips- comb College. Prospered by God, they give liberally of their valu- able time and material possessions to that in which they believe. With over a century of Christian living among them, guided by Scriptural wisdom, these men zealously guard that for which Lipscomb was founded. Pee eG tsa tat de dk ee ; Rae ee a ky Realizing that the universe of today requires a unique development of the mind in the expanding realm of human knowledge and values, but realizing that our world needs men and women perceiving God as re- vealed through the Scriptures, they devote their lives to Christian education. Wisdom and insight into the commercial realm, and sincere trust in God determine their progressive plans for Lipscomb’s future of training leaders for to- day’s world and lives for Christ.

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MACK WAYNE CRAIG, Dean Insight And Service Renders Craig Invaluable Vigor and versatility are the cardinal points of Lipscomb’s youthful academic dean, Mack Wayne Craig. In eighteen years of service to Christian edu- cation at Lipscomb, he has served as instructor in the high school, principal of the high school, and for the last eight years, dean of the college. Not only is he invaluable to the college academic life, but to its social and spiritual life as well. His conducting of spontaneous devotional services on Tues- day nights have become a Lipscomb tradition, giving inspiration to all attending. A cosmopolitan in the truest sense, Dean Craig’s extra-curricular interests lay in the field of history— ancient, modern, and Nashvillian. His guided tours to historic points of interest in the Old South have given many a deeper appreciation of our antebellum heritage. Whether at home with his three children, in medi- tation or counsel in his vintaged office, or behind the lectern giving keen insight into the problems of our times in man’s relationship to man and the ultimate relationship, that with his Creator. Dean Craig lives a powerful sermon before the ever-existing pulpit of life. 49