Lipscomb University - Backlog Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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Athens Clay Pullias President . istration ini 100 Adm

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ecutive Council ie Pitti canis Spina ATT, iy mca naan si iad ata Members of the Executive Council are (Standing, left to right) Willard Collins, Mack Wayne Craig, Jacky Ray Davis, Edsel F. Holman, James Ward, (Seated) Athens Clay Pullias, and Margaret Hopper. Administration 99

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Me ee ee ee BO en ae Oe LN ee President and Education serves Mrs. Pullias ‘ three functions — President Pullias While marking the opening of the 86th school year of David Lipscomb College, President Athens Clay Pullias expressed what he believed to be the functions of an educational institution. The three functions, he said, are “to collect and preserve knowledge and information — the preservation function, the dissemination of knowledge — the teaching function, and the discovery of new knowledge — the research function.” . | =“ In his 31st year as president of the college Pullias worked to further the aim of Christian education. At the formal opening he encouraged student application to their studies by citing the Old Testament and King Solomon’s statement that “There is nothing new under the sun.” “I understand that to mean that everything to understand was there, but man didn’t know it. So the discovery of new knowledge is our coming to a new understanding of things that are.” The President urged that each one be aware of the importance and responsibility of an education: “Collect knowledge; build your library, even with a very few good books. We should all constantly seek new knowledge, that is, knowledge that may be of use to us. Every individual should be a little educational institution.” President Pullias joined faculty and students outside Alumni Auditorium to listen as WBSN broadcasted the play-by-play of the Bisons in the NAIA Baseball World Series. Administration 101