Oakwood University - Acorn Yearbook (Huntsville, AL)

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1939 L IDA JEAN EA IGI-IT Jean Collegiat neat and sweet, from the crown of e ead, to the sole of her feet. ' Ac Start Sem ar Pianist BX, i 5 .f s xy,-1 WALTEQQMEKRILL smizits sam KJ f9Qa?Lemic A merry heart doeth good like a - medicinef' - NA Cappella Choir Male Chorus Asst. Young People's Lea r Vice-President Seminar f 'X l X Awc HRW AN TORRANCE Ai Pr ultsing by nd. Q Ca ella ir Aco ni Sta ' hearte 'irl who is everyone's CEQA ir 'A YN, x li VIOLA ERNESTINE WASHINGTON Vi Normal l-ler laugh is just like music, it lingers in the heart, And when it's melody is heard, the ills of life depart. Y. P. M. V. Society Young Ladies Literary Society Acorn Stall Russm THADDEus with Thea Ministerial Nrrrm l-le's never..cont'e-ngth doing anything but the Hbest however unimportant the occasion. .m'x'xT E ROY 0 NF RD Big Stan of good. and Lea er of Seminar ch l X, . I, Ministe li! ul-le 'I rongfbut always Fights on the ' -x lv cl - L , ls. CT if X ,I ROSETTA ISABELLE TOLSON Rosy Pre-Nursing Her best possessions are her thoughts and her friends. S. S. Teacher Y. P. M. V. Society Young Ladies Literary Society CLARA ETTA TURNER Clara', Collegiate She believes with Edison that Genious is 'I per cent inspiration, and 99 per cent perspiration. Y. P. M. V. Society Young Ladies Literary Society CORINNE MABLE WILLIAMS Corinne Pre-Nursing She always stays in pigeon-hole of her right place. S. S. Secretary A Cappella Choir Prayer Band Leader S. S. Teacher Vice-president Seminar Acorn Staff S. S. Sentinel

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i , l ,-rffff' .W f 'VV -f D Q 5 A A ELLE MCOUERRY Anne f f-N A . 'L C Sehe :dSdgg .of av Y. P.'MfV.,.Society J f Young Women's Ligerary ociety If ' A L ., RJ rf! f 'Lg is EDGAR T MA lvl i5Sn9AIadt Academic HeQg.eliev s yf th isfgreater than age. Aeon St .' UV MalgfChlop7is 'A 4' EJLORA SCOTT MOTEN Flo j -N ' SeheI5mTlEEl, and the dreary rgcfltoolc on i e. Asst. M. V, Leader g Prayer Band Leader J ' 1-I ,Ulf if LEVI NXXELDON REDIC, JR. Redic Academic A thing to worry about, he doesn't have. Y. P. M. V. Society Excelsior Society Acad ic T H hzalclhesnup in heart, ac s in .-1 ig t. EQ,ei M.SV. Socie fy, , fi , xc sior ociejy ' ' . s SXT T' 5 ERNEST EUGENE ROGERS a h l4 av O j M .1 f l llOl'S wfflfffvf QL .uf . , - VIVIAN MCRAE Vee Academic She gives cheerfully and humbly. S. S. Pianist A Cappella Choir Lyric Club Girls Quartet '38-'39 Church Choir f DOROTHY 'dl' RE MITCHELL Dotty J emic She b ' es lo f ' built from simple thin ' 0 Y. P. v f f v Young Women .mb ociety CORNELL S. POWELL Doc. Carver' Collegiate He hears all, and says little. Home Department Superintendent Y. P. M. V. Society EXC l Q L E 2 VIRGINIA YVONNE ROBERTS Ginger Normal A willing girl, who lilces to play, A right Fine She is, l'd say. S. S. Teacher Y. P. M. V. Secretary ff- 1- WW? THELMA RUSSELL Thel Pre-Nursing She malces others happy with her sunny disposition. Y. P. M. V. Society Asst. Missionary Secretary S. S. Teacher

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President's Address Excerpts from the Address of Norman Simons At a long, long last we lift our feet out of plains of romance and peace into the mountains of more serious realities. At last we contemplate the actual taslt of Being an example to the believers. The stern challenge of the world, the even more serious challenge of our Master has been heard here. We have counted the cost, we have weighed the tasl4, today,,clear mindly, cheerfully, even eagerly we accept the challenge and throw our weight into the time long fray for right and for God. We are aminated by the same unconquerable, indomin- able spirit that has actuated youth in every age and time, to arouse to the call of special events and situations, leaving behind impressions on time and the heart of man that are even more ineffacable than the time honored granite. for the more lasting pieces have enured for only a few thousand years at most, while Christian young men ahd women have had their names and figures carved in bas-relief and placed among the art treasures of God. Some one has said, The world's interests are under God, in the hands fff the youngf, Dictators and rulers recognize the importance of youth for military conquests'- for they form the flower of their battalions of death. Lilcewise God has placed much importance on us as youth for spiritual confiuest. Today the ranlts of aged color bearers issthinning, death and iniquity talce their toll leaving gaps to be filled with the new generation, today the new genera- tion is filling those gaps and tomorrow this new corps armed with the mighty sword of God shall complete the taslc begun some five thousand years ago. It is the worldys supreme hour'it is the supreme hour for youth. Youth that triumphed in the past will not falter now. Courageous youth has dared the impossible, lt has altered nations, held the banner of God in the high places of the earth, faced persecution and death, spanned continents, and surmounted the worlds crests. Youth have conquered physically, youth have con- quered socially, youth have conquered politically. lt has stood at both poles, conquered innumerable diseases, charted unltnown seas, mastered pathless wilds, in times of stress and emergency it has born the brunt. Today the people of the seven seas call, for that call in this day we muster unprecedented fearlessness and faith and say Ul3y the grace of God,fl.et the world come on. Class Cration Excerpts from Speech delivered by Clifford Clemmons. SPIRIT OF DEVOTION And David longed, and said, Ch that one would give me to drinlc of the water, of the well of Bethlehem which is by the gatel And three mighty men bralte forth through the host of the Philistines and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and brought it to David, nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the Lord. And he said, 'Be it far from me 0 Lord, that l should do this, is not this the blood of men who went in jeopardy for their lives? Therefore he would not drinlc it. Judged by material standards, this is a tale of folly from beginning to end. It seemed foolish for David to utter this wish, it was doubly foolish for his captains to rislc their lives to compass it, it was trebly foolish for him to waste the gift which had been won at so great a price. l do not mean that all who read this story would criti- cize it the same way, but when we are dealing, not with exceptional matter of ancient history, but with this every day world of the twentieth century and begin to place values on little deeds of heroism, instead of the great ones, we are prone to use material standards and call them common sense. We are apt to judge worlc by its definite and measurable results and to malee these results the motive for service, and the criterion for success and to condemn as misplaced sentiment, anything which sacri- fices or risl4 a tangible manifestation of loyalty or devo- tion. All the achievements of modern science and de- mocracy will be worth little, if in the long run, they teach people to regard lcnowledge for the salce of the return which it brings, and measures success in life by the concrete resultwith which men can credit themselves. Now may we say as did paul, l am persuaded that neither life nor death nor angels or principalities nor things present, nor things to come nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate me from the love of God which is in Christlesusf' May it be our privilege to preach this gospel of self-sacrificing action and share in revealing the meaning of this gospel to the generations which are to come. Thus living out in our lives the Spirit of -lrue Devotion.