Oakwood University - Acorn Yearbook (Huntsville, AL)

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We Are Determined - - Memory time is here, and so within these pages of the 1939 edition of the Acorn, the Senior Class, the largest in the history of Oakwood has endeavored to include those records of the past year which we believe will, in years to come, serve as pleasant memories of our days at Oalcwood Jr. College. ln spite of our size and difference in sex, we are united in one common baclcground-a cause, which we fully realize will be the greatest incentive to our character and lcnowledge. We are going forth in the finishing of God's worlc. All we want is a fair chance, and just in proportion as this is granted will this recognition be made. We aslc no man for his sympathy. We simply asle of the majority because we are in a minority, an opportunity to develop the faculties which the Creator has given us. Our years of life have built around us a pattern. Our climb through grammar school and secondary school, to the stepping stone of college, has woven into our life's pattern many designs for living. With these designs, we are capable of meeting any emergency. We cannot, however expect to fulfill our chosen destiny without the driving force of clear, clean, and christian thinlcing. We have studied and worlced. We have experienced and benefitted. And now WE ARE DETERMINED to stand by the cause for which we have been trained. The world may woo us, they may court us and try to get us to worship at their shrine, but we are Christian Youth by instinct, and we will be so long as God will allow our proper senses to hold sway over us.-- - Editor

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Our President There is only one sorrow we have in pulling up stalces now. That is the sorrow of separating from friends that are dear. Shalce- speare must have had a similiar experience that caused. him to write, Parting is such sweet sor- row. But we are not going to pine and sigh because we can not have eternal abode on this campus. Why should we, when day after day as we sat at their feet our teachers have constantly reminded us that they were preparing us for service in the world? And if we fail them their unselfish efforts will all have been in vain. So, we shall go and, when in memory we thinlc of our school days, it will be with a pleasant thought and a prayer of gratefulness for the influence each has lent to mold our lives in the proper way. There is President Moran: Who could ever come to lcnow him without an appreciation for worlc, and his understanding approach toward the problems of students. And Elder Edwards, the most unselfish Christian gentle- man one ever lcnew, always ready to help a fellow in need. Few I 1 Faculty Memoirs - - Dear Miss Baugh: She used to say so softly, l wish I could'say something to help you understand the love of Jesus. She has helped us all in so many ways. He weighs his words but his words weigh much-that's Professor Dent. No one ever made his acquaintance without being impressed with the refinement and court- eousness of him. And Mr. Frazier: Remember how he good-naturedly would aslc when we approached his office Well, what can l do for you today? We can't forget how he has shown interest in our financial problems. The men of Henderson Hall have found in Dean and Mrs. Brantly two excellent friends. Not once has any one lgnoclced at their door and gone away refused. Such a spirit of liberalityl Then there's Miss Gresham, her influence has leaned toward our health. She lcept us supplied with beans, potatoes, cornbread, and pie-all delicately prepared so that we might lceep well and strong we never could forget her. Elder Moseley's sermons have inspired us toward better Christian living. Listen can't you hear him leading out in, Oh My Loving' Brother, When de Worl's on Fiah?', When ever we thinlc of Mr. and Mrs. Street, we shall recall that line, about A smile is worth -you lcnow it. Never have we met either when bad humor was rampant. They always are cheerful. the Faculty Members