Piedmont College - Yonahian Yearbook (Demorest, GA)

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DEDICATION The 1961 Yonahian is dedicated with pleasure and sincere gratitude to Miss Lilhan McKee. Seldom are students as fortunate to count among their faculty a woman whose energy and en thusiasm are so often directed into the encouragement of student activities. With wide-ranging interests and an open exploring mind, she has provoked from those who know her intellectual curiosity and social participation. We tender this dedication as small recognition of this limit- less energy for the intellectual and social education of Piedmont students.

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PRESIDENT ' S MESSAGE On Saturday evening, December 3, our bas- ketball team thrilled all of us by winning a fast and beautifully played game with a typic- ally tall team from Western Carolina. The vic- tory was especially sweet for it was the first time in ten years that one of our quintets de- feated these neighboring giants who always have a team which averages 6 ' 4 and more. Piedmont College has a tradition of winning against big odds. Many of our students throughout our sixty-four years have known the joy of triumph over economic handicaps as they work their way in large part on their own through college. Their practical experi- ences of blending a genuine desire for an edu- cation with the determination of persistent ef- fort strengthen and develop habits of purpose- fulness which carry over into the years of vocational responsibility after college. Our graduates make good in business, educa- tion, politics, homemaking, religious attitudes, labor and management relations, and profes- sional activities. Most of our graduates know the inner peace and power which come from doing significant and constructive jobs in their communities. A growing circle of friends have expressed their confidence in the program and forward looking policies of the college by providing tangible tools of strength and equipment, such as endowment funds, current scholarship and work-aid gifts, new houses for the faculty, King Science Hall, and a modern dormitory for ninety-six men and two faculty families — Wallace Hall. Each year brings a few more of our long range plans into the victory column of reality and developments achieved. Con- stant cooperation on the part of all who be- lieve in the ideals of quality Christian educa- tion for sincere and industrious young people shall continue to triumph over whatever ob- stacles the days ahead may bring. Our confidence in the future is not rooted in ourselves alone, even though we acknowledge the essential importance and driving power of one ' s own desire and personally accepted goals. Our faith is in the living God who has grace and power enough to help us reach in due time every objective which is noble and right for us. In the fellowship of all who share our faith we shall endeavor to be faithful to the true light, which lighteth every man that Cometh into the world. DR. JAMES E. WALTER II