Pikeville College - Highlander Yearbook (Pikeville, KY)

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A Presidential Inauguration Registering delegates and lining the pro- cessional were the culmination of months of work and preparation for the inaugura- tion of Dr. Thomas H. Johns, tenth Presi- dent of Pikeville College. 14 An assembly of over 200 delegates from other colleges, universities and learned societies were present in addition to college faculty members, guests, members of the student body and attending newsmen for the inauguration which signaled the beginning of a new era for Pikeville College.

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Honoring Pikeville College ' s tenth president, Dr. Thomas H. Johns, was an art exhibit which featured the talent of the college ' s art depart- ment. Under the direction of art instructor Tom Butcher displays were set up to give the public some idea of the abilities of the. students, and also to recognize the beginning of new things for Pikeville. It was truly a world within a world as Founders ' Day saw an old Pikeville tradition of open-house modernized through the eyes of the Hippie. The Hippie presented her corridor as a world of constant doubt, while only a few stairs away, the Creole danced to the tune of the Mardi Gras and the Parisian strolled through the Champs- Elysees. College open-house has been a welcomed event at Pikeville because it not only gives the women residents a chance to compete for prizes in theme decorations, but also open-house at any college means clean house. 13

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For the Memory of the past serves the present only if it lifts the present above the record of the past . . . Tomorrow is ours if we think not of survival but of sacrifice, think not of exis- tence but encounter, and if we think not of self but service. These words are only a part of the challenge offered by Dr. Thomas H. Johns following his installment by Norman A. Chrisman, Chairman of the Board of Trustees.