Tennessee Wesleyan College - Nocatula Yearbook (Athens, TN)

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lATtK kK , AMt|) ail ZKI (iAKIIIN I s iiAu. wmm mnaimi jai ' an Di:i)ILATKI) . r THK This plaque, presented to Tennessee Wesleyan College by Chinzei Gakuin, Nagasaki, Japan, hangs outside the Methodist Historical Collection Room in the Merner-Pfeiffer Library of Tennessee Wes- leyan College. 1 Tennessee Wesleyan College has a unique relationship with a Methodist school in Japan. In 1879 Mrs. Nelson E. Cob- leigh, the wife of a former president of this institution, gave a sum of money to C. S. Long, a young man with a vision of founding a Christian school in Japan. Mrs. Cobleigh ' s money was the first donation which went into the building fund that ultimately produced a Methodist school in Nagasaki, Japan. In honor of Mrs. Cobleigh, it was named Cobleigh Seminary. Through the years the school prospered. It was renained Chinzei Gakuin. but it maintained its original loyalty to the ideals of the Methodist Church. As the unhappy war years came to a close in 1945, the school was completely destroyed by the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki. Now restored with the help of American churches, it has over 1,000 students ranging from kindergarten to college age. Photographs below and on the opposite page show some aspects of life at Chinzei Gakuin. Officials of the school include (opposite page, lower right) President A-Iori- takea Samejima; Mr. Kaoru Akinaga, Dean of the Senior School; Mrs. Kono, Dean of the Junior School. On February 25, 1962, a special memorial service honoring Mrs. Cobleigh was held at Trinity Methodist Church on the Tennessee Wesleyan College campus. The Rev. Mr. Walter Krider, Japan Field Correspondent for the Board of Missions of the Methodist Church, was the guest representing Chinzei Gakuin. He brought with him from Japan a bronze plaque (see above) which the Japanese school wished Tennessee Wesleyan College to have. i

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Tennessee Wesleyan College alumni can be found in virtually every part of the world. Italy, Cuba, and most of the Middle East and South American countries are represented in the Alumni Association membership. Foreign nationals presently in resi- dence at Tennessee Wesleyan Col- lege are Byoung So Minn (upper left ) , a senior from Seoul, Korea ; Jean Liu (left), a freshman from Singapore; Te-Tsuen K ' ung (left), a freshman from Hong Kong; Byung Ai Lee (lower left), a senior from Seoul, Korea; and Chris Chew Ong Wong (lower left comer), a sopho- more from Sarawak, Borneo.