Tennessee Wesleyan College - Nocatula Yearbook (Athens, TN)

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UNITED NATIONS ACTIVITIES Preparation for thought and action in the adult world is a part of the program of Tennessee VVesleyan College. The United Nations figures significantly in the world into which these students are stepping. From June 16-23, 1962, R. V. Jennings was a member of the Seventeenth Annual Nationa l Student Leadership Institute on the United Nations. In this capacity he talked with United Nations delegates, secretarial members, and many experts on international affairs. This was in preparation for assuming his duties as Secretary-General of the Third Annual Tennessee Model United Nations, a post to which he had been appointed in January of that year. The Model United Nations is a part of the program of the Methodist Student Movement and is closely affiliated with the Collegiate Council of the United Nations. With Jennings, several Wesleyan students participated in the Tennessee Model United Nations meeting in Nashville, January 11-13, 1963, Students taking part in the activities, as shown above, were Price Foster, Mary Frances Trotter, Jack Edmonds, R. V. Jennings, Phil Gardner, and Lou Ann Harris. Reporting on the success of the Model United Nations, the Secretary-General wrote: For the seventy delegates present, representing twelve colleges in Tennessee, the atmosphere was tense and exciting. A Model U. N. provides the atmosphere of a political convention seasoned with stimulating subject matter and sparked by an interested and alert group of delegates. Those who took part in this program became acquainted with U. N. procedures and protocol by practicing them as representatives of various countries. The value in this program is self-evident. A close study of the United Nations brings about an understanding of — and con- sequently a sympathy for — its work and aspirations. The mechan- ics of diplomacy are learned best by practicing them. The dele- gate ' s responsibility in playing the role of his country, acting and voting on matters with which he may not agree, gives him insight into that situation. All those who participated were deeply impressed by the responsibility which an actual U. N. delegate faces .... The Model U. N. gave each of the delegates a better understanding of the many problems facing the world today. But most important of all, each delegate ' s faith in the U. N. was confirmed — the consensus being that the only alter- native to the U. N. is sheer chaos.

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CRATES REPRESENTATIVE Nesv York 17, N. yUkon 6-2 24 January 10, 1963 Bear Mr. Jennings: . ssage Thank you for « ° ed Nations. ,o the Tennessee Model 11 eive the dei l eir under- the effort .{XovTtteeiom f - ' «ice raised ,hi .h those IrtsU and trial. strength In Its period of ' =r . Nations ados in -PP- °Uidenfe1 the outcome, and to our confiden cessful session. With every good wish or y 3 cordially yo i s, X E. Stevenson Model Uhit» nations Tennessee Model s nfsUe ' -eiley - College

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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