Atlantic Christian College - Pine Knot Yearbook (Wilson, NC)

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Pres. J. C. Caldwell

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I pin? 2C«nt Au Heuotr, ftoaitont (Eatfmiell CENTRAL in the life of our college, for the last nine years, has been the beloved person- ality of President Jesse Cobb Caldwell. Coming from his successful pastorate of the Christian Church at Selma, Alabama, where he had deliberated on the crucial need of greater educational facilities for our people in the Southland, and for a season ministering to the Wilson Christian Church, meanwhile acquiring executive vision for his future work, then assuming our college administration where the beloved President J. J. Harper had so nobly laid it down, he has promoted the interests of Atlantic Christian College with singular efficiency during these memorable years. The material advancement of the institution is marked by its more than doubled dormitory capacity for students, resulting in approximate doubling of its real estate assets. However, of highest importance in the progress he ini- tiated and wrought, is the educational plane to which the college rose, and has been main- tained, receiving co-equal recognition with leading colleges of the State, because of work accomplished and ideals inspired. The relations of Dr. Caldwell to the student body have been markedly happy. Enter- ing with an innate grace into all phases of the college life, religious, academic, aesthetic, social, forensic and athletic, he gave an intimate encouragement to the student’s well rounded individual development. He sent the student from the life of the school into the school of life with all the mental and spiritual equipment practicable for the world’s work. So affable was he that his touch with students in all their needs and resources was notably close, and especially when, during long periods, he resided in one or the other of the dormi- tories. No less distinctly happy was his constant relation to the faculty, in each of whom he engendered and maintained a candid respect toward himself, his policies and his principles. The people of North Carolina will remember Dr. Caldwell largely because of his ser- mons. With his superior pulpit ability, there is combined a forensic and homiletic passion rare indeed in the class of men who primarily must be scholars and administrators in the academic field. Because of his judicious labors in our main State mission fields, and his growing interstate, sectional and national observance and study of our ministry and the problems and resources of our people, the Board of Managers of our North Carolina Chris- tian Missionary Convention has been helped largely by his counsel and initiative. The missionary work of the Disciples of Christ in Charlotte, Wilmington, Greensboro, Rocky Mount, Raleigh and other important centers has been facilitated and evolved in large measure through his preaching and influence. His ministerial passion accounts largely for one third of the active preachers of North Carolina Disciples having been trained or inspired by Atlantic Christian College within its relatively short history. After any considerable association with him, one becomes conscious of an intangible power that gives to his person- ality, in its motor aspects, a contagiousness. This is his moral and spiritual dynamic, the source of his inspirational leadership, recognized in general, but especially in his training of the ministerial students. Being a descendant of the ancient Huguenot Cauldwell Clan, the progenitors of Oliver Cromwell, one might reasonably expect in Dr. Caldwell a virility worthy of the name. This l a l B n 8