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

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 uilie Spine Knot I IHIIilliili'linillilltiiil iiinmimnTiiiiiiiiriiiiiiiiiiiiiiira ■iiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiriiii» i he possesses decidedly; not the least of his charming qualities being his hatred of sham and cant, and that which smacks of the effeminate. His manliness, however, is obviously bal- anced with a modesty, constant and real, to student and faculty. His qualifications embrace that rare and sometimes decisively important virtue of versatility. In the opinion of a leading member of the faculty, he can do more things with a higher average proficiency than any college president she has ever known. That quality, however, which more than any other energized and effected his work, is the spirit of self sacrifice, animating him through- out the nine years to do a successful work against heavy odds, of an institution in its initia- tory stages. In passing, we pleasantly mention, as matters of fact, that the president of the first educational institution of academic rank in North Carolina that continued any considerable time, was Dr. David Caldwell, and the first President of the University of North Carolina was Dr. Joseph Caldwell. These two Caldwells were from collateral branches of the parental tree of our own President Jesse Cobb Caldwell. Thus, in North Carolina, the name descends as a traditional synonym of the highest educational ideals. The great- est Statesman of the Carolinas—John Caldwell Calhoun—was likewise a member of this distinguished family. These paragraphs of appreciation would be incomplete without reference to Mrs. Caldwell, who, in her steadfast devotion to highest domestic and institutional ideals, was a constant vitalizing factor in the college entity. The young men will remember especially, her gracious efficiency while resident in the dormitory, and the young women, her many gentle and gracious counsels. Elizabeth, too, blossoming into womanhood, will not be for- gotten; likewise Mildred, with her fascinating baby ways. Worthy of passing consideration is “Prince,” the college pony, the only “pony” allow- able in the institution. May he spend his remaining days contentedly in college service. President Caldwell, adieu! Regretfully, we see you go; yet you will not be gone, for your spirit will live within us, and we will build upon the foundations you have laid. Now, at the inevitable moment, the Blue and White of A. C. C. yields to the Blue and White of Drake, the Disciples’ mightiest institution. You go from the “Land of the Long Leaf Pine,” toward the setting sun, to the “Land of the Golden Rod,” to its metropolitan city, called in sobriquet, “The City of Certainties.” There, may your dynamic energy find its mightiest outflow in the channels of a cosmopolitan service, and we will cherish that in- destructible idealism of your nine years’ implanting, in the imperishable traditions of Atlantic Christian College. niiiiiiiillliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii....ilium X 9 1 fi in;

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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

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