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

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PROGRESS AT A. C. C. q i 1 m Since our lives are measured in deeds not words, it will be fair to recount some of the achievement of the last few months that we hope will make for progress in the history of our Alma Mater. We ought to note first the enlarging place our school has recently been made to occupy in the minds of the people of the Carolinas. The Carolina Enlargement Campaign stressing as it did financial goals and aims also rendered the college a great service in the publicity it received. As token of this awakened interest in many places, letters come almost daily from prospective students whose interest in many cases we are sure was evoked by the campaign. What great progress can Atlantic Christian College have made than that boys and girls of the right type should be attached to us? In manv places children yet in the grades are looking toward us as a training place and parents are giving promise that they will be here. There were two other forward steps taken in the summer that deserve men- tion—the summer school and the repairs. The six weeks’ summer school was un- dertaken at the solicittation of the State Department of Public Instructor and was given its full approval. It was not a large school but it was a good one and it really had the A. C. C. spirit. The sttudents worked hard some of those sweeltering hot July and August days, yet they enjoyed their stay they said and many came to the office with expressions of goodwill for our college. Their goodwill was not taken out in talk either for they sent us some good students. After the summer school was over the improvements which had been planned to be made in three months was put on and rushed through in three weeks. We did not get all we deserved or needed but some things are better as a result of the sev- eral thousand dollars we expended. But the suummer, important, busy, and rushed as it was could be only a side isue to the big thing that came early in September. And by the way the happenings of the day were themselves a proof of progress. The great inrush of new students and the return of so large a proportion of those who had been here before marked the birth of a new7 spirit of loyalty and cooperation, which is both progress and as- surance of further progress. It reduces us to mere figures should we attempt to give numbers of students. Our increase in attendance was almost one-third but that cannot represent all the progress we've made. The whole of it can be represented only in that indefinenable thing that we call college spirit of morale or enthusiasm. That subtle feeling that you are working with a something that is something that counts. That progress has become apparent in class work, athletics and most student activities. Splendid ex- amples of this spirit can be found in some of the departments and their public per- formances and exhibits. True it hasn't all been progresive, we’ve suffered our re- verses and retrograding movements, but the main tendency has been forward and upward. Th is is not to recount all the things that are forward looking. It is enough however to bring us to this thought that progress must continue or a slump is in- evitable. Shall we not continue our advance into next year with a better college than we ever dreamed of in our wildest fancy? H. S. Hilley.