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.

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Ita 1 Born ;it Acvvorth. Chi., Sept. IS, 1892 ; Preparatory school work at Acworth Hi” 11 School, graduating in 11107 ; post-graduate lints ; College Training: Tran- svlvania University for live years, graduating with honors in 1913 ; Elected Rhodes Scholar from Ken- tucky, llil-l, and student at Oxford University for three years, finishing in 1917 the couse in theology: Since leaving College: Pastor of East Point, CJa., Christian Church, and of two churches in North Carolina : Teacher at Southeastern Christian Col- lege 1917-1918; Director Atlanta Public School 1918-1919; Teacher, Dean, and acting President A. C. C. College 1919-1921. Dean Howard Stevens Hi I ley came to our college at an opportune time, just when the brotherhood was beginning to appreciate the value of A. C. C.. and the great held designated her. Dean Mil lev o c? is a young man of pleasing personality, farsighted, open-minded and he has Professor oj Education A. B., Drake University, 1894; A. M., Bethany College, 1914; Graduate Student Drake I niversity 1894-1895; Graduate Stu- dent I niversity of Chicago, 1900; Graduate Student Chicago Theological Seminary, 1901; Graduate Student I niversity of Chicago, 1901- 1902; Graduate Columbia t niversity Summer School. 1914-1919; Chautauqua. N. 5.. Sum- mer School. 1918; Professor of Education in the Slate pproVed Summer School at Atlan- tic Christian College. 1920; Present position since 1918. Professor Grim is very much interest- ed in the subject of Education—both as a teacher and as a scholar. He has had strong convictions, and a dee]) and abiding faith in Cod and his feilowman. O He is a man of fine executive ability and is wanted in the world of big business. However, he has dedicated his talents and life's service to the Kingdom of God, and has definitely committed him- self to the task of enlarging and equip- ping A. C. C. extensive training in this line of work.