Birmingham Southern College - Southern Accent Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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DEDICATION Scholar — Gentleman — Friend ... in these three words are contained a brief but accurate description of Dr. Henry Randall. As a scholar, receiving his Ph. D. in 1963 at the University of North Carolina, Dr. Randall compe- tently possesses the expected requirements for a college professor. But beyond his academic study, diversified reading and extensive travel make a class under Dr. Randall a genuinely educational ex- perience. It is not in expecting, but in receiving a high quality of work from his students that Dr. Randall, the scholar, excels. As a gentleman, Dr. Randall the person emerges. His third-floor Munger office is open to students for conversation as well as consultation, while frequent meetings with students around cam- pus serve to lessen his professional distance but not his personal dignity. As a friend, he frequently participates in the more slapstick student affairs ... a pie eating con- test, barking a slave auction, winning the May Day legs contest ... all initiated with the quiet good humor that also characterizes his lectures. In ad- dition to the novelty of the unusual, however, his interest extends solidly in other, more permanent directions: SGA, Student Congress, Publications Board ... to name on ly a few. Through individual contact, through interest and helpful suggestion, his value is felt subtly throughout the student body. Scholar, gentleman, friend ... Dr. Henry Randall.

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Breaking through the meaningless, you learn here something a little more than merely bettering your existence: the essentiality of individual absorption in a world of group motivational activites. When there is realization of this collegiate world as an all-too-brief chance for self-discovery, there is a definition of college or more specifically Birmingham-Southern . Admittedly, this is an idealized viewpoint, but one purpose of a college is based on the highly idealized principle of man ' s innate drive for self-fulfillment. Idealized or not, the inner search was never unmarked by long stretches of loneliness, despair, or doubt; no maturity was ever fully attained without the sting of momentary defeat or the manna of equally momentary success. The campus, the carrel, the classroom are minute battlegrounds for the emergent individual and the emergent college. 13

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Dr. Henry Randall Scholar— Gentleman— Friend 15