Bryan College - Commoner Yearbook (Dayton, TN)

Page 22 text:

' Eighty per cent, of the boys and girls in Sunday School are never evangelized — Rev. J. Irvin Overholtzer

Page 21 text:

—SENIOR CLASS— imv Edgerton H. Reid, A.B. Cincinnati, Ohio President, Freshman Class; President, Ministerial Asso- ciation, ' 37; Student Council, ' 34; Literary Society, ' 34; Orchestra, ' 34; Geo. E. Guille Ministerial Asso- ciation, ' 34, ' 35, ' 36, ' 37; Miscellaneous State Club, ' 35; Photographic Editor and Advertising Manager, Commoner, ' 37. ON LEAVING BRYAN When I think of how my Bryan days are done, A brief four years that vanished like a dream, And that one calling which is like a gleam Says, Onward! though my soul to leave does shun As birds do ere first flying or like one Who stops to rest before he cross a stream — Will Jesus lend me now His guiding beam? I need not ask. For since the Christ has run His bright course in this world, that Light not fails; Who follow Him shall not in darkness walk, But they shall have the shining Light of life. Whose face is that with fear and terror pales? Not, surely, one that with our Lord does talk. Lead on ! I follow Thee to win the strife ! — E. H. Reid. Live to give — Rev. Will Carroll 17

Page 23 text:

: ' A fc : First Academic Building Work on the main building being stopped by the depression, the administration voted to open classes in the vacant Rhea Central High School building. Academic work was launched on September 8, 1930, the opening service being held in the very courtroom in which Bryan won over Darrow. The Great Commoner scored another posthumous victory when the initial Bible class — in the Genesis account of creation — was held in the room where Scopes had taught Darwinian evolution. Members of the first faculty were Dr. George E. Guille, President; Prof. Malcolm Lockhart, Vice-President; Prof. F. W. Spindler, Dean; Prof. D. W. Ryther, Jr.; Prof. A. P. Bjerregaard; Miss Julia Anna Yan- cey, and Prof, and Mrs. C. A. Montoya. The initial enrollment was twenty-three.