Campbell University - Pine Burr Yearbook (Buies Creek, NC)

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- mr. m i ' m .-: r ' 3n iilemoriam Hactarp Caplor iiifaett BORN SEPTEMBER 25, 1S48 DIED MARCH 20, 1928 Builder of Old Tabernacle. Maker of Brick and Builder of Old Administration Building. Member of Executive Committee of Trustees of Campbell College. Member of Local Board of Education. An Unfailing Friend of this Institution. God took care to hide that country till He judged His people ready, Then He chose me for His whisper, and I Found it, and it ' s yours. Hearing the call of a homeless institution, ravaged by the fire of 1900, Z. T. Kivett left his quiet home on the red banks of the Cape Fear to cast his lot with Buie ' s Creek Academy in its hour of supreme need. With hope of little financial reward he directed the burning of the brick and the erection of our Old Administration Building. Through three long years he built, as money was provided, a monument to himself that shall survive in the hearts of thousands that were blessed at its feet. In the years that have followed other thousands have found in th ' s P ' oneer a call to dare and do. To him the untried paths, the secrets of man and God, the promised lands of truth, bore an interest unusual in a man of his years. Though unwavering in his loyalty to Campbell College and all its inter- ests, perhaps his most conspicuous allegiance was to his church, which for years he served as its Senior Deacon. This white-haired patriarch seated regularly at the front — With meek and unaffected race His looks adorned the place. — has been a benediction to many. How beautiful it is for man to die Upon the walls of Zion! to be called Like a watch-worn and weary sentinel To put his armor off, and rest in Heaven. a mm m0

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BOOK I bmiuistration BOOK II Cla£(s;eg BOOK III (l rgani ationsi BOOK IV iHtljleticg

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[ W «ttWM HM(MM i ADMINISTRATION Forty-one years ago on Jan. 5, Buie ' s Creek Academy opened with sixteen students in a small one-room house 48x22 feet, shown above. The founder, still its President, providential- ly, it seems, responded to the appeal of a small group of citizens led by William Pearson to teach a community school for a few months. This human need was evidently God ' s call to found a great institution, as its subsequent history would ■ in- dicate. In this volume of the Pine Burr is portrayed im- perfectly many manifestations of divine leadership and approval. What it shall be can be prophe- sied only from a resume of its miraculous beginning, preserva- tion, and progress. Il lttaa CTfMfflrfl-f?Bil