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

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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

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Don ' t cry, teacher, said Herman Stevens, as the home of Bute ' s Creek Academy, en- larged through sacrifices of its friends, on De- cember 20, 1920, lay smoking in ruins. We boys are going to build you a brick building. On this rock of faith the friends of the institu- tion came to the help of the Principal, and after years of toil, often through mists and shadows, Campbell College, secure in the hearts of North Carolina Baptists, emerged.