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

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lUtiminisitration puilbing D. RICH MEMORIAL If I |)ut up .-I building :uul you tt-acli lioys ar.i! girls, do you tliink God will kt iiic share in the privilege of edueatiug tliemr said I). Rich of Winston - Saleui to Dr. ,1. A. Caniphtll when Mr. Kieh visited here in 1924. During that over-night isit in the C ' ani|iliell home Mr. Rich liad a vision of what this sehool eould beeome because I hail a talk with Jesus, and He said. ' Buie ' s Creek Must Live ' . His first gift, . 50.000. built the Carrie Rieh Memorial Library in 192.5 honoring his first wife. At hi.s death, .$1( 0.000 wa.s available to put up the administration building that bears his name. This structure made possible the change from academy to junior college in 1926. Later, an additional bequest of over $151,000 enabled the college to gain admission in the Southern Association of Col- leges and Secondary Scliools in 1939. Truly his works live on after him.

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trte ibett liuilbing Now I am called Kivitt Building but through the years from 1!)03 to 192(5 I was known as the Academy Building. I ' m older than any other building on the campus; so I could tell you many an interesting tale of glorious struggle if y-ou had time to tarry. My erection was one of the greatest, most sacrificial ventures ever imdertaken here. To raise $30,000 then was a stupendous task. Students and friends subscribed nickels and dimes to buy brick ; students without inontv cut cord wood to burn brick made on these grounds, and supplied briek to masons on the job. I am a memorial to the genius of Z. T. Kivett, who burned the brick and supervised my con- struction, after the disastrous fire of December, 1900, that razed to the ground that red-haired pro- fessor ' s one and only schoolhouse. The oldest and the youngest of Mr. Kivett ' s daugliters are still affiliated with schools here: the seventh-grade teacher in the jjublic school is Mrs. I,. Fl. Chenault (Virginia), who cooked for her father and brothers while tliey burned brick; and Mrs. Jack Rag- land (Mary), assistant to the college librarian. After the school grew from an academy to a junior college. I housed the local public school from 192(i to 1918, when the jiublic school moved into its new home and I w;is reconditioned last summer for college classes, at a cost of .$2.5,000. To all comers and goers. I am a monument to the faith of the many who l)elieved in the school ' s motto, ' To the stars through difficulties ' .