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

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Looking toward the front campus from the president ' s homt A scene remembered by thousands of churchgoers.

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DEDICATION Where else could one turn for Campbell ' s man of the hour than to this youthful executive of national reputation in the textile industry, who, as president of our Board of Trustees, now is leading in this institution ' s greatest expansion movement. As Vice-President and Director of J. P. Stevens Company. Inc.. and General Manager of the Carter Fabrics Group of that leading textile corporation, he is responsible for the manufacturing opera- tion of a network of nine of Stevens textile plants located in the states of Virginia, North and South Carolina. Though by training an efficiency expert, at heart he is a reformer and humanitarian who has led in progressive methods to improve employee and management relations in the textile business; in providing modern industrial plants; home ownership for employees; and a fair deal for both the wage earner and the consumer. Because of his dynamic leadership and friendship in the onward progress of this institution in this day of its greatest opportunity, the Pine Burr staff proudlv dedicates the 1951 edition to Harry Clifton Carter.

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THE KIVETT BUILDING As long as there ' s a Campbell College, the name of Z. T. Kivett will be revered as one of its noblest benefactors. After the schoolhouse was destroyed by fire December 20, 1900, J. A. Campbell, students, and friends began to make plans for another building. The corner stone was laid May 23, 1901, and the job was completed November 2, 1903. The erection of this new building, estimated to cost over $30,000, was one of the most sacri- ficial ventures ever undertaken here. Some students and friends subscribed nickels and dimes to buy bricks; others without money cut wood to burn bricks here on the campus and supplied bricks to masons on the job. The genius of the whole enterprise was Z. T. Kivett, who lived in an improvised shack nearby and burned the brick and supervised the entire construction. After the Academy became a junior college in 1926, Kivett Building was used by the local elementary school until 1948, when it was completely renovated and converted into a science hall. The oldest building on the campus, Kivett towers sturdily above the others as a benignant lather looking proudly at his offspring growing into maturity and usefulness.