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

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Below him, ranging away on all sides from the site of that first little academy are library, classroom buildings, halls, gymnasium, and the numerous faculty and student residences of a modern college campus. Where one building stood then — a courageous little venture in rural education, built on faith, in a village of seven families, out of easy reach from anywhere — the winging airman sees now a thriving educational community in itself, centrally placed in a growing state, to which it has speedy access by modern highway links. From this center he sees the school now as including within a prodigiously extended radius of influence an ever broadening hinterland. Where one person first had full responsibility, 200 now perform the complex tasks of the school ' s daily mission. Where once a modest 40 dollars monthly 10

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l) y % %v Mr. Z. T. Kiveii Contractor for Kivett Building 75 Years Ago . . . One view of the history of Campbell the physical eye may see in what the campus has become in three-quarters of a century. In 1887 the wayfarer walked, rode on horseback, or traveled by sled or wagon along a wheel-worn country road to reach the sparsely settled country-crossroads neighborhood and there to find, on its one and a half acre plot, the little frame schoolhouse, brave in the title of Buie ' s Creek Academy. Now the air lane traveler winging across the heart of North Carolina flies over the same spot, midway between Fayetteville and Raleigh, and sees extending from the old school grounds south to the Cape Fear River, an expanse of campus, farm, and forest lands almost 600 acres in extent, all of which supports the grow- ing enterprise that is the school today. 75

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was more than could be promised the headmaster, now over a million dollars a year are budgeted for the manifold needs of the institution; and a school which opened with sixteen students present is preparing now, sevently-five years later, for sixteen hundred. Forging this instrument of faith and progress has been the work of many hands. Thousands, often unknown to the college, have sacrificed for it. Many have devoted their profes- sional lives to bringing it to its present strength and temper. Who can tell about them? Who can say what hundreds of trustees and committeemen have spent for it in time, anxiety, and effort? Who can appraise what ministers of North Carolina churches have done to speed this college on its way? Who can say enough of the men and women of Southern communities who have Continued on page 159