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

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To stand together at this decisive turn in the story we have traced is to ask, What do these brief days of study and friendship mean to a beckoning future? Surely as individuals inseparably bound to the past and future of Campbell College we would invest ourselves in the crucial present. Indeed we are bridge builders of a span, sturdy or weak, linking past and present. And Beyond Look about you again. What do you see through the eyes of appreciative good will? Changes, you may say, and you are right. At a mid-year faculty meeting, our president noted, Never in the life of this school have there been so many fundamental changes as have taken place in recent months. Appearing on every hand, these changes suggest the nature of the world we seek to serve through this institution. Our period in history is shaping us even as we seek to reshape it. Look about you. As we see new dormitories rising from the ground, we have witness in mortar and brick to the spiraling demand for the highly trained mind. Not the few in our society, but the many will need the specialized awareness and skill vital to techno logical society. Liberal education is no longer a luxury. It is essential armament in the ideological struggle which will determine, in our lifetime, the freedom or enslavement of the human mind and spirit. These living quarters will be monuments of hope in the preparation of others who, like you, must learn to think and love and dream in a world groaning and travailing to be born. Look about you. A three-story science building should excite the imagination to see beyond its imposing facade and gleaming laboratories to the exploration of the infinitely expanding horizon of our world. Our school motto is literally relevant — Ad astra — to the stars. In our laboratories we have the means for reaching to the stars. But this will be done only per aspera — through difficulty — the agony of disciplining the mind and inspiring the heart with aspiration and courage. So it will be, whether man pays the price of his dreams in searching out the vast reaches of the galaxies, tracing the intricacies of the cell, or finding the possibilities of cybernetics, electronics, chemo- therapy. These but hint of countless new frontiers.

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Although not a minister, Dr. Leslie is eminently a church man. For him religion and education are twin servants of the same life-purpose — to seek and to share the tmth. His is no blind belief. Faith with him is information and enlightenment; and it is the living faith of a man who spends his life in Christian work. In 59 years as a church member in Buie ' s Creek he has known every responsibility of lay leadership in a local Baptist church, and he has con- stantly shared in the co-operative ventures of North Carolina Baptists. In nothing else, however, is his faith more clearly evident than in his work for Campbell College. It has ap- peared in counsel given college young people in countless interviews, in constant pleas from the chapel rostrum for open-mindedness and greatness of heart in service of true religion, in quiet help- fulness to troubled faculty members, and in persistent efforts to open doors to the better life for the surrounding community. This faith is transparently Continued on page IM Dr. and A rs, L. H. Cam,iheU off for a week of their ChrUtmas vacation in Hawaii. The trip was financed by the staff, faculty members, and the Trustees of the College as a Christmas present to our president and his wife 16 . . . when striped suits and watch chains were in vogue Professor Leslie- dean of the Colle, m I Tbb

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Look about you. The heightened professional qualifications of Camp- bell ' s increasing faculty suggest that the mind of today ' s teacher must be sharpened to a point of maximum keenness. For the teacher is a duelist whose task is the parry and thrust of sharply pointed ideas. To teach the student the peril of the ineffective parrying of false ideas, the victory to be won in the true thrust of a sharply defined insight, and the absolute danger of a dull mind as his weapon in this battle — these are stern, but exciting responsibilities of the master teacher in a period of history when man ' s main weapons are ideas. Look about you. Perhaps the most significant change during the days now spent, a change which portends well for the future, is a perceptible though not dramatic growth in school spirit and the maturity of our student body. Where you have grown up in attitudes and actions, your school has grown also. An increase in public confidence and respect vital to an institution ' s development is rooted in this fertile soil. A heightened sense in student and teachers of belonging to a fellowship of learning, surrounded by reminders of a rich heritage and opportunities for a proud future — this is the great unfolding yet to come. And this development is ours to realize; for only as we share personally in the dream of which we write does that dream come true. 18