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

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Dr. Leslie Hartwell Campbell PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE This is a reproduction oj the official College portrait commissioned by the Trustees ol Campbell College and executed by William Fields of Favetteville, N. C.

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thitsitian Accreditation as a senior institution of higher education marks recog- nition of Dr. Leslie H. Campbell ' s achievement and of Campbell College ' s potential for a broadening future since its acceptance into the community of the College ' s educational peers. Events, however, do not happen. They are made to happen. At the heart of historically significant events are persons committed to their shaping. Campbell College, like all institutions of note, exists and in- fluences persons and society creatively because of its rich endowment with persons whose lengthened shadow it is. This annual ' s dedication to President Leslie H. Campbell reminds us of this fact. No individual better symbolizes than he the investment of a life ' s fullest energies and best talents for the realization of the beckon- ing goals Campbell College represents. No lengthy cataloguing of the numerous gifts of mind, heart and strength thus invested is necessary for those who know him best. Brief allusion to his Scotch heritage and to the name and character he bears with dignity will best serve our tribute. As he passes the mantle of leadership and vision to another upon entering a deserved and enriching ' retirement, we salute him with these words first offered of his Scotch ancestor, the Fourth Duke of Argyll: A sound clear-headed soldier, a commander thoughtful for the needs of his men and a shrewd, conscientious, and kindly man.

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The Tartan Whether or not clothes make the man, for the true Scot they do identify him. Of the distinctive garb worn by the Highlander no part indicates identity like the braecan, derived from the Gaelic breac, meaning check- ered. The ordinary Campbell tartan is green, black, and blue arranged in the same pattern as the Tartans of the Black Watch and Argyll and Suther- land regiments. This has been laid down by a succession of chiefs, and they and most of the Campbell families of Argyllshire have worn such a tartan for many years, though not necessarily all in the same shades of color. This emblem of nationality causes the heart of the exiled Scottish clans- man to warm to the tartan and thus be renewed in his continuity with the clan. As one Scot writer has it, The sight of tlie tartan reminds us of the days when the kilt and the tartan w ere our youthful dress, and of happy days spent on the hills or by the loch-side in our loved Highland scenes which can be eclipsed by no other land on earth. All of Scottish nationality will agree that when our ' heart does not warm to the tartan, it will be as cold as death can make it. ' 8