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

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Looking Back As Moses stood on Mount Pisgah viewing the Land of Promise to which God had led his people through many trials, what memories must have swept across the mind ' s eye! These memories must have assuaged any sense of sadness that he was not to cross over to that land ' s final conquest. The backward look of reflection gave meaning to the moment as he looked across Jordan to the land awaiting final conquest. Past victories gave strong hope for future triumph. This was not the moment of his end, but a summing up of life ' s investment towards its past, present, and future return. So it must be with President Campbell as he draws from the past to find great satisfaction in the present and strong hope for the future of Campbell College — the marrow and blood of his life. As he stands at this pinnacle there stretches before him an educational landscape of achieve- ment and promise. As the college motto reminds us, this attainment has not come without valiant struggle — Ad astra per aspera — To the stars through difficulty. Across the mind ' s eye of this tireless leader must move the memory of . . . Graduation from Wake Forest College in 1911 to return to serve as teacher in the school and community which were home. A smile must cross his face as he remembers a faculty member at Wake Forest who warned him and brother Carlyle against taking a position at Buie ' s Creek Academy. Now, boys, the teacher said, let me give you some advice. Your father will want you to come back to the school and settle down there and teach. If you do you ' ll never be anything but Leslie and Carlyle all your lives. In retrospect perhaps being Leslie was enough for the leadership of a growing educational institution. The years of the classroom where English was not alone a subject but a worthy goal for the truly educated person. The role of dean in the decade prior to his father ' s death during which he gained invaluable experience in the varied responsibilities of adminis- tration. The transition from academy to funior college — the crucial implemen- tation of the farsighted decision of the founder which was entrusted to the young dean and his associates. The years of crisis marked by the critical illness and death of the foun- der and the succession to the presidency. These were the Wilderness Years when the Great Depression of the Thirties was tragically evident in 11

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The Crest, continued Diarmid O ' Duibhne and the Boar of Caledon. A sword proper with hilt and rounded knob is seen to the left. Two guarding lions of tinctured red complete the Arms save for the mottoes. (This is the Coat of Arms of the Duke of Argyll, Chief of the Clan. An adaptation of this for the Campbell College seal is now in progress.) Mottoes Above the shield of the Campbell armorial bearings is inscribed A ' e oblii ' is caris — Forget not. Below that shield are the words Vix ea nostra voco — I scarcely call all this my own. The ascendant motto, whatever its origins in antiquity, serves as re- minder of remembered history as the clue to personal, family, or institu- tional identity. We stand on the shoulders of the past. We know who we are as persons only as we forget not those persons and events shaping us in our more immediate arena of experience as well as the so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us in the larger sweep of history. To remem- ber is to be, psychologists, philosophers and theologians alike remind us. . . . And so the ancient Scottish clan knew its identity by fact of proud heritage remembered. Renewed for present struggle, it pressed toward future prospect and continued glory. The one of Scottish lineage whom we honor, Leslie Campbell, is one who values the backward look as a re- minder of present possibility and future hope. Looking to the rock from whence he was hewn has endowed him with sturdy qualities and steadfast purpose, giving heritage and hope to individual and institution alike that he has served. As for the second motto of Clan Campbell, it originated about 1528 wiien Colin Campbell, third Earl of Argyll, was created hereditary Lord Justice-General and Master of the Royal Household in Scotland. Added to the insignia of these great offices was the motto I scarcely call all this my own. Perhaps this Scotsman of yesteryear remembered the Biblical reminder To wliom nnich is given much shall be required. To possess a legacy of trust, responsibility, and heritage is not to hoard it but to use it, to build upon it. This, our later Campbell has remembered. In quiet but determined pursuit of distant goals he has taken a well-laid but modest foundation from his father ' s striving and built well upon it, and has in turn realized more fully the meaning of the college ' s motto Ad astra per aspera. As our President retires there is no arrogant boast, See the work of my mind and hand. Rather, I scarcely call all this my own. 10

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Looking Back, continued this predominantly rural section. Enrollment dropped to less than three hundred, and most students were working and earning their way through college. The burning of Fred N. Day Annex, the total absence until 1937 of financial support from the sponsoring denomination, and the shortages created by World War II — these were part of the new president ' s per aspera, through difficulty. The Great Decade (1957-1967) following this advance through storm. This period most recent in the president ' s memory and experience has seen this college ' s most phenomenal growth. The student body and faculty, to his exaltation, have tripled. The physical plant and capital value have grown even more. The years of realization evolving from the strong foundation laid as Campbell College was recognized this year as a fully accredited senior college. A crowning remembrance must be the friendly faces of students, faculty, and Buie ' s Creek citizens greeting him on his return at the Dunn Railroad Station in the cold of a winter ' s night. This was what being Leslie has amounted to. Lookiiis Forward Appearing on every hand, change suggests 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. As we see new buildings rising, we have witness in mortar and brick to the spiraling demand for the highly-trained mind and dedicated spirit. President Campbell, as he passes to another the responsibilities of leader- ship, has good cause for thinking that prospects augur well for the future of this college. Examination of an institutional self-study prepared for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in quest of the now- achieved accreditation reveals a page entitled Looking Ahead Ten Years (a modest forward look.) It is notable that the program presented there for upgrading our services and meeting the needs of an enlarged enroll- ment by 1975 is already in the process of accomplishment. While much remains to be done by means yet unfound, notable strides have been made in one year. These changes are not confined to the physical expansion of the College, important as that is. More foundational are the changes already evolving but whose fruition the future will see. Dr. Campbell has sound reason for faith that standards of our college will continue to rise and that there will emerge an expanding curriculum designed, with careful attention to the changing times and our unique role and setting, for continued progress 12