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

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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

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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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in which relevant religion and education contribute to the growth of true persons — Campbell College ' s true goal, past and future. Auu Now Retireiiieiii What manner of man do we honor as he stands gazing toward this future already beginning to be and to the past by which he has readied us for the living of these days? Years teach wisdom a book Dr. Campbell knows well reminds us. And so, like all men, he is intensively now what he has become through the years noted in this annual. This mold of character and bent of mind derived from his Scottish heritage will continue to mark life in those days before him as in days past. His interest in the well-being of community, state, and nation, long evidenced, will now have opportunity for expanded expression. Each of the ten Earls of Argyll, we note, without exception, played a prominent part in the public affairs of his country ; so, we think, will their descen- dant continue to do. Commitment to worthy and thoughtful religion will not abate. The Scotch Calvinist strain pervades his heritage and is personally meaningful. The first Lord Campbell of Lochawe was a benefactor of the church . . . founding the Collegiate Church of Kilmun, and made a grant of certain lands ... to the Cistercian Abbey of Saddell. Others, as the Fourth Earl, took a prominent part in the events which led to the Scottish Reforma- tion. The Fifth Earl is referred to as praecipui auctores instaurandae religionis — the particular agent for restoring religion. Dr. Campbell will view freedom for heightened service of his Lord ' s kingdom as a blessing. The opportunity, long cherished, to nourish the mind and to write will be more fully available to Dr. Campbell. Days of continued scholarship beckon. He can be described in the spirit of that ancestor, the Eighth Duke, who was a man of literary tastes ... an author himself . . . the friend of such giants as Macauley, Tennyson, and Carlyle. The Duke ' s book Scotland as it Was and as It Is . . . giving a graphic account of the social and economic changes in the West Highlands with reference to the part played by his family and clan in their country ' s history, offers Dr. Campbell one channel of literary interest — basic research as to the above factors as they shaped the period of his life and the educational institution that emerged bearing the family imprint. As a person of business and property he is now privileged, like Archi- bald, Third Duke of Argyll, to take an active interest in the affairs of his estate. This, as always, will be done as related of the illustrious ; ' n: 13