Carson Newman College - Appalachian Yearbook (Jefferson City, TN)

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IJEDICHTIUII As soon lo be graduales. we can gralefully loolc back upon The unselfish leadership ol our class sponsor lhrough 'rhese 'Four lleel years. As lhe slandard bearer for lhose lriendless Frosh ol '50 The senseless Sophs of '5l, lhose juvenile Juniors of '52, and al las+ lhose seasoned hui sorrowful Seniors ol '53, our unfiring leader challenged us always lo allempl lhe besl. I+ is in gralelul apprecialion lhal we, lhe Senior Class ol I953. proudly dedicale lhis 34+h Volume oi lhe APPALACHIAN lo Professor Joe A. Chapman.

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prokddor joe Clap

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l00HIIlG FURIIIIIRIJ DR.FITE The year T952 presenTed man wiTh anoTher look inTo The inTiniTe, The U. S. exploded, whaT was assumed To be, a hydrogen bomb on EniweTok. Thus, wiThin an eighT year period, There occurred The end oT Two eras in The world's hisTory and The beginning oT a new one. Seldom is iT given To man To wiTness, as such, The indispuTable end oT an age and The beginning oT anoTher, BuT aT Hiroshima and EniweTok, in a rnaTTer oT a spliT second, The chasm occurred: and There, Tor man To behold wiTh his own eyes, were Two worlds, one obsoleTe and one new, gradually pulling away Trom each oTher, as Two ships aT sea. Such evenTs sTagger The imaginaTion, We have been sTanding asTride The TirsT chasm. as yeT unable To liTT The leaden TooT oT TradiTion and cusTom and preiudice over To march in unison wiTh The winged one OT TaiTh. Who among us can know The Tull implicaTion oT These creaTions Tor educaTion? Which among us can sense The impacTs Tor change ahead? Regardless oT our inabiliTy To know The implicaTions oT The aTomic age Tor educaTion and our inabiliTy To see Tar enough in The TuTure To know The exacT knowledge we shall need even TwenTy years hence, we know ThaT The ChrisTian college is besT TiTTed To Train sTudenTs in world ouTlook, in loyalTy Toward eTernal veriTies, in honesTy and inTegriTy, upon which The TuTure will be builT. T iT is The ChrisTian college ThaT gives sTudenTs Their upward look, ATTer all, This is really ThaT which disTingushes man Trom The resT oT The animal kingdom, The sense OT TaiTh which some- how gives To The soul an invincible belieT ThaT, in The divine plan, all Things do work To- geTher Tor good: and ThaT Their TruiTion shall come TQ pass ouT There somewhere on The road beyond. The TuTure oT world civilizaTion depends on ChrisTian schools-schools ThaT produce youTh who will win, noT only on The Tields oT baTTle, buT in areas oT inTelligence and moral courage. ChrisTian schools musT produce youTh who Think, produce men who can look un- blinkingly aT' The uncerTain TuTure, and who have TaiTh enough To lay hold on every pos- sibiliTy and mould iT Tor good, Our Torward look presenTs visions oT sTill greaTer conTidence in The ChrisTian college. This greaTer conTidence will cause more sTudenTs To wanT To come To Carson-Newman. This look aT The TuTure, T'hereTore, presenTs greaTer obligaTions To The adminisTraTion, Teachers, and Triends OT The insTiTuTion. New buildings musT be erecTed. The curriculum will need To be broadened, and The TaculTy enlarged and sTrengThened, Those oT you who are graduaTing This year share wifh us The responsibiliTies oT The TuTure-To reTashion The I world aTTer The paTTern oT ChrisTianiTy and To help bu3ld a sTrong Carson-Newman College To meeT The demands oT The TuTure. May none oT us be disobedienT To This vision!