Centenary College of Louisiana - Yoncopin Yearbook (Shreveport, LA)

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a (conference of dreaders of Southern Jnemooism, 1O50 This photograph was presented to the college in memoiy ol Colonel Walter Guston Kearney, a devoted Methodist of Vernon, Madison County, Miss., who was grad- uated irom Centenary College in 1847, when it was located at Jackson, Louisiana.

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un tke Ljear 1815 Andrew Jackson, hero of the Battle of New Orlean ' s, camped on Thompson ' s Creek, near Buncombe, Louisiana, as he headed North with his gallant Kentuckians and Tennesseans. Hon- ored by the presence of this great soldier, Buncombe changed its name to Jackson. Eleven years later the College of Louisiana — Centenary — was founded there virtually on Andrew Jackson ' s campsite. Thus, it was in the post-war glow of a new dawn for a young nation — a dawn created by the sacrifices of free men determined to hold forever the freedom won by the blood of their forefathers — that Centenary was born. Since that day four great wars have come and gone — the Mexican War, the War Between the States, the Spanish-American War and World War I. Now a fifth conflict, greater than all pre- ceeding it, has come. Together College and Coun- try face it with that same courage, confidence, and faith in God with which they have traveled side by side through the decades along the paths of travail to the fields of victory. In peace or in war, Centenary stands forth.

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