Columbia Bible College - Finial Yearbook (Columbia, SC)

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THE COUNCIL STRESSES INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY UTT IS MY DESIRE that next year we will be able A to move in the direction of greater student re- sponsibility, President Howard Blair of the Student Association stated in his inaugural speech on Friday, May 6, 1949, when he announced a new experiment in student life at Columbia Bible College. The goal was outlined. But that was not enough, and Blair took the lead in transforming vision into fact. The first step was to formulate a plan acceptable to both faculty and students. His foundational thesis that stu- dent responsibility would lead to better self-discipline the traffic lights will still b red and green No longer a figu enlisted the cooperation of the student association. He frequently reiterated the need for discipline and repudiated any desire to make drastic changes in rules (to change the traffic lights from red and green to purple and pink as one put it). Actual work on the establishing of a greater amount of responsibility began in September with an exchange of a series of letters between the faculty and the Stu- dent Council. On September 20th, the faculty gave assent to the plan for greater student responsibility as it affected dormitory life. The following week the plan was taken to the student body where it was voted in with only eight opposing votes. But the question still remained: would it work? The new form of student responsibility acted at times like an erratic patient. In mid-November, for instance, it ran a very high fever. The fever subsided, however, when the President of the student body gave the patient an injection or two in the form of a statement of clarification of areas of responsibility. The patient, a little later, was considerably strengthened by an opera- tion toward the end of November in which the Student Council took on the responsibility for making a periodic check on student life. For the first time in the memory of the student as- sociation, the Vice President was not a figure head. Chosen to head the Student Council Committee on Student Morale, James Shook, vice president of the Student Association, played a major role in guiding the destinies of student government during these early (Continued on page 7) I ' m going to art school When anyone sets out to find what is the outstanding characteristic of Mr. James M. Hatch, general practitioner in the art of drawing illustrations on the blackboard, he will eventually find himself in just as big a muddle as does the student who endeavors to fig- ure out what the professor ' s drawings mean. But Mr. Hatch said only recently, Don ' t let this out, but I ' m taking a year ' s leave of absence next year; I ' m going to art school. Until February 13, 1950, it seemed that Mr. Hatch could find a combination of circles and semi-straight lines to il- lustrate almost any psychologi- cal or Biblical principle. How- ever, on this momentous day Mr. Hatch picked up his chalk only to admit that he couldn ' t represent the relationships ex- isting between the various members of the Thessalonian Church. Mr. Hatch ' s formal educa- tion began in Charlotte, N. C, where he spent the most of his life. He attended high school there and finished the last year in the Darlington Military Academy. After this brief ex- perience as a soldier, he en- rolled in a pre-med. course at Duke University. Between the third and fourth year at Duke, he accepted Christ. The Lord called him into the min- istry with the result that Mr. Hatch gave up pr e-med. studies and finished at Duke with a B.A. in the Liberal Arts. The following three years were spent here at Columbia Bible College from which he graduated with a Th.M. in 1939. When Mr. Hatch came to C. B. C, he made certain of the future by bringing his fiancee with him. But it wasn ' t until seven years after their engagement, while he was serving a five-year term as a home missionary among the rural churches of Mississippi, that Mittie and Buck were married. To many impatient students of the College this example has proved to be a blessing. The next alma mater of our soldier-preacher was the Uni- versity of Chicago where he received an M.A. in the Social Sciences in 1947. The results of education can be clearly seen in his teaching of psy- chology and application of its principles to the study of the Bible. Mr. Hatch ' s busy sched- ule includes teaching General, Educational, and Child Psy- chology; Principles of Teach- ing: Hermeneutics; Epistles; and Prophets. In 1927 the Colonia Hotel was converted into Columbia Bible College.

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) c L A S s WILLIAM L. KEITER President, Graduate Class See page 50 . M M Presidents (Continued from page 5) months. Shook ' s practical outlook was a great asset to the Council in the solution of many problems which arose at the outset. Other members of his committee during the first semester were Phebe Morse, Sam Tatem, Gwen Hum- phreys, Alice Jacobsen, and Ed Iwan. At the beginning of the second semester Marlys Anderson, Elva Brownlee and Larry Brown, all underclassmen, replaced Hum- W1LLIAM T. HARDING President, Senior Class See page 14 phreys, Jacobsen, and Iwan. On this committee fell most of the burden of administering student government. Enforcement of dormitory rules and discipline were part of its responsibility. But its hardest task, as its name implied, was the building of good student morale. By the beginning of the second semester the system seemed to be on its feet. There were specific achieve- ments the Council could point to. Improvement was (Continued on page 8) V LA m W. BUR WELL FRAZIER President, Freshman Class See page 38