Columbia Bible College - Finial Yearbook (Columbia, SC)

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fieni, DPen LIFE VERSE: TRUST INTHE LORD WITH ALL THINE HEART; AND LEAN NOT UNTO THINE OWN UNDERSTANDING IN ALL THY WAYS ACKNOWLEDGE HIM, AND HE SHALL DIRECT THY PATHS. PROVERBS 3:5,6 andvt o ' ,t iet dtess

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THE JUNIOR CLASS PRESENTS THE FINIALOF 1955 AND JESUS INCREASED IN WISDOM AND STATURE, AND IN FAVOR WITH GOD AND MAN. LUKE 2:52. COLUMBIA BIBLE COLLEGE COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA

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As the new student went to her room, she began to reflect upon the gracious lady who had just welcomed her into the CBC family. The radiant smile and peaceful countenance of her new guide and friend had a settling effect upon the student. Her nervous excitement relaxed in the presence of a spirit reposing in Christ. So this was to be her college home , and this lady her college mother - -Miss S. M. Petty, Dean of Women. Well-qualified for this position by her education and experience, Miss Petty entered the capacity of Dean of Women in the Fall of 1953. She was then no stranger to the school, for she had been here since 1945, as head of the Directed Teaching Department, and as an Education instructor. Granted aMaster ' s degree by the Graduate School of Missions of CBC, Miss Petty has seen the school from the student ' s side of life. Her under-graduate work was done at Asbury College, Wilmore, Kentucky, from which she received the Degree of Bachelor of Arts. Her zest for teaching led Miss Petty into the North Carolina public schools where she taught English, Social Science, and Bible successively, over a period of nine years . With Miss Petty in her college days, and at Asbury and at CBC was her brother Tim, now a member of the CBC faculty. Their happy relationship ex- emplified the wonderful bond existing between each member of the large Petty household. Mrs. Ruth Worth Petty ' s unusual influence over her seven children was a great determining factor in the salvation of the three girls and four boys. Today each has taken a place of service in the Master ' s vineyard. When the dear Quaker mother, so well described in Proverbs 31, became ill, Sara left school for a year to attend to the need at home. Dr. McOuilkin, founder and first president of CBC, was a great inspiration and a challenge to Miss Petty. His intimate relationship with her entire family profoundly affected all of them. Perhaps it was much through the contagious fervor of this servant, that the Lord burdened Miss Petty with the need of the mission field. Her heart is there, and she has twice been privileged to visit her sister ' s field of service in Costa Rica. At CBC we hear much of the necessity for a well-rounded life, to exemplify Christianity ' s all-inclusiveness. Our Dean of Women is very interesting in this respect, for she has many and varied interests , ranging fronn sports to art. In her activity in sports. Miss Petty has exhibited her vigor for living in swimming, tennis, and basketball. Her college yearbook pictures her on the basketball team, for which she played Senior class forward. In the realm of arts, she is known to play the piano and sing nicely, and to delight in good music. She also has interest in painting. Although classed rather as the career type of personality. Miss Petty dear- ly loves home-life. She has succeeded in pointing many here to the truth that home is where and what one makes it. At Arsenal Hill Presbyterian Church, of which she is a member. Miss Petty teaches the Young Married Couples ' Class. A true teacher and successful counsellor must be possessed of many definite qualities. Accurate perception, love and understanding, a genuine ability to en- ter sympathetically into the problems of others are among these. As a shep- herdess , one must be characterized by purposeful living and gentle, but unplia- ble firmness. Miss Petty can honestly be said to embody these, for God has very graciously gifted His servant in fitting her for her place of responsibility. To her the students of CBC owe a debt which they can only begin to repay by this tribute of appreciation. May our lives bring forth the kind of fruit which will be an eternal reward for her faithfulness.