Covenant College - Tartan Yearbook (Lookout Mountain, GA)

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,,QVnv .',, fm 1-'f 3 X - a wider variety of people to know and like, but it is more difficult to capture that absolutely serene moment alone. Enrollment exceeded two hundred, the faculty and staff were enlarged, new courses were offered, and Scottish heather was finally honored, as we acquired new dormitories. The possibilities of the Lookout Moun- tain Castle in the Clouds captured everyone's imagination, as all were making plans for transforming it into a Campus in the Clouds. We all look forward to Covenant's continued growth: to an even larger student body, the large h-otel near Chattanooga 3 to the day when its name Cand the spellingj becomes better known, in fulfillment of God's promise, The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. But while we anticipate the further development of our school, we trust that graduation will not signal the end of the development in our individual lives. May we remember these buds on our own camp-us, and build on the foundations which have been laid here, so that our life-long process of growth may be truly All for lesusf'

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If the camera could have captured in one picture the change which a single day wrought in these buds, probably the result would remain a picture of still life, for God has decreed that for plants, growth is a slow process. In a student the process of growth is likewise gradual. A day-by-day diary would seldom show great leaps ahead in the life of the individual student. And this is as it should beg the very nature of maturity demands that the course leading to it follow steps which advance moderately, but which are often arduous, sometimes seemingly arrested. When a senior looks back over all his years of school, however, he cer- tainly sees from this perspective many ways in which his experiences have enabled him to devel-op into a mature adult. Surely this is especially true of Covenant stu- dents, who are encouraged to grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. But lingering though the path to the student's maturity may be, there are many other aspects of growth at Covenant which are far from leisurely. Expansion has been a major source of delight and of disturbance in our school this year. There is

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