Covenant College - Tartan Yearbook (Lookout Mountain, GA)

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THE 1965 TARTAN Covenant College Campus in the Clouds Lookout Mountain, Georgia

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' , ....,,,.g,.,.,,,,,, PM-M4 g 1'-sf 5-annum-1 Wm R . D DIC TIO His scholarship, his character, his drive, his ability-these are some of the reasons for our love and appreciation. But it is more than a list of qualities that make the man, it is their union and balance, an integration which is possible only in the life thoroughly given to Jesus Christ. It is to such a life and such a man, John Wilmer Sanderson Jr., that we dedicate this 1965 Tartan. John Sanderson was born in Baltimore QMd.J on March 19, 1916, only son of a medical doctor. He grew up there, his life taking its first significant steps to the Lordls work when he enrolled at Wheaton College in the fall of 1933. He was graduated from Wheaton in 1937 with his Bachelor of Arts degree-and with an even more valuable accomplishment, a promise of marriage from fellow-student Pearl Hetrick. She was graduated two years later, in 1939, and they were married on June 12 of that year. . The two-year interval after his college graduation made for some long-distance romantics, but it did allow Mr. Sanderson to finish two-thirds of his training at Faith Theological Seminary in Wilmington, Delaware. He finished at Faith not quite a year after their marriage. Upon graduation, he received a call to the pastorate of the Bible Presbyterian Church of St. Louis Cnow Covenant Presby- terian Churchl where he served for three years. He returned to Wilmington to join the faculty of his alma mater, Faith Semi-