Covenant College - Tartan Yearbook (Lookout Mountain, GA)

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nary, where he taught for a period of eight years. In 1952 he assumed the responsibility of a Newark CDel.J pulpit for three years. He came to Covenant's St. Louis campus in 1956 fCove- nant's second yearj where he taught for one semester. For six years, then, he taught at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He rejoined the Covenant family two years ago. Mr. and Mrs. Sanderson have three children: David, married to Covenant alumna Diane Mengle, is now teaching at Milliken University in Decatur, Illinois, Judy is serving at Covenant in dual capacity as secretary to the Registrar and to her father, Faculty Dean, Rob, 14, is a student at Chattanooga High School. Dean Sanderson has already done an invaluable job of re- organizing the school's scholastic program during these last two years. And they have been crucial years: there was the move to Chattanooga, there were financial crises, there was the nearly impossible problem of separating the college from the seminary, and the problem of maintaining a balanced faculty for both- all of which demanded the very best of -a man. God has often used men to stand the strain of crisis in the past. We do not know why God has chosen John Sanderson for his particular task. But the answer could probably be best evidenced in what one Covenant student said of him- He is the wisest man I ever knew.

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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-

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