Covenant College - Tartan Yearbook (Lookout Mountain, GA)

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ln 4964, The CovenonT Boord of TrusTees decided To purchose The CosTle in The Clouds resorT hoTel in LookouT lVlounToin, Tennessee, for o new loooTion where CovenonT could expond. The sTudenT body in ST. Louis roised 825,000.00 ThoT yeor Towords The purohose of The new building. For eighT yeors, from 4964-4972, CovenonT sTudenTs oTe, slepT, sTudied, ond oTTended closses dll in The one building. IT wos The only building on cdrnpus unTil 4972, when The gym, new dorrn, ond librory were builT during The presidency of Dr. lvlorion Bornes. The cosTle wos orignolly builT in 4928 os o resorT hoTel, sTyled ofTer on ooTuol Bovorion cosTle. LoTer The building wos norned CorTer Holi, ofTer Pdul CorTer, o ChoTTonoogo businessrnon who dondTed five-hundred oores of mounToin lond To The college in The eorly sevenTies. RenovoTion of CorTer Holi begon in 4978, The some yeor Dr. lVlorTin Essenberg become presidenT.

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Covenont College begdn in 4955 ot 490 North Ook Street, Pdsedeno, Colifornid, the home of Dr. Robert Royburn. President Royburn ond his wife were housed in the some building os the twenty-two students who mode up the student body thot first yeor. Cldsses were held ot Posedeno City Church, ond the house dt 490 North Odk wos the center of student life. Dr. Rdyburn often chdllenged those students thot these were the beginnings of something bigger. The next yeor, Covenont College trovelled ocross the country to St. Louis, Missouri, the sight of their new compus, dlong with Covenont Theologicol Semindry. Under Dr. Royburn's presidency, the student body grew from 60 to 450. The eight yeors Covenont spent in St. Louis were exciting times os well ds times of self-socrifice. Some of the highlights of those yeors were the orgonizotion of Covenont's first soccer teom ond chorole, ond the dondtion of d twenty room house which greotly expounded the compus fdcilities.

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-,Q Doily cnopel services ond study of Goci's Word ore port of our lives or Covenoni. We view our creoiive expression Through rnusiool, drornofic, ond visuoi oris os o meons of worship.