Covenant College - Tartan Yearbook (Lookout Mountain, GA)

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4980 is The year we celebrafe The Silver Anniversa- ry of our college. lT's a year of rejoicing before The Lord and celebrafing whaT we have been and whaT we are now afTer 25 years. For we wouldn'T be whaT we are Today wiThouT our beginnings - our pasT. iT's a year of remembering, a year of appreciafing all ThaT Covenanf College is made of. The Twenfy-Two sTudenTs in Pasedena where iT all began are a parT of The four hundred and sixTy- Two on LookouT lvlounfain where we are now. The founders of Covenanf College were con- vinced ThaT young people needed The opporfuni- Ty for a Chrisfian liberal arTs educaTion, noT jusT a Chrisfian environmenf for college years. The vision was for a school in which all disciplines would be TaughT as They relafe To each oTher and To Chrisf pre-eminenf. Roberf Rayburn, wiTh The help of Ru- dolph Schmidf, seT forTh To accomplish This Task of sTarTing such a college ThaT would be based on The rich Theological heriTage of a large body of believers, The Reformed faifh. They kepT a posifive fronf and a defermined spirif, working hard wiTh much self-sacrifice. They ignifed The spark and kepf iT alive, for They knew ThaT Their purpose was To The glory of God. The move To a separafe facilify on LookouT lvlounfain was a new beginning for The college. The Time of exciTemenT was mixed wiTh relucTance To leave a place where roofs were deep. The campus on The mounTain has changed wiTh Time, and so have Covenanf sTu- denTs. YeT The ulTimaTe purpose ThaT our founders began wiTh is sTill in our hearfs. This is The year we celebrafe ThaT The Lord has broughT us Through Twenfy-five years of growTh. During This Silver Anniversary year, we are remind- ed ThaT silver is ofTen used in a figurafive sense for somefhing ThaT is refined or pure. The Lord had dealT wiTh Covenanf all These years, ofTen in ways of Tesfing and Trying. For Thou, O God, hasT proved us: Thou hasT Tried us, as silver is Tried. Psalm 66: 40. We reflecf on our pasT and Thank The Lord for How He has and is sTill refining us. And we are confidenf ThaT He will conTinue This work in and Through us aT Covenanf.

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We s'rudy dll dcddemic disciplines ds They reldie To edch oiher, To ourselves, dnd To our CFGCITOF. The dbiliiy To pursue knowledge dnd undersidhding of our world is someihing we vdlue GS d gifi of God.