Daniel Baker College - The Trail Yearbook (Brownwood, TX)

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DEDICATION Brooke Smith Sec’y-Treas. Board of Trustees Daniel Baker’s Board of Trustees boasts two men who have served the college for fifty years . . . the entire era during which the college has served the state. Brooke Smith is the only secretary the Board has ever had. He has signed every diploma ever is- sued by the college. This year he will sign the certificates for the fiftieth class to leave the college, his final action in fifty years of active sacrificial service to Daniel Baker. Because these men have been so faithful in their service to the college, because of the efforts they have expended and the sacrifices they have made through the years in an ef- fort to keep the college at its peak of service . . . because they have devoted fifty years of their lives to the betterment of Daniel Baker College, this book is dedicated to Brooke Smith, secretary, and Judge T. C. Wilkinson, president, of the Board of Trustees. Judge T. C. Wilkinson, the other active charter member, was elected president of the Board last May. He was first elected to the Board soon after he came to Brownwood as a young lawyer more than fifty years ago. He is still attorney for the college. Judge T. C. Wilkinson Present President of Board

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE You go out from the halls of this insti- tution on its Golden Anniversary. In the spirit and with the vivacity of youth, you leave an institution mature in years and rich in traditions. In your brief sojourn here you have become heirs of the past; partakers of the rich experience, ripe scholarship and Christian character of men and women whose lives exemplify the wholesome traditions of the college, and foster the ideals upon which Mature scholarship and fundamental Christian character, built into manhood and womanhood, constitute the ideals upon which your Alma Mater was founded. Fifty years of sacrificial service and multiplied thousands of dollars have been spent for the propaga- tion and promotion of these high ideals. These are your heri- tage. Evaluate them properly, cherish them, foster them. Thus you will attain them. And surely then you will be loyal ex-students; and I pray, successful. Sincerely yours, R. G. Davis, Dr. Davis in the President’s Office

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IN MEMORIAM Founders of Daniel Baker College. For fifty years, a half a century, in life and in death, they have worked for the best inter- ests of the young people of Central Texas. During their lifetime they gave all—physi- cally, financially and spiritually—to the foundation of a truly Christian institution of higher learning for young men and for young women. Since the culmination of their physical labours, their spirit has been the guiding light of the leaders of the insti- tution. The work started by Dr. and Mrs. McClelland has been carried on through the years, until, at the end of fifty years service, Daniel Baker has reached a new peak in ser- vice and has set new and high goals which will more closely approximate the ideals of the founders. It is with the thoughts of services ren- dered and the ideals instilled into the hearts of their followers that we dedicate this book to the sacred and loving memory of Dr. and Mrs. Brainard T. McClelland, founders of Daniel Baker College. Dr. B. T. McClelland Founder of Daniel Baker