Florida Southern College - Interlachen Yearbook (Lakeland, FL)

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- Vv : A reception in the Eleanor Searle Drawing Room, Joseph-Reynolds Hall. OF 19 5 5 • • • I - This is the picture story of Florida South- ern College — the story of yesterday, today and tomorrow. It is the story of our Alma Mater — built on faith and hope and work. Many pens have written the story — many more will continue it in future years. May the final chapter only be written when there are no more worlds to conquer. I Ian Co, EDITOR j ue Thayer BUSINESS MANAGER 2), JoL Ousen and Wittiam 2 . Skliii. ■S ue Jhc ina ADVISERS FLORIDA SOUTHERN COLLEGE . . LAKELAND, FLORIDA

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THE The J. Edgar Wall Waterdome and the Emile E. Watson Administration Building.

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A£M4ilL . TO THE STUDENTS, FACULTY, TRUSTEE AND FRIENDS — r aaa of the outn . . . A day dawned bright and clear 15 years before the turn of the 20th Century. In Washington, President Grover Cleveland looked over a sprawling, newly-awakened giant that was the United States. In the deep South there was a state named Florida. In Tallahassee directing the affairs of the still frontier country was Governor Edward A. Perry. There were alligators blocking the trails, snakes in the fields and swamps, and Indians in the forests. Bearded men and cour- ageous women tilled the soil, conquered the wilderness and brought new life. Methodist preachers carried The Word on horseback, braving all dangers so that the Eternal Light might pierce the gloom and the darkn ess. And there was the beginning of a painful birth. A College was coming into being. Before the turn of the Century, a day dawned bright and clear on a small farm in Alabama. Life there was also coming into being. A seventh son was born to John Timothy and Ida Adams Spivey. He was named Ludd Myrl. There were other bright dawns and gloomy mornings, too, as time marched into history. The Alabama farm family joined the movement West. And the pains of birth persisted long and hard for the little College in Florida. There were epidemics, fires and hurricanes. There was war and depression. The prairie schooners gave way to steam locomotives. Voices were carried over copper wires. And music was played on machines called victrolas. There were moving pictures shown in places called Nickelodeons. Combustion engines became horseless carriages. Ships flew in the skies. There was a thing called wireless. There was all of this and much more. And then a day dawned bright and clear over Lakeland . . .