Greensboro College - Echo Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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- tion of students known in its history. Since then its prosperity has continued. A new dormitory was erected in 1912. known as Fitzgerald Hall. The build ing was named in honor of J. W. Fitzgerald of Linwood. who gave $10,000 towards its erection. This building was filled to its capacity as soon as it was opened to students. In the year 1913. Mrs. Robertson having resigned, Rev. S. B. Turrentine, D.D., a member of the Western North Carolina con- ference, was elected president. Since his election a new dormitory has been erected and was opened in the fall of 1917. This building is named Hudson Hall, in memory of Mrs. Mary Lee Hudson of Shelby, N. C, whose dona- tions to the college amount to more than $1 5,000. A beautiful building, the Odell Memorial, was erected in 1922. at a cost of about $180,000. for which Mr. J. A. Odell gave $100,000. This building, including an auditorium and conservatory of music, was erected in memory of Mrs. Mary Jane Odell, wife of Mr. J. A. Odell. In the meantime the prosperity of the college has continued. The physical equipment has been enlarged and improved. Mr. B. N. Duke has given over $100,000 on the endowment fund, and the total assets of the college are now valued at over one million dollars. THE GREENSBORO COLLEGE CREED We believe in being rather than in seeming; in the devotion to high ideals: in daring to do our duty as we understand it. We believe in having an attentive eye. a listening ear, a busy brain, in keeping the mind clear and bright, filling it with wholesome thoughts of life; in losing ourselves in useful industry. We believe in being worthy at all times; in having grim energy and reso- lute courage for the conquest of fear; in gaining confidence in our ability. We believe in service, in doing kind deeds, thinking kind thoughts, in being strong, gentle, pure, and good; steady, loyal, and enduring. We believe in reverence for the truth; humility; in great aspirations and high ambitions; in toiling ever upward. We believe in cultivating the bright virtue of patriotism and the holy passion for friendship. We believe in studying hard, thinking quietly, speaking gently; acting frankly: in listening to the winds, the trees, the stars, and the birds, to babes and sages with open hearts; we believe in being glad, in loving all. in hating none, in doing all bravely, bear ing all cheerfully, awaiting all occasions, hurrying never. We believe in striving to gain sound knowledge, not content to simply know, but determined to use knowledge for the highest purpose. We believe in man and woman, in God ' s unending love, and in the future. V '

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