Hardin Simmons University - Bronco Yearbook (Abilene, TX)

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TO ONE WHOSE HIGH IDEIALS STAUNCH CHARACTER SERVE ASI ANI INSPI4 RATION TO ALL WHO KNOW WHO THROUGH CEA-SE LESS 'EFFORTS HES 'CAUSED THE NAME OE HARDIN-SIMMONS. HIS ALMA MATER, TO BE CO MAE KNOWIN AND IRESPECTEED FROM ,COAST TO TOQA1fMOULDER OF REAL MEN AUD MAKER OF POWERFUL ATI-ILETIC TEAMS, WE SPEQTFULLY DEDICATE THIS EIETIETHIIANNI- VERSARY ,EDITION OE THE BRONCO -TO' I Coach Frank Kimbrough?

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50- ' fx OUNDED IN 1891 WITH THE LAYING OF THE FIRST CORNERSTONE UPON A VVIND- SWEPT WEST TEXAS PRAIRIE ON IULY 4 BY A SMALL GROUP OF FAR-SIGHTED PIONEERING INDIVIDUALS, HARDIN-SIMMON S HAS RISEN FROM THOSE HUMBLE BEGIN- NINGS TO THE GREAT MODERN INSTITUTION OF HIGHER LEARNING THAT IT IS TODAY. . . . WITH THEIR DRIVING PURPOSE AND ARDENT DESIRE OF SOME DAY SEEING THIS INSTITUTION GIVING TO THE WORLD STAUNCH TORCH BEARERS OF CHRISTIANITY, THE RELIGIOUS AND INTELLECTUAL LIGHT OF THE WORLD, THOSE HEROIC FOUND- ERS PRESSED ONWARD IN THE FACE OF ALL ADVERSITIES .... THIRTY-ONE YEARS UNDER THE ABLE LEADERSHIP OF DR. IEFFERSON DAVIS SANDEFER SAW REMARK- ABLE PROGRESS TOWARD THE FULFILLMENT OF THE FOUNDERS' DREAMS. FROM A STRUGGLING LITTLE WEST TEXAS COLLEGE TO THE RENOWNED UNIVERSITY WE NOVV KNOW' CAME I-IARDIN-SIMMONS UNDER THE DAUNTLESS PRESIDENT SANDEFER .... AFTER FIF TY YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE WORLD, HARDIN-SIMMONS IS NOW UPON THE THRESHOLD OF A NEW ERA OF DEVELOPMENT AND EXPANSION UNDER THE COMPE- TENT LEADERSHIP OF DR. SANDEFER'S AMBITIOUS SUCCESSOR-DR. WILLIAM R. WHITE. . . . TURNING TO THE FUTURE WITH CONFIDENCE AND ENTHUSIASM, WE ANTICIPATE THE AURORA OF A NEW DAWN. r S' 7 1,7717 W T

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