Harding College - Petit Jean Yearbook (Searcy, AR)

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Andy was born April 25, 1909, Neeley's Bend, Tennessee. He attended school there, grades 1 thru 8, and went to high school and 2 years of college at David Lipscomb. He studied in Louis- ville. Kentucky, for a quarter and then returned to Peabody College at Nashville, Tennessee, where he received his degree as Bachelor of Arts. He has been at Harding since the fall of 194-6. DEDICATING I TO ONE who fears God and loves the souls of men more than the pleasures of this world. '. . To a man who lives the Christian life before us every day. . . To a man who is never afraid to do that which he believes is right before God. . . To a personality so very much a part of our campus life. . . To a friend who seems to be aware of the rough places before us. . . To a Bible teacher who tells us the need of living a consecrated life, and then lives as though he believes it. . . To a musician who believes that music must be lived before it can be sung. . . To a preacher who can tell us of great spiritual ideals and make them seem so practical. . . To a tireless worker whose energy is from above. . . To a personal counselor who has a real interest in every student. . . To you, ANDY T. RITCHIE, we wish to dedicate this 1951 Petit Jean, and thereby show you that we love you for the standard you imitate, J esus Christ. . .

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t-is-or was-Peejay? We can tell you only what she believe it or not. Frankly, neither did We. Not at first, 'h m- our photographwnly slightly retouched by the art .7 l 4' xcltild, or at least a creature tune gamine is what she saidl . but terribly precocious. She speaks English with more -and it is typically saucy of her to point out that the many students. She claims to be the great-great-great- hgcndary Petit Jean, and that her home is a place called I far from Paris. tparis, Franee-not ArkansasJ She- tahe came all the way from there to Searcy as an airplane : of course, but Peejay only rolls her eyes and says it chute ?l; all because in 1945 an American soldat ut Harding, and she wanted to see llecole Americain yearbook for her so-great-aunt. Unlikely? Certainly. on what she said. Where Peejay stayed here, how she existed- if she didenone of these prac- tical details do we know. All we can tell you, in addition to the above, is that she had a way ofewell, lefs not say that she materialized but that she popped up and insisted on attention at the most impossible moments; of mak- ing comments on Harding people and Harding ways much too impertinent for us to repeat lyetl; of asking questions we couldn't answer, such as Monsieur le president-ds he coming or going? ; and that the only physical evidence now remaining sf her presence is a couple of reams of copy that she turned in for the yearbook. Anyone who wishes to see this may do so by coming to the PETIT JEAN office any day between two and four am. after the 15th of June. For our less skeptical readers, we have chosen a few of these effusions as introductions to the principal divisions of this book; and now and then a phrase or a slant or an idea of hers has crept elsewhere into the book. And welve tried hard to get her pictured to you. But these are at best very pale traces of the experience we've had with Peejay. And so is this book, compared to what wEd like to have made it for you. Eh him! as Peejay would say. 0F CON1ENTS ' Emlty, Work of the College . . . . Pages 11- 20 n, Sophomores, Juniors, Seniorst . . . . 21- 64 .. .41 Government, Honors, Dramatics, Music, fDepartmentaU . . . . 65- 80 ,. . 1 Night Classes, Student Preachers, . . . . . . . . . 81- 88 yand Favoritest . . . . . . . . . 88- 96 Orderl. . . . . . . . . . . 97-124 mean. . . . . . 125-136 Everything the College Hasl . . . 137 150 tDirectory Begins on Page 18D . 151 to the End 1 EMS

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