Harding College - Petit Jean Yearbook (Searcy, AR)

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FORMERLY used as the administration building' Science Hall is one of the original bmidings o! the campus. It now furnishes quarters for the home economics, chemisfry and biology departments. PERSPECTIVE IN HISTORY Looking to past gives more insight into present scene The. student at Harding College today gains in his perspective of the past as he reviews the history of the school. Hardingr is a school that has been built on hnpos, dreams, and sacrifices. In 1922 Christians in Arkansas t-slahlishod Arkansas Christian College at Morriltnn. After two years this junior culloge and annther- Harper College, merged to form a senior institution, which was to he called Harding College. In 19.54 I-lardirig College moved from Mar- riltnn tn Searcy, where tho facilities at Galloway College were available. Sincv thvn tho. school he's undergone tremendous growth; but the Galloway Bell Tower1 Pattie Cnhh Dnrmitnry. and the Science Building arc reminders of earlier days; Upon the retirement of President J. N. Arm- strong in 1956, Dr. Gourge S. Benson returned from China. where he had spent ton years doing mission Work, tu become prosident nf Harding College. Dr. Benson purpusjvd tn uvvrmmc the heavy financial diffirullios with which tho. school was struggling. It was a mvumrahlv Thanksgiving Day. 1959. when at tho Cnnclusinn of a lung cam! paign. tho murtgagv was hurried. FRAMED through rm arch of the bell tower IS Fame Cobb Hail, the oldest dormitory 0n humpus The beH tower, tonsfructed from materials which had been t1 part of Gadden Hail, IS now a port of our hnstaryv

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Charles Grey Pimor1 a west Tonncssoan who graduated from the Bells High School in 1931, enrolled as a freshman in Harding College in the fall nf 1955 after working two years on a farm. In addition to arllieving a gnnd academic record, he participated oxtcnsively in oxtra-cur- ricular activitivs. He was business manager of the Bison his, junim' year and of the Pvti! Ivan his senior year1 a member of tho Sub-T 16 club, and a sprinter on the Lrack team. Following his graduation from Harding with a major in mathematics in the spring of 1937, he taught elementary school in Missouri one year befnre doing graduate study at. George Peabody College on a fvllnwship. After teaching high school malhnmalit's fur five years, he became principal nf tho Grove High School in Paris, Tenn. and served six years hefurc returning to Harding in 1950. In 1110 spring of 1.058 Professor Pitnor mar- ried Mary Nval. nm- of his Harding classmates. Mrs. Pitnor sprvos as director of guidamte and counselling fur the Soarcy school system. Thvy have one dnughlvr. Martha. who is in lhe eighth grade. Since he was a mlloge student, ProFOSSc'nr Pit ner has prvarhod regularly and he is currently preaching fur the church in Pangbum. He is a member uf tho. Natinnal Council of Teachers of Mathematics and the Soarcy Lions Club. Mary and Charles Piiner ACTIVE in several orgunlzurions in addmon Io Ins class and counselmg work, Professor Pimer dines at 0 weekly Lwons Oub luncheon meeting. NO SUBSTPTUTE exists that can replace Exper- ience m making molhemoncs clear ro students. Here he sheds lxght on Curculus for Myra Dusher. OI

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REFLECTED in the plncui wmers of lhe My pool, Ihe Administration Building Yokes on u shimmering quality differenr from ifs usual staunch appearance. STAUNCHLY occupymg as central Mace on campus Is the Admmusfrcmon Budding. m H: appeorume a fortress, by Its nomre the center from whwch marmng is dxrefved, NEWEST dormimry for men s'udenrs Groduole HOH prowdes nor only doubie room swim bu! :1130 u sechon wirh swnglc rooms.