Hillman College - Pioneer Yearbook (Clinton, MS)

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Lawrence Tyndale Lovvrey When Booth Lowrey’s baby boy graduated from in ISS 1 SSI PP College with “Special Distinction,” after hav- g won the state championship in tennis for two years, ev K n f ° nC year . 0ver the best Y M - C A the collc e er ad, and serving as Literary Editor of the Annual, tT mber ° f the facult y said “L- T. Lowrey is the most rounded man Mississippi College ever turned out.” n 1 1. e bas made a brilliant success as a teacher both in thoroug teache C ° Ueg5 A A 1 giCal th ! nker ' . a a jl i • h teacher, unerring in judgment, sympathetic in intpn ! e l in s ’ a cons ecrated Christian gentleman, Super- 1 ent () one °f the largest Sunday Schools in the a man a most without a fault, L. T. Lowrey is a Miss Margaret Bennett Five years ago Hillman College received as a member of its faculty Miss Margaret Bennett as teacher of Ex- pression. The position was ably filled and many a bright young girl has gone out from Hillman to do honor to her as their instructor. So well did she prove in this depart- ment that she was capable of exercising an influence that would he helpful to the girls and young women of our state, that she was persuaded to give up teaching and take the position of Lady Principal. The same noble qualities of mind and heart are exerting an influence for good that will go sounding down the ages, and the lives of all those who have come under her guidance will go out to strengthen struggling humanity, and then they will bless the memory of the days when they knew T Miss Margaret Bennett. Mrs. Theodosia Miller Lewis anne a . den September afternoon in the ’ 8 o’s there Lge m entnd Female Institute, now Hillman Col- all • S °. re . a l ln figure, so lovely of face, that at once °f sissippi Collegians pronounced her “The Queen adi V ' tl . lte ; She entered the Senior Class and proved fied S n lsbin S feature of it. School days ended, she digni- The lS evv us can ever hope to do, the school room. Wo n caine the hero of her girlish dream, the idol of her side a VL 0d ’ an ° r a ba PP- v y ears she walked by his h er ’ • | en be was called to his Higher home, leaving to love ' 1 3 S ° n an dau £ ter to cheer, to labor for, and hav P°v ' ° U wbo ance at er ace marvel that we who Kuid t C e . xa ted privilege of being under her wise an j a ? Ce n ‘ ne months in the year, have learned to love nd a most worship her?

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131 07M Wm, Tyndale Lowrey, D.D., LL.D. It is useless to introduce Dr. Lowrey to the people of Mississippi. It is doubtful if there is a politician in the State who has as large a personal acquaintance, as Dr. Lowrey has with the Baptists of Mississippi. He has been a College President for nearly thirty years, and for the last seven years has been President of two colleges at the same time. 1 housands of his students whose characters he has helped to mould now rise up to honor his name. Under his leadership, together with that of his brother, B. G. Lowrey, Blue Mountain College was built up from a small school to its present magnificent propor- tions, with over five hundred students and nine splendid buildings. During his thirteen years in Mississippi College, the patronage increased over two hundred per- cent, and he increased the endowment from forty thousand to one hundred twenty thousand dollars. In addition to this, he raised the money for the erection of a Presi- dents’ Home, a dormitory and a science hall. Jennings Hall has been declared the best school dormitory in the South, and the new science hall is certainly not surpassed in Mississippi. An account of the improvements made in Hillman since he took charge, w T ill be found elsewhere in this volume. Outside of his College work, he is President of the Board of Trustees of the Tri- state Baptist Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., and at the last Mississippi Baptist State Convention he was elected President of that body. io

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Miss Elizabeth Dee Frost Those who’ve heard of her at all know first of all two things; her middle name is “Dee’ and she’s fond of Ro mance — she’ll tell you the first and you’ll find the other out. But these are only preliminary charms, for on better acquaintance we learn she teaches English and came from Sunny Tennessee. In her English she takes the pride of a master and those who sit at her feet are charmed by her clear simple teaching; well planned and nobly interpreted her school work is a delight to all. Miss Mary Birdie Gurney Always living up to her favorite motto, “whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well,” Miss Gurney goes quietly on with her work, always busy but always finding time for her many friends when they are in trouble or need advice. This sweet, petite, neat, little brown eyed woman teaches us “rithmetic” and also makes us “see stars.” She is a native Mississippian, her affections being divided be- tween Blue Mountain, where she was an earnest student, and Clinton, where she is a most successful teacher. Vernon Booth Lowrey They say he did not learn to talk until he was twelve years old, but when he did start! Lack of space forbids all about it being told, but in a word, in the Mississippi College contest to choose a representative for the State Oratorical Contest this spring, he won first place in both manuscript and delivery. He is also editor-in-chief of the M. c. Annual, L’Allegro. Before coming to us last session, he had been a most successful instructor in the Lowrey- Phillips School of Amarillo, Texas. We heartily agree with the former superintendent of schools of one of the largest cities in Mississippi, with whom Mr. Lowrey was associated in his school work in Texas. He said: “I do not know his equal as a history teacher at his age, and very few superiors at any age.” 12