Jarvis Christian College - Bulldog Yearbook (Hawkins, TX)

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Jamey McCoy.- He didn't cuss. But when he spat out Foot-foot-foot as quick as you could draw breath, you knew you had a lesson to learn from the Gentleman Professor. He was one of the most sincere, dedicated, and passionate teachers where knowledge was concerned, spoke one of his former students, Dr. Charles Berry. He taught that knowledge was there for you if you had the motivation to seek it out. And Mr. McCoy helped his students seek out that motivation. His words were a shock wave of concern. One of his younger friends and students was Simon Edwards who said Mr. McCoy would often exhort: 'Foot-foot-foot!! I don't have time for your fool- ishness If you don't want to work go on home and come back when you have your mind on some- thing more constructive. Teaching was more than a living to the science professor - more than a passion. Teaching was his hope for productive lives in others. lf you don't come in here to learn, he would tell his students, just get out of my classroom and stay out so the other folks can learn. But once Mr. McCoy had your scholarly attention, he felt he could polish our skills. And he could. The Professor was a religious man. And the religion he lived by was enforced by the science he taught. Few men of science believed in God asdid Mr. McCoy. He believed all life was a gift of God, said M. L. Lanier, one of his fellow teachers. His actions, and words, told his students earnestly: I Care. He was keenly interested in X' lg' 9 A X the progress of Jarvis, and the Q greatest tribute we can give him Dr. J. O. Perpener, Jarvis Presi dent is the building of a better life and a better Jarvis, declared Q - 5 ,. An early photo Mr. McCoy was a man who helped mold many lives, a man who believed hard work developed a man. His work was not just in the classroom, laboratory, study, or library. CHe was an avid reader.J With his handiwork, he helped maintain college property. He appreciated nature. Witness to this is the row of pin oak trees he planted along a campus avenue. He cared for saplings. He cared for life. As if writing an epitaph, Simon Edwards presents this proverb Professor McCoy surely would endorse. Time is too short, and our responsibilities are too tall for us to indulge ourselves in foolishness. - James Carroll McCoy Jan. 25, 1886 - Dec. 3, 1968

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Euffdog Senior Charles Edwards is editor of the forthcom- ing Yearbook - Buiidog 1969-70. --af 'K y A n 'x ' 4' -- 'V A1 I ? W 3 ,vw f' :W-5. v 6 ig gag gg -:Z Q J if 'Q ' fa .411 U IS' QW . aww 7779 The Bulldog, Jarvis yearbook, is a photographic record of the year's events and people. it I -C CHA RLES EDWA RDS fllggocfafef and Agrvrfanfg X . an i 0 D ix! -1fRJ?a ROOSEVE LT WOODA RD Editor 1968-69 Ethel Pearl Hodge Gwen Johnson Linda Fridia Margaret Williams Jesse Williams Elter Lewis Arthur Edwards Delores Franklin Louis Height fNot Pict uredj

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' . To Armstrong, Phillips, Sand 9 fn M oflgm- Highway Collision Kills Studiis JAMES ARMSTRONG MARK PHILLIPS ALFRED SANDERS The memorial services were meditative---quietly searching for answers. Eulogies made by the minister and students seemed to battle the silence of the hundreds of mourners. This was on Saturday afternoon, May 24, 1969. Within the preceding 24 hours, three Jarvis students were fatally injured in a highway tragedy only a few miles east of the College. James Craine Armstrong, 19, Dallas sophomoreg Mark Patrick Phillips, 20, Longview sophomore: and Alfred Lee Sanders, 24, Terrell senior. On the afternoon of May 23, the three men were traveling in a white sedan which somehow collided with a station wagon between Big Sandy and Gladewater on U.S.l-lwy. 80. Apparent driver of the sedan, Sanders, was killed instantly: Armstrong died shortly afterward. Phillips died early the next morning fMay 245. Sanders was to be graduated with the bachelor's degree at the Jarvis commencement on May 25 - two days after the crash. Bffofh ef' f?00'g.Qf'Q He Pu! Meanmg fnfo 777179 Brother Rodgers' use of time makes life have meaning, noted Campus Minister Rev. Claude Walker on the eve of George Washington Rodgers' 100th birthday celebration. He was born March 16, 1869, and died June 2, 1969. Brother Rodgers was a pioneer promoter of Jarvis, as he in the 1910s helped clear land for College buildings, which he helped build. Farmer, carpenter, preacher - these were his vocations. Ir1 1959, Jarvis presented Brother Rodgers an Award of Honor for Life- Time Commitment to the College. J GEORGE WASHINGTON RODGERS