Lenoir Rhyne College - Hacawa Yearbook (Hickory, NC)

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policy he has increased his friendships and broad- ened his mental capacity. In the distribution of Faculty work, what others would decline he would take up, until to-day he is actually capable of teach- ing every class in every department in Lenoir ' s cur- riculum, save in Instrumental Music and Art, hav- ing actually done service in all these branches ai some time or other. We rejoice that the Board of Trustees have wisely planned that more of his time will be given to the executive work of the College from this time forth. In this action we expect to see Greater Lenoir pass from dream-land into the life of the real. This sketch would be unfair and unworthy the cause it desires to serve did it fail to record the fact A which has made so mucl3J f » . 9«rvices pk his marriage, on April JQA 1 8%, to Miss Or Huitt, of Claremont, North Carolina. She has proved a real helpmeet in all his arduous duties and much of the success of Lenoir ' s usefulness was made possible through her home helping. He was ordained to the Gospel ministry in St. Paul ' s church, in South Carolina, 1 894, by the Tennessee Synod. He had received a call to be- come pastor of St. Andrew ' s congregation on the College campus, and served in this capacity for one year. As a minister, he is an interesting preacher, and has spent many of his Sundays expounding the Gospel story. C. Luther Miller.

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1 1) li fei-! y,n lina, where he taught most successfully for five years, being given the guarantee by the Board of Trustees that his Professorship was a permanent position. But in the year of 1901 he received a call from the Board of Trustees to return to Lenoir College and accept the Presidency of the College. After due consideration he accepted the call, though at a financial sacrifice to himself, and enter- ed upon his duties as President in the summer of 1901. He is, therefore, roundmg out his tenth year as President of Lenoir College with the closmg of this school year. During this administration he has had the assistance of an aggressive Board of Trustees and a loyal Faculty, and there are many evidences of successful management during his term ot service. Within these years the new dormitories for both girls and boys have been erected, as well as the new St. Andrew ' s church ; and there has been added much equipment for the College plant. Also within this peroid the College has become the abso- lute property of the Tennessee Synod, managed and controlled by her Board of Trustees. The courses of study have been raised in all departments and the College has attained State recognition as an in- stitution of first rank. Much of this broadened horizon for Lenoir ' s usefulness is due to President Fritz ' s wise management, and we heartily concur in the action of the Board of Trustees in declin- ing to accept his resignation on the expiration of his ten year ' s service. Had the poet been writing of President Fritz concretely, he could not have expressed a truth more accurately than when he declared, There ' s a destiny which shapes our end, Rough-hew it how we may. From early life there burned within him a desire to become a Gospel Minister. With this aim in view he bent his energy for full preparation for this noble work, yet the guiding of destiny has caused him to serve in another work. Early in his college course temptations came alluring to swerve him from his clear-cut goal. Two uncles, one a boon com- panion, the other a wealthy railroad owner and operator in Texas desired him to study medicine and become a railroad physician and surgeon in the Lone Star State. To attain their purpose they offer- ed him, with outstretched hands, all funds for col- lege, university, and medical instruction, the best the world affords. All this came at a time when he was working and paying his own way through school. teaching during vacation and tutoring during the term. But this alluring offer did not in the least swerve him from his life-object. He struggled on, unaided, and turned to good account the know- ledge acquired in the school-teaching art, earning enough to keep his expenses paid and laying by a sum sufficient for his university expenses when his college work was done. His teaching ability did not pass unnoticed by his instructors, and when he completed his college course he was induced to ac- cept a professor ' s chair in Lenoir, in spite of the fact that he had the ministry in mind as his goal. Thus it happened that destiny vsTought more successfully than relatives or his own desires. He is what might be termed a born teacher. His mind is both mathematic and analytic. As a child it was his keenest delight to make and operate flutter-wheel machinery on the stream which ran near his home. The greatest disappointment, pos- sibly, his boyish heart ever experienced came when a generous friend gave him a set of discarded water- wheels, one of which he had not the strength to carry home after lugging it more than a mile. While his desire to serve in the ministry has not been fully realized, yet his life-work will, in all probability, affect more lives through the professor ' s chair than had his early desires been achieved. From childhood he has made and held legions of friends. No boy ever grew up in the Holly Grove community who left it a richer legacy of boyish pranks and wholesome fun. Gifted with a keen eye for seeing the ludicrous as well as the serious side of life, he came into his full share of all in- nocent fun, fortunate in being reared in a section where grotesque characters thrived. But back of this happy-hearted boy stood a loving grandmother Mary Conrad Bowers, who guided wisely the go- ing and coming of his youthful days. In the midst of a crooked generation and a perverse world, she saved him, pure in body and soul, for his life-work. In heart he has ever remained young, fully realiz- ing and understanding the joys and sorrows of youthful life; sympathizing with them in their troubles, sharing to the full their joys. In years still young, although he has spent twenty-six in the teacher ' s chair, he is well prepared to see all things through student ' s eyes. Ever ready to give a helping hand to those in need of aid, he lives the philosophy of the Scriptural proverb, There is that scattereth, end yet increaseth. Following this

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