Lipscomb University - Backlog Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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, nor fruit be on the vines “Though the fig tree do not blossom, the produce of the olive fail = ye za ow - z Ww. 9 m . [r4 oO and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord , | will joy in the God of my salvation. God, the Lord, is my strength; , he makes my feet like hinds’ feet he makes me tread upon my high places.” — Habakkuk 3:17-19 Sn a ee eae “The history of the great events of this world is scarcely more than the history of its crimes.” — Voltaire Prologue 3

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2 Prologue 1976: What distinguished this academic year from any other? The developments in current affairs ? The Patty Hearst trial? The deaths of billionaires Howard Hughes and J. Paul Getty? Civil war in Lebanon? Or conflict in South Africa, or Entebbe airport in Uganda, or Angola, with its threat of U.S. involvement? Or even Henry Kissinger, whose globe-trotting personal diplomacy began to jangle the nerves of the nation? Is a year to be remembered for its tragedies and misfortunes? Or would that be missing the forest for the trees ? — ate te eee | ee ee ee

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Or cana year be remembered merely for its hope? Election year 1976: How long will that be a focal point in our memories of a year? As Jimmy Carter of Georgia systematically excluded other contenders to wrap up ano longer heated Demo- cratic race, as President Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan locked horns ina struggle between ideologies, a nation rolled its sleepy eyes. The long Democratic procession of Jackson, Harris, Bentsen, Udall, Wallace, Bayh, Sanford, Shriver, Schapp, Church, Brown, and the notable absence of Humphrey and Kennedy, bored the nation, and the repetitious rhetoric of the Republican contenders did little but improve Carter’s lead in the polls. Is that all there is to a year? 4 Prologue