Lipscomb University - Backlog Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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Campus Life ome would say that Lips- comb’s campus had no life. Those involved in the many activities would say otherwise. Plays, Singarama, and other productions kept students busy rehearsing and memo- rizing lines and songs. With inauguration and Homecoming, the activities multiplied. The ASA provided free movies almost ev- ery weekend for those few who stayed on campus, giving us a cheap alternative to the $4.25 price of a cinema movie. Devotionals were held every Tuesday night, allowing us to meet new people and worship together. In the spring, class schedules were ar- ranged so that enough hours could be spent on the roof under the sun. Sometimes we even found our future mates. The engaged girls got hugs and congratulations after a candle passing cer- emony in the dorm lobby, while the lucky guy got thrown in the lake. Life existed on this campus in one form or another, and whether trivial or monu- mental, it was all a aN RE E l Will Hillis Campus Life 7

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Inaugurating a president does not happen to a college every day, giving Lipscomb good reason to celebrate and make the inaugural festivities The Main Event s the cold, per- sistent rain fell outside McQuiddy Gym, on- lookers of friends, family, students, faculty, and digni- taries listened as President Harold Hazelip defined the possible dream for Lipscomb. “| dream of our standing on the shoulders of 95 years of existence and pro- ducing ... a premier aca- demic institution shaped by Christian values,’’ he said. It was a dream of uniting Christianity and education, which is how many schools got started. “Today David Lipscomb College is the oldest col- lege operated by members of the churches of Christ in continuous existence,”’ Ha- zelip stated. ‘“‘We have come a long way from the time when its first president was up at 4 a.m., when board cost from 15 to 18 dollars a month, and tuition was 5 dollars a month. Yet the original dream contin- ues to inspire the daily life of the school.”’ Hazelip stated his dream after formally receiving his powers from Board of Direc- tors Chairman W.B. Bennett. ““‘We challenge you to pick your own priorities and move ahead in furthering the growth of the school in the direction about which we also dream,’’ Bennett concluded, after presenting 8 Inauguration Hazelip with the Lipscomb Charter and Medallion. One of the three goals in- volved in making Hazelip’s dream possible was ‘‘aca- demic excellence and hon- esty,’’ Hazelip said. “We dare not cheat intellect- ually. “The distinction between the scholar as scholar with his tools and the scholar as Christian making his inter- pretations and labeling them by his Christian view should not be embarras- sing.” Spiritual maturity was the second goal. ‘‘There are facts to be memorized, defi- nitions to be leamed, data to be assimilated, but there is also the element of ‘meaningfulness,’ ’’ said Hazelip. “The human being is not a neutral computer into whom we program cer- tain unrelated facts, but a ' person with deep-seated needs to which a Christian view of life speaks meaningfully. ”’ The final goal was pro- ducing an atmosphere of Christianity. “The kind of person we seek to mold is not the product of a cafete- ria approach to given quan- tities of knowledge, but the product of a climate, a kind of contagion of personality, which implies ‘faith ,’ ’’ he said. Nearly 3,000 people gath- ered to witness the inaugu- ration, the first in Lips- comb’s 95-year history. Although rain forced the ceremony indoors, it was performed without any complications. Representatives from 66 colleges and universities also attended the occasion, along with deputies from 19 learned societies. Most of Lipscomb’s sister Christian institutions sent delegates, Troy Bentley as did Harvard, Yale, Duke and many other prestigious American private and pub- lic schools. One of Lips- comb’s own faculty mem- bers, Dr. Robert McCready, led these representatives, since he graduated from Universite de Toulouse which was founded in 1229. Members of the music de- partment created a piece specifically for the inaugqu- ration. Jerome Reed of the music department com- posed music and Gerald Moore provided the ar- rangements for three of Walt Whitman’s “‘Inscrip- tions’ pieces. The perfor- mances included both the high school and college choruses, accompanied by the college band. A solo was performed by opera singer, Dr. Marion Cawood. “We who make up David Lipscomb College have be- come servants of an idea, a cause big enough and true enough to allow us to lose ourselves in devotion to it, and to take all consequent risks ... “I ask for your prayers and goodwill as together we march toward Lipscomb’‘s second century and the Christian era’s twenty-first century with a very possible dream overflowing our hearts,’’ Hazelip conclud- ed. Continued ... Almost 3,000 people came to hear the new president, Harold Hazelip, de- fine the possible dream.