McMurry University - Totem Yearbook (Abilene, TX)

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DR. GORDON BENNETT Executive Vice President This year has been an unusual one. First it was a year of expectancy. Increase in enrollment, plans for new buildings, men in President and Boyce Halls, girls in Gold Star all added to the air of excitement and anticipation. Surely, the year has lived up to our ex- pectations. Second, it has been a year of accomplishments. This book records many of our athletic, social, and physi- cal achievements. All about us are evidences of real and tangible progress. Finally it has been a joyful year. We have’ had our successes, joyous relationships, rich spiritual development and good mental growth. Many have come into a new knowledge of personal service. Some have l ccn en- livened with new inspirations. All have grown in char- acter through the many happy experiences of the year. Our hope is that each of you may always meet life with high expectancy, great accomplishment and ever- lasting wholesome joy. — Cordon R. Bennett dr. w. b. McDaniel Administrative Vice President It is certainly a pleasure and a privilege again, as always, for me to write a message for this outstanding publication of the students of McMurry College. This annual publication presents a comprehensive chronicle of the events of the past year anu will be a valuable and prized possession of every student. To me it seems that McMurry College has definitely •cached a new en» in its forward progress. With an in- crease tliis year in its student body of nearly twenty-five ?er cent, and with the approval bv the Board of Trustees or the construction of two new dormitories and a class- •oom building, McMurry College is emerging into a ;lorious period of service to its student Ixxly and the communities of the Northwest Texas and New Mexico inferences. You who are now its students are to be •ongratulated on the part you l»ave played and, more mportant, on the part you will play in the future. Your Uma Mater cannot help but grow in size and service and 'ou, if you are a loyal McMurrian, will be most influ- ential in the years to come in its expansion program. — V.B. McDaniel 1 17

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dr HAROLD G. COOKE President of McMurry College ON CHRISTIAN EDUCATION Education is a word that needs continually to he re-defined. The reason for this is the with divergence of what educators themselves think education is. and what it consists of. Many so-called “educators” hold that education is solely a matter of the imparting and acquisition of facts and information, of research for more and more facts, and the discovery of more and more information. Others think that education is the cultivation and development of the capacity and technique of study and thought, and the ability to remember, reason, and make judgments. The materialistic-humanistic philosophy of education limits the learning process by ignoring the most im- portant aspect of human reality and experience. It tends to destroy the highest, noblest, and most enduring ele- ment of human personality. To lose one's l clief and faith in God and spiritual reality or to fail in the educational process to create an atmosphere that naturally leads to the acceptance of Cod, to the enrichment of the Spirit, and commitment to ethical and moral living — this is the greatest possible damage to human life. T! materialistic-humanistic philosophy of education destroys the ultimate object and purpose of human existence. On the other hand we have the philosophy of education that is referred to its Christian Education. This philosophy which is, or h ast should be, current in Christian institutions of higher learning, is based on a positive and unwavering faith in Cod and tho spiritv interpretation of the universe. This philosophy of Christum Education seeks to create, and to work in. an atmosphere and environment of spiritual reality a: certitude. It endeavors to develop in the minds and hearts of students the Christian experience, spiritual understanding, and moral a ethical attitudes and convictions that are in keeping with the teachings of Jesus and the tenets of the Christian faith. This philosophy of Christian Education is the philosophy of McMurry College, and the controlling and dominant purpose of K Murry’s educational program. True, in tin soundest and most exacting manner, we seek to impart facts and information, and to seek after and teach more a more truth. True, we strive to strengthen the filter of the brain, and to heighten the capacity of the memory, reason, and will. Hut al ove all, we at McMurry College strive to orientate the human personality to the infinitely important reality of Cod. We i dcavnr to bring students to the experience of. and commitment to. spiritual existence. Our guiding purpose is to bring young people acknowledge and accept Christ, and to walk in humble fellowship with Cod. 16 Harold C. Cook, President

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McMurry Administrative Officials DR. JOE C. HUMPHREY Academic Dean CARNET CRACY Comptroller