Mississippi College - Tribesman Yearbook (Clinton, MS)

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THROUGH 1 Nine years after Mississippi became a state, a college was founded which was destined to be a powerful factor in the history of this country. This college was none other than what is now known as Mississippi College. Between the generations of then and now lies more than a century of struggle and achievement, of the devotion and sacrifice of M. C. graduates who have given their time, their money, and their lives in the upbuilding of modern civilization. It is in commemoration of the con- secrated efforts of these who have gone out from this institution of learning that the present student body has chosen, within the pages of the 1933 Tribesman, to pay a simple tribute to the Mississippi College alumni, who have played such an important role in the progress of the Magnolia State. Quite frequently one may hear from those who are not familiar with the facts such a remark as this: “Mississippi College doesn’t turn out anything except teachers and preachers.” While it is true that the College, owned and controlled since 1850 by the Baptists of Mississippi, has turned out many well-trained preachers and teachers, without whom the state of Mississippi and the country at large would be poor indeed, yet the above statement is by no means true. However, though sometimes made in derision, this epithet, if it might be termed that, should in reality be considered a com- pliment. The very fact that the world has taken note of the preachers and teachers who have gone out from her historic walls serves to emphasize the place the College has taken in these two very important fields of leadership. But the part which she has played in these two fields of service is by no means the extent to which her influence has reached. Her graduates have blazed the trail in every walk of life, ever pressing on with the rugged spirit of the pioneer. A recent census of the alumni who graduated prior to 1932 will give evidence of the wide range of professions in which Mississippi College men are engaged. The tabulation will include only those who are now living, one thousand seven hundred and fifty in number. Two hundred and eighteen of these are active ministers of the gospel. Fifteen are serving in various other capacities in active denominational work on the home field. Fifteen others are missionaries on foreign fields. Of those going into the teaching profession, it is very significant that during the past year four of the Senior College Presidents in Mississippi were counted among Mississippi College alumni, and a fifth did the major part of his undergraduate work under her instructors. Six of the presidents of junior colleges and eighteen of the forty-six agricultural high school principals were graduates. Twenty-one of the county superintendents of schools in Mississippi were graduates or former students. Approximately seventy-five of the above number are teaching in colleges and uni- versities throughout the country. These are in all types of institutions, from the smallest college to the largest university, in all types of college work from straight teaching to research. PAGE 70

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DR. D. M. NELSON PRESIDENT Has assumed a new role in the PRIME OF LIFE WITH EVERY FIBER OF HIS SYMPATHETIC NATURE DE- VOTED AND CONSECRATED TO THE TASK THAT LIES BEFORE HIM. HIS ADMINISTRATION THIS YEAR GIVES PROMISE OF A LONG AND ILLUS- TRIOUS SERVICE.

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I the years 1 wo hundred and twenty-five are engaged in business pursuits, such as plantation managers, farmers, bankers, bank examiners, auditors, insurance men, oil experts, gov- ernment clerks, druggists, merchants, salesmen, brokers, real estate men, railway men, cotton buyers, editors, reporters, printers, managers of theatres, managers of tobacco companies, publishing houses, architects, employees of mail order houses, and jewelers. In another group — professional men — lawyers are the most numerous; one hun- dred and sixteen Mississippi College graduates are now engaged in law and politics. I his number includes federal attorneys, state supreme court judges, attorney-generals, governors, and congressmen. Seventy are now practicing medicine. This profession shows a decided increase among the alumni in the last few years. T hirty-three graduates are now in the technical professions: engineering, commer- cial chemistry, and commercial physics. One of these men did the principal work in developing cellophane. Some of the distinguished graduates whose pictures appear in this publication are: Or. J. B. Lawrence, Executive Secretary of the Home Mission Board; Dr. B. D. Gray, Corresponding Secretary of the Home Mission Board; Hon. Chas. H. Brough, ex-Governor of Arkansas; Mr. E. D. Kenna, head of the State Highway Commission ; Dr. H. M. Weathersby, Dean of Louisiana College; Dr. N. N. Puckett, Western Re- serve University; Dr. W. M. Kethley, President of Delta State Teachers College; Mr. J. G. Chastain, Jr., High School Superintendent; Dr. Lawrence T. Lowrey, President of Blue Mountain College; Mr. W. E. Holcomb, President of Mississippi Woman s College; Dr. Chas. D. Blassingame, surgeon; Dr. Charles D. Johnson, Presi- dent Ouachita College; Rev. J. L. Boyd, Pastor First Baptist Church of Vicksburg; Dr. E. God bold, Secretary of Baptist Association of Missouri; Dr. J. W. Lee, Pastor at Batesville; Mr. Robert Gandy, Insurance Agent in Jackson; Mr. W. A. Han- cock, Alumni Secretary; Mr. M. P. L. Berry, President of Hillman College; Hon. Albert S. Bozeman, Lawyer and Attorney; Dr. W. A. Sullivan, Pastor of Natchez l irst Church; Rev. J. G. Chastain, Missionary to Mexico; Hon. W. M. Whitting- ton, L. S. Representative; Dr. W. T. Lowrey, former President of Mississippi Col- lege; Hon. Greek Rice, State Attorney; Dr. O. M. Johnson, Head of the Department of Romance Languages of Leland Stanford; Dr. R. W. Hall, physician and spe- cialist in Jackson. I hese are only a few of the many who through the years have gone forth from this noble institution to write their names indelibly across the pages of human history. When they have left the stage, others will come, as Mississippi College continues to send out an ever-increasing Hood of w r ell-trained Christian manhood to hold aloft the beacon-light of truth and virtue. PAGE 21