Montgomery Bell Academy - Bell Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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TRADITION AND BALANCE WITH The gate to the school grounds as it ap- peared in 1921, before Harding Road was the huge boulevard it is today. Pictures such as this appeared frequently in earlier MBA publications, when aerial shots were within the realm of economic feasibility. The main building is in the foreground, to its left the old auditorium, now the Old Science Building. In the rear is what was then the gymnasium, the present Wallace Hall. The new gym and the football field had not yet been built Montgomery Bell Academy is a private school established in deep tradition. At MBA respect for tradition and institution continues in a rapidly progressing society. Progress, on the other hand, has equal meaning here, for progress in education is what maintains MBA’s excellence as a prep- school; progress in other fields prepares an MBA student for the quickly advancing life in our world. Indeed, tradition and progress are in balance with each other.

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THE BELL 1966 Published by the student body of MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY Nashville, Tennessee ALFRED SHARP Editor JOSEPH STRAYHORN Business Manager 1

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PROGRESS IN I EACH OTHER . . . Before 1924, when the main building burned down, it was a copy of a Virginia plantation. Here the building exhibits the “down-south” flavor which is a part of its tradition. The school building of 1913, in what is now the heart of downtown Nashville. ' A- . The new, modern gymnasium, dedicated in 1957, which made possible the conversion of the old gym into Wallace Hall.