Northern Baptist Theological Seminary - Yearbook (Lombard, IL)

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orthern Doors, doors, myriad doors! Where do they lead to? What will they reveal to anyone opening them? Plfhy not open them to see? Turn a doorlznob or lift the latch and walk in. These doors are home to numbers of our students, while here they pay their bills, eat, register, and see their profes- sors . . . Down this stairway is our place of relaxation and fun . . . Here is an apartment where students from many places have found fellowship and under- standing . . . Over there is the library with a surprising book or a needed one . . .Directly in front of you are the class- rooms where on successive hours you can hear music, speech, Christian education, history, literature, theology . . .And here is the door which leads to worship, self- examination, and new resolution. There is one door which we have not pictured here, but it is as real, or more so, as any of the wooden or glass ones. This is the door of our hearts and lives through which the Christ comes in and out as He unfolds to us the abundant life with its multitudes of opportunities for study, serfvice, and worship. LSW

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Byrne Hall The interest to establish a new theological school of the Baptist denomination in Chicago was gen- erated in 1913, under the leadership of Dr. David Heagle, Dr. John M. Dean, John H. Byrne, M.D., and Thomas Bolger. The Seminary found its first home With the Second Baptist Church. The Way proficentially opened, in 1920, for the securing of the mansion and additional building lots of the Wolfe estate, which is our present location. The splendid building had been a home of Wealth and had in its three stories commodious classrooms, ac- commodations for the modest library and even a chapel. This building Was named in honor of Dr. Byrne, who was one of the four seminary founders, and Who served as chairman of the Board of Trustees during those early years. Dr. James Mosteller and Dr. Edgar Boss . . . Deans of the seminary and college respectively . . . Because of the rapid growth of the school, Byrne Hall found itself bursting at its seams. Although other accommodations had to be found for the school's many activities, Byrne Hall still serves as a vital focal point of seminary and college life. The Hall presently houses the Administrative Staff and offices, the Correspondence Department, the dining room, and offices for the professors. This massive gray structure, a reminder of Chicago's tinsel years, stands like the Rock of Gibraltar --a sym- bol of N orthern's past. Turn the knob of its gran- diose door of oak, brass, and glass, and enter into a realm of activity and prayerful optimism-Meet the people who are charting N orthern's course for the future. . . . advocates of higher academic standards and more efficient Christian laborers. 4 ,A r. A Y- El A 1