Olivet Nazarene University - Aurora Yearbook (Bourbonnais, IL)

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Tr f ADMIMISTRATIOM FACULTY I ' aye Nineteen

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THESE are dark, difficult, but decisive days ; days that try our souls, test our mettle, but prove our character; days that may make us or break us. The world is in the throes of the most gigantic, brutal, and destructive war that civilization has ever known ; a global and total war ; a war that touches every nation, institution and individual in the entire world ; and it is being waged on the land, from the air, and on the sea. What shall be our reaction to these tragic times? We must not try to laugh it oft nor cast it aside and refuse responsibility. This would be fatal. Nor will we give up and say that it is a hopeless struggle, that we cannot succeed ; therefore we shall not try. This attitude would likewise be disastrous. The only alternative left is for us to gird ourselves like men and fight, to come to grips with those influ- ences that would defeat our high and holy purpose in life. We can win if we attack, and attack, and attack. This is the purpose of the administration for your alma mater in these trying times. We have climbed over the smouldering ruins of the past to heights undreamed of, and we shall use these times as stepping stones to a better and greater Olivet Nazarene College. We shall strengthen our stakes and lengthen our cords, and when the present holocaust is over and brighter days have dawned for the world there shall still be coming from the halls of our beloved col- lege, in ever increasing numbers, young men and young women trained in mind and filled with love and a passion to serve mankind and to point others to Him who said, I am the way, the truth, and the life . t e : Page Eighteen

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Administrative Officers Dr. A. L. Parrott came to Olivet College in Sep- tember of 1938. During the five years of his executive work thus far the college has pro- gressed so rapidly in all of its aspects that only the highest commendation is in order. Besides the general supervision of the college, special oversight of the various departments of instruc- tion and academic administration. Dr. Parrott ' s time is also devoted to church and civic affairs in which he is an active participant. As public relations director Dr. Lawrence Howe has a position that is quite demanding. It is he who contacts all prospective students and informs them of their possibilities here. With his rare sense of solid thinking and a keen sense of refined humor he is in demand as a lecturer wherever he is known. His activities, however, during the past year have been markedly minimized because of an illness from which he is now recovering. Always sympathetic and understanding with youth, Professor J. F. Leist, Treasurer and Busi- ness Manager of the college, might be character- ized as vertically diminutive but virtually dynamic. In his charge, besides having all the financial arrangements of the college go through his hands, are all student problems. Student finan- cial problems are especially within his jurisdic- tion. Few are the days that his office does not have a waiting list. Page Twenty