Randolph Macon College - Helianthus Yearbook (Lynchburg, VA)

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LINA SOLOMON Senior Class President

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A Year of Remembering This, our fiftieth year, is a special time for remembering and paying tribute to our valuable heritage. As we look back to the beginnings and trace the steps of steady expansion, we see that through all the years the college has held to the same lofty ideals and purposes that mark the early days and that have been the creating factors in the college as we now know it. The founder, Dr. William Waugh Smith, was the guiding spirit throughout the experimental years. It was chiefly through his enthusiasm and determination that the college gained a firm footing, won national recognition, and established security for the future. Dr. Smith served as president from the opening in 1893 until his death in 1912. He was succeeded in 1913 by Dr. William A. Webb, who presided over the college for the next six years. Dr. D. R. Anderson became president in 1920 and served until 1931. The following two years the dean, Dr. N. A. Pattillo, was acting president, as he had been twice before for shorter periods. In 1933 Dr. Theodore Henley Jack became president. These leaders have held to the high standards set by Dr. Smith and have carried out the program of development that he initiated. Much progress has been made since the college opened its doors on September 14, 1893. At that time there were thirty-six resident students and seventy-one day students; for the present session the enrollment is 643, of whom about six hundred live on campus. The first faculty numbered eleven, and there are now seventy members in residence. The curriculum has been enlarged far beyond its original scope; and the present cluster of buildings is in great contrast to the one structure that was sufficient in the beginning. Ran- dolph-Macon has received well merited recognition: it was the first woman’s college south of the Potomac to ke granted a charter of Phi Beta Kappa; it is on the approved list of the Association of American Universities; and its graduates have been eligible to the American Association of University Women since the founding of that organization. Today more than nine thousand women, nearly four thousand of whom are graduates, claim Randolph-Macon as their alma mater; they have proved themselves worthy of the heritage in which we share. Randolph-Macon is a college of traditions that have been carefully nurtured by each succeeding generation. The language is not so ornate, but the same earnestness and sincerity, the same loyalty and pride are character- istic today that were manifested by the contributors to the first annual, Ma- coniana, in 1899. That annual was lovingly dedicated “To those who follow us” with good wishes for our success in our success in our kindred occupations. The first Helianthus in 1901 expressed the hope that it would bloom from year to year as a symbol of goodness and nobility. To those forerunners we extend our appreciation. It is the summation of all the years of effort and lofty idealism that has brought about the glowing realization of their dreams. —|SUTRELLE WISHART.

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