Samford University - Entre Nous Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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In 1902 Dr. A. P. Montague came from Furman University to become the new President of Howard. He set about to raise a needed endowment and equally needed new buildings. Renfroe Hall re- placed the Barn , and a library building, named in honor of Dr. Montague's wife, was constructed. At this time, Howard was a fully operating military institute with a high-stepping cadet corps. Among the notable memories of Howard's military life was a parade before President Teddy Roosevelt, led by a certain P. P. Burns. Dr. James M. Shelborne succeeded President Montague in 1912. The new President, not fore-seeing the World War, abolished military training. In the same year 119133 women were admitted as students for the first time. In 1922 a science hall was erected and named in honor of former Professor A. D. Smith. Howard achieved academic recognition in 1920, the fifth Southern Baptist College to be admitted to the Southern Association of College and Secondary Schools. Mamie Mell Smith Hall Know the East End Hospitalj was built as a dormitory for women. ln 1930 Causey Gymnasium was opened for use. During these early days of the twentieth century, Howard became something of a football power in the South, playing such teams as the University of Alabama, Auburn, and the University of Miami. lt was during this period that Howard and Birmingham-Southern began their famous cross-town rivalry which still carries strongly today. The Howard-Southern football game, which was traditionally a Thanksgiving Day affair at Legion Field, was always a sell-out. Downtown Birmingham traffic was stopped for hours to give way to parades and demonstrations by student bodies of both colleges. Such escapades as stealing the Southern Panther were more frequent than rare. Through the years Howard has had many distinguished persons num bered among her alumni, such men as: John B. Sampey, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, .lohn W. McCollum, first Southern Baptist missionary to Japan, and Colonel Samuel H. Lockett, who designed the base of the Statue of Liberty. Other famous Howard graduates are Gail Patrick and Beebe Anderson of Hollywood and Broadway, Dr. Everett G. McDonough, inventor of the Toni Home Permanent, Dr. W. W. Adams President of Central Seminary, Dr. P. R. Bell, Nuclear chemist at Oak Ridge Tennessee, Dr. R. A. Lambert, President Emeritus of Columbia University Medical School, and Elizabeth Vincent, concert soloist who made her debut at Carnegie Hall.

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Ill JQEJOJITICIOII CF fs Lk F101 'SP TRESLPEIIC' President of Student Body, Bill Baggett, presents Maior Davis with citation in be- half of student body. In July ol 1939, Maior Harwell G. Davis began the longest and most prosperous administration in the history of Howard College. Under the leadership of Maior Davis, the College soon liquidated a standing debt and established itself on a sound financial base. In 1947, Howard College established the Extension Division of Christian Training, a movement which is being rapidly adopted by sister Baptist institutions. The Second world War inter- rupted the normal flow of life at Howard, and from July, 1943 to No- vember, 1945, the College had a unit of the Navy V-12 College Training Program. ln 1951 the College established an Evening Division. In 1946 How- ard acquired a tract of four hundred acres in Shades Valley in the Homewood- Mountain Brook area ot Birmingham. The Alabama Baptist State Convention authorized the building ol o new college on this site, and work was begun in 1954. lt is to this new site that Howard will move in September of 1957.