Samford University - Entre Nous Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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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.

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During World War ll, the Navy inhabited Howard. All the world is a stage, and we are only actors. To para- phrase a well-known speech from Shakespeare, we might say that this is the end of the play. There have been many actors upon the stage of Howard's lile, and now the curtain is being drawn on a glorious and inspiring history-one dominated by sacrifice and devotion on the part of those who have loved Howard College History is made at cornerstone laying of New Administration Building in 1955. YQCPI -e: ' ' .-+ ff QW