Samford University - Entre Nous Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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cgkrougd fda geafff ....... v 5 Hg' 'N Y EI ' -'Q , v. .ga---3-15, , 1 sn. 1... 4 kaufen! in fge pad . . eruing fAe H-eftenf . . arming fLe jufure ...... For one hundred eighteen years Howard College has been dedicated to the Search for Truth -for the Eternal Truth of Life, for the blessed truth of Service and Character, and for the liberating Truth of Scholarship. One word has characterized its distinguished history,-growth in service to'community, state, and nation, denomination, and to world missions. For nearly a century and a quarter students have gone forth from this institution to enrich our heritage with minds enlightened with knowledge, hearts warmed in religious nurture and spirits quickened with ideals of useful service. Through the years Howard has given superior training to homemakers, ministers, missionaries, teachers, chemists, pharmacists, physicians, and leaders in business and industry. As early as 1830, Baptist leaders in Alabama, under the impulse of the foreign mission movement were moved to educate the leaders of the denomination. Consequently, a manual labor institute was opened near Greensboro, Alabama, but was abandoned in less than two years. Following this beginning the Alabama Baptist Convention in 1841 procured a charter for a school with both literary and theo- logical departments. So Howard College, A School of Prophets, opened its doors on January 3, 1842, with nine boys. The first President was Samuel Sterling Sherman, a graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont. The great oak on the East Lake campus and Sherman Oak II on the new campus honor his name. Some seventeen hundred volumes comprised the first library. They were given by the citizens of -Marion upon the earnest solicitation of President Sherman, who collected the volumes by trundling a wheelbarrow from house to house. When the first class was graduated in 1848 there were seven graduates and 145 students. In 1852 Reverend Talbird, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Montgomery, succeeded Sherman as president and soon increased the endowment. ln 1854 the college suffered a tragic midnight fire which iniured two professors and eighteen students and left all buildings, apparatus and books a smouldering ruin. A faithful and heroic slave named Harry became a never-to-be-forgotton hero when he gave his life to awaken the sleeping boys. In the years before the outbreak of the War Between the States, Howard had attained a high degree of success and pros- perity. In the hour of the tragedy of war, Howard prepared to make her contribution to the defense of the people and the way of life of which the college was a part. Howard professors and students were among the first to follow President Talbird into service in the Confederate Army, he was later Colonel of the Forty-First Alabama Regiment. Brigadier General lsham W. Garrott, Presi- dent of the Howard Board of Trustees was a member of the Confederate Congress and was killed in action at Vicksburg. One or two older professors and a few young boys comprised the school during most of the war. In 1863 the trustees authorized the use of two dormitories as a Confederate hospital. Some 406 soldiers were treated, and many of these received some instruction while convalescent. Marion was occupied by Federal forces in the Spring of 1865, and Union troops seized the college buildings. One of the dormitories was commandeered by freed Negroes.