Samford University - Entre Nous Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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715asa Yfafkweaf Walls Un the great seal of Samford University are written the words, Deo et Doctrinaef' God and Instruction. These words give the reasons for the existence of Samford University. ftll of its plans, activities, and goals are centered around Cod and Instruction. Since the chartering of Samford in 1841 by the Baptists of Alabama. the University has had as its purpose the promotion of Christianity through the development of Christian character. scholastic attainment. and a sense of personal responsibility to God and man. For 124 years Samford University has been a hallowed institution in the purest sense of the word. Its being and purpose are hallowed. Its people are hallowed. Its very halls are hallowed. It has been set apart for holy purposes. forthe service and worship of Cod, for the holy development of men-spiritually, mentally, physically, socially. Today Samford University continues its work, enthusiastically and unceasingly, for academic excellence in a Christian environment. Samford University first opened its doors as Howard College in Marion, Alabama, in 1842 with an enrollment of nine young men. Her first president was Samuel S. Sher- man who put 'cfeet to his prayersv and rolled a wheelbarrow about Marion collecting books for the first Howard library. With this kind of interest and hard work the old Howard College grew fast. In 1887 she moved to the East Lake section of Birmingham where for many years students attended classes in buildings such as Old Main and courted under the shade of old Sherman'Oak. This campus was the scene of the fiery literary societies whose debating contests were the popular attraction of the year, the football classics between Howard and Birming- ham Southcrn, the swiping of Southe1'n's panther, the navy unit at Howard during WOI'1d War ll. and many other events written in the memories of thousands of Howardites. In l957 the College moved across town to her third home, the hallowed hills above Lakeshore Drive in Shades Valley. The sigh was 'gLakeshore at last! In 1965 Howard College be- came Samford University, named for Frank Park Samford, chairman of the Howard Board of Trustees for over 25 years, and chairman of the Liberty National Life Insurance Com- pany. Today Samford University is the largest privately supported and fully accredited four- year co-educational university in Alabama. V Q31 DOC Q! Q 410 Tsxv o nv' . lu , T 4, 4, ll. A - 5? . .YM f ,Y 18.12

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Nluch has been said of the Spirit of Samford. Students have said it dwells in the steeple of Reid Chapel, and if one has the true Spirit of Samford within himself, he can see the Crimson and Blue lights of Samford shining in the steeple at night. Samford has been called The Friendly Universityf, Each year as new students arrive on campus they are handed in spirit, as Dean John A. Fincher has said, a torch of friendlinessf' It is up to them to keep this torch burning and when leaving, pass it on to incoming freshmen. Surely, the Spirit of Samford involves many things, but it is founded on Samford's hal- lowed reasons for being, the service and worship of Cod. Perhaps it can best be seen in the lives of members of the Samford University family-in the distinguished and en- thusiastic leadership of Dr. Wright, in the faithful support of men like Frank Park Sam- ford, Dr. John Buchanan, and A. Hamilton Reid, in the courage, work, and dreams for the Greater Howard .of Major Davis, in the respect for life of Dr. Kurz, in the love, care, and promotion of the old Howard that ML Howard, Dean P. P. Burns, had, in the act of a student stopping to gaze at the Mountain in fall, in a friendship fonned that leads to the holy bonds of matrimony, in the everyday greeting of Ubi! to fellow Samfordites walking across campus, in the closeness of fraternity brothers, sorority sisters, hallmates, and roommates, in the loyalty of class members who stay to the end in order to finish the float, in a cheerleader who can yell no more, in a cooperative rat, in Christmas carols and decorating the tree, in Step-Sing competition, in the applause for the students hon- ored on Scholarship Day, in the stories told at the Candlelight Dinner, in walking to the sound of Pomp and Circumstancef' in receiving the diploma, in appreciating Mom and Pop, in working hard and doing one's best, in uangels unaware and calloused hands and silent tears,,' in the hymn's words, I'll follow my Christ who loves me so, Wher- ever He leads I'1l go. We like to think of Samford as the best kind of school. We like to think of it as a family or an academic community, for a family and a community work together for the common good of all members, and still allow room for individual differences. The Alma Nlatcr speaks of Samfordites as loving sons. So it is that this Samford, this group of buildings on 400-acres, this heritage, this people on campus and throughout the world, this mu:-ic of the heart, this intangible, hallowed spirit, is real and working and growing. So may it be as long as earth shall last.