Southern Adventist University - Triangle Yearbook (Collegedale, TN)

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s she to labor. CoUegedale is glad to honor her as one of its first graduates from the Business Course. Irene Tolhursf was born in the city of Cleveland. Ohio. Her parents were both engaged in medical missionary work, and ever since she can remember, her desire has been to follow this line of service. Even when she was a little girl she was often heard to say, When I get big I ' m going to be a doctor and help the widows in In- dia. With the exception of her first year, her entire school life has been spent in our schools. For five years she has been here at CoUegedale, and has proved her- self a friend to all in need, always ready to do little acts of kindness. We are sure that as she pursues the line of work in which she is most interested, her field of usefulness in the Lord ' s vineyard will be great. The year 1903 stands out prominently in the mind of Bernice Audree HoUister, because she was born in that year in Livermore. California. The close companion- ' lip existing between this only daughter and her parents was uninterrupted until came to CoUegedale in the fall of 1921 . As is usually the case with a minister ' s family, moves have been frequent, and the result has been that Bernice has had to change schools as often as two or three times in one year. However, she has made good progress and will complete the Advanced Normal Course with the next class. Then she will go out to help fill the world ' s great need of teachers and thus realize her life ' s ambition. James Lamar Cooper was born in Dixon, Mississippi, on the 31st day of De- cember in 1890. James Lamar has always been very fond of his mother, and not without reason, for it is largely through her influence that there have been placed in his character those elements which go to make up a true man. Three of Mr. Cooper ' s vacations have been taken up in the canvassing work, and two in con- nection with tent eflorts held in the Mississippi and Cumberland Conferences. He spent sixteen months during the war serving Uncle Sam, but is now finishing a thorough training preparatory to engaging in a still mightier warfare. Success be with Mr. Cooper as he works through the ministry for a sin-sick world. At Napoleon, Ohio, in March, 1900, on a farm near the beautiful Maumee River. Frances Elizabeth Cowdrick was born. Her early years were spent in the public schools. Shortly after the truth came to her home she entered the Southern Training School at Graysville, in 1913. Two years ago, we welcomed this beloved classmate to Southern Junior College. Elizabeth appreciates the value of an edu- cation and is willing to work to obtain one, as is shown by the fact that she has spent three summers in the canvassing field. From our association with her in classes and in the varied experiences of school life, we have come to regard her as having a noble Christian character. By her unselfish devotion to her brothers. Elizabeth has revealed a spirit of loyalty and helpfulness that will make her a valu- able worker in the cause of God. Charles Arthur Woolsey is perhaps the only member of our class who was born in a sod house. His parents were pioneering away out on the plains of Nebraska when Charles was born in the fall of 1891 . The family moved to Ten- nessee in 1906. Six years ago he came to Chattanooga for employment. It was here, shortly before being drafted on September 4, 1917, that he took a definite stand for the third angel ' s message. Nearly eleven months were spent in mili- tary service, most of the time in France. About a month after being honorably

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of her own joyous heart. Mildred is gifted with a keen, sharp, intellect, and is ambitious to use her talents in school work. If we were to tell you of a quiet, timid, retiring boy, who. having a star which never set, led his classmates for seven years, and then, following that star through four years of high school, still followed, could you believe it? We have such a person in William Haynsworth Jervey, who stands among us as one of the brightest in our class. A desire for service, and a love for the beautiful bless his life. His noble character is the result of years of training under a faithful mother. We predict for him a successful summer of canvassing, and then, six years of hard work on a medical course at Loma Linda. Our prayers go with Haynsworth. Alice Lay Pierce entered upon this life in the city of Nashville, March 3 1904. When she was only nine months old, her parents moved to Fort Worth, Texas, where her father was manager of the branch office of the Southern Publishing Association. She has never attended any schools other than our own. Her first grade work was taken at home, under her mother ' s instruction. In the fall of 1919 she came to Collegedale, and was baptized that year. Alice says that while the school has done much to give her high ideals, she still regards the influence of a Christian father and mother as the most potent factor in her life. From child- hood she has desired to become a nurse, and according to present plans will enter upon this course in the near future. Her reason for preferring this work is that it is necessary, and that this ministry offers so many opportunities for acts of kind- ness which may lead suffering ones to believe in the love of Christ. About eighteen years ago Helen Leanna Curtis was born in East Lake, Georgia. We do not have to guess about Helen ' s playing as a child, for we have her word that she never played with a girl in her life. She loved to play doctor and has not changed much since, for she says nothing will suit her but to be a first class nurse, and we should not be surprised to find her some day as a missionary in Africa. Wc see in her qualities that will make her a successful worker. It was on a hot sultry day in July, 1906, that a little cottage in the quaint old city of New Orleans welcomed the birth of Sanford Horton Ulmer. Under the training of faithful and God-fearing parents he early gave his heart to the Lord, and when, in the fall of 1920, he first sensed the world ' s great need, he came to Southern Junior College to begin a preparation for service. From the day of his arrival he commanded the respect of his classmates, and made many warm friends. The high standards which he has set for himself have been a guiding factor in shap- ing his life. Sanford holds an important office in the Collegedale Young People ' s Society, and has had a prominent part in the religious activities of the school. His highest desire is that he may be spent in helping other young people to catch the vision which has been the inspiration of his life. It was one of those May days, when all the world was attuned to nature, that welcomed the birth of Mary Earle Farley. Her quiet disposition, as we know her today, is in contrast, we understand, with that of her childhood days. She attended public school until she heard of Collegedale, and then she could not rest until she was permitted to enter school here last fall. She has always made high marks in her classes, mathematics being the study in which she took the keenest delight. Her heart has gone out to the islands of the South Seas, where she hopes some day

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discharged, he entered Southern Junior College. Mr. Woolsey is preparing for the ministry, but will continue in the colporteur work during vacations until his training is completed. He plans to spend next year taking a medical missionary course at Loma Linda. The turning point in his life came when he recognized that the affairs of this world are transient, and definitely decided to become connected with a movement that was sure to triumph. It was in the year of the Spanish American War that Fllen Gould Bird was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Since her father is a minister, her early schooling was received in a number of places. She attended Southern Training School at Grays- ville in 1913. which was her first year away from home. The next four years found her at Washington. After her father was called to Oakwood Junior College, she decided to attend S. J. C where she finished the Academic Course in 192!. Ellen has always been very fond of her father and mother, from whom she learned early lessons of obedience. To them she is indebted for her love of high ideals. The noble calling of a teacher is one of the ideals they held before her. It is because Ellen believes that there is no more important work than that of molding the lives of children during the formative period, that she has completed the Normal Course this year. The early part of Mildred dinger ' s childhood was spent in several different states, but Tennessee is her birthplace. As a child she was very unselfish and de- lighted in making others happy. Her faith in prayer was beautiful. She took all her wants to her Master, and then thanked Him when her petitions were an- swered. She and her mother were always close companions, never being separated until she came to Collegedale two years ago. From the time she could hold a book, she liked to play that she was a teacher. It is with the thought that ministering to the sick offers so many opportunities for teaching the people to look to Christ for physical, mental, and spiritual restoration that Mildred has chosen nursing as her profession. When the Master shall call, her answer will be, Here am I, send me. for she finds her keenest pleasure in service for others. Situated in a beautiful maple grove on the banks of the Maumee River, near Napoleon. Ohio, still stands the house where our esteemed classmate, Robert Ellsworth Cowdrick, was born some twenty-one years ago. In childhood Robert early displayed those essentials of character which tend to true greatness, not the least of which was implicit obedience. It is this same trait, which, unaltered through the passing years of youth, leads Robert to obey his Master. His greatest ambition is to help other young people to find the supreme satisfaction that comes from a life in Christ. Robert came to Southern Junior College three years ago to pre- pare himself for such a work. His upright integrity of purpose, his wealth of indi- vidualism, his noble Christian character, mark him in word and deed a man. It was in the month of June. 1906, that Annie Lou Sarrett, the youngest girl in our class, came to brighten the home of her parents in Knoxville. where she has lived ever since. At the age of five she began her kindergarten work in Knoxville. She entered church school there four years later, shortly after her parents had accepted the truth. When asked why she came to Southern Junior College, she just said, Why I never thought of going anywhere else, and so Collegedale welcomed her when school opened in the fall of 1 92 I . Annie Lou says that in past years she did not engage in some activities because her father and mother objected.