Southern Adventist University - Triangle Yearbook (Collegedale, TN)

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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.

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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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1 his home training has not been in vain, for now loyalty to principle determines her attitude toward these same activities. Believing that she can serve humani ' .y best by ministering to the sick, and that the time will never come when this line of work must be given up, Annie L.ou is determined to become an efficient nurse. Of all people who have a right to livfe at Collegedale, James Carl Holland has — well, we were going to say, the most, but we do think he has as much as anyone else. He has been here the larger part of every school year, since the establish- ment of the institution. Coming from Alabama, he posesses that friendliness, and kind-heartedness for which the South is noted. Carl also has perseverance and stick-to-it-iveness, for he has canvassed every summer since 1915. He is going to be a minister, and we know he will be true to his calling. Her birthplace was in Tennessee Lane, Tennessee, — where she was born in 1905. Spending her childhood days on the farm, among the trees, and reveling in the beauties of nature, she seemed to absorb the sunshine of her surroundings. From the time she came to Collegedale, she purposed to prepare herself to use this stored up sunshine in dispelling the clouds which gather around the sick and suffering. One who is always happy, with a cheery word and a winning smile; one whose ruling motive is to incorporate into the fabric of her character those principles of Christian living which will enable her to be rightly termed, a child of God — such is our Ruby — Ruby lone Wade. Six years ago. alone and without money, Cora Fox came to Southern Junior College from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Carolina. Her determined and stead- fast purpose was to obtain an education. This goal she set for herself has carried her through many trying circumstances. It is her boast that she is the first young person in the oldest Adventist church in the South to go away to school, and thhs blaze the way for other young people of that community. She has always been interested in the religious activities of the school, being a leader of one of the prayer bands. For her, the commercial work has the greatest appeal, so she is preparing herself for service in our offices.