Southern Adventist University - Triangle Yearbook (Collegedale, TN)

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TRIANGLE — 1 c cidncxn Junior i s Uea e Because of a certain conservatism, both real and traditional, it has always been a difficult matter for any new movement, whether religious or social to become quickly rooted in the South. And so the development of Adventism has been somewhat slow in this section, and particularly is this state- ment true in reference to the educational phase of the work. It was not until 1893 that the first Adventist school in Tennessee was established in Graysville, and later chartered under the name of Southern Training School. The institution was operated in this location until 1916, when a change was deemed expedient, and a new site was chosen on the Atlanta Division of the Southern Railway, eighteen miles east of Chattanooga. With the move came another name, and now SOUTHERN JUNIOR COLLEGE serves the constituency of the southeastern states. Under the guidance of the five different men who have had the leadership of the school during its second existence, the development of the institution, attended by the blessing of God, has been nothing short of phenomenal. The struggle for life and growth was begun in 1916 on a farm with an estimated value of $12,000 and now, only twenty-four years later, there is an established plant of marvelous beauty with a present worth of $366,000. In an attempt to keep faith with the Adventist denomination, which teaches the threefold devel- opment of the hand, the head, and the heart, and in an effort to help needy students earn their way through school, Southern Junior College, of necessity, gives a strongly industrial mould to its training. At present, under its own auspices it is operating a garage, a woodcraft shop, a broom factory, and a printing plant; and under alien management, a hosiery mill. In addition to these financial enterprises, the college has farm, garden, and dairying interests which furnish work to a number of students, and play an important part in meeting the needs of the cafeteria. Even in the face of the staggering unemployment situation, Southern Junior College has a firmly rooted conviction that the greatest want of the world is the want of men — not just human beings who have no thoughts or desires higher than the satisfaction of a longing for creature comforts — but real men and women who will dedicate their lives to the service of God and humanity, and who will stand for right though the heavens fall. In an attempt to meet this challenge, no effort is spared on the part of the college to instill into the minds of its students those rugged principles of upright living which will make of them worthy citizens of the present world, and prospective members of the eternal commonwealth, where, through- out the endless ages every nation, kindred, tongue, and people will render loving service and obedience to the Creator and Ruler of the universe. — Maude Jones 10