Trevecca Nazarene University - Darda Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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C H A PEL Only an hour a day, five days a week, but it has done more than scarcely any other influence during the school year to shape our destinies and to give us certainty as we project our thinking into the future. From week to week we have met in our college auditorium Monday through Friday at eleven, eager to know the details of the service, and equally inquiring as to the message and its effect on our thinking and our plans — concerned as to whether or not it would help us find the answers to some of the questions which bothered us but could not be expressed. And here in our songs and our prayers, in our testimonies and the messages we have found some of the answers for which we have sought. It would be difficult to say just what it has meant to have our faculty members before us on the platform — what it has meant to have appear before us various ones of our own number to sing and to thrill our hearts with melody and the truths presented — what it has added to our lives to be brought into such close contact with some of the leading evangelists, lecturers, and pastors of our church. Perhaps it would be impossible to say how much those things have mattered — perhaps it is not necessary for us to say or to know — but not one of us can forget the surge of new courage we have received in those hours, nor can we regret that we have sat with our classmates from day to day and with them have seen a vision of what we could do — that we have gathered around the altar at the close of services and resolved anew to do our share of the task. Whether it was an informal talk about keeping paper picked up around the buildings or a masterly sermon on the glories of the plan of salvation, day by day we felt our store of knowledge increased, and believed that we were making a faint bit of progress toward the person we wanted to become, and we gained a more reasonable hope that some day our search would be proved successful. And so from day to day we met. we sang, we prayed, we worshipped, and we were made better for our every gathering. Some of the out-of-town speakers for the year have been: Dr. Hugh C. Benner, President, Nazarene Theological Seminary, Kansas City. Mo. Rev. Carl M. Brown, Pastor. Church of the Nazarene, Old Hick- ory, Tenn. Rev. Raymond Browning, Evangelist, Former District Superintend- ent, North Carolina. Dr. Russell V. DeLong, Head of Department of Philosophy and Evangelism, Nazarene Theological Seminary. Rev. Bona Fleming, Evangelist. Mrs. Lilly Galloway, W. C. T. U. Representative. Rev. U. E. Harding, Evangelist. Rev. L. B. Hicks, Evangelist. Rev, Don Irwin, Graduate, Asbury Seminary, Wilmore. Ky. Rev. I. M. Israelson. Evangelist. Dr. Howard Jerrett, Evangelist. Rev, A. E. Kelly, Superintendent, South Carolina District Church of the Nazarene. Rev. E. L. McClurkan. (son of founder of Trevecca), Presbyterian Minister, Pikeville. Ky. Rev. Ed Rieff, Chaplain, U. S. Army. Rev. Paul Stewart, Evangelist Rev. Roy Stewart. Evangelist. Dr. Mendell Taylor, Head of Department of Church History, Nazarene Theological Seminary. Rev. W. M. Tidwell. Pastor. First Church of the Nazarene, Chat- tanooga, Tennessee. Rev. Leo Upton. Evangelist. REV. E. E. GROSSE

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THIS CAMPUS OF OURS The Trevecca campus of 1946 is the result of much dreaming, planning, hard work, and sacrifice. Some- where in Trevecca ' s future we believe there is a million- dollar campus, that there will be several new buildings, that the campus will extend to the Murfreesboro Road and there will be a private entrance to the school from that highway. But at present we are rejoicing over the completion of the New Administration Building and the improvements made in the other buildings on the campus. The ground has been broken for the New Men ' s Dormitory, which will be constructed on the tract of land just east of the present men ' s dormitory; con- struction will begin as soon as the money is on hand to start work. Across the road from this building will be the College hHill Church, for which excavation has already been made. The McClurkan Memorial Building, completed by the faN term in 1942, houses the college classrooms, audi- torium, chemistry laboratory, library, music studio and. at present, the grade school. We look forward to the day when we can have a Fine Arts Building, a separate library, and perhaps a science building. The New Administration Building, constructed on the site of the former administration building which burned in 1943, houses the high school classrooms on the second and the basement floors, and the offices on the first. Those who recall the crowded office Trevecca has had in recent years sigh with gratitude and surprise when they first visit the private offices of the heads of the departments, the president, registrar, financial secretary, and the bookkeeper. Hardwood floors . . . fluorescent lights . . . new desks and chairs . . . new typewriters . . . telephones on the desks . . . privacy and silence — these factors and others make office work a delight and a privilege. In this building is also the Book Store, DARDA Staff Office, Trev-Echoes Office, and a new prayer chapel. Dormitory accommodations consist of hiardy Hall, for the men, and McKay Hall for the women. In the base- ment of McKay Hall is the cafeteria, which has rather recently been brick-veneered, and equipped with Vene- tian blinds and a furnace. Other buildings on the campus consist of the presi- dent ' s home, the Louise Glbbs Apartment (better known as the Gresham Apartment), the College Print Shop, and a barn for the livestock. At various points on the cam- pus floodlights have been erected, so that whether one comes on the grounds during the day and sees the shadows and the charms the sunshine adds or enters at night and receives full benefit of the light ' s reflection through the trees and across the sloping lawn, either effect is equally beautiful and inspiring. Truly we appreciate the campus which is ours today, but in the light of the many Improvements which have been made in the past few months and the recent years we can see no reason for our not soon having such facilities as would be second to none as compared to the plant of any other Nazarene college.