Trevecca Nazarene University - Darda Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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Mrs. Mackey and Gene at home In the new office It seems only yesterday that I first came to Trevecca in the fall of 1925. The college was located on Gallatin Road, and John T. Ben- son, Sr., was president at that time. The effort of the college was to have an enrollment of fifty college students. There were eighty to one hundred in high school, and fifty to sixty in grade school. I had been teaching in the public schools since 1915. At Peabody College I had completed one quarter of graduate work. My teaching was in the high school for the first few days, and then I was transferred to French and mathematics in college. During my third of a century at Trevecca College I have served on four campuses, and have served to the best of my ability from the work of a janitor to that of the presidency. If Trevecca makes approximately the same progress in the next twenty years that it has in the past twent y, it should have a fully accred- ited graduate school offering the Doctor of Theology and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. It should have campuses and equipment val- ued at ten million dollars, and should have two thousand students enrolled on the main campus and five hundred in each of two affili- ated junior colleges. A. B. Mackey