Wake Forest University - Howler Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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icaii9t To WILLIAM FRANCIS POWELL. B.A., D.D. Eloquent Orator. Eminent Preacher, Devoted Son oi vV ake Forest, this, the Eigh- teenth Edition of The Howler. IS Dedicated with the Admi- ration and Es- teem ol the Editors.

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I orewvrd IN this book we have at- tempted to give you a pic- ture of wnatsoever things are true, wnatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, vhatso- ever things make the heart happiest in our College Life. If it succeeds in making some heart lighter, some smile deeper, some song cheerier — thi s will be abun- dant re ' ward for our labors.

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' r t- r.. - jiTg I DISTINGUISHED and devoted son of Wake Forest College; Commencement Orator in the i 4 Class of 1899; Ji iih Fruitland Institute five iears in its days of struggle where be n as used f i r l ' ill ' i mightily in the inspiration of the mountain youth, entered ministry and rvent to Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1904; highly successful as pastor at First Church, Morganton, N. C; Calvary Church, Roanoke, Va.; First Church, Chattanooga, Tenn., and the First Church, Asheville, in which pulpit he preaches to leaders of the great mountain country and is heard every Sunday by tourists from all sections of America; Chaplain Reserve Infantry throughout the war, and speaker at large in behalf of every drive and loan launched during World War; head of Bible Department of Asheville Summer School for teachers of the South; lecturei on staff of Piedmont Lyceum Bureau; member Asheville Kiwanis Club; honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity con- ferred by Carson and Newman College of Tennessee; ideriti- fied with every forward movement for city and state; enthusi- astic worker in the cause of Truth, Justice, and Patriotism; unselfish servant of his fellowmen; and a faithful steward in the Kingdom of Cod. (6)