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The success which attended Dr. Wingate ' s agencj- for the College, from 1852-54. led its friends to hope that Wake Forest might become one of the outstanding colleges of the country. With its debts gone, or provided for. the one thing most needed was endowment. In securing this the youthful president took the lead. For this he prayed. He early matured his plans. The decisive day came at the Baptist State Convention of 1856. whose meetings were held in the hall of the House of Commons of the State Capitol. Our cut represents Wingate, after a night of prayer, in conference with C. W. Skinner and Richard Pelton. of Edentcn. A few minutes after this interview, Dr. Thomas E. Skinner, son of C. W. Skinner, came before the Convention, which was considering the matter of raising an unencumbered endowment of $50,000 for the College. Already, according to the record. A feeling of deep and solemn interest and anxiety pervaded the entire body, as well as the crowd of spectators in the gallery. Like a suppressed subterranean fire it only needed an outlet to make itself seen as well as felt. At this juncture. Dr. Skinner announced gifts of $5,000each (or his father and Mr. Felton, t» which he added $3,000. The effect was magical. The desired endowment was raised and in the hands of the College Treasurer before the opening of the Civil War. THE C 1L]LEGE « IMIIHIIiUIIIIIIUIIIIUillirHIIIIIIIIIIIUiUilillillHUillllltllllllllllitlHlilllllllllllUliiliiilllllHlllilllllilllllllillilMtkV
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« ! p p5 S BSgaRgg55BJS gS j5f5 S S 3n iHcmoriam WILLIAM B. ROYALL, M.A., D.D,, LL.D., ' 61 DIED JANL ' ARY, 1928 WILLIAM A. JOHNSON. B.A., M.D . ' 24 DIED NOVEMBER. 1927 CARL JOHNSON SALISBURY. ' 29 DIED FEBRUARY. 1928 31umni J. W. BIVENS. -83 J. A. McDANIEL. ' 89 DIED DECEMBER. 1927 Merchant Plantcr M. L. FOWLER. ' 70 J. C. CADDELL. ' 78 J. D. HACKNEY, ' 30 W. C. DOWD. ' 89 W. I. SINGLETARY, 07 ' ; »°se ' v r C. C. CHEEK, ' 00 C. C. HAYMORE, 70 E. L. MIDDLETON. ' 89
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