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

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IN DEDICATION TO DR. OLIN TRIVETTE BINKLEY AND DR. JOHN ALLEN EASLEY Dr. Olin Trivette Binkley and Dr. J. Allen Easier, Professors of Religion, symbolize an ideal that runs like a golden thread through all the history of Wake Forest College — the ideal of intelligent Christian leadership. The College owes its existence to a religious impulse and to the desire of a great and growing people, the Baptists of North Carolina, to foster education under religious influences and to provide an educated ministry. Throughout its one hundred and ten years the College has ever been alert to the problems of a changing world, has expanded its program as conditions required or as opportunities occurred, and has attained a distinguished place as a leader in liberal education, all in keeping with its motto, Pro hnmunitutc. But the original pur- pose remains unchanged, and the original ideal prevails and will prevail through the coming years. Dr. Binkley and Dr. Easley came to the College six years ago, men of mature scholarship, rich experience, and widely recognized leadership. Dr. Binkley received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Wake Forest College, the degree of Bachelor of Theology from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, the degree of Bachelor of Divinity from Yale Divinity School, and the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Yale University. For five years he served as pastor of the Chapel Hill Baptist Church, and during a part of this time was instructor in Sociology in the University of North Carolina. Dr. Easley received the Bachelor of Arts degree from Furman University, the degree of Master of Theology from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and the honorary degree Doctor of Divinity from Furman University. He pursued graduate studies in Harvard University and in Columbia University, served as chaplain in the United States Army, as pastor in Glasgow, Kentucky, and for ten years as pastor of the Wake Forest Baptist Church and as chaplain of the College. Temptations to work in what seemed to be enviable positions in larger fields have been declined, and the work of building and expanding the department, of making religion vital in the life of the College, of reaching the larger fields through young men and young women trained here, has been accepted as the greater mission. With profound respect for their scholarly attainments, with sincere appreciation for their guidance and stimulation as master teachers, we affectionately dedicate this issue of The Howler to Dr. Olin Trivette Binkley and to Dr. J. Allen Easley, and through them to the ideal of yes- terday, today and tomorrow — intelligent Christian leadership.

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1 ! K e? - ii IN MEMORIAM June 1948-May 1944 Thaddeus M. Hanks (missing in action) William M. Beddow William R. Butler, Jr. William H. Butler Walter C. Clark Edward L. Cheek Paul Check (missing in action) .Marshall Keid Check Hodge Collins (missing in action) Charles M. Cooper Roy T. Cox Richard Hoyle James E. Jennings (missing in action) Thomas C. Johnson (missing in action)