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SSoouutthheerrnn AAddvveennttiisstt UUnniivveerrssiittyy KKnnoowwlleeddggeeEExxcchhaannggee@@SSoouutthheerrnn Alumni Newsletter University Archives & Publications Spring 1992 SSoouutthheerrnn CCoolllleeggee ooff SSeevveenntthh--ddaayy AAddvveennttiissttss SSpprriinngg 11999922 Southern College of Seventh-day Adventists Follow this and additional works at: https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/alumni_newsletter RReeccoommmmeennddeedd CCiittaattiioonn Southern College of Seventh-day Adventists, "Southern College of Seventh-day Adventists Spring 1992" (1992). Alumni Newsletter. 131. https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/alumni_newsletter/131 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the University Archives & Publications at KnowledgeExchange@Southern. It has been accepted for inclusion in Alumni Newsletter by an authorized administrator of KnowledgeExchange@Southern. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2009 with funding from Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/southerncolumns441coll i "I « OPENING COMMENTS LB«.lltJ,l:UJg1 s VOLUME44,NUMBER1 Tribute to the Past DorisStickleBurdick Editor IngridSkantz EditorialAssistant MarkdeFlutter This issueofSouthern Columnsisa special CoverPhoto one for students in Dr. Lynn Sauls' Maga- zine and Feature Article Writing class. Each ofus was involved in deciding the theme SouthernCollege and finding and writing stories. As editor, I'd like to thank my classmates for helping make this an issue DonaldSahly wecould be proud ofand many thanks to Dr. Sauls President forhis patienceand his good advice to betterour FloydGreenleaf,'55 articles. AcademicAdministration Since Southern is celebrating 100 years ofservice, DaleBidwell wedecided to takea lookback at what made us Finance what we are today. We havea lot tobe proud ofin thiscollege and it is ourdesire that after you have WSitluldieanmtWSoerhvliecress finished reading this issue, you too will feel someofthispride. This is our tribute to thepast, with the hope that it willhelp you makea commitment to the JackMcClarty Development future. RonBarrow Admissions/CollegeRelations JamesAshlock Alumni/CollegeRelations Brenda K. Pooley DorisBurdick Pubucations/MediaRelations Student Editor Pleaseaddressalumni correspondenceto: SouthernCollege AlumniAssociation P.O.Box370 Collegedale,TN37315 (615)238-2827 FAX(615)238-3(X)l COVER; Everycollegecampus has itsadministration building, its AlumniAssociationOmcERS 1992-1994 classrooms, and its labs. Buta doll house? Thecampus structure most DavidWinters,'71 distinctively Southern'sown is the I'resident restored Doll House, built by]im VerleThompson,'69 Thatcherforhis littlegirl. It was President-Elect from Thatcher that theoriginal 280- acre Limestone Valley StockFarm HowardKennedy,'57 PastPresident waspurchased toaccommodate the campus when theschool moved in 1916 after25years in Graysville. Southern Columns is theofficial Pictorially tying thepast to the magazine of Southern College of futureare Bo Bengeand Bethany Seventh-day Adventists, published Canosa. Iftime were to be, theycould bytheAlumniAssociationtoprovide news and information to former graduate in theclassof2009. See students, residents ofthe Soutliern page4forthesagaoftheDollHouse. Union,andotherinterestedparties. Copyright1992bySouthernCollege ofSeventh-dayAdventists. VOLUME NUMBER 2 • 44, 1 ATRIBUTETOTHE PAST • A COMMITMENTTOTHE FUTURE The President Comments When Cake the Has One Hundred Candles ehavecometogethertodaytocelebrate lookbackonusandsay, "Theydidagreatjob"?Ipray a milestone in the history of Southern thateachofuswillconsiderthisquestioncarefully. It mm^ College. An event like this draws us is ourresponsibility to do so. W mW togetherandgivesusanopportunityto Those who began this school 100 years ago never ^^^M reflect upon the past as well as to look intended it to last 100 years. Their expectation of where we are going in the future. Christ'ssoonreturnwasforemostintheirminds.This 1 consider it a privilege to be presi- school was to prepare youth to meet God in the very dent ofSouthern at this special time in near future. That is still our goal here at Southern itshistory.Ibelieveeachofusshouldbeboththankful College. It is my desire to keep that hope of Jesus' and proud for this opportunity to be a part of what return ever before us. I believe that event will take Southern College is all about in this significant year. place in my lifetime. "Happyarethosewhodreanuireamsandarereadytopa\/ It is not my wish to plan and build so we can theprice to make them come true," said a man named L. celebrate 200 years or even 125 years. How is it with J. Suenens. Many in the history of this school have youtoday? 1 would askthateachofushererightnow beenherebeforeus.Whatweseeheretodayisadirect takea few moments torededicateour—selves toChrist resultoftheirdreams,theirsacrifices,andtheirability and Hisservice.Jesusiscomingagain andSouthern to work. We are fortunate to enjoy the fruits of their Collegeexistsonly forthatend. Ifwhat wedo here is labor. not directed to that goal, it is a waste of all that has Weneedtopaytributetomanytoday:board mem- gone into this school. We can not and will not waste bers who have served and guided, alumni who have ourrich heritage,itsenergyand sacrifice. Wemustbe generouslygiven,theCommitteeof100whosestrong goodstewardsofagreatgift.O—urtestliesinourability financial support has built buildings and improved to keep this college on track to make it everything ourcampus in so many ways. God would haveitbe.Ourheritagedemandsnoless. Ialsowould paytributetothecurrentfaculty. 1am We must remain committed to the principle that continually impressed with the talent, theability, the education however logically reasoned or brilliantly dedication to the task, that 1 see from day to day. expressedisemptyandvaluelesswithoutJesusChrist. 1wanttoalsotaketimetoexpressmyappreciation Our philosophy teaches us to recognize that all tothestudentbody. I'vebeenpleasedthisspecialyear achievementsoftodaycomefrom and belong toGod that—we havea special group on campus. The leader- and God alone. 1 believe in the future of Southern ship intheSA,RA'sinth—edormitories,CARE,Cam- Collegeand 1 believein the futureofeach one ofyou pus Ministries and CABL isso great, thebest in the here. This isa placeofvision, a placeofdreams,built six years I have been here on this campus. 1 have brick by brick, dream by dream. This is one of the particularly noticed a strong spiritual tone and the finest college campuses in the nation. Let us, today, response we see in outreach and religious programs. rededicateourselves to its mission. {\\\ This morning we need to ask ourselves, Wlwtam I contributing to Southern College? Will this school be a Condensedfrom remarksbyPresidentDonald R. Sahly better place because I have been here? Will history at theJanuary 23 Centennial Assembly/Birthday Party. Cover Story More Than a Yellow Little House byJennifer Speicher TodaytheDollHouseistheonlyremainingstructurefromtheThatcher farm,purchasedin 1916fromJimandGraceThatcherfora newcampus. Among somelargeand beauti- Thecollege purchased theacreage almost had to go outside to turn ful apple treesJames in 1916. Two years later Lynn Wood around." Thatcherbuilt a littleone- became president and the Doll House PresidentWood's officemoved to room yellow doll house for his became his office. "The Doll House the "crackerbox," the original daughter, Evadne Lois, as a place for was barely large enough for the commissary from the old plantation. her and other little girls ofthe president's rolltop desk, a tiny pot- The little house found a new location community to play. bellied stove (not even 25 inches tall), over the hillside on the edge ofthe He didn't know that 100 years a corner stand for my typewriter, and campus. There it was used to store later it would represent primitive one extra chair," recalled Grace beekeeping supplies. beginnings ofSouthern College. Kelsey Keith, Wood's secretary. "We After the house was moved closer to the heart ofcampus, itbecame a quarantine house for some students whocontracted smallpox. Later it became a shoe repairshop. Onceagain, the Doll House was relocated. At the current location of Daniells Hall it was used as a dormitory fora few ofthe women. Next, it served as a small prayer room for the students. During the 1924-25 school year, the house served asa musicstudio which wasaffectionatelyknownas the "Grafonola." Lowell Butler,a J. voiceand piano teacher, used the building as his studio. According to Dr. EdytheCothren, formercuratorof Southern College's Heritage Mu- seum, "Professor Butlercoined the nameGrafonola, which he derived from the gramophoneand pianola instruments." To make thebuilding resemble a gramophone, Butler installed a crank handle on the side ofthe building, and on the front he painted several measures ofmusic and the words "Brighten thecorner where you are." The playhouse then moved just beyond the site ofthe old Tabernacle, where it was used asa storehouse for VOLUME NUMBER 4 • 44, 1• seed and lateras a toolshed. The house moved again in 1947 to a site next door to the administration building in use at the time, Lynn Wood Hall. There it was used to store old furniture. In 1958 the miniature house was purchased by a gentleman in the Collegedale community foruseasa bathhouse near his pool. The college and Student Association made arrangements tobuy back the yellow doll house in 1960. In 1973 the education department used the Doll House for recruiting. It was transformed into a little red schoolhouseand placed in the college mall for display during HelenDunchtck,jssocwfeVPforfinanceandfiritlokcreditor,looksbackoveracollectionofstudent College Days. publications. Later, in 1978 it housed the microwave relay for thecollege's radio station, WSMC-FM. On December4, 1980, the Alumni Association voted to restore the Doll Capturing House to a central place on the campus. "I had known since 1960 about the Doll House," said William Memories Taylor, now retired. "I thought the college needed a landmark for the institution, something to remember the old days." Thecommitteedesignated $5000 by Sherrie Piatt from the Alumni Loyalty Fund for the restoration. "I found pictures of the original Doll House and drew up plans to have it restored to its original state," said Taylor. The Doll House moved to its permanent I he Southland, Triangle, or The firststudentedited paper. The location between the tenniscourts I Southern Memories? The Southland Scroll, was distributed on and the Village Market. JL. Southland Scroll or Southern June 5, 1929. Theadministration A dedication ceremony was held Accent?Jokeror Eccos? Strawberry appointed EdytheStephenson October24 during the 1981 Alumni Festival? Throughout the years, Cothren to be theeditor. "We had a Homecoming weekend. Evadne school publications havecomeand contest to choosea name for the ThatcherSmith, the first owner of the gone. Names havechanged. New paper," said Cothren. "The person playhouse, flew in from Michigan. traditions havestarted. who won would not have to pay the She added one last memory to her May 30, 1920, was when the first registration fee the next year." store ofplayhouse memories by student publication, the Sojuconian, WalterOst won by entering the making the curtains that still hang appeared, writes Elva Gardnerin A name "TheSouthern Scroll," which in the little house. IIM SchoolofHis Planning. The name was was modified to "TheSouthland taken from thecollege name. South- Scroll," writes Dr. Dennis Pettibone, ernJuniorCollege. C. A. Woolsey in hisbookA CenturyofOiallenge. was the editor ofthis publication, The Southland Scroll was published soJpehnonmifoerreSjpoeuircnhaelriissma which hol—ds the record forbrief until thebeginning oftheGreat existence only one issue. Depression in 1930. major. Jenniferisa newswriterinthe The first yearbook. The Southland, In 1938 the yearbook resumed PublicationsOfficeand was published in 1923 by Merwin publication as The Triangle, standing specialassignment Thurber. "Individual pictures of for the three facets oflife: physical, editorfortheSouthern faculty members and seniors were mental, and spiritual. Irma Lee Accent. set in triangles, the school emblem." Osteen was the editor. SOUTHERN COLUMNS • 5 In 1945, The Trianglechanged its Keele. "The faculty asked us to do Southern Memories editorAmy name again, to Southern Memories. anothershow the next year." Beckworth says, "This year'syear- "Alan Bush won thecontest for Thesecond year they used three book is going tobedifferent from coming up with the new name," says screens and nine projectors. "We mostothers. It will have a centennial Page Haskell, 1945 yearbook editor. rented the equipment from Atlanta," and history section and pictures That sameyeara new name for says Keele. "Wepicked it upa week from alumni weekend." the papercame aboutinan interest- before theshow and then started 24- Strawberry Festival has two ing way. Recalls editorFrances hourshifts working on it." Keele says editors, Mike Magurskyand Ed Andrews, "Faculty member Dr. the president told them ifthey used Schneider. "We have added two Daniel Walther had a decided the show as an excuse to skip classes more projectors and screens," says Germanaccent. He said, 'These he would shut it down. Schneider. "Thatbrings the total students talkwith such a southern Keele says, "We neverever projectors to 14." Magursky says, accent I can't understand them.' thoughtaboutstarting a tradition." "Weare alsohaving some new From this commentcame thename The 1991-92 school year's publica- special effects." Southern Accent." tions have made theirown changes Through the years a constanthas In 1956 theJoker, a pictorial and maybe even started traditions. been change. Ifour past helps directory ofstudents, arrived on JokereditorJanene Burdick says, "I indicate the future, morechanges campus. "SA PresidentJohnny Gulp was trying to thinkofsomething will come. IIII came up with the idea," says editor special to add to theJokerfor the ^^H Helen Case Durichek. Gentennial." That something special }okerwas changed to Eccos in 1966 is a color insertwhich guides the when Larry Bogar was editor. "Our readeraround campus with pictures sponsor, Don Yost, said the name and copy about each building. 'Joker' had a negativeconnotation to Southern Accent editor Daryl Gole Jesus. Hebegged usto acceptthe plans toenter the paper in two name 'Eccos' which is Greek for contests: one fordesign and writing, 'There they are, lookat them.'" and another forcartoons. Two years later, in 1968, both names appeared on thecover. Says editorJohn Lauer. "None ofthe students liked the name Eccos." In 1970 thejokercame out about two weeks afterregistration. "We planned theJokerall summer," says 1970-71 editorJim Gress. This year's editor cameclose to that record. A 124-page volume with 24 pages of colorwas released 20 daysafter registration. In 1979 a multi-media slide show started on campus. "Throughout the year, my roommate, Keith Langenberg, and I had takena lot of slides," says Don Keele, one ofthe producers. "One night in March we realized we had enough to do a year in pictures. We then received permis- sion to doa show atStrawberry Festival which then consisted of games, ice cream, and strawberries. It was meant tobe a stress relief before finals." Keele and Langenberg spent the next several weeks getting the production ready. Their room, Talge 216, became theiroffice. They used two projectorsand six slide trays to produce the45-minute show. "Everyoneabsolutely loved it," says VOLUME NUMBER 6 • 44, 1• sandsand thousandsand thou- A sands" ofdocuments, mostly board Century and faculty meeting minutes, dating from the school's beginnings in Graysville to the present. Healso Challenge read school and denominational of publications, and documents of Tennessee history. He researched in theSDA Room ofMcKee Library on campus, area libraries, theSouthern Union Confer- byJennifer]as ence headquarters, and theGeneral Conference archives. He also trav- eled to people's homes. Pettibone estimates he interviewed 125 people, Sixty-three years ago, students May of 1892. "It continued until the bothby phoneand in person. at SouthernJuniorCollege first ofJune, then adjourned for the "I have tried to keep thebook weredismissed from classes, summer. School started for real in from being all rosy, because I believe and the faculty and students gath- the fall ofthat year." the readers havea right to know jered in the chapel fora major Pettibone unearthed previously both the triumphs and the prob- highlight ofthe school year: to hear unpublished information. "Oneof lems," Pettibone said. Herbert Hoover's inauguration the most interesting single experi- Dr. Jim Ashlock, directorof Iaddress on a radio. "It was all very ences I've had was discovering that alumni, said the main goal ofthe inspiring, and served to impress Southern had a black teacherin the book is to show the full story ofthe anew upon our minds the wonders 1890s/' he said. Anna (orAnnie) college in an exciting format. "The ofradio," one onlookersaid. Knight, a nurse, taught nursingand book is foranyone interested in I This is one small scene in hygiene onesummerat what was Southern College, especially those Southern's past as r—ecorded inA then Southern Industrial School. who have attended here," hesaid. CenturyofChallenge The Ston/of "I was very careful to makesure Pettibone said he also hopes the Southern College, a book tobe re- everything I wrote was true," book will be read by future adminis- leased in May 1992 as partof the Pettibone said. "I had to have trators. "I want to give them a new college's Centennial celebration. documentation orevidence, and I perspectiveofthe college to show Author Dr. Dennis Pettibone, want to clearly distinguish between them where we'vebeen and how we history professorat Southern, spent research and statements ofopinion." got where weare today." the past two years researching and Pettibone said he has read "thou- Nine peopleareactively involved writing the book. "It unravels myths and re-molds some theories about the college," hesaid. Forexample, Pettibone discovered that, contrary to popular rumor, none of the teachers at Graysville Academy wereactually involved in theChain Gang when religious persecution broke out in the Graysville and Dayton areas in 1894. "Several Graysville teachers and church members werearrested, however, and served time injail previous to theChain Gangarrests," he said. Pettibonealso found the pub- lished date ofthe very first day of classesat GraysvilleSchool, Southern's predecessor, in doubt. "It was said to have started on Feb. 20, 1892," exclaims Pettibone, "but it couldn't have been then. That wasa Sabbath!" He believes that the school actually began in late April orearly intDern.'iMeiwtecdheslclorTehsieolf,peleofpt,lesopnerosfonParlelsyidiennthiLseroesTehaireclh(f1o9r2A2-2C5e)ntchuartysowfiCthhalDleennngies. Pettibone. Theauthor • SOUTHERN COLUMNS • 7
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