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Vol. 56 September, 1974, Madison, Tenn. No.3

70th "Birthday" of N.A.N.I. ticipants, Dr. Akers, Josephine Edwards, the shoes from off your feet, for you are stand- Marion Simmons, Frank Lang, and Ed ing on holy ground. This is a school. Here Commemorated at Homecoming, Heinz. Doyle Martin was moderator of there may be another Billy Graham. Clara Barton. the medical panel discussing preventive Here may be the next Moses, the next Roosevelt, June 21-23 maybe the next Tom Dooley. Tread carefully medicine and the doctor's influence in the in this place. Caution: There are people grow- Homecoming commemorated the 70th community. On this panel were Dr. Willis ing here."... anniversary of the founding of the Nash- Marshall, of Madison Hospital, on mental I remember the lapel button that one of the ville Agricultural and Normal Institute health; Dr. H. R. Nicholas, of Ridgetop; students wore. It had these intriguing initials: N.A.N.I.) in 1904 by a special program Gene Sellars, physical therapist who has PBP GINTWMY. Obviously it was intended to Friday evening, June 21. The program, treatment rooms in Nashville; Dr. Lyle Her- be a conversation piece, so I bit. I said, "Please titled "It All Started 70 Years Ago," de- mann, of Jacksonville, Fla.; and Dr. L. F. tell me what those letters stand for." The young picted the beginning of Madison College Littell, of Dayton, Tenn., who received a man smiled at me and said, "I'm so glad you asked.. It means, "Please be patient. God is not and Sanitarium in story, song, and pictures citation as "Man of the Year" by the through with me yet ...." as written and directed by Josephine Lion's Club. (Regrettably, the latter panel Have you ever wondered why this generation Cunnington Edwards, a teacher at Laurel- had to be omitted in this issue.) asks, "Where are you at?" When they're talking brook School, Dayton, Tenn. Mrs. Ed- about one of their friends or classmates they wards and a group of young people from For vespers a group of "junior work- say, "He doesn't know where he's at," or "He's Laurelbrook presented the program. ers" from Laurelbrook and Stephen Mar- trying to find out where he's at." It's another Two letters were read at the end of low (N'64), administrator of the Laurel- way of saying this person is hunting for that brook Sanitarium, Dayton, Tenn., pre- center of his life. trying to get it all together. the program. One letter was by Violet An institution should come together every once Stewart Lang '50, asking prayer for her sented the story of the fledgling "unit" in a while to find out whether they still have a father who had had a stroke. The other they are starting, called Whispering Pines, center that's holding, to find out where it's at. was from Olive Wheeler. The latter wrote at Gruetli, Tenn. There is a natural tension between the real and the ideal, which is becoming unbearable. from Chunky, Miss.: "I wish I could be Imogene Allen Akers, guest artist, at the Homecoming, but I am unable to Today. suicide between the ages of 18 and 26 is gave a concert Saturday night, accompanied becoming the second highest killer of our young come. Madison seems like home to me, by Florence Clarenbeau, music instructor as Andrew and I spent 20 years there and people in America. Here is the ideal, and here at CUC. Mrs. Akers was introduced by is the ugly real .... Some, without God and I was there when Madison started in 1904. Edythe Cothren '47 as a "songbird from without hope say, "Stop the world. I want to I feel like it was the beginning of the self- the South." Imogene and her parents, get off." They have nothing within on which to supporting work in the South, and though Mr. and Mrs. Will Allen, lived in Nashville operate in a frame of reference .... I am old now, 91, my heart is with you Adventist education is in process. We've got at one time. The Aliens came over from some very definite, fixed reference points, and dear people that are carrying on the work Collegedale for the weekend. there. May God bless you as He has in the we have a charter. We have a compass and we past." have a map. We believe it's not just something that's ordinary. It's fixed in the star, as it were. At Sabbath School, Marion Seitz Sim- Unfinished Business in Adventist Education It comes from heaven, because it was given to mons '43, just returned from a term of us by the inspired writings of Mrs. Ellen White, service in the Far Eastern Division, had the By Dr. George H. Akers whose influence helped steer this institution to missions feature. Elder Harley Schander, its present place of usefulness today and gave it of Willowdale, Ontario, Canada, who had I count it an honor to be here on my first Its rich history. visit to Madison. I've heard a great deal about just arrived to pastor the Madison Campus it, and I've been looking forward to this, I Church, taught the general Sabbath School assure you. Alumni weekend is a time when Intriguing Story of Sutherland & Magan lesson. people come to meet old friends, to reminisce Dr. George Akers, newly appointed as a bit about the good old days before things went I recently borrowed a book from my wife's a coordinator of the religious education to pot .... parents by Merlin Neff titled. FOR GOD AND doctoral program at Andrews University, A professor of mine once made this obser- CME. I've been reading that intriguing story of Percy Magan and the years at Madison, the was the guest speaker at the eleven o'clock vation: "Every society persecutes its great lead- ers, and then fifty or so years after they are years at EMC, the years at Lorre Linda, the hour Sabbath morning. We have devoted gone, they resurrect their bones and make a trials and heartaches this man went through, the much space in this issue to his sermon and shrine out of their place of suffering." In other people who persecuted him and thought they his part on the education panel Sabbath words. at the time they didn't know they were were doing the will of God .... There was afternoon, and we bespeak a careful read- great prophets and leaders, because things were something different about the two men--P. T. ing. He quoted 6T, 145, where Mrs. White going so rough .... E. A. Sutherland and P. T. Magan and E. A. Sutherland--because they be- speaks of our schools being prisoners of Magan knew the loneliness of leadership .... lieved that this woman who was under attack hope, but God will bring them back to I never walk on the campus of an institution was not writing on her own, but she had a mess- without feeling a great sense of reverence. As age from heaven. She gave us not just a blue- their upright position. He said, "That re- I walked around the campus this morning, over print for any particular age, but a prescription, turn is taking place, who has kept it alive?" to the academy, around the new hospital, and a vision of possibilities of what God wanted to He answered his question by giving credit saw the different buildings, I sensed some of do through education, something that was tran- to the Madison group, and called them the spirit of the place which has been Madison scendental. Transcendental means that it over- "magnificent agitators." through the years. I can feel it vibrating, so to arches all time and space. You can't freeze it In the afternoon there were reports speak, as I talk with some of your guests on the or lock it in any age. Transcendental truth is timeless truth. from the Honor Classes and two panels. campus. I had that same feeling recently when I was visiting a little old white clapboard school- Jack Williams of Fletcher was the moder- house in the tidew44ERagGyiw0m. There I saw Magan and Sutherland heard these messages ator of the education panel, "Education a small card. attarcvAresgoor. Typed from this little lady and they said it's transcenden- to Meet the Needs of Today," with par- on that card d, take tal. Maybe the form will change. Perhaps the wa'A' tgletstRNERFSNi Marrion Cnrinac MI LI.Q1ilA mode will change. The applications may be flex- in higher education in the western world, and Have you ever thought about the difference ible and adaptable. but this is a prescription, that is that man has to be liberated. He has to between an Adventist school and a public school? and there are some great concepts here that must be liberated from ignorance and superstition .... I attended a psychology class once in a worldly be experimented with. We're going to step out At the very basis of this liberated man of the university. Then I had an opportunity soon and see if it can be accomplished. They stepped secular mold is the assumption of the perfecta- afterwards to sit in on a psychology class on one out alone with very few backers. and far too bility of the human race, that given enough edu- of our Adventist campuses. In the one place many critics. They believed Mrs. White when cation man can improve his miserable lot, and man was looked at as a strange mixture of man she said that God had given this people a program his selfishness, vanity, greed, lust, and exploita- and animal that somehow had beat his way up of education that was to be of an altogether tions of his fellow man will somehow be put through the vicissitudes of the centuries. and had different order. Sutherland and Magan began to aside. This liberated man will step out to solve finally become civilized as a person and as a talk about that around the kitchen cook stove the problems of society and to serve his fellow- culture. When man Is angry, and when he's lusty, at night and after the faculty meetings, and as man. that's just the animal in him. Don't pay too they were out walking together in the snow at But somehow along the way, after 300 much attention to that. When he's depressed Battle Creek and Berrien Springs. They asked years, like the Utopian dream of Communism, and feels neglected, rejected, that's just the inse- each other. "What did she mean when she said there is one fault, one flaw in that, that is the curity coming back from his background in the we were not to be tied by so much as a thread carnal nature of man. The liberated man in jungle. Man is just another kind of animal some- to the educational philosophy that is being prac- Christian education is to undergo a different type where under the surface .... All the young ticed in this age? They talked and they prayed of liberation. He is to be liberated from selfish- people who sat in that university classroom had and they fought. ness. Self is dead, and the joy of service is the the view of man as essentially a biological orga- I got a letter from Elder H.M.S. Richards a greatest motivation of life. God's plan for one's nism that was only one short step removed from year or so ago. It was a five-page letter. I count self and the world, to somehow get off this the animal kingdom. it as a collector's item. In one paragraph he spaceship safely and spend eternity with one's Then I sat in a psychology class on one of said: "Remember this. Every good man who Maker, is the preoccuping concern.... our campuses. There we heard about how God has set out in a reformatory work will be opposed. These two men. Sutherland and Magan, gave man to this planet. What a beautiful. symr And he will be opposed by good men, real good saw the issue clearly. Will we develop a school metrical character he had. how all of his instincts men. I know." .... Here's a man that was out with the liberally educated man of the ancient were noble and pure and unseiiisn, and what sin on the cutting edge, and he was opposed by good tradition at the center, or will we develop a has done to this crowning work of God's creation men. So were Magan and Sutherland. because school with God at the center. focused on char- The same psychology, the same research studies. they dreamed of an education of an altogether acter education and service? the same nomenclature was employed. But one different order. They received encouragement A school is not a place where things are teacher looked at man in one way, and the other from the dear little lady, Ellen White. She was taught. A school is a place where things are teacher looked at him in another. One used a repulsed by the education of that day because caught. Many young people are not concerned textbook of Freud and the other psychologists, she saw that it was education for snobbery. edu- about the reformation of Adventist higher edu- and the other took the word of God and used it cation that divided the society into the hewers cation. And yet I find today, that there is a burn- as a lens to look through. On the other side of of wood and the drawers of water on the one ing interest among our academy and college that lens, the Scriptures. was the field of vision hand, and those who held the high positions and young people in the red books. They are reading that the student was exposed to, and he wasn't professions on the other hand. and studying and praying. They're asking. When looking at man in his world, but looking at God are we going to get on with finishing the great in His world .... Ellen G. White looked at the classical cur- experiment that began at Berrien Springs after The greatest test of a Christian college. ... riculum with its accent on Latin, Greek. and the move from Battle Creek and which contin- is where we look for the source of help. If we're Hebrew. the Roman and Greek dramas and all ued at Madison? This generation is developing a looking at ail of man's accomplishments. at man of the finery. and she saw nothing but vanity. sense of history that is unique to us as a people. at work in his world. his aspirations, achiever She saw an egomania. She saw vain glory in and the pressure now is not coming from the ments. problems, technological triumphs, then self, and carnal man sticking out all over through scholars among us who have been immersed in it is humanism. And man is spreading across the academia. denominational history. It's not coming from field of vision in all of his egoism and selfishness. As they read her writings and talked with her, the mimeograph operators who have undertaken Or, are we looking through the lens of God's they sensed that the education of the day was to reform the denomination through criticism. word, and seeing God at work in His world? full of unregenerate man. and that the scholar- The great surge for reform in Christian education That makes all the difference. ship of the day was just another kind of ego trip today is coming from the young people on our The Madison founders said, we want to create built on elitism and exclusiveness. so that one campuses. They are asking that our schools be- a school where young people will see God's plan man lorded it over another and put himself a gin to study very sincerely and earnestly this for everything human. That is the essential little higher on the rungs of the ladder .... conceptual model that has been given to us by difference between Christian and secular educa- Mrs. White said she dreamed of an education the Spirit of the Lord. tion. Christian education sees God at work every- that will be of a completely different order, that What happens on a campus is very important. where. Secular education sees man at work will be for the discovery of the purpose of life, A father came to me once when I was an acade- everywhere .... for the building of character. restoring man to my dean and said, "My boy learned to swear on his original creation that God intended. your campus." At another place, a mother came The Accrediting Movement Comes In. and said, "My girl got caught up in vanity on These men were not ignorant men. They your campus. She didn't have a long evening Then came the accrediting movement. It were gifted, talented men, educated men. They gown at home, or all the fineries of life. She came on the scene in 1885. By 1895, within sensed that there were three kinds of schools-- was a happy girl. She was contented until she a short decade, it had pretty well locked up all schools that are organized around the scholar's came to your academy. But somehow on this the colleges and universities of America. This disciplines; schools organized around the needs campus, the whole tide is moving toward dress is the time when the Adventist college also be- gan to come into its fluorescence at the turn of of society; schools organized around people. so and fashion and the things of the world. I sent the century. The accrediting movements looked that they might live life at its fullest. They rec- you a girl who was innocent, naive, unconcerned across the map and said. "All of these little hill- ognized that Ellen White was talking about a about dress and fashion. and after two years school that brought man up to his original state you've turned her into a fashion plate." top colleges, all of these little schools that are ure, not dominated by the scholars merely for owned and operated by churches that followed the egomania and the vanity of elitism. nor by I looked at that mother and said. "We don't the western movement across the United States-- the marketplace or the professions. but schools have a teacher on this campus that represents now if we could just keep that great spiritual that were focused on charatter education, on that." She answered, "You have permitted the fervor that they have. and link it with the beauti- selfless service to mankind. students to become the teachers on this campus. ful classical tradition of the liberal education, It was not to be a faint echo. One youngster They have taught my daughter the iniquities of then we'll have the best of both worlds." said to me not long ago. "I'm not interested in fashion." That mother, in her tears and in her So, they came to the little church colleges attending a school that's a pale. faint Xeroxed straight-forwardness. drove home to me a great with a proposition. They said. "You can keep copy of the state university. I'm looking for truth .... your Bible, keep your religion, your character something that is distinctly and uniquely and Magan and Sutherland said, "We're going to education. but do it over here in a separate com- dramatically God-centered." This is what Percy create an institution where young people are sur- partment. We don't care whether you use minis- Magan and E. A. Sutherland stepped out to build. rounded by an influence that will inspire them ters or laymen or whoever. Then, let us help you Writing in the G.C. Bulletin of 1901. pages to love God and to become Godlike. to have a organize the rest of your campus so that it will 213-219, 313, Mrs. White said: "Changes will great love for their fellowman."... be academically respectable. We'll see to it that have to be made. It's hard to break away from your students have a liberal education that is up old habits and practices. and there are those who Jesus, "looked upon the multitudes and He to par, that they will understand the great sweep have felt inclined to resist in this line.... I am had compassion." One of the real tests of a of man's history, his culture and development happy to say that Brother Magan and Brother Christian school, whether it be Andrews or SMC .... If you will do your work in character edu- Sutherland have made advancements in reform." or Walla Walla. or ...if it's not a place where cation in that corner of the campus. we'll help She publicly urged these two men in print to go young people catch this great yearning to love you do the work of secular education well over right ahead and to go forward in the name of and to serve their fellowman, it is not a Christian in this corner of the campus. The young people the Lord God of Israel to educate young people school. then can have the best of both worlds." in the right lines of education. (R & H, May 7, Madison's founders said. We are going to 1901.) create a school that is not focused on the disci- Hinted within that was the insinuation that plines of the world. We are not interested in the accent on character development was defi- Man or God at the Center? sending our graduates to the great universities of cient, that no one could come through a church college and be truly liberally educated. So. the The issue hasn't changed a bit, since 1901 the land to impress others with their scores or bifurcated campus began in church education when Mrs. White said the time has come to step how high they have ascended in the academic in America. Young people were forced to live out in bold relief. The issue is simply this: ranks. We want to send out young people who in two separate worlds. The secular and the Will man be at the center of the program, or are having a love affair with'the human race, who religious were not integrated together. The will God be at the center? We've had this model, want to serve, who know who they are, why young people had to put it together themselves. the classical model, for over three hundred years they are in the world. arid what they are to do.

Madison Survey, Sept. 1974, p. 2 What do you hear today? You hear the hu- should see the prophecy of Vol. 6. fulfilled, it is put it. in 1960 we had an excess of 100,000 lib- man cry from young people in our colleges and now! "Though in many respects our institutions erated people. The problem was that there in the worldly schools. They are asking. "Where of learning have swung into worldly conformity, weren't any jobs for liberated people. is the unifying thread? Where is the generalizing though step by step they have advanced toward The utilitarian is at the very heart of that principle? There is so much information. We the world, they are prisoners of hope. Fate has have overkill in the brain. We can't process it prescription. Today, the great leaders in higher not so woven its meshes about their workings education are talking about value education. all. All the different disciplines are so much to that they need to remain helpless and in uncer- learn. What is the meaning behind it?" Our young people today are drifting, they're con- tainty. If they will listen to His voice and follow fused, they're rootless. and they need to be Away back at the turn of the century. the in His ways, God will correct and enlighten them, Seventh-day Adventist church was given a blue- grounded in some certainties. A school is not a and bring them back to their upright position of place where you go to find out how many ques- print, a conceptual model that said religion will distinction from the world." 6T 145. never be put off in a corner. It will infuse and tions can be raised. A school is a place where permeate and saturate everything that happens Tribute to Madison and Its Units you find some answers from the word of God. on the campus. No only that, but along with the So value education and practical skills and the return to the earth and the gift of the crer word of God. which is the basis of instruction, That return is taking place. Who has kept it ativity of the hand--all of which P. T. Megan and will be the loving. caring, supportive teacher alive? I want to pay tribute to the Madison alum- ni, the self-supporting schools of the South, who E. A. Sutherland saw and put into practice--this models who will give meaning to that information. by pen and voice and by constant gatherings and is still alive today. It's going to be resurrected. That meaning will be consistent, it will be steady, considerations have kept alive the idea of the I feel the stirring in the mulberry trees. I hear it will be unifying, it will be the thread that will uniqueness and distinctness of Adventist our teachers on the academy and college level go through everything--the sciences, the literary education . talking about an unfinished business. Yes, you studies, and all aspects of the schools. I've been looking through the Spirit of and I are going to see the fulfillment of that Adventists Have the Golden Thread Prophecy, hunting for that one paragraph that prophecy in Vol. 6 that our schools will return somehow squeezes everything in, which Mrs. to their upright position. Today. we're finding in American higher edu- White plans for Christian education, and it brings Areas of Unfinished Business cation that the writers in the field are lamenting us to our unfinished business. You will not find the fact that we have lost the golden thread .... it in the book, EDUCATION, or FUNDAMEN- We should stand out in bold relief against Christian education has come to its moment of TALS, or COUNSELS TO TEACHERS, which the confusion of education in this age, because, greatest opportunity because we have the chance we consider to be the three great works of Mrt. first, an Adventist school has Bible centeredness to declare to the world that we have that golden White in the field of education. You will proba- and the infallible Word of God as a safeguard for thread of meaning. bly find the most significant pronouncements the young people. Secondly, Character education isn't something to shove off into the ektra-cur- The accrediting movement was concerned that Mrs. White has ever made in the field of edu- cation in the book, MINISTRY OF HEALING. ricular, because the science of learning is how about general education. about special education. to live a happy and well-fulfilled life. Thirdly. about the climate that exists on the campus. and beginning on page 395 on the importance of our unfinished business in Christian education the performance of the graduates. Ellen White missionary training, false and true education. the essential knowledge. is to bring our young people to a knowledge said she saw the day coming when, if we fol- that a great experience cannot exist in a sickly lowed God's plan, all of the world would beat a body, and that health is the very cornerstone of path to our door. They would ask. "By what 4-Fold Prescription for Christian Education any self-development program. Fourthly, our means do you create these incandescent youth unfinished business is a great accent on service. who can go out and face the world and confront Listen to this pungent. powerful, paragraph on page 402 of MINISTRY OF HEALING. Here The student missionaries that are going out, it for God--these young ones who have it all youth who are calling out for opportunities to .are the big four of the divine blueprint. No. 1 together?" serve, tell us that people are looking for a great "Every child and every youth should have a driving sense of mission ... Many of our young people are as Daniel, bear- knowledge of himself. He should understand the ing up under the test. Our campus faculties to- physical habitation that God has given him, and Finally. I consider this next one to be the day at Andrews, Loma Linda, and others are the laws by which it is kept in health." Mrs. most difficult and hardest to achieve because of making serious attempts to take that center of White saw health and health education as the the trends and the pressures of our times. Mrs. the educational program which we call the core, cornerstone of the curriculum. She said, "Edu- White said that we should not spend long periods the general education study. and focus it on the cation along literary and scientific lines is not of time in preparation, but there should be a word of God. They want to ground it and root sufficient unless a student understands the law place where young people can come and in a it on the word of God. They want to ground it of his own being." short period of time will see the vision, receive and root it in scripture, and make sure that every- jvlany of our teachers today are concerned the sensitivities, be trained in the skills which thing that students are confronted with on a because true healthful living, the health reform will send them forth prepared to serve their Christian campus is a reflection of God's plan for that has characterized our people, has been fellowmen. man and the human race. Faculty colloquiums shoved off into a corner of the curriculum. and This idea has not died. It is very much alive. are being devoted to this. In retreat and discus- they're determined to bring it back to the center It started in Battle Creek. moved to Berrien sion groups, administrators and faculty members where it belongs. We have a great health message Springs, found its greatest fluorescence in Mad- are asking themselves. Can we get back to the to give the-woritt.. We should stand up and bold- ison, Tenn. It has been kept alive by people original design which God gave to His people? ly declare it. put it back in the center of the of the Madison alumni who recognizeLhat the curriculum where it belongs. day will come when these distinguishing features A bifurcated campus, compartmentalized be- that give uniqueness to Adventist education will tween the secular and the religious, is a denial Reading on we find No. 2 of the big four in not be put off in a dark corner, but will be a of everything we represent in Christian education. the third sentence of that paragraph: "All should be thoroughly grounded in the common branches blazing testimony to the beautiful gift that God Religion is either all pervasive or it's impotent. gave to us in the Spirit of Prophecy. A recent Supreme Court decision said the govern- of education." Mrs. White doesn't say there that everybody must get a doctor's degree or a mas- I call the Madison alumni and the self-sup- ment can give money to libraries, to gymnasiums. porting workers of the Southland, the magnifi- and to scientific laboratories. but they will not ter's degree, or even a baccalaureate degree. She said that Christian education should ground cent agitators, because the agitation of the ideas give any money to a private school that is using that they are keeping alive is going to bring us its disciplines to infuse a religious point of view. everyone in the common branches of learning. We're going to have to decide as a church and as into the position of a grand exhibition for a If the campus was compartmentalized in water- world that needs to know God's plan. May God tight compartments so that there was no seepage a school system what is the optimum achieve-t) ment in the common branches of learning. bless us and use us as we step out unabashedly, of the religious over into the secular, they'd con- unapologetically, and boldly, following the plan sider funding that campus with federal funds. No. 3 "And they should have industrial training that will make them men and women of that God has given us, so we can go forward Well. my friends, SDA Christian education practical ability, fitted for the duties of every- with this unfinished business in Adventist educa- isn't concerned with a small seepage. What we're day life." And finally, the fourth characteristic tion. after is total saturation and immersion. That of the great blueprint. the prescription for Chris- makes all the difference in the world. So. every- (Earlier Dr. Akers wrote his appreciation of tian education: "To this should be added train- THE MADISON SURVEY as follows: "I appre- thing that happens on a campus to a student de- ing and practical experience in the various lines ciate receiving THE MADISON SURVEY and pends on whether or not the impressions that of missionary effort." peruse it with more than passing interest, for it are caught, the osmosis that takes place, is all- I gave a senior recognition address at WWC frequently highlights the cardinal concepts of pervasive. consistent, and human .... a year or so ago. Nine students came to me and Christian education which we embraced with All information has meaning. It's never neu- said, "Dr. Akers, you spoke today in chapel greater fervor as a church during the Madison tral. It's being interpreted. and it's the interpre- about the place of meditation in education. and College heydey. It is good to have those great tation that's given to it that decides whether it's if a student doesn't have time to be alone with principles refreshed in our thinking frequently, humanistic or theistic. Christian education sees God, he doesn't have time to spend with Shake- and I believe your Alumni Association is render- God at work. Human education sees man at speare. If he doesn't have time to help some ing a service to Adventist education through the work .... If there was ever a day when we other soul struggle along life's pathway, he isn't SURVEY in this respect.") ready yet to get into his nuclear physics. We SUNDAY WORKSHOP. On Sunday morn- want you to know that we're deeply concerned BUSINESS MEETING. Due to circumstan- ing a workshop on rural living and other sub- about the pace of the program. We need time ces no business meeting was held, but those jects was held. We will have to omit a report on for Bible study, time for prayer. time to discuss present voted for the executive committee to this and other matters for lack of space in this the things of eternity together. How can we use their best judgment and arrange for officers number. and try to get it in next time. Those take the pressure and the pace out of this frenzied for the coming year. Since it is difficult to who attended had the pleasure of going back to schedule that has been prepared for us by our find people willing to serve, we have to more or Williams Hall and partaking of the leftovers. teachers?" less "freeze" the names on the present commit- There was an abundance of good food for the Young people should be provided opportunity tee. Marguerite Roberts '60 has agreed to serve Sabbath meals. and a large crowd--about 400— for showing their faith every day, and getting as president; Clara Lasseter Clarke '55 has moved at dinner. We give a hearty thanks to Dorothy practical experience. In the world the whole into the area recently and has consented to Mathews '37 and her helpers for all they did to emphasis is swaying away from the snobbery of serve as vice-president. Doyle Martin '52 will make this part a success. the liberally educated man. As TIME magazine continue on the committee as past-president.

1 Madison Survey, Sept. 1974, p. 3 It was in the 1950's that I fell in love with I realize that this is an age of bigness, and Laurelbrook. I thought it was one of the most an age when small efforts and small programs precious places I had been and I have been across don't look very impressive, but the Lord has the world .... I wish you could see Laurel, blessed us with effectiveness in the thing we brook. It's near Dayton, TN. I wish you could have been able to do, and I think if we do well walk up to the doors of that beautiful sanitarium and don't try to grow beyond what we can do and see inscribed there, "built by students." well, that the Lord will continue to bless. Bob Zollinger kept telling me. "I hope you Ed Heinz, Director, will join our staff," and I said, "I will, if the Madison School of Industrial Services Lord wills ...." Last summer I decided that I like to think of the school as the school since I had never seen the Far East. I would of the Waldenses. The Waldenses had a trade make a visit there, and I went to 7 countries. to make a living. They made things out of After I got back, I told Mr. Bob, "If the Lord leather, but at the same time they carried the Education Panelists will sell my house for me, I will come and teach message to those with whom they came in con- Josephine Edwards, Ed Heinz. George Akers, for you. And do you know, there was a real tact. Paul had a trade, a skill, even though he Frank Lang, Marion Simmons. (Moderator estate man sitting on my porch. He said, "I was a highly educated man. During the time Jack Williams not shown) have a cash buyer for your house, Mrs. Edwards." that he served as an apostle, carrying on a mighty And I said, I know where I am going. So I work, he felt it necessary to work for short Praised the Lord, and I went to Laurelbrook as Educational Panel of last August. I hadn't been there very long periods of time at tentmaking, and I am sure it gave him a great deal of satisfaction. The same when one of the junior workers came rushing up "Education to Meet the Needs of Today" to me and said, "Mrs. Edwards, we want you to way with us here today. For those who have never learned a skill or a trade, it is never too come in the lab room right quick. We are hav- Jack Williams, Moderator ing a prayer band." I asked, "What are you late. As long as life shall last we can always learn and accomplish something that will bene- Jack Williams, president of the Fletcher praying for?" They said, "A septic tank." In fit others. institution, was the moderator for the educa- fact when I was their age, I didn't know there We endeavor to teach home appliance re- tion panel, "Education to Meet the Needs of was such a thing .... There were those sweet young workers praying for a septic tank for pairs and body and fender work, trades in Today." He told briefly of the school and hos- which people can become self-supporting. I am pital at Fletcher, N.C. He reported they have a "Whispering Pines," a new school where we have swarmed and started about 70 miles from Laurel- sure these needs are here to stay. It is an inde- 99-bed fully accredited hospital; an academy pendent way of life. if one really wants to pur- brook. Well, I knelt down and prayed with with 155 students, also fully, accredited; the only sue it. At the same time one can be an example them. Do you know we got a septic tank? Why. 3-year hospital based nursing course in the de- in conduct and a message carrier to those he it is an amazing thing .... It does things for nomination; an elementary school of 155 stu- meets. How good it is for people to say, "I am the young people. We are turning out young dents--the only school to get a 5-year certificate; well pleased with the young man you sent, be- People who truly represent the blueprint, and I also a farm. a health food store, and a bakery. cause he did the work well and was so conscien- thank the Lord that we are getting ready for tious."... It creates an interest in those whom Marion Seitz Simmons, Hendersonville, N.C. Jesus to come at Laurelbrook. we meet to want to know more about us and In the book EDUCATION and the Bible what we do. we have the framework of all true education. Frank Lang Luke 2:52 says: "And Jesus increased in wis- Director A.V.T. Reading Clinic, Chattanooga dom and stature, and in favour with God and Dr. George H. Akers, man." This is how our youth are to develop I came here to teach at Madison ten years today. In wisdom they must meet the chal- ago, and I felt privileged to join with the Mad- Professor of Education, AU lenges of the seventies .... So we must pre- ison program, the Madison ideal. Later I taught pare our young people and children intellectu- at Laurelbrook for a time, and still later I was (Dr. Akers was recently appointed to head ally. Jesus also grew in stature, which we rec- looking for a way to get started in a self-sup- up one of three areas in Andrews University's ognize as physical. And Jesus helped his father porting program of my own. We started a small, new Doctor of Education program. He is coor- in the carpentry shop. We should give our chil- family operated, remedial reading program in dinator for the religious education area. The dren the practical training that will help them Chattanooga, and it has grown until we have a other two areas are Educational Administration. to meet life now. staff of twenty people. We also have a publish- with Dr. Rudolf E. Klimes. coordinater; and Dr. One of the best definitions for education is ing program connected with it, and an active Robert A. Williams. coordinator for Educational educational research program. We are producing found in the book EDUCATION. "True edu- Psychology and Counseling). materials especially in the area of reading. We cation is the harmonious development of the My work at Andrews will be in the area of physical, mental, and spiritual." Did you know have some materials now with the State Depart- Philosophy of Christian Education. All the stu- that whenever Mrs. White mentions this. she ment of Education. I was talking to one of the professors at dents that come through AU in the Master's lists the physical first? ... program and the doctoral program will take When Mr. Simmons and I were here at Mad- Tennessee Tech University recently, and he said their standard and advanced work in Philosophy ison College and Hospital nearly twenty years they would like to have us put on a workshop of Christian Education with me ... An invita- ago, we spent four happy years here. Mr. Sim- soon. He also appealed to me regarding the tion came to me twice to return to the AU cam- mons was credit manager of the hospital, and needs of the Appalachian counties. and this pus to do this one single work--to see that every it was my privilege to be director of Elemen- really struck an answering chord in my soul. as man and woman who comes to this program tary Education. While we were here. Dr. Sand- this was the type of thing that Madison was understands the very essence of the blueprint of born wanted so much to revise the work pro- originally founded to do.. He was telling that the the doctrine of Christian education. I feel like gram in a stronger way than ever before, and so average reading level there in the eighth grade was at the fifth grade level in five counties. The that is a life mission so great that I am not equal we teachers were assigned work to do. What to it, and yet I don't know how I could say No did I do? I carried trays for patients. Back per capita income is very low. He was inter- to it. and forth. noon and night, I carried trays along ested in industrial and trade education. with the students. Others went out into the Some time ago, Ed Heinz and I got acquain- We have the light that this world so desper- garden and fields to work. ted. He is connected with the industrial and ately needs. Education today is badly confused. Notice the next part of the verse--"in favor trade school here. We began to compare notes, Many schools are drifting. Our young people with God." This is spiritual training. and Jesus and we began to realize we had much in and many of our educators are paying a dear increased in that way. If we are to educate our common .... price for hankering after degrees. Today we have many in our elementary schools, academies. youth for life, we must have Christ as the center We have been conducting an institute of de- of our education. It's not fine buildings, it's and colleges who have hardly opened the lids of velopmental studies in Chattanooga where we our little red books. We have 11,000 college not bigger and better "facilities, but it must be train teachers. I suppose we have trained about Jesus Christ as the center of our education. students and 16.000 academy students. Right 100 people who have gone out in different here in North America we have 27,000 young And the fourth way in which Jesus increased places. Many church school teachers have had was in favor with man. We must train and pre- people in our church, the hope of the future, a training in our program. We were feeling that whose lives are being molded by these leaders, pare students to meet people on the social level we needed to offer credit. The State University .... I think we ought to teach our young and they are tremendously influential people said they were interested in making some use of .... In those quiet moments when students people the social graces that they might know our facilities. and would be willing to work a- how to speak well. how to meet the public, are talking with their teachers, this is where this long with us in recognizing this credit, if we philosophy gets breathed into them. The door how to meet the issues of life, And when we would go ahead and charter as a credit-granting train them physically, mentally, spiritually, and is opened a crack and they see a great new vision institution. socially, we will train them in the framework of of possibilities.... If we've got any great source Christian education and in the way Jesus grew. Mr. Heinz and I talked it over, and I asked of potency and power in our educational system. some of the other brethren about it. So we it's found in the writings of Ellen G. White. Josephine Cunnington Edwards, applied for a charter, which we have received, Now this program that has been developed Laurelbrook School and it will give us the right to grant degrees in at Andrews is in two other areas in addition to anything else which we will be able to back up mine. There's a doctorate in Education in I am like our dear Marion Simmons over with a good, strong program. We are beginning School Administration to prepare our school here. I have had 40 years of teaching. I have to build a faculty. Actually, we already have a leaders. There is also a doctorate in Counseling also had charge of teacher training in a college, very fine consulting staff, but most of them are and Guidance, because many of our young Malamulo College in Africa, and I have taught involved in other professions. We do have sev- people today are desperately in need of a close everything from the first grade on up to college. sympathetic, caring kind of relationship with Then I came to that terrific age when you are eral on our staff with very excellent qualifi- understanding adults. And we need to learn supposed to retire, get a couple of canes, go cations and wide experience,. andwe feel with how to organize whole faculties to accomplish limping down the sidewalk, get sustentation and the Lord's blessing we can reach on out and do Social Security. But I decided not to do that .... more. this.

Madison Survey, Sept. 1974, p. 4 The third program is in regular education Now what is encouraging about it is that the and this will be for those who are leading out in conventional Adventist schools, the schools of the very essence. These will be molding the the organized work are sitting up and taking program, and my work at A.U. will be directly notice, and the self-supporting school system is with them. They may take their work in the no longer the stepchild of the Adventist church. Seminary; they may take it in the graduate In fact, I see it out on the growing edge of re- school, or they may be assigned out to different form. and when the day comes when we are big schools for their practical work. They might enough and honest enough, and simple enough be involved deeply in research, It would be an as human beings to say, "We've got something inter-disciplinary program and it will be tailored to learn from you. We are ready to sit at your for each individual student. My task will be to feet and be taught," I believe then that the two sit down with each one of these men and women will come together and there will eiot be this Medical Panelists and say, "How can we best prepare you for this dichotomy. Dr. Willis Marshall, Dr.-Lyle Hermann, Dr. L. advanced degree you are seeking?" And then ELDER J. A. TUCKER (veteran educator, F. Littell, Dr. H. R. Nicholas. (Gene Sellars to root them and ground them so solidly in the retired at Portland, TN): I used to be dean of and Moderator Doyle Martin not shown) Bible and the Spirit of prophecy that when they this college. What I want to ask is this: If work go out to put a mold on this world work in the has educational value, why is It we are not giving SDA church, it will be uniquely, distinctly and credit towards graduation from work experience program as far as the spiritual and practical is dramatically SDA. That is what I am going to in our schools? When I came to Madison, I tried Andrews to do, and I can hardly wait. concerned, but also a program the students can to get this institution to accept at least a unit afford .... Is this gap growing? work in high school from work experience and DISCUSSION three hours in college .... When I left, it all GEORGE AKERS: I think you put your went to the dump. Any kind of work has edu- finger on the sensitive nerve, and that is, we are DR. CARL ANDERSON, chairman, History cational value. It may have vocational value too. Department, Oakwood: While I was listening to pricing Christian education out of the reach of I looked around and I found not one of the self- our people. It is going to cost $3,400 to send what the members of the panel said, it sounded supporting schools are giving work credit to- . like a dichotomy of interest. We hear about the a child to our Adventist colleges across the coun- ward graduation. Why aren't we doing it? .... try this year, and the average income of most of work of denominational schools as set up by I wrote my Master's thesis on work experience. the G.C. Department of Education. Then we our people is in the 9 to 12,000 dollar a year I read a statement about work from FUNDA- category. This means that we are asking our hear about our self-supporting schools. It seems MENTALS to the three men who examined me. that our self-supporting schools are doing some- people to give a fourth of their yearly income They said, "If you had known that, why were for the education of one child .... thing in many respects that denominational you so slow about doing something about it?" schools once did but are not doing today. I I don't know how much larger we're going would like to have Doctor Akers comment on GEORGE AKERS: The educational estab- to go. The cost of schooling is going up about this. lishment is under tremendous attack right now, 8 percent every year. It's going to be a complete DR. AKERS: Dr. Anderson, has recently and this is the hottest topic in every convention break, going back to something simple and inex- written a book, CRISIS IN SDA EDUCATION. you attend. The university without walls has pensive, or take Federal aid and really sell our He gave me a copy, and it looks very interesting, turned the fruit basket upside down. It has torn soul. I don't think we're going that latter route probably "must" reading for all who are inter- up the pea patch, so to speak. There are 450 ested in this topic .... I believe that the most colleges in the United States today that have a And of course the prestigious Carnegie Com- exclusive schools that we now have in the SDA non-major where any student can come in and mission report has come out .... By 1980, 80 denomination are self-supporting schools. In the say, "Here is what I expect to get from a college percent of the work force will require nothing book EDUCATION, Mrs. White said that in the education." And here is where work experience beyond the second year program, and the shift schools of the prophets only the student who has benefit, and up to 25 percent of that is being will be to the technical skills, people who have were intelligent, studious, and pious were ad- granted by very reputable institutions across the definite saleable skills, and can do something mitted. If we would hold this criteria as an ad- land. I hate to see the Adventist church come with their hands. They can help run the ma- mission standard in our denominational schools along like a little row boat in the wake of a chinery of civilization, and keep it lubricated. today, we would probably decimate the enroll- battleship and say we have been doing this all Now the moment of truth is beginning to ment. along. when really we should be at the head of descend on a secular society, and so the com- Many of the exclusive schools in New Eng- the parade. munity college has gone into that .... It will land require of the student that he write in his take people of tremendous dedication and tre- own handwriting three things: First, an essay JACK WILLIAMS: For your information mendous faith, who are willing to step out and on his own biography—who he is, what he is we have continued to give credit at Fletcher, but do it. like--what kind of a person am I? Second, what only in two or three areas all through the years. We are now working with the State, in which can this school do for me? Why I have chosen STEPHEN MARLOW '64, Administrator, we will be giving from three to four units. And this school. Third, and most important, how Laureibrook Sanitarium, spoke of vocational each one of our students will be able to work I expect to make this school a better place for training, learning in the job, as being an alterna- having attended there. What I plan to leave at out a program, their practical education pro- tive to minimum wage. the institution. gram, for which they will be given credit. JACK WILLIAMS: There are two approach, You suggest there is a dichotomy. Indeed FRANK LANG: We are definitely doing es to this. Our plan at Fletcher is different from there is, but I feel that I am not speaking out of our training on a work and in-service basis, and that in the other self-supporting schools. We turn when I say that today the self-supporting we are getting results, which simply could not are paying the minimum wage rate there and we schools have become the conscience for the SDA I be had by direct training with theory first. We charge a higher tuition fee. It's true under those school system. When I spoke this morning about spend a few hours of theory training with our circumstances more money goes to the govern- the magnificent agitators who have kept the people in our remedial reading field before we ment .... There's no question but that the ideal alive, I believe that the confusion that put them with a student; then we supervise them work program Ls, the answer to this economic exists would have been far more severe if it had closely, and train them in service. Our students_ problem--operating industries, a hospital, a farm, not been for many of our self-supporting schools come to us on referral from the public school' bakery, store, etc., where the student earns his in the Southland who struck a steady, clear note. system, the Department of Mental Health, from doctors and others. We are putting responsibility wages. and that's where he learns as well. It And now, I may be wrong on this, but I predict must come and will come .... within the next ten years you are going to find on trainees to get a quality of results. I'd like to read a statement from Professor a whole alternative school system rising up. I figured out that in over 800 student files A. W. Spalding, one of our leading educators, in And you are going to be turning away many we average 4.4 percent of a year's progress per an eight-page letter to Elder Dickson: "I am students from your schools who are reading the month, and our month consists of nine hours of therefore moved to record briefly my convic- books and are saying, "This is what we want, individual therapy. We just put on a workshop tions of the deepseated causes of the spiritual and if we can't get it in the schools of the church. in a nearby church school, where in only eight poverty and confusion among our workers and then we are going to the alternative track." weeks we had a number of youngsters making four and five grades progress. We did it not with our people, stemming chiefly from our schools. graduates but with volunteers, ladies in the com- Being advanced in years, I may not live to see munity who came in, and we helped them to even the beginning of the reform; for if it comes train a group of seventh and eighth graders to --and come it must before this people is ready practice something the Spirit of Prophecy talked to meet the Lord Jesus--it involves so radical and about—students teaching students. We believe consummate an overturning that, except in the you learn through doing. inscrutable miracles of God, it cannot be accom- plished in a day. But I desire to leave to my DAVID ENTZ: As to the question of giving children at least, and to whomever will heed, a credit for work experience, isn't the economic testament of my faith and vision." aspect a very important factor in our schools? Ili this notable letter Professor Spalding Mrs. White gives a lot of emphasis on that. I sets forth the basic principles of education. He wonder if Dr. Akers would tell us a little about gives his conviction that reform would come. the gap between the denominational and the I am very happy to see strong evidence that this self-supporting schools. We know the advantages reform is taking place. May God give us the un- of self-supporting schools, spiritually and in derstanding spirit that we need and a -working practical training and some of the deficiencies togetherness for the rapid and smooth operation as far as scholarship is concerned. It seems to me, of this reform. Let us pray for wisdom to bring our children back to the education they need, instead of two school systems, if time should and that as educators and parents we might last, if we are going to have one system, it is going unitedly prepare them for life on this earth and Imogene Allen Akers Dr. George H. Akers to be the system that not only offers a superior for life eternal.

Madison Survey, Sept. 1974, p. 5 At that time the Alabama-Mississippi Confer- but had no idea what it was like. Dick Essex HONOR CLASSES ence was quite small, and didn't have money to and I got in an old Model T and drove to run the school. I was one of the teachers, and I Madison. Dick went back home, but I stayed. Class of 1924 (50 years ago) did all I could to help in this boarding school in I'll never forget ... they were just pouring the little town of Gilbertown. the concrete for the Demonstration Building. Of the class of 1924, we have information Just after the Christmas vacation the old dor- and they put me on the business end of a on only one--Ora Hagerman in Columbus. Ohio. mitory caught fire because of defective wiring wheelbarrow. I hadn't done anything more She retired from private duty in 1961. and burned to the ground. We finished the year, strenuous than playing a little basketball that Our records show that Mrs. L. K. McAlpine but it was decided this was not the place for a winter. For the next week I worked all day died in 1962. and Henry Schneider died in 1959. self-supporting school. and I dreamed about wheeling cement all (The latter married Ruth Cantrell, '27 who died We went to Meridian. the conference head- night. At the end of the week I didn't know in 1949.) quarters. The educational secretary took us if I could go any longer. We have never had contact with Mary Fort- around to find a place for a new school, and we I met my wife (Marie Collison) here, and ner, Floyd Funk, or Ernest Read. The last we found what is now Pine Forest Academy. So I I've told her many times that Madison is one heard. Mrs. Marie Barrows was in Iowa. but was one of the people who pioneered in that of the few places I look back on without bitter she did not reply. Her husband, Dr. Charles place. Miss Lois Duncan (now Mrs. Hendershot) rancor. It seems like I have nothing but good Brown, died in 1972. Before moving to West- who was a teacher here at Madison with Mrs. memories. I think of the wonderful people chester. the Barrows were at Kernville, Calif., Betty Johnson and myself, also taught in this who were here. I have a poor memory for new school. where they had a hospital. names, but I remember Arthur Pearson, Other Lois Duncan (now Mrs. Hendershot) did the Speaker, Lester Ellenberger, W. E. Straw, Wayne If anyone can supply information on these cooking for the school. I was the only one who names, please write the MADISON SURVEY. had a college degree and I taught all day long, McFarland, Bill Sandborn, who was a room- as much as I could stand. One morning after mate of mine ... Oh, so many, and all great breakfast, Lois said, "I don't have enough food friends. Class of 1934 (40 years ago) for any more than one day." We had about I drove six hundred miles to get here to thirty students. So we had a prayer meeting. Homecoming, thinking when I got here I'd Of the class of 1934, three attended Home- When we went to the post office. we found some- know everybody. I think I've met three I one had sent us a check for $90.... We had coming--Hazel King, Helen Rademann, and Dr. knew, and one of them didn't know me-- Lyle Hermann. We heard from Ralph David- many experiences. Kenneth Knight. son, Ruth Hopper Haugen, Ruth Baker Nestell, Helen Marie Rademann, Maywood, N.J. Madison has been wonderful to us, and it and Dr. Wayne McFarland. Two did not write, holds a marvelous place in our hearts. but sent a check (Stephen Djang, Ph.D., Sacra- Helen Rademann (El. Ed. '34) taught one mento, and Beverly June Gregarius, M.D., N. year at Chestnut Hill Farm School. She is an Hollywood, Calif.). Two died (Roy King and enthusiastic booster of Madison. She enjoyed J. Wayne McFarland, Laurel, Md. her student days at Madison and when she comes Marshall Low). A letter from Dr. J. Wayne McFarland '34. On one name we had no information at back, she likes to look around in every nook and who expressed his regret at not being able to all (Naomi Mildred George). On two others, cranny. She is collecting CUMBERLAND both nurses. we had an address. but had never ECHOES yearbooks, and wants to get as com- attend Homecoming. He wrote from his office heard from them--Nellie Irene Peck Price, Ft. plete record as possible of the School's history. in the G.C., where he is associate secretary of Lupton, Colo. and Alice Yaeger, Lemon Grove, Helen has been employed as a legal secretary the Health Department; "I would have dearly Calif. If anyone knows about these three, for an attorney in her home town. Maywood, loved to have been there, and I believe I could please write. Reports on those who came and N.J. have given them something about the Cricket those who wrote follow. Club that would have kept them going for quite Ruth Hopper Haugen, Deer Lodge. Tenn. a while ... Of course I would have enjoyed Ralph Davidson, Silver Springs, Md. seeing you and my classmates again." (Mrs. Haugen, former director of nurses The Cricket Club to which Dr. McFarland Ralph Davidson called long distance just at Madison, graduated from both the nursing referred was a group of young men on the cam- before Homecoming and expressed his deep and B.S. courses in 1934, and received two pus organized to help train the young people disappointment at not being able to attend. diplomas at the same time.) of Madison to take the initiative and develop a He sent his greetings and said he wished so "Sorry I am not able to attend Homecoming. sense of responsibility for the welfare of the much to come, but had just returned from a institution. The female counterpart of the I had planned to, but circumstances changed long auditing trip overseas, and could not Cricket Club was the Katydid Klub. and an in- make it. my plans. Forty years ago I marched down the teresting contest between the two clubs resulted Earlier. Mrs. Davidson wrote that Ralph aisle with the nurses' group. I was seated with in a number of new additions to the library. was in Australia, half way around the world. them on the platform, received my diploma. The Cricket Club, of which Dr. McFarland was and could not come. "We dislike these long then went to the second row, a seat where my a member. not only put in a new cement side- separations, but the Lord gives us comfort cap and gown had been placed, and then re- walk between the hospital and the school in and strength. Air travel and air mail helps a ceived my diploma with the B.S. degree group. one day. but did other things as well. lot. When we retire, we shall return to Tenn- A memorable occasion ... I am glad that I Wayne McFarland and Lyle Hermann help- received my training at Madison. I had a good essee, moving back to the same house we had ed build the Science Building while here in the in Woodbury when Ralph began his C.P.A. foundation for service. Greetings to all. early thirties, and did the stone work on the practice there. so we won't be far away from arches of the Demonstration Building. The Ruth Baker NesteII, -Hinsdale. Ill. Madison ... We appreciate all that you are Science Building burned on Nov. 9,1967, but doing for Madison College Alumni and we Ruth Neste!! (N'34) wrote she was sorry the Demonstration Building still stands and is pray for the work there. for it is very dear to she couldn't come. She has been doing valiant used for some of the academy classes as well our hearts." as the elementary school. service for our large Hinsdale hospital as direc- We have some large colored pictures of the tor of linen. laundry, and housekeeping, and Hazel King, Meridian, Miss. Science Building. Each of the two doctOrs, is extremely busy. She wrote: "I am finally McFarland and Hermann, were glad to get a (Hazel King '34 attended Homecoming. She back to one department. The Lord has been, copy. If others wish one. write the SURVEY has been a teacher for many years. She graduated and is good to me, and I am happy to be able office. from Madison Academy in 1928, finished the to serve Him." normal course in 1929, and college in 1934. She was a teacher in the elementary grades at Mad- * Two young men who came to Madison and Class of 1949 (25 years ago) ison, at Fletcher (two years), and in the newly finished premed in 1934 were Wayne McFarland Reports from "the Forty-Niners" established self-supporting. Alabama-Mississippi and Lyle Hermann. Dr. Hermann recently Of the Class of '49 (25 years ago) only two Academy at Gilbertown, Alabama, until a fire moved from the outskirts of Atlanta, where he destroyed the dormitory in 1935. The school came from the B.S. course--George Thornton, was in family practice at Hapeville, to Jackson- was moved to Chunky, Miss., and became Dr. L. F. Littell, and two from the nursing class-- known as Pine Forest Academy. Hazel is present- ville, Fla. He was in the U.S. Navy from 1941- Lucy Depas Zetko and Genevieve Eaton Martin. ly teaching in public school near Meridian.) 54, then transferred to the Navy Reserve. He Letters were received from Gladys Rippy Martin, I was in the class of '34, the second graduat- retired from the Navy and is now directing a who did plan to attend; Marguerite Zimmer- physical fitness program and operating a clinic ing class of the college. My sister. Audrey and I man Overlees, L.P.N., who was unable to attend; grew up here. I've seen many happy days at for air route traffic control specialists of the Federal Aviation Agency. Dr. and Mrs. Her- and Harold J. Howard, also unable to attend. Madison. We as young people always enjoyed Only six names were listed from the college the self-supporting conventions held each fall. mann live in Hilliard, Florida. near Jackson- course. Of these, Ervin B. Stewart was presi- I can remember so many people who would ville. a dark county where they are letting their go out from Madison in the early days and start light shine. They have two children--Patricia dent of the class, and now lives in Johnson City, a sanitarium or a school, and I always listened and Lyle. Jr. where he is a biochemist. Frank T. Gillin, vice- to how the Lord answered their prayers. It Dr. Lyle F. Hermann. Hilliard, Florida president, lives in Takoma Park and does com- really impressed me. And so after I graduated puter programming for the I.R.S. Lottie Dicker- Wayne and I used to jokingly talk of when from M.C. in 1934 I went to Alabama, to teach son Hickman, secretary, died in 1967. and help in the boarding school at Gilbertown. we would come back and speak to the students, It had been Dixie Junior Academy, operated by but I never dreamed it would be like this. Dur- George Thornton, Lakeland, Ga. Sam Rogers as a private school, but he had some ing the last years of my high school I went to George Thornton was treasurer of the Class misfortune in his lumber business and the funds Battle Creek Academy, and I finished there in of '49. and graduated from Medical Technology. ran out. So he gave this school to the conference 1929. Those of you who are old enough will He and his wife, Edna, and two of the boys Lois Duncan, Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Strickland. Mr. remember the economic conditions in our coun- . Homecoming. George worked in the and Mrs. Emil Tetz were also teaching there. try around that time. I heard about Madison, attended

Madison Survey, Sept. 1974, p. 6 ALUMNI NEWS 1942. Ruth Carnahan (N'42) has returned from getting the SURVEY, though the last issue 30 years service in Africa, because of ill health. startled me with the sad news of my friend, After spending a time at Wildwood Sanitarium. Dr. Mitzelfelt's early death ... 1926. Oscar and Addie Pembroke '26 have re- she felt much better and went to visit her sister "The news from our family is that son tired and moved to Harrison, Ark., last year. in Boston, and then to Loma Linda, where she Lonnie and I have made a record of sacred Oscar lived in Arkansas as a boy. He wrote that will live. songs. We just got it cut before he became a he'd very much like to see a Madison the Second tenor. Lonnie sang with the symphony here located in Northwest Arkansas. Even though 1942. Dr. and Mrs. William Harp moved from as a boy soprano on several occasions." it is mountainous, the mountains are not high Marietta. Georgia, near Atlanta, to Monterrey, and he thinks enough tillable land could be found Tenn.. at the end of 1973. The story of why to supply the school with food. "I also know a 1957. Ado1pho Arellano, Jr.,.(El. Ed. '57) they left a metropolitan area to move to a large amount of fruit can be raised." wrote to give change of address from Corrales, small town is told in the Cookeville DISPATCH N.M.. where he was a teacher in James Moun- of May 11, 1974. Over a half pagesof the paper 1931. Dr. Thomas Biggs is back in London. tain School. Alcalde. N.M. His wife. Fay. fin- KY., after a short term of service at Kwahu including two large pictures, is devoted to Dr. ished Anesthesia at Madison in 1954. He and Mrs. Harp. The article said Dentist Harp Hospital, in Ghana, Africa. His wife, Alice, wrote: "Now we live one hundred miles north was filling a much needed gap in the Upper did in Africa in June, 1973, in an automo- of Albuquerque on a small, six-acre piece of bile accident. He wrote: "I left Ghana on Cumberland--the only dentist between Cooke- land." Jan. 8, 1974, and am working again at my ville and Crossville. old address, except that the T. B. Hospital is Dr. Harp is quoted as saying: "We had 1957. Doris Thomson '57, former director of now called Respiratory Disease Hospital. I often thought of leaving Marietta and going to a small community where we would be needed the School of Nursing at M.C., has transferred am assistant medical director." more. I wanted to be able to help people with from Canaan, Ct. to Simi Valley. Calif.. where their dental problems, and we both wanted she is head nurse in the Extended Care facility 1933. Ted Just (N'33) of Sand Springs. Okla., to work in a small church group again. With of Simi Valley Hospital. attended Homecoming and wrote back of his Monterey not having a dentist in approximate- appreciation for the meetings. For the past ly twenty years. and Cookeville having a small 1958. On July 3, Edith Johnson '58 received five years he has been a surgical nurse at Okla- church of about 30 members. this was what the first total hip replacement performed at homa Osteopathic Hospital in Tulsa. we had been looking for." Madison Hospital. She had been suffering from Mrs. Harp (Dorothy Dawson) finished the a broken hip due to a fall some time ago. Dr. 1933. A duplicated letter came from Theo college course at Madison in 1942 with a major David Gaw, assisted by Dr. Clifford Ludington, and Nell Maddox, telling of their move from in Home Economics. She and Bill met at replaced the defective hip with a plastic socket Miami Springs, Fla. to Winter Haven, Fla. Madison while in school. The Harps have two device equipped with a stainless steel joint. The letter began by quoting: "We used to live children, Don and Joan, both married and in The surgery was performed in the new Laminar where we ain't no more. We've moved to where health professions. "Their son. Don, is a para- Flow green room. where a sterile air flow system we never lived before. You know where we medic with the Stone Mountain, Georgia Fire insures against infection. Miss Johnson worked was, but not where we is, so here's the new Department. Don's wife has a Master's degree for 15 years in the diet office at the hospital address where 'tis." Now that we are near the in psychiatric nursing. Daughter Joan is a before retiring in 1970. She has continued to center of things, our friends may find it more nurse and married to a future doctor." be active in Dorcas work and has given many convenient to visit us. We are in a compara- hours of volunteer help in our alumni office. tively short distance from Disney World. Cy- 1943. Wilfred Newell '43 visited his brother. After several weeks in the hospital, Edith is at press Gardens, Kennedy Space Center. etc. T. W. Newell, in Portland. Tenn.. and attended home and doing fine. We will welcome our friends to be our house Homecoming. After returning to his home in guest while they visit these attractions. but we Modesto, Calif., Wilfred wrote about his plea- must know in advance as we have only one ex- 1959. From the REVIEW (6-6-74) we learn sure at seeing his former roommate. Jack tra bedroom ... Winter Haven is in the "sub- that Dr. and Mrs. W. John Cannon presented a Williams. at Homecoming. They were room- urbs" of Cypress Gardens, about half way be- Family Life Conference at Andrews University mates while in school at Gilbertown, Ala. tween Orlando and Tampa, and just south April 5 and 6. 1974. The conference was spon- of 1-4. (forerunner of Pine Forest Academy). Elder sored by the Home and School Association of Williams, now president of the Fletcher insti- the elementary school. Mrs. Cannon is the tution, attended Homecoming. Wilfred had 1937. After many years of faithful service at former Lois Irwin Lowry, Nutrition graduate. seen mention of a M.C. roommate, Roscoe Hinsdale S-H as staff nurse and supervisor, Class of 1959. Davis, in the SURVEY, and asked for his ad- Viola Carleton (N'37) has retired. She has dress. which we are trying to get. He wrote: moved to Knox, Indiana. and wrote that she 1959. Mickey Rabuka '59, administrator of "Roscoe roomed with Jim Herman and me. has an apartment in her sister's home by Bass the Marion County Hospital. Jefferson, Texas. He was best man at Jim's wedding. Later he Lake. has been elected secretary of the SDA Hospital was baptized and married Edna Jenson on Mr. Association for the coming year. William H. 1937. Marvin and Margaret Meeker ('37 and Mathews' lawn in a pretty wedding." Gosse. president of Simi Valley Adventist Hos- '31) have moved from Candler, N.C.. to Lin- pital, Simi. Calif., is the new president of the coln. Ark. She had been teaching and he had 1946. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Bidwell '46 were association. His wife is the former Juanita been in machine and spring shop work. In on the welcome committee for a Bidwell fam- Standish. answer to our inquiry if he had retired. Mar- ily reunion held in Madison June 30 and July 1. vin wrote as follows: 1961. John Dovich '61, Caribbean Union "Yes. for the present at least I have retired 1947. James Herman '47 and family have College, Trinidad. This is our second year in ... So far I've been very busy. Had to get a moved to the Miami area. where he is principal Trinidad. I have set up new facilities and an survey, build fence, and plant a garden. I've of Greater Miami Academy. Industrial Arts program here at Caribbean had quite a bit of work around the house. and Union College. The training and experience am building a double garage, so no time to 1951. We learn from Rex Leatherwood that play lazy ... We are five miles from Lincoln, his brother, Reavis, lives in Elkhart. Texas. I received at Madison is being put to the su- Ark.. right on U.S. Highway 62, about three and works in the V.A. Hospital, Dallas. preme test. Nearly every technical area needs miles from the Oklahoma state line. If any of my advice or assistance daily in order to keep our friends are driving this way, we'd be glad the campus going. Classes are given at present 1951. While in Nashville in August. Harvey in electronics. mechanics. construction, draft- for them to stop. We are about 40 miles north Hold '51 visited friends on the campus. Har- of 1-40, where it passes north of Fort Smith." ing. and woodwork ... vey has a booming business in wire in the New Luvamay and I have five children. Our Market, Va.. area. His business card says, first was born at Madison, three in Canada. 1941. After spending 26 years as a missionary "Eastern Steel and Wire Corporation--drawing. and one in Trinidad ... We have greatly appre- nurse mostly in Africa, Marie McCall is on per- straightening, forming." One of the main items ciated receiving the SURVEY. We have been manent return for health reasons, living in is wire for stands and sprays used at funerals thinking often of Madison. even if failing to Tempe, Arizona. She had surgery at Fletcher. and weddings by florists. Tom Holder, a for- keep contact. where her mother and sister live, and made a mer schoolmate at Madison. is one of Harvey's workers. good recovery. She plans to work again at 1963. Wayne and Carol (Cothren) Niemeyer the Adventist Hospital in Tempe as her health have transferred from Eden Valley Institute. permits. Marie wrote: "I think North Arkansas 1952. Retta Wiles Robinson (N'52) and fami- Loveland, Colo., to Wildwood Medical Mission- is the best place for the rrew Madison," and ex- ly came from Smithville, Tenn.. to attend ary Institute, where he is chaplain of the sani- pressed appreciation for the SURVEY while Homecoming. Since they left here. Retta's tarium. and she is teaching Christian Graces overseas, and I do thank you for sending it air husband, Olin, finished the nursing course at for women. Carolyn has been teaching and mail ... Each one seems like a letter from the University of Kentucky. He is director of lecturing on the subject for some time. She home ... Again I wish to thank you for all nurses at DeKalb General Hospital. uses dolls she has dressed, after careful re- you have done and are doing to keep the search. to demonstrate the evolvement of wom- Madison spirit alive and healthy." 1954. Howard Porter (Anes.'54) has been an's attire during the period of time in which appointed administrator of Leland Memorial Ellen White wrote. 1941. We were informed by David Lima that Hospital, Riverdale, Md. Gordon Cross '42, director of Medical Center 1962 & 1964. We have learned that Eddie and Lab in Harlingen, Texas. graduated from Pan 1956. Lorin W. Mixon '56 wrote from Battle Lydia Barton ('62 and '64) have returned from American University, getting his Master's in Vo- Creek, Mich., where he is a teacher and his Africa and are in Brownsville. Texas. where cational Counseling. His wife, Marjorie, is a wife (Velma Stewart '52) is director of nurses Eddie is taking additional courses in flight teacher. at Battle Creek Sanitarium: "We always enjoy school.

Madison Survey Supplement, Sept. 1974 Medical Records, 1964 LETTERS CLASS of 1964 Three of the Medical Records girls attended: Jacob Mittleider, Loma Linda, Calif. (Ten years ago) Debbie Chandler McNutt, whose husband is principal of Highland Academy; Dorothy Carris. We thank you for the SURVEY which has This was the last class to graduate from the who lives in Madison; and Ruby Winters of been sent to us several times. and the clippings. college proper. Hospital courses in Anesthesia, Portland. Tenn. Ruby was the only one who I shall not forget Madison and all the good folks X-ray. and Medical Technology have continued. replied. there .... I will be at AUC April 3 to 18, and Part of the time a class in Medical Records has then through the Southern Union about May 11. been taught. and of recent years. a one-year Ruby Winters, Portland, Tenn. Many new and simple methods of crop produc- tion have come to light through the Lord's lead- L.P.N. course has been given. Wes. my husband, still works at SPA. and I ing recently. The Lord is getting ready for a am vacationing this summer after four years in NURSE-ANESTHETISTS. So far as we quick work .... the Medical Records Department at Sumner know, only four of the twelve anesthetists in A group of Adventist businessmen are devel- County Memorial Hospital. I will take on new this class attended Homecoming--Ruth Mc- oping an agricultural school in the Watsonville, duties as head of the Medical Records Depart- Lellan Trivett of McMinnville and his sister. Calif., area. to provide a place to train men who ment at Highland Hospital this fall. I will be Dorothy Benson of Fletcher, N.C.; Newell request such a program. There are about two Brown of Smithville, Tenn.. and Rex Leather- taking some college work at Volunteer State hundred names on the list requesting the short Community College during the summer .... wood of Gallatin. Rae Anna Brown recently course. I have agreed to teach two four-month returned to Kanye Hospital, Botswana. Africa. James, our oldest, teaches computer program- courses at this location, or at least stay there A goodly number of anesthetiSts showed ing at Tennessee State Technical Institute in long enough to train someone to teach the classes. up from other classes, too. Mr. Bowen spotted Nashville, and heads the computer center at them at the dinner. asked them to step out, Volunteer State Community College. Debby Wes Lombard, Hollister, Calif. and took a colored picture of eleven, plus one works at Eaton Corporation in Gallatin. She student. He said there were even more that attends Volunteer State Community College, Wes Lombard wrote from California where didn't get in the picture. and is waiting to be accepted at Loma Linda or he was a student in the Food for Everyone Train- other medical school. Mark is a sophomore at ing Center conducted by Jacob Mittleider. Pre- SMC and works for Wilks Publications at High- viously he had attended the Mittleider meetings land Academy during the summer. Danny will at AUC. Shortly before that he learned about finish elementary school next year at Highland. the SURVEY from a friend and subscribed. He NURSING CLASS. 1964 wrote for back numbers and said: "I praise God Of the Nursing Class of '64. five attended for the dedication of those who have endeavored all or part of the meetings--Edna Bryant Atkin. MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY. Two finished to keep this Madison spirit alive. I recently read director of Nursing Service. Highland Hospital; lab in 1964: Dorothea Grotheer of Florence. with great enthusiasm Dr. Sutherland's book on Pat Ricks Hunt of Envilla. Tenn. (near Savan- Miss.. and Byron H. Steele, Jr. Byron is now Christian education. It is wonderful!" nah). Pat was at one time director of In-Ser- chief medical technologist at Madison Hospital. In corresponding with Wes, who was at that vice at Florida Hospital. Husband Buddy. a time in New Hampshire. we learned he and his former student at M.C.. finished Respiratory X-RAY, 1964 wife were R.N.'S from New England S-H. and he was becoming much interested in self-supporting Therapy at Loma Linda. and has been head of There were two graduates of X-ray in 1964. R.T. at several hospitals. Stephen Marlow. Connie Hayward Zanes married an X-ray tech- work. His recent letter follows. administrator of Laurelbrook Sanitarium. Day- nician. and they are in Fletcher. N.C. "The classes taught by Jacob Mittleider at ton, Tenn.; Rose Holverstott Coolidge of Mait- Arthur Berard wrote news of himself and the Food for Everyone Training Center here in land, Fla; Esther Minesinger Sutton of Madison. family. After eight years of marriage. he and Hollister, Calif.. are coming along well thus far. his wife (Margaret Woolsey) have their first My wife and I are praying for guidance to know child--Carissa Rose. After he left Madison. he just what we should do when the course is over Rose Holverstott Coolidge, Maitland, Fla. was an X-ray technician in the Army in Vietnam. around the first of October. I should like to go to a small, self-supporting' unit where I could I'm a second generation Madisonite. My and continued his education at Peabody. SMC. and in Memphis. He remained in Memphis. and learn some hydrotherapy. natural remedies treat- father, Charles Holverstott, graduated from wrote: "Since we last visited Madison, much ments, and health conditioning. At the same the academy here, and my mother, Jackie Soule, has'happened' to me. I quit X-ray work after time I'd like to use the knowledge gained here graduated from the college here in 1938. I al- I finished at Memphis State University to be- to help start an agricultural program as a class ways planned to come to Madison. and always come vice-president of an aircraft sales and air for students, as well as to provide food for use planned to be a nurse. When I first came to charter business. In July. 1973. I took a posi- by the institution, and provide a means of income Madison, Mr. Walper. personnel director, want- tion as president of a real estate development to help sustain the multi-faceted work that these ed me to be his secretary. I said, "Never." I and management firm, and I am half owner of small places do. was determined to be a nurse. I was fortunate a restaurant here in Memphis. The business "Can you tell me if Ben Nutt has an outline to be in the last class of nursing that was allowed world can be a cruel. hard battleground. but or a paper written up that one could obtain? I to finish before the college closed in 1964. if one sets goals within his abilities and accom- am interested in his topic of 'Agriculture-Related Those in the other classes had to go to other plishes his business in an honest manner. the Teaching Projects for Adventist Elementary and schools of nursing to finish. rewards can occasionally outweigh the negative Secondary Schools.' ... We are presently living in the Orlando area, factors." "The Messenger of the Lord tells us that and my husband. William, is teaching History (Arthur also wrote that his mother. Ruth there are many students who would consider it at Forest Lake Academy. I work for a GYN Elizabeth Berard ("Betty"). a former student a privilege and blessing to obtain just a few doctor. one of the four doctors in a clinic next of M.C., died December 31, 1973. at Hinsdale, months of Christ-centered education to prepare door to Florida Hospital. III. She was 58. His brother. Vincent. is in New them for a place in the Lord's work. Unless we Last night, as I was looking around seeing Orleans. studying music at Loyola. His grand- come quickly into line and up to the blueprint friends. I was thrilled to see my parents come mother, Mrs. Luella Doub, who graduated from of true educational reform, we'll have to do what in. I didn't know they were coming. And I Nutrition at M.C. in 1932. is presently at Har- must be done under much more difficult times. thought, Oh, My. what will it be like when we and otherwise, things can bert Hills. Savannah. Tenn.) Politically. eeligiously, get to heaven! There we'll see our friends, our go so fast we will wonder what is Happening. dear ones and loved ones. May we see each one Now is the time for us to act and start simple of you there. schools teaching students of all ages how to give simple treatments, bake bread. till the soil to grow outstanding crops, and above all. how to Esther Minesinger Sutton, Madison, Tenn. For Sale lead a soul to the foot of the cross. A small sani- I can never forget what Madison has done • STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN EDUCATION by tarium as well as a school and a farm can and for me. Madison is dear to my heart. After I E. A. Sutherland, and THE MADISON SCHOOL must all be interconnected in these schools that finished nursing in March, I went to California by E. G. White, $1 postpaid. should be established immediately. Oh, for a and stayed with my sister three months; then proper. quick, but thorough training along these I came back and worked at Highland Hospital * A few extra copies of the M.C. annuals, lines! a year and a half. CUMBERLAND ECHOES. are for sale at $1 "I say we must not be concerned about I met a young man while at Madison. Howard each for classes 1957, 1958, 1960, 1964. Also accreditation and degrees. Even some of our Sutton. and- we were married in 1965 at High- 8x10 pictures of M.C. college class of 1958, small institutions can get caught in this accredi- land, and lived there six months. Then we moved nursing class 1958, and academy class 1958. tation squeeze. and that's unfortunate. How did to Madison. He has his printing business, and it * Misses Margaret Brown and Ruth Lingham the Madison '74 Homecoming go? Any new de- is located in the old dairy barn, using that as his have donated to the alumni office some of the velopments regarding the establishment of a new, shop. I'm working in Nashville at the Parthenon two-volume set of TAKING CARE OF THE rural-based Madison school?" Pavilion, a new psychiatric hospital and I'm in FAMILY'S HEALTH, a Teaching Guide for charge of insulin treatments. Rural Classes. (Ruth Lingham's late sister, Ger- We have four children. two of our own. We trude. was coauthor.) These books give practical thought two was enough. but the Lord decided help for care of sick people in the home and for we needed two more. Two years ago we adopted teachers of home nursing, and contain lesson two children who were not fortunate enough to outlines, exhibits, demonstrations. exercises, have a home. The Lord has blessed us. We love and charts. If you'd like a set, write THE Homecoming 1975 Madison and always will. SURVEY for price. Honor classes next year will be 1925, 1935, and 1950. Write and give your idea as to best * Charlotte Smith Cemer sent her dues and time. June seems best for teachers and parents change of street address in Fort Pierce, Fla. Don * We're sorry that a number of letters and with children. Mr. Bowen would like a meeting Sullivan died in 1969, and Lena Holder Gee died other items had to be omitted for this time for with nurse-anesthestists. More on this later. in 1967 in an automobile accident. lack of space.

Madison Survey Supplement, Sept. 1974 lab at Madison S-H until 1961; then the family MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY AND X-RAY the baby resuscitator, and emergency equip- moved to Ellijay, Georgia, where he worked at ment for the Rhea County Hospital. Dr. Watkins Memorial Hospital four years. He went Harold Pervis took both lab and X-ray. He Littell takes time after hours to train the hos- to Florida S-H one year, and then to Louis is chief technician of the lab at Hinsdale. James pital staff to operate this equipment. Smith Memorial Hospital, Lakeland, Georgia, Sorensen (lab) died in 1966. Shaen Sutherland "Dr. Littell is a deacon and leader in the where he has been for the past eight years. He (lab) is a medical doctor at Lawrenceburg S-H, Graysville SDA church. He also serves on the remarked that they had been gone from Madison Tenn. Howard Fisher (X-ray) is in real estate. Tennessee Rural Health Committee and is a thirteen years and it was nice to come back and He and his wife, Oveda Lambert, live in Long- member of the American Academy of Family see the people they had known. wood, Fla. Gordon Talge, Jr. (X-ray) is X-ray Physicians." technician at a V. A. hospital in Long Beach, Nursing Class of 1949 Calif. He and his wife, Polly Stevens (Lab.'50), For 1964 Honor Class, see Supplement Page live in Bellflower. Calif. Lucy (Degas) Zetko, Crestwood, Ky. Michael Prelog finished X-ray and lab at M.C. in 1949. We have never hard from Mike A Final Word on Honor Classes Lucy and husband, Joe Zetko, attended or had his address, but we got some informa- Homecoming. She remarked they had made it Each year before Homecoming we spend tion from Zorabelle Meadows Prelog, who is considerable time in the alumni office compil- back several times, and it is becoming a habit now food service director at Highland Hos- ing names and addresses of the Honor Class to attend Homecoming. She is night supervi- pital. They had four children: Judy (Herval) sor at Pleasant Grove Hospital, eight miles from graduates of 10, 25, 40, and 50 years age, then died in 1966; Donna (Roberts) is an R.N. at send a letter to each one, with list of classmates. Pewee Valley S-H, and has worked at both hos- Highland Hospital; her husband will be taking pitals. Joe is a skilled carpenter (we need more We have several sources to use in compiling Anesthesia at Madison next year. Larry Prelog these lists. The main one is a list of year-by- of them). She was glad this was the honor year is taking aviation at AU. Debbie (Mrs. Tom for her class. year graduates from the Registrar's office be- Candy) is receptionist at AU's Medical Center. fore the transcripts were sent to SMC. We also Genevieve Eaton Martin, Portland, Tenn. have a fairly complete file of graduation Harold J. Howard, Nekosa, Wis. programs. Genevieve Eaton Martin (N'49) and hus- (We appreciated Harold Howard's prompt While compiling the lists of 1934 and 1949 band, Doyle (N & B.S. '43, Anes. '52) attend- and newsy reply to the letter we sent to the we accidentally came across several names that ed Homecoming. Doyle, as president of M.C. class of 1949. He and his wife operate a chain were not on the list we had, and we have added A.A., was much involved with the program, of 8 Mid-American Nursing Homes in Wiscon- them now. We have an alumni card file, and serving as chairman and in other ways. sin. His wife, Bernice, is an R.N. from Paradise while working on the lists. we noticed the omis- Genevieve reported that they worked at Hia- Valley S-H. Howard is presently a vice-presi- sion of two names in 1949--Gordon Talge, Jr. leah Hospital ten years, then went to Boone- dent of the ASI and president of the Lake (X-ray) and Harold Howard (two-year business ville, Ark., four years before moving to Port- course). In the class of 1934, we found two land. Doyle is in a group of anesthestists, and Union ASI Chapter.) premed names—Wayne McFarland and Lyle Genevieve is busy with their large garden and "My wife and I brought up our children in Hermann. her hobby of collecting and dressing dolls. She the Bethel area. All three are Married and are Another one, whose name at that time was has over six hundred dolls on display in her living near Bethel. Mike is an accountant in home. Edna Kendall, finished her nursing course In our central business office. His wife, Cheryl. 1923, but circumstances arose whereby she did GLADYS RIPPEY MARTIN lives in Leb- is in charge of medical records at the Marsh- not get her diploma until 1924. Later she fin- anon, Tenn., and works in the Intensive Care field Convalescent Center. Peggy is married ished Junior College in 1930. unit of a nearby V.A. hospital. to Dennis Bakpen. Dennis is working as my Of the other R.N. graduates, Lois and Dr. assistant. Our son, Terry, completed two * Edna Kendall (Norris) '30 and R. John Leland Bull live in Plainview, Ark., where he years of business education at SMC in May, Manzano '47 were married at her campus home is in practice. Lucile and Ralph Cline have and is now an administrator, in training, at retired In Jersey Shore, Pa. Lathan Robert on June 2. Elder David Manzano of Mt. Vernon, River Pines Community Health Center in Ohio, performed the ceremony. Dr. Vern Man- died in 1970. Imogene Carney (Jennings) Steven's Point. His wife, the former Carol Smith and Marjorie Campbell live in the Nash- zano of Sacramento, Calif., also came from Brown, graduated from the A.D. Nursing out of town, and Sarah Cruickshank. Edna's ville area, but did not reply or attend Home- Course at SMC, and is also employed at the sister, came from Jamestown, N.J. coming. Marjorie is a historian at Madison same place .... We are happy to have our Hospital, and husband James has been doing children with us in the business. Sorry we will Summary of Missing Addresses private duty. not be able to attend the 1974 Homecoming, but we know that it will be a real success." Does anyone have information on the follow- ATTENDANT NURSES. In those days ing names? there was a shorter course for nurses, called Lester F. Littell, Dayton, Tenn. Attendant Nurses, equivalent to the L.P.N. Class of 1924: Mary Fortner, Floyd Funk, course today. Only one of this group replied, "I came to Madison in the summer of 1934. Ernest Read, Marie Barrows. Class of 1934: Nellie Peck Price, Naomi Margaret Zimmerman, who married Guy Over- At ten cents an hOur I worked up.a credit of Mildred George, Alice Yeager. lees in 1956. She expressed regret at not being $60 to start tenth grade in the academy. I fin- Class of 1949: Lloyd Bailey, Mildred Gorin. able to attend Homecoming because of pre- ished the academy in 1937, and nursing in 1941.... Ann Minnick, Cecil Perkins. vious plans, and wrote the following letter. "Vivian Eithun and I were married in 1942 Class of 1964: Sandra Kinnard, Terry Troy, The privilege of taking my nursing training .... I decided to take medicine and entered Mary Calloway Williams, Loretta Billings. at Madison Sanitarium has been one of the Loma Linda in 1945, graduating in 1949. I in- greatest blessings of my life. The love for self- terned at Nashville General in 1949, and that's supporting missionary work, inspired by Dr. Campus Visitors how I got included in the M.C. Class of 1949 Sutherland, has never left me. He persuaded with a B.S. degree." * Dr. John E. Crowder and wife, Dr. Anna Mae my mother and me to go to Monticello, Ark., (Dr. Littell is a physician with a very busy (Lindgren) Crowder, of Cerritos. Calif., visited to help start'a small sanitarium or convalescent practice in Dayton, Tenn., near Laurelbrook the alumni office, Druillard Library, and other home, where the Parantos had already started School and Sanitarium. He received a citation points on the campus in early June. a small school and a broom and mop handle as "Man of the Year" by the Dayton Lion's mill on a 75-acre farm. However, three * Emogene McBride '46 of Dallas, Texas, stop- Club last year. In reporting this, the Daytono attempts to dig a well adequate to supply a ped briefly in August on her vacation, and attend- HERALD said: "Dr. Littell was praised for sanitarium failed and the plan did not mate- ed services for the first time in the new Campus his efforts in acquiring the intensive care unit, rialize. Church. I have nursed ever since leaving Madison. In 1956 I married an old friend and wonderful lay-worker for God, Guy Overlees, and moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas, where I am still nursing at Ouachita Hospital part time. My COUPON husband passed away in 1973, and my mother died at Monticello in 1958 .... It would be a M.C. ALUMNI ASSOC., Box 1303, M.C. Sta., Madison, Tenn. 37115 real joy to see classmates and friends at Madison I am sending $ for THE MADISON SURVEY for year (s) again and I'm so sorry I can't come. God's richest blessings. MAURICE PATTON (Att.N.'49) wrote (at $1 a year, or as a gift) (New? Renewal' sometime ago that he had moved from Port- land, Ore., to Georgia. He was at Ellijay for a time, but is now in Columbus, taking a re- I am sending $ for dues ($5 annual; $50 life) fresher course and working at a nursing home. (It is optional whether dues include SURVEY subscription) He expressed a desire to visit Madison. INEZ MEJIA BARON (Att.N.'49) did (You may have a tax-deductible receipt if you send $2 or more) not write, but in answer to a request for her Other address, Ilka Reis Marmon sent her street address in Glendale. MEDICAL SECRETARIAL. There was NAME AND ADDRESS one graduate from Medical Secretarial in 1949-- Mary Belle Wentworth. She did not write. but we learned from her sister-in-law, Mary Went- News Notes or Remarks: worth ('51) that Mary Belle is now Mrs. Floyd Hurd, and lives in Paris, Maine. * Dr. Robert Bowes (MCA '61) visited at Mad- went into residency training. Dr. Bryan contin- ROBERT EDGAR STEWART ued alone until 1973. At that time he was called ison a few days in August in quest of workers for Elder R. E. Stewart, 85, died July 6, 1974, to Washington Adventist Hospital as director Yerba Buena Hospital, Yerba Buena, Chiapas, after a stroke in Berrien Springs. Mich. He and of the Family Practice Center, where he remain- Mexico. He plans to return there as soon as he his wife, Lottie, and their five children came to ed until his death. finishes his Family Practice internship. He says Madison to make their home in 1941, after ser- A life-long Adventist, Dr. Michaelis held they need almost any type of worker. The earth- Ving 21 years as missionaries in the Philippines, ly rewards may be small. but the needs are great offices in Sabbath School, on school boards, as Mexico. Cuba, and Colombia. They also had and there will be rewards in heaven. If interested, deacon. local elder, and Pathfinder leader. spent fifteen years in Spanish work in the United contact Bob at 1718 E. Chevy Chase. Glendale, In 1942 he was united in marriage with States. Calif. (Tel. 213-246-8046) Olive Myrtrude Pierce of Candler, N.C., who At Madison. where they lived tor su years, survives. (She was a student at M.C. from 1940-2.) * Woodrow and Lucile Ek '60, Genevieve the family was busy. with the parents working Parker, and Florence Reich visited the campus To this union were born five children: Terry and teaching in hospital and school, and the on a vacation trip in June. Mrs. Parker (sister Lee of Tampa, Fla.; Patrick Alan and Myran children in school. Elder Stewart served as chap- of Mrs. Ek) is the wife of Elder A. R. Parker Keith of Kettering, Ohio; Kathe Alyce and Karla lain at Madison S-H, taught in Madison College (N'51). They live in Vassar. Mich. Mrs. Reich's Alyne at home in Silver Springs, Md. Also sur- and the academy, and served as assistant pastor husband, Wilbur '55. is working in the engineer- viving is one grandson, and his brother. Charles of the college church for several years. He mar- ing department at Glendale Adventist Hospital. E. Michaelis, M.D. of Hinsdale. Ill. ried over one hundred couples. The Eks are both working at Kettering Mee Three of the five children finished at M.G. morial Hospital in Ohio. She works in peds and CARL HENRY DYE (Violet and Velma. R.N.'s, and Ervin, B.S.) Father and Mother Stewart decided they wanted he in the surgery unit. They have been there C. H. Dye of Yucaipa, Calif., died May 3. to go back to school themselves, and did, grad- five years. Of their two girls, Diana just finished 1974, at age 87. Mr. Dye was a worker at Mad- uating in 1958, becoming the oldest graduates 12th grade at Spring Valley Academy, and wants ison College for several years. Dr. E. A. Suther- to be a veterinarian; Dale will be in the 6th grade land had urged him to come and develop a food in the history of M.C. He was 69 and she was 63. They were honored as "Alumni of the Year" this fall. sales organization, which he did. In 1935 he at the 1967 Homecoming. * Mrs. Ek reported that Loretta Billings (N'64) was asked to go to Paris, Tenn., to help in the After repeated efforts by their children to is now Mrs. Shareretts, and is supervisor on her establishing of an educational and medical work. get them to move near one of them, they finally floor. The Dyes moved to Paris. and established a small sanitarium and treatment rooms. They decided to go to Berrien Springs, where daughter named it the Parvo Sanitarium and Treatment Violet Lang lives. They moved there in 1970. Mrs. Webber Visits Madison Rooms. A good relationship was developed Their 60th wedding anniversary was celebrated with the local doctors, the Lord added His bless- in Berrien Springs on Aug. 26, 1973. (Their Mrs. Ella Mae Webber visited Madison in 50th was in Madison in 1963.) July, after an absence of six years. Her husband, ing. and the work grew and prospered. But with the increase of business and the shortage of help Survivors are his wife, Lottie, in Berrien Dr. Perry Webber. died in January. 1973, and Springs, and children: Evelyn, wife of Elder R. she has been living near her son. Alfred, in Lodi. during the war. a physical breakdown resulted, D. Murray, of Dumas, Texas; Elder Alvin Stewart, California. At the same time she was visiting in and they moved to California in 1943, where two of their children, Dorothy and Clarence. a pastor in Puerto Rico; Ervin B. Stewart '49, a Collegedale. Wildwood, and Madison, Dr. Alfred biochemist in Johnson City, Tenn.; Violet Lang Webber and family were making a trip to Sweden were living. Clarence was then teaching at Glen- '50, in Berrien Springs; and Velma Mixon '52, and other countries in Europe. where he was dale Academy. (He died Nov. 24, 1971.) director of nursing service, Battle Creek Mich. scheduled to attend a medical meeting and pre- Mr. and Mrs. Dye moved to the Yucaipa (The couples Elder Stewart married, and sent a paper on his specialty in orthopedics. Valley in 1946. where he was very active in other friends are invited to contribute to a me- While at Madison a luncheon was arranged civic affairs and church work, until failing health morial scholarship fund in his name. Several for Mrs. Webber and her friends at the hospital forced him to retire. Mrs. Dye sent information have already given, and the names will be listed cafeteria. At this time, she told how she wrote for her husband's obituary and wrote: "Our later and written in a memorial book. Make an account of her and Dr. Webber's experiences hearts have always been in the self-supporting check to M.C. Alumni Association. It is tax at the request of the AU Heritage Room for work in the South," and said, "We would have autobiographies of retired missionaries. She been married 63 years the 28th of June, 1974. deductible.) has a few extra copies of this 87-page book. Survivors are his wife, Stella Allen Dye, and Those who wish to see it may write Mrs. P. A. two daughters, Dorothy Gee and Florence Jacob- PHILIP MARION SAVAGE Webber. 1051 N. Lincoln Ave., Lodi, Calif. 95240. sen, both of Upland, California. Dorothy's son. Philip Marion Savage was born July 7. 1890, Glenn Gee, was a student at Madison, and is in Bostown, Wis., and died Aug. 9, 1974. In now director of Respiratory Care at LLU Hos- 1914 he married Nona Ewers, and to this union pital. His first wife, Lena Holder (N'64) was were born five children, a son and four daugh- BRYAN ALBERT MICHAELIS killed in an auto accident in 1966. Later he ters. In 1940 he moved to Madison, because of Bryan A. Michaelis was born in St. Louis, married Lenetta Paddock. daughter of 4. L. the educational opportunities for their children. and died July 24, 1974. of cancer at Washington Paddock. manager of SPA. He made his home just off the Madison College Adventist Hospital at age 53-. campus. where the four daughters attended He attended Mt. Vernon Academy, and Mad- LUCILE (BERTHOLD) FRANZ Madison Academy, and three enrolled for some college work. Daughter Mavis Sutherland is a ison College from 1938 to 1942, where he re- Lucile B. Franz, 86, wife of the late Charles ceived a B.S. degree. He received his M.D. from 0. Franz, died May 15. 1974, at Angwin, Calif. graduate of both the academy and college (class) CME in 1951 and an M.S. in Physiology from She attended EMC and taught church school in of 1950). He was preceded in death by his wife in Ohio State University in 1956. Dr. Michaelis Michigan. In 1910 she married Charles 0. Franz, served in the Army Medical Corps from 1942-6, 1969 and his son, Roy Lee, in 1973. He is sur- who in 1907 had come to Madison "to study at seeing service in the South Pacific theater. vived by his daughters: Phyllis Harris of Mad- the feet of Professors E.-A. Sutherland and P. Following three years of general practice in ison; Wanda Talmage, Sparta, Mich.; Mavis Suth- T. Magan." They served as self-supporting Fredericktown, Mo., he became an assistant pro- erland. wife of Dr. Shaen Sutherland, Lawrence- missionaries in Cuba four years, then joined a fessor in the Physiology Department at LLU in burg, Tenn.; and Iris Keairnes, Honolulu. Inter- group that established a boarding school for 1954. In 1962 he was associated with Little ment was in Springhill centetery. colored youth at Hillcrest, Tenn. For the next Creek Sanitarium for two years. 36 years Elder and Mrs. Franz served in four He returned to Fredericktown, Mo., in 1964, FORREST E. BLISS, M.D. local conferences and in the Southern Union where he was associated with his brother, Charles Conference, he was in treasury work. In 1947 Dr. Forrest Bliss of Lawndale, N.C., died E. Michaelis. M.D. in general practice. Dr. while secretary-treasurer of the Southern Union, June 21, 1974. Part of his premedical course Charles attended Madison College in 1942, prior Elder Franz received a call to be general mana- was taken at Madison. He served on the medi- to his service in the U.S. Navy. and when he ger of the Madison institution. After five years cal staff of Mountain Sanitarium, Fletcher, N.C. here he accepted a call to be treasurer of Faith and then went into private practice at Lawndale, for Today. N.C. He retired in 1963 because of ill health. Their three children survive: Clyde 0. Franz, His daughter, Marthine, is a former mission- Madison Survey & Alumni News secretary of the General Conference; Mildred ary nurse to Africa, and recently married B. F. Office: 240 Sanitarium Dr., Madison, Tenn. Duge, Angwin, Calif.; and Maisie Duge, Marina Thomas, of Fletcher, whose daughter, Teresa, Postal Address: del Rey, Calif. was a student at M.C. Box 1303, Madison College. Tenn. 37115 September. 1974 Editor: MABLE H. TOWERY Telephone 615-865-1615 Subscription Price. 81.00 a year Published Quarterly by Madison College Alumni Assoc. Second Clasa postage paid at Madison. Tenn. RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED