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Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2009 with funding from Lyrasis IVIembers and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/southerncolumns333coll SOUTHERNIN r^ Volume 33 LUM ca Third Quarter 1982 Southern College Celebrates 90th Birthday u Know Where Your Children Are? urg , :Ath enrolled in Time is late. Stakes are ver staff at jh sch«j[i al^n College would Southern is dedicated to the t task of like l^communii 'n'^ed your help. helping our students to form rei ionship i I Fu-st of all, s. 'nd phone the Lord. What they do with ^^ho theyj lunftiers if pass{ •-" you may knew choose for a life companion, anw- hey spend; 'Ai|fit these cf eternity—these are the stakes 1^ itermined ^ Second, take i:hcm yourself and the strength of their personal rt Qncourag^ them ip with thi may not realize Lord. Help us to help them. iha% the: financial plans and ways to that may be mies and colleges. 1 ^\ i Editorial SaUTHERN by Mark Newmyer This is the SOUTHERN COLUMNS. We are sure that you have noticed TU a few changes. First of all we have expanded from sixteen pages to twenty-eight The official magazine of pages. Our trim size has also increased so that we Souttiern College Alumni Association are a little longer and a pinch wider. The one thing Collegedafe, Tennessee 37315 (615) 396-4246 that we have not changed is our dedication to Office hours 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. weekdays serving you, the alumni. except Friday until noon Feedback from our readers is essential. You are the most important part of this magazine. With your Alumni Association Officers 1981-1983 honest input and support we can produce a SUSAN BOYD MILLER, '63 President magazine that will serve you better. We have added JOHN WILLIAM HENSON, '54 President-Elect a few new features that we feel are important JOHN DURICHEK, 58 Past President enough to continue in each issue of SOUTHERN Columns. Executive Committee Members Southern Update is STEVE HULSEY, 78 one of the new features. This is one you can sit back, kick your CLIFF MYERS, JR., 71 shoes off, relax and enjoy. Update features many DIANNE BURROUGHS PROFFIT, 76 of the important events that have taken place on campus recently. This is the news column of the magazine. The College FRANK KNIHEL President Ask the Staff — now here is one that you have CYRIL FUTCHER Academic Dean all been waiting for. We invite you to ask of our EVEREH SCHUSNER Dean of Students faculty members any reasonable question that you RICHARD REINER Business Manager may have. If you would like, you can direct your JACK McCLARTY Director of Development question to a particular faculty member. We will do WAYNE THURBER Director of Public Affairs our best to cover as many of your questions as we RON BARROW Director of Admissions can. Staff of Southern Columns Southern History is a feature in which we will try KATHRYN PARK Editor to recreate a bit of the past, bringing to life a touch MARK NEWMYER LayoutLa) and Design of Southern College's rich heritage. PETE PRINS, MARK NEWMYER, ROBIN HALVORSEN, GARY HOWE, We are open to new ideas. In the near future we BREH HADLEY Photographers would like to start a feature that will express your CHERI SMITH Secretary comments, suggestions, questions and general input concerning the COLUMNS. The importance of your Southern Columns is published quarterly by Southern Col- contributions cannot be stressed enough. We need lege. Collegedale, TN 37315. Second class postage paid at your input in all areas, new features as well as old. This is Collegedale, Tenn. POSTMASTERS: Send Form 3579 to the SOUTHERN COLUMNS. We are looking SOUTHERN COLUMNS, Collegedale, TN 37315. (USPS forward to a bright future, share it with us. 420-400) bout the Cover — Dale lies and the "little man" on top, remy lies at Southern College's birthday celebration ex- avaganza. Photo by Mark Newmyer SOUTHERN COLUMNS • 3 A Message From Our President Dear Alumnus: I wish you could visit our campus right now! Our students We cannot possibly try to counteract every misrepresents are eager and the teachers are excited about a great year. The tion or greatly exaggerated account of problems that ma grounds are beautiful with rich lawns and flaming late sum- arise on a campus such as ours. We always recognize that 1 mer flowers. Our enrollment exceeds what we—along with takes no more than a very few persons to cause hosts c other Adventist colleges in America—had projected to be a others to wonder and to question. Our greatest satisfactioi'* five percent loss. comes from the fact that we had a larger number of returnin We want to give you alumni continuing assurance that students this year than in past years; and this in itself indi Southern College of Seventh-day Adventists has a very posi- cates that our students feel they are receiving here that fo tive posture as an entity of the Seventh-day Adventist which they came—the unique approach to education tha Church. Southern College represents a commitment to or- our church exemplifies. thodox Seventh-day Adventist theology, including of course Last Saturday night we had a gala celebration of the 90t our "fundamental beliefs." The college is further committed anniversary of the founding of this school. The studeni to promote and uphold church standards that support a faculty participation as program personnel and spectator; college-wide lifestyle which proclaims that members of the the fireworks, and the incredible cake which fed tw college are followers of Jesus Christ. All of this requires a thousand —all this started our year in an exciting and cha commitment to a philosophy of education that recognizes lenging and positive manner. the development of the spiritual, physical and mental pow- You have made this possible through your support, moi I ers of students and teachers as expressed in the Scriptures recently in the BECA campaign in which we exceeded oi and in the writings of Ellen White. goal and received $49,000 in matching funds. You have bee We recognize that people will err and it is a fundamental great for us in every way and we thank you. purpose of the college to work in a loving way with such Sincerely yours. persons and to retain them as members of our school and churchcommunity if they are willing to accept counsel. All of this can be accomplished if we employ and retain only those -^A^U^ndk^ personnel who exemplify and teach the distinctive message Frank Knittel and mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and who President reflect Biblical moral and spiritual values and whose purpose at Southern is to help students strengthen their hope of the second coming of Jesus Christ, who will cleanse sin from the universe. 4 • SOUTHERN COLUMNS \ Southern Update Teaching Learning secretaries to industry BRISCO, made up of A number of retirees who managers as well as Center And members of the Biblical were first-time visitors to teaching faculty and top Research Management Institute and the Southern expressed their administrators, will receive Geo-Science Research admiration for Southern's Development instruction in this program. Institute, meets annually beautiful campus and their "In today's economy," Fo Be Focuses At SC he for a symposium. This appreciation of the believes, "the colleges that year's conference was held delicious food and A comprehensive survive will be those that in Glacier Park, Montana, comfortable reaching Learning Center are well-managed." from August 15-19. accommodations. ind a Management The Higher Education The Convocation was Development Program will Management Institute organized by Elder D. A. je implemented at (HEMl) Summer Success models for Delafield, Coordinator of jouthem this year as administrative Approximately 500 Retirees' Affairs for the acuity and administrators development, which are students enrolled for General Conference. ontinue their efforts to designed specifically to Southern College's fourth Members of S.D.A. Retired mprove their professional meet the needs of summer session in Workers' clubs and Senior bilities and to expand the managers in higher response to a free tuition Citizens' groups across the ipportunities for highly education, will be used. offer. In 1981 the same United States were invited uccessful learning for SC "I think it's going to be session had an enrollment to attend the special tudents. exciting," concluded of 97 students. Southern weekend to enjoy Christian The Teaching Learning VandeVere, "and shows College President, Dr. fellowship and inspiration. :enter (TLC) will assist in promise of good usage on Frank Knittel said, "The The retirees' weekend -nproving both student our campus." offer was given as an began with a Friday ;aming and faculty Development of these incentive to bring students evening meeting at which istruction. It will be more programs was made to the campus and to keep Elder Delafield presented lan a remedial center, possible by the funding of them." the weekend's theme, liough math and reading a four-year Title III grant.