Presidents Report 1979-1980
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Administration President: Martin Essenburg, Ph.D. Chancellor: Marion D. Barnes, Ph.D., LLD. Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty: Nicholas P. Barker, Ph.D. Dean of Students: John P. Cummer, Ed.D. Business Manager: Floyd E. Simmons, Jr., B.A. Vice President for Development: Arthur Klem, Ph.D. Dean of Admissions and Records: Rudolph F. Schmidt, M.A.T. Director of Planning and Enrollment Development: Charles W. Donaldson, Ph.D. Board of Trustees Class of 1981 DOMINJC A. AQUILA ........................................................................ Artesia, California RICHARD V. BEESLEY ........................................................................ Princeton, Indiana C. HERBERT CREWS, JR .......................................................... Greenville, South Carolina THOMAS G. CROSS ............................................................. Greenville, South Carolina FRANKLIN S. DYRNESS ......................................................... Quarryville, Pennsylvania ROBERT G. RAYBURN .................................................................... St. Louis, Missouri JAMES E. SINGLETON .................................................................... Agoura, California MORTON H. SMITH .................................................................. Brevard, North Carolina DONALD F. STANTON ................................................................ Greenville, Michigan W. J. WILLIAMSON, SR ................................................................. Greenville, Alabama Class of 1982 WrLLIAM S. BARKER. ........................................................................ St. Louis, Missouri DAVID H. BRYSON .......................................................................... Savannah, Georgia RICHARD C. CHEWNING ................................................................ Richmond, Virginia JAMES J. CONRAD ................................................................................. Naples, Florida CARL A. DARGER ....................................................................... N. Fort Myers, Florida HARRY J. JENNINGS ...................................................................... Valparaiso, Indiana CLARENCE A. LUTZ ............................................................. Greenville, South Carolina OLIVER A. SMITH ......................................................................... Knoxville, Tennessee G. ORAL WARING, JR. .......................................................... Germantown, Tennessee EARL W. WITMER .................................................................... Grand Rapids, Michigan Class of 1983 ROBERT F. AUFFARTH ..................................................................... Newark, Delnware JOEL BELZ ............................................................................... Asheville, North Carolina ROBERT L. BUTTERFIELD ...................................................................... Orlando, Florida CLARENCE A. DEN DULK ............................... ...................... ........ Carlisle, Pennsylvania MYRON L. DUNTON..................................... ....................... Tulsa, Oklahoma WENDELL GRAVES ............................................................................... Boerne, Texas ROBERT J. HEERDT ..................................................................... Glenside, Pennsylvania JAMES J. KAUFMANN .................................................................... Huntsville, Alabama RALPH LANGFORD . .. ........................................................... Gadsden, Alabama JOHN D. LOEKS, JR .................................................................. Grand Rapids, Michigan The Covenant Courier is a publication of Covenant College, Lookout Moun tain, Tennessee 37350. Copies of the Courier are not for sale. Publication is intended for friends of Covenant College. The Courier is published eleven times per year, ten of which are news editions. Covenant College discriminates against no one in regard to sex, handicaps, race, ethnic or national origin. (USPS 135-960) \ Dr. and Mrs. Es enburg with their children, Carol, Timothy God i faithful. As I begin my third year as pre ident of ovenanl ollegc, l can think of no better way to begin an annual r port. "All the ways of th Lord are loving and faithful f r tho e who keep His covenant," the Psalmist said. Hi word ri.ng true to thi very day in our work at Covenant. Colleges-particularly mall lib ral art in titution -are facing a ru cial decade. The pressure cau ed by inflation and the declining birthrate have been experienced across our country. But the purpose of this report i to empha ize the great challenge and opportunity of the 1980s. We recogniz that problem will confront u , and yet we have great confidence. Last year we reported our fir t 25 ear of progress, and now we push forward to the next 25 years, building on the firm foundation that has been laid. Strength from the past, and confidence for the future: we have gr at confidence because we serve a very gr at God whom we know to be loving and faithful. Join me as we trace the igns of progress and God's faithfulness during 1979-80 at Covenant. /jf~~ Martin Essenburg President We are training young people here to recognize increasingly the lordship of our Saviour over all of their lives. We are training young people here to That scriptural t aching is the college Purpose recognize increasingly the lordship of motto, and our statement of purpose our Savior over all of their lives. We are has the e four major points: committed to th certainty that Christ' (1) to see creation as the handiwork of pre-eminence e tends over v ry area God and to study it with wonder and of study, and that students and profes- respect; W.,will charnctedze the 1980's? ors in a Christian acaden,ic institution (2) to acknowledge the fallen nature of Will it be a return to "the good life" of must recognize thi authority. Such be ourselves and of tire rest of creation the 50's? Student unrest of the 60's? lief has great practical u efulnes . and to respond, in view of the renewal More of the generation of "me" of the In an era when c nomic upheaval i w/1ic/1 begins witlr Christ's rede111p 70's? Perhaps war, economic upheaval, found everywhere, hould we not be tio11 , /Jy seeking to bring even; or the return of our Savior and the end h·aining young people to cop with the tlrougl1t and act into obedience to of this age? complexities of world economic and Hi111; Despite many predictions by experts, the intricacies of finance? (3) to reclai111 tire creation for God and we cannot know with certainty what the In a day of perilous energy shortage , redirect it to the service of God and decade of the 80's will bring. But we do should we not be urging Chri tian t ,nan, receiving tire 111any valu'ab/e in know that the struggle between good study science ,md prepare for possible sights into tire structure of realihJ and evil will continue. We do know that service a engineers or re earchers? provided by 11,e good /rand of God our obligation to serve Jesus Christ will While the authority of S riptur is through 111e11 of learning in every age, continue and that we must h·uggle being questioned, are we not compelled and seeking to i11 terpret and reform against the forces of secularism and ma to stre s the Bible' truth to young suclr insights according to the Scrip terialism. people as th y prepare for work in the tures; o matter what direction the 19 O's gospel ministry or social ervice? Are we (4) to think as Christians about culture take, we believe that Covenant Col not obligated to dev lop a Chri tian a11d endeavor to 111a/.:e 1t reflect our lege's statement of purpose has mean per pective in every ar a of life-every co111111it111e11t to Christ in order to ing and usefuJness in o.ur society. course of study? Doe not the Chri tian glorifiJ God and pro111ote tire true ad perspective emanate from the criptural vance111en t of 111en. claim that hrist does ind ed have pre eminence in all thing ? It is the college's intent to continue as a strong liberal arts institution. came to head the growing business ad Dr. Gordon H. Clark, professor of Academic Program ministration program; and Dr. Alta Ada philosophy, produced A Commentary on Schaner, who is serving in the English Colossians. He has written nearly 25 department during Dr. Bruce Hekman's books in all. His most recent was pub two years as principal of a local Chris lished by Presbyterian and Reformed tian school. Each brought excellent cre Publishing Company of Phillipsburg, dentials to his or her discipline. We New Jersey. Dr. Paul Gilchrist, profes cepoct an academic pcogrnm thank the Lord for His provision in this sor of Biblical studies, worked through wwhich is growing in strength and gain way. out the year with a team which is trans ing recognition by virtue of th number Meanwhile, other faculty members lating the entire Old Testament for the of Covenant graduates who ar per were distinguishing themselves · New King James Version. Dr. Henry forming well in graduate schools and in through publications and awards. Pro Krabbendarn authored a section of the a wide variety of vocations. fessors A. K. Austin and Charles A. book Inerrancy, published by Zonder Dr. icholas P. Barker, dean of fac Anderson from the history and Biblical van. He is a member of the advisory ulty and vice president for academic af studies departments published articles board of the International Council on fairs, heads the