Summer 1989 Vol. 14 Number 4 Special Graduation Section EVOLUTION ;^:RACE J...-S Thoughtful Gifts Mean More! By carefully planning your present and future gifts, you can help provide a distinctly Christian education for many years to come. The best investment you can make is in the lives of Christian young people who will witness to future generations. HOW TO GIVE Insurance 5. If you want to provide income for a If you are tike most people, you are loved one, annuities are an excellent not able to give a large gift to the Lord's way to do it. work without depleting your savings and investments. However, it is possible Trusts through an insurance policy to give a large Trusts are like automobiles: there are gift. so many varieties that it is hard to decide Relatively few dollars in premium which one is right for you. The right trust, payments can buy a substantial amount of however, may be very useful to you in insurance that could provide a large gift to carrying out your estate plan. Trusts Bryan College at your death. If you name should be considered when you want to Bryan College the irrevocable owner and provide for the following: beneficiary of your policy, you may deduct 1. care for minor children or invalids the premiums and the cash value of the 2. professional management of assets left policy as a charitable gift. to an heir 3. income for your retirement or for a Annuities loved one For more information and/or one or more of our free brochures: If you would like to make a lasting gift 4. transfer of assets without probate ex- to Bryan College and at the same time set penses Giving Through Insurance up a lifetime income for yourself or a 5. a gift to charity Giving Through Gift Annuities loved one which is largely tax free, perhaps Giving Through Living Trusts you should consider how a Bryan gift Wills Giving Through Your Will annuity would work for you: There is a way you can help Bryan 1. If your taxes are too high, gift annuity College train Christian young people. call or write: income is about 50 percent tax free. That way is through a bequest in your will. 2. If you are locked into appreciated se- In recent years by the thoughtful curities or properly, you can avoid planning of concerned Christian friends Fred Stansberry, CFRE most of the capital gains taxes by who have included Bryan in their wills, the Director of Planned Giving exchanging them for a gift annuity. work of the college has been forwarded 3. If your securities and income property greatly. Bryan College produce low income, Bryan annuities There are others, no doubt, who plan Box 7000 pay up to 14 percent, depending on to include Bryan or some other worthy your age. ministry in their wills but have never put Dayton, TN 37321-7000 4. If you need more tax deductions, a these desires into a proper legal document. (615) 775-2041 portion of your gift annuity is deduct- For such an important action, there is no ible as a gift. time like the present. LIVING TRIBUTES March 21,1989-June 16,1989 In Memory of Donor In Honor of Donor Mrs, Harriet Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Paul Combs R.O. Sypolt Scholarship Fund Rev. Robert O. Sypolt Mrs. E.B. Arnold Mr. and Mrs. Paul Combs Mrs. Adelaide Groves Carolyn Groves Conkey Miss Wanda Davey Mr. and Mrs. Harris Halvorson Mrs. Wilma R. Harrow Miss Jane Ellen Hodges Dr. and Mrs. Irving Jensen Dr. and Mrs. Karl E. Keefer, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Keefer When you need to remember... Mrs. Alice Mercer Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Morgan Dr. and Mrs. Jack Traylor A friend or loved one has passed away. A couple cele- Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Tussing, Jr. brates a special anniversary. There is a birthday, graduation, Mrs. Rebecca Van Meeveren promotion, or significant accomplishment. You want to re- Mrs. Betty Wynsema member and honor someone in a meaningful and lasting T,C. Mercer Scholarship Fund Fairfleld Glade Community Church Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Sands manner. Mr. Charles Roediger Rev. and Mrs. Frank Cook Mrs. Nell Sterchi Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Walker, Jr. A Living Tribute is a personal and private way of making a Bess Wear Stokes Mr. and Mrs. Edwin L. Brown Mrs. Blanche Parnam Williams Mr. and Mrs. Edward Roddy gift to Bryan College. It helps provide a quality Christian edu- Mr. Carl Young Dr. and Mrs. Karl E. Keefer, Jr. cation for young men and women at Bryan preparing to serve Mrs. Alice Mercer the Lord. The amount of the gift remains confidential. The person honored or the family of the person honored is notified. Send your Living Tribute to Bryan College, Box 7000, Dayton, TN 37321-7000. CONTENTS Bryan Life Volume 14 Number 4 Presidential Perspective 4 Editorial Office: William Jennings Bryan College Box 7000 Scopes Trial Revisited-1989 Dayton, TN 37321-70M (615)775-2041 Locals recreate Scopes Trial drama in the historic Rhea County Courthouse for the second run of Frank Chapin's play, The ~ Scopes Trial: Destiny in Dayton. O Bryan Life (USPS 072-010) is published four times annually (January, April, July, and October) for alumni and friends of the college by William Commencement '89 6-9 Jennings Bryan G>llege, Route 6, Box 607-5, Dayton, Tennessee, 37321-9100. Second class postage paid at Dayton, Tennessee, Alumni News Paul Combs '77 meets Muhammed Ali at Red Sea Palace, Editor deRosset represents Golden Class 1 O 1 1 Lori Farney Associate Editor Stephen N. Snyder Alumni Missionary News 12-13 Graduates listen carefully to Asst Graphic Designer _l »- commencement address during '89 Dan Butler ™1 O ceremony. See special commence- Lion Tracks men i section. Student Writers Wesley Gibson Kenneth G. Hanna President Stephen N. Snyder Director of Alumni Affairs On the cover... Bryan College Alumni Association The cover illustration is from and satirized. In fact, most Bryan College houses a col- Philip W. Carter'75 an original William Norman requested the originals of lection of 12 original "Norman" President Ritchie ("Norman") cartoon their caricatures. cartoons featuring William Michael L Loftin '68 drawn for the Boston Post in July, According to the Boston Jennings Bryan and/or the Presidcnt-Elect Rick Farney '76 1925. "Norman," a cartoonist Post, "Norman" took his politi- Scopes Trial. Past President for the Post for over half a cal cartooning very seriously. Neil E Magnussen '77 century, was famous for his So seriously, in fact, that many Vice President artistic genius-possessing the of his political cartoons settled Judy King Barth'57 ability to draw equally well with elections. Politicians often Secretary Joy M. Steele *75 either hand-as well as for his came to his for advice, which he Treasurer political savvy. gave freely. MaxieF, Green x'58 No prominent figure of the A native of Halifax, Nova Ruth E. Ross '68 first half of the twentieth century Scotia, "Norman" died in 1947 Ralph E. Toliver '37 at the age of 81. At the time of Committee on Elections escaped the pen of "Norman." Friend and advisor to presi- his death, his work had become Postmasters: send form 3579 to Bryan dents-notably both Roosevelts, known to millions of newspaper Life, Box 7000, Dayton, TN, 37321- Woodrow Wilson and Calvin readers. He was considered 7000. Coolidge-governors, mayors, one of the world's great news justices, kings and queens, "Nor- cartoonists. man" remarkably made no enemies of those he lampooned ft -JL PRESIDENTIAL PERSPECTIVE by Kenneth G. Hanna DREAMERS Doing our Dreams Joseph's brothers discovered thai AND DOERS the dreamer was also a doer. It took years and a lot of trouble. The Chris tian world desperately needs dreame who are doers-people who make the '"Here comes that dreamer!' they dreams powerful by keeping them said to each other. 'Come now, let's kill practical. him and throw him into one of these Dreamers who make a difference cisterns and say that a ferocious animal God know how to blend three essenti devoured him. Then we'll see what ingredients-dreaming, deciding and comes of his dreams'" (Genesis 37:19- doing. 20). To his brothers, Joseph was a An old English proverb says, "If dreamer. They were doers. Their wishes were horses, beggars might natures put them on a collision course. ride." Mary Webb put it in the Ameri Doers and dreamers generate can vernacular, "Saddle your dreams conflict. Joseph's brothers were afore you ride 'em." The world is fille aggressive; he was passive- They acted; with people who wish. Wishing is a he talked. Their eyes were fixed on the great place to start. In fact, it's the ont bottom line; his stared over the hori- place to start. It's a very poor place to zon. stop. Like an old western movie, it is not Dreaming is not wishful thinking, hard to find the hero in this Biblical is feeding our minds with the facts, family. Joseph wore the white hat. His nurturing our thoughts with silence an brothers were the bad guys. Dreamers allowing our minds to roam on un- and doers are still in conflict, but it is charted pathways. Describing leaders, hard to pick the hero. The dreamers "The Christian world desper- Richard Nixon said, "They have a among us don't always wear white hats. knack for applying the past to the To dream is "to conceive as possible ately needs dreamers who present in ways that show them (he or probable, to invent, devise or future." concoct." In America we admire are doers." Dreaming must give way to decid- dreamers, but we reward doers.