WA KE FOREST COLLEGE ALUMNI NEWS, OCTOBER, 1950 Page Two has been sold to the Southern Baptist Con­ vention for a new seminary. The seminary will open its doors on this campus next year. Within four or five years thereafter Wake Forest College should be ready to turn over all the facilities here to the new seminary. Our agreement with the Z. Smith Reynolds Fow1dation calls for the beginning of building by 1952. We ha ve a good amount of money in hand ready for the program of Editor: EuG ENE OLIVE, ' 10 construction. We have resources to be de­ veloped that should yield considerable additional funds for this purpose . Every Published in October , December , March, and May by consideration leads to the conclusion that Wake Forest College, Office of Public Relations and now is the time for action . Alumni Activities, Wake Forest, N. C. During the SU!llmer we had a series of Subscr i ption Price: One Dollar a Year conferences at Winston- Salem concerning Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Wake plans for the campus, roads and utilities, Forest, North Carolina. a nd plans for building. I believe we Address a!! communications to ALUMN1 NEws, Wake Forest, should be ready to break ground by next N orth Carolina. spring or early summer . The only ser ious problem now is the international situation, but we should not hol d back on that s core . Our ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS Enlargement Program is so important that we would be justified in asking s pe­ President-Henry Liles '32 ................ ...... ....... Greens boro First Vice-President-Addison H ewlett, Jr. '33 cial consideration in the matter of build­ Wilmington ing materials . And it may be that by the Second Vice-President-Dr. Vernon W. Tay lor, Jr. '36 time we are ready to let the fir st bu ilding Elkin contract, the international tension will Immediate Past President- Burgin Pennell '17 .. Asheville have eased enough to enable us to go ahead without serious interruption EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE . The one thing we need most of all now is united Officers named above and- and enthusiastic support for our Harold W. Tribble, ex officio .. , ...... .. Wake Forest greater Hubert E . Olive ' 18, ex officio . ... .............. Lexington Wake Forest program . On all sides I have David M. Britt '37 ( 1951 l. ·---------- ·­ Fairmont heard many expressions of encouragement . Dr. 0 . Hunter Jones '31 (1951 ). ..... Charlotte It is as though the 10,000 a lumni of Wake Judge Chesler R. Morris '25 ( 1952) __ ...... Currituck Dr. D. R. Perry '16 ( 1952) _ ...........Durh am Forest were in the stands at Groves Stadium Dr. J Bivens Helms '24 ( 1953) .. ............ Morganton shouting for the team to take the ball and Egbert Davis, Jr.· '33 ( 1953) ..... Winston-Salem march towa rd the goal . I believe we have Eugene Olive '10 Secretary , ....... Wa k e Forest tha t kind of support . But, to change the figure a bit, the time has come for all who a re interested to come down to the playing field and help carry the ball . None of us PRESIDENT TRIBBLE'S MESSAGE can afford to be spectators when so much is a t stake in the contest . To the AlUillni: Soon there will be definite and par­ Mrs. Tribble, our two daughters, and ticula r appeals made to a ll, and I am con­ I arrived at Wa ke Forest just in time to fident tha t the response get our will be good . If furniture unpacked before the stu­ I could have dents began coming in for my wish, every one of our the opening of 10,000 the fall semester . My first opportunity of alumni a nd 600,000 North Carolina service was a chance to speak to the new Baptists would participate enthusiastically students in the orientation progra m, a nd I according to his or her ability in trans­ felt much at home with them. They a re in a forming our dream of a greater Wake Forest pecul iar sense my freshman class. Together into a glorious reality. we shall study and grow in the delightful family atmospher e that characterizes Wa ke I am looking forward with keen inter­ Forest . I told them that it is my confi­ est to many occasions for getting acquaint­ dent hope that they will receive their ed with our alumni . We are a large and diplomas four years hence on the new ca mpus growing family, so it will not be easy to at Wi nston- Salem. lea rn names and build personal friendships quickly, but that is just what I want to This was not a sample of da y-dream­ do . It will always be a joy to greet ing. We have come to the point where we a lumni on the campus . must begin at once the first s t ages of our building program . We have passed beyond Sincerely, questions concerning the move. The ca mpus Harold W. Tribble. wo group. In the evenmg he went to K inston where about 130 persons-alumni, their wives, and a few other friends of the College-had assembled at a dinner to hear him er in the first off-the-campus appearance of his administra­ rn t ion. Next morning he welcomed officially the freshman class to the College and in the evening headed the faculty receiving line in the gymnasium when new students had their first opportunity to meet members of the faculty and their wives. Another address on Wednesday was made to students who had tra n sferred to Wake Forest from other colleges. On Friday morning at the opening convocation he was the speaker when about 2,000 stu­ dents, members of the faculty, and visitors filled the Chapel. Throughout long hours every day of this first week many private conferences had to be held, letters and telephone calls required attention, a meeting of col­ lege and university executives in a neighboring city had to be attended, but he took every one of these responsi­ bilities in his stride, winning enthusiastic laudation on every hand and from everyone. Second week, third week, on and on, new duties added themselves up as they will continue to do through the months and years. But President Tribble has convinced hundreds already that he is equal to his tasks and that he is the man to guide Wake Forest College through this period of its eventful history. Dean Bryan stated, in presenting the new president to the faculty, that he had not heard from anyone since the day of his election to his important post a single word of disapproval. What is more, it would be difficult now to find anyone on the campus who has not expressed in superlative terms com- When he gets a rare chance, Dr. Tribble doe a good job at golf. WAKE FOREST'S One month on the Wake Forest campus is a short time, but with­ NEW PRESIDENT in even so brief a period Dr. Harold Wayland Tribble has demonstrated to faculty and students the wisdom of trustees who selected him as the te nth president of tbe 116-year-old College. Three weeks before assuming his official duties president-elect spent a few days in Winston-Salem con­ fe rring with architect, city officials, business men, com­ mi ttees, and others in preparation for his position of leadership in connection with the program to relocate the College at Reynolda. While there he accepted an invitation to address the City's Rotary Club, and another to be the Mayor's guest at a baseball game. Always in talking with individuals, in discussion with architects, in conversing with small and large groups and committees the new president proved himself alert in analyzing his job and inspired confidence in his ability to measure up to his new responsibilities. Dr. and Mrs. Tribble and their younger daughter, Bar­ bara Ann, arrived in Wake Forest the evening of Sep­ tember 7. Their son, Harold, Jr., is a third year student at Andover Newton Theological School, of which his father has been president for the past three years, where he will continue his studies for the current session. An older daughter, Betty May, reached Wake Forest Sep­ tember 11, following three months of study and touring in France. The Tribbles are established in the President's House and have become identified quickly with the life of the community. At the first meeting of the faculty for the semester, September 11, the new president spoke informally to the mendation of the new president. Such also is the ap- nel. But ten thousand alumni-grateful, loyal, united, praisal p eople outside Wa k e Forest are making wherever generous. possessing vision concerning the mission of he has gone. the College--will be able to build an institution unique It would be humanly impossible for Dr. Tribble to in the realm of Christian education. accept a ll the invitations he is receiving to deliver ad'­ Hail, President Tribble! Sons and daughters of Wake dresses in ma ny places. Much time and thought must Forest will join you in building the New Wake Forest be given in these earlie r days of his administration to College of tomorrow for the blessing and benefit of to­ getting well acqua inted with his complex job. Judgments morrow's world. must be fo rmed and decisions made daily involving the operation of the College. H e cannot refuse many of the opportumties to visit alumni in their meetings, attend Baptist associations, speak in churches, schools, and other groups. One of h is primary duties will be to give super­ IN THIS ISSUE vision a nd leadership to the entire program involving the re moval of the College to its new home in Winston­ Front Cover Football Players.