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For more information, please contact [email protected]. - NOT TO BE TAKEN FROM LIBRARY Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2009 with funding from Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/smcalumnibulleti137coll Alumni Bulletin A Beautiful Gate for SMC Send the coupon with By Harry Hulsey your remittance today to: President, Alumni Association SECRETARY TO THE PRESIDENT SOUTHERN MISSIONARY COLLEGE Remember when Mother or perhaps COLLEGEDALE. TENNESSEE Grandmother first had her hair cut For this coupon and the enclosed $5.15, send a "short"? From earliest childhood you me sat intrigued as you watched her brush copy of the long, flowing strands. Then with SMC deft fingers she would form a ball of her rolled hair, press it close to the A SCHOOL OF HIS PLANNING back of her head and secure it for the day with a few well-placed hair Name pins. Now all that beautiful crown Street lay on the floor being trampled by the Address beautician who was "modernizing City Ma." "Surely this will also change Mother's personality," we thought. State She will never again be the same sweet, typically Christian mother we have known through the years, even to the the day before. But, somehow, life did not er creamery building and horse Tanganyika, Africa Dr. Bill Dysinger hopes to end that moment. Mother still had barn. have a the same, unaffected selfless spirit and When Nehemiah heard that Jerusa- few days of recreation from his work and join we grew accustomed to her changed lem had been burned and its walls friends who will make an appearance. broken down, he said, "I sat down and attempt on Mt. Kilimanjaro. certain days." But The face of our Alma Mater is wept and mourned Thailand changing rapidly. New structures are the story doesn't end there. Nehemiah John Harris, '55, writes: "We have being occupied, while old ones are was not a man who succumbed to been located on the beautiful island of being removed. Going now are the old discouragement. Responding to Provi- Phuket over a year now. We have the college store and post office, the form- dential direction he organized his peo- good fortune of teaming up with our ple to reconstruct the city and its walls. medical work here on the island. There "Then I told them of the hand of my are two doctors now, one of them Dr. Slate of Officers 63-64 God which was good upon me; as Paul Watson, '50, and you will re- the king's that he had member his wife, Ruth Risitter Wat- According to the constitutional re- also words son, '49. enjoy our association quirements, the following nominating spoken unto me. And they said, Let We with them very much. are in committee was appointed and submits us rise up and build. So they strength- We now for this good work." the midst of a church building pro- a slate of officers for the ensuing year, ened their hands Missionary College alumni gram and a hospital building pro- commencing at the time of the annual Southern gram." homecoming: Warren Hammond, '51, all over the world will want to make contribution to a dis- Bruce Ringer, "S3, Ellsworth McKee, some kind of Ivory Coast, West Africa '54, and Mrs. Elmyra Conger, '54. tinctive project now sponsored by the Gerald Gutekunst, '54, went to the association. The old twin pillars that Ivory Coast as mission president in President: '62 used to designate the "gate" into Col- 1956. At the present time he is study- [~J Bruce Freeman, legedale are no longer representative. ing for his Ph.D. degree at the Uni- ] Glenn McColpin, '57 In fact, one of them was removed versity of Chicago. Vice President: some time ago because it interfered Jack Martz, '53 Tehran, Iran to adjacent serv- with the approach an Kenneth Harding, '53, is president fj Don Crook, '53 ice station. Secretary: of the Iran Mission. Kenneth Geoffrey sign Bobra B. Crosby, '50 It is felt that a monumental is a second generation student at SMC. built of Tennessee crab orchard stone ] Lorene Ausherman, '53 Associate Secretary: will proudly represent a rebuilt campus, SMC ALUMNI BULLETIN '58 and the Alumni Association is Mary Sue Burke, SMC Vol. XIII August, 1963 No. 6 Bernice Baker, '54 happy to be chosen to sponsor the proj- fj Published quarterly by Southern Mis- ect. The cost will be approximately Treasurer: sionary College, Collegedale, Tennessee. Eugene Luttrell, '60 $2,500 and there is now $371 in the Entered as second class matter February Albert Wilt, '53 treasury earmarked for this purpose. 12, 1951, at Collegedale, Tennessee, under act of Congress, August 12, 1912. Publicity Secretary: Please make your remittance by mail John Goodbrad, '38 or come to the Homecoming, October ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Nat Halverson, '63 11-13, prepared to help us culminate OFFICERS our drive for these funds. The dy- Check one in each group and mail Mrs. Elva Gardner Editor namics of a growing organization such President immediately to: Harry Hulsey as ours demand that we move into Bruce Freeman, Jr. Vice President Mrs. Gordon Pendergrass greater challenges, commensurate with Ronnie Pickel Treasurer Mrs. Gordon Pendergrass Secretary Secretary the demands of the times. Let's con- Mary Sue Estes Burke Asso. Secretary Collegedale, Tennessee clude this one quickly and adequately. SIVIC /ilumiti ^attettu VOL! Ml XIII COLLEGEDALE, TENNESSEE, NOVEMBER, L963 Nl MHER 7 Into All the World Japan medical work here on the island. There- Martin C. Bird, manager of our are two doctors now. one of them Dr. SMC ALUMNI WHO publishing house in Japan writes: "All Paul Watson, '50, and you will re- our printing is done in the Japanese member his wife, Ruth Risitter Wat- language and we are kept busy print- son, '49. We enjoy our association ing the many books and magazines with them very much. We are now in needed in the church and the col- the midst of a church building pro- porteur program. My wife, Selma Neu- gram and a hospital building pro- harth-Bird, is kept busy teaching the gram." school tor our missionary children. Guatemala City Our son, Martin, is in the eleventh grade this year and plans to be ready Mrs. W. T. Collins, '35, and her Alumni Bulletin service five months when her son, Dr. Lynn Artress was in Addis Ababa, Those Who Walked These Halls Ethiopia. She now lives in Glendale, Calif. Mary R. Cowdrick writes from the '28 years. At the present time he is the as- Southern Publishing Assn., in Nash- Oather D. McKee lives in College- sistant medical secretary for the South- ville, Tenn.: Proofreading is more or dale and is the owner of the McKee ern Union Conference. He is also past less a routine job, but it does have Bakery Company. president of the Atlanta Tuberculosis an inspirational aspect when the fin- '29 Association. Now he is representative ished product begins going out to the Elder Clifford M. Bee is district director to the National Tuberculosis field. I'm happy to be doing a small pastor in the East Pennsylvania Con- Association. Mrs. Bernice Coleman part in one of the greatest soul-winning ference. He earned his Th.B. degree Cruise graduated as an R.N. from the agencies. at EMC. Three of his children are Florida Sanitarium and Hospital. Their Vesta Lester is teaching in the teaching, one son is a student of medi- son Bob has completed his freshman Madison (Tenn.) elementary school. cine at Loma Linda and one daughter year at SMC and their daughter Irma Lee Osteen Horning is librar- is the wife of the chaplain at the Evelyn has completed her sophomore ian at California Rehabilitation Center Battle Creek Health Center. year at Atlanta Union Academy. in Corona, Calif. Her husband teaches Dr. John Dudge is in private prac- Opal Freeze Hewitt is a housewife at Bonita High School near Pomona. tice, obstetrics and gynecology, in living in Huntsville, Ala. She earned Their son, Jim, is a senior at PUC Santa Monica, Calif. Mrs. Dudge was her B.S. degree at George Peabody and their daughter, Pat, is a junior at Mildred Franz, a student here in College. Newbury Park Academy. The Horn- I '32-' 34. Dr. and Mrs. Dudge have Vera Lester is the registrar in the ings were missionaries in Hawaii from four children. The oldest son, John, new Rio Lindo Academy in Healds- 1946-1950. Mrs. Horning earned her graduated from La Sierra College last burg, Calif. She has her master's de- B.A. degree from PUC. year and is doing graduate work in gree from Boston University. '41 theology at Andrews University. Martyn Ingram McFarland lives in Elder F. C. Petty is district leader Joseph D. Dobbs is the pastor in So. Lancaster, Mass., where her hus- in Albany, Georgia. He earned his Ft. Smith, Ark. Their son, Bobby, band is medical secretary of the At- B.A. degree at Columbia Union Col- died seven years ago and they adopted lantic Union Conference. Their daugh- lege.