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Volume XII
Louisburg College, Louisburg, N. C., October 31, 1952
ALBERT G. COWART
Albert G. Cowart Is
Dean of Men Here;
Louisburg Graduate
In each issue of the Columns, we
take pride in writing about one of
our teachers here at Louisburg
College. In this first issue, it is
our pleasure to reveal to you some
of the facts about the Dean of
Men, Albert G. Cowart.
At the age of 17, he quit high
school and joined the Marine
Corp. Though only a very young
man, he has traveled extensively.
Some of the places he has been
are: Guadal Canal, Boughiabelle,
Treasurer Island, Green Island
and many others. Shortly after en
gagements at the latter Island, he
returned from overseas.
On August 26, 1944, he reported
to Cherry Point Marine Base. Dur
ing his tour of duty there, he met
hsi wife, the former Louise Mason,
from Atlantic. They were married
July 29, 1946.
A desire for education pulled
him out of the Marines to finish
high school. It was then he return
ed to Miami, Florida, his home
town, and entered the Dade County
Technical Institution, which at that
time, offered a high school course
for veterans and adults lasting for
three months. This schooling led
j to his high school diploma.
Some time had elapsed be
tween his high school days, but
having a high ambition, he was de-
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Place of the Church
In History Is Noted
The church has assumed many
attitudes toward social problems
during its nineteen centuries of
history. Sometimes great branches
of the Christian Church have tak
en an attitude of opposition toward
social reforms. Such appeared to
be the position of the orthodox
Church in Russia under the Czars.
Both Catholic and P:;otestant
churches have, at various times,
seemed to be reactionary hin
drances to moral reform. But the
great tradition of the prophets and
apostles has placed the church at
the very center of the movements
for progress. For the message of
the church is a moral message. The
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NEW FACULTY
MEMBERS
There were several changes in
the personnel of the Louisburg Col
lege faculty and administration this
session, and these will be of inter
est to all students. New Dean of
Men of the College is Albert G.
Co’.vart, a graduate of Louisburg
College and of East Carolina Col
lege. Mr. Cowart is also teaching
in the Department of Mathematics
and is teaching the courses taught
by Dr. Amick who is retiring in
January. Mrs. Cowart, formerly
Louise Mason of Atlantic, is also
a former student of Louisburg.
In the Business Department
there are two new members of the
faculty: Mrs. Cornelia F. Schrul,
New York City, who takes the
place of Willard Leeper who has
gone into private industry, and Al
lan A. Norberg, Roselle Park, New
Jersey, who takes the place of Mr.
Orange, who is doing graduate
work. Mrs. Schrul is a graduate
of the University of Maine and
holds the M. A. degree from Co
lumbia University. She has also
taken graduate work at New York
University and Pierce School of
Business. Mr. Norberg is a grad
uate of State Teachers College,
New Jersey.
Director of Religious Activities
of the College is Rev. Robert F.
McKee, a graduate of the Divinity
School of Duke University. Mr.
McKee takes the place of Rev.
Brooks Waggoner, who is now
teaching in Martin College, Ten
nessee. Mrs. McKee, a graduate
of the Duke School of Nursing, is
College Nurse in place of Mrs.
Christine Holton.
Assisting in the English Depart
ment is Mrs. Collins B. Gretter
who has added this work to her
duties as college Registrar.
Miss Elizabeth Johnson, who
has been a member of the Depart-
mnet of Mathematics, succeeds Dr.
Thomas C Amick as head of that
department.
Mr. and Mrs. John Jernigan,
who have been caretaker and
housekeeper for the college for
the past eight years, have moved
to Williamsburg, Virginia, where
they are employed at Eastern State
Hospital. Succeeding them are Mr.
and Mrs. N. M. Hall, of Fairmont,
who are living in one of the college
apartments.
Student Body Hears
Talk on Study
By College President
Mr. Sam Holton, President of
Louisburg College, spoke on the
subject of study during Septem
ber, 1952. The talk was both en
tertaining and informative. He
gave some quite helpful points for
study which will appear further
down. Mr. Holton’s talk was en
joyed by everyone. The suggestions
given by him are as follows:
1. Have a good time and place.
Organize schedule, find a good
place to study and follow schedule.
Let no exceptions occur.
2. Have good study conditions
and materials: a quiet room,
(where?) not too warm, good
light, straight chair, table; have
all materials on hand before be
ginning.
3. Study alone. Do your own
work and learn to use your own
judgment.
4. Arrange studies in order of
difficulty or dread, study the les
son that is most difficult first; save
the easiest for the last.
5. Be sure that you have the
right assignment. Do not hesitate
to ask questions of instructors.
6. When memorizing material,
learn it as a whole; go over quick
ly, then carefully, and continue
going over it until you have it. It
helps to repeat things aloud.
7. When trying to comprehend
material; go over it quickly first,
then section by section; then re
view the whole.
8. Use your own judgment along
with your memory. Analyze para
graphs. Pick out important points.
Mark important points if neces
sary.
9. Study a lesson before it gets
“cold” on you.
10. Make use of every aid: index,
table of contents, appendix, vo
cabulary, map, illustrations, refer
ence books, and magazines.
HONOR ROLL
Paul G Bunn 2.77
Marvin Baugh 2.62
J. P. Harris 2.60
HONORABLE MENTION
Douglas Edwards 2.17
Eddie Lee Elks 2.11
Those students who returned to
Louisburg that made the honor roll
and honorable mention the last
quarter of the second semester of
the college year, 1951-52.
RALEIGH ARTIST
IS SPEAKER HERE
An exhibit of original lithograph,
watercolor, and oil paintings were
shown to Louisburg College stu
dents as they sat looking with
amazement at the beautiful paint
ings. He, W. Hardy Mills, commer
cial artist of 110 East Park Drive,
Raleigh, explained his work, in
cluding sources of inspiration me
dia of graphic arts in color and
the market value of art products.
Being a former student at Louis
burg, he knew relatively the inter
ests of the students.
Among his paintings shown
were an Italian scene on his way
to Rome in his army days; an
other Italian scene, showing an
almost symbolic interpretation of
war effects on structure and land
scape; a scene of Mt. Adams,
Washington, in the limid air of a
sunny morning; a burned hillside
near Nashville, Tennessee; an oil
painting of his grandfather; and
an interpretative cartoon of how
he remembered army life.
Mills went into detail on litho
graphic coloring, explaining how
only four colors can be applied to
make a possible eleven color com
bination appear on the final print.
Showing one of his own designs,
he explained the high cost of print
ed colors, because each added col
or means added cost.
Ships and nature studies seemed
to be his main interest as illus
trated through water colors. Cer
tainly his favorite subject to paint
is water.
The young artist mentioned the
low cost of water-color paintings,
citing that the cost of a painting
of some thirty inches in dimension
would be less than one dollar and
could be completed in well less
than an hour, yet could be sold in
Raleigh for $15. This price seemed
high compared with that of the
$4.00 lithographs that appeared to
be similar to that of the original;
however, the original cannot be
completely duplicated.
He described oil paintings as
far more costly, especially in time,
since one color should be thor
oughly dry before another is ap
plied. Mills cited the relative per-
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ODE TO
LOUISBURG
(Note: “Ode to Louisburg” is the
remembrance and tribute of Dan
McFarland, class of 1942, who, in
armed service in 1943, wrote the
lines out of the then disturbed
scenes of North Africa. The author
has since graduated at the Univer
sity of North Carolina, received his
Master’s degree from the Univer
sity of Pennsylvania, and complet
ed most of his work on his doc
torate from there.) Printed for the
benefit of the new students.
Seated high upon a rock
Above the greatest of all seas.
Resting quietly — almost dream
ing—
I thought I saw a dream.
A score of men and maybe more
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Death Claims High
Point Professor
Dr. Percy Elliot Lindley, pro
fessor of religious education at
High Point College, died October
9. He was 57.
Dr. Lindley, former dean of men
at the college and head of the De
partment of Religious Education,
resigned both posts three years ago.
However, he continued as profes
sor, teaching his last class the
morning of October 9,
He was a member of the West
ern North Carolina Conference of
the Methodist Church and held
pastorates at West End Church,
Greensboro, Gibsonville, and Con
cord.
A native of Alamance County,
he was graduated from Elon Col
lege in 1920. He receivted his Mas
ter of Arts degree at Vanderbilt
University and did graduate work
at Columbia University. He held
an honarary LI. D. degree from
Western Maryland College.
I He was the author of several re-
i ligious books.
Number 1
Revised Version of
Bible Uses Today's
Living Language
“You shall not take the name of
the Lord your God in vain: for the
Lord will not hold him guiltless
who takes his name in vain” —
the World of Life in living lan
guage.
By living language, we mean the
language as it is used today. Peo
ple have always used the excuse,
“I can’t understand the Bible,” for
not reading the Bible. People will
have to find some other excuse
now, because the Revised Stand
ard Version of the Holy Bible has
just come off the press.
The new version takes advant
age of many interesting and help
ful archaeological discoveries. One
of the most recent finds occurred
in 1947 when a Belouin shepherd
stumbled upon a cave near the
Dead Sea in Palestine. In this
cave the shepherd found several
big clay jars containing ancient
scrolls. Religious authorities iden
tified them as copies of parts of
the old testament, notably the book
of Isaiah. After examining the jars,
the scripts, and having the linen
in which the scrolls were wrapped
analyzed for radio carbon, the
archaeologists announced that
these Biblical texts dated back to
about 100 B. C. In the case of Isai
ah, this means that the text is ten
centuries older than any other He
brew text known to have survived.
As excavations have increased,
our knowledge of the geography of
ancient Palestine has widened. The
most important archaeological dis
coveries of the last 75 years
though, have been ordinary Greek
writings on papyrus. A mummi
fied crocodile was found by work
men in Egypt. Its outer covering
was split open, disclosing papyri
among the inner wrappings. Most
surprisingly, papyri have also been
found among the wrappings of
mummified human beings. A
sand-covered rubbish pile yield
ed an especially rich find. Some
body had started to burn a pile
of legal records there 20 centuries
ago; but, fortunately for our gen
eration, the fire had been extin
guished.
Dean Weigle, from Yale Univer
sity Divinity School and head of
the Revised Standard Version
committee, says that the revisers
were language Scientists whose
job was to determine the real
meaning of the words in the old
text and then to express that
meaning in English as exactlj* as
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Sixteen Men Remain
On Basketball Squad
Those who have not been cut
from the squad or dropped out are:
Ralph Bridges, Roy Lee Earp, Ed
die Lee Elks, Ben Price. Jimmy
Womble, John Nelson, Bobby Man
ning, Gardener Barbour Bobby
Mangum, Max Matthews, Garland
Moore, Tommy Shutt, Billy Huj'ley,
Milton McDaniels, C. W. Strother,
and Gary Morris.
Coach John B. York may cut the
team to a twelve man squad or
leave the team as it is. The students
are becoming anxious to see the
first game that will possibly be
held in the latter part of Novem
ber,