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VOL. 3, NO. 7
MONTREAT-ANDERSON COLLEGE, MONTREAT, NORTH CAROLINA
OCTOBER, 1960
Byrd Named Outstanding Student
Campaign for Funds
For College Successful
Montreat-Anderson College Trustees,
under the leadership of Jones Pharr, Rul
ing Elder in the First Presbyterian Church,
Charlotte, N. C., have completed a success
ful campaign for $165,000 to pay an ac
cumulated operating deficit of $110,000 and
to provide $55,000 to balance the 1959-60
operating budget.
Mr. Kenneth Keyes of Miami, Fla., gave
$5,000 and a challenge gift of $10,000
which was claimed when the remainder
was raised. The total produced in this
campaign was $167,731.14.
Montreat-Anderson College, now free of
all indebtedness, looks forward to the
future with new confidence. With facilit
ies and equipment for a student body of
450, the enrollment is expected to rapidly
reach capacity.
Destination . . . Mitchell
The sky was blue, the leaves were gold,
and the hikers kept marching on. The
occasion was one rugged hike to Mt.
Mitchell, eighteen miles away from our
jovial campus. The hikers were filled with
an abundant supply of energy. Why? They
had among their midst one million candy
bars.
There were eighteen hikers who set out
to conquer this mighty mountain, which
is noted for being “the highest mountain
this side of the Mississippi”. After the
two mile run up Graybeard, it’s a wonder
the hikers weren’t all dead from over
exhaustion, even when you take into con-
SOCIAL
CALENDAR
November 4
Civic Music Concert,
Eileen Farrel, Soprano
November 5
Movie, “Away All
Boats”
November 12
Movie, “This Earth Is
Mine”
November 24
Thanksgiving Day—
Worship Service
Soccer Game
Banquet
November 25
North Carolina
Stringed Quartet,
Gaither Chapel
November 26
Movie, “Red Shoes’
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sideration the one million candy bars they
had along.
After lunch at the falls on Graybeard,
they proceeded along the motor road to
ward their far-off destination. At long
last Mitchell was in view—well—a faint
haze could be seen on the far horizon.
If that distant view didn’t kill their desire
to reach their destination, nothing would;
even the snakes that happened along the
way. All the hikers made it to the top,
although a few of our fine faculty mem
bers proceeded in a car the last five
miles. The food that was waiting didn’t
wait long; the hikers put it away like a
bunch of starving Armenians.
After dinner the hikers and the riders
settled back for a long, noisy trip back to
Montreat on the bus.
The DIALETTE in eonnection with the
Cabinet has decided to feature an Out
standing Student each month. This stu
dent will be elected by the Cabinet on
the basis of school spirit, leadership, and
character. It is hoped that this will be
considered an honor by the entire student
body.
This honor has been awarded this month
to one who has gained the love and re
spect of every student and faeulty mem
ber, James Calvin Byrd—“Jay Bird”.
“Jay Bird” is a familiar figure to every
person on the campus; for he is seen every
day running here and there to see or help
someone and is heard as often to say,
“Ell fellers”.
He is most frequently to be found at the
student bookstore, which he now very suc
cessfully manages, giving out his sound
“cracker barrel” advice to those who ask
it of him. When he is not working, “Jay
Bird” can be found with Corothy Fergu
son. Corothy was quite willing to express
her thoughts concerning him. She said,
“I think Jimmy is one of the nicest Chris
tian, boys that I have ever known. I wish
that every boy could live a Christian life
as Jimmy does. He is loved by everyone”.
“Jay Bird’s” standards and high ideals
have had a great influence on the atmo
sphere of the men’s dormitory. The pres
ident of the dormitory and “Jay Bird’s”
roommate, Jimmy Hall, had this to say:
“I have known him for almost nine months.
He is a sincere, honest, and loving person;
but above all, he is an outstanding Chris
tian”.
A faculty member expresses the opinion
of the entire student body in these words,
“I stopped and tried to consider the qual
ities and virtues that would be found in
an ideal boy, an ideal man, an ideal stu
dent, an ideal son, an ideal citizen, an
ideal Christian. It was very easy, very easy
to think of ‘Jay Bird’ in each case”.