Hickory, N.C., March 5—“Lenoir’s boys and girls are going to show North Carolina what loyalty to a college means,” says John George, cotton mill man of Cherryville, in reference to the great reunion of Lenoir College alumni and former students to be held in Hickory, Wednesday, March 7. It is expected that the home coming will surpass in point of numbers and in enthusiasm any gathering of former Lenoirians yet held. Trains will bear the returning sons and daughters from every portion of the Old North State and from many more distant sections of the country.
“The strength of a college,” continues Mr. George, “is in the success of its graduates, and the ends of the earth bear testimony to the exalted position of honor which is the birthright of Lenoir. Lenoir has ever been a good school but never a famous one. It has unassumingly traveled its quiet path for many years, turning out men and women
Who have achieved honor through service to mankind. Now the day has come when it need no longer limit its service to the boys and girls of North Carolina through a lack of means. With the dynamic force that will carry on to victory 3,000 men and women whose lives have passed under Lenoir’s influence are getting into the game to insure that their alma mater attains a commanding position in the educational field.”
The homecoming will be a dedication of purpose that Lenoir College shall grasp the opportunity offered to it this spring to become the outstanding Lutheran college in the South, and to multiply the great influence it has had in shaping the present life of North Carolina. The program of the meeting Wednesday morning includes inspirational addresses by prominent alumni and others, music by the Lenoir Men’s Glee Club, and the showing of the famous Wittenberg Film, which bears the distinction of being the first college film produced in America, and which pictures the phenomenal growth and development of Wittenberg College and the unselfish and loyal devotion of her alumni in rallying to her standard.
Lenoir has never been a school or rich men’s boys and girls, nor one which has been unafraid to face the facts of life. Her sons and daughters learn to work uncompromisingly, and go out to achieve success in lives of service. Forty per cent of the men who have gone out form her halls have entered the ministry and are serving Christ in the four corners of the earth. Twenty-eight young men now in school are preparing for the same work. Lenoir further enjoys the distinction of having provided a larger per cent of the mission workers in Japan than any other portion of the United Lutheran Church.
“The call of the Mother has gone out to her children in far places to rally about her in her hour of test and share with her the joy of triumph, and her children will not fail,” says Rev. John L. Morgan, in charge, of the Alumni division of the Appeal, who traveled 50 miles to school some years ago with $13 in his pocket to see him through four years of college, and who is now the successful pastor of three influential church of North Carolina.
From the front page of The Concord Times, Monday, March 5, 1923 Alum
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