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Salute to the USA!
Congratulations to the USA!
And my warmest thanks to
Charles Tom Henderson and to
all the other alumni who worked
so hard—and so successfully—for
the United Stetson Alumni and
its proxy endowment program.
Under your leadership more
than five times as many Stetson
alumni have contributed more
than ten times as much to their
Alma Mater as they have ever
given in any other single year.
To each of you who have made
a gift, and thus become a member of the USA, I would like to
express my deep appreciation.
Few of you can know how much
it means to a college to have such
moral and financial support from
its alumni — or how very proud
such loyalty makes its president!
J. OLLIE EDMUNDS
Stetson Calendar
Jan. 5-20—Art exhibit of paintings and
water colors from the Florida Federation of Art and Lithographs.
Elizabeth Hall Galleries.
Jan. 9—Senior recital of Suzanne Crawford, oboe; Donna Jean Newcomer,
piano. Elizabeth Hall, 8 p.m.
Basketball—University of Tampa.
Airport Arena, 8 p.m.
Jan. 12—Concert of Glee Clubs. Elizabeth Hall, 8 p.m.
Jan. 15-17—Plays at Stover Theater,
8 p.m.
Jan. 16—Senior recital of Dorothy Boh-
ren, piano; Jean Wright, contralto.
Elizabeth Hall, 8 p.m.
Jan. 17—Basketball, Rollins College.
Airport Arena, 8 p.m.
Jan. 20 — Concert of Stetson Band.
Elizabeth Hall, 8 p.m.
Ford Times Art Exhibit. Elizabeth
Hall Galleries.
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Incoming and outgoing presidents of the Florida Baptist Convention express appreciation
to J. Harrison Griffin, center, for his many years of service with the denomination. At
left is Dr. James W. Parrish, new president of the Convention; at right is Dr. Albert
Carnet, retiring president. Mr. Griffin retired at the end of 1952. His most recent
position has been secretary of Christian youth education for the Convention.
Baptist Convention Approves $5 Million
Program of Advancement for Stetson
Florida Baptists in convention in Ft.
Lauderdale voted a 10-year program of
advancement which includes $5,000,000
for Stetson University. Half is designated for buildings and half for endowment.
The convention chose another Stetson alumnus as president; James W.
Parrish, pastor of Riverside Baptist
Church, in Miami to succeed Albert
L. Carnett, pastor of Woodlawn Baptist Church of Jacksonville. E. C. Tyner
of Dade City, also an alumnus, was
elected first vice president, giving Stetson two of the four officers.
A week after the convention closed,
Dr. John Maguire, executive secretary
of the Florida Baptist Convention, presented a check for $78,077.54 to L. A.
Perkins, Jr., secretary of the Board of
Trustees, as the first payment.
President Edmunds, in accepting
with appreciation the convention's decision, pointed out that the five million
will be applied to Stetson's long-range
program of development which is
expected to cost a minimum of
$25,000,000.
While a new law school building was
listed by the Baptists as the No. 1
need on the campus, it was indicated
that this will be provided by the College of Law alumni.
A highlight of the program was the
recognition of service from 1919 to
1953 to the denomination by Dr. J. Harrison Griffin, who retired at the end
of the year as secretary of the Department of Christian Education.
