Pryor Scrapbook Clippings, 1945-2000

• ijHarding Helps tJ Tornado Victims Harding students and professors ·~ ·oined in the rescue and relief work :l \following the tornado which struck .'!,~)Central Arkansas March 21, and colleg~ fracilities were made available to the r torm victims. The winds by-passed Searcy, but 1 adc a , direct ·hit on Judsonia, a town f 1,100, just four miles away. More , ,than 50 people were killed there and cveral hundred injured. 1 The storm occurred in late afternoon \!/;land soon Searcy hospitals were filled ' 1vith the injured and the overflow was .brought to the Harding infirmary for treatment. East Dormitory was vacate and many of the injured were housed there. ;; '.;: S tudents hel prayer services for the · storm victims that night and at chapel next day. School routine was temporar– Hy abandoned as the relief work con– tinued. ,. i Several apartments owned by the , college were made available to home– less families and t he gymnasium was ,used as emergenc housing. In the weeks foPowing the disaster the college 'provided housing for Red Cross per– ·sonnel and other workers who came to Seat_cy tQ_ aid in,r.ehabilitation. A group of 26 research workers from National Opinion Resea ·ch, Chicago, set up headquarters on the campus while studying the sociological effects of the tornado on people in the area. 1 1951 Lectures Now- Available ' t !1-j "Christ and Presen t Day Problems,'' a new volume of The Harding College · · Lectures, has been released by the Harding College Press. i The book contains 15 addresses made - at Harding's annual lectureship last - :November. The lecturers and their ..·subjects were: wisdom and fear, Dean _-·L. C. Sears; modernism, W. B. West, _head of ·t he Bible department; preach- 'ing the gospel, D. D. Woody, Little Rock; unity among Christ's disciples, G. H. P. Showalter, editor of Firm .Foundation, the creation, Paul C. Witt, !Abilene Christian College; human rela– 'tions in industry, F. W. Mattox, dean of students; caring for orphans, G. C. Brewer, Memphis; academic freedom, A. C. Pullias, president, David Lips- ·comb College; authority in the church, ;Emmett Smith, Paragould; human progress and welfare, Pres. George S. Benson; and evolution, Jack Wood Sears, head of the biology department. · The lecture book is a clothbound, .205-page volume. It is available from the College Bookstore at $3.00 per copy. Top: Scene in the field house. Studelilts helped care for children of storm victims. M. E. Berryhill, physical education head, confers with a Red Cross nurs-~. Bottom: Dr. W. B. West, head of the Bible Department, (right) with Texas-minister Flavil _ Yeakley surveying the damage at Judsonia. Dr. Pryor Elected by N. C. A. Dr. J osep~1 E. Pryor, head of the chemistry department a,t Hardinrr Col– lege, has been elec ted to membership on the Committee on Liberal Arts Education of the North Central Associ– a tion of Colleges and Secondary Schools for the year 1952-53. Dr. Pryor attended the annual meetinr,- of the committee in Chicago, April 2-3. The Committee on Liberal Arts Edu– cation operates under the Commission on Research and Service of the Associ– ation. It is conducting a study concern– ed with orienta,tion and appraisal of new trends in higher education. The study is a cooperative enterprise ar110ng liberal arts colleges and is financed in part by a grant from the Carnegie Foun– dation. Members of the committee are lead– ers in nberal arts education among col– leges in the Nor,th Central territory. Dr. Russell -M. -Cooper, of the University of Dr. Pryor Minnesota, is chair- man, and Dr. Clarence Lee Furrow, Knox College, Galesburg, Ill., is direc– tor of study. Harding College has participated in s tudies and wokshops sponsored by the committee the past six years.