Beaman Library Archive and Special Collections

Lipscomb's Day of Giving is here! Happy Day of Giving, everyone! At Beaman Library Archives and Special Collections, we are wanting to increase our endowment in order to purchase collections that donors can't afford to give us, to purchase proper enclosures (folders and archival boxes) for our materials, to compensate student workers, and to expand our facilities (as part of a potential expansion of the central section of the second two floors of the library toward the front columns)! Thank you for your generosity! GO BISONS AND MUSTANGS!

Henry Ormand "Buddy" Arnold Jr. (1924-2002) came to Lipscomb as a student in 1941 and was associated with the school until his death in 2002. In 1998, the university honored Buddy as a Lipscomb Legend. A native of Richmond, Virginia, Buddy enrolled at David Lipscomb College for one year before returning to his hometown to attend the University of Richmond, but the US Army interrupted his studies and drafted Buddy to serve his country in 1943. During WWII, he was a paratrooper in the Philippines and a member of the occupying force in Japan from 1944 until 1945. After Buddy was honorably discharged as a Sergeant, he returned to Lipscomb to complete his studies on the GI Bill in 1946. It was during his second stint as a student, that Buddy met Bernie Wyckoff of Orlando, Florida. Buddy and Bernie married and graduated from Lipscomb in 1948, the same year Lipscomb became a four-year college.

In the fall after he graduated, Mr. Arnold worked at DLC as a music teacher. While in his first stint as a DLC Professor, he directed the Men's Glee Club / Collegents (1949-59 and 1961-68), The Choristers (1950-59), and The Girls' Ensemble / Girls' Glee Club (1951-56). In 1968, Mr. Arnold left DLC to become the Drama Director at Metro Nashville's Hillwood High School, but he returned to his roots at Lipscomb in 1978. From then until his retirement in 1989, he worked as the Drama Director and become well known for his productions of musicals, which he staged at Homecoming. Two of his best-known productions were Shenandoah in 1985 and 1776 in 1987.

It was also during his second stint as a Professor that DLC President Willard Collins incorporated Buddy's name into one of his Willardisms. President Collins was known to overlook the pause in public speaking, or he paused at the wrong time. These mistakes were often comical and became known as Willardisms. President Collins made announcements in chapel exclaiming, "Now, let's us worship God and Buddy Arnold– (long pause) will lead us in singing."

Mr. Arnold served as an elder at the Otter Creek Church of Christ. He and Mrs. Arnold, who served as the Food Editor of both the Nashville Tennessean and The Nashville Banner, had four children, Henry Ormand III "Chip" Arnold, Nan Arnold Gurley, Crisman Arnold, and Tim Arnold, all of whom attended Lipscomb for a portion of their education. Two of their grandchildren, siblings Hank and Eli Arnold, also studied here at Lipscomb. In 2009, LU honored the Arnolds by naming a room in the McMeen Music Center the Buddy and Bernie Arnold Rehearsal Hall. Today, we salute this great man and great teacher, Buddy Arnold!

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Lipscomb presented the first 12 Lipscomb Legends Plaques in 1998, during the administration of President Steve Flatt ('77). According to page 3 of the April 1998 edition of The Lipscomb News, the selection committee chose the honorees, who were faculty, staff members, and administrators, based upon their "influence, accomplishments, and years of service." As the criteria in the third category, the committee used a minimum of ten years of service to Lipscomb. In 1999, twelve more legends joined the inaugural group, and for the next six years, the committee added four more inductees annually, for a total of 48 by 2005, the last year that the school awarded the honor. Originally, the Lipscomb Legend plaques hung on the east wall of Burton Bible, in the building's main hallway on the second floor until 2007. That was the year that Lipscomb began a renovation of the building, which began housing the Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy in 2008. Today's post features Lipscomb Legend David O. Johnston:

A native of Franklin, Tennessee, Dr. David O. Johnston (1930-2006) graduated from Franklin High School (FHS) in 1948 and received a B.A. from George Peabody College for Teachers in 1951. After spending yearlong stints teaching and coaching at Franklin Junior High School and working with three departments in the office of the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis (NC&St.L.) Railroad, he returned to FHS as coach of the Baseball and Football teams. During his years coaching at the school, he substituted for the chemistry teacher, which led him in a new direction in his professional life. After completing an MS and teaching for two years at Middle Tennessee State College, he attended the University of Mississippi, and he earned a Ph.D. in 1963. Returning to Tennessee, he began a 27-year career as a Professor of Chemistry at Lipscomb. During his career at Lipscomb, he earned an Outstanding Teacher Award twice, a John William Baker Summer Fellowship Award, and became the Justin Potter Distinguished Professor of Chemistry.

In 2016, the university dedicated two laboratories in his honor, the Johnston Laboratory - McFarland Science Center's new General Chemistry Lab, which is on the fourth floor of the building's west addition, and the David O. Johnston Physical Chemistry Lab at the south end of the fourth floor's main hall.

In his spare time, Dr. Johnston was an avid railroad enthusiast. He kept an impressive model train set in his basement. He and his late wife, the former Mamie Lunn, attended the Hillsboro Church of Christ. Dr. Johnson served there both as a deacon and an elder. The couple's marriage was blessed with four children, Kathy (Johnston, '73, DLHS, '70) Grimenstein, Susie (Johnston, '74, DLHS, '71) Henry, David E. Johnston ('78, DLHS, '74), and Beth (Johnston, '81, DLHS, '77) Feenstra. Three of Dr. and Mrs. Johnston's nine grandchildren - Melea (Grimenstein, '00) Johnston, Owen Grimenstein ('04), and Paige (Feenstra, DLHS, '07) Ulmer - also spent part of their educational careers at Lipscomb.

With the support of donors like you, Beaman Library Archives and Special Collections is able to educate students; to guide people in their research whether it is the history of Lipscomb University, Lipscomb Academy, the Restoration Movement, Tennessee history, and more; and to purchase collections that cannot be given to us. As 2020 ends, and a hopefully much brighter 2021 begins, we welcome any financial gift! We are exceedingly grateful for your support. On this "Give a Gift" menu, please select Beaman Library as the area and Beaman Library Archives and Special Collections and Archives as the Designation. GO BISONS AND MUSTANGS!

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The beauty of fall and winter are convening on the library. The red leaves are still clinging to the trees, and flurries of snow drift down from the sky. We hope that you and yours had a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving and look forward to hearing from you or seeing you soon. Cheers!

This picture from June of 1965 depicts the groundbreaking of the new Science Hall of David Lipscomb College (DLC), known as the McFarland Hall since 1984. The men in the photo are architect A.W. Hutchison (1909-1986) of Brush, Hutchison, and Gwinn Architects, DLC President Athens Clay Pullias (1910-1985), former DLC Board Chairman A.M. Burton (1879-1966), an unknown individual, and then-current DLC Board Chairman Harry Leathers (1879-1967).

Mr. Hutchison and his partners, Clinton E. "Bert" Brush (1911-1996) and Bob Gwinn (1910-1990) designed several buildings in Nashville, most notably
Vanderbilt University's Benton Chapel, The Nashville Children's Theater, and The Cumberland Science Museum. Mr. Hutchison later started his own firm, Hutchison and Associated, which designed the Lipscomb Academy Gymnasium in 1978. After thirty-one years, Athens Clay Pullias resigned from the DLC Presidency on August 31, 1977. Mr. Burton, who co-founded Nashville's Life and Casualty Insurance Company of Tennessee in 1903 and served as DLC's board chairman from 1929 until 1941, deeded his property to Lipscomb. After his widow, Lillie Mae (Armstrong) Burton, passed away in 1981, the school sold the farm to Carroll Properties, who developed the land as Burton Hills, now a mixed-use development consisting of houses, offices, and senior care facilities. Harry Leathers, who served as Board Chairman from 1942 until his death, owned a lumber manufacturing business in Dickson, TN.

J.A. Jones Company out of Charlotte, North Carolina constructed McFarland Hall. Although this company is no longer operative, they also built - among many other things - 212 liberty ships during WWII, the US Army's Camp Shelby in Hattiesburg, MS, the K-25, and K-27 Uranium-235 manufacturing plants at Oak Ridge, TN, the NASA launching facilities at Cape Canaveral, and (after its acquisition by Philipp Holzmann A.G in 1979) the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. McFarland Hall opened in 1966 and is now the home to the Institute for Sustainable Practice and the Departments of Animation, Fashion and Design, Psychology, Counseling, and Family Science, Math, Physics, Biology, and Chemistry.

(source used to identify A.W. Hutchison: https://sos-tn-gov-files.s3.amazonaws.com/forms/HUTCHISON_A_W_ALBERT_WILLIAMS_JR_PAPERS_1709-1986.pdf)
(source used to identify the work of Brush, Hutchison, and Gwinn Architects: https://paw.princeton.edu/memorial/clinton-ethelburt-brush-iii-%E2%80%9933-35)
(source used to identify when the Lipscomb Academy Gymnasium was built: The Lipscomb News, May 1978, Page 16)
(source used to identify the work of The J.A. Jones Company: http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/j-a-jones-inc-history/)

David Lipscomb College first awarded its most outstanding senior students the titles Miss Lipscomb and Bachelor of Ugliness in 1934-35. The title for the most outstanding female student honors the young lady upholding the highest ideals for what it means to be a Lipscomb student, and that for the most outstanding male student is one that DLC borrowed from Vanderbilt University. In 1885, Vanderbilt first began awarding the title Bachelor of Ugliness, which means a young man free of ugliness. The most outstanding students of the Lipscomb University Class of 2021 Miss Lipscomb, Bana F***j of Nashville, TN, and Bachelor of Ugliness, Corey Shannon of Cincinnati, won their titles on October 13, 2020. In addition to pictures of this year's recipients, today's post includes pictures of the most outstanding students of the classes of 1935 (Sara McKee Haynes and Paul Edwards), 1957 (Betty Flo Prosser Glass and Archie Crenshaw), 1978 (Marti Sweeney Colgazier and Andy Hooper), and 2000 (Stacy Glenn Blackston and Kevin Duncan).

Happy Tennessee Archives Month!

Last fall, Dr. Gayle Crowe and his wife, Lisa (Luttrell, '65) Crowe gifted Beaman Library Archives and Special Collections (BLASC) their extensive book and manuscript collection, but when Dr. Crowe learned about the Lanier Center for Archaeology coming to Lipscomb he wanted to do more. Dr. and Mrs. Crowe gave two lamps from the Biblical era that he had acquired from Khalil Kando, an antique dealer in Bethlehem. Both of the lamps are in pristine condition. The larger lamp was discovered near Hebron and dates from 3,000 to 2,000 BC, the days of Abraham. The smaller of the two was found during excavations near Jericho and dates from 200 BC to 100 AD. These treasures add new dimensions to a growing archive as it continues to strengthen its thriving university in teaching and learning.

The Crowes also gave another fascinating piece of history, two in fact. They donated two pages from the "he" edition of the 1611 King James Bible (as opposed to the "she" edition, which - due to a printing error - includes the word "she" where the word "he" should appear in Ruth 3:15).

Dr. Crowe obtained the Bible pages from former American Bible Society Executive Secretary Eric North in the late 1970s.

Dr. Crowe, a native of Denver, CO, earned his Bachelor's degree from Abilene Christian University in 1963, his MA in Old Testament History from Wheaton College in 1966, his Scientificus Theological Bachelor from Harvard University in 1969 (STB today is known as an M.Div.), and his Doctor of Ministry in Communication and Church Growth from Harding Graduate School of Religion in 1986. He preached the Gospel for 42 years with 13 of those years being in the NYC suburb of Chatham, New Jersey, and 20 of them in Lafayette, Indiana. For the last 13 years, Dr. Crowe served as the Vice President of Programming for World Christian Broadcasting, retiring in January 2020. Mrs. Crowe, a native of Columbia, TN, is LU's former Director of Corporation and Foundation Relations. People make the ultimate difference, and the Crowes are making the difference to build the collections and resources of BLASC to promote lifelong learning. We are incredibly grateful.

Dr. Jim Arnett, who will begin his 47th and final year as a Lipscomb University employee on Monday, was born in Memphis, TN, graduated from Harding Academy, attended Freed-Hardeman College for two years – He earned an A.A. degree in Liberal Arts - and came to David Lipscomb College (DLC) in 1965. While at DLC, he met Linda Watson (’66), whom he married in 1966. After graduating in 1967 with a Biology Teaching Degree, he returned to his hometown and Harding Academy, becoming the school’s Middle School Football and Track Coach. Upon leaving Harding after two years, Dr. Arnett entered graduate school at the University of Arkansas. During his five years in Fayetteville, he earned an M.S. and a Ph.D. and taught Biology (first as a Teaching Assistant, then as a Temporary Instructor when a Professor became ill). Upon returning to Nashville in 1974, Dr. and Mrs. Arnett and their two young sons, Jim, Jr. (DLHS, ’87, Student Body President) and Michael (DLHS, ’91, Bachelor of Ugliness), began attending the Brentwood Hills church of Christ. Dr. and Mrs. Arnett still attend Brentwood Hills, where he has served as both a deacon and an elder, and she has served as a Bible class teacher and as a women’s ministry leader. In addition to his work at Lipscomb, which has included teaching Biology (1974-1987 and 1997-2015), serving as VP for Academic Affairs and Dean of The Faculty (1987-1997), and chairing the Health Professions Advisory Council (2009-present), Dr. Arnett has served as an Adjunct Professor at both UT Nashville and The John Gupton College of Mortuary Science since his return to Nashville. The Arnetts have four grandchildren, Zane (’23) and Emma are the children of UPS Pilot Jim, Jr., and Danna of Franklin, TN, and Gavin and Sadie are the children of software engineer Michael and Amy of Roswell, GA. Thanks be to God for great Christian teachers like Dr. Arnett! HAPPY NEW SCHOOL YEAR! LET’S HAVE ANOTHER GREAT ONE! GO BISONS!

Years ago, Cornerstone Financial Credit Union (previously Educators’ Credit Union) distributed t-shirts with the slogan, “If you think you are smart, thank a teacher.” Many students of Lipscomb have Pat Wood to thank. Pat Moore Wood, a native of Hialeah, FL, knew that she wanted to be a teacher when she was 11 years old. After serving as president of Pi Delta Social Club and as Head Bisonette (drill team member) and graduating from DLC in 1974 with a major in Physical Education Teaching, Pat Wood fulfilled her dream and became a PE teacher at David Lipscomb Elementary School in 1975. After two years at DLES, she served two as the PE teacher at Harding Academy in Memphis while her husband, Nashville native and 1974 DLC Alumnus, Chris Wood, was in dental school at UT. Following a move back to Nashville during the Spring Semester of the 1978-79 to help care for her mother-in-law, Mrs. Wood obtained her second job at DLES: Sixth Grade Teacher (the sixth grade became part of the new David Lipscomb Middle School in 1980). Now, 45 years after first beginning work at Lipscomb, Mrs. Wood is 5 days away from beginning her 21st year as a Seventh Grade Math Teacher at Lipscomb Academy Middle School ( David Lipscomb Campus School became Lipscomb Academy in 2012), which named her its Teacher of the Year in both 1993 and 2003. Last year, the National Christian School Association named Mrs. Wood its Teacher of the Year, another well-deserved honor! In addition to being a Lipscomb Academy Teacher and the wife of Dr. Wood, Mrs. Wood is the proud mother of 2001 DLHS Alumna and Broadway Theater Stage Manager Ann Wood.