Very early in their development as a growing communion of Christian people, they saw the need for an educational institution to supply the churches with a trained ministry. The history of Disciples of Christ in North Carolina is a long record of distinguished achievement. Last Diploma, Carolina Christian College, 1903įirst Newspaper Advertisement, Atlantic Christian College , Initial Carolina Christian College Catalogue Record, First Assembly, North Carolina DisciplesĪnnouncement, First Disciple School, South CarolinaĪnnouncement, First Disciple School, North CarolinaĪnnouncement, Kinsey-Foy Pleasant Hill School Roster of Faculty and Administrative Officers, Atlantic Christian College Roster of Presidents, Atlantic Christian CollegeĪPPENDIX D. Roster of Trustees, and Alumni Representatives, Atlantic Christian CollegeĪPPENDIX C. Roster of Trustees, Carolina Christian CollegeĪPPENDIX B. “Send Us Schoolmasters Qualified”ĪPPENDIX A. At some length it is herewith told in words. Thus the college at Wilson is the fifteenth institution of the brotherhood to submit such record.Ītlantic Christian College carries forward a noble tradition and a worthy contribution. These have appeared over the seventy-year period, 1885-1955. Out of the scores of Disciple institutions of higher learning, living and dead, only fourteen have issued sixteen book-length printed volumes, setting forth their histories. Verily it has been a cooperative labor of love. Likewise, I am indebted in no small way to the various sources, printed and otherwise, acknowledged in the references. In the building of this archival collection, many generous hands have had an honorable part. Without these bound volumes of fugitive documents, mentioned casually in the book's footnotes, there would have been serious handicap.
Here, ready to hand, pertinent to this book, are source materials, precious and partly unique. Incidentally, for forty years I had been gathering the Carolina Discipliana Library now housed in the Barton W. The circumstances of my writing were congenial. Nevertheless, the shortcomings of this narrative, howsoever many, are chargeable solely to me. President White, Dean Moudy, and this committee were most helpful, for which I am deeply thankful. Assisting me was an advisory history committee composed of currently employed college personnel, including: Perry Case, C. Collating necessary sources, I proceeded with the manuscript and completed it within a year. Perhaps the lot fell to me because of my forty-five years of close touch with the college and my lifelong interest in Disciple lore. President White advised me on February 15, 1955, that he and the administration at Atlantic Christian College wanted me to write a factual history of the institution-to give an authentic story of its background and its fifty-four years of activity.
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