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SPECIAL BLUE RIDOE SECTION _THE GAMECOCK PAGE FIVE Able Leaders Blue R PROMINENT MEN TO SPEAK I ' Poteat, Hickman, Brockman, And Page Among Those To Talk ] Before 1930 Conference Among the thirty or forty able leaders for the 1 ?.>:*<) Blue Ridge Student Conference, four men should be introduced as the principal platform ' speakers. The conference has been exceedingly fortunate in securing per- i soualities who arc attracting student , attention for the vitality' and power of their messages. Reverend E. McNeil Poteat of Pullen Memorial Church, Raleigh, N. C., t will open the conference with three addresses on "Coming to Terms with Our Universe." He was an outstand- f ing athlete while an undergraduate, is 1 an accomplished musician, but best of all has a prophetic message powerfully J presented for the students of this , generation. ^ Dr. Frank S. Hickman of Duke ( University is well known for his book "Introduction to the Psychology of , Religion." His years of experience in ; dealing with students individually and < as a professor of psychology at Ham- ' line University eminently fit him to , present the topic, "Coming to Terms with Ourselves," in three addresses. ; Dr. Hickman measures up to his giant 1 stature in largeness of heart, mind and J soul and in the power of his message. | Dr. Fletcher S. Brockman belongs i peculiarly to the South as a native of ( Virgitiia and graduate of Vanderbilt University. He has reached now a , place of eminence as an international i figure, and is a Christian statesman in ' the largest sense of the word. No ' man is better qualified in spirit, experience, insight and outlook to in- ( terpret to southern students their re- < lationship to others, whether it is a ( fellow student on his own campus or j in one of the great universities of 1 China, Japan or India. s Kirby Page will be the closing 4 speaker of the conference. As editor, | author and lecturer, he has won a f unique place in the life of the nation. < His book, "Jesus or Christianity" was : a recent choice of the Religious Book J A Month Club. His message in three addresses will bring the conference the i heart of that book. Mr. Page will * come direct to Blue Ridge after land- c ing in San Francisco from his present ( trip around the world. This will lend i that color and warmth to his message which comes through intimate contact with the great spirits of the world and j first hand study of the world's great- r I est human problems. ( It would take volumes to give the j story of the accomplishments and ( qualifications of the total list of t eminent leaders who will be contribu- 1 tors to the rich program of the 1930 | Conference. We need only mention the well known names of a few of the others?Dr. Harry W. Chase, University of North Carolina; Dr. R. W. Sikes, Clemson College, S. C.; Dr. W. I). Weatherford, Y. M. C. A. Graduate School. Nashville, Tennessee; Dean K. F. Bradshaw, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Dr. English Bagby, University of North Carolina; Coach Alexander, Georgia Tech; Dr. \V. W. Alexander, Atlanta; Dr. Clifford Barbour. Knoxville, Tennessee; Dr. A. K. Rule, Louisville Presbyterian Seminary, Reverend A. C. Zabriskie, Alexandria Seminary; Dean W. H. Nes, Christ Church Cathedral, New Orleans, Louisiana; Dr. Marvin Culbreath, Nashville, Tennessee; Dr. < R. B. Eleazer, Atlanta; Dr. J. R. f C.eigcr, William and Mary, and others. J u.H.O. ' RETREAT WW1 J f f if'4 J fLyJ A' .J/F " Groups of from twenty to twenty-five ! the campus. Free discussion holds swa opportunity to discuss the student proble A ddress idge Students DELEGATES' DAYS ARE DIVERSIFIED Program Divided Between Hours Set Apart For Every Form Of Activity The daily program at Blue Ridge provides diversified occupation for lelegates. Time for meditation, readngt sight seeing, and athletics is allowed, outside of the hours assigned or worship, addresses, discussion groups, and Bible study. The first period is the worship hour, -vhich comes as a morning watch heore breakfast. This part of the program is habitually led by a speaker of nspirational and entertaining ability md is one of the best parts of the Blue Ridge program. Following the worship hour, breakfast is served in the dining hall. All [he delegates cat at the same time, special tables being prepared for individual delegations or the combination >f several delegations. Bible study groups under capable ministers or other Christian leaders ire held during the second period just lfter breakfast. The groups scatter nit to any spot near the main auditorium. many of the leaders holding [heir discussions in shady places near the mountain streams. The third period is taken up for personal adjustment. The whole conference assembles for discussion of the major problems of their adjustment luring college life. Each lervdcr is a trained specialist in his subject. This s the time which provides you praciicle, skilled help in coming to terms ivith life. Next comes the resource hour and ^ou arc free to use your time in the nost profitable way you know to se:ure help for your problems, whether :roni books, friends, leaders or in luiet meditation. The last assembly of the morning is or interest groups, and includes dis:ussious 011 practically every timely question of the day. Vocational guidance, international relations, :hurch problems, men and women reations, and association tasks are the subjects of some of the largely attended groups. Following dinner, the afternoon is eft open, with the majority of the delegates participating in the various interlclegation athletic contests. Nature itudy, sight seeing, hiking, and readng are also optional to the individual lelegate. Immediately after supper a good liany of the delegates assemble around lie piano in the lobby of Robert E. Lee Hall for singing, while others >troll around the grounds getting acjuainted. This is one of the free >criods. As a climax to the day's program, lie leading address of the day is given at 8 o'clock. The featured eaders of the conference are heard by m assembly of the entire conference luring this hour. Following the address comes a oruin in the lobby, then the rest of he evening is free, with delegation nectings, strolls in the moonlight, notor trips, and inter-delegation >arties taking place. This hour bcween H:HO and 11:00 o'clock is one of he most enjoyable periods of the program. i Dean F. F. Bradshaw of University ! )f N. C. who will discuss vocational juidance, and Coach Alexander of aeorgia Tech, who will direct athetics. GROUP < sr 1 fffeai -y ! t students meet in discussion groups on 1 iy, and the leaders give everyone an ms that are suggested. I VIEW OF Lee Hall is the main dormitory at 1 gates are quartered here, and in othe Lee school for boys is held here during Special Section T his special Blue Ridge section is published in order to create an interest in the Blue Ridge conference. Kdited by Wilson Weldon, John White, and Loroy Want. NOTICE Any student or faculty member can go to Blue Ridge for the Students Conference who desires. Anyone interested may see R. G. Bell, Y. M. C. A. Secretary, or Frank Buie, Chairman of the Conference committee. The cost for the 10 days is $25. This includes board and a room in the Lee dormitory, and use of all facilities on the grounds. The Carolina delegation will leave Columbia on June 13, going up in automobiles, and all students planning to attend should meet here and go up with the delegation. Dr. Frank S. Hickman, professor psychology of Religion at Duke University, and Mr. Kirby Page, editor of "World Tomorrow," who will speak at the Blue Ridge Conference for students. SCENE NEAR Some of the most beautiful scenery i is at Blue Ridge, which js located be Hikes are made to neighboring points Opportunity Tt An education should be the process c aur relations to the reality that surrour Dften we spend our time accumulating ?ors on examinations when at the sami mdeavor to understand our relationsh ;ach other. The student conference at Blue Ridf jives to men to seek that understandin ire so essential to the well ordered lif students ought to take advantage of at 1 :ducator, himself the father of two so :hoice had to be made, he would rath 'ears and a half of college work and g ban to have them go the full four ye ives. Blue Ridge gives the opportunity to he south's greatest counselor, the opr >n the important question of vocation hat vitally concerns the life of our stud opportunity to weigh ones relationship 'icw of working out for each the qual hem thru a difficult life journey. Rc oo, but the greatest opportunity of all Every student in the university, whet las this opportunity and ought to take LEE HALL . 31ue Ridge. Most of the student deler up-to-date buildings on the campus. I the winter. BLUE RIDGE GIVES IDEAL VACATION ALL SPORTS ARE ENJOYED Resort Boasts Of Ten Days Of Varied Interests For All Comers Would you like to see the most beautiful scenery in eastern America? Do you enjoy athletics of every description? Would you like to meet campus leaders from practically every important University in ten southern states? Can you eat the best food possible, and enjoy the brisk mountain air.' If you do, then you should take advantage of the ten-day vacation tliat Blue Ridge offers to students at a minimum charge. It can be safely stated that in no resort in t lie South is there more varied occupation, more healthful climate, more beautiful scenery, more congenial acquaintances to be found than iu this resort perched on the side of the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina. Ten days packed full of worthwhile diversions, broadening influences, and breeding friendships that will help you in life after college, is but a feeble estimate of the results to be secured at Blue Ridge. Listen fellow, C.O if you can; you will never regret it! A number of Carolina students are planning to spend the ten days from June 1 t to 24 at Blue Ridge. John White, president of the V. M. I . A. will head the Carolina delegation. Others planning to go arc Sam Taylor, vice-president of the "Y," Lester Hamilton, secretary, Bill Banks, chairman of the conference committee, and Bill Latham, chairman of Bible class committee. Bob Rogers and Wilson Weldon arc planning to be present for part of the conference. BLUE RIDGE a i t t I t < v to be found in western North Carolina ; tween Asheville and Black Mountain, i of interest. t < > Meet Yourself i learning to understand ourselves and ' ids us. During our college studies too ' facts that must be returned to profes- ' e time we should be making a definite ' ip to these facts and of the facts to < i je is noted for the opportunity that it <1 g of themselves and relationships that e, and as such is an opportunity that ?' east once in their college life. A noted t ns, once made the remark that if the ^ er have his sons complete only three n ;o to some conference like Blue Ridge 1 ars without such an influence in their c <j study oneself with the aid of some of I lortunity of guidance from these men 1 al choice, life questions and anything < lent bodies. And above all it gives the f with the ultimate reality, God, with a ;i ity of that relationship that will carry r icreation of the greatest sort is there is his search for understanding. c ther he is connected with the Y or not advantage of it this June. SANCTUARY IS A STUDENT HAVEN Summer Conference Developed By Leaders Of Vision For Busy College Men Nestled among the hills of North Carolina stands a Cathedral erected to the Students of the South. Probably in all history of mankind, there has never been such a creative force erected to the living, and vet. sweat, blood, heartache entered into Unbuilding of this sanctuary. Men who made this possible were not working for salary. They were working to preserve that intangible something, (call it God if you wish) that flickers, and sometimes goes out, but when it permeates, transforms individuals. Last summer 1 sat on Hightop, just back of the massive building, and as my eye roved over the whole scene, 1 relived the day when this was only a dream. The men who created this Cathedral sensed the need for a place where students could retire from the hustle of the campus and consecrate their lives. They were busy men, and vet they were close enough to the Students to sense the need of a place where one could come, and in the stillness, feel the presence of their Creator. Across the valley stands the craggies with its Seven Sisters. Clingman's Dome, Pinnacle, and in this setting, the beauties of Nature were so evident that one just knows there are lasting values in our world of activity. Men who built this Cathedral were not in a hurry. They, like our Father, provided for future student generations. Every dollar of money, every ounce of energy, was a symbol of devotion and a belief in the eternal prophecy of Youth. They were not worried, much, about where this money was to come from, for they knew that something fundamental to our lives must be retained at any cost. A few days ago I stood in the midst of a great University. Students were rushing to this class or to that meeting, doing things that you are now doing 24 hours a day. They had scarcely a conception of the meaning of all the things that make up a Student life, and certainly not time to evaluate them. Many in this throng were in danger of losing their spiritual life. This is upsetting, yet who is to blame if students have not the time, nor the setting to renew their faith in eternal values. Men of vision created Blue Ridge, provided for Summer Conferences out from the hustle of life, to share with students that comforting assurance that Jesus enjoyed in his Native mountains of Judea. There it stands, an enormous Cathedral to the Students of the South, with Christian Associations inviting you to stop, come into tin- stillness of the Mountains, consecrate your life anew, to Love and Goodwill and to all Mankind. BEAUTY ABOUNDS AT BLUE RIDGE Location Offers Many Advantages Of Health, Entertainment, And Magnificence Generally speaking it is only the so:iallv select and financially fortunate that can lounge oti the soft warm >ands of Palm Peach in the winter, or deep out in the glorious clear air of the mountains in the summer. Put in >pite of the prohibitions that Palm lieach and (.rove Park Inn place on is, we can go to the mountains with he best of them for the best part of he summer, and to the best neck of he woods. The much maligned Wiliani Jenning.s Bryan said at least one ruthful thing in his life when he put lis unqualified approval oil the stulents' summer resort that spreads over i thousand acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains. And John R. Mott him elf. after visiting all the association grounds in the world, carved our name ibovc the rest, when he named it the no.st magnificent and efficient assoiation resort on the globe. "Figures lon't lie," quoth the sage. No, r ther lo John R. Mott and "Bill" Br>. . It's a beautiful place. Some have ailed those mighty hills the American \lps, and some might call them the \merican Andes, but we prefer to >oast of them as our beautiful Blue tidgc. Many have lived and died rying to describe their mountain najesty and anyone else who tries it leserves a similar fate. There are crystal dawns and inaglilicent sunsets, that wonderful gradaion of color and temperature, the :recn to the gold, the chill to the loontide's heat, that breathes the atnosphere of purity that is Nature's ternal council to man. Yes, you'll inarrel for cover at night maybe, and anguish for the swimming pool at loon, but spending the healthiest ten lays that you ever lived, eating good ood. drinking God's purest beverage ind breathing His own fragrant air, ight there on the mountain side. And there is, too, a health in the contact with real, live men. Men who (Continued on Page 6)