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Some Stuff I Wrote and Some Stuff I Didn't (2011) H. Morris Williams

Some of our leading pastors and consecrated women received their
college training at Columbia College. Several of our students

volunteered for mission work on foreign fields and are well known to

Southern Baptists today.

I would call names, but must trust to memory largely, and fear I would

leave out some whose names are to be enlivened on scrolls of fame.

Columbia College had three presidents. We have already mentioned the

fact that Dr. G. A. Nunnally of Georgia was chosen to organize the
school and start it going.

This was no easy task. The decision to open a college had been reached

in mid-or late summer when most teachers had already signed up for the
fall and winter. But Dr. Nunnally was an old hand at the game and knew

it from A-Z.

He soon gathered a faculty that was second to none in the state, and a

standardized curriculum was set up which made it easy for the college to
secure recognition among all institutions of learning in the South.

The college opened with 15 departments, each of them headed by a

specialist in his or her own field.

The school was coeducational and the sexes were about evenly divided.

Dr. Nunnally served the college with great distinction for two years, but

the limitations of age with attendant wear and tear on the human body

after so many long years and educational work, influenced him to resign,
leaving the college facing its third time without head.

After much deliberation, and many hours spent in prayer, the trustees

turned to Dr. H. W. Tribble of Charlottesville Virginia, and tendered the

position to him.

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