You are cordiallyinvited to attend the

Jubilee Appreciation ReceptionTuesday, October 26, 2004

4:30-6:30 p.m.

Christian Life CenterFirst Baptist Church, Jackson

William Carey College

thanks Mississippi Baptists

and celebrates its

Jubilee

October, 2004Dear Friends,

William Carey College thanks Mississippi Baptists for fifty years

of faithful support. With you as a reliable foundation, William

Carey College has provided quality higher education in a

Christian context for 16,512 graduates since 1954.In November 1953, you voted to move our predecessor,

Mississippi Woman’s College, to coeducational status and to

continue your support. On April 20, 1954, the board of trustees

renamed the college as William Carey College in honor of

Baptists’ pioneer in missions, who sets our ongoing example for

the college’s mission to develop every student’s “scholarship,

leadership, and service.”We are excited about the future of William Carey College and

would be honored to share our vision of Christian faith and

academic excellence with you.With thanks to God and Mississippi Baptists,

Larry W. Kennedy President

498 Tuscan Avenue, Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39401

(601) 318-6051 • (800) 962-5991www.wmcarey.edu

William Carey College

October 14, 2004A supplement to the

Baptist Record produced byWilliam Carey College incelebration of its Jubilee.

1954-2004

A Name Worthy of a College

Identifying Facts Regarding William Carey

Missionary Emphasis• Born 1761, self-educated cobbler and pastor from the English midlands.

• Heralded the formation of the Baptist Missionary Society in 1792 with his watchword "Expect great things;attempt great things."

• Wrote missions pamphlet An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of theHeathens (1792).

• Served as a missionary in India from 1793 until his death in 1834.

• Converted thousands of Hindus and Muslims to Christianity.

• Established Baptist mission stations throughout southern Asia.

Christian Social Reform• Campaigned against caste social distinctions.

• Worked to secure prohibition of infant sacrifice and widow-burning.

Linguistic Diligence• Published grammars and dictionaries of several Indian languages.

• Served as professor of Bengali and Sanskrit at Fort William College, Calcutta.

Scientific Achievement• Edited two important botanical works, Hortus Bengalensis (1814) and Flora Indica (1820, 1824).

• Founded the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India (1820).

• Became fellow of prestigious Linnaean Society of London.

“CELEBRATING HIS GLORIOUS DESIGN”—William Carey, D.D.

WILLIAM CAREY COLLEGE1954-2004

Carey and Pundit Mritunjayaengaged in translation.

Many colleges derive their name from a place or a benefactor. William Carey College draws strength from a name that marks its commitment to thehighest standards of Christian scholarship.

The life of William Carey, D. D. (1761-1834) defines the mission of William Carey College.

Carey was devoted to a diversity of endeavors that characterize the practice of Christian faith in the modern world.

He was a missionary, evangelist, educator, reformer, linguist, scientist and businessman. As such, his life and work offer a model for operation of aBaptist college.

The Center for Study of the Life and Work of William Carey, D.D.(1761-1834) will be housed in Donnell Hall, as shown in the architectural rendering above.

Business Acumen• Helped to start savings banks in India.

• Brought one of the first steam engines to India.

• Published India’s first periodical, The Friend of India, which laterbecame a major newspaper, The Statesman.

Educational Striving• Supervised printing of Bible in numerous Indian dialects.

• Founded Serampore College (1818).

• Pioneered the education of Indian women.

• Awarded the Doctor of Divinity degree by Brown University(1806).

11995544--11996633In 1954-55, under the leadership ofPresident I. E. Rouse, there were 26 facultyand 361 students. The college offered threedegrees: the Bachelor of Arts, the Bachelorof Science, and the Bachelor of Music. Ninenew buildings were constructed during thisperiod 1954-1963.

Highlights

1954—First dormitory for male students,Lawrence Hall, constructed. With thenew dormitory came the beginningof male students living on campus.

1956—Dr. J. Ralph Noonkester isinaugurated as the second presidentof William Carey College. Dr.Donald Winters became chairman ofthe department of music and a majorin Church Music is added.

1957—I.E. Rouse Library is constructed anddedicated in February of 1958.

1958—Accreditation is granted by theSouthern Association of Collegesand Secondary Schools.

11996644--11997733By the fall of 1964, there are 683 studentsand over 50 full-time faculty. There are stillthree degrees offered through the sevenacademic divisions. There are now pre-professional programs in law, medicine,medical technology, and optometry. Newconstruction continues with a musicbuilding, cafeteria, dormitory for men, andbusiness building.

Highlights

1964—William Carey College leads allSouthern Baptist colleges in thenumber of alumni serving asmissionaries.

1965—Carey is the first private college inMississippi to comply with the CivilRights Compliance Pledge and thefirst to admit black students.

1969—The college acquires the prestigiousMather School of Nursing in NewOrleans and offers a bachelor’sdegree in nursing. The nursingprogram in New Orleans is affiliatedwith the Southern Baptist Hospital.The School of Music is now a fullmember of the National Associationof Schools of Music.

1969—The Crusader baseball team wins theNAIA national baseball championship.

1972—The right to grant master's degrees isapproved in December when thecollege is given Level III status bythe Southern Association of Collegesand Schools.

11997744--11998833 The college now offers seven degrees: theBachelor of Arts, the Bachelor of Science,the Bachelor of Fine Arts, the Bachelor ofScience in Nursing, the Bachelor of Music,the Master of Education, and the Master ofMusic. The academic areas are organizedinto the School of Arts and Sciences, theSchool of Music, the School of Nursing, andthe Graduate Division. In 1974 there are 72full-time faculty and a student enrollmentof 1,067.

Highlights

1976—The college purchases the campus ofthe Gulf Coast Military Academy inGulfport and begins a full program.Bobbye Wood, Miss Carey College,becomes Miss Mississippi.

1977—The music therapy program isgranted accreditation by theNational Association for MusicTherapy. Carey celebrates its 75thanniversary and awards honorarydoctorates to Eudora Welty,Leontyne Price, and Lucile Parker.

1978—The School of Nursing is grantedaccreditation by the National Leagueof Nursing. A specialist program ineducation is approved.

1981—A Master of Arts in counseling isbegun with concentrations inguidance counseling, vocationalguidance counseling, psychometry,and Christian counseling.

1982—Dianne Evans becomes MissMississippi and 2nd alternate toMiss America.

1983—Wanda Geddie becomes MissMississippi and 3rd alternate to MissAmerica.

11998844--11999933 In addition to the degrees offered in 1974,there are now the Bachelor of Science inBusiness, the Master of BusinessAdministration, the Educational Specialist,the Master of Arts in CounselingPsychology, and the Master of Science inCounseling Psychology. There are fourschools and two academic divisions: theSchool of Arts and Sciences, the School ofBusiness Administration, the School ofMusic, the School of Nursing, the GraduateDivision, and the Division of ContinuingEducation. In 1984 there are 79 full-timefaculty, and student enrollment has reached1,746.

Highlights

1989—Dr. J. Ralph Noonkester retires after34 years of service as president.

1990—Dr. James W. Edwards isinaugurated as the third WilliamCarey College president. The collegechanges its academic calendar to atrimester system.

1990—The Department of Religion becomesthe Owen and Elizabeth CooperSchool of Missions and BiblicalStudies.

11999944--22000033 There are now six schools: the School ofArts, Humanities, and Sciences, the Schoolof Business, the School of Education andPsychology, the School of Missions andBiblical Studies, the School of Music, andthe School of Nursing. There are sevenundergraduate degrees, two graduatedegrees, and 24 majors. In 1994 there are 95full-time faculty with a student enrollmentof 2,139.

Highlights

1998—Dr. Larry W. Kennedy is inauguratedas the fourth president. The Schoolof Nursing is relocated to thecampus of New Orleans BaptistTheological Seminary.

2000—The college establishes the Centerfor Study of the Life and Work ofWilliam Carey, D.D. (1761-1834).

2002—Enrollment of church vocationstudents reaches an all-time high of247.

2002—The first new building since 1974 iscompleted: the Fail-Asbury Schoolof Nursing on the Hattiesburgcampus.

22000044 The sixth decade following the naming ofWilliam Carey College begins with a recordenrollment of 2786. There are 112 full-timefaculty.

Two soccer fields and intramural field areopened.

Major renovations are underway on theHattiesburg campus.

Smith Education Hall, a baseball complex, anda new nursing building in New Orleans areunder construction.

Dr. Larry Kennedy is awarded the prestigiousHattiesburg Hub Award.

“Expecting great things from God; Attempting great things for God.”

Carey Historical Highlights 1954-2004

According to an editorial inthe Hattiesburg American in 1929,Mississippi Woman's College wasfounded along different lines thantypical modern colleges wheremore attention was given tosports and social life than to booksand social service. "It is quite evi-dent that the institution is suc-ceeding remarkably well in instill-ing its ideals in the minds andhearts of its graduates." The col-lege, for the most part, grew andthrived during the decades of the20s and 30s until the GreatDepression took its toll on the col-lege, just as it did on the nation asa whole. With fewer students ableto afford any school, with theendowment being exhausted, thetight economy, the war, and the"general situation looking sobleak," Dr. W. E. Holcomb, presi-dent of Mississippi Woman'sCollege, resigned in 1940, and thecollege closed its doors. The build-ings and grounds were used as ahousing project for officers ofCamp Shelby.

In 1946 and 1947 the entire col-lege plant was renovated, mod-ernized, and largely refurnished.Dr. I. E. Rouse, pastor of FifthAvenue Baptist Church (now

Temple Baptist, Hattiesburg),became president of the reopenedMississippi Woman's College.Enrollment figures in the late for-ties remain something of a mys-tery, believed by most to havehovered around 80. With such askeletal enrollment, the collegewas brought under review by theMississippi Baptist Convention in1950. By a one-vote margin,Mississippi Woman's Collegeremained alive. Three years laterin 1953, with enrollment still hov-ering around the 100 mark, theMississippi Baptist Conventionvoted coeducational status for theinstitution and authorized thetrustees to search for a new name.

According to tradition,President Rouse meditated in theforest adjacent to the college andfelt inspired to name the collegeWilliam Carey, in honor of a bril-liant eighteenth-century Englishcobbler-linguist who went toIndia as the pioneer of the modernmissionary movement. Thus, witha new name and with the con-struction of a new men's dormito-ry (Lawrence Hall) in 1954, thepresent state of William CareyCollege was begun.

Mississippi Woman’s College Becomes William Carey College

“God used a pigskin to bring meto Heaven. I came to WilliamCarey in 1954 to play football.Little did I know that on October 14, 1954 I would makelife’s greatest score when Dr.Andy Tate led me to Jesus! Inthe two years Carey had a foot-ball team, 22 out of 33 playerscrossed the same goal line intoeternal life!”

—Billy Crosby ‘56Evangelist

Shreveport, LA

“The knowledge I gained duringmy years at the School ofBusiness formed the strongfoundation that has allowed meto build a successful career. Ona personal level, theinternational friends I madetaught me to appreciatediversity in all walks of life andinstilled a desire in me to travel,explore, and experience othercultures.”

—Melanie Ward Butler, ‘84Partner

PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLPLondon, United Kingdom

“I cherish the time I had as astudent at William CareyCollege. I was not onlychallenged intellectually, butalso was given opportunities tolead and serve. It was at Careythat I met my wife, Pam, andtogether we now serveat the college that enriched ourlives in such an immeasurableway. It is such a joy to be analumnus and employee of acollege that is booming withnew life."

—Terry Dale Cruse, ‘03Assistant Director of Admissions

William Carey College

“I am proud and honored to beacknowledged as a WilliamCarey graduate. William Careyprepared me as a nurse to notonly provide the physical needsof people, but also theiremotional and spiritual needs.William Carey will always bespecial to me for not only theexcellent education I received,but also for strengthening meas a Christian to be a betterwife, mother and nurse.”

—Kim May McDaniel, ‘91RN, BSN

Intensive Care UnitNatchez Regional Medical Center

“William Carey College has hada lasting influence on my lifeand my life's work. Dr. and Mrs.Donald Winters were outstand-ing leaders in the music depart-ment. They cared about me andwhat I was being taught. Theydefinitely made a difference inmy life and inspired me to moreand greater things. TheChristian influence of the facultyand students was so helpful inmy journey. I could never bewhere I am had it not been forWilliam Carey College."

—Ray Burdeshaw, ‘64Director

Office of Worship Leadership/Church Music

Alabama Baptist Convention

“If I were writing anautobiography, there would beat least one chapter on ‘TheCarey Years’. The impact ofWilliam Carey College inshaping my life is not incidentalto who I am today. From thelove and nurture of professorslike Dr. Milton Wheeler and thelate Dr. Donald Winters, to themany friendships forged in thecourse of campus life whichremain to this day, I am deeplygrateful for my Carey heritageof faith, learning, and life.William Carey College is anoutstanding institution, and Ihave long been extremelyproud to be an alumnus. Today,more than ever, I believe in hermission, and I am excited abouther future.

—Dr. Randy Von Kanel, '75 Pastor, First Baptist Church

Tupelo, MS

“Expect great things from God;

Attempt great things for God.”

—William Carey