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Presidential Perspective
Dr. Don Newbury
PresidentWhat makes a good homecoming?
If there were a "pat" answer or
standard method, a person could patent
it, bottle it or otherwise dispense it, and
riches would result.
Because Howard Payne University's
100th anniversary celebration was tied
to homecoming on Oct. 20-21, special
efforts were made by numerous
individuals and groups associated with
the school to make the event memo-
rable. Contacts were made with other
institutions which already had reached
the 100-year milestone. Since our
homecoming, representatives from
other institutions have contacted HPU
personnel concerning ways to make an
event memorable.
It is a temptation to swell with pride
concerning the event, because it was
several notches above being merely
memorable. It had all the ingredients -
emotion, spirit, renewed friendships, a
winning football game - and much
more. Advancement Vice President
Flynn, from page 1
A 1908 graduate of HPU, Flynn was
born May 26,1889 in Houston, Miss. On
Dec. 26,1912, he married the former
Josephine Burns, who preceded him in
death. Survivors include a daughter,
Mrs. Helen Parce; three grandchildren
and several great grandchildren.
Flynn was a school teacher in San
Benito and Mission from 1912-1917, and
then was named vice president of First
State Bank Land Trust in Mission.
Involved in real estate, lending,
banking and insurance, he was presi-
dent of Flynn Investment CompanyMichael Nealeigh, Alumni President
Dale Gore, along with literally dozens
of others, may take repeated bows for
their efforts to insure a wonderful
Centennial Homecoming.
In talking with them, though, they
can't quite set to paper what made it
work. There are so many intangibles,
but there is a point of common agree-
ment - folks have to want to "go home."
What HPU personnel did to accom-
modate this "coming home" was to
pray, prepare, project and predict, and
these things were admirably done. My
office has received literally dozens of
phone calls and letters, setting out
promises, pledges and prognostications
about HPU's second hundred years of
Christian higher education. I thank
God for each communication.
Interwoven throughout the fabric of
this event are common threads of hope
for the future, deep thanks for the past
and a new resolve that under God,
HPU will continue to be the kind of
place her mission has long claimed her
to be - where Christian leaders in many
walks of life are trained. HPU students,
proud to be "can do" kind of people in
the institution's first century, must
continue to have the same kind of
resolve, the same kind of challenge and
the same kind of opportunities in
Century II.
It is estimated that more than 6,500
cheered the Yellow Jackets on for a
football victory (perhaps the largest
ever to do so in the 95-year history of
the sport here), many hundreds
examined the new alumni plaza,
looking at granite bricks with names
engraved of some 900 HPU faithful,
from 1945-1968.
He was active in church, civic,
professional and cultural functions in
addition to serving HPU as a member
of the Board of Trustees and the
Douglas MacArthur Academy of
Freedom Board of Directors.
Flynn received the Honorary Doctor
of Law degree from HPU in 1969. He
was a major donor to the Othal Brand
Chair of Free Enterprise at the Acad-
emy of Freedom. In 1968, he established
the Fred and Josephine Flynn Endowed
Scholarship Fund.thousands sighed heavily and tears
formed at the thoughts of way back
when ... One even vowed to "tithe for
Howard Payne" in her will.
My prayer is that HPU faithful who
care about what happens to young
people of the future will "will" to make
consistent gifts to HPU for her tomor-
row - yes, even every month, and yes,
even if it is seemingly small amounts.
Such participation extends the fabric
of Christian hope, strengthens the bond
of Christian love that makes us as one
in Him, and assures that in Century II,
there will yet be a vital, Christian
institution which is Howard Payne,
turning out still more "can do" people -
the kind Paul describes in Philippians
4:13, "I can do all things through Christ
who strengthens me."
EDITOR'S NOTE: In Dr. Newbury's col-
umn in the September issue of The Link, he
mentioned an advertising slogan used by a
motelchain. Inborrowing the slogan. "Well
leave the light on for you," Dr. Newbury
was welcoming alumni and friends to
Homecoming '89.
The advertising slogan was the creation
of David Fowler, son of HPU graduate Dr.
J. B. Fowler ('52). David is now an advertis-
ing executive in California. Dr. Fowler is
serving as editor of the Baptist paper in
New Mexico, the Baptist New Mexican.
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