VOL. 86 NO.2 
A Madison-style 
Approach to the City 
by Albert Dittes 
The Madison pioneers used to 
encourage 
the 
presence 
of 
vegetarian restaurants in cities in 
the 
past.. 
The 
Wildwood 
Corporation in Georgia is now 
operating a vegetarian restaurant in 
downtown Chattanooga, Tenn., at 
809 Market Street, right in the heart 
of the business district. 
Just go there and you will find 
an 
attractive 
Country 
Life 
Restaurant with orange walls inside 
and some green tiles on the floor. 
They serve Adventist vegetarian 
food, cafeteria style, with free water 
and a rich selection of fruit juices. A 
salad bar, two entrees and a 
selection of vegetables awaited me 
the day I visited there. 
"We serve all vegan foods, 
meaning no dairy products or 
eggs," says Marc Roy, manager of 
Country Life. "Most of our clientele 
are people on their lunch breaks." 
The restaurant serves lunch 
only, Sunday to Thursday from 
11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and closes 
at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, according to 
its web site. My granddaughter and 
I arrived after the noon hour rush, 
but customers were still socializing 
there at three or four tables. 
Roy says Sunday is the big day, 
attracting people after church and 
Adventist off work. Graduation 
weekends are always good for 
business, and participants in the 1 0-
day positive lifestyle course at 
Wildwood eat a meal there. 
Wilbur Atwood, president of 
Wildwood, knows of 
"thinking 
people" such as pastors and lawyers 
from the community who eat there. 
Roy says major institutions such as 
Blue Cross, Cigna and TV A have 
offices nearby. 
Roy estimates that three or four 
dozen restaurants grace that area of 
Chattanooga arid so doesn't know 
how they can attract so many 
customers, but they come. 
"We cook from scratch, and 
some of the chain restaurants 
franchise their food," he says. "Our 
people may like home cooked food." 
A staff of five operate the 
restaurant. "They are technically 
volunteers at Wildwood getting a 
stipend and a place to live," he says. 
(Continued on page 4 column 1) 
Center for Adventist Research 
~ndrews University 
Bernen Springs Michigan 
APRIL-JUNE 2005 
How NOT to Start 
Outposts 
What a Contrast-Those who 
gave heed to the Prophet and 
those who did not. 
Sutherland's Story 
About the Hurlbutts 
It was in April of 1908 that 
Sister White took me with her to 
visit the Hurlbutts, who owned a 
500 -acre cattle farm in Humbolt 
County in northwest California. 
Although they lived too far from 
the cities of Oakland and San 
Francisco to sell milk and cattle, 
they were able to churn and sell a 
lot ofbutter. 
Mrs. 
Hurlbutt 
was 
an 
Adventist, 
and 
her 
husband, 
though not a professing Christian, 
was favorably inclined. Through 
diligent work and frugality, and 
through an inheritance from her 
mother, the Hurlbutts became 
quite wealthy, and had requested 
Sr. White's counsel regarding how 
they could best help the Lord's 
work. Mrs. Hurlbutt repeatedly 
expressed a desire to start an 
orphanage, 
but 
Sr. 
White 
counseled against it, because she 
knew that the Hurlbutts did not 
have the qualifications to succeed 
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in running an orphanage. They had 
zeal, but not the characteristics 
necessary to operate a successful 
home for orphans. 
But Mrs. Hurlbutt had gone 
ahead and purchased a large tract 
of land at the south end of Clear 
Lake, and had spent over $10,000 
in putting up a building, and had 
been bringing orphans from the 
streets 
of Oakland 
and 
San 
Francisco to their farm. 
The 
Hurlbutts 
had 
strong 
personalities, 
and 
soon 
the 
children 
were 
running 
away 
because they could not tolerate the 
program which the Hurlbutts put 
on them. 
Now, on April 19 (EGW Bio, 
Vol. 6, 167-168) Sr. White took 
me with her to visit the Hurlbutts, 
and endeavored to persuade them 
that instead of trying to operate an 
institution themselves, they should 
sell their properties and move to 
Madison and help Magan and me 
to make a success of our school 
and sanitarium there. Sr. White 
urged them to invest their means 
and their lives in helping us. 
Well, they took some of her 
advice. They cleaned up their 
Humbolt property and sold it, and 
moved to Madison. Mr. Hurlbutt 
was suffering from arthritis, so we 
put them up in the sanitarium that 
winter, and they watched the work 
we were doing there. Soon, as Br. 
Hurlbutt grew better they became 
so enamored with our work there 
at Madison, that they decided they 
could go somewhere else and start 
another Madison. They thought of 
Sr. White's counsel to them about 
not running an orphanage, so they 
gave that up. But they became so 
infatuated with the idea of starting 
another Madison, that there was 
nothing we could say to dissuade 
them from leaving Madison. They 
refused Ellen White's counsel that 
they should tum their money and 
talents over to help us. 
They scouted around the south 
and 
found 
some 
property at 
Reeves, between Atlanta, Georgia, 
and 
Chattanooga. 
Then 
Sr. 
Hurlbutt went back to Clear Lake 
and persuaded a Br. John Wilson 
(N.C. Wilson's brother) to join 
them and 
become their 
farm 
manager. Then they persuaded Dr. 
Hayward who was trying to start a 
medical work on Sand Mountain 
near Chattanooga to join them. 
And they got Professor Boynton 
from San Franando Academy to 
come be their business manager, 
Bible teacher, and principal of the 
school. 
Sr. 
White 
agam 
tried 
to 
dissuade them against striking out 
on their own, and urged them to 
help the workers at Madison. But 
they felt well qualified to go ahead. 
We, at Madison, had to let them 
go. They would not listen to us. 
They bought 500 acres for 
$25,000 a lot of money in those 
days 
and 
then 
spent 
another 
$100,000 
building 
a 
large 
sanitarium. Dr. Hayward was an 
A#l 
doctor, 
but 
had 
been 
struggling with a small general 
practice on Sand Mountain, and so 
it felt like velvet to him to have so 
much money to spend on building 
up a sanitarium practice at Reeves. 
Professor 
Boynton 
was 
a 
splendid teacher and as principal at 
San Fernando Academy he was 
able to recruit several faculty 
members and students to come 
with him to Reeves. 
Sr. Hurlbutt had very large 
plans and felt that witli such a 
team and all their money they 
could do as good as Madison and 
maybe 
even 
a 
little 
better. 
(Madison was not known for 
having much money in those early 
days.) 
As for me and Madison, they 
felt the Lord had been kind to 
send them to counsel with me at 
Madison, and appreciated staying 
with us in the sanitarium all 
winter, but they were set against 
helping us there. 
Sr. 
White urged them to 
counsel with us, but they went 
ahead and left us and never called 
on us again for counsel. There was 
nothing we could say or Sr. White 
could say to change their minds. 
Well, they got started, and 
then Br. Wilson took sick and died 
of tuberculosis of the throat. Then 
the sanitarium burned down, and 
Prof Boynton left with some of 
the staff and started a school at 
Flat Rock near Atlanta. 
When news of the fire got 
around, it was soon disclosed that 
Dr. Hayward had indebted the 
sanitarium 
$25,000 
and 
the 
creditors began demanding their 
money. Then it was that Sr. 
Hurlbutt came to me and asked for 
my counsel. She reminded me that 
Sr. White had urged her to seek 
my counsel, and so now that she 
needed it, I must not refuse to help 
her. I thought back on how the 
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Lord had been merciful to Magan 
and me when we had needed 
counsel. I called our attorney, a 
Mr. Parsons, and we wrote letters 
to every creditor. We explained 
what had happened. The Hurlbutt 
Farm 
Corporation 
had 
only 
$20,000 fire 
insurance, 
so 
I 
offered to pay each creditor 7 5% 
immediately if they would forgive 
the balance. But if they wanted full 
payment they would have to wait 
a year so as to give me time to get 
more money. All except one wrote 
agreeing 
to 
accept 
75% 
as 
payment in full. One man was 
owed $15 which he wanted in full, 
so we were able to pay off all the 
creditors. 
Well, Sr. Hurlbutt got a Br. 
Loren to try to continue the 
school, but to no avail, so she got 
discouraged 
with Reeves 
and 
moved to Delonigan. Someone 
there had some property with a 
spring and creek on it and a grist 
mill which she thought could make 
a profit from the wheat farm. So 
she bought the farm for $12,000 
and invested another $10,000 on 
it. But it all blew up in her face, so 
she left it. 
Reeves 
was 
still 
tn 
her 
possession, 
but 
since 
the 
sanitarium fire and loss of Wilson, 
Boynton, and Hayward, she was 
unable to attract a team to do 
anything with it. So the Hurlbutts 
went to Birmingham and teamed 
up with a colored man, Jim 
Pierson, who was a nurse and had 
a treatment room. He was having 
real success with the wealthy 
people of that city, and was also 
rescuing 
juvenile 
delinquents 
whom the city's police department 
turned 
over 
to 
him. 
They 
recognized him as a wise and godly 
man. 
Mrs. Hurlbutt thought that if 
they could work together and build 
a 
sanitarium for 
the 
wealthy 
colored people of Birmingham, and 
a 
school 
and 
farm 
for 
the 
delinquents of that city, their 
efforts would be successful, like at 
Madison. So Sr. Hurlbutt went to 
Mother "D" 
(Druillard) 
and 
persuaded her to give Jim Pierson 
$15,000, and then got Sr. Lida 
Scott to donate thousands more for 
their project, and I was afraid for a 
while that Sr. Hurlbutt would suck 
up 
all 
the resources of the 
Laymen's Foundation. 
They found a property near 
Sterretts south ofBirmingham, and 
started construction. 
But their 
buildings were not built well. The 
foundations and roofs gave way, 
and thousands of dollars were 
sucked up from the self supporting 
work to help them. 
By this time Sr. Hurlbutt was 
so old that she could no longer 
promote 
her 
dreams, 
so 
Jim 
Pierson put her into a one-room 
cottage where she could live with 
her six cats and all her things piled 
high in one room. 
One day I got a letter asking 
me to come down to see her. I 
must not refuse her. She called my 
attention to all that Sr. White had 
said about her need to look to me 
for advice and counsel. Mother 
"D" told me not to go, but I 
recalled how God had been so 
good to me, and I must be good to 
other people. So Mother "D" and I 
went down to Birmingham to see 
her. There we found her in a dying 
condition. There was nothing we 
could do but relieve her needs, and 
take her back to the Madison 
Sanitarium. 
After a few days of care she 
felt well enough to call me in and 
tell me what she had done. She 
confessed that she had been ugly 
and rebellious and that she had 
hated the very sight of me because 
the Lord had told her what to do 
and she didn't want to do it. She 
was angry and didn't want a thing 
to do with me or Madison. Then 
she told me she was sorry and 
repentant and that she must make 
things right before she died. 
She told me to go to Florence, 
Alabama, to a certain bank, and 
get her will and have it changed so 
that everything would come to me 
and Madison. 
I told her, "No, that would be 
terrible if the word ever got out 
that I had taken her property away 
from the General Conference and 
turned it over to Madison. I can't 
afford to jeopardize my reputation 
with the General 
Conference, 
which isn't any too good anyway." 
Well, she insisted that she was 
afraid to die and that the Lord had 
convicted her that she must turn 
her property over to Madison, "I 
must clean up and straighten up 
before I die. I must do what Sr. 
White told me to do, or I will 
never get to heaven. I have done 
everything except what the Lord 
told me to do, and I have been 
afraid to die. I have had a mean 
spirit in me." 
So I told her we would be 
willing to help. Sr. Scott, Mother 
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APRIL 
JUNE 2, 005 
"D", and I counseled her, "If you 
want your property to be used as 
Sr. White told you to use it in the 
beginning, then tum it over to the 
Laymen's Foundation." So she 
sold their property!, I think, for $1 
to the Laymen's Foundation, and 
then there wasn't anything left to 
burden the General Conference. 
Well, with her coming back 
like the Prodigal Son, there wasn't 
anything we could do but to put 
the "royal robes" upon her and 
welcome her back. 
She said, "I can't understand 
myself All these years the devil 
has been leading me to rebel and 
run like Jonah, but here I am right 
where I said I would not be, doing 
the very thing which the Lord 
through Sr. White told me to do." 
Transcribed from 
a wire 
recording of E. A. Sutherland 
made in about 1951 at Wildwood, 
edited by David J. Lee. 
This is a very good example of 
why we need to follow the advice 
of the Spirit of Prophecy in our 
movements; otherwise, we will 
meet with much disappointment. 
Also, it is not wise to start a 
ministry jus( because a person 
wants to start one. It must be 
called by God It is best to work 
along with those who are already 
doing God's medical missionary 
work. 
(Continued from page 1) 
A Madison Style •.. 
"They live on campus and 
drive in to work. Half of our staff 
are students and the other half 
volunteers." 
The students work at the 
restaurant during part of the day to 
help pay for their housing. Some 
will work at Wildwood six months 
after they graduate, dividing their 
time between the campus and 
community. 
Atwood says the restaurant is 
operating under the Wildwood 
Corporation. ASI helped with the 
initial funding, and he hopes it can 
start breaking even financially by 
the end of the year. At present, it 
suffers a $2,000 to $3,000 shortfall 
each month but is very busy 
between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. 
Roy says they receive requests 
for cooking schools but have not 
conducted any yet during the first 
year of the restaurant being in 
operation. 
People 
take 
free 
literature and send in cards asking 
for 
Bible 
studies 
from 
the 
American 
Bible 
School 
at 
Wildwood. 
"We don't really have the time 
to conduct cooking schools but 
intend to work with the school of 
evangelism at Wildwood," Roy 
says. 
Atwood says they have spent 
the past year working hard to get 
the restaurant operating and hope 
in the future to devote themselves 
more to follow up. He plans to use 
cooking schools as lab training for 
students working with the teachers. 
"We are organizing for that now 
and want this to be a soul winning 
agency for the city," he says. 
To find out more about the 
restaurant, its menus and a map to 
its location, go to the Wildwood 
web site at wildwoodlsc.org and 
click on Country Life. 
This is a 
picture of 
Albert 
Dittes, our 
Alumni 
Association 
president, at 
a book 
signing of his 
new book 
Portland (Tenn.)Grows Up, 
Celebrating 100 years as a City. 
The signing took place May 2, 
2005 at the Portland City Hall. 
Copies may be obtained by 
contacting him at 123 Hood Trail, 
Portland, TN l7148-1923 
He is working on a book 
about 
some Madison 
College 
personalities and hopes to have it 
out soon. 
He will be at ASI in 
Sacramento, Calif in August. Go 
by booth #429, the Madison 
College Booth, and meet him in 
person. 
Madison's Influence is 
Working in Africa 
Dear Brethren of like precious 
faith, 
This is to invite you to 
attend the dedication service of 
the maiden session of our gospel 
medical 
missionary 
school 
-
SECOND 
ADVENT 
DISCIPLESHIP CO:M:MISSION 
(an arm of THE EVERLASTING 
ENSIGN MINISTRIES), to be 
held on Sabbath, April 16, 2005. 
MADISON SURVEY 
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Page 5 
with 
this 
email. 
We 
are 
commencing this maiden session in 
a humble rented facility. As the 
Lord makes the finance available, 
we hope to move into a facility we 
can call 
our own, that this 
educational work may continue. 
THE 
EVERLASTING 
ENSIGN MINISTRIES, together 
with 
the 
school: 
SECOND 
ADVENT DISCIPLESHIP 
COMMISSION, 
has 
now 
transferred its base of operations 
to Nwajala-Ibaji in Kogi State, a 
middle-belt region of Nigeria. Our 
new postal address should be 
carefully 
noted 
for 
future 
correspondences: 
THE 
EVERLASTING ENSIGN 
MINISTRIES, P. 0. Box 36, 
IDAH 
271001, 
Kogi 
State, 
Nigeria. However, we are going to 
continue to hold our old postal 
address (P. 0. Box 5289, ABA 
450001, Abia State) till the end of 
this year 2005, and have all mails 
already sent to that box redirected 
to the new one by the Nigerian 
Postal Services. In addition to our 
present telephone number: +234 
805 594 4445, we can as well be 
easily reached with this new 
telephone number: +234 804 270 
4989. Both of the lines are 
functional. 
Kindly have this new gospel 
medical missionary school located 
in the very heart-land of Nigeria, 
in your prayers. The area of our 
new base has no electricity supply. 
Though a very fertile rain forest 
region, the road from Idah city 
where we have our post office box 
to our base in Nwajala -Ibaji, is 
un-tarred and rough to travel, with 
transport fare too exorbitant, due 
to un-constructed road. This baby 
school presently lacks and needs an 
electricity generating set as well as 
a pick-up vehicle or truck. The 
cost of a generating set is 
$U.S. 
1,000. The cost of a strong 
second-hand truck is $U.S. 6,000. 
A truck to aid in the school 
operations, such as shopping for 
supplies, 
conveying 
agricultural 
products, going to Idah for postal 
mails (a distance of about 20 Km) 
and other needs is not a luxury but 
a dire need. We, therefore, pray 
that the Lord would touch your 
mind to prayerfully, and promptly 
respond towards assisting with the 
needs of this new institution 
patterned after faithful schools 
such as the old Madison College, 
Hartland 
College, 
Highwood 
College, Uchee Pines Institute, 
Eden Valley Institute etc. 
May God abundantly bless you 
IS my prayers. 
Yours in the hastening of the 
Second Advent, 
THE EVERLASTING 
ENSIGN MINISTRIES, 
Ogbonna 
C. 
Chukwudinma 
(Emissary) 
Any one that would like a copy of the 
calender may contact the alumni office, 
P 0 Box 6303, Madison, TN 37116 
CAPITALIST of the FOREST 
By Dr.Fioyd B. Bralliar 
"Every fall, when I go into the 
woods, I am impressed by the 
lesson taught by the great oaks, 
and by many of the other trees. 
The oak is one of the trees that has 
no way of scattering its own seeds 
so as to make sure they were 
planted over a wide range of 
territory. The willows and the 
cotton-woods have small seeds 
provided with a soft cottony dO"tvn 
that flutters in the wind. As soon 
as the seed ripens the pod opens, 
and the very first dry windy day, 
the moisture evaporates from this 
cotton. As the strands give off 
their moisture they flutter in the 
wind until at last enough are free 
to enable the wind to pull the seed 
from its place. Now it is carried 
far away by the winds that dried it 
and tore it loose. As the sun sinks 
in the west the air cools, the 
moisture 
becomes 
more 
condensed and the seed drifts 
lower. Finally it floats over some 
low damp ground, or near some 
lake of river, and the abundance of 
moisture in the air wets the cotton 
and causes it to stick together and 
roll up. As this takes place, the 
seed falls to the ground, and plants 
itself in just the kind of location 
where this sort of tree thrives -
low ground near water. 
But the oak has no such 
method of scattering its seed. As it 
lives to such a great age and 
throws such a dense shade, there 
is little chance for the young 
seedlings to spring up and grow 
near the parent tree. In fact the 
children of the oak, as all other 
children worthy of the name, make 
no attempt to out their own 
mother. They may spring up and 
fight for place and existence with 
an elm or a maple, but not with 
their own mother. Then how is 
this tree to get its seed scattered? 
It is compelled to hire it done. As 
many men must find themselves in 
the same state regarding much of 
their work, God made these trees 
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to teach us lessons of how we 
should do it. 
The tree sends word to all of 
the squirrels and birds in its 
neighborhood, inviting them to 
come and work for her. This 
invitation is hung on high in the 
shape of crimson -
and -gold 
leaves; and the forest dwellers, 
when they see them, read as 
plainly as can be something like 
this, "Come this way. I have 
plenty of good ripe acorns. You 
may have all you wish for the 
carrying away. All you will be 
asked to do is to drop one 
occasionally, in some place where 
it may have a chance to grow and 
make another tree. The others are 
yours, as many of them as you 
wish, without money and without 
price. Take all you want, but don't 
forget about dropping one now 
and then". 
Prodigal paymaster ! You will 
say. Yes , many an oak gives 
freely a hundred thousand acorns 
for the privilege of having just one 
young oak grown. And acorns are 
the most expensive material, the 
most exhaustive product, the oak 
tree knows how to produce. She 
offers as her wages the very best 
she knows how to give, with never 
a complaint if the one hired fails to 
fulfill his part of the bargain." (an 
excerpt from a manuscript, THE VOICE 
of THE FIELD, 
by Dr. Floyd B. 
Bra/liar, Phd) 
FROM HERE AND THERE 
4J 
~ 
Arizona: G. Ellis Burcaw, S 
'3 9-'41, sent dues and this letter, 
"Dear Mr. Dittes: You and Bob 
Sutherland have done me the 
courtesy of sending me issues of 
the enjoyable Madison Survey so I 
must send you some money, and 
am pleased to do so. Please find 
the enclosed check. 
I was a happy and loyal student 
at Madison College from May 
193 9 to April 1941, at which time I 
left, reluctantly, in order to make 
62¢ an hour working on a railroad 
construction gang near my home in 
northeastern Ohio. That seemed 
like a great amount compared with 
the 10¢ an hour I was making 
while helping to build the new 
girls' dormitory on campus, and I 
needed to save money to transfer 
to another college. Some of my 
friends convinced me that we 
needed to think about getting our 
bachelor's 
degrees 
from 
an 
accredited college, especially if we 
were looking beyond to graduate 
school. Of the Madison students I 
know about who transferred to 
Maryville College in Maryville, 
Tennessee, in addition to myself, I 
recall 
the 
names 
of Charles 
Hildreth, S '40, John Smelcher, 
S'41, Robert Shalkop, S '40, 
Elaine Fichter, S '39-' 41, and 
Charles Brand, S '40-'46. I know 
there were others thinking of 
transferring. Any who approached 
the University of Tennessee were 
turned down. 
Maryville, as you may know, is 
regarded today as one of the ten 
best liberal arts colleges in the 
South. Its administrators sixty and 
more years ago had respect for the 
academic 
quality of Madison 
College, even though it was not an 
accredited 
school, 
and 
would 
accept transfer students from there 
on probation. After a semester, 
Maryville would accept Madison 
credits. I was always pleased that 
we 
Madisonites 
were 
good 
students, doing very well in all 
respects, justifying the trust put in 
us, and upholding the academic 
reputation of Madison College. 
Elaine Fichter became the May 
Day Queen one year, a top honor. 
I knew your father and your 
great Aunt Frances Dittes who did 
such a good job feeding us well in 
Kinne 
Kitchen. 
I 
occasionally 
recognize the name of a long ago 
student among those you print in 
Madison Survey. One that comes 
to mind is that of a friend, Shirley 
Throckmorton. 
Among 
the 
Madison students I knew well, 
one, with a doctorate, became the 
historian of the U.S. Air Force; 
one, listed in Who 's Who in 
America, 
was 
a 
leading 
art 
museum director who headed the 
Brooks 
Museum of Art 
in 
Memphis 
among 
others 
and 
oversaw the multi-million dollar 
expansion of the museum in 
Anchorage. One was highly placed 
in military intelligence in this 
country and in Central America. 
He created the new national police 
force in South Korea after the 
cessation of hostilities and became 
a colonel in the U.S. Army. His 
roommate in Cottage 9 had a 
distinguished career as a physicist 
at the University of Tennessee. 
Years ago, I came upon a front-
page newspaper report about a 
significant advance in radar he had 
made. One of my roommates 
became a professor of biology at 
one Adventist college, and later a 
psychiatrist at Lorna Linda. One 
Madison student I knew was 
highly successful in the marketing 
of pharmaceuticals. Another was 
an outstanding gynecologist, and 
MADISON SURVEY 
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yet another published a textbook 
in museum administration that is 
still in use in many universities 
worldwide. 
He 
accepted 
an 
invitation of the former East 
German 
government, 
expenses 
paid, to visit that country to 
lecture and inspect their museums. 
My point is not that I had 
smart friends, when I was at 
Madison College, but rather that 
these 
accomplished, 
educated 
people, and many dozens of others 
I have lost track of, had their 
academic beginning at Madison. 
Madison College was the initial 
impetus for exemplary careers, a 
solid building block. When I think 
of the instructors I have had at 
several colleges and universities, 
none in beginning level courses 
were better than the ones I had at 
Madison College. I remember 
excellent Madison professors in 
music, 
German, 
English, 
chemistry, 
physics, 
and 
mathematics. The best field trip I 
ever had was a long historical and 
cultural study deep into Mexico in 
the spring of 1941 led by Madison 
College 
history 
and 
Spanish 
professors. 
Therefore, 
it 
is 
especially 
regrettable that Madison College 
was 
closed. 
Perhaps 
the 
appropriate term is "obliterated" 
since all of the buildings were 
destroyed and removed and the 
earth was bulldozed. It was a 
good school and that brings me to 
my main point. It is very well for 
Madison Survey to praise the 
religious purpose, founding, and 
contribution of Madison College. 
That is an impressive and inspiring 
story and I know it means much to 
Seventh-day Adventists. But that 
is not all of what needs to be 
praised. Madison offered a quality 
education to poor students of good 
character who could work their 
way, and who would not have been 
able to begin their higher education 
otherwise. 
In fact, that was such an 
important 
and 
unusual 
characteristic 
it 
caught 
the 
attention of Robert Ripley in his 
"Believe it or Not" newspaper 
feature near the end of the Great 
Depression . That is how I learned 
about Madison. The article in the 
Reader 's Digest impressed others 
students. My granddaughter, in 
high school, is wistfully dreaming 
about attending college but, today, 
a quality private college education 
is very expensive, costing more 
than $40,000 a year in some 
institutions. There is surely a place 
for the well-regarded colleges of 
Berea in Kentucky and Berry in 
Georgia, where students can pay a 
significant part, even all, of their 
expenses 
by 
campus 
work 
opporturutles. Madison 
College 
could be playing a similar role 
today and achieve the financial 
base, the accreditation, the faculty, 
and the student body, as well as the 
national notice that a good school 
deserves. 
I 
would 
take 
my 
granddaughter back to see it for 
herself 
Madison College was great. I 
am sad that it is no more, except as 
it 
has 
remained 
with 
many 
hundreds of former students who 
have remembered it fondly, and 
gratefully. I am one of them. 
George Ellis Burcaw, University of 
Idaho 
Professor Emeritus of 
Anthropology." 
North Carolina: 
Bernhard N., 
N' 51, Anes. '52 and Ann Jensen 
sent dues and help with this note, 
"Dear Madison Alumni, What a 
privilege -
What a time we all 
had at the Madison College 1 OOth. 
Such a fine program prepared 
and the food, pictures and visiting. 
Seeing Don Owsley looking so 
young after 50 years and many 
others. 
Thanks so much Bob and 
Stella and others who worked to 
make it so! 
We are indebted for so many 
benefits received." 
RESTING UNTIL THE 
RESURECTION 
Harris, Eugene C., 87 expired 
July 18, 2005 He was preceded in 
death by his wife Phyllis Savage 
Harris and one son Phillip C. 
Harris. He is. survived by two 
sons, Brad Harris of Madison, TN 
and Gregory Harris of 
Hendersonville, TN. Eugene's 
vocation had been that of a 
carpenter. Also surviving, sister-
in-law, Mavis Savage Sutherland, 
BSN '50. He served in military in 
WW II. Military Internment was at 
Forest Lawn Goodlettsville, TN. 
Zetko, Joe, S '46-49, expired 
June 8, 2005 at the age of 93 
years. He met and married Lucy 
Mae DePas, N '49 here at 
Madison College. Joe's vocation 
had been that of a carpenter. He 
and Lucy lived at Crestwood, KY. 
They are members of the Pewee 
Valley Seventh-day Adventist 
Church. Born to their union was 
daughter, Lois Ann Zetko, two 
sons, Gary and Allen E.; Joe and 
Lucy have 17 grandchildren, 18 
great-grandchildren and !great-
great grandchild. These all survive 
Joe. 
Coupon 
1. Survey & Dues 1 yr. 
($25) __ 
2. Sending $ 
for Office 
Help. 
3. God's Beautiful Farm ($10) 
4. Sending $ 
for 
Heritage House 
Restoration. 
MADISON SURVEY & ALUMNI 
NEWS 
Albert G. Dittes,President/Editor 
.Bob Sutherland 
Managing Editor & Executive 
Secretary 
Home Phone: 615-859-5181 
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