1950 Bible College 1950 High School 1950 1951 High School 1951 High School 1951 Bible College 1952 Bible College 1952 1953, left to right, Kelly Barnes, Dr. Bandy, Mr. Tam 1953 Bible College 1955 High School 1956 1958 1959
1940 Graduates and student body 1941 graduates, left to right — Jimmy Rich, Richard Scoggins, Dr. Forrest, Mrs. Forrest, Flora McLean, and Tom Burns 1942 1942 Students and Graduates 1942 1944 1944, Left to right, Tory Damron, Cyrus Carpenter, June Robbins, Dr. George Shaw, Sara Alspaugh, Art Chamblee, Lynn Green 1945 1945, Ed O’Neal, Don & Leon Gathany, Wayne King, Jim Lynos, and George Shaw 1946 Bible College
Class of 1915, Mary Spooner, Esther Key Hill, Annie Thomas, and Lillian Eustace Early Students 1917, Ora Frost, Carrie Warner, and Lottie Davis 1917-1918 1917-1918 students Group after the Haddock Inn fire 1917-1918 Second group student body
Photo credit: Clarence Wulf Click here to see the graduation e-card that was sent out from the President’s office
Forrest Hall Ground breaking Homecoming Day of 1961 was the ground breaking for the new men’s dormitory, Forrest Hall, using the same shovel as Dr. Forrest had used at the ground breaking for the First Presbyterian Church of Toccoa years earlier. Plans included three wings, each to be built as funds became available. More students were accepted for 1962-63 than could be housed, so some of the students lived at the Lake Louise conference grounds (Georgia Baptist Conference Center) until the first wing was completed early in 1963. Senator Richard Russell, a close friend of Dr. Forrest, brought the dedicatory
During the early morning hours of November 6, 1977, after five days of almost continual rain, the dam that impounded the waters of Kelly Barnes Lake [located above the Toccoa Falls College campus] burst, and 176 million gallons of water surged through the campus below in the space of a few minutes. Most of the college personnel who lived in the path of the flood were asleep at the time, and 39 of them were swept to their deaths in the raging waters of Toccoa Creek. . . . The flood, in the natural understanding of things, was perhaps the
The Diary of Evelyn Forrest’s Trip to Palestine Tuesday, April 8, 1930 Marseilles, France Richard arose and put up the shades saying, “It is daylight
The Diary of Evelyn Forrest’s Trip to Palestine Saturday, April 5, 1930 Marseilles, France Richard did not sleep very well during the night. He was
The Diary of Evelyn Forrest’s Trip to Palestine April 4, 1930 Mediterranean Sea It all seems like a dream that we are really on the
The Diary of Evelyn Forrest’s Trip to Palestine Wednesday, April 2, 1930 Atlantic Ocean Smooth sailing today but not much sunshine, the sky is grey
The Diary of Evelyn Forrest’s Trip to Palestine Sunday, March 30, 1930 One the Atlantic Steamship Phrygie I went to sleep last night listening to
The Diary of Evelyn Forrest’s Trip to Palestine Thursday, March 27, 1930 On board the Phrygie on the Atlantic Ocean 7:00 a. m. The first