ALUMNI NEWS VOL. 22, NO. 1

Education for Time and Eternity February 2018A newsletter for alumni of Oneida Baptist Institute

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“Come to the Table”

Mark your calendar!

Homecoming 2018October 20th

Golf tournament October 19! Fall drama production!

Alumni & Friends Dinner!

Plan now; don’t miss the fun!

...Still more from Homecoming 2017

Want an easy way to give? Go to our web site and click the “Give/Volunteer” tab, then the “Donate now” button to give via credit card, debit card or PayPal: http://www.oneidaschool.org/ support.shtml

In what other ways can you help OBI?Pray for our students, faculty and staff.• Tell prospective students and families • about all that our program offers.Come and visit us to see what we’re do-• ing. Better yet, bring a friend or a group from your church for a campus tour.Consider joining our ministry team as a • full-time volunteer.

January 2018 marks the kick-off to a year-long campaign to raise awareness and funds for a new build-ing project -- the Dr. W. F. “Bud” and Kay Underwood Dining Hall. The cam-paign is called “Come to the Table.”

We are hoping that alumni and former students will take a leading role in this project in two ways:1. Tell us your stories.2. Help fund this project.

Phase one of the campaign is encouraging people to share stories of their time at OBI, specifi cally time spent in the dining hall. Who better to share stories than our alumni and for-mer students? Here are a few ideas to get you started:

What was one of your favorite • cafeteria meals? Did you get to know any of the • food service staff?Did you attend all three meals • each day in the dining hall?Were you ever on the dining hall • work crew?How was mealtime a time of fun • with friends?Do you have a special story to tell • about the dining hall?

We would love to hear your memories of when you “came to the table” as a student at Oneida. You may want us to include your name with your story, or you may remain anonymous.

For many people, coming to the table with their families is a special time. They tell about their day, swap tales, discuss upcoming plans.

For others, though, family meals may be nearly non-existent as each person grabs a sandwich on the way to his/her job, rehearsal, or game. Or perhaps the family eats together, yet argues. Meals are not always pleasant occasions.

If supper time was stress time in your family, you may have especially enjoyed mealtime at Oneida. Talking, laughing, and visiting with friends could have been an opportunity for much-needed acceptance and fellowship.

After you have written your story, please think about how much you would be willing to give to help fund this new facility. So many young people have found nourishment both physi-cally and spiritually at OBI. Just as you gathered around the table when you were a student here, others now do

the same. Teenagers today still need healthy food served in a home-away-from-home atmosphere. Won’t you help them “come to the table?” q

You may submit stories to tamara.cochran@oneidaschool.org or to de-nise.spencer@oneidaschool.org

Come to the TableA story

My husband, Jorge, and I came to Oneida only four short years ago. The din-ner table in our home was a place where we would share our “highs” and “lows” for the day. It was a place to regroup, reflect and lay it all aside.

So coming to Oneida where we hardly ever eat as a family because all of our schedules are so unpredict-able was very different for us. Different is not bad. It allowed us to reach out, connect and add to our family.

We enjoy it when the vol-leyball girls or other kids are drawn to us at the table. They can share their highs and lows, and can get a hug or word of encouragement. We love our Oneida family. The staff and the kids are a blessing and we thank God for them.~ Mrs. Allie Valldeperas

William Burns shared at the Hymn Sing.

(Right) Mr. Gritton welcomed golfers before the tournament.(Far right) A dozen teams participated. Phil Curry and friends were the winning team.

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Need to contact us? Amanda Louise Roberts, Alumni Director E-mail: amanda.roberts@oneidaschool.org

(606) 847-9338 (502) 387-2833www.oneidaschool.org

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Lizzie Allen Barrett (’33) celebrates 100th birthday More from Homecoming 2017

Most of us who were privileged to attend Oneida Baptist Institute will not have the good fortune to live the 36,500 days required to celebrate a 100th birthday. That’s exactly what OBI’s oldest alumna, Lizzie Mae Allen Barrett, class of 1933, did last year on January 24. Lizzie Mae was born Jan-uary 24, 1917, the daughter of William and Sudie Rogers Allen.

Her father was a farmer who also ran the grist mill built by his great-grandfather. Her mother was a midwife

Lizzie Mae at our 2013 Homecoming

and a homemaker who could spin, knit, crochet, embroider, and make clothes for her family. Besides her parents, Lizzie’s family included two sisters and four brothers.

After completing elementary school at Sheep Pen on Booneville Road, Lizzie went to live in Oneida with relatives in order to attend OBI as a seventh-grader. She moved into the dorm in 1929 at age 12 to begin her high school career Lizzie remembered, “I entered school without a cent in my pocket and left in 1933 with a diploma in my hand. I had many good teach-ers -- Charlie Goins, Saul Hounchell, Hugh Spurlock, and Mayme Hensley -- but my favorite was my Latin teach-er, John Henry Walker.”

After graduating from OBI, Lizzie enrolled at Berea College as a “half-day” student, working all afternoon in the college bakery for six cents an hour and washing dishes three times a day for five cents a meal. Leaving Berea in 1939, Lizzie returned to Clay County

to teach at Sheep Pen and Lodge Hall on Lower Teges. She married Preston Barrett in 1945, moved to Indiana, and had two sons, Ed and Steven. In May 1977, Lizzie retired after teaching in Connersville, Indiana for 27 years. In 2005, she was named “Master Edu-cator” and inducted into the Fayette County, Indiana School Corporation’s “Education Hall of Fame.”

Returning to Oneida for Home-coming in 1983, Lizzie celebrated her fiftieth anniversary. Again in 2008, she returned to Oneida for her seventy-fifth anniversary, and in 2013 she came for her eightieth anniversary. This past Homecoming in October 2017 she was invited to come to be recognized for reaching her milestone of 100 years, but she regretfully could not make the trip.

We do wish to congratulate you, Lizzie Mae Allen Barrett, for your 100 years. We’re proud of you! q

Enjoy some pictures from Homecoming 2017

In Memoriam 2017

Clayton Arnette ’49Myrna Hudson Glover ’53Elizabeth Wood Keene ’53Dorthy Lambert Esposito ’62Toleman “Tolebug” Burns ’65Mildred Bishop Byrd ’45Harold Fields, former studentJennings Gilbert ’50

Several anniversary classes were represented:

(Above left) Vernon Roberts, Class of ’52

(Above right) Rebekah Hasty Travis, Class of ’02

(Right) The Class of 1987 -- Tracy Nelson Reed, Cheryl Scott, Jonathan Coyle, Karen Combs Ernst. Homecoming is a wonderful time to visit with former classmates.

The Class of 1967 celebrated their fiftieth anniversary year. Congratulations, Class of ’67!

James Edge and Johnathan Elam celebrated their 25th

anniversary for the Class of 1992.

Chris Kendrick (left) and Tim Phoenix (right) were inducted into our Athletic Hall of Fame. Both are from the Class of 2003.

Bonnie Dean (‘54) and Terry Seals (’73) were out

and about on the lovely October day.

Trisha Woods Frost, Cas-sandra Abner and Katrina Jaspersen Davidson, all Class of 2007, celebrated their tenth anniversary. Trisha now teaches in our lower school.