BAXTER SEMINARY
The President's Home
-BAXTER TENNESSEE-
Dr. Harry L. Upperman
Mrs. Elma E. Upperman
President's Home
I Believe Card
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Ward Guest House and the President's Home
 Presidents's Home The new President's Home and Guest House, was completed in 1930. After Dr. and Mrs. Upperman moved in to this, their new home, the space freed up in the Activity Hall was used for additional class rooms, a larger library, and the Commercial Department. The Activity Hall became the girls dormitory and was renamed to IVY Hall. Throughout his years at Baxter Seminary, Dr. Upperman had many notable speakers from many different walks of life: CEO's from Industry; a nationally known Poet; Presidents of other schools and Universities; leaders and pastors from different churches; Officers in the U.S. military; local, county, state, and national politicians; just to name a few. The President's Home hosted many of these and some of them for multiple times. The President's Home was open to students at any time. Students met, sang, attended club meetings, listened to classical music, viewed paintings of significance, had conversations about ideas instead of things, prepared for forensics competitions, and much more. "Think of a 13-year-old boy from rural Putnam County who had never listened to a bar of classical music, who thought literature was authored by Zane Grey and whose concept of art was limited to mountains, sunsets and streams. "Imagine the boy in the home of Mrs. Upperman, surrounded by shelves overflowing with books, classical recordings, paintings of significance and conversations about ideas instead of things. It was heavy stuff for an adolescent who found himself being talked to, instead of down to. Mrs. Upperman encouraged us to foster great expectations, to believe in ourselves, to overcome, disappointment and to meet challenges. She was never surprised when we surprised ourselves by conquering our fears and subduing our inadequacies. She measured our success by our development of our own potential, not by the comparison with others. Though not on a grand scale - after all, we were not students at Harvard or Yale - succeed we did. We became preachers and teachers, doctors and lawyers, farmers and politicians, engineers and businessmen, designers and planners, employers and employees." - J. B. Leftwich, writer of the "Nashville Eye" column in The Tennessean, before his retirement, was The Tennessean’s state correspondent in Lebanon, Tennessee (1987). - Ajlambert.com Photo, Presidents Home: Baxter Seminary Highlander - Baxter Seminary Yearbooks 1934-1959 by Mike and Audrey Lambert www.ajlambert.com
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