Campus Features and Ornaments

Tier I: Harding Road Level
Tier II: Upper Campus, Front
Tier III: Courtyard at rear of Massey Commons
Tier IV: Front Campus Green
Tier V: John E. Sloan Quadrangle
Centennial Gate, Howard Allen, 1908-1977
Heritage of MBA Football, 1899-1998
Tommy Owen, 1924-1993

Tier IV: Front Campus Green

Gambill Quadrangle

Isaac Ball Memorial Hall
Horizontal panels over entrance: 1867 MBA 1927
Right of door: Isaac Ball Memorial Hall
This building is dedicated to Prof. and Mrs. Isaac Ball, who dedicated the best part of their lives to the preservation and development of Montgomery Bell Academy Tennessee's oldest preparatory schools for boys, the roots of its academic heritage runback to the founding of Nashville. Through its own dynamic integrity and that of menit has produced, the institution itself is oneof the great traditions of Tennessee and the South. For 32 years, Isaac Ball, born into and apart of the culture of Charleston, S.C., was headmaster of the school. Throughout these years Ethel Weissiger Ball was at hisside as beloved wife, a source of inspiration, school mother to generations of boys and as outstanding teacher. Seldom has such an inexhaustible story of energy. Bright spirit and contagious faith found haven in one charming lady. Husband and wife represented the best in the English-American concept of the boys' preparatory school. Professor Ball has been called the last great headmaster of this tradition. Under the leadership of this quiet man from Charleston the academy withstood the changing trends of the years and the demands of wars when many of her sons were called away, some never to return. It stood firm through the lean times of economic exhaustion following these conflicts and was not turned aside by the rushing currents of modern public education concepts which engulfed many of the private schools. Let all who enter this structure, symbol of strength and progress, remember that it is part of an institution preserved at times only by the personal sacrifice and faith of Isaac and Ethel Ball.

Flat plaque on ground between benches:
In honor of SIS and DORTCH OLDHAM for outstanding contributions to education including the establishment of the OLDHAM Scholars at two major Universitites, and in recognition of Dortch Oldham's quarter century of service on the MBA Board of Trustees. Provided with gratitude by their five sons, all of whom attended MBA, Dortch, Greg, Peter, Danny and Mark. December 25, 2000.

Granite Marker:
Montgomery Bell Industrialist-Philanthropist Born in Chester County, Pennsylvania January 3, 1769 Died in Dickson County, Tennessee April 1, 1853

Through the exercise of the homely virtues of industry, honesty and thrift, He rose to a place as Tennessee's Foremost Ironmaster

At his death he left to the University of Nashville the Bequest in recognition of which Montgomery Bell Academy bears his name.

Class of 2001 Fountain:
"Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge; others just gargle."
Class of 2001

Ball Hall side of Carter Hall:
Francis E. Carter, Headmaster, 1957-1978
Gentleman - Scholar - Athlete

Porch of Carter Hall:
Mortar - No. 3 1970 lbs JM, Fort Pitt, PA. 1862.
Mortar - No. 9 1968 lbs CPK, Fort Pitt, PA. 1862

Corner of Carter Hall and Wilson Library:
Do you suppose were I your friend, That I would betray you?

Sam Davis advanced to his death behind this question for his accusers. Scarcely 18 months before, in April 1861, he departed the school that would become Montgomery Bell Academy having already determined the answer. May all who pass through and by this place enjoy the same privilege of certainty in honor.

SAM DAVIS
October 6, 1842 November 27, 1863
Dedicated to the spirit and ideals of Montgomery Bell Academy 1999

Henry Sudekum, 1869-1870
Tony Sudekum, Trustee, 1943-1946
Kermit Christian Stengel, Jr., Class of 1947
Marc Kermit Stengel, Class of 1974
Christian Sudekum Stengel, 1973-1974

Sculptor: Alan LeQuire, Class of 1974
Headmaster: Bradford Gioia

Patrick Wilson Library, lower level entrance:
The Patrick Wilson Library was constructed in 1968 and renovated in 1997 through the generosity of his family and in memory of Patrick Wilson.

Some flowers bloom today
Some flowers never grow
And roses sprout in May
While some flowers bloom today.

And little boys some day
Will gaze at the fields and know
Some flowers bloom today
Some flowers never grow.
D.K.W., Jr.
Douglas D. Paschall

Shakespeare Garden:
Dr. Douglas D. Paschall, MBA Headmaster
from 1988-1994, passionately loved
Elizabethan poetry and the beauty of English
gardens. FIlled with flowers mentioned in
the works of William Shakespeare, this
perennial garden is a gift from two MBA
classes in his memory.

Gift from MBA Class of 1994
Gift from MBA Class of 1999
in memory of Alexander Martin

Patrick Wilson Library, upper circular courtyard:
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
~Henry B. Adams