Dunwoody Baptist Church 1944

 Here we have a mint condition program from Dunwoody Baptist Church.  The service is for honoring Youth in the Armed Forces.

On the front cover, written in pencil, is the name Harvey Spruill.  A Spruill (not Harvey)  owned the land where the current Dunwoody Baptist Church is located. But in 1944, the DBC was around he corner, on Chamblee Dunwoody Road.  HERE is some history of Dunwoody Baptist Church.  The DBC website doesn't mention much about the church history prior to the 1960's.  

Not much information on Harvey Spruill anywhere, but I am sure someone can fill us in. Harvey Spruill is listed on the back cover as serving in the Army, stationed in California.  Perhaps Harvey was at this service, or someone grabbed a copy for him and put his name on it. The penmanship of Harvey's name on the front cover leads me to believe someone wrote his name on it.

In the program is the name Dr Arva C Floyd.  Arva does have some interesting history. See HERE for an interview  with Arva's son, also named Arva.  Look on the back of the program and you'll see Pvt Arva Floyd stationed at Ft Bragg, NC.  This matches with the last link above:

Q: You graduated in '41, before Pearl Harbor, but what happened to you? What were your plans? FLOYD: My plan was to go to college, which I did. I went to a junior college which was attached to a part of the institution of Emory University. I was 16-plus when I graduated. Then I was expecting to be called up, it was what every young man of his salt expected to have happen in those days. I was allowed to get through my two years of junior college, and was drafted immediately thereafter, in April of '44. Q: What were you looking at doing, while you were in junior college? What were your courses? FLOYD: In those days, as you know, one did a very general liberal arts education with a good deal of math and science involved. I took three or four chemistry courses, a couple of physics courses, two or three math courses, history, and German. Q: When you were drafted in '44, what did you do? FLOYD: I went to artillery basic training at Fort Bragg. From there, I went to infantry OCS (Officer Candidate School) at Fort Benning. Upon commissioning, I was sent to a couple of training assignments. Then, we moved from those into a division which was being reconstituted to go into the Pacific Theatethe 93rd Division. Then the bomb was dropped and the war ended, and I was sent to the army of occupation in Austria. 

Other surnames recognizable to the Dunwoody area in the program include Spruill, Pitts, Martin, Donaldson.