It seems hard to believe that 50 years have gone by since the decade of the ‘70s when we rode those green Sunday School busses up and down the hills of Lynchburg—from Treasure Island to the Stewart Arms Hotel to Timberlake Middle School and to Thomas Road Baptist Church. Throw in Ruffner Elementary for a few years and even the Kennedy House and Ramada Inn which both served short times as men’s housing. In January of 1977, many of us stood and prayed in the snow on Candler’s Mountain next to an old barn and heard Jerry Falwell, Sr., repeat his vision of some day seeing a great university occupying what he called Liberty Mountain. So much life has happened for all of us during the past five decades and, as Dr. Falwell had prayed, Liberty University has become the leading Christian university in the world. We were the pioneers that laid the foundation. We were witnesses to the beginning.

It was time for us to come back to where it all started and rekindle friendships and witness what God had done at Liberty and in each of our lives. We celebrated and rejoiced in the goodness of God.

This reunion was open to anyone who was a part of those early years from 1971–1979—students, faculty, staff, and spouses.

The Decade of the ’70s Reunion was hosted by the Liberty Reunion Association, an unincorporated nonprofit association created exclusively for this event. While the association worked with the support of and in cooperation with the Liberty University Alumni Association, the Liberty Reunion Association was not an official organization of LU.