Eastern Nazarene College - Nautilus Yearbook (Quincy, MA)

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EASTERN NAZARENE COLLEGE THE LAST FIFTY YEARS James R. Cameron n 1918 the Nazarene school in the East was re- chartered as Eastern Nazarene College and the fol- lowing year was moved to Wollastoii, Massachusetts. The administrations of Presidents Fred Shields and Floyd W. Nease span the decade of the l920's. Alumni of Pasadena College, with graduate training in the Wfest, these men molded a college from what had been an academy and Bible school. Before accepting the presidency of this eastern col- lege, Shields who was at the time acting president of Northwest Nazarene College. insisted on recruiting a faculty of college caliber and relocating the cam- pus. His first appointments were Miss Bertha Munro and Floyd Wf Nease. They were later joined by R. Way'ne Gardner, Hugh C. Benner, and Ernest E. Angell. Shields set forth three reasons for moving the school: Qlj to secure a more collegiate environ- ment, f2j to provide better facilities for graduate study for faculty members. and Q35 to secure work opportunities for students. During the first two years that the college was in Wollastoii the students operated the dining room. In November, 1920 they took over the publication of the school paper and called it the Advance. Campus cleanup was a volunteer project of the students. The first annual, the Nautilus, was published in 1922. Most of the students were active in the evangelistic association and many more were passively involved in the missionary society. For several years enroll- ment in the academy exceeded that of the college but the focus of the institution was clearly on the upper division. The first college class was graduated in 1923: Madeline Nostrand Nease, Alice Spangen- berg, Beatrice Maclienney. and Howard Herrschaft. Having achieved his initial objectives for the college, President Shields left with the first graduates. Floyd W. Nease brought to the office of president a charisma which attracted both students and fac- ulty. Though lacking the authority to grant degrees, the college grew both numerically and qualitatively. After Business Manager C. Henson secured pledges to underwrite the campus debt of fifty thou- sand dollars. Nease launched a campaign for new buildings. The student-get-student program resulted in enrollment increases of twenty-hve per cent a year and these were in the college rather than the academy. 14 Rev. Fred J. Shields president 1919-1923 Approach to the new campus in Quincy, Massachusetts View of Mansion Parlors