Greenville College - Vista Yearbook (Greenville, IL)

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Loko le | oy ole taal When Greenville College opened on September 20, 1892, the president and faculty members were pleasantly sur- prised at the number of students who enrolled. In those early days there was a preparatory department as well as a college. Since few could afford to take a full course from beginning to end, it was considered quite an honor for anyone to attend as many as eight or ten years. It was not until 1898 that Greenville awarded her first Bachelor of Arts degree. It went to W. W. Loomis, sole graduate of that year. What a proud moment it was when President Hogue said, that memorable morning, “Critics of larger institutions whose graduating classes number scores may look with disdain upon our class of ’98 with its single member. But remem- ber, he’s a lion: The days of a preparatory depart- ment past, graduating classes grew from year to year. But increase in num- bers did not indicate any decline in standards of scholarship. Rather the educational standards rose higher through the years. From a basic “C”, qualified “B” rating with the University of Illinois, the college climbed to a DASiCnsb qualified “A’’, and finally in this anniversary year to unqualified “A”’ rating, Because the controlling purpose of the main part of Greenville’s students has been to. better prepare themselves as servants of Christ, it is no wonder that high scholarship has been an ideal and is a tradition today. ‘To students entering this school, that Scripture ref- erence is most appropriate, “Study to show thyself approved unto God.” Bearing this in mind one cannot but give one’s best.

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To Living Traditions Lighted windows glowing softly, in- vitingly, through falling snow; rich, green ivy leaves; leaves shaking in the sunny May wind—for nine — hurried months, Carrie T. Burritt Hall has been home to the “dorm girls’. Were you homesick here? Believe ity or - not, alumnae might tell you they've been homesick for school. J. Louise Maynard, Ph.B. Instructor in German Winnie Hathaway, A.B. Enoch A. Holtwick, A.M. Wilson C. LaDue, Ph.D. Instructor in Commerce and Professor of History and Professor of Modern Languages 3usiness Administration Government

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HIGH SCMOLARS ATE Today Greenville College has over 200. stu- dents on her roll. ‘The graduating class num- bers 45 of these, and theirs is the unique herit- age of half a century. As Alma Mater stands surveying the harvest of fifty years and dreaming dreams of the future, these, her youngest sons and daughters cannot but know and accept the challenge of their destiny. Doctors, mission- aries, teachers, housewives, preachers, crafts- men—long the line of alumnae stretches and widens even now to receive these who have like- wise been training themselves for service to the King. Here, too, have the Juniors, Sophomores and Freshmen worked and played and lived and sung together. They have been learning, like the preacher of old, that wisdom is the principle thing and that the fear of the Lord is the be- ginning of wisdom. Using the figure that Bish- op Marston so forcefully presented in the open- ing message of the Golden Jubilee Celebration, may we humbly say, “Alma Mater, we are living the dream.” Doxology