Knox College - Gale Yearbook (Galesburg, IL)

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THE NAUGHT.-NINE GALE PRESIDENTS OF KNOX HIRAM H. KELLOGG . . JONATHAN BLANCI-IARD, D. D. . HARVEY CURTIS . . . DR. WILLIAM S. CURTIS . DR. JOHN P. GULLIVER . HON. NEWTON BATEMAN . JOHN H. FINLEY . . THOMAS MCCLELIIAND ERECTION OF 1838-1845 1845-1858 . . A 1858-1863 1863-1868 1868-1871 1874-1892 1892-1899 1900- COLLEGE BUILDINGS KNOX SEMINARY .Q . . BEECHER CHAPEL OLD MAIN .... EAST WING OF WI-IITING HALL KNOX OBSERVATORY . . ALUMNI HALL . .. . . WEST WING OF WI-IITING HALL GYMNASIUM .... TWENTY-THREE . 1854 2 1856 . 1857 . 1886 . 1889 . 1890 . 1892 . 1907

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E NAUGHT-NINE GA ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONS GENERAL ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT RAY M ARNOLD, 02 VICE PRESIDENT MRS MARTHA FARNHAM WEBSTER, 69 SECREFARY AND TREASURER ARVID P ZETTERBERG, 05 NEW YORK CLUB PRESIDENT T GOLD FROST PI-I D 86 VICE PRESIDENT HON STEPHEN V WHITE 54 SECRETARY AND TREASURER S S MCCLURE 82 Los ANGELES cwa PRESIDENT E E ELLENWOOD SECRETARY MRS BLANCHE DAY HURD 66 OMAHA CLUB PRESIDENT JOHN C BARNARD, 85 VICE PRESIDENT FRANK H GAINES 84 SECRETARY CARRIE M BOUTELLE 85 TREASURER VICTOR E BENDER 85 CHICAGO CLUB PRESIDENT FRANK I MOULTON '74 SECRETARY GEORGE CANDEE GALE, '93 7 3 , ! - I . , . ., - ! -1- J I , 1. I . . , VICE PRESIDENT-REV. N. T. EDWARDS, '78 9 - , , I J - I ' Q 9 .. , I J - , J -D . 3 , . , ' TWENTY-TWO

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HE NAUGHT-NINE GAL THE FACULTY AN APPRECIATION HE story of the founders of Knox College has been often told The tremendous sacrxfices, the mtense struggle agaxnst opposmg crrcumstances the ceaseless toll of those who planted the seed of the present college and who watched 1ts first tender shoots mark the devotlon of the early p1oneers to tl1e1r c..use The college smce 1ts mceptlon steadrly made progress The hves of those who followed the founders have gxven ample evrdence that thelr sp1r1t has remamed a vltal force In the past few years much has been added, both to the ma terral equrpment and the qual1ty of work untll now Knox IS recognlzed by the General Educatlon Board as a standard of the middle West It was drllicult for us when we entered college to appreclate the benefits whlch were ours The results of seventy years were that we began to apprecxate our advantages In the present faculty we have long slnce recogmzed an ex pressxon of the same all pervadxng splrlt of the founders We understand that some of them remam when they could obta1n better emolument elsewhere We now appreciate that we have had guxdmg us men of broad experxence and splendld equrp ment, men who are devot1ngthe1rl1ves for the sake of our college We have felt the personal mterest of the members of the faculty m each of us and thexr txmely assrstance or advrce has often been of utmost moment to us The Presxdent who at first appeared to us merely typrcal of authorrty, has come to be more and more respected as we learn the true mterest he has rn our welfare As we pass through college these thmgs come over us grad ually and wxth them a deep sense of responslbxhty which falls upon each of us We must prove ourselves deservmg of the efforts of our xnstructors I 3 9 . , , . ready for us and it was only as we lived in the new atmosphere , . . , ' - TWENTY-FOUR