Knox College - Gale Yearbook (Galesburg, IL)

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DR. JAMES STERENBERG MAGISTER DOCTISSIMUS QUI TRES ET VIGINTI ANNOS | APUD! IOVENES -KNOXTENSESS VAX TF sDOCUIT: | 20

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John Winter Thompson Director of Department of Music; Professor of Theory and Composition. Diploma, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, 1890; Diploma, Royal Conservatory of Music, Leipzig, 1894; Mus. B., Oberlin, 1906; Mus. D., Knox College (Honorary) 1909; Knox Conservatory of Music, 1890.00... Blanche M. Boult Professor of Pianoforte Diploma, Knox Conservatory of Music, 1892; Mus. B. Knox Conservatory of Music 1905; Knox Conservatory 1893......0.0000... Burdie M. Campbell Instructor in Pianoforte Mus. B., Knox Conservatory of Music; Knox Conservatory of Music Bessie L. Hinckley is a Knox College, 1893; Secretary of Knox Conservatory of Music, Alice C. Lowrie Professor of Voice and Public School Music Methods A. B., Knox, 1905; Diploma, Knox Conservatory of Music, 1916; Mus. B., Knox Conservatory, 1925; Knox Conservatory of Music, 1928............... Adeline M. Nelson Instructor in Pianoforte, Organ, and Theory Mus. B., Knox Conservatory of Music, 1927; A. B., Knox College, 1927; Knox Conservatory OH VIUSIGme LS O eos Nellie J. Smith Instructor in Pianoforte and Normal (piano) Methods Diploma, Knox Conservatory of Music, 1898; Mus. B. Knox Conservatory, [Oe noxe Conservatory: Ol aMUSICN GIO; see Jessie Lynde Hopkins Thompson Professor of Singing Diploma, American Conservatory of Music, 1898, Chicago; Mus. B. Knox Conservatory of Music, 1932; Knox Conservatory of Music, 1915-1916 and ES SIs Ur iete Nee James MacConnell Weddell Professor of Pianoforte and Organ F. A. G. O., Diploma, Westminster College of Music, 1903; Mus. B. 1920; Mus. D. Knox College (Honorary) 1936; Knox Conservatory of Music Bernice A. Winchester Professor of Violin and History of Music Mus. B. Oberlin Conservatory of Music, 1923; Knox Conservatory of Music, SEG eee ae Director Thompson at Wor Te Tae eres ene

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When James Sterenberg left a little country school house to enter a prep school, he little realized that it was just the beginning of a long academic career. In fact it was a prerequisite to his enrollment in 1893 at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, whence followed some time at the Princeton Theological Seminary, where he received a fellowship for travel abroad. A year at Harvard Divinity School brought an M. A. and an entry into the ministry in lowa, a career predestined for him by family preferences. A desire for his next degree took the young American to the University of Leipzig where for three years he absorbed a fund of classical knowl- edge in a German atmosphere. Finally finances forced him back to the United States, sans degree and sans definite prospects. Discouraged and uncertain what to do, James looked around for a year or so until he was appointed professor of Greek at Bellevue Presbyterian College in Ne- braska. Here at the same college, incidentally, there was a pretty young Latin teacher who helped the young professor with his extra-curricular activities. It was not long before college wits had the chance to say that at last the chairs of Greek and Latin had developed into a settee! After six years’ teaching in Nebraska the wanderlust bug bit Professor and Mrs. Sterenberg, and they sailed for Europe. A thesis accepted at Munich led to fur- ther study and a Ph. D. for the Bellevue prof. On his return to America Bellevue demanded his services until 1909, when he transferred to Olivet College in Mich- igan. Here he served until his appointment to the Knox faculty in 1914. One of Dr. Sterenberg’s favorite stories is that of how one of his children was born in Nebraska, the next in Michigan, and the third in Galesburg; and after that, he suggests subtly, they stopped moving! In Dr. Sterenberg’s professorship at Knox he has most deeply felt the influ- ence of three personalities: Dr. Thomas McClelland, Dr. Simonds, and Miss Stayt. We who have sat under Professor Sterenberg can say that his philosophy and per- sonality have definitely colored our college years and enriched our faculty-student relationship. Perhaps what makes Dr. Sterenberg so definitely a part of the Siwash picture is his loyalty and enthusiasm for the Siwash set-up. Three children who claim Knox as their alma mater number him among Knox “Dads” as well as among Knox pro- fessors. His convictions that it is a credit to be a part of Galesburg campus life, that Knox men and women are in a higher notch than their contemporaries make him a true blue Siwasher! Hobbies for Dr. Sterenberg (besides his family and the classics, of course) are his fascinations for music, for driving nails, and, quite recently, for driving cars: his hobbies, you see, are as interesting as his life's experiences. We, who are his students and his friends cannot make more than this feeble attempt to do as Virgil did in his “Arma virumque cano.. .” 1914-1937