McKendree University - McKendrean Yearbook (Lebanon, IL)

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Men Working! In this, the 125th anniversary year of the founding of the college, we have found it only fitting to center our ef- forts around these 125 event-packed years. Thus, the theme of the 1953 McKendrean is dedicated to the history of our Alma Mater. . . . A College Is Standing. One September day in 1827 when the leaves were turning to a mass of flame and gold, twenty-seven circuit riders with their hymn books, reports, and Disciplines stowed in their saddle bags rode into Mount Carmel for the annual meeting of the conference. Among them was Peter Cartwright, man of many abilities, who carried a petition from the citizens of Greene County asking that a seminary be established at Lebanon, 111. The peti- tion was referred to a committee, and the citizens of Lebanon began to plan and work. Such was the unpreten- tious conception of McKendree College, called then simply the Lebanon Sem- inary.

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Chapel Organ and Organist Chorus

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Pictured above are McKendree Journalists and their in- structor, Mrs. Elizabeth White Parks. They are shown at the Illinois College Press Association meeting in Bloomington where the 1951 McKendrean cover was awarded first place. The 1952-53 McKendrean Staff Editor John Preston Bailey Managing Editor Joan Elaine Warner Faculty Editor Constance Parrish Art Editor Martin Roper Sports Editor H. Donald Winkler Music Editor Leonard Poole Circulation Manager John Grob Class Editors: Seniors Elizabeth Eadie Juniors Darrell Kohlmiller Sophomores Charles Kamm Freshmen Carol Fritz and James Adair Activities Editors Mary Mowe and Edward Archer Staff Members James Allison, Donald Nelson, Phyllis Gutekunst, Robert Hollis Adviser Mrs. W. N. Grandy