West Virginia Wesleyan College - Murmurmontis Yearbook (Buckhannon, WV)

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WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE, A METHODIST- RELATED INSTITUTION OF HIGHER LEARNING, IS LO- CATED AT BUCKHANNON, WHERE, THROUGH THE YEARS, COLLEGE AND TOWN HAVE BECOME INSEPARABLY INTEGRATED. nej r in 17rq , I SOn se led b y Indians, 17 8 nr m ed SV» «? °f Harris™. w. Va.Vesleyan Coll r ic College Town, U. S. A.— Buckhannon, West Virginia, the home of West Virginia Wesleyan College, is a typical college town with the usual obvious relationships between institution and city. Yet, are these relationships so obvious? The college student in the local soda fountain, the bewildered college student looking for the best clothing store, the 10:30 Sunday morning procession to church street are the more readily seen elements in the relationships between young scholars, their institution, and the town which houses both.

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DR. LEWIS H. CHRISMAN For forty years the basic rules of grammar, the works of Emerson and Thoreau, the soliloquy of Hamlet, and any other phrase expressing either literature or grammar have been the inheritances of those students who have attended the classes of Dr. Lewis Herbert Chrisman. In addition tc his teaching duties Dr. Chrisman is a prominent writer and lecturer. Among his published works are John Ruskin, Preacher, and Other Essays; The English of the Pulpit; The Message of the American Pulpit; and Ten Minute Sermons. Since 1 933 Dr. Chrisman has been a member of the staff of the Methodist Publishing House and has jointly edited Selections from Speeches of Abraham Lincoln. During the spring term of 1 960, Dr. Chrisman conducted his last class at Wesleyan. The student body showed their admiration for his talent and accomplishment with an enrollment in the class of 1 43 students. So, the 1 961 MURMURMONTIS is dedicated to Dr. Lewis H. Chrisman, an inspired teacher who has given most of his life to the advancement of learning and culture through literature at West Virginia Wesleyan College. jWdH-.

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n Entirely too often are the close kinship and even depend- ency of educational, cultural, economic, and religious ties of a college to its home town completely forgotten and over- looked in their everyday associations. The avowed purpose of a college such as Wesleyan is the education of those who seek learning within its walls. However, education extends beyond the walls and into the community. Student teachers gaining their first real experience as schoolmarms have as their laboratories the classrooms of the public schools in Buck- hannon. Educational leaders use the college as headquarters for many local and regional meetings. The college library pro- vides a practically unlimited source book for the entire com- munity, town as well as campus. A college-operated Kinder- garten relieves an over-crowded one operated by the public school system. In addition to these special educational recipro- cals, the college itself stands as a symbol of the furtherance of education in the surrounding area. Aside from the formalistic educational concept, West Vir- ginia Wesleyan is a center of culture for local citizens and college students alike. High-calibre programs such as Com- munity Concert Series and special features in the cultural en- richment program are made possible through the joint efforts of both college and townspeople. The American Association of University Women is but one example of a local civic or- ganization that centers its activities about the college. Many students while at Wesleyan become truly an integral part of the community. Likewise, during four years of build- ing floats in the old garage on the corner, borrowing trucks for hayrides, visiting faculty homes, and hauling strips for any worthy carpentering enterprise from the lumber mill be- hind McCuskey Hall, Buckhannon becomes a treasured part and often the lifelong home of its naturalized citizens— the students of West Virginia Wesleyan College.