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

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PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE STANLEY HUBERT MARTIN A.B., Quincy College; S.T.B., M.A., Ph.D., Boston University; D.D., Adrian College The past seventy years have been significant and important years for Wesleyan Col- ege. During that time it has become one of the leading institutions of Christian higher education in America. Its contribution to the community at large has been outstanding, and its graduates are to be found in every professional field. We are proud of the serv- ice rendered to church and society by our graduates, and we feel that those who join the ranks of alumni will take their places with the best who have gone before. For those of us who remain on campus, let our high resolve be to be and serve the best.

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FOREWORD Since the subject matter of past editions of the MURMURMONTIS has rather closely followed the confines of the campus, the staff of the 1961 earbook has produced a publication which pays a long over-due tribute to the community and surrounding area. Too often college and commun- ity have been considered as two separate and unrelated entities. The purpose, therefore, of the 1961 MURMURMONTIS is to show that West Virginia Wesleyan College and Buckhannon are one unit, serving as necessary complements, each to the continued success of the other. The sign posts on highways entering the town which read, Buckhannon— Home of West Virginia Wesleyan College, say more than this combination of words appears to say at first glance. The signs imply a distinct college- town quality about Buckhannon. On the other hand, the fact that the home of the college is the town indicates that there is a happy union between local manners of life and college practices which have developed since the inception of the West Virginia Conference Seminary in 1890. Thus, the MURMURMONTIS staff, realizing the importance of the town and college to each other, presents its 1961 edition in an effort to pre- serve the most important people and events of the school in their setting amidst the murmuring mountains.