Wyoming Seminary Prep School - Yearbook (Kingston, PA)

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WYOMING SEMINARY 1844-WYOMING SEMINARY-1907 Colors: BLUE AND WHITE. Zfinarh nf Zflruztrvz. GEORGE S. BENNETT, Esq., President, Wilkes-Ba1'1'e. ABRAM NESBITT, Esq., Vice-President, Kingston. REV. J. W. NICHOLSON, Secretary, Kingston. REV. LEVI L. SPRAGUE, D. D., T1'GaSLII'G1', Kingston. REV. ALBERT E. PIPER, Ph. D., Willies-Ba1're. WILLIAM P. BILLINGS, Esq., Wilkes-Barre. REESE G. BROOKS, Esq., Scranton. HON. WILLIAM CONNELL, Scranton. HON. THOMAS H. DAL-E, Scranton. ABRAM I. DECKER, Esq., Wave1'Iy, N. Y. OYRUS D. JONES, ESQ., Scranton. CHARLES YV. LAYOOCK, Esq., Kingston. REV. LEONARD C. MURDOCK, M. A., D. D., Kingston THEODORE L. NEWELL, Esq., Kingston. GEORGE K. POWELL, Esq., Wilkes-Barre. JACOB I. SHOEMAKER, Esq., Wyoming. JAMES G. SHEPHERD, Esq., Scranton. LEWIS H. TAYLOR, M. D., Wilkes-Barre. ANTHONY L. WILLIAMS, Esq., Wilkes-Barre.

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES 1

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THE ANNUALT Lqiainrg nf mgnming Sveminarg. 14 Uhr Zfieginning Uhr ijrraihrniz Ziiarultg I sinh Svtuhrnin PROI-'. C, O. THURSTON. To our forefathers education was the first-born of relig- ion. The church was scarcely completed before the school house was begun. The VVyon1ing Seminary was no ex- ception, it sprang from a serious religious conviction and has been nourished and guided by the church to this day. it was founded by the Oneida Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1844. W'yomin'g has been blessed in her presidents, and twice blessed in that they have been so few. Much of her won- derful progress has- been due to the fact that her presidents, or principals as they were called' at ity and ideas, and held -office long plans to ripen and bear fruit. Dr. Reuben Nelson, the pioneer, and executive, was principal for twenty-seven years. Dr. Y. C. Smith, the able professor of Greek and Latin, was an efhcient principal during an interim of one year. Dr. David Copeland, the scholar and teacher, was princi- pal for ten years. Dr. L. L. Sprague, the pre-eminent financier, has rounded out one-fourth of a century as the head of the in- stitution, and has been connected with the school for forty years. The school opened in 1844 with two teachers and fifty students. The 1906 catalogue gives' the number of teachers as twenty-Hve, of stud-ents six hundred and sixty-three-a sturdy growth, with about the same ratio between teachers and students as at first. The most of those who taught and studied here fifty years ago have passed from memory, and many have passed from earth, but the good work they did still lives in the school itself, and in the influence of the thousands of noble men and women who have passed out from Qld VVyoming1' and have made their lives tell for good in the different walks of life. first, were men of abil- enough to cause their the brilliant organizer