Wittenberg University - Witt Yearbook (Springfield, OH)

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Administration Directors Deans Finance Public Relations Admissions Registration Business The spirit of tradition of the old, with the spirit of progress of the new, houses the administration of Wittenberg. This building has become the center of directive force on everything since it became the principal building of Wittenberg’s life in 1884.

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 You arc now a senior and have watched Wittenberg grow for four years. We arc asking you for a statement of your observation of the progress and spirit of Wittenberg. These arc the chief sentences of a little note the editors of The Wittenberger sent me. When editors so command a senior, there is only one answer possible and that an affirmative one. Progress in these four years was almost inevitable. A great and solid foundation was here, built by Dr. Rees Edgar Tulloss through the twenty-nine years of his administration and by his predecessors- It was chiefly a matter of carrying forward on the impetus already established. , Most noticeable, of course, is the steady growth of the something we call the spirit of Wittenberg. It is hard to define. Surely it includes our growing sense of unity, of belonging together, of family. Our campus friendliness, our increasing concern for main- taining our spiritual heritage and values, our good pride in our good school, arc also a part of it. I feel blessed in each day that I spend at Wittenberg. Most of our students have the same sense of privilege. This is the flowering of the spirit. Like every other senior I am proud of the Wittenberg faculty. Year by year it has grown stronger until today we have a great faculty. These are men and women deeply and broadly trained, loving teaching and students, and with deep affection for all that it Wittenberg. This I have noticed in my four years and it has filled me with gratitude. Material growth there has been, of course. New buildings—the addition to Recitation Hall, the biology greenhouse. Learner Hall, and the new Woodlawn — with plans for more in the immediate future, especially the exciting Weaver Chapel and the new Library. These are the years when we became entirely free from indebted- ness, when the Christian Higher Education Year Appeal brought nearly half a million dollars into our treasury, when the Spring- field campaign was launched and ended with total pledges of $544,000. These were years of heavy financial problems resulting from the sudden drop in enrollments, but they were good years, none the less, because Church and community and alumni came to our rescue handsomely. Many other matters should lx- included—the wholesomcness of our athletic program and the improvement in all intercollegiate athletics; the new surge of alumni loyalty; the improvement in student government; the growing maturity in fraternity and sorority life; our wider service to our local community; our intense eagerness to live our Christian faith in all our daily campus life. Space is here only to mention them. God has been good in allowing me these four years at Witten- berg and permitting me to lx- a senior. Even more wonderful is the fact that I need not graduate. One cannot ask more than to be a perpetual senior in a college so beautiful as Wittenberg- John Masefield wrote a paragraph several years ago that sums up my feelings. I have used it often. It goes like this: “In these days of broken frontiers and collapsing values, when the dams are down and the floods making misery, when every future looks somewhat grim and every ancient foothold has be- come something of a quagmire, whenever a college stands, it stands and shines; wherever it exists, the free minds of men, urged on to full and fair enquiry, may still bring wisdom into human affairs. There arc few earthly things more beautiful than a college. Clarence C. Stouchton President, Wittenberg College Springfield, Ohio

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W. EMERSON RECK, Vice-President