Albion College - Albionian Yearbook (Albion, MI)

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HELEN GILDERSLEEVE, A.B. Assistant Registrar A.B., Oherlin College. 1924; Secretary of the Treasurer. Dakota Wesleyan University; sity graduates, for they selected another Wesleyan man to lill the office of Principal Stockwell. Clark Titus Hinman came to Wesleyan Seminary in 1846 at the age of twenty- nine, served for two years, and left to accept a position at Kvanston, Illinois. There lie became the founder and first president of Northwestern University. Mr. Hinman ' s executive ability showed itself in the fact that he raised Wesleyan to a foremost rank in his short term of office. The force of his great character was made known through per- sonal student contacts anil his pulpit power. It was through his influence that the name of the institution be- came Albion Female Collegiate Institute and Wesleyan Seminary, with the radical step of co-education. Wesleyan ' s next principal was a pioneer in the field of common school education. .Mr. Ira Mayhew, who had risen from the rank of country school teacher to state superin- tendent of public instruction. The Albion appointment was for the short term of fifteen months, after which he was again chosen to the state position. Mr. Mayhew was the first and only layman to occupy the Seminary office. When any boy of fifteen enters college to complete four years work in three to graduate at the age of eighteen, he would seem fated to he a college professor. Thomas Henry Sinex was no exception to the rule, for he did become a teacher after leaving Asbury University of Greencastle, i, ' erf e !e. s ' sltlon smce Nuvcm Indiana, known today as De- Pauw; but in addition, he studied law, entered the min- istry, became an academy principal, and finally a college president. He succeeded Ira Mayhew to the Albion Semin- ary principalship in 1854, and in 1861 became the first pres- ident of Albion College. During the administration of Pres- ident Sinex, the Civil War, the first of the three major wars of Albion ' s hundred years, took young men from Albion Col- lege to help fill the ranks of the Blue. ' 7 During his presi- dency, Dr. Sinex pushed the sale of scholarships for the sup- port of the college. Albion ' s second president, George Beniers Joeelyn, walked in nearly the same paths as did Dr. Sinex. In fact, they were born on the same day — January 3. 1S24 — and en- tered the same academy in New Albany, Indiana. Both en- tered Asbury University in 1839, but Joeelyn was forced to return to his father ' s printing office after one year at the university for a 1935 reason — lack of funds. He began a study of law, as did Dr. Sinex. but after a short time entered the ministry. Following a varied career as professor, editor, business man, and pastor, he was called to the presidency of Albion to succeed Ins boyhood friend, Dr. Sinex. For five years he gave every effort to further the interests of the col- lege, so fully that his health suffered and he was forced to resign to accept a ministry in Grand Rapids. The strength of his executive ability was so missed that after the college F. MORRIS COCHRAN, B.S. Business Manager of Albion College Denison University. B.S., 1919 College. 1919-1 Manager, Broat 1926-29; Lamhd Present position Bus 23

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WILLIAM WHITCOMB WHITEHOLSE, A.M., Th.D., Ph.D. Dean, Registrar of the College and Professor of Sociology l , ' ]|:i LrlKinn i College, :y, 1915; 117; Mar- Sigma Rho; A.B., 1916; Lane Theological Semii B.D., Garrett Biblical Institute, quette University, School of Commerce, 1917- 1S; A.M., Lawrence College, 1919; Tll.D., Drew Theological Seminary, 1922; Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1927; Delta Sigma Phi; Professor, Albion College, 1922-1929; present position since 1929. Opening the door in November, 1843, we should find Charles Franklin Stockwell busy at his task of being principal, professor, preacher, and promoter of the eight year old AVesleyan Seminary. This young man of twenty-six years must have left the East and Wesleyan Univer- sity of Connecticut with the spirit of the pioneer or missionery. The affairs of the Sem- inary were made to run so smoothly that Mr. Stockwell had time for the mental recreation of studying law and being admitted to the bar during his two year administration in Albion. A higher honor came to him in his capacity of Albion ' s most eligible bachelor — he won for a wife, Miss Louise Peabody, the daughter of Al- bion ' s first white settler. Unfortunately Mr. Stockwell ' s life of prospective usefulness was cut short, for at the age of thirty- three years lie was stricken with fever and died. The Seminary Trustees were evidently pleased by the leadership of AVesleyan Univer- P Invert educational institution having two or more teachers has its principal ; every col- lege has its president. Many tales, true or false, have had the office of the principal or president as their source. To be summoned to the principal ' s office means reward or ruin; to be invited to the president ' s office gives promise of almost anything. What boy in his school days has not been called to his principal ' s office for merited praise — or equally merited punish- ment? What college man has not visited his president to experience that description-evad- ing thrill which conies to the student visitor who crosses the threshold of the office? Let us open the office doors of Albion ' s principals and presidents of a century to see those men upon whose shoulders have rested the responsibilities of the institution. We must begin by entering the Central Building, built in 1843, and looking for the office of the first principal of the Wesleyan Seminary. We can end our visit of one hun- dred years by entering Robinson Hall, of 1923, and looking for the office of the ninth president of Albion College. MARIAN GRAY, A.B., M.A. Dean of Women and Assistant Professor of English A.B., Ohio Stat Cornell Universit Columbia Univers Women, Pen 1925-27; Unn 1934; present pos University, 1923; M.A., y, Ithaca, New York. 1925; iity, summer, 192S; Dean of College, Oskaloosa, Iowa, Chicago, nee 1927. • 22 •

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WILLIAM B. BUCK, A.B., A.M. . Uiiiiini Secretary A.B.. Albion College, 1895; A.M., Albion College, 1S96: A.M., Harvard University, 189S; Secretary, Cuban Or- phan Society, 1900-02; Su- perintendent of Seybert In- stitution 01 Philadelphia, 1900-1915; Director of Sea View Farms, New York, 1915-1S; Director of Red Cross Relief, 1918-21; Comm. Serbian Child Welfare Assn., 1920-21; Director Spcycr Memorial Hospital, 1922-20; Alpha Tau Omega; present posi tion since 1920. had experienced a year of unsuccessful leadership under William Silber and J. L. G. McKeown, Dr. Jocelyn was per- suaded to reconsider the presidency. He returned in 1871 and gave his strength and devotion to the college to such an extent that he was the victim of a sudden attack while lec- turing to a class. Dr. Jocelyn made an enduring mark on the lives of the students and on the record of the college. The fifth man to occupy the presidency of Albion College was the only graduate of the old Wesleyau Seminary ever to occupy an exesutive position in the new college. Lewis Ran- som Fiske had attended the Seminary while Principal Hin- maii was in charge and had finished his education at the University of Michigan in 1850. He became professor of natural sciences at the Albion Female Collegiate Institute and Wesleyau Seminary, to serve for three years. After teaching at Michigan State Normal School and Michigan Agricultural College, Dr. Fiske entered the Methodist min- istry, successively serving charges at Jackson, Ann Arbor, and Detroit. With Rev. Orrin Whitmore, Dr. Fiske became editor of the newly established Michigan Christian Advocate ; and from 1875 to 1877 he held the editorship in connection with pastorates at Central and Tabernacle Churches in De- troit. Elected president of Albion College in 1877, Dr. Fiske directed a twenty-one year administration, one of the longest and regarded as one of the strongest in the history of the college. When Dr. Fiske resigned in 1898, the trustees selected Dr. John P. Ashley, who had be leyan Seminary of Lima, New presidency of Albion for three years, he resigned to go to the West Coast. Dr. Ashley had an excellent academic train- ing, with graduation from Ohio Wesleyau and Boston Uni- versities and graduate work in Europe and England at the universities of Jena, Leipzig, Berlin, and Oxford. The second war of Albion ' s Century, the Spanish-American, took Albion men to become soldiers diirinu this adminis- tration. At the turn of the twentieth century. Dr. Samuel Dickie became president of Albion College. He had grad- uated from Albion in 1869, and had gone out into the public school field, but in 1877 he returned to his alma mater to occupy the chair of Mathematics and Astronomy. During 1882 he raised $10,00(1 to construct the Observatory on the campus. He became known throughout the United States as chairman of the National Prohibition Committee, and in the state elections of 1886, he received the largest vote ever cast for a Prohibition governor. After the resig- nation of Dr. Ashley in February, 1901, Dr. Dickie was appointed acting president of Albion College, and he was elected pre-sident at the regular meeting of the trustees in June. At the beginning of his administration, the college was $100,000 in debt, but by the end of 1902 Dr. Dickie had president of Seneca Wes- irk. After occupying the WILLIAM P, W. SLOCTM ident of Alumni Association Albion College. ' 13; Pre dent of United Savings Ba of Detroit; Elected Pres. Alumni Association in Jul 1933; Delta Tau Delta. 24 •