Albright College - Speculum Yearbook (Reading, PA)

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Historical Sketch The history of Albright College and the surrounding region is fraught with a rich interest. The landmarks of this history are still visible. Go out to the old graveyard at Tulpehocken and read on the brown tombstones the romance of faith- ful lives, lived in the midst of perils known only to the pioneer. Stand by the grave of Jacob Albright, or Colonel John Conrad VVeiser, each but a few miles distant, and you cannot but get a glimpse of what immortal fame triumph over persecution and adherence to principle ever brings the fighter of such battles. It is of these two men that we wish especially to write. The one ranked second only to William Penn in the making of Pennsylvania, the other first in the rank of founders of our own Evangelical Church. John Conrad Weiser springs from the old German ancestry that fled from per- secution in the old world. He settled at Tulpehocken in 1729, with the intention of becoming a farmer. But his intimate knowledge of the Indian language and ways made him indispensable to the government. His services were demanded by Indian and white government alike, because they were Hvery honest, as the old record says. Weiser was officially recognized as the interpreter of Pennsylvania in 1732. Treaties between all tribes and nations were carried on by him. One record says: lt is not too much to say that the pacihc spirit of Penn was perpetuated by Weiser, and that the fair name of our commonwealth, touching our treatment of the Indians, is as much owing to the fine policy of the latter, as to the amiable mind of the formerf' To Jacob Albright is due the credit of keeping aglow the religious spirit that animated Weiser and his generation in their pursuit of liberty. Hardship, toil, and the lack of religious instruction in a generation or so caused a partial ignorance of the true way of God. Under the preaching of one of those mighty pioneers of lllethodism, Albright, in 1790, then a man of thirty, became powerfully convicted of need of the true light. When he found it, like the converts of old, set out to carry it to others. Branded as a heretic by the old churches, mobbed, his meetings broken up, still he persevered through twelve years of service. From 1796 to 1808, he fol- lowed the German settlements of Pennsylvania, hflaryland and Virginia. His ad- herents grew, for who could resist the mighty zeal and earnestness of the man? ln 1807 the first Evangelical conference was organized at Kleinfeltersville, and may the work inaugurated there never cease growing. Schuylkill Seminary, Albright College, and a number of institutions of like kind are a part of the fruit that has ripened from the labors of Albright. So the religious and educational life of eastern Pennsylvania has for its pioneer none other than Jacob Albrightg the establishment of the state borders and the preservation of the fair honor of Pennsylvania with the Indian so much abused elsewhere, is due to Col. Conrad Weiser. Both men belong to our neighborhood. In pride we claim them, in gladness we do them homage. llflay we, as their descendants, keep high the banners of civil and religious life that they carried! E. B. LOGAN. 30

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Edna Belva Logan, our literary star, has a wonderful capacity for scholarship. So great is her ability along this line, that it is a common occur- rence for her to read Latin and Greek at sight. She is a graceful, piquant little blonde, with charming manners, and an im- perious little air that is quite compelling. Beneath this airy-fairy exterior, there lies a marvelous depth of intellect which prom- ises to make her a light in the literary firm- ament, for it already reveals itself in nu- merous poems, magazine articles, etc. Daniel Frank Hoppes came to Albright four years ago as a rosy eheekecl lad of innocent looks. He has since grown wise in the ways of the world, and has acquired an immense amount of pep. He is recognized as 21 power, and holds the high office of President of his class, likewise that of cheer-leader when the Red and White is on the war-path. Behold him, specks and megaphone, the best known person on the gym floor. He also takes an active part in basket-ball and baseball, and is a member of the Zeta Omega Epsilon fraternity. l 32