Alma College - Scotsman Yearbook (Alma, MI)

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GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY Q I A 9- ME ' Q + '- '-N' M Rain as am BE ,:., -- all E ' -if if ' gptrfflfo - l N22 vig-'63, 00 -1'fNE oifg...-' ff .ppc - .......- hp RATED N JUNE FIRST, l887, There appeared a small pamphleT enTiTled Alma College. FirsT GreeTing To iTs Friends. The opening senTence oT The bool4leT read ln The name oT God, Amen. which since has been l.aTinized and appears upon our college seal as ln Nomine Dei, Amenf! The small boolc served as The TirsT caTalogue oT The college and spolce oT Alma as a beauTiTul and rapidly growing Town oT 2,000 inhabiTanTs. And on iT said Alma College is simply a college like PrinceTon, AmhersT or OliveT which was Tounded in I844. When The doors TirsT opened on SepTember I2, I887, ThirTy sTudenTs answered The TirsT roll calls while The ToTal aTTendance grew To nineTy- Tive aT The end oT The TirsT year. The acTual opening oT Alma College was The culminaTion oT aTTempTs by PresbyTerians ThroughouT The sTaTe To esTablish a synodical college. Their TirsT aTTempT aT Marshall, Michigan Tailed wiTh depression oT IS37 and iT wasn'T unTil I885 ThaT anyThing was seTTled wiTh regard To a Pres- byTerian college in The sTaTe oT Michigan. AbouT This Time The Reverend Ambrose J. WighT oT The FirsT Church in Bay CiTy, Michigan preached a Sunday evening sermon, on The necessiTy oT a denominaTional college, wiTh such an enThusiasm ThaT a Tew days laTer one oT his elders, Mr. Alexander Folsom came Torward wiTh a pledge oT 550,000 dollars Tor The esTablishing oT such a college. Only now did The Synod Talce acTual sTeps Toward The Tounding oT The school. Saginaw, lonia, lThica, ST.

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PRESIDENT JOHN WIRT DUNNIN6, DD. O The old and Jrlwe new - To former Presideni I-iarry Means Crooks, DD., for ine self-sacrificial eiliorlrs he displayed in guiding Alma Coilege inrougn ine iasr Jrweniy years of our ifirsi half nun- dred years. To Presideni Jonn Wiri Dunning, DD., for ine promise oi a greaier Alma io come as we siari oui upon The second ifiiiy years of our exislrence.

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