Anderson University - Echoes Yearbook (Anderson, IN)

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laincy of the army by Earl Wells, Paul V. Robinson, Walter Owen, Virgil N. Moore, Wendell Byrd, and Francis Parker. In the field of music there are, besides many others, Herbert and Lola Thomp- son, Don Smith, and Elizabeth Jackson Campbell. Several of the graduates of Anderson College and Theological Seminary have proved their faith in the institution by giving their lives to it as instructors on the faculty. They are Walter Haldeman, Carl Kardatzke, Amy Lopez, Anna Koglin, Joseph Wiley, Earl Martin, Frederick Schminke, and Adam Miller. Among other teachers produced by the college are Val Clear and Carol Helvey, who are teaching in Peru, S. A., Paul Froehlich, Maxine Sexton, and Harold Soderquist. Among the writers of whom Anderson College is proud are Mary Fairfield and Jessie Kleeberger Martin, young peo- ple's writers, Ruth Hobbs and Elsie Koglin, quarterly writers. Here should be mentioned also Mrs. A. T. Rowe, editor of our young people's and chil- dren's papers, and Harold Phillips, book and quarterly editor. For the hundreds- of church school workers who are helping to make char- acter and of whom Anderson College is justly proud let the following stand: Irene Smith, secretary of the Board of Christian Education and field worker, Ruth Dayton Hollander, Thelma Clark, Mrs. Ralph Coolidge, and Gertrude Little. In the field of business, too, the college is well represented. The following names stand for many others who are contributing to the world something of enduring wealth: Carl Kreutz in the Philippine Islands, George Blackwell in business in Anderson, and E. F. Adcock, secretary of the Board of Church Ex- tension and Home Missions. The books are not yet closed. Yet other honors of loyalty and service will be credited to the account of those who have gone out from Anderson College lu. M jf 753 sw. 3' 273' 2.50 .Jw A50 '00 I6 .90 50 O , QQNN wa-lfxw1xQmRx51NxRHx3gN'bmQNN N NN N NN 'X 'NNW VW SSSQQSQQS-'QSQQQQQQQQQQQQQ

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Because of the nature of this anniversary edition of the Echoes, there was a desire on the part of the staff to have a history of the school written by one of the first graduates. Miss Anna Emilie Koglin, who since her graduation with the first class in 1919 has been connected with the College, seemed the best fitted for this task. Miss Koglin has been Professor of Greek and German in Anderson Col- lege and Theological Seminary since 1923 except for intervals during which she studied in the Uni- versity of Berlin, the University of Wisconsin from which she was graduated in 1929 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and where she did graduate work in 1939g and Oberlin College where she received the degree of Master of Arts in 1934. A Hope and a Fulfillment ANNA E. KOGLIN When Anderson College and Theological Seminary Qthen Anderson Bible Train- ing Schoolj had been in operation three years, the following statement appeared concerning it: This institution has not yet been established long enough to commend itself to the entire church but . . . . in the years to come those who go from here into active service for the Master will demonstrate to the church the value of the service rendered through the school. That was in 1920. Were those who expressed that hope and provided the instruction, guidance, and inspiration in the early years true seers? A dramatic answer would be possible if those who have gone out from the school could be marshaled in review. However, we cannot so much as name all, for their number is about 2,000. We must, therefore, content ourselves to name only a few anll let these stand for the other thousands whose names gleam as brightly in God's book of life. For pastors and pastoral teams who have demonstrated the value of the service rendered by the school the fol- lowing stand for hundreds of others: Mr. and Mrs. Dale Oldham, Mr. and Mrs. John Lackey, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Quinn, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Crowell, Mr. and Mrs. Myrle Cross, Mr. and Mrs. John Kane, and Miss Esther Boyer do- ing by herself the work of two. Missionaries who stand for the others whose service has been enlarged through their work at the school are Ruth Fisher Murray, who laid down her life in Africag Mona Moors in Indiag John and Twyla Ludwig in Africa, Edith Young, Nellie Olson and her daughter, Mary, in Jamaica, Lars and Ellen Olsen to Denmarkg and Leslie and Nina Ratzlaif recently gone to the Grand Cayman Islands. Our school is represented in the chap-

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and Theological Seminary and their Alma Mater will glory yet more in the service they will render. In 1919 the following statement ap- peared in the catalog: Since the war is over and we are settling back to nor- mal conditions, it is expected that the school will grow rapidly. That expec- tation, too, has been realized. The graph in this section shows how the school has grown in point of numbers of students attending. The depression years brought low the number of students enrolling. The graph also shows a rather rapid recovery from the depression. To meet the needs of a larger student body and the ever higher goals set for instructor and instructed, the teaching staff has been much increased. Whereas in the year 1917, when the school was opened, the faculty consisted of one full-time instructor and four part-time instructors, it now consists of nineteen full-time and four part-time instructors, several of whom hold doctor's degrees. In the first years one building provided accommodations for classes, sleeping quarters, kitchen, dining room, 'and library, and that building was not used to capacity. Now the men are housed in a separate building formerly used for an Old People's Home. The old auditorium on the campground has been remodeled to provide a modern gymnasium for the students during the school year. A third building, the E. E. Byrum property, is being purchased which will be remodeled and used for a music hall. The original building occupied by the school, the old Gospel Trumpet Home, has been remodeled so as to provide a goodly number of classrooms and of- fices and a commodious library. The de- velopment of the library indicates very well the progress and development of the school. In the first years the library occupied a small room adjoining the re- ception room. The library was soon en- larged and made to spread over the re- ception room and an adjoining room. A few years later larger quarters were made for it on the second floor. In the summer of 1940 the fourth floor fwhich had previously been used for storagej was remodeled to provide the present spacious and pleasant library. During the years of the depression, not many titles were added to the library, how- ever, the last four years have seen an increase of about 2,000 volumes an- nually. Also on the fourth floor, occupying the northwest wing, is a modern physics laboratory which was installed during the summer of 1941. Other signposts on the road to progress are the corporation of the school as a separate organization in 1925 and the offering of courses on the seminary and college level. The hopes of the past have been ful- filled. Today the incumbent president, Dr. J. A. Morrison, expresses this hope: Certainly we are entering dark days nationally here in America - days which will try the strength and forti- tude of all Christian institutions-but Anderson College expects to go for- ward. By the help and loyalty of the church, the support of the alumni, the co-operation of the Board and the teach- ing staff, and by the help of God, who has never failed us, Anderson College and Theological Seminary shall go for- ward to a more glorious service than she has known before. Will this hope, too, be realized? The answer will be recorded by future chroniclers.