Anderson University - Echoes Yearbook (Anderson, IN)

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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.

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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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PRESIDENT Anderson College comes now to the close of her twenty- fifth and most successful year. Through the loyalty of her teachers and the idealism of her students, these years have been made joyous. John A. Morrison