Asbury Theological Seminary - Seminarian Yearbook (Wilmore, KY)

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BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Bills, invoices, student accounts, industrial work, not to mention the | administration of building funds, are but several of the many neces- . sary operations of Asbur y Theological Seminary which daily demand q the attention of Mr. Savage (left) and his competent administrative | staff. A quiet and efficient manner coupled with practical business —— ability has well fitted this youthful Business Manager to his task. A MR. T. DELOS CRARY MR. CARL F. ASHE REY. H. F. McAFEE Treasurer Assistant to the President in the Field Assistant to the President in the Field Top Row: MISS ERNIE ASKINS Dietician MRS. IRENE DIETZ Assistant Bookkeeper MISS LUCILLE GRAVES Statistical Secretary MRS, FLORENCE HALL HAINES ; School Nurse, Hostess Low er Row: MRS. ROWENA HERYEY HALL Registrar MR. ROBERT SCOTT Supt. of buildings and grounds h MISS RUTH TROBAUGH b Bookkeeper « MISS SUE WALDEN Sec, to the Dean and Vice-President

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The beginnings of the Seminary can be traced to the year 1910 when Dr. Henry Clay Morrison became President of Asbury College. During that year special courses in theology and Bible other than those oftered in the college of liberal arts ap- peared on the curriculum. Early in 1923 several of the teachers who had been training ministerial stu- dents for many years met with Dr. Morrison to dis- cuss the results of their labors. With dismay this group noted how many promising Asburians en- tered other schools after graduation from Asbury College and returned from their seminary training with little or none of the dynamic impetus and pas- .. AFTER Picture at Left: DR. AND MRS. H. C. MORRISON Dr. Morrison, the founder and only president of Asbury Theological Seminary up to the time of his death, March 24, 1942, was the guiding spirit of the entire movement. Until her death on November 8, 1945, ‘Aunt Bettie heroically carried her husband's vision forward. sion for the redemption of the lost which had char- acterized their ambitions as undergraduate aspi- rants toward the ministry. Asbury Theological Sem- inary grew out of this discussion, and Morrison Hall was erected in 1923 on the College campus to meet the growing need for a Seminary which would stand fearlessly and without apology for the Evan- gelical Faith and the Wesleyan emphasis on Scrip- tural Holiness. Dr. H. C. Morrison, the founder of Asbury Theo- logical Seminary, became her first President and continued in that capacity until the day of his death, March 24, 1942, at which time Dr. Julian OPPOSITE PAGE: The building which housed the Seminary when she moved off of the campus of Asbury College. Upon comple- tion of the new admin- istration building, this annex was officially named Larabee - Morris Hall in honor of two pioneers in the Semi- nary's history. LEFT: Morrison. Hall, the original building which housed Asbury Theolog- ical Seminary. This building is now used by Asbury College.