Ashland University - Pine Whispers Yearbook (Ashland, OH)

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KENNETH M. MONROE

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(Z 4 a, = MAS £, am™ SS i Kjaer Dedication To Prof. K. M. Monroe Member of the college Theol- ogy Department and faculty ad- visor of the Class of 731 for three successive years, a man of high honor and esteem, a master of his profession, and an advisor of good counsel and lofty ideals. To him we rever- ently dedicate this, the 1930 Pine Whispers of Progress.

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- Ashland from 1878 to 1930 With the publication of this number of the PINE WHISPERS, the staff felt that it was only just to pay a glowing tribute to the progress and position which Ashland College has enjoyed since its beginning fifty-two years ago. In this edition the Annual Staff will take its readers back fifty-two years and note many incidents and events of interest which have con- tributed to the college’s progress and brought about its success. Though fifty-two years may seem a long span of time, it has been a short period for so great an expansion and progress as has been accomplished by the Purple and Gold institution. When it was decided by a group of church folk, of a denomination known as the German Baptist Brethren, that the founding of a college would be a good thing for the church and for Ashland, these good people held a number of meetings at Maple Grove church until plans were finally — completed. The first charter was drawn up in February, 1878. This valuable document is now in the possession of Dr. J. Allen Miller, Dean of the Seminary. The ink on the charter is unfaded and is signed by the seven incor- porators, H. K. Myers, Austin Moherman, John Shidler, Richard Arnold, William Sadler, I. D. Parker and A. M. Dickey. All of them, with several others, were then made trustees of the school. A subscription of $10,000 was received from residents of Ashland to contribute toward the founda- tion of the college. Buildings for the new college were designed by George Washington Cramer, now a leading church architect of New York city, whose name appears in “‘Who’s Who’. They were accordingly constructed on the thirty-acre lot of land at the south side of Ashland, purchased for the college campus. Only the college building, now known as Founders’ Hall, and the dormitory were erected at that time. Twelve acres of the plot were later sold so that the campus now occupies eighteen acres. (Continued on page 9)