Atlantic Union College - Minuteman Yearbook (South Lancaster, MA)

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Message From pw W e must not today rest on the laurels of the past, or merely live in growing awareness of the present, hat rather see to plan for the future and the training of our youth for service. This calls for imagination, alertness, and wisdom. While our country, and in fact the whole world about us, is seeding to condition its youth — making them air-minded, nations of fliers, — we, too, must be about our Father ' s business. We must become power minded. Neither today nor in the days to come are we to trust to ourselves or to the stron g arm of flesh. Simple faith in and sincere prayer to the Giver of every good and perfect gift, is what we need today to power-condition those who are to finish the wor . May every young person who enters Atlantic Union College, come with a strong purpose to be a Minuteman for God , courageous, loyal, obedient. May the Master Teacher be pleased to place the mantle of power on those who, having trained for Service, go from these Halls, trusting not in man ' s wisdom, glorying not in their own accomplishments, unafraid and unashamed, dedicated to the Service of God, country, and humanity. As we bid some of you adieu this year, we wish as a Staff not alone to extend good wishes for your continued success, but also to express sincere appreciation for your splendid cooperation and the many evidences of your friendship.

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Sixty Years of Service The little carriage shop with a future. April, 1882. ' n April 19, 1882, in a humble little carriage shop that had stood for years in the rear of Elder Stephen N. Haskell ' s home on the north corner of Main Street and Nar- row Lane, Atlantic Union College was born . In 1873, when the membership of the South Lancaster Seventh-day Adventist Church had become so large that it could no longer be accommodated in private homes, this little old one-story shop, twenty- four by eighteen feet, had been moved westward to Sawyer Street and converted into a chapel where the Adventists worshipped until 1878, when outgrown, the little shop-chapel was abandoned. When plans for a school were being made, Elder Haskell suggested that this little chapel be utilized, for a time at least, as a schoolhouse. The little building was moved eastward to the middle of an open field near where Mr. Hanaford ' s store now stands, and facing the south, it stood all alone, for there was no Prescott Street at that time, and a fence extended all along Main Street. How the good folk scrubbed and painted that little room to make it ready for the new part it was about to play. Professor Goodloe Harper Bell was chosen to take charge of the New England School, as it was first called. Professor Bell had had many years ' experience in the public Elder Stephen N. Haskell. schools of Michigan, and was at this time professor of English in Battle Creek College. Goodloe H. Bell, 1882-84. • . SSiLjL.