Augustana College - Rockety I Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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m HE present year is a most eventful one in the history at Augustana. It is our Jubilee Year, the celebration of our Fiftieth Anniversary. From an humble ggg'g beginning fifty years ago, our school has grown until it today ranks as one iii of the leading colleges of the middle West. The object of The Jubilee is to present to the students. alumni and many friends of Augustana an historical review of cm past; to portray the various phases of college life at the present; and to serve as a mile-stone an the journey towards a Greater Augustine. I! is a story of the past and the present, and a glimpse of future possibilities. In it we tell of the things which yuu and your friends have done. We oHer it to you that you may not forget what has been accomplished here. Its aim is to present the spirit of the school, and to serve the purpose of reviving and adding to the spirit of loyalty. It is hoped that these pages will Iecall many pleasant memories and that they will inspire new Zeal and affection for Augustana. If. as a Iesul'l of our humble eHorts, The Jubileeu shall preserve the happy mem- cries and traditions which will deepen ancl intensify the love and reverence we cherish for our Alma Mater. we are content. uThe Jubilee stall oH'ers this, the product at their toil to the fair judgment of the men and women of Augustana. If to you we may seem to have succeeded, we shall count ourselves as highly rewarded; eTI-u; JUBILEE STAFF.

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,. REV. GUSTAV A. ANDREEN, Ph. D., R. N. 0. Dr. Gustav A. Andreen, President of Augustana College and Theological Seminal? was born at Porter, Indiana, March 13. 1864. When only a few years Of age 111-5 parents moved to Swedona, Illinois. Here he received his early education. When eleven year: old he entered the preparatory department of Augustana. In six years he graduated from the college at the had of his class UBBD. He remained at Augustana as a teacher during the years 1562-1884, at the same time preparing himself for the profession of a. lawyez. During the years 1386-1393, he served as a teacher at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas. He entered Yale University as a postgraduate student the following year. From 1894 to 1898 he served as instructor in German at Yale University. at the same time studying for his degree of Doctor of Philosophy, which he recived in 1398. Thereupon he was called to the professorship of Norse and Scandinavian Ianguages and literature of Yale University. To prepare himself further for this purpose. Dr. Andreen spent two years at the Universities of Uppala. Sweden, and Christiania, Norway. aim making a tour through Germany. Dr. Andreen assumed his new duties at Yale University in the fall of 1900. The same year Dr. Olsson. President of Augustana, died. At the meeting of the Augustana Synod in Jamestown, N1 Y. in 1901, Dr. Andreen was unanimously elected President of Augustana College ancl Theological Seminary. He was installed as President of his Alma Mater the seventeenth of October. 1901. President Andreen saw from the beginning what were the immediate needs of the institution. of which he now was the head. He began at mice to make provisions for putting the school on a solid financial basist He made a journey to Sweden to enlist the sympathy of the leading men of that country for the work in the way of Christian education that was being done by Swedish descendants on this side of the Atlantic. His efforts were successful. As a result of his work one hundred thousand crown were subscribed for a professorship at Augustana. to be known as the Oscar II professorship in honor of the king. who was among the donors. During the last three years President Andreen has been engaged in raising an endowment fund of a quarter of a million dollars, a task which he by his untiring efforts and with the assistance of able co-workers has successfully accomplished. Through his earnest endeavors, it also is, that the institution has been given the magnihcient Denkmann Memorial library which is now in course of erection on the college grounds. Besides his incessant work in the interest of the institution President Andreen has also had time for study, which led to his ordination as a minister of the Augustana Synod in 1905. As Augustana celebrates its Fiftieth anniveIsary. it has at its head a man. whose unceasing devotion to duty commands our greatest admiration; a man ever mindful of the best interesb of the institution of which he is the head. and sacrificing himself in order that they may be attained. at ! 301! mu um,

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