Baldwin Wallace University - Grindstone Yearbook (Berea, OH)

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FACTS ABOUT B-W ALDWIN-WALLACE is located in Bereo, Ohio, a city of 14,- 000, just fifteen miles from the center of Cleveland and two miles frOm the Cleveland Municipal Airport. Founded in 1845, Baldwin-Wollace College already has entered upon a second century of service The college is dedicated to the ideal of offering a Christian educathn in liberal arts, business, the sciences, and music. Enrollment is approximately 1800 students in day and evening classes; more than half of these are veterans. Boldwin-Wallace is nationally known for its annual two-day Bach Festival. Its Bach Library is interna- tionalfy famous. The college is engaged in a con- tinuing building program which will materialize in the new Ritter Library in addition to the Physical Education Building which was completed this year and the Home Economics Build- ing which is expected to be under way soon.

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HISTUHY N August, 1845, John Baldwin offered a large building and many aares of land in Bereo to the Methodist Church for founding an institution of learning. His gift being accepted, 0 board of commissioners met with Mr. Baldwin and organized Baldwin Institute, obtaining a charfer December 20, 1845. Ten years later the institute was reorganized and chartered as Baldwin University. A German department was begun in 1856, to provide for the educational needs of the German Methodist Church. The department grew until it become desirabie to reorganize it as 0 separate institution and in 1864 the new school, German Wallace College, opened. Throughout their history the sepa rate institutions were co-operative and mutually supplementary. In August! 1913, Baldwin Univer- sity and German Wallace College united, forming Baldwin-Wollace Col- lege.

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EUVEHNED BY THE BEARD OF TRUSTEES . . . I0 5 THE governing body of the college, the Board of Trustees T5 the guiding force behind its growth and development. There are thirty-seven members chosen by four different methods. Fifteen are elected at large by the board, twelve by the North-East Ohio Conference of the Methodist Church, tour by the Ohio Coru- ference, and six by the Association of Alumni and Former Students. In addition, there are at present two ex-officio and three emeriti members. The board holds on annual meeting in June. RIGHT: George W. Ritter, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Pictured below L to R -- FIRST ROW; W, J. Galvin, Ray L Baylor, Carl S. Bechberger, A. M. Breen, John F. Ernsthousen; SECOND: Edward Bly- thin, Kingsley A. Taft, Lows H. Fitch; THIRD: J. H. Steinkrous, L. A. Schreiber, Afbert J. Ansel, Erwin J. Ward, JA Paul Thompson; FOURTH: Harvey C. Wilcox, Horotd C. Beyer, Paul Nyland, C. Eugene Bryenton, James H. Sivard, Walter Dickhnut; REAR: Harry Wells, Paul S. Knight, E, Jt Kulus, George W. Ritter, H, K. Carpenter, Albert Riemenschneider, Raymond R. Moley