Carthage College - Driftwood / Crimson Rambler Yearbook (Kenosha, WI)

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Lutheran synads - eWat Cant .5 - I ' . .- ' W ' L. . . M- gggga . dlqad ..-' 0c in: 'J. M -' -' :,'3.thoroughly,, 111 ' 01' th 0.. hi: .1. ' ' .3; ColIgge for .. .35th: t . it was the year in which whim .SNKW NI - W . r h ' H - vu'w-c Writ i1? .. . .... --1 a... - 'I I. ',, -. -0. ,1;- . . Lentz became President. He was 10 be we man who under the aegis of the . - high wouid move the college to ' i would hear the brunt of '3 culties and would build imam two years later it ' mm El'qg. Lbs . 4:49.51 was the year Q? hommwg, .IiI-Ed - . a 'evcnt in the history 0ft 1:..- .-....r.

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Lutheran church. From the ranks of Carthage alumni President Hoover called a number of faculty members who added lustre to the reputation of the institution Professor Emily Pen- noek taught Latin and Spanish and served many years as College Librari- an. Dr. Pearl Goeller, Registrar Emerita, has given over halfa century of loyai service; she is an inspiring example to this day of the dedicated servants of learning who came to the college during the Hoover era and Elmer Hanke '3 I , builder of the music school. stayed for the rest of their careers. Some others of that alumni group were Letta Simmons. esteemed Dean of Women: Dr. Juanita Jonest poetess and Professor of English; and William Krauss. veteran Business Manager. The stature ofa college is measured by the accomplishments of its alumni us well as by the distinction of its fac- ultyt and the Carthage period pro- duced a number of outstanding men and women. Always the college has given of its sons and daughters to the service ofthe church It has been faith- ful consistently to its earliest objective of providing for the education of fu- ture pastors. and hundreds of its young men of the Gospel vision have entered seminary and the ministry. In many years the college has sent forth graduates to labor in the mission fields, none reaping a richer harvest of souls than John Hyde. class of '87. uPraying Hyde came to be known as the apostle to India. a land to which he Dean Evjen. pro found scholar and teacher. gave the twenty years that preceded his early death in 1912. A phenome- non oFChristian mysticism the influ- ence of his prayer life permeated the entire Christian community in that sub-continent. Notable among alumni of recent decades who have dedicated their lives to the church is Dr. Jerald Brauer. church historian who as Dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School raised that seminary to great reputation. From the first, Carthage alumni have enjoyed success in public life. in the professions, and in business. Prominent in American life today are such alumni as Alden W. Clausen. President of the Bank of America. the woridts largest bank, and Colonel Howard Ellis Cox. Wall Street lawyer and business leader. There have been. of course. thousands of other graduw ates, from the iirst class at Hillsboro to the most recent at Kenosha, who perhaps have not attained to national C01. Howard Cox '33. leading Wall St. lawyer. prominence, but whose days have been blessed by the enlightening imprint of alma mater. As with many institutions of higher learning, Carthage faced great difii- culties during the Depression of the 19303. Eventually however it re- covered. In the long run. nevertheless, the future of the college at Carthage did not carry great potential. In fact. as early as I929 some leaders in the Lutheran church had begun to realize

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Hr bml': --.u-v.-. . . u- Part by part. through the 19605 and now into the IQ'HTS, ttCarthage by the Lake is being completed. Dr. Lentz has drawn together the forces of the college. the church! and the communi- ty to build a dynamic new Carthage. It minished faculty effort. t : - . - howmmat seeks always to build on the .Qnduring'. val w' : -. u .. past mindfulofthc rocM ' - .; t