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PRESIDENT WILLIAM F. CURTIS, Litt.D
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-Q1 2 I g' ' R' .v:I'Ax..lx 5 V 'L 5 151' 'Y tn Z 4' .'.- I . ,, . .1,,, , A 1 WILLIAM FRANKLIN CURTIS, Ls., Litt.D. President of Cedar Crest College. Success in every art, whatever may be the natural talent, is always the reward of industry and pains. -Ware. RESIDENT CURTIS was born February 12, 1873 in Souderg ton, Bucks Country, Pennsylvania. Brought up in a farmer's T home he exemplifies the well-reared, typical American farmer if boy. His elementary education, secured in the public school enabled him to enter the Preparatory Department of Franklin and Marshall College. His education was broken at intervals to teach in the public school, in order to earn money to complete his education. The necessity of providing his own means saved him from hasty and superficial preparation for college. ' A I He entered Franklin and Marshall College in September, 1895, and was graduated from the Classical Course in June, 1898, with the degree of A.B. He then entered the Eastern Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church of the United States, Lancaster, Pa., and was graduated in 1901. While in College Dr. Curtis made a very enviable reputation for himself in the different spheres of college life.. Along the literary line he was a loyal member of the Coethean Literary Society. He was one of the most successful debaters against large University debaters and represented Franklin and Marshall in the state orator- ical contest and won the senior prize debate. He was then already a successful executive, having successfully managed the foot-ball team and glee-club in 1898 and been for two years at the head of the Green Room Club and, also, a member of the Paradise Club. During the week of the Lancaster County Institute, he and a colleague compiled a book of programs and gathered advertisements, by which he was able to realize a neat sum of money to aid him pay for his education. The booklet was known as the Lancaster County Institute Notes. From 1901 to 1908 he wasa most successful pastor of St. Paul's Reformed Church of Kansas City, Missouri. He was also President of the Synod of the Interior. He is a member of the Rajah Shrine, and is a thirty-second degree Mason. In the spring of 1908 the Board of Trustees challenged Dr. Curtis to the Presidency of the College at a time when the school was passing through its most serious and trying storm and stress period. He was devoted to his church and to his people in Kansas City, and it was difficult to decide to leave them. . April 8, 1908, he accepted the call to the presidency and wrote th us to the Board of Trustees: f'After prayerful and careful con- sideration of your call to the Presidency of the Allentown College for Women, I have concluded to accept your challellge 3115 elite? nnnn my duties, June 1, 1908. I take up this new work and enter Page Twenty-one
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