Cedarville University - Miracle / Cedrus Yearbook (Cedarville, OH)

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Byron Hollinger, William Jatnen, Dr. Harold Kennedy, Helen Santmyer, Virginia Byrant. FACULTY OPERATING COMMITTEE Around the middle of the first semester of the school year certain things came to light which made the future of Cedarville College look very dark. There was a question of being able to finish out the school year. A complete change in Administration placed upon the shoulders of a Faculty Operating Committee the burden of preparing for the fall which seemed inevitable or a program with greatly reduced objectives. This committee found itself with many problems. There was the problem of evaluating oral agreements as well as many disciplinary and academic problems brought on by the uncertainty I of the situation. The efficiency displayed in meeting and solving these problems proved very well that a faculty can run itself and also handle the educational and disciplinary phases of college life. Their democratic rather than dictatorial manner of handling school affairs should be an example to others since the esprit de corps thus generated prevented the let down in the last few months which usually accompanies the closing of a college. In summary, Orchids to the Operating Committee for a job well done. Page Sponsored By BERTHA S. FERGUSON Your Farm Bureau Agent

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5» CEDARVILLE COLLEGE Cedarville, Ohio

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' To many of her alumni. Cedarvllle College is Dr. Jurkat and Dr. Jutkat is Ccdarvillc College. In their memories - and this will sometime be as true of today’s undergraduates as it now is of those long since departed - It will be Dr. Jurkat who comes to the mind’s eye, familiar in his habit as he lives in the hall of Old Main, in his room among his books, behind his desk with a student beside hlm. Dr. Jutkat has taught for what seems to the young a lifetime, but it is not mere length of service which makes him so loved and respected by succeeding college generations. A man of great learning, he wears his erudition lightly and wittily. His mischievous sense of humor is never in abeyance, but lightens the most stumbling recitation and the dullest bulletin board. And though the substance of his jests may be forgotten in time, the manner of them will be remembered; the gravity of their utterance, the solcmity with which a response is awaited, the delighted laughter when the point is taken, or the pitying look when a pun goes unrecognized. The depth of his knowledge is unfathomed, and not one has reached to the end of the width of it. There arc no fields where he is not at home, few subjects which he cannot teach and has not taught at one time or another. For that reason also, and not only because he has been here so long, he knows mote alumni than anyone else at Cedatville. rMost important of all - for although a Calvinist, Dr. Jurkat docs not presume to distinguish the elect from among his students - a genuine and unfailing kindness is the well-spring of his being. On an assumed basis of mutual liking he meets his students and the liking comes, and a friendship develops. He has forgotten no one whom he has taught last year or fifty years ago, but can remember a name, trace a career, analyze a character or an intellect and - above all - when occasion arises, he can recognize a face, seen again on the campus after however long an interval. It is no wonder that it is he whom old students ask about first, or seek out. In the northwestern corner room that has been his for 58 years. So: from the Old Ccdarville to Dr. Jurkat - regret at die patting, good fortune the rest of your days. - Ave atque vale - abituri salutamus! FRANK A. JURKAT A.B., A.M., LL.D., D. D., Dean of Seminary and Prof, of Foreign Languages. A.B., Franklin College; A.M., LL.D., A.M. Wittenberg College. Graduate work, Ohio State University; D. D., Ccdarvillc College. TRIBUTE