Elizabethtown College - Conestogan / Etonian Yearbook (Elizabethtown, PA)

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I I |£C The School in The Garden Spot A score and four years ago our forefathers established in Lancaster County a new school, conceived in deep concern for the welfare of young peo- ple and dedicated to the cause of Christian education. We are now engaged in the great work, of building up a strong body of workers for the home, the school, the church, and the nation, testing whether an institution so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We have come to the time when we must prove our county as a garden spot second to none in the world, not only in material products, but also in developing the best pos- sible product — that of strong manhood and womanhood. But, in a certain sense, we cannot improve on the work done by our fathers. They have provided the ideal and have done the difficult pioneer work. Our county and state will little note nor long remember what the class of ' 24 has done to further the work of her Alma Mater, but they can never ig- nore nor forget what our forefathers sacrificed in founding her. It is for us, the constituency and the members of the school, to be re- consecrated to the great task awaiting our effort — that from the example of these honored forefathers we shall be roused to unprecedented devotion to the cause for which they gave their life-blood, pouring it out unstintingly in ser- vice. We should, accordingly, resolve that these men shall not have sacrificed in vain; that our institution shall, by God ' s help, go forth to greater achieve- ments in the name of Jesus Christ, the King. Ten

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I iCC t« SPOToftAeV 0y? - y N t- y and One of the chief factors that has made our county the fairest that e ' er the sun shone on is the response of its early settlers to the goodness of their God as they expressed it in a simple religion and an industrious, thrifty life. The earliest white settlers were Mennonites (1709), followed closely by Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Brethren, and branches of each of these. Elizabethtown grew up where it did because its earliest buildings served as stop- ping-places for travelers upon the great trail from Philadelphia to the west. The town was founded in 1753 by Barnabas Hughes who named it for his wife. The population has doubled within the last twenty years. The present population is about 3500. ■ ■ Eleven I I