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

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Past Presidents Speak While ill a Christian college, I dedicated my life to the cause of Christian education. And so when I left the university it was easy and logical for me to accept the call to teacli in Klizabethtow n College in its infancy. I was soon asked to direct its early life. It grew through childhood into adolescence during the sixteen years of my tenure. Others entered into my labors then, until its founders can rejoice today in a thriving Christian institution half a century old. I rejoice in its progress and wish for it the continued usefulness and support it deserves. Long live Elizabelhtown College! REBER We may well pause to sing t he praises of Elizabethtown College at this half-century mark. During fifty years of progress, the lives of thousands of young people have been enriched and their usefulness enhanced manifoldly. All of us are justly proud of those who iiave labored through the years. Their sacrifices have borne fruit. The achievements of the college have been recognized by State Departments of Edu- cation, by sister colleges, graduate schools, the Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the Middle Atlantic States and Maryland, as well as by other important agencies. —J. G. MEYER It is indeed an unusual privilege to pay a personal tribute to my Alma Mater. Had it not been that this college was planted by my home, my circumstances would probably never have brought me into any college training. I have felt it as a great experience to have lived under the shadow of two small Cliristian colleges. It was at Elizabethtown that I found teachers who moulded my whole career. Here I gavesixt-een years asa young teaclu ' r. I found unusually diligent studcntsof Christian character and friendly disposition. God speed our on-going college. „ „ MYF On arriving at Elizabethtown College as a student in the spring of 1 05, I found myself in a total student body smaller than some of the individual college classes of our past year. Of the eleven regular members of the faculty, five served at some time as president of a college of the Church of the Brethren. This is fpiite a tribute to tlie caliber of the faculty, who left behind them a record of outstanding teaching and sincere gratitude in the hearts of the students of those years. These were the days when the cjuality of work done was the only recommendation to help students find places of responsibility, and the prestige of accreditment was far in the future. These were great days of character formation when teachers and students mingled in close touch with each other in the classroom and on the small campus. „ SPHT OSSKR — 8 —

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They Founded a College Before tlie dawning of tlie present century, prominent and respected leaders in llic Cluircli of the Brethren courageously founded a college based on an educational philosophy that a church related institution has a larger function than to train the intellect. The preparation of young men and women, distinguished for their liigh idealism and Christian character as well as for tlieir intellectual attainments, is the noblest objective of the college. Large in ideals, this small hilltop college in fifty years increased its enrollment over a hundredfold and enlarged its facilities to serve the present age. The symbolic Conestoga wagon as it rolled through the grasslands and wooded liill section a century earlier, provided inspiration for tlie naming of the new college. Conestoga was short-lived, however, and Elizabethtown was the name later given to this college nestled among the Conewago hills. Conewago Hills

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N. H. BEAHM 1904-1909 GEORGE N. FALKENSTEIN 1901-1903 D. C. REBER 1903-1901 190 1918 J. G. MEYER 1921-1924 R. W. SCHLOSSER 1927 1929 1930-1941 H. K. OBER 1918-1921 1924-1927 H. H. NYE 1929 1930