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

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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

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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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President ' s Message to the Members of the Mid -Century Class To you wlio are about to be graduated I give my greetings. Kducatioiially you belong to the first half of tiie twentietii century. ocationally you stand on the thresii- old of the second half. The historian of the years to come will mark the years from 1900 to 1950 as the period of great changes. An amazing number of inventions and discoveries have left a tremendous impact upon our habits of thinking and living. Almost unbelievably great changes have come in our method of travel, communication, and recreation. Fifty years ago Elizabethtown College was founded by broadminded, far-seeing men who opened its doors on equal terms to youth of all races, creeds, and nationalities. To make this dream of half a hundred years ago a reality, men and women in large numbers were obliged to sacrifice, plan, and work. A half century ago Elizabethtown College started with one building. Alpha Hall — located in a wheatfield on a farm east of Elizabethtown — five students, one teacher, a budget of $4,000, a library of 100 volumes, and no alumni. Today as we come to the mid-century, the college is housed in nine buildings, has over 750 students (including summer-session registrants) and a 33-member faculty. It operates on a budget of over a quarter million dol- lars, houses approximately 17,000 volumes in the library, and has an alumni-former student roster of more than 10,000. The college has grown strong, until today it is fully accredited by the State Department of Public Instruction and tiie regional accrediting agencies and holds membership in the leading educational associations of the nation. 10