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

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DR. CHARLES APGAR DR. BESSIE APGAR — 5

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WE DEDICATE High professional standards and subtle methods of instruction combined with humor, honest and unbiased concern for student needs, congeniality — these qualities abound in both our professors of biology. Through the biology laboratories pass successive sophomore groups. Here understanding instructors guide each student through an interpretation of our physical world into the methods of scientific procedure. To Dr. Charles Apgar and to Dr. Bessie Apgar, who have led us through the mysteries of the cell to an ap- preciation of God ' s pattern for all living things, we grate- fully offer in dedication this 1950 Etonian. — 4 —

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Conesioga Creek Our Growing College September 23, 1899 Elizabethtowii College received her ciiarter from the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County. July 10, 1900 Ground was broken for Alpha Hall. April 26, 1917 The ownership of the college was transferred to Eastern Pennsyl- vania. October 30, 1917 Southern Pennsylvania voted to share in tlie ownership of tiie college. June 8, 1922 Elizabethtown College legally conferred lier first degree. January 16, 1936 Membership in the Association of American Colleges. May ,5, 1918 Elizabethtown College was fully accredited by tlie Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. June 15, 1948 Membership in the American Council on Education. March 18, 1919 The Department of Education of New York State approved Eliza- betlitown College. May 30, 1949 Elizabetht jwn College graduated its largest class — 102 — at the forty-seventh annual commencement.