Elon University - Phi Psi Cli Yearbook (Elon, NC)

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ADMINISTRATION BUILDING SIDE VIEW WEST DORMITORY

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;;;) REV. FRANK SAMUEL CHILD, Ph. D.. D.D.. LL.D. Lecturer on Church Hislory and Biblical Literature REV. MARTYN SUMMERBELL, Ph.D.. D.D.. LL.D. Lecturer on Church Hislori) and Riblical Literature MISS FLORENCE WILSON, Director (New England Conservatory, and Munich) yoice. Piano, and Harmon) MISS LINDA BARNES (Elon College, Student of Louis Schalk) Assistant in Piano and Voice MISS LOIS BAIRD DAVIDSON. Ph. B. (New England Conservatory) Assistant in Piano MRS. ALEXANDER A. RIDDLE (Cooper Union, New York, N. Y.) Art MISS PEARLE FOGLEMAN. Ph. B.. M.A. (New York University) Domestic Science, and Assistant in English HILVARD ELIOR JORCENSON Boo }(eeping, Stenography, and Typewriting MISS FRANCES McNEIL Librarian J. E, BROWN Assistant Librarian VICTOR PAINTER HEATWOLE Director College Rnnd E. B. PAGE Cpmnc si ' um Director MRS. SALLIE E. HOLLAND Matron West Dormitory MRS. BLANCHE LAW Housekeeper College Boarding Department MRS. SADIE JONES Matron Young Ladies ' Hall MRS. LAURA ALICE LEE Steiuardess Ynune Men ' s Club R. S. DOAK Proctor Alumni Building H. E. JORGENSON Proctor East Dormitory

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s eLON COLLEGE, situated in Alamance County, N. C, the property of the Southern Christian Convention, is a monument to heroic sacrifice, united effort, and earnest, fervent prayer. It opened its doors to students on September 2, 1890; but that does not represent its beginning. Antecedent to that eventful day were many years of earnest plannmg and assiduous doing, and Elon College as it stands today represents growth, development, life — the period from its incept-on to its actual foundation spreading over twenty-five years. For years pr or to any concerted action or organized effort, the question had fre- quently been asked in local conferences, churches, and the Southern conventions: Does the Chrstian Church, South, need a college? In 1870, the Southern Christian Con- vention met in Suffolk, ' a., and through its committee on schools and colleges expressed the need of an educated ministry and laity, but failed to recommend the establ sh- ment of a college, because they did not believe the munificence of our people sufficient to establish an institution on a very large scale, and because the patronage would not warrant it. In 1874, and again in 1878, this same committee recognized the need of a better educated ministry and laity, and in our own institutions, but still failed to recommend definite plans looking to the establishment of such an institut.on. Thus for twelve years the college idea battled for recognition, and received not even a recommendation. In 1882, things became more hopeful. The need of a college for the Southern Christians, which should carry on to the baccalaureate degrees the work then being done by the Graham (N. C.) Normal College and the Suffolk (Va.) Collegiate Institute, so long felt, and so often expressed, in this convention, which met in Morrisville, N. C, took definite form in a resolution introduced by the Committee on Schools and Colleges, of which the first of the sixteen articles reads as follows: That this Convention proceed at once to establish a college at some suitable point within our borders, at which our young men and young women and our candidates for the ministry may be educated, said college, with all its appurtenances, to be owned by the stockholders — said stock may be taken by indi- viduals, churches, or other associat ons, and shall entitle the persons holding or legally rep- resenting the same to one vote for each share in all the meetings of the stockholders. An amendment to the report provided that when the general soliciting agent should have secured subscr ptions of stock to the amount of ten thousand dollars, the stockholders should meet and locate the college. The position of soliciting agent was tendered Dr. D. A. Long, for many years co-principal of the Graham Normal College, and since President of Antioch College, Ohio, and of Union Christian College, Indiana. The movement failed, because it was not the work of the whole church, and appealed only to investors, who know that colleges are objects of charity, and never pay dividends. This defeat dampened the ardor of the advocates of a college for the jo nt educa- tion of laity and ministry, but did not weaken the firm belief of the convention in the necessity of an educated ministry. Accordingly, when the convention met in I 886. w:th Mount Auburn Church, Warren County, N. C, it addressed itself to the matter of pro- viding a department of Theology in one of the already-existing institutions of the church. The resolution introduced by the Committee on Schools and Colleges was, That this