Geneva College - Genevan Yearbook (Beaver Falls, PA)

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M. M, PEARCE, D.D., President of Geneva College Our Prexy

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Qur Prexy - He's A Fine Thing for Geneva Gyrations and Peringrinations . . . of McLeod M. Pearce . . . from the time he landed at Bellevue, Pennsylvania . . . until he sank into obscurity . . . as President of Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania . . . Cby himself . . . under compulsionb .... My first four years . . . spent in Bellevue . . . left no memories . . . except the tragedy of a stubbed toe . . . and the terrible disappointment when a toy balloon got away . . . and was seen no more . . . Another year on a farm . . . yields memories . . . of a very tame dog . . . a very cross cow . . . a faint odor of buckwheat cakes for breakfast . . . and cornmeal mush for supper. . . . The next year brings a clearer memory of life in Beaver Falls . . . the build- ing of the college that is now Old Main . . . the sad experience of the Hrst day in public school . . . marred by the tragedy of Wearing a Scotch kilt suit . . . which looked like a girl's dress . . . and made the day a sad one . . . for a very self-conscious boy . . . Later . . . when serving on the Evening Journal . . . as a newsboy . . . a prize watch was earned for carrying more papers than any other boy . . . The watch never ran. . . Lives there a boy with soul so deadg he never to himself has said, 'I would like to have a date with that girl! . . . A few dates were surreptitiously se- cured . . . but none seemed to count except those with Carrie Bell McKaig . . . who Hnally rescued this lad from his moonings . . . and actually married him . . . There was no registrar in college in those days . . . so after five years of labori- ous study . . . Cthere was a prep departmentj . . . I slipped into the graduat- ing class . . . probably unbeknownst to the faculty . . .land was handed a diploma . . . After three years . . . I graduated from the Reformed Presbyterian Seminary in Pittsburgh . . . My first pastorate was in St. Louis . . . which was a time of close study . . . because both the American and National League teams gave complimentary tickets to ministers . . . Hence a close study of our great national pastime was made .... Two years were spent in a pastorate in Pittsburgh . . . and six years in another one in Philadelphia . . . Another period was spent in editorial work with the American Sunday School Union, of Philadelphia . . . Finally in 1923 an elec- tion as President of Geneva College was accepted . . . Of the hopes and fears . . . the happiness and friendships . . . the successes and failures . . . the joys and sorrows of these days . . . much may be thought in the quiet of one's own study . . . but little needs be written . . . That is all.