Gettysburg College - Spectrum Yearbook (Gettysburg, PA)

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FOREWORD TU Wextrust this Volume, the Nineteen eTwenty Spectrum, will once again connect the links of the cherished memories of our beloved College and that it may depict in every way the true spirit and life of Old Gettysburg. $ The World War turned our faces away from our books and we were making ready for the defense of Right when triumph came and we were again privileged to return to these Sacred Halls. We have given our best to this publi' cation and we hope it will awaken once more the love, devotion, and service we owe to our College and give to all a vivid picture of Old Gettysburg. , TH E EDITORS

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miltun iaenrp valentine, Q. 51E, E33. Amanda Rupert Strong Professor of English Bible and Prqfexsor of llixtury. 1LTON HENRY VALENTINE was born in Reading, Pennsyl- sylvania, on August 18, 1864. His associations of childhood and youth were spent around Pennsylvania College, of which his Q 9 father was President from 1868 to 1884. He entered the Pre- :8 mfg paratory Department in the fall of 1878 and graduated from the College in 1882. The next two years were spent in business in Reading. Pennsylvania. In the autumn of 1884, he entered the Theological Seminary at Gettys- burg. Pennsylvania. and graduated from this institution in 1887. After being ordained at W'ayneshoro. Pennsylvania. hy the hilaryland Synod in October, 1887. he served very faithfully and capahly Trinity Lutheran Church. of Bedford, Pennsylvania, from December Ist, 1887, to December 1st, 1892. On February 1. 1888, he was married to Miss Evelyn L. Ladtl, of Reading. Pennsylvania. On December I, 1892. was elected pastor of the Messiah Lutheran Church, Sixteenth and Jefferson Streets, Philadelphia Pennsylvania. After a service of seven years in this pastorate, he resigned and accepted the Editorship 0f the uLutheran Observer and entered upon his new duties December 1, 1899: and continued in the Editorial XVork until the autumn of 1915. At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of Pennsylvania College. March I, 1904, he was unanimously elected to the Presidency of the College. as successor to Dr. H. XV. McKnight. but declined the OHice. He became Trustee of the College in 1905 and Continued to serve in this capacity until his election to the Chair of English Bible and History in 1916. Dr. Valentine has served on the Board of Lutheran Publication, Trus- tee of the Theological Seminary. Trustee of the Pastors' Fund Society of the General Synod and is now President of this Board. He is a member of the Phrenakosmian Literary Society, Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity, and the Pen and Sword Honorary Society. Dr. Valentine has been a great source of inspiration and strength to the students of Pennsylvania College. Having entered with the Class of 1920, we have learned to love and esteem the manhood and invincible character of our teacher and friend. The service rendered: the fellowship and kindly feeling toward the students has won for him an enviable place in the hearts of the members of the Student Body. The inHuence of Dr. Valentines life 1 will ever encourage us to reach out and strive to attain t0 the goal which he has helped us to fix in the world's activities.

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