Goshen College - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Goshen, IN)

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THE ilAPLE LEAF Thus first to mention, into the department of Psyehology and Education came for ninteen sixteen, Mr. George D. Bivin. His ability as a student of mind-stuff soon won him a place among the student body. His practical knowledge of the profession of teaching was readily imbibed by the young ped- agogs to be. His broad genial smile and fine (|ualities of sociability did not make him seem at all a stranger but the reverse. To Goshen, his stay will be one long to be remembered. To the work of Biologic Sciences came i Ir. Samuel Witmer. For the first time he undertook to direct the niinds of college students into the facts which underlie living tissue. However his seriousness of (nirpose, his quiet dispo- sition and his careful systematic- methods of instruction and observation led ihe way to many vital truths of life aud revealed many phases of tiiis interest- ing science to both eager and less observant pupil. As to nuisie. ilr. Gustav Dunkelberger, a real genius at the keys, was the choice for the acancy that had occurred in the Piano department. Though modest and retiring by disposition, his devotion to his chosen art and his abil- itj- in interpreting the soul of nuisic to audiences whom he always pleased, made him many v, arm and loyal friends among students and with the entire college community. But not alone in music are his claims. As evidence to his spirit of progress and efficiency, and through his hearty cooperation the equipment of the School of IMusie has been increased by a handsome Grand piano of highest merit and excellent musical tone. A fourth one .joined our ranks. A woman gentle and demure. F ' or knowl- edge famed and excellent in judgment. Her happy lot it was to lead the youth- ful minds into the beauties of the poet ' s art and also guide their pens into the oratorio l ights of younger rhetoricians. But also to her sphere there fell the Page Seven

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THE COLLEGE YEAR THUS wrote the poet. Aud thus experience proves. For in kjoking back over the brief space of a year many changes are in evidence on the campus and in the group of people constituting the personnel of Goshen College. There is not any one change so large in aud of itself. But the many smaller and larger ones together form a resultant change that in its total effect puts a different aspect upon the campus as a whole and leaves a noticeable trace upon the school. The one great factor in this transformation has been time. Time, that rest- less. ruthles.s, Ijenevoleut power which causes wounds and also heals them again, which often moves so laggardly, and then again so rapidly tlies; time than which no force is more powerful to eft ' ect changes materially and physi- cally, also mentally and spiritually. So this ever bu.sy worker plied constantly his shuttle between the limits that mark the period surveyed liy the ' laple Leaf of nineteen sixteen. The first transformation thus to be observed that time had wrought was noticed in the sagacious look and dignified demeanor of the Seniors of ' 16. ' Twas but a few moons ago when they had been the jolly Juniors of last year. And now the.y had returned, seventeen of them, to their kindly Alma Mater, wearing on their countenances the grave seriousness and dignity worthy of a senior. And whence we ask, came all this gravity, for it was plain that it wa s not only a veneer? And again for answer we must look into the bosom ot time. For the .sage may testify, Time ripens all tilings. No man is born wise, ' ' SO here one finds when the truth is sought, that gradually with the ebbing time the spark of knowledge and wisdom had been fanned to fiame. And as the time slipped by this constant search for truth and thirst for knowledge had ripened these seventeen sons and daiighters into the finished i)roduct of their Alma Mater. By her they are now sent forth into the active spheres of life to try their skill and demonstrate their sincerity in uoble service and cultural pursuits and by their trained brain and brawn, prove their worth to a man. Thus the year has sped them and so in passing we greet them. However, other changes were also effected by time. Of these we also shall speak. While dift ' erent in kind, they were not of lesser note. To begin, let us mention those occurring in the preceptorial staff. Here b y change of plan for purposes various, a number of places on the Faculty had become acant. To properly fill these gaps was the institutions task, an undertaking of vital importance, for the previous incumbents had been worthy and their work iippreciated. However, with the wisdom that ripens from experience, the college cheerfully took up its task and was enabled to find fitting successors, who, by zeal and earnest devotion to their work, carried forward the move- ment constructively. Page Six

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THE .MAIM.E LEAF task iiioi ' e ardiKius of the office of Preceptress. This duty, w itli its iiiaiiy |)rol)- lenis, devolved upon Miss I lary Hooley who did full justice to the claims and never lost her pleasant smile. The last change to note in the faculty role came in the Husiness school. To direct its work came Mr. Homer Sehrock who administered affairs with char- acteristic business manner. Not theoretical only were his preeejjts, for the Business Office of the school was also in his char re. Material changes M-ere also witnessed. So gradually under the workman ' s skill wa.s brought to perfection the beautiful and commodious new Science Hall. Its well-shaped cornerstone had been placed down a year ago. And ever since workmen in nundiers large or small have busily plied their tools on same until now it stands a fitting monument of able jilans and skillful labor. What I ' lnids of knowledge cannot be dispensed witliin its spacious halls. ' Wliat mysteries of science and domestic art will not lie here revealed? For from its topmost he ight to its basement floors its room and laboratories are all devoted to science. So on the upper floor Chemistry and l hysies will find their home. Then de- scending to the next, the arts of domestic economy will hold ' their sway. While lower still and level with the ground, the halls are at tlic ser ice of the sciences that deal witii life in aiiinud and phuit. And last of all tile coiiUHodious liase- nient rooms, will lie devoted to the wealth producing sciences of Agriculture and Dairying. Thus housed wit ' un these new bricl walls, tlie sciences will henceforth lind ample room to reveal their facts to iutiu ' c geiici-afions of eager investigators. Within the old Administration building. pi ' ogT-ess was also made. For man. - Page Eight