Hastings College - Bronco Yearbook (Hastings, NE)

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Above: Dr. Clyde B. Aitchison, '93, now chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, recently wrote the Hastings College hymn which is found on the end sheets of this book. of any president to date. Hastings College and its man friends mourned his assin some months later U Y P 1n the same year. To replace Dr. French, Dr. John W. Creighton, missionary and educator in China for twenty years, was called from the faculty of Wooster College in Ohio as seventh president of Hastings College. Among his noteworthy achievements have been the clearance of the 560,000 debt and the completion of Taylor Hall, women,s residence for fifty-four students. The merger of Bellevue College with Hastings College was completed in 1934, sixteen years after Bellevue closed its doors. In 1936 the gymnasium at Bellevue burned, and with the insurance money Hastings College purchased the golf course and club house that adjoin the campus to the north. Appropriately renamed Bellevue House, the building is now used as a student union center. The newest development in Hastings College is the accelerated educational program which will go into effect with the beginning of the 1942 summer term. Starting in June, the school program will be conducted on a four-quarter basis, which will enable students to earn their degrees in three full years in place of the usual four years of nine months. The new system is optional and is designed principally for men who will be needed later in the armed services. Thus the history of Hastings College is brought up to the present. The college has gone through many crises, and may perhaps be called upon to go through others. No one can predict the future, but Hastings College already has plans, some of which appear in the Future Section of this book-and these plans will be carried out if its thousands of friends rally to its support as they have in the past. The writers of this history wish to express their appreciation to the following persons for the valuable help in preparinglthis material: Dean Frank E. Weyer for information taken from his recently published book, Presbyterian Colleges and Academies in Ne- braska , Mr. P. L. Johnson, member of the board of trustees since 1903, for information from his His- tory of Hastings Collegen funpublishedjg Mr. Clyde B. Aitchison, '93, chairman of the Interstate Com- merce Commission, Washington, D. C., for the in- formation and pictures furnished by him, and to the countless others who have helped in many, 'many ways. Below: Taylor hall from 1921 to 1938 was only a basement. Then, as now, the college dining hall was in the basement.

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To Miss Carpenter The influence of a wise woman threads the pages of this book as it threads the lives of a dozen generations of Hastings College students. To Miss Janet Carpenter the Junior Class dedicates the Bronco of 1942. During 50 of its 60 years of life Hastings College has known the presence of a small woman whose lips seem always to curve upward in a friendly smile and whose classes are more than mere instruction in English. Disdainful of static personality, she has kept ever abreast or ahead of current thinking, she has earned and held the re- spect of those about her. Miss Carpenter's kindly concern for all whom she knows, her serenity of spirit, her half- laughing mockery of complacency, her rare sense of humor, her ideals, and her striving for perfec- tion-yet her tolerance toward those failing to achieve that high goal-these characteristics weave the pattern each Hastings College student is proud to follow. Ni MZ N y 15