Iowa Wesleyan College - Croaker Yearbook (Mount Pleasant, IA)

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Conserbatorp of Jflustc Iowa Wesleyan College has a conservatory of music that any college in the state would be glad to claim. It is recognized throughout the middle west as one of the best seats of musical instruction in this section, and its fame has spread to many lands. The graduates of the conservatory arc in many instances filling positions of recognized standing in the world of music, and their success may be traced directly to the training received under such instructors as the present teachers in the conservatory. The life and reputation of the conservatory rest in its dean, Dr. A. Rommel, who has spent the best years of his life in Mt. Pleasant, always striving for the highest expression of his art both in himself and in his pupils. A long list of the famous seats of learning where the doctor has studied and a resume of his talents is so well known as to need no telling in this connection. Suffice it to say that as long as the genial doctor remains at the head of Wesleyan’s department of music, students will continue to come from all parts of the nation to take advantage of his ripened experience and his superb knowledge of music. The department has been materially strengthened during the year that is past by the addition of a beautiful pipe organ to the chapel. It has always been the ambition of Doctor Rommel and other music lovers of the town to have a pipe organ installed in the college chapel. When almost everyone had given up hope of ever seeing this become a reality, the college students and alumni were electrified by the report last spring that a pipe organ costing ten thousand dollars and of the best make had been presented to the institution. The organ has since been installed and adds a great deal to the effectiveness of all functions held in the chapel building. DR. ROMMEL Dean