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

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Sunday, February 17, 1963 at 2:45 P.M., Iowa Wesleyan College commemorated the founding of the former Mount Pleasant German College. This institution was affiliated with Iowa Wesleyan College from 1873 until 1909. It trained many German-speaking Methodist ministers for work in the former St. Louis German Conference as well as offering academy and college education for youth from German-American families. The speaker at the Convocation was Dr. Myron F. Wicke, Associate General Secretary of the Methodist Board of Education. He spoke on the topic of the contribution made to the Methodist hertitage by the German work. Also that day The Reverend Zwingli F. Meyer of Crete, Nebraska, presented Iowa Wesleyan College his personal collection of German -American Methodism containing archives and historic photographs. FO UNDERS DA Y Dr. Wicke Sunday, February 17, 1963 Iowa Wesleyan College The Chapel President Henderson presenting Dr. Haselmaycr a citation for his efforts to make Founders Day a success.

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From the Editor’s Desk: John F. Eibl Editor T his edition of the CROAKER represents the year 1963, a year which I have chosen to call the year of change for Iowa Wesleyan College. Wesleyan has inaugurated a new president, hired some new faculty members, acquired many new fraternity and sorority members and has roaming on its campus a new and changing student populous. Along with all of these changes, Wesleyan this year is also attempting to clearly define its goals, objectives, and purposes so that Wesleyan will have a more definite future direction. A goals committee during the course of this year has recom-mened an athletic change which will influence many things on campus. Students, who perhaps did nothing but roam the campus for four years, have shown that they, individually, have ideas and have reacted to the recommendations, some pro, some con. Unfortunately the CROAKER had to go to the publishers before the day of decision, but those of you who were here at Wesleyan will know what happened in 1963. A new spirit is developing on this campus. A spirit similar to individualism. The individual student is becoming more aware of his important in the academic and physical development of Wesleyan. In this time of change the individual and the college community perhaps are beginning to realize that they too must share the burden of responsibility for policy making on this campus; both the students and the administration have almost an equal share of this responsibility. This edition of the CROAKER is almost finished and I would like to thank the many people who have aided in its publication. As its editor, I have enjoyed the fulltime job of fitting together photographs, copy, and layouts to give to this campus a book which is quite different than the others which have preceded it. My last thank you I would like to give to the College and to the student body for giving me this opportunity of presenting this book to them.

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Dr. John Wayne Henderson ... a man that we believe has the background of education and the experience that fits him to provide the leadership that Iowa Wesleyan is looking for in the decades ahead. As we have counseled with him, we conclude that he has the talents that are needed to do the difficult administrative tasks that any college president has; to deal with the many problems of human relations both with the students, with the faculty and staff, and with the many college 'publics'. We have found an individual who has the desire and the motivation to tackle a presidency--who looks at it as a challenge; a man that we believe has the firmness to deal with the problems and help make decisions that must be made. (C. M. Stanley in the PURPLE AND WHITE.) Editor's note: Saturday, March 30, 1963 Iowa Wesleyan College will inaugurate its new president. The Croaker had gone to the publishers before the ceremonies on March 30 and the staff decided to dedicate this page to the new president of Iowa Wesleyan College, Dr. John W. Henderson. Mi ■ Z tt • ZrudZcsA' mvu -JZu -.ZiCuZ y ZZotva ZZZoZryxivi’ ZjoZZtyt rryudZ Z u, Vw ux yotw irtAv ic tZ Z i JtSrri ZZ y7U dZevzderni ti • Ziw iZy ri}Z ZZZaZZ-hZ '.Z u ZuZZry 'ZaZtrtZay; ZAZrZtcZZ ZZe r Z»' • Zli ifZeX' v Juj it rxd ianc Ata y-ZAr s ziZ Zvo ZrZy- Zi €- x xZc Z Zri' Z uc x cft'TUXnv Zt u i Z ZZfuU -jZu ZZZlZy v ZL Z ye' is Z u- iZ ZZtZzU nZ' President’s Inauguration 133