Irving College - Irvingiana Yearbook (Mechanicsburg, PA)

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gllfarg gllzrnhznzlr gfimszslm: ARY LAUBACH KESSLER, daughter of Rev. Benjamin Laubach, a clergyman of the Lutheran church, and his wife, Ellen W'underlich, was born August 25, 1843, at the home of her maternal grandfather, in Southampton township, Franklin county, Pa. Mrs. Kessler is the widow of Rev. Christian Kessler, of the Reformed church. She has one daughter, Eleanor, graduated from lrving College in 1892. Mrs. Kesslerls education was begun very early by her mother. Later, when old enough, she attended the well-known private school of the Misses Pinner, and other schools of her home, Chan1bersburg, Pa. After four years of study in Hagerstown Seminary, Md., she was graduated in 1861. Her life has been devoted to study and teaching. Mrs. Kessler taught tive consecutive years in Hagerstown Seminary, Md., 1877-1882, three in Luther- ville Seminary, Md., 1883-86, and seven in Irving College, 1888-95. She is now Assistant Principal of the Soldiers' Orphan Industrial School, Scotland, Pa., where she has been teaching eleven years, 1895-06. Other fields of work have been: Mercersburg College, 1867-69, Uniontown, Pa., Lehighton, Pa., Chambersburg High School, Shippensburg Normal School and Oxford Academy, Oxford, N. Y.

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Qiflmnirfr Qiritesi Qlafmphell, jill., 1311. DMOND ERNEST CAMPBELL, A. M., Ph. D., the fourth President of Irving College, was born at Waynesboro, Pa., in 1859. He was the sixth child of I. F. Campbell, D. D., then pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran church, in Waynesboro. His 1not.her was the daughter of Wright Gatewood, Esq., who resided at Strasburg, Va. Squire Gatewood was a prominent Southern planter, owning large estates. He represented his county of Shenandoah eleven years in the Virginia Legislature. He was a staunch Democrat of the jeffersonian type. He opposed the secession of his State from the Union on the floor of the House. His daughter, Mrs. F. Campbell, was his only child. She was educated in the best schools for women of her day. Dr. Campbell has four brothers living, Wright, Richard, Frank, james, and two sisters living, Lucy and Evelyn, and two dead, Emma and Annie. Both parents are dead, having lived to a mature old age. He attended first private schools and then Roanoke College, Salem, Va. In 1879 he was graduated from Roanoke with the degree A. B. His father received his D. D., the same commencement from Roanoke College. Dr. Campbell then began teaching, nlling positions in graded and classical select schools continuously until 1882, when he was elected a member of the Faculty of the Hagerstown Female Seminary, filling the chair of Latin and Meutal Science. Dr. Campbell remained associated with this institution until 1888, when he was elected to a similar chair in the Staunton QVa.j Female Seminary. In 1890 Dr. Campbell was called to become principal of the Educa- tional Department of Tressler Orphans' Home, Loysville, Pa. In the spring of 1891 he was elected President of Irving College. He took charge of the College july, 191. Since Dr. Campbell became President of Irving Columbian Hall has been erected, and in 1900 the Art Studio and Annex were completed. In 1902 Music Hall was built, which contains on the basement Hoor a complete steam laundry, on the nrst floor, twenty-four new practice rooms, on the second floor a beautiful dining hall, and on the third iioor the kitchen and club room. Dr. Campbell has now nearly completed a very handsome residence on the southeastern part of the Col- lege grounds, where he will be able to entertain the Faculty and students and his friends. Its style of archi- tecture is the Spanish Rennaissance. Four acres of ground have been added to the campus, and already more than 150 ornamental trees are growing upon it. Greater things are yet in store for Irving.