Kansas Wesleyan University - Coyote Yearbook (Salina, KS)

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ALBERT l-I. KING Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 'C. WALTER FOLTZ Dean of the College of Commerce 14 'if f fe A ERNEST L, COX Dean of the College of Music

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buildings and grounds and be most convenient to both conferences without regard to which conference it shall be in. Third, lf the location shall be within the bounds of the Northwest Kansas Conference. we. the board of trustees. will agree to use our influenze to have it trans- ferred to the Southwest Kansas Conference half the timci and if it shall be located in the South- west Kansas Conference. your board of trustees to agree to use your influence to have it trans- ferred to the Northwest Kansas Conference half the time. The committee consisted of Nl. lvl. Stoltz. Al. l-l. Lockwood. R. A. Hoffman. A. P. Collins, and A. N. Sec. They went to Wichita and made their proposition. but failed to accomplish their purpose. The Southwest Kansas Conference trustees decided against the merger and the committee came back to Salina. with their ardor somewhat dampened but with the hrm reso- lution to build the college. The fact that the Southwest Conference placed their college in the extreme southeast corner of the state. at Winfield. left the entire western and central part of the state without an institution of learning and thus the need for such a school as proposed was augmented. The board felt that they must put forth every effort to build the college. lVlr. A. M. Claflin. an old resident of Salina and a member of the board of trustees. was greatly interested in Salinas taking speedy and positive action to secure the college. and so were a number of other prominent men and women. among the latter being ivlrs. A. N. See. wife of the secretary of the board. lvlr. ClaHin conceived the idea of purchasing a tract of land lying south of the city. laying it out in lots. and selling the lots at S100 each without regard to location. payments to be made at ten per cent a month until paid for. When seven payments had been made. those buying were to be summoned to meet and select by lot the particular lot they were to have. each to accept and be satisfied with the lot he drew. An option was secured on the land by lvlr. Claflin. at a certain price. provided it was taken within a specified time. l-le then wrote out subscription lists for every pastor in the conference. lXflr. Clafiin requested A. N. See. secretary of the board of trustees. to send these lists to the pastors with instructions to rush them. as there was only one week in which to work before the plans closed. This he agreed to do but with little hope of success. He instructed the pastors to get all the subscriptions they could and send them in to him by the night of .July 7th. for the trustees would meet at Solomon on -july Sth. The trustees and friends went to work in Salina with strong faith in the enterprise and had good success. but could not secure enough to meet the demand without outside help. This came in freely for a time. but when the trustees took the train for Solomon. there was still lacking a considerable sum to make the plan sure. But the people of Salina did not stop. They only worked all the harder. The meeting of the board of trustees at Solomon had been called to order and some business matters discussed. when a telegram came from Salina signed by l-l. l-l. Sudcndorf. C. Eberhardt. F. D. Baker and C. lvl. Claflin. stating that the lots were all sold and inviting the trustees to return and locate the college. XVhen the telegram was read there was a shouting time and the board adjourned to meet at Salina as soon as the train could take them there. They were met at the station with conveyances and taken out Santa Fe to the south end of the townsite where they let down a fence. crossed a potato patch. and drove along the side of a corn field out onto the prairie half a mile south of the city limits. now Republic Avenue, and. on the highest point of the ground. located Kansas Wesleyan University. A Kansas Wesleyan Addition corporation was formed and the trustees entered into a contract with them-they were to have the ground surveyed. plotted, shade trees set on each lot. a college building erected according to a plan approved by the board of trustees. and deedcd to the trustees of Kansas NVesleyan University free of debti the trustees on their part. to open and maintain an institution of full college grade perpetually and to furnish a certain amount of endowment within a certain time. Notice was sent to all subscribers. also notice of monthly payments. and when seventy per cent was paid in. the lots were drawn and members could have sold their lots for the full amount in a very short time. There was now enough money to put up the administration building after paying for the land and all expenses. ln other words. the trustees bought a farm, sold it to themselves in lots. and had enough money to pay for the farm. give Hfteen acres for a campus. and erect a 326.000 college building. while every mans lot was worth all it cost him. Bishop Vincent. on one of his visits to the college. hearing of how the money was raised to buy fifteen acres of land and build a 326.000 administration building. said he had often heard of a mans lifting himself by his own boot-straps. and he thought the committee in this case had, without a doubt, done this. V The name Kansas Wesleyan University was suggested by I-lon. A. P. Collins, at one time president of the board of trustees. and adopted july 9. 1885. 13

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