Lake Forest College - Forester Yearbook (Lake Forest, IL)

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PRESIDENT JOHN SCI-IOLTE NOLLEN, Ph. D 10

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Lake Forest College Founded 1875 THE PRESIDENTS OF LAKE FOREST COLLEGE REV. ROBERT WILSON PATTERSON, D. D., 1875-78. Lecturer at Lane Seminary, 1880-83. Died 1894. JOHN HASKELL HEWITT, LL. D., 1878. fActing Presidentl REV. DANIEL SEELYE GREGORY, D. D., LL. D., 1878-86. Managing Editor of Standard Dictionary, 1890-94. Editor of Hoznoletic Review 1895-04. General Secretary of American Bible League, and Managing Editor Bible Student and Teacher, 1904-. REV. WILLIAM CHARLES ROBERTS, D. D., LL. D., 1886-92. Secretary of Presbyterian Board of Home Missions, 1892-98. President of Central University, Danville, Kentucky. 1898-03. Died in 1903. REV. JAMES GORE KING IVICCLURE, D. D., 1892-93. fpro temporel JOHN IVIERLE COULTER, Ph. D., 1893-96. Professor and Head of Department of Botany, Chicago University, 1896-. JOHN HALSEY, LL. D., 1896-97. fActing Presidentj REV. JAMES GORE KING IVIcCLURE, D. D., 1897-01. Pastor of Lake Forest Presbyterian Church, 1881-05. President IVIcCormic1c Theological Seminary, 1905-. REV. RICHARD DAVENPORT HARLAN, D. D., LL. D., 1901-06. George Washington University, Washington, D. C. JOHN HALSEY, LL. D., 1906-07. fActing PresidentJ JOHN SCI-IOLTE NOLLEN, Ph. D., 1907-. 9

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john Scholte N ollen 7,7 fi ' HETHER President John Scholte Nollen has any special life-motto we do H S not know, but his own record exemplifies strikingly that well-known 1 sid maxim: Be sure you're rightg then go ahead! Born in central lowa, of Dutch parents, he has shown in his life thus far the historic qualities of the Dutch race, patience and persistence, united with the alertness and re- ' sourcefulness of the Middle West. His preparation for his work as a teacher was broad and thorough. He had flve years of college study,-first at Central College, Pella, lowa, where he took the degree of A. B. in l885g later. for a year, at the State University of Iowa, where he took the A. B. degree again in l888. To this he added six years of graduate study in Europe: two years at the University of Zurich: half a year at Paris: three years at Leipsic, where he took his doctorate in l893g one year, l900-l90l , at Berlin. Eleven years of college and graduate study before the age of thirty-two. His record as a teacher shows his attention to the other part of the maxim. After graduating at Central College he taught there for two years, from ISS5 to l887. His European experience included two years work as teacher in a school in Zurich, from l888 to l890. From l893 to l903 he was Instructor and then Professor of Modern Languages in Iowa College, one of the strongest institutions of College grade in the West. From l903 to l907 he was head of the Department of German in the State University of Indiana. An educational experience thus wide and successful, on the part of a man not yet thirty-nine years old when he entered on his duties as President of Lake Forest, promises well for his usefulness in his new position. The same motto: Be sure you're right: then go ahead! seems to apply to his character as an administrator. During the year now closing he has been getting acquainted, not only with the college community, but with the alumni and the families of students, with the citizens of Lake Forest and with the church people of Chicago. He has shown him- self frank and hearty in his ways, vigorous of mind and body, quick to appreciate the good in other men, and able to catch their point of view while resolute in his own convictions. He is prudently holding fast to the good already achieved under his predecessors, Dr. Harlan and Dr. Halsey, and he is pushing on, quietly but untiringly, in the course of im- provement. Dr. Nollen has already diffused the spirit of cooperation and of persistent work throughout the college community. Confident in the full adequacy of her President to his duties, Lake Forest expects under his guidance, not only to hold the right course but to go forward. . 11