Lebanon Valley College - Quittapahilla Yearbook (Annville, PA)

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LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE- 1914 U j of keeping a horse; yet in spite of all these hardships he received only about $300 for his first 3 ear ' s services. In March, 1897, he was granted Annual Conference License to preach and was ordained on March 2, 1892 at Dallastown, Pennsylvania, bv Bishop E. B. Kephart, D. D., L. L. D. After having served on Marion Circuit for two years he was sent to Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, where he remained until March, 1902, when lie was transferred to Salem Church, Baltimore, Maryland. He was a member of the General Council Y. P. C. U. from 1904 to 1909 and has been a trustee of L. V. since 1908. During his pastorate at Baltimore his masterful executive ability, his sterling character, his eloquent presentation of Christian principles, and tiie remarkable demonstration in his own life of their power for righteous- ness cauifed him to become widely known as one of the most successful min- isters of the denomination, brought him the degree of D. D. from L. V. in 1910, and finall ' in the fall of 1912 when the trustees of L. V. sought a man to succeed the Reverend Lawrence Keister, D. D., S. T. B., who had recently resigned from the presidency of this institution, resulted in his selection to fill the vacancy. That their selection was a wise one has already been adequately de- monstrated. Upon his first appearance before the student body, at the opening exercises of the college year, Dr. Gossard endeared himself to all who heard him. In his address on that occasion he strongly emphasized that he does not believe in those schemes of education which tend to develop only one phase of a student ' s being, but that he will try to work out a sys- tem here which by providing for physical, intellectual, social, and spiritual needs, each in their proper place, will develop well balanced men and women, capable of fighting life ' s battles fairly and successfully. By help- ing to put our athletics on a firmer basis with financial aid and personal influence; by opening new opportunities to many of us thru improving some of our courses, no matter how strong they may already have been; by his fearless and successful efforts to secure justice for members of the fa- culty or of the student body when occasions demanded ; by the example of his character; by his manhood, he has kept the faith: and under his guiding hand L. V. will widen the scope of her influence, increase the mani- festation of her power for good, and will be a more substantial pillar in church and state, a more bounteous source of individual and civic righteous- ness, than ever before. -.-i r , ..m

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George Daniel Gossard EORGE DANIEL GOSSARD was born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, two and one-half miles south of Greencastle, on November 26, 1868. He was the second child of Hilary and Mary Gossard. Both of his parents and all of his seven brothers and sisters are still living. In his early youth he attended the public schools of his native county and later when his parents moved near Hagerstown, Maryland, those of Washington County, that state. It was during the public school period of his life that the foundations of his future intellectual power and strength of character were firmly laid. The teachers who were most responsible for the heights which he attained in later life are Ezra Shieldlcnecht, of Funkstown, Maryland; Martin Luther Keedym, now judge of the Wash- ington County Courts, and Joseph Shuman, of near Middleburg, Penn- sylvania. Even in his boyhood he was of a highly religious turn of mind, with the result that he was converted on his eighteenth birthday and three days later joined the United Brethren Church at Middleburg, of which Rev. S. H. Snell was then pastor. On January 21, 1888, he was granted Quarterly Conference License to preach ; and on March 2 of the same year he delivered his first sermon, the text of which was, The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. His youthful determination to obtain a higher education resulted in his entering West Virginia Normal and Classical Academy three days after he preached his first sermon. He graduated in his preparatory course in the spring of 1890 and entered Otterbein University in the following fall. While at college he became noted for his remarkable capacity to do much more work in a given time and do it well than the average student. This is demonstrated by the fact that he finished the regular three-year classical course in two ears, graduating with the degree of A. B. in 1892. In the following fall he entered Union Biblical Seminary, where his work was characterized by an even greater intensity of purpose and crown- ed with even greater success than his work in college. In fact he applied himself too closely to his work and consequently was forced to drop out of the seminary for one year to recuperate his health. He graduated in 1896 with the degree of B. D. During the period of his enforced absence from the seminary he was not idle by any means but served his first charge, Marion Circuit, which consisted of three churches with a total membership of eighty-five. He was considerably inconvenienced by the lack of a parsonage and the necessit l£35i;|bi V ' - ' - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' Z p: ff

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