Lebanon Valley College - Quittapahilla Yearbook (Annville, PA)

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Judging from the present growing student body our dormitories will soon have to be enlarged. The Woman ' s dormitory was filled to over-flowing this year, and the Men ' s dormitory was nearly full. The Dining-hall is much crowded for com- fort and from present indications will not accommodate those wanting to board there next year. In the midst of these crowded conditions what shall we do? Shall we sit down and cry in this prosperity and say that we can not handle so many students. Shall we send them home, or elsewhere? No, no, again we will be wise and meet the emergency. Somebody will build us a dining hall large enough to meet our need, while the present dining room will be made into dormitory rooms to accommodate more girls. Besides this, we shall be compelled to make an addition to the Women ' s Dormitory. We now need our own electric light plant, to furnish light for all our buildings, and a new grandstand on the Athletic field. We feel sure that some of our friends will help us out with these improvements. Our student body is growing rapidly and we have a large constituency from which to draw. If we handle our students judiciously and the splendid college spirit continues to prevail, we will have five hundred students in a few years. How can these things be done? BY HEARTY COOPERATION. 14

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The college has passed through some hard struggles in common with other simi- lar institutions, but each time came out a better and stronger school. The disastrous fire of 1904, in a few short hours laid low the material Lebanon Valley and caused many hearts to give up in despair. But from the ashes grew up a greater, a more beautiful and a more efficient college than ever dreamed of before, so that the fire was not an unmixed evil. Our work is divided into five departments; College, Academy, Music, Oratory, and Art. Lebanon Valley is a good school with a fine faculty, a splendid student body, new modern buildings, well-equipped Laboratories, a workable Library, new Gym- nasium, a large campus, an athletic field, a track, good moral and religious surround- ings, excellent church privileges, a healthful climate, and is in close touch with large cities by steam and trolley lines, all of which make it a desirable place to study. The recent improvements and repairs to all buildings, the presenting of a large Howard clock to the college by the class of 1913, the equipping of a new gymnasium by the Alumni, and a general desire to cooperate as trustees, faculty and students, have created a most delightful college spirit, and have helped to swell the number of students to 305 which is a twenty-six per cent increase over last year. The greatest growth this year is in the college and the music departments. Now what of the Future ? Shall we rest on our oars ? Shall we take life easy ? Shall we be satisfied with past successes? Or, shall we go forward? Shall we undertake greater things? Shall we keep pace with the times? Shall we lead or be led? Paul said: Forgetting the things that are behind I press forward. That should be our motto. The thousands of young people waiting to be trained, who will go to college somewhere, and who ought to go to a Christian college ; our obligations as a church to train young people; our ability in brains and money to meet that need, should be a mighty challenge to our intelligence, generosity, consecration, and business acumen. To meet the growing demand, besides our eight buildings and present endowment fund, additional buildings, and several new departments. In harmony with the action of the Board of Trustees the authorities are now in the midst of campaign to raise an endowment fund of two hundred thousand dol- lars by June, 1916, when the college will celebrate it ' s fiftieth anniversary with be- coming ceremonies. Those cooperating, seeing this splendid opportunity to increase the efficiency of the institution, and to multiply it ' s usefulness, with heroic courage and determination will stand together to reach this much desired end. Now, ought this be done? We answer, it ought. If it ought, it can be; it must be; it will be for we have determined to go forward. The times demand the addition of at least three new departments of work, namely Agriculture, Engineering, and Domestic Science. The great numbers of young people who are seeking this special training will find it somewhere. If we are wise, we will make the necessary preparation to accommodate these splendid young students and then say come to old Lebanon Valley and they will come. M ' e icill be wise. 13

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Board of Trustees Rev. a. B. Statton, D. D President Hon. a. S. Kreider Vice-President Rev. W. H. Weaver ...... Secretary and Treasurer MEMBERSHIP. President G. D. Gossard and Faculty, Ex-Officio. Representatives from Pennsylvania Conference. Term Expires. Rev. John W. Owen Dayton, Ohio. 1914. Rev. D. M. Oyer, A. B Boiling Springs. 1914. S. H. Bowers .......... Lemoyne. 1914. George C. Snyder Hagerstown, Md. 1914. Rev. W. H. Washinger, D.D Chambersburg. 1915. Rev. J. E. Kleffman, D.D Baltimore, Md. 1915. Rev. J. F. Snyder . . Red Lion. 1915. Rev. A. A. Long, D.D York. 1916. Rev. A. B. Statton, D.D Hagerstown, Md. 1916. W. O. Appenzeller Chambersburg. 1916. Rev. L. Walter Lutz ........ Chambersburg. 1916. Representatives from East Pennsylvania Conference. Rev. D. D. Lowery, D.D Harrisburg. 1916. Rev. R. R. Butterwick, D.D Mountville. 1916. Rev. E. O. Burtner, A.M Palmyra. 1916. G. F. Breinig AUentown. 1914. L B. Haak Myerstown. 1914. Dr. Seth A. Light Lebanon. 1914. M. S. Hendricks . Shamokin. 1915. S. F. Engle Palmyra. 1915. Rev. D. E. Long Annville. 1915. Rev. H. E. Miller, A.M Lebanon. 1915. Hon. Aaron S. Kreider ........ Annville. 1915. S. C. Snoke Philadelphia. 1915. Representatives from Virginia Conference. Rev. E. E. NefE Reliance, Va. 1914. Elmer Hodges Winchester, Va. 1914. Prof. J. N. Fries . . . . . . Berkelv Springs, W. Va. 1914. Rev. A. S. Hammack Dayton, Va. 1915. Rev. W. L. Gruver, D.D Martinsburg, W. Va. 1915. W. S. Secrist . . . . . . . . Keyser, W. Va. 1915. Trustees at Large — H. S. Immel, Mountville; Warren A. Thomas, Columbus, Ohio ; A. J. Cochran, Dawson. Alumni Trustees— Prof. H. H. Baish, A. M., ' 01, Altoona; Rev. I. E. Runk, D.D., ' 99, Scotdale; Rev. A. K. Wier, A.B., ' 00, Steelton. 15