Lebanon Valley College - Quittapahilla Yearbook (Annville, PA)

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To Rudolph Herr John H. Kinports Lewis W. Craumer George A. Mark George W. Hoverter a nil the other public-spirited citizens of Annville whose time, talent and finance was engaged in the founding of LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE this volit me of the QUITTAPAHILLA is most respectfully dedicated by The Class of Nineteen Seventeen

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IcInIESIHERE are many people who are intensely interested in names people who will base their character- judgments ami their general good will upon beings or things in propor- tion as to how the cognomen of that particular object coincides with their individual taste or fancy. True it is, indeed, that terms which were dear to us in our youth and adolescence stdl retain in our more critical and feeble years, a love and reverence which awakens the pleasant reminiscences of the past and transports us into the realms of the happy gone-bys. It is with this object in view that the CLASS OF SEVENTEEN retains the name QuiTTAPAHILLA with the hope that it may kindle fond recollections in the Alumni and friends of the College who have in their own respective times leisurely strolled along and admired the charm of this most beautiful stream flowing through the heart of this Lebanon Valley ami bordering upon our ALMA MATER. THE STAFF

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JYdge John H. Kixports Judge John H. Kinports was born Januan 21. 1S21, 011 ;i farm in Lebanon County, where he spent his earlv lite. When fifteen ears of age, he enured the employ of James Bingham, of Annville, with whom he continued for three ars, continuing to he a citizen of Annville until his election to the office of Clerk of the Orphans ' and Quarter Sessions Co ' irt, when he moved to the city of Lebanon where he resided during the incumbency of that official position. Returning to Annville, he engaged in merchandising in partnership with C. H. Killinger, later with H. H. Kreider, and still later with D. 0. Slunk, Continuing with the latter gentleman until Judge Kinports ' death. Mr. Kinports, also, was one of the founders of Lebanon ' a 1 1 e College, and was one of it most loyal supporters. He was mie of the organizers of the Annville National Bank, became its first prtsidmt, and was holding that office at the time of his death on March S, iS m-