Lebanon Valley College - Quittapahilla Yearbook (Annville, PA)

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LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE 1866-1929 By NORMAN C. SCHLICHTER, ' 97, Litt.D. THE big moment of every Lebanon Valley Fresh- man ' s first day ought to be when he is escorted by older classmen to South Hall and told that it was built in 1859, and that the Annville Academy, built in 1834 on the same site, was well enough known to attract students from other states as well as from Pennsylvania. He next should be told that South Hall was donated to Lebanon Valley College by the owners of the Academy, and that the College opened in this, its first building, on May 7, 1866. The third thing his enthusiastic upper classmen should tell him is that the attendance grew from forty-nine students the first term to one hundred and fifty-three at the end of the year. And the fourth thing, that Rev. Thomas R. Vickroy, Ph.D., a graduate of Dickinson College, served as the first President until 1871. Wouldn ' t it be a fine thing if scholarships or build- ings were given the names of Lebanon Valley ' s Presidents so that statements like this would not be necessary to bring them to mind again? President Vickroy was the author of an English grammar, of a rhetoric, and editor of a monthly paper, Phonetic Spelling. ' ' He was a scholar and leader and had an honored career in education in St. Louis follow- ing his leaving Lebanon Valley in 1871. The roll of Presidents who followed is on page 27. Nearly all of them attained wide professional distinc- tion and gave devoted and high-minded leadership to the College. The frequent changes in the leadership were largely due to the limited financial resources of the College dur- ing its first thirty years, which dis- couraged some of the earlier Presi- dents. The second thirty years of the College, end- mg this com- mencement of 1929, are the years of its highest develop- ment into an in- stitution of good financial standing, with a steadily increasing attendance. The greatest financial progress has been made during President Gossard ' s administration. His enthusiastic leadership is loyally supported by the alumni who were graduated before his term of service began. This is the best evidence possible that Lebanon Valley has long had a great spirit, and that the many years of self-sacrifice on the part of its faculty, who received barely living wages (not salaries) until within only the past decade, inspired deep love of Alma Mater in most of her students throughout her history. The Quittapahilla salutes the faculties of older days for their loyalty to the principles for which Lebanon Valley was founded. Today every alumnus and student should be Page twenty-two