Lenoir Rhyne College - Hacawa Yearbook (Hickory, NC)

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' n i ■) ROBERT ANDERSON VODER, D.D. First President of Lenoir-Rliyne College. From 1891 till 1901 he labored that Lenoir-Rhyne misht never take a back- ward step; but all forward toward the realization of the high purpose and aim of its founders, namely: a school which should afford the best mental culture pos- sible, in all departments of human knowledge upon Christian principles . . . 19

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7 .J „ »7 t: (mTSSSmi ' WwSmwik MBnef w- r f -sa»- ' «i I ,1(11 ilAI.I, TEAM OF 1909 Thirty-Five Years 01 Progress It was recorded in tin- Lutlu-ran Teniit ' sset ' synod niinutt-s of i(S9J; Lenoir College, Hickory, N. C, is also tor the coeducation of the sexes. It is in a very prosperous condition. The attenchince is lariie and increasing. It deserves the care and patronage of our people. When we reniemher that on May 5, i8gi, a wagon load of stiulents and faculty members of Concordia College, at Conover, had journeyed up to Hickory to clean up the bad for snakes thicket of brush on the present college campus, Lenoir-Rh ' ne was indeed making rapid progress. At a stormy special session in 1890, synod turned down Caiit. Walter Lenoir ' s offer of the campus and thirty-eight one-acre lots. Concordia, established as a high school in 1877, and as a college in 18S1. was retained as the official school. In 1 89 1, Dr. R. A. oder, president of Concordia, resigned his position and gave his personal note with J. C. Aloser, W. P. Cline, and A. L. Crouse for $10,000 to take the I enoir proposition. Col. J. G. Hall was Capt. Lenoir ' s representative in these deal- ings. i I. f