Lewis and Clark College - Voyageur Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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PRESIDENTS OF THE COLLEGE Rev. William 1. Montieth, 1867-1868 Rev. Henry Bushnell, 1868-1869 Rev. Edward R. Geary, D.D., 1869-1871 Royal K. Warren, 1871-1876 Rev. Howard W. Stratton, 1876-1878 David B. Rice, M.D., 1878-1879 Rev. Elbert Neal Condit, A.M.,1879-1885 Rev. J oseph C. Wyckoff, A.M., 1885-1886 Rev. Earl T. Lockhard, April 1886-1une, 1886 Rev. Edwin J. Thompson, D.D., 1886-1887 Rev. Elbert Neal Condit, A.M., 1887-1894 Frederick George Young, A.M., 1894-1895 Rev. Wallace Howe Lee, A.M., 1895-1905 Harry Means Crooks, LL.D., 1905-1915 Rev. Wallace Howe Lee, A.M., D.D., 1915-1920 Rev. Alfred Melvin Williams, D.D., 1920-1922 Raymond J . Baker, A.B., 1922-1923 Clarence Wilson Greene, A.M., M.Pd., Ph.D., 1923-1928 Thomas William Bibb, A.M., Ph.D., 1929-1938 Cl-arence Wilson Greene, A.M., M.Pd., Ph.D., 1938-1941 Benjamin Augustus Thaxter, A.M., L.H.D., 1941-1942 WWQ $98. W 7195-pr 1 S E E 1 1m wannyw V-

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or PROGRESS as many as fifty doing college work and it was 1925- 26 before students registering for college work num- bered as many as 100. The paying off of the college debt in its entirety was one of the great achievement of the Lee ad- ministration. The next president was Harry M. Crooks who served from 1905 to 1915 when he left to become president of Alma College, Alma, Michigan. One of Crooksa greatest services to Albany College was the building up of the endowment fund to $262,000, of which amount he had persuaded James J . Hill the great railroad magnate to give $50,000. Also, during Crooks7 administration the college acquired forty acres of land on the southern edge of the town of Albany as a new campus site. But it was not until 1926 that the move to the new campus was made. Ex-president Lee who had left in 1905 to become assistant pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Seattle, and later Dean of Whitworth College in Spokane, returned to Albany in 1914-15 and when President Crooks left, became acting president until January 1, 1920. Then Rev. Alfred Williams and Raymond J. Baker held the office for two and one year periods respectively. In 1923 Clarence W. Greene became president for a five-year period. His administration introduced the so-called Albany Self-Help plan-a plan more elabor- ate than anything that had been attempted before, and saw more construction work done than had been done in the first sixty years of the collegeis history. When the college moved to the Monteith campus in the summer of 1926, a new administra- tion building, the William Henry Gray Hall, had been erected, Tremont Hall had been moved to the new campus and transformed into a dormitory for women and renamed Woodward Hall, and funds for a new gymnasium had been secured under the terms of trustee Eric Hauserls will, which left an unre- stricted bequest of $100,000 to the college. The gym, however, was not erected until after Greene had left. In January, 1929, Thomas W. Bibb, Ph.D., be- came president and served until just before all the college work was moved to Portland in 1938. In 1930, the college had been accredited by the North- west Association of Secondary and Higher Schools and in the same year was admitted as a member of the Association of American Colleges, as a result of its high scholastic work, but the depression of the early 30,5 hit the college hard. Attendance fell off rapidly, morale was at a low ebb, faculty salaries were drastically cut and partially paid in notes signed by the Board of Trustees, and there was fric- tion in the faculty, with many of them leaving. In 1934 a Portland unit doing only junior college work was established, first in the old Allen School building at S. E. 12th and Salmon Streets, and later at S. W. 13th and Main Streets in what is now known as the KEX Broadcasting Studio and the other near- by buildings. The venture was so successful with the attendance far outstripping the attendance at Al- bany, that in the summer of 1938 the mother insti- tution closed its doors for good and all work was transferred to Portland. But the condition of the college was so poor and its future out-look so bleak that in April 1936 it lost the accreditation it had gained in 1930. From 1938 to 1942 all the college work was done in Portland and at an air base in Ontario, Oregon. Dr. Greene returned from Parsons College to take the helm again for a three-year period ending De- cember 5, 1941, when he was succeeded by Dean B. A. Thaxter who served as acting president until June 1942 when Dr. Morgan Odell came to lift the institution out of its slough of despondence. For three years Dr. Greene had labored valiantly to find a new campus home in Portland and put the faltering college back on its feet. But all to no avail. In J une, 1942 there was graduated the last and largest class yet to graduate from Albany College-31 in all. During this month, Dr. Odell by almost super-human efforts raised enough money to buy the beautiful Lloyde Frank estate on Palatine Hill for a new home for a brave new college; for in the fall, when all the work was moved to the new campus, Albany College changed its name to Lewis and Clark College. There were seven makeshift buildings and the Manor House on the sixty-five acre tract. Now, 16 years later, there are twenty-three buildings, a stadium, and an athletic field. Enrollment has grown from 123 to more than 1050, and the faculty from 20 to 70.

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