Linfield College - Oak Leaves Yearbook (McMinnville, OR)

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LEONARD WILLIAM RILEY 11 A. B. Denison University, 1894: graduate Rochester Theological Seminary, 1897; D. D., Denison University, 1909. President of Linfield College since 1906.

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President Riley’s Message (JTIT HERE is a peculiar pleasure attached to the writing of this annual message for Oak Leaves. To dream dreams is one thing; to realize their fulfillment is something vastly different. Those who have lived on our campus during this year have seen an accomplishment toward which much prayer and labor have been di¬ rected for many years past. Indeed, more money has been spent for new equipment and improvements on the campus in this one year than in all the previous seventy years of the life of the college put together. Beautiful, stately Melrose Hall! This generation of students will never forget the thrills they have experienced during its construction and dedication. Moreover, as it stands completed and furnished it is even beyond all our expectations. It is “the last word” in its type of construction! The Chapel with its pipe organ, its comfortable seats, its projection room and beautiful draperies; the commodious, attractive class rooms; the well equipped, spacious laboratories, and the well-designed administrative offices lend a dignity and a charm appealing to the eye and rejoicing to the heart. The new driveways and walks, “pictures in concrete,” winding through our state¬ ly oaks and firs and around our various buildings; our new heating plant with its permanent system of insulated steam pipes; our new athletic field, thoroughly drained and carefuly graded with board walks leading thereto,—all these, too, will make this year one long to be remembered. The grubbing out of the old stumps and underbrush; the trimming up of the oaks and firs; the discing and grading of the north portion of the campus preparatory to seeding and planting;—these too will provide pleasant memories in the years to come. There has meanwhile been a very substantial increase in the income-bearing en¬ dowment funds and the total assets of the institution, the former now standing at $876,103.26 and the latter a $1,416,569.51. The scholasic and spiritual interests of the college have not been neglected, as the revision of our courses of study and the meetings of Dr. Allyn K. Foster and Reverend Charles A. Carman attest. Thus hath the Lord richly blessed us. We have every reason to press forward in the good work, knowing that He who hath already bestowed so bountifully will provide for all our future needs as they arise and as we prove ourselves worthy of them. Our Aim; To make Linfield “The Greatest Light in the Pacific Northwest 10

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OAK LEAVES 192® MARGARET RAMSEY Instructor in Mathematics JOHN KENNETH RILEY Registrar and Librarian .4. B., Linfield, 1921; B. D., Rochester Theological Seminary, 1924. Reg¬ istrar and Librarian, Linfield Col¬ lege, since 1924. graduate student, University GUSTAV REINHOLD SCHLANCH of Oregon, summers of 1920, Professor of History 1921, 1923, 1926, 1927 and . TT . .. „ „ , , „ 1BQ1 , 1928! Instructor in Mathe- A - B., University; of Rochester 1894, „ graduate Rochester Theological Sem- inary 1S97; graduate student State College of Washington, summer of 1917. Professor of History, Linfield College, since 1919. since 1920. WILLIAM JABEZ JEROME Professor of Political and Social Sciences A. B., University of Washington, 1925; A. M., University of Washing¬ ton, 1925 Professor of Political and Social Sciences, Linfield College, since 1925. HAROLD CHARLES ELKINTON Associate Professor of Economics and Business Administration A. B., Whitman College, 1925; M. B. A., University of Oregon, 1927. As¬ sociate Professor of Economics and Business Administration, Linfield college, since 1927. 12