Linfield College - Oak Leaves Yearbook (McMinnville, OR)

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OAK LEAVES i u I ' w dwwmbbmmwimmbmmbwmbm—————— IMHMMWWWBi 1931 President Riley’s Message President Leonard W. Riley HIS HAS BEEN a quiet year at ® Linfield. Outstanding events have been few yet significant. Such seasons are necessary as they increase stability and produce real strength in the lives of both individuals and organizations. Cour¬ age, confidence, worthfulness are devel¬ oped. The year means all this for Lin¬ field. Our College has long enjoyed the ap¬ proval and support of the United States Bureau of Education, The General Edu¬ cation Board, the Board of Education of the Northern Baptist Convention and our State Departments of Education. More recently came the action of the North¬ west Association of Secondary and Higher Schools which placed Linfield on the coveted list of standard colleges and universities. This year may well be remembered because of the recognition of Linfield by the Carnegie Cor¬ poration of New York as worthy of a large investment of its funds. Our College will receive $2,000 annually for a period of three years for the purchase of books, magazines and bindings. This grant was made after a thorough investigation by a most competent expert in educational matters. The year is made memorable also by the visit of Doctor J. D. Elliff, of¬ ficial representative of our Baptist Board of Education. In the middle west Dr. Elliff is widely recognized as a trustworthy judge of what is best in edu¬ cation. His report to our Trustees after a week on our Campus was highly commendatory in all essential respects. He heartily approves of the poli¬ cies followed at Linfield. They are leading in the right direction. Some may remember this as the first year of the girls’ athletic turf field but more as the year the old bridge across Cozine creek was torn down and a new one erected. Pleasant memories cluster around the old structure. The new one, more substantial in every way, will doubtless develop its own traditions. Perhaps some others may think of this year in connection with the clos¬ ing of my twenty-five years at Linfield. These have been years of inestim¬ able privilege! My life has been happily enriched through association with the hundreds of splendid young people who have adorned the halls of Lin¬ field. May God bless them! I shall sorely miss them and much else at dear old Linfield, but my constant hope and prayer shall ever be that Lin¬ field may more and more become “the greatest light in the Pacific North¬ west. Page 10 ■ M

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OAK LEAVES HHMMi 1931 O. P. Coshow C. H. Kopf W. P. Dyke H. L. Toney Vice-President Treasurer Secretary President Board of Trustees Members of The Board Leonard W. Riley, D. D., Ex-officio, McMinnville. Members for three years ending June, 1931: Marshall N. Dana, As¬ sociate Editor Oregon Journal, Portland; Rev. C. 0. Johnson, D. D., Pastor First Baptist Church, Tacoma, Wash.; Dr. Olof Larsell, Professor Medical School, University of Oregon, Portland; B. W. Strong, banker, Roseburg; Carey Tilbury, merchant, McMinnville; H. L. Toney, banker (Alumni rep.) McMinnville; Rev. J. L. Whirry, Convention Missionary, McMinnville; Rev. F. W. Wightman, Supt. Convention Missions, Spokane; Rev. 0. C. Wright, D. D., Supt. Convention Missions, Portland. Members for three ,years ending June, 1932: Dr. Raymond B. Culver, Northwest Secretary Y. M. C. A. (Alumni rep.) Portland; Mahlon H. Day, life insurance, Portland; Walter P. Dyke, lawyer, Forest Grove; W. W. Hos¬ tetler, business man, McMinnville; Walter T. Jenks, wholesale merchant, Salem; Rev. Jacob Kratt, D. D., Pastor First German Baptist Church, Port¬ land; F. G. Leary, contractor, Portland; Mrs. F. E. R. Linfield, Portland; Irving E. Miller, Ph. D., Professor State Normal, Bellingham, Wash. Members for three years ending June, 1933: J. H. Carstens, orchard- ist and real estate, Yakima, Wash.; Hon. 0. P. Coshow, lawyer, Portland; L. S. Hopfield, (Alumni rep.) Portland; Rev. W. A. Shanks, D. D., Supt. Convention Missions, Boise, Idaho; L. E. Latourette, city attorney, Portland; Emanuel Northup, LI. D., Professor Emeritus, McMinnville; A. L. Veazie, lawyer, Portland; Rev. T. J. Villers, D. D., pastor Fiirst Baptist Church, Portland; J. F. Watson, D. D., Supt. Convention Missions, Seattle, Wash. Page 9

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OAK LEAVES 1931 The Faculty COLLEGE is not an abstract thing —-it is made up of human beings and is molded by their wills. It cannot be examined under a microscope, but ev¬ erywhere you can see evidence of the spirit of the human beings in it surely though slowly building and shaping it. And it is to the faculty more than to any other one group of people in a college that one comes in finding the source of most of that building and shaping spirit. Linfield’s faculty exemplifies to its students the true spirit of a college—the desire to learn, to disseminate knowledge, and to discover new truths—and com¬ bines with this willingness and readiness to help, to advise, and to understand. If you would find the true Linfield spirit, you will find in the faculty a group which not only conserves and keeps it alive, but one which helps in the building of that spirit. The following are the chairmen of the various faculty committees which help in making Linfield the college it is: Athletics, Henry Lever; Calendar of events, Harold Elkinton; Concerts and Recitals, Alice Clement; Depu¬ tation Work, Perry Woods; Discipline and Absences, Paul Orr; General Conduct and Social Affairs, Mrs. Storey; Library, Sabra Nason; Oratory, Debate and Dramatics, LeForest Sawtelle; Registration, Curriculum and Catalog, J. K. Riley; Room and Board, Mrs. Storey. During the past year the following have been student assistants: Ken¬ neth Derby and Opal Orr in Biology: Fred Ketch and Floyd Odell in Chem¬ istry; Bonnie Davidson in Business Administration; Frances Schick in En¬ glish; Jeannette Freeze and Helen McGillivray in French; Phillip Foord and LaVinia Buirgy in Speech; Chris Christensen, George Sargent and Lawrence Tichenor in Physical Education; Orile Robbins in Athletics, and Elizabeth Watkins in Secretarial Training. Louise Jennings has been sec¬ retary to the President and the Registrar, and Betty Cullen to the Treasurer. Helen Alexander, Lucile Beswick, Faith Elm, Gail McClean, and Lillian VonPinnon have been Library Assistants. Linfield College was founded for those young people ambitious of liv¬ ing lives of worth—may the faculty ever be leaders and builders of lives ready and willing to accept their share in the responsibilities and joys of life. Paul J. On- Acting Dean Page 11 ■ wmmm