Lycoming College - Arrow Yearbook (Williamsport, PA)

Page 5 text:

With pride: we, the graduating class of 1962, present the ' 62 ARROW Editor-in-Chief — Kathryn Parkin Business Manager — Richard L. Scheaffer Advising Editor — H. David Wilt Advisers — John P. Graham G. Heil Gramley Elizabeth H. King

Page 4 text:

1 tl.. ilil f .?.;. a V

Page 6 text:

FOREWORD We follow the guideposts of those who have passed here before, the almost fairy tale-like creatures of times unknown to us. We meet them on the hillsides and in the valleys; we capture faint fragments of their laughter echoing through our hallways. They travel to us through years of progress, of heartache, of joy, with smiles as winsome and hearts as vital as those we have come to know. Their accomplishments unfold behind us leading us to the place whereon we stand. They are a constant presence among us, yet there are special times when we pause again to acknowledge them. We journey toward the question mark which hides the future and look back, we who will someday be the vague figures of yes- terday. The hope is strong within us that those who, looking back, contemplate the sphere of our own reality may understand the as- pirations of our minds and the languages of our hearts, and that they may claim a past as faithfully parental as that which we explore. ' ' Y ' OU are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrotvs may go swift and far. Let your bending in the Archer ' s hand be for gladness; For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable. , — Kahlil Gibran Amariah Sutton, the first settler of the Williamsport area, came to his 312 acre lioinestead on the east bank of Lycoming Creek in 1770. In his crude cabin he wel- comed many friends, travelers, and adven- turers. In 1791 the first meeting under an official circuit of the Methodist Church was held in his log house and this remained the gathering place until the Lycoming Chapel was built 14 years later. Thus, with this small dwelling as nucleus, within forty years the population of the Vt illiamsport commun- ity grew to 344. Michael Ross, having planned the city to include 111 acres sur- rounding a public square, was the founder of Williamsport proper, and on July 4, 1796, he auctioned off lots. Few realized the fu- ture which lay ahead of this small town. 1795 saw Lycoming County organized with Williamsport named the county seat. In 1838 the babe of the giant industry which was to flourish in Williamsport was established. This was the first lumber mill. Big Mill. Foresighted businessmen began to invest their interests in the enterprize and by 1863 there were 45 lumber mills fostered by the Susquehanna Boom. Logs felled in the back country were floated down the river and creeks in the Susquehanna water- shed to a gentle part of the river that passed II