Lycoming College - Arrow Yearbook (Williamsport, PA)

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past The AcidcniN w;is renamed Williamsport Dickinson Seminary, mainly because of the Baltimore Conference ' s stipulations that the school board consist of rwo thirds members of the Methodist ( hurch. that the school be an auxilian to Dickinson (College, and that both sexes be taught. The institution underwent its biggest transition under the leadership of Dr. John W. Long When Dr. Long came to the Seminary in 1921. there were 347 students, an endowment of $80,724.22. and only three main buildings on campus. At the end of his thirty-four years of service in 19 ' i ' J. there had been added Hilltop G mnasium. C larke Memorial Chapel. Memorial Hall. Rich Hall. John W. Long Library and Fine Arts Building, a President ' s Residence, and the campus size doubled. 1 Sr.untd gLi s window from Old M:iin 2 Architccrure above ni.iin door ot Bradlcv H.1II ; EvcLmd H.ill p nf. down in WO 1 Lonp H.dl S EvcLind H.1I! ' .. OldGvm Cast-iron sunc found in Old Main

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Lyco ' s . . . Lycoming College ' s history began in P94. when the first school house was built on the side of early Williamsport. The institution has been known as Williamsport Academy. Williamsport Dickinson Seminary, Williamsport Dickson Junior C!ollcgc and as Lycoming College. The founders of the one story log school house were those Williamsport settlers who kept the spark of education alive in the communiry. The XX ' illiamsport Academy for the Education of Youth in the English and other languages m the Useful Arts. .Science and Literature was the name under which the Academy was incorporated on April 2. 181 1. The Academy was supported by a state grant and bv citizen subscription. It was sold to the town ct)uncil in 1845. and in ISIS the town council sold the Academv to the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Church

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and . . . In 1935 the Seminary became the first fully accredited junior college in Pennsylvania. Army Aviation cadets with their officers in 1943 occupied all dormitory rooms. In 1946 a request was sent to the Methodist Church to establish a four year college. On May 8, 1947 the State Council of Education of Pennsylvania officially approved the institution as a four year Liberal Arts College. Later that year the Board of Directors selected the name Lycoming College for the new college. Since 1947 Wesley Hall was erected, Wertz Student Union Building was built, and a brewery was renovated into the science building.