McKendree University - McKendrean Yearbook (Lebanon, IL)

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WILLIAM C. WALTON, PHD. Vice-President of McKendree College. Professor of Greel .

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FACULTY. McKt-ndrce College has at its licail a facultv of wlinse iiitL-.t;iity ami aliility it may justly be proiul. Fur no body of men connected in a eroverning- capacity with anv institution in this c iuntiy liave worked harder and more successfully overcome .sfreat difficulties than the faculty of this graml old institution. It is to their credit and also those of their ])redecessors, that the curriculum has heen revised and changed until tr -day a jjraduate of this institution is legilile tn enter the ]iost graduate department of most of the universities of this country without the necessity of standing an examination, the diploma itself be- inff taken as prima facie evidence of the thoroughness of the course of study pm ' sucd. F.verv member of the faculty is a thorough instructor in his coin ' se of study, and regardless of the small remuneration which lie receives, he works willingly and cheerfully to advance the interest of the student in every way possible. Mav the unselfish spirit of the faculty be appreciated by ,ill the friends of the college and when at last the endowment is secured may they receive a salary worth of tlu- position Ihev hold anrl one which will more than compensate them for the years of toil spent in the interests of old .McKendree. • A. P. D.

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WILLIAM C. WALTON, PHD. PROFESSOR OF GREEK. The subject of this sketcli. William C. Walton, was born in [.incoln count , Mo., in 1866, When not quite a vear old his i)arei-,ts moved to Illinois, in which State lie has spent the sjreater part of his life: his boyhood days were spent upon a farm near Brighti.m. Ill, where he attended school and worked during the vacation on the farm. He graduated from the ISrightnn I litjh School in 1886 and soon after took up teaching in the public school where he taught for two years. In 1888 he entered McKendree College and after pursuing a four years ' course he graduated in iSi). , receiving tlic degree of Bachelor of Arts. Shortlv after his graduation from McKendree he joined the Snutbern Illinois Conference of the Methtxlist Episcopal Church, where he served two years in the pastorate until i.S()4. when he was elected to the Chair of Creek in McKendree College, which position he holds at the present time. In i8()3 the cks;ree of F hd. was conferred upon him by his alma mater. I ' rof. Walton was elected ' ice-President of McKendree in iS ' ). which jiosition he still retains, thus having seen continuous service on the faculty since 1S94. Prof. Walton is a leading member of the M. R. Clitircli and a man of high ideals; as an instructor of fircek he is a capable and tireless worker; it is his object in teaching this difticull language to make it a pleas- ure instead of a task to the student.