Miami University - Recensio Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

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Presidents of Miami University Robert Hamilton Bishop .............................. 1841 1824 1841 George Junkin ....................................... 1844 1844 Joyn McArthur IPro temi ............................ 1845 1845 Erasmus D. McMaster ................................ 1849 1849 William C. Anderson ................................. 1854 1854 Orange Nash Stoddard IPro temi ...................... 1854 1854 John W. Hall ........................................ 1866 1866 Robert Livingston .................................... 1871 1871 Andrew Dousa Hepburn .............................. 1873 1885 Robert White McFarland ............................. 1888 1888 Ethelbert Dudley Warfield ............................ 1891 1891 William Oxley Thompson ............................. 1899 1899 William Jasper McSurely IPro tenD .................... 1899 1899 David Stanton Tappan ............................... 1902 1902 Guy Potter Benton ................................... 1911 1909 Edgar Ewing Brandon IActingi ........................ 1910 1911 Raymond Mollyneaux Hughes IActingi ................. 1913 1913 Raymond Mollyneaux Hughes George Spencer Bishop, A. M., Secretary Board of Trustees OFFICERS Walter Lawrence Tobey, A. M., L. H. D., President George Anderson McSurely, Treasurer Members: Term Expires in 1923 Accesses John 1VI.Withr0W, M. D ............. Cincinnati . . . . . . . . . . . .1885 DarrellJoyce.... . .............Hamilt0n............1910 ElamFisher.... ..................Eat0n..4 .............. 1887 Horace A. Irvin.....................Dayt0n ............... 1896 E. G. Burkam......................Tr0y.................1898 Oakey V. Parrish .................... Hamilton. . . . . . . . . . . . .1900 William A. Graham. . . . . . . . . . . .Sidney ................ 1913 Goward H. Herman, M. D.. .....Dayt0n ............... 1913 J. G. Welsh ......................... Oxford ................ 1914 Members: Term Expires in 1917 Accessus D. Lewis Gaskill .................... Greenville ............. 1907 Clark B. Montgomery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Cincinnati ............ 1887 Daniel H. Evans, D. D .............. Youngstown ........... 1892 Francis M. Coppock, Ph. D.. . . . . . . . .Cincinnati. . . . . . . . . . . .1899 Otis Fisk. .......................... Cincinnati. . . . . . . . . . . .1914 Henry C. Taylor .................... Columbus ............. 1899 George R. Eastman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dayton ............... 1900 Benjamin Piatt Runkle. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Columbus ............. 1912 Homer Gard ........................ Hamilton. . . . . . . . . . . . .1913 Members: Term Expires in 1920 Accessus John Randloph Moore. ............... Georgetow 11 . . . . . . . .1911 Henry B. BIcClure. .................Cincinnati ...........1907 William S. Gian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Cincinanti ............ 1914 John N. VanDeman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dayton ............... 1893 Walter L. Tobey, L. II D. . . . . . . .Hamilton. . . . . .1895 Chas. L. Swan ...................... Cincinnati. . . . . . . . . . .1913 J. B. Vial, M. D .................... Lima .................. 1911 Lyle S. Evans. .............Chillicothe............1902 William F. Eltzroth. . . , , . . ; . . . .Lebanon .............. 1902

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Historical N ote N 1809 the Legislature of Ohio established, according to the terms of the Symmes Purchase which had provided for a township of land to be reserved for educational purposes, Miami University, destined to become within the passage of but a few decades the greatest educational factor west of the Alleghanies. In. 1894 the college was formally opened under the presidency of the Reverend Robert Hamilton Bishop. F rom that day its growth in size and influence was uninterrupted until the whole educational system of the country r was disorganized by the outbreak of the Civil War. Miami was soon the greatest College of the West. At Miami the new fraternity idea found its home in the newer section of the country and in the fertile soil of her splendid undergraduate life, so Iiourished that in the course of time the Yale 0f the West became the rival of Union as mother of the Greeks. Always Miami was more than a heap of bricks and an educational foundry; always she represented an ideal and the far famed IVIiami spirit is no younger than the foundations of her most vener- able pile. Always Miami lead the colleges of the West in their march toward the heights of broad learning and perfect and painstaking scholarship. ' More great names appear upon the roll of her students between the day of opening in 1824 to the tragic closing of the doors of the Old Miami in 1873 when aftermath of the war had made impossible the maintainance 0f the University upon the revenues accruing from the land rents 0f the township eked out by the small sums received from tuitions, than any other American College can boast of within the same number of years. During the twelve years following Messrs. Trufont and Marsh conducted a preparatory school known as the Miami Classical Institute in the University property. In 1885 the accumulated land income was sufficient to justify the reopening of the College. Robert White McFarland, a veteran of the 01d order, was chosen as the first president of the revivified Miami. In the first days Of the new regime the efforts and financial assistance of Senator Calvin Brice and other faithful alumni constituted the saving force of the great project. After an heroic struggle the inertia of the twelve years of inactivity was overcome and Old Miami entered upon a new era of prosperity and influence in Which she is destined to rival even her own prestige of the golden ante bellum time. In later years a considerable though still inadequate subsidy from the State has made possible many important improvements. Since 1902 the buildings of the Ohio State N ormal College have been located upon hIiami campus, and the administration of that important link of the States system for Normal Education has been placed under the authority of the executive officers of the University. In this our own generation the Old Miami moves forward to that goal of eminence toward which her progress was temporarily interrupted by the great tragedy of 1873.

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Society of Alumni President, Rev. John B. Ferguson, ,03, of Franklin, Ind. First Vice-president, James A. Hair, 161, of Chicago. A Second Vice-president, F . 31. Coppock, 173, of Cincinnati. Third Vice-president, Marjorie Hulick, 112, 0f1Massillon. General Secretary, Alfred H. Upham, ,97, of Oxford. 1 Necrologist, Samuel J . Brandenburg, 104, of Oxford. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Frederick E. Stiles, 110, of Grand Rapids, Mich. Will L. Stubbs, 193, of Cincinnati. Parker Dickson, 174:, of Cincinnati. NORMAL COLLEGE ASSOCIATION President, Ida Rhinehart, ,11, of Oxford. Secretary, Grace Laremore, ,13, of Oxford. Treasurer, Georgia Saylor, ,12, of Oxford. Executive Committee: The above officers and presidents of local associations. BRANCH ASSOCIATION S OF ALUMNI CHICAGO President, James A. Hair, ,61. Secretary, Dr. C. G. Grulee, 199, Room 1433, 122 South Michigan Ave. CINCINNATI President, Paul W. Schlenck, 109. Secretary, Nelson Schwab, ,12, 1001-4, Second Natl Bank Bldg. CLEVELAND President, John M. Henderson, ,62. Secretary-Treasurer, G. Leonard Fels, ,10, Y. M. C. A. COLUMBUS President, Lee 0. Lantis, 199. Secretary, Charles F. Long, 103, 897, Columbus Savings and Trust Bldg. DAYTON President, Dr. Merril D. Prugh, 105. Secretary-Treasurer, George R. East- man, 194, 17, Lafayette St. HAMILTON President, J . Paul Scudder, ,02. Secretary, Edward P. Robinson, 193, 141, North C St. INDIANAPOLIS President, Jefferson H. Claypool, 1'76. Secretary-Treasurer, Edward Fitzgerald, eX-112, 1555, Lemcke Annex. NEW YORK CITY President, Prof. James E. Lough, 191. Secretary-Treasurer, Charles R. Coulter, ,01, 1, Broadway.