Milton College - Fides Yearbook (Milton, WI)

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i . , inabxzaal mtmtvmts V I y G .28 Club 3737 , . 35m 29' 1353 Laaiu' vatet 1333 In 1901, the property owned by the College was divided into real estate, $23,062.72; apparatus, $1,215.64; cabinets, $2,150.00; libraries, $8,658.34; endow- ments, $83,244.66; total $118,244.66. Of the endowment fund $70,000 had been donated by George H. Babcock of Plainfield, N. J. Of this sum, $20,000 gave birth to the endowment fund and $50,000 was left to the College as a bequest. Immediately following the death of President W. C. VVhitford, a movement was set on foot for the erection of a Science Hall as a fltting memorial to a man who had given nearly half of a century to Milton College. Accordingly, the campaign was initiated and the cornerstone was laid at Commencement time, in June, 1904. The cost of the building was something slightly less than $30,000. Mrs. George H. Babcock gave $5,000 toward equipment and through the influence of Dr. James Mills of Janesville the Andrew Carnegie estate gave $6,500 more. The work was finished in 1906. The endowment of the College in this year amounted to $116,600. In the year 1900, a movement was begun toward the improvement of the Gentlemen's Hall for use as a gymnasium. This sufficed for that purpose for a time, but in 1909, the graduating class started a fund for the erection of a new gymnasium by donating $1,000 in that direction. The cost was about $20,000 for the gymnasium built at that time, which is still in use. The building was opened at Commencement, June 22, 1911. Page Nineteen

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xx x; M W In 1844, the property of the school was worth about $400. XYhen the insti- tution was established as a college the property was valued at $29,675, with a debt of $3,500. With this amount of property which included the three buildingsaMain Hall, Goodrich Hall and Gent's Halleand their equipment, Milton College started on its career as an institution of higher learning to compete favorably with every other college in the State of Wisconsin. We find during these years such instruc- tors and supporters of Milton College as Prof. Albert VVhitford, father of Presi- dent Alfred E. VVhitford, his wife, Mrs. Chloe C. VVhitford, S. S. Rockwood, Edward Searing, Nathan C. Twining, Mrs. A. M. Fenner, Miss Mary F. Bailey, Mrs. Emma Utter, Forrest M. Babcock, Mrs. Ruth E. VVhitford, Jairus M. Still- man, Rev. E. M. Dunn, Walter D. Thomas, Edwin Shaw, Ludwig Kumlien. Rev. Lewis A. Platts, Mrs. Anna S. Crandall, Mrs. Emily A. Platts, Agnes Bahcock, May B. Smith, Eleanor M. Brown, Belle R. Walker, Alfred E. VVhitford, Miss Susan B. Davis and the Rev. William C. Daland. Dr. Thomas R. Williams was acting-president for a short period during part of the time that President XV. C. Whitford was State Superintendent of Public instruction. This brings us now to the beginning of a new century. It was at about that time that President W. C. VVhitford began his attempt to convince the friends of Milton College that a new building to house the science departments of the College was essential to the welfare of the institution. President W hitford, however, did not live to see the start of the new building. His death occurred on May 20, 1902. Page Eighteen

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W VV V V7! Q Q KVVVVKEV W WV mm mm 1934 President Daland Comes The Rev. William C. Daland was called in 1902 to take charge of the College as its president after the death of President William C. XVhitford. At this time the trustees purchased all the south part of the present Campus, including the house which is at present known as the Studio. It was here that President Daland and his family made their home while Dr. Daland was head of the College. Prior to that time the president of the College, W. C. Whitford, had lived in the home across Columbus Avenue from the present Campus and now known as the Burden property. Dr. Daland remained as president of the institution until his death on June 21, 1921, when the oHice was taken over by Acting-President Alfred E. VVhitford, who two years later came to be president of the College. Now we have arrived at the present; we have traced the building of Milton College from the time it consisted of a little one-story structure to the present insti- tution with its five buildings. XV e have indicated something of the sacrifice 0n the part of the friends of Milton that has been necessary that the College might prosper and progress. And we have followed the executives and a few of the chief sup- porters 0f the College, down through the eighty-five years of the schooYs existence. In short, we have viewed hrieHy the material elements that have gone to make Milton College what it is today. There remains, then but to glance at the lives Page Twenty