Milton College - Fides Yearbook (Milton, WI)

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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

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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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3mm I306 WW CRRNDHLL of a few of the more prominent spirits that have given life and continuation t0 the Milton College of the past, whose works are influencing the present and whose memory will continue to have a bearing, even upon the future. From among the long list of persons whose lives have played a Vital part in the establishment and growth of Milton College as an educational institution, we choose but two for special mention. These two are the former college presidents, William C. Whitford and William C. Daland, who were the only permanent presi- dents the institution had before President Alfred E. thitford took up the work. President W. C. VVhitford served the Academy and the College from 1858 to 1902 as head of the school, and it was during these forty-four years that the College came to be known throughout the state. Teachers were the principal product of the school, and in general this period was indeed a nourishing one as far as Milton College was concerned. William C. Whitford William C. Whitford was a graduate of DeRuyter Institute and Union Col- lege. He completed his studies at the Union Theological Seminary in 1856 in New York City. In 1858, after having been a teacher in the Academy in the early fifties, he was put in charge as principal and remained as president of the College until his death in 1902. During the period of his work at Milton, he was one year member of the State Legislature and for four years he was Superintendent of Public Instruction in Wisconsin and for nine years occupied a chair on the board of regents of normal schools in this state. Page Twanty-onc