Monticello College - Echo Yearbook (Godfrey, IL)

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Charles A. Caldwell Alton, Illinois President and Treasurer of the Board of Trustees T M E B O A R D O F T R U S T E E S Charles A. Caldwell Theodore S. Chapman Eben Rodgers .... The Reverend Karl Morgan Block, I).I). George Irwin Rohrbough, Ex officio Alton, Illinois Chicago, Illinois Alton, Illinois St. Louis, Missouri Godfrey, Illinois as

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HARRIET RICE CONGDON Born: Montour Kails, N. Y., December 25, 1876 Died: Boise, Idaho, February, 1938 Harriet Rice Congdon came to Monticcllo in 1918 and for seventeen years she applied the educational principles which she had acquired from a wide background of experience. Miss Congdon was graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1898. Her first position was in Salt Lake College, Salt Lake City. In 1900 she went abroad for a year of study and travel, during which time she attended Oxford University. After her return she taught at the Kinma Willard School in Troy, New York. In 1903 she became a professor at Western College for Women, Oxford, Ohio, and from there she went to Lake Fric College, Paincs-villc, Ohio. She then entered the University of Michigan for graduate study. From 1910 to 1914 Miss Congdon was Dean of Women at Hillsdale College in Michigan. The next two years were spent in travel, seven months of the time in Honolulu. Upon her return she became Academic Dean at Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pa. It was from this position that she came to Monticcllo. When Miss Congdon began her presidency at Monticcllo, the Seminary had just become a recognized junior college, in all but name. She at once set about the task of establishing a curriculum in which the college and preparatory school were separated. It was her desire that it should become more and more the custom for graduates of Monticcllo to continue their education at a college offering an A.B. degree. During her seventeen years at Monticcllo and after her resignation and retirement, Miss Congdon manifested a particular interest in the welfare of the school. She devoted a great deal of time and effort to the beautifying of the campus. Wade Memorial Hall, the fine arts building, was built during her presidency (1926). The building is named for Kdward P. Wade, President of the Board of Trustees from 1885 to 1921. The log cabin and the outdoor theater were the other additions to the campus during the period when Miss Congdon was at Monticcllo. She was a great lover of nature, so it was with personal interest that she supervised the beautifying of the campus by planting numerous flowers and new trees. Miss Congdon retired from Monticcllo in [935. In the summer of 1937 she traveled in Fngland and Ireland. In February, 1938, she died at the home of her brother in Idaho. A Memorial Service was held in the Reid Chapel at Monticcllo on Wednesday morning, February 16. The service was an appropriate and fitting tribute to a president of Monticcllo whose chief interest through many years was the welfare of the college. 27 Harriet Rice Congdon

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Georcf. Irwin Rohr hough President of Wonticello College In March, 1935, the mantle of leadership at Monticello College fell upon the shoulders of President Rohrbough. Since that date he has moved forward steadily to carry out the ideals of the college. The passage of one hundred years finds the institution in a world more complex than the sea-faring Captain visualized. It is the fond hope that today as always means will be found to maintain the integrity of the character-building foundations while at the same time insuring that elasticity necessary to meet the needs of each generation. Monticello College faces the future with renewed hope and with a pledge to the world that it will not fail to live up to the trust imposed upon it.