Monticello College - Echo Yearbook (Godfrey, IL)

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■ ................................................................................ . . ;J«RKfrpK»h .......- - f GEORGE IRWIN ROHRBOUGH President B.A., D.Ped., West Virginia Wesleyan College. M.A., Harvard University. May your repeated examination of this booh continuously remind you until you never forget that “We are not here to dream, to drift. We have hard work to do and loads to lift. Be strong. It is my hope for you that your days at Monticello may have been filled with those joys of activity, friendship, and endeavor that make life rich and wholesome. But I also know that these Monticello days have given you a certain high resolve to order your life for the benefit of others, for such a plan is the only one known to provide everlasting happiness. 10

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 A ADMINISTRATION THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES CHARLES ALBERT CALDWELL............................Alton. Illinois Mr. Caldwell was appointed to the Board of Trustees in 1903. He was secretary of the Board from 1910-1918. Since 1921 he has been the president and treasurer. THEODORE S. CHAPMAN ...... Chicago, Illinois Mr. Chapman has been a member of the Board of Trustees since 1930. MRS. WILLIAM WOOD PARSONS . . Terre Haute, Indiana Mrs. Parsons was elected to the Board of Trustees in October, 1938, the first woman to serve as a trustee of the college. She was Principal of Monticello from 1910 until 1918. EBEN RODGERS ......... Alton, Illinois Mr. Rodgers has been a member and also secretary of the Board cf Trustees since 1929. DR. GEORGE IRWIN ROHRBOUGH .... Godfrey. Illinois As President of Monticello College, Dr. Rohrbough is on ex-officio member of the Board of Trustees. —AND THE FACULTY

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 MARJORIE SCHOPPE CROUCH fssistanl to the President B.A., University of Colorado; B.S., Simmons College, M.S.S., Smith College. FRANCOIS S. CILLIE Dean and Direetor of Studies Psytholoty B.A., University of South Africa,- M.A.j Higher Education Diploma, University o‘ Pretono; South African Carnegie Fellow of the University of London; Scholar of the Advanced School of Education, Columbia University,-Ph.D., Columbia University. My wish for the senior class is that every member of it will be able to look back and say: It was at college that I first learned to see a forest instead of only trees. During these years I began to develop perspective. There, I first became intelligently aware that an individual is a member of a group, and that the privilege of membership carries with it the responsibility for constructive participation. I also learned to see the group as the product of an age-long process which epitomizes the inevitability of gradualness. In short, it may be said that at college I first found myself in space and time. Lively minds, physical vigor, active curiosity these are some of the gifts which you brought to Monticello. You have used them in many ways in the experience of living together on this campus -in hard thinking, in the exchange of ideas, in making community government function, in extra-class activities of varied kinds, in extending your literary, scientific, artistic, or vocational interest. 1941 Have we fulfilled your expectations? 1942 How may we work together to fulfill your hopes and our ambitions for you? It