Morningside College - Sioux Yearbook (Sioux City, IA)

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The most surprising thing that occurred education- ally was the discovery that married men could and would do such excellent work in scholarship. The G.I. Bill was more influential in expanding educa- tional policy than any other single event in Amer- ican education. It proved that a government schol- arship for education was worthy. It also changed educational housing concepts making housing for married students necessary. Prior to 1936 the catalog of Morningside College prohibited students from remaining in school if they married without the previously arranged consent of the president. The first faculty meeting over which I presided at Morningside had to deal with a clan- destine marriage which had just been revealed. Pro- fessor Steinbrunner remarked in that faculty ses- sion that marriage is no crime. It was unanimous- ly voted to permit the offending student to remain. It was also voted to change the catalog at its next issue and leave out the onirnous prohibition. The far reaching success of the G.I. program was iirst, the chance it gave to all who had been in ser- vice to secure a college education. Second, the sub- sistence payment was far less than the student could have earned elsewhere. He, therefore, remained in school because he wanted to. Third, the government gave the professor the full authority to decide whether the student was worthy of securing the money from the government for the government agencies furnished the opportunity but did not pressure as to practices. The three things, in addition to marriage of stu- dents, which have changed the most in student life are: cars on the campus, the student council organi- zation, the loan fund. About 1948 Marvin Levich, a student who received the Lydia Roberts scholarship award three years in succession at Columbia Uni- versity, rewrote the constitution and changed the government of the student council. Up to that time the student council was composed of a representa- tive from each of the organizations on the campus. It finally became exceedingly difficult to define an organization. It was easier to change the constitution than to define the organizations. Prior to 1942 we never had enough loan funds to supply the demand of the students. Since 1950 we have not had suffi- cient applications to requisition all the funds that have been available. Prior to the world war stu- dents were willing to risk going into debt to secure an education. They dared risk debt for positions which would pay them 91,000 Students now apply for scholarships and expect from 53,000 to 94,000 in- come when they finish college. Morningside received some of its widest publicity in the years of 1944-1945. In October of 1944, the Board of Trustees of Morningside College bought the Sioux City Street Car Company. A man who had lived in Sioux City for thirty years said that that event caused more conversation on the streets than any other incident in his life in Sioux City. Morningside was thought to be both sinful and dafffy to have purchased public utilities. It proved, how- ever, to be the' best investment Morningside ever made. The students had a sort of a whee about get- ting free rides. 1 suggested one morning in chapel that since the college had farms that they might want free oatmeal for breakfast. The deman-d for free rides subsided. Life Magazine for November 6, 1944 carries a full three page story of one of the first G.I.'s in the United States to enroll under the G.I. Bill. Charles Wise who had been terribly wounded in north Afri- ca and whose wife was teaching school in Sioux City, was the G.I. whose experience was presented in the Life Magazine story. Mr. Wise is now an en- gineer with the C. F. Lytle Company in Sioux City. In October of 1945, the then popular 'tWake Up, America broadcast originated on the Morningside campus. There were ten people who came from New York City to produce that event. Also in September of 1945 Morningside received the largest bequest in the estate of Dr. Herbert Saylor of Pocahontas. It is anticipated that by 1965 it will amount to a quar- ter of a million dollars. In 1946 the Homecoming Queen was crowned in the old Tomba ballroom. The Tomba was also used in the 1947 Homecoming event but their racial pro- hibition made it impossible for the student body to go there subsequently. No record of student life at Morningside would be complete without reference to the pre-engineers of the pre-war days. Chemistry was in the old gym- nasium in the spot subsequently occupied by the art department, biology was on the second floor of Main Hall, in Dr. Green's office and classroom, physics was in the basement where the Collegian Reporter now holds forth. Although scattered all over the place, there was a ten year period of pre- engineering organization which was one of tre- mendous consequence. The one question asked of me far more than any other is 'tAre students today better than when you were a student. I never answer directly. I also say something like this: Well, they are ours aren't they? You always love your own better than others, don't you? No one can answer such a question. There are no comparable criteria for measurements. Whether students are better or worse makes little difference. Whether students are serious, daring and religiously determined to use the privileges which they have for whatever service is to be demanded in the future is all important. No persons could be more proud and happy than Mrs. Roadman and I for all that we have seen and known about the Morningsiders who have been faculty and students together. We have passed through the terrors of wars and tensions of peace and depression during these years. We have had marriages and home making including more babies born to our homes than ever before. We have seen the assumption of community responsibility and citizenship by our former students. We rejoice in every achievement and we pray for each and all in moments of need. I could propose a number of things which, I am sure, should and will be done in the future and which will increase the dedication of students and faculty to ever higher scholarship, Christian citi- zenship and the gracous pursuit of life's ideals. These, however, constitute the area of dreams, plans and pursuits of the next president. May God bless and the campus love him greatly! Earl A. Roadman.

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