Mount Union College - Unonian Yearbook (Alliance, OH)

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FRANK C. LOCKWOOD, PH. D. frank C. Qrocltrpoob, Cm., QJ5. Mt. Union College is to be esteemed most fortunate in having, at a recent meeting of the Board of Trustees, added Dr. Frank C. Lockwood to her corps of professors. That man who can come to an Institution ln the full vigor of young manhood, endowing it with enthusiasm, advanced ideas and the broadening influence of other College and University meth- ods, ideals and life, cannot fail to be of great service to they Educational Center which calls him. In Dr. Lockwood Mt. Union College has found a vigorous fount of New Blood, of the kind that feeds an active brain and fills a manly heart. The subject of this sketch was bornin Mt. Erie, Ill., May 22, 1864. He is a son of Rev. J. H. Lockwood, D. D., of Salina, Kan., who was an army chaplain during our Civil War. His ancestors came to America in 1632. He is a cousin of Captain Sigsbee's wife, also of Lieut. james B. Lockwood, her brother, who perished in the Greeley Expedition, having attained the farthest point north ever reached at that time. Young Lockwood moved to Kansas with his father in 1872 and was graduated from Baker Universty in 1892, and in 1896 he received his degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Northwestern University. ln this connection we quote from Dr. Coe, Professor of Philosophy in Northwestern University, who says: Mr, Lockwood has a very unusual combination of fine qualities, all of which tend to Ht him for the work to which he aspires. He is not merely a man of scholarly tastes and cultureg not merely a strong and beautiful character, not merely a pleasing speaker, not merely a man of the world, that is, a man with knowledge of human nature and tact in dealing with men-but all these combined. In the second place there is, so far as I know, and I have been intimately acquainted with Lockwood for five years, not one unfortunate quality or trait to offset any of these excel- lencies.. In my opinion, there are few men of this stamp to be had in any generation. Strong words, but the same in sentiment as that received from a dozen other sources. Mr. Lockwood preached one year in Salt Lake City, re- signing lqis charge to go to the University of Chicago as University Exten- sion lecturer. And it is from this work that he will come to us at the beginning of the coming college year. The UNONIAN bespeaks for him a hearty welcome on the part of faculty, students and citizens. May his Lares and Penaies guard and protect him until he becomes a member of our own household. 22

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Clgev. Qiflierf . Qlilier, ifiQYI.fQ. INCE THE RESIGNATION of President Marsh, last commencement, the committees of supervision and of the Board of Trustees have been diligently seeking for the right man to succeed him. Many excellent names were suggested, among them the Rev. A. B. Riker, D. D., of Charleston, W. Va. At a joint meeting of the committees of supervision and the Board of Trustees held April 5, 1898, Dr. Riker was duly nominated and elected. Dr. Riker is forty-five years old and was born in Ohio. His father was a member of the Ohio Conference. The Doctor taught in the public schools of his native state for four years, thus earning enough money to pay his way through Ohio Wesleyan University, from which he was graduated in 1879. He took the degree of M. A. in 1883. At the next session of the Ohio Conference after his grad- uation he was admitted to membership in that body, and sent to Worthington. In 1881 he was stationed at Third Street Church, Columbus, where he achieved great success, and in 1885 he was appointed to Athens, where like pros- perity attended his labors. In each of these places he re- mained the full time allowed by the law of the church. At Athens the Ohio State University conferred on him the de- gree of Doctor of Divinity, of its own motion. He was transferred to the Holston Conference in the autumn of 1887, and stationed at First Church, Chatta- nooga, from which charge he was called at the end of four years, greatly to the regret of the people there, to Fourth Street Church, Wheeling, W. Va., where he served the full term of tive years. In both of these charges great revivals I9 attended his ministry, and the churches were strength- ened in every respect. Neither of them has ever had a greater period of prosperity than that attained under his ministry. From Wheeling he went to Charleston, the capital of VVest Virginia, and is now in the second year of a successful pastorate there. While in the Ohio Conference he was associated with Drs. S. A. Keen and J. C. jackson, Ir., in the manage- ment of the Ohio Conference camp-meeting. He was active also in the founding of the Lake Wildwood camp-meeting in the Holston Conference. The West Virginia Confer- ence camp-meeting, which is a Chautauqua, a Sunday school assembly and a camp-meeting combined, was originated by Dr, Riker, and he is now its president and head. Dr. Riker is in the prime of a vigorous physical and intellectual manhood. He has great fertility of resources, energy, perseverance, executive ability and powers of en- durance. He is restless unless at work, and never satis- fied except with success. His social qualities are very fine, and he is always a delightful companion, easily approachable, and bright and entertaining in conversation. He is a natural teacher, with several years of practi- cal experience. He has few superiors on the platform, and is a power in the pulpit. His spine is strongly articulated, and this will always' send its mandates by way of the heart. He knows men, and is a safe and trusted leader.

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WILLIAM WESLEY WEAVER. Principal of Normal Department and Professor of Pedagogy. Ladies' Hall. Qjrof. 'Wiffiam Di Weaver, GDS. 'Professor William Wesley Weaver, was born in Columbiana County, May 6, 1854. He received his early education in the country schools, and for five years he taught in the same in order to secure means necessary to attend college. ln the fall of 1872 he entered Mount Union, and graduated with the class of '96, The next year he entered into partnership with l. P. Hole in the management of Damascus Academy, which institution was at that time one of the leading schools of that kind. Aller four years of work here, he was elected to take charge of the schools at Columbiana, O., which schools he so organized that they were regarded among the best in the county. He was subsequently called to the superintendency of the Napoleon O., schools, where the work was three times inspected by State School Commissioners, and pronounced equal to any done in the state of Ohio. For two years he had charge of the Training School at Sandusky, O., and for the past year he has been President of the Northeastern Ohio Normal College at Canfield, O., during which time the attendance steadly increased, the last term of the year being larger than any former closing term, and the graduating class the largest in the history of the college. This has been the result of steady, close work rightly directed. Professor Weaver's success lies in his practical ideas, practically applied. He reduces the elements of school teaching to simple statements, which he plainly illus- trates. Young teachers leave his classes full of enthusiasm, and thoroughly fitted for the emergencies of the profession. At the opening of the next school year he will enter upon the full duties of his work as principal of the Normal Department and Professor of Pedagogy and Normal Studies, part of which work he has this term so successfully begun. 2I