Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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3. W. ©aas, 33. 33. Cpreetbenf Professor of Religion and Philosophy B orn in Philadelphia, August 31, 1862. Prepared at Parochial School of Zion’s Church and Protestant Episcopal Academy. A. B. ( Latin Salutatorian ) , Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, 1884; entered Mt. Airy Seminary 1884 ; ordained a minister of the Lutheran Church 1887. 1887, A. M., and B. D., University of Pennsylvania. Gradu- ate work at the University of Leipsic 1887-88. Pastor of Grace Lutheran Church, New York City, from 1889 to 1896; Pastor of St. Paul’s Church from 1896 to 1904. 1902, L). I)., Thiel College. Elected fourth President of Muhlenberg College in 1904. Secretary of College Presi- dents’ Association of Pennsylvania. Co-editor with Prof. Henry Eyster Jacobs, D. D., of the Lutheran Cyclopedia; author of Annotation on the Gospel of St. Mark ( Lutheran Coommentary) ; author of “Bible Literature” and “Bibli- cal Criticism ” and many valuable articles on theology. 19

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FACULTY J-preclerick $i, 191 .

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®rorge C. Cttmgcr, $J). B. Dean ; Professor of Latin Language and Literature, and Pedagogy Born at Allentown, Pa-, Nov. 8, 1860. Prepared in private school and the Academic Department of Muhlenberg A. B. (Valedictorian), Muhlenberg College, 1880. A. M., Muhlenberg College, 1883; Ph. D., New York Univer- sity, 1891. instructor in the Academic Department, 1881-84; Principal of the Academic Department, 1884-92; Professor of Latin at Muhlenberg since 1892. Member of the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity. Alumni Editor of “The Muhlenberg” since 1886. Fifteen years a Director of the Public Schools, and for a number of years President and later Secretary of the Board of Control. Secretary of the Pennsylvania German Society. Member of Pennsylvania Historical Society, the American Philological Society, the Pennsylvania So- ciety of New York. President of the Lehigh County Historical Society,, Secre- tary and Treasurer of the Alumni Association of Muhlenberg College and Secretary of the Lehigh Prison Board. Literary Editor of Allentown “Morning Call.” JUto. tlltam atfeecnagel, B. B. Chaplain ; Professor of Modern Languages and Literature Born at Basel, on the Rhine, Switzerland, September 25, 1838. Prepared at Basel- Missionary in the Holy Land, 1859-70. Assistant Editor of “Der Pilger,” Reading, Pa., 1870-76. Ordained a minister of the Lutheran Church in 1876. Pastor of St. John ' s Church, Mauch Chunk, 1876-81; found- ed St. John’s Church, East Mauch Chunk, 1880. Professor at Muhlenberg since 1881. A. M., Muhlenberg College, 1882; D.D., University of Pennsylva- nia, 1883. Pastor of St- Thomas’ Church, Altoona, Pa., 1884-87. German Secretary of the Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania, 1882-87. Acting President of Muhlenberg College from December, 1903, to June, 1904. Au- thor of “Liedergerschicten,” “Dr. Martin Luther” and “Hans Egede;” editor of the “Jugend Freund;” a frequent contributor to various church period- icals- 20