Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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Rev. John A. W. Haas, D. D., L.L.D., President Professor of Religion and Ptulo 30 ( liy Born at Philadelphia, Pa.. August 31, 1862. Prepared at Parochial School of Zion’s Church and Protestant Episcopal Academy. A.B., University of Penn- sylvania. 1884. Entered Mt. Airy Theo. Seminary, 1884. Ordained, 1887. A.M. and B.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1387. Graduate work, University of Leip- sie, 1887-88. Pastor, Grace Lutheran Church, New York City, 1889-96. Pastor, St. Pa ul’s Church, 1896-1904. D.D., Thiel College, 1902. Fourth president, Muhlenberg College, 1904. LL.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1914. Secretary, College Presidents’ Association of Pennsylvania for years. Member, American College Presidents’ Association. President, Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania, 1913. Member, Board of Education of the General Council. Member, Council of Church Boards of Education. Director, Mt. Airy Theological Seminary. Co-editor with Prof. Henry Eyster Jacobs, D.D., “Lutheran Cyclo- pedia.’’ Author, “Annotations on St. Mark,” “Bible Literature,” “Biblical Criticism,” “Trends of Thought and Christian Truth.” Convocation Speaker at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. 10

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Professor of Latin Language and Literature and Pedagogy Born at Allentown, Pa., November 8, 1860. Prepared in the Academic Depart- ment of Muhlenberg College. A.B., Muhlen- berg College, 1880. Phi Gamma Delta Fra- ternity. A.M., Muhlenberg College, 1883. Ph.D., New York University, 1891. In- structor in the Academic Department, 1884- 92. President of the Alumni Association of Muhlenberg College. President of the Lehigh County Historical Society. Secre- tary, Pennsylvania German Society. Mem- ber, Pennsylvania Historical Society; the American Philological Society; the Ameri- can Historical Society; the National Geo- graphic Society; the Pennsylvania Society of New York, and the National Institute of Social Sciences. Joint Editor of “Genea- logical and Personal Memoirs of Lehigh Valley’’ with John II. Jordan, LL.D., and Edgar M. Green, A.M., M.D. Literary Edi- tor of the Allentown “Morning Call.” Rev. William Wackernagel, D.D., Chaplain Professor of Modern Languages and Literature Born at Basel on the Rhine, Switzerland, September 25, 1838. Early education at Basel. Missionary in the Holy Land, 1859- 70. Asst. Editor of “ Der Pilger,” 1870-76. Ordained a minister of the Lutheran Church, 1876. Pastor of St. John’s Church, Mauch Chunk, 1876-1881. Founded St. John’s Church, East Mauch Chunk, 1880. Professor at Muhlenberg College since 1880. A.M., Muhlenberg College, 1882. D.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1883. Pastor of St. Thomas’ Church, Altoona, Pa., 1897-1900. German Secretary of the Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania, 1882-87. Author of “Liedergeschichten, ” “Dr. Martin Luther,” and “Hans Egede. ” Editor of the “Jugencl Freund.” 11