Muhlenberg College - Ciarla Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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Rev. John A. W. Haas, D.D., LL.D. President; Professor of Religion and Philosophy Born at Philadelphia, Pa., August 31, 1862. Prepared at Parochial School Zion’s Church and Protestant Academy. A.B., University of Pennsylvania, 1884 ; A.M., and B.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1887 ; Phi Beta Kappa ; Graduate Work, University of Leipsic, 1887-88 ; D.D., Thiel College, 1902 ; LL.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1914 ; LL.D., Augustana College, 1917 ; LL.D., Gettysburg College, 1922. Member of Author’s Club, London. Author of Freedom and Christian Conduct, etc. This year is notable for Doctor Haas in two ways; it is the twentieth year of his presidency at Muhlenberg, and also marks the successful completion of the Million- Dollar Campaign for a Greater Muhlenberg, toward which our President has been turning all his energies for a number of months. It was due largely to his foresight that the campaign was made possible and was brought to a successful conclusion. Within the next year we hope to see the beginnings of that Greater Muhlenberg for which he has been working so long. And there is still another event which helps to make this year a memor able one for the Doctor. Last Fall he was honored with membership in the Authors’ Club of London, among whose ranks are found many other notables. Muhlenberg College may feel justly proud of this recognition of Dr. Haas’ eminence. One of the best privileges the student can enjoy is to meet the Doctor in the Library when he is discoursing informally on some new topic, or for that matter, an old one; or to hear him read aloud from some new book such as the “Goslings.” It is then that one learns to know the real Doctor Haas, the student’s friend. Page Twenty-five