Muskingum University - Muscoljuan Yearbook (New Concord, OH)

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The P1'esident's essage During this Centennial year we students and faculty of Muskingum are especially aware that we are encom- passed about with a great cloud of witnesses who across the one hundred years of our history have been a part of Muskingum. Father used to say to the students, What you are to be, you are now becoming. That state- ment is true of institutions as well as individuals. The faith of the founding fathers has certainly to a very large de- gree been fulfilled during these hundred years. As we look back across the years and see the loyalty and devo- tion on the part of the presidents, board mem- bers, faculty, students, alumni, and other friends, we are impressed with the fact that it has been this spirit of loyalty and devotion to a great Christian cause that has made possible the Muskingum of today. The future of the college is in our hands. We hope that this Centennial year will be a time of rededication, when we Muskingum men and women of today will dedicate our- selves to that same great purpose to which the Founders dedicated themselves one hun- dred years ago. As we start out on the new 21 Robert N. Montgomery B. A.. M. TH., D. D. President of the College century, we pray that the second hundred years of Muskingum will fulfill the promise of the first hundred years. l am happy to extend greetings on behalf of the college to all those who may read these pages. l believe the editors have done a splendid piece of work in portraying the col- lege life of today. While many changes have taken place in the activities, the curriculum, and the organization of .the college through- out the years, l am sure the reader of this an- nual will be aware of the fact that the Mus- kingum spirit is still strong and will continue to be so for generations yet to come. ' 911. LWa!ewl' .M4zfya1nery President

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. vs. .M- ' ,uni Rm ,,,-3,r?Q.P . . ,---eff' 'WM X 1 N , ' V K egg, f L - as Beniamin Waddle, D. D. First Presideni oi Muskingum 1837 - 1838 A hundred years ago students made their way up this path to a single building on the hill.

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A Tribute to The Creator of a College lohn Knox Montgomery was President ot Muskingum from 1904 to 1931. He was born in Marshall County, Tennessee, on August 4, 1871, and died in Zanesville, Ohio, De- cember 30, 1931. He received his education in Enfield College, the University of Indiana, and the Xenia Theological Seminary. He was in the pastorate for seventeen Years. During this time he was active in YOL1f1g people's work, was a contributing editor to several church papers, and was noted throughout the church tor his leader- Ship among youth. He first visited Musking- um in 1896, at commencement time, to deliver the address to the literary societies. The coming of President Montgomery to Muskingum meant a new day in the lite of the institution. In 1904 the campus consisted of two acres and there were three buildings, the endowment was less than 540,000 and the students in the tour college classes num- bered less than one hundred. ThTO1-lgh years of hard struggle, during which he had the cooperation of the alumni, f9CU1tY, board of trustees, and friends, the greater Muskingum was built. The campus was enlarged until it now occupies over one hundred acres. Buildings, involving a cost of more than a million dollars, were erected. The endowment was increased to a million dollars. With all this advancement there was Continued emphasis upon the development of Christian character, with a distinctly Christian emphasis being given to every Phase ot the program of the college. Mention could not be made of the contri- bution that President Montgomery made to Muskingum without also speaking of Mrs. Mfmtgomery who across these twenty-seven Years was by his side and was his chief Counselor. We are happy that Mother Montgomery is still with us, and many joined 111 the celebration of her seventy-fifth birth- dCfY this year. The contribution that President Montgomery made to the life of Muskingum IS being memorialized this year through the fgct that the Centennial Fund of a million dollars, to be used primarily tor endowment, is being raised and has been called the l. Knox Montgomery Memorial Fund. As the years take us farther away from ac- tual contact with him, we are able to better see that in him was the true embodiment ot the Muskingum spirit, whose components are great iaith, high courage, steadfast devo- tion, friendly tolerance, clear thinking, and the realization that with God all things are possible. Dr. Robert Montgomery with his father, the if it-W? ft ' late Dr. John Knox Montgomery. Lu 1 R it qt + A NITXX If 1