Olivet Nazarene University - Aurora Yearbook (Bourbonnais, IL)

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ariam DR. LAURENCE H. HOWE In his earlier years Dr. Laurence H. Howe was active in the administration of the college, serving as vice-president and also taking an active part in alumni activities and sponsoring student organ- izations. Failing in health in the last few years made it necessary for him to drop many of these activities. At the time of his death, he was pro- fessor of historical theology. Dr. Howe graduated from Olivet Nazarene College in 1921 and received his B.D. from Mc- Cormack Seminary in 1931. He received his doc- tor of divinity degree at Olivet in 1939. Prior to returning to Olivet in 1932 as a mem- ber of the faculty he was pastor of Nazarene churches at Racine, Wisconsin, Harvey, Illinois, and Elgin, Illinois. . L p.

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In M m -, DR. EDWIN C. BURKE With the passing of Dr. Edwin C. Burke, the Church of the Nazarene lost one of her most prominent and influential lay leaders. In 1916, Dr. Burke was elected a member of the Board of Trustees of Olivet Nazarene Col- lege and continued in this capacity until his death, thereby completing a career of most able leader- ship of twenty-eight years as a member, twenty- six of which he served as Chairman. Edmund Julian Day Imes Taylor a. L p.

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STEPHEN S. WHITE Dean Stephen S. JVhite was born January 25, 1890, in JJ ' ahnif Springs, Texas. He graduated from Peniel Col- lege %vith the A.B. degree in 1911 and received the B.D. degree three years later at Drezv Theo- logical Seminary, hi 1916 he zvas azvarded the M.A. degree from Boston University, and in the year 1938 Dean White received the Ph.D. degree from the Uni- versity of Chicago. Dr. White prior to 1940 held the folloiving instructional posi- tions: President of Trevecca College 1919-1921, Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Bethany - Peniel College 1921- 1930, and Professor of Theology at Eastern Nasarene College 1935-1940. Since 1940 Professor of Theology at Olivet Nasarene College. The School of Theology At its annual meeting held on February 9, 1943, the Olivet Naz- arene College Board of Trustees, upon the recommendation of Presi- dent A. E. Parrott, voted to establish a school of theology. Dr. S. S. White was chosen to head the new department. Plans were begun whereby three years of graduate work could be had by those preparing for the ministry. Special emphasis has been placed upon holiness as a doctrine, experience, and life, and a militant evangelism at home and abroad. The courses listed in the School of Theology were organized under the following heads : Doctrinal Theology, taught by S. S. White; Historical Theology, taught by E. H. Howe; and Practical Theolog} ' , taught by A. E. Parrott and R. E. Eunsford. Next year a department in Biblical Theology will be headed by a newcomer to the faculty ranks, C. E. Demeray. Page Twenty