Perkiomen School - Griffin Yearbook (Pennsburg, PA)

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Board of Trustees. M. K. GILBERT ADAM KRAUSS REV. G. K. MESCHTER, M REV. N. B. GRUBB HIRAM K. KRIEBEL ' B. S. SCHULTZ JACOB D. HEEBNER JESSE S. KRIEBEL E. K. SCHULTZ HON. JOHN G. HERSH, M. D. REV. E. E. S. JOHNSON REV. A. S. SHELLY REV. O. SJ KRIEBEL Ofiicers of the Board. IVI. K. GILBERT, President, Pennsbuvg, Pa. ADAM KRAUSS, Secretary, East Greenville. REV. C. K. MESCHTER, NI. D., Vice President, Worcester, Pa. E. K. SCHULTZ, Treasurer, Boyerlown, Pa. Standing Committees. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE M. K. GILBERT DR. J. G. HERSCH ADAM KRAUSS ' E. K. SCHULTZ ' REV. A. S. SHELLY COMMITTEE ON FINANCE REV. E. E. S. JOHNSON REV. O. S. KRIEBEL HIRAM K. KRIEBEL JESSE S. KRIEBEL REV. G. K. MESCHTER, M. D. COMMITTEE ON BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS REV. E. E. S. JOHNSON B. S. SCHULTZ E. K. SCHULTZ 10

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Perkiomen Seminary. N the year 1875 the Rev. C. S. Wieand of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, founded Perkiomen Seminary. That was thirty-four years ago. The intervening time may be said to be divided into three periods, the first period the time when the school was under the management of the founder, the second, when the school was closed for lack of sufficient patronage, and the third, the last seventeen years when Dr. O. S. Kriebel has had charge of Perkiomen. In 1892, when Dr. Kriebel first assumed the management, the General Conference of the Sehwenk- felder Church purchased the property, re-arranged and re-modeled the building, and in the fall again open- ed the doors of the Seminary to the public. The enrollment, that year showed a list of four teachers and nineteen students. However, at the end of three years, the original building had proved inadequate to the needs of the school. A new building, now the main building, was put up in 1896. In ten years time the Seminary had again out-grown her home and a fine gymnasium was erected. At the present time the en- rollment amounts to twenty regular teachers and three hundred and thirty students, and not only the main building and gymnasium are filled, but several houses along Seminary Street. In the near future a splen- did library will be erected and also an annex has been contemplated. From a school of local patronage, Perkiomen had increased until she had drawn students from at least seventeen states and from five foreign countries, namely: Cuba, Porto Rico, Corea, Armenia and Greece. Over five hundred students have graduated since 1893 ' At Perkiomen, one may take any course offered in a high or preparatory school, and many classes are organized not found generally in such. Indeed Perkiomen Seminary may be said truthfully to offer a more flexible course that can be found in most schools of a like nature. ' . 9

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