Ripon College - Crimson Yearbook (Ripon, WI)

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SILAS EVANS, D.D..LL.B President Pay e 16

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Trustees HE Board of Trustees is the college in its legal entity, and more, it is the college in its driving power. The authority of the trustees is supreme. They define the policies, confer degrees, care for the property, hold and control invest' moots, and in general promote the growth and interests of the college. To the trustees, the administration, faculty and student body are finally responsible. Tins authority has always been friendly, not arbitrary. The Ripon Board of Trustees is self perpetuating and non'sectarian. There are twenty-seven members, and in this bulletin following the offi- cers of the Board they are arranged according to length of service. The temptation to make a statement of individual and special services to the college must he resisted in the interest of brevity, for they have been many and varied. Six of our trustees are alumni of Ripon College: Dr. George M. Steele, '69; Rev. Frank K. Sanders, D.D., ‘82; William R. Dawes, '84; Rev. A. E. Leonard, D.D., '91; Rev. D. K. Roberts, '01, and Paul J. Thompson, '98. W. B. Gccry is the son of Joseph M. Geery, Pro- lessor of English Literature at Ripon College, 1868'84. Tlie list of trustees who served through the years, now approaching three score and ten, is a roll of honor. It includes the fathers of four of our present trustees Rev. H. A. Miner (1862 77), Llewellyn Breese (1879'99), Allan P. Harwood (1877-86), and A. G. Farr (1897-1913). A. E. Thompson (1903'17) was a brother of John C. Thompson; O. H. Ingram (1892-1918), father-in-law of Mrs. Erskine 13. Ingram; and Henry Wrigln (1865-68), uncle of John Wright. Pavt' 17