Salem College - Sights and Insights Yearbook (Winston-Salem, NC)

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Trustees and Faculty Crusiccs RT. REV. EDWARD RONDTHALER, D. D., President JOHN W. FRIES REV. JAMES E. HALL Tinancial Board RT. REV. EDWARD RONDTHALER, D. D., President JOHN W. FRIES : HERBERT A. PFOHL REV. JAMES E. HALL E. F. STRICKLAND. M. D. WILLIAM T. VOGLER Corps Of Instructors REV. J. H. CLEWELL, Ph. D., President MRS. J. H . CLEWELL, Assistant President RT. REV. EDWARD RONDTHALER, D. D. Biblical Literature, Latin and Greek MISS EMMA LEHMAN English Literature MISS EMMA CHITTY Latin MISS SARAH E. SHAFFNER Histor and Telegraphy MISS FANNIE BROOKE MISS LOUISA C. SHAFFNER Mathematics and Bookkeepinj; MISS CARRIE R. JONES Latin MISS ANNA SIEDENBERG Studio. German and French MISS MARGARET BESSENT Industrial Department MISS ELIZABETH ERWIN Expression and Physical rii3 ' .ure MISS SARAH L. VEST Piano MISS RUTH E, GROSCH Piano and Histor - of Music MISS LAURIE R. JONES Pian :- MISS ERMA P. PFAFF Piano MR. H. A. SHIRLEY Organ and Pian : ' MISS GERTRUDE K. BROWN Piano. Harmony and Counterpoint MR. EUGENE H. STORER Vocal Music MISS IVY A. NICEWONGER P;ano MISS LAURA REID Piano MISS MAUD G. STEWART MISS OTELLA BARROW Shorthand MISS ELIZABETH HEISLER MISS MARY MEINUNG MISS EMMA SMITH MISS ISABELLE RICE MISS NANNIE ROBINSON MISS EUGENIA HENDERSON Home Care of the Sick MISS DAISY BROOKS MISS CARRIE VEST MISS MAMIE FULP MISS RUTH SIEWERS MISS FAN LITTLE M». P. C. JAHNKE College Representative MISS MARJORIE SMITH General Instruction MR. E. A. EBERT Bookkeeper DR. H. T. BAHNSON Medical Adviser

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Rt. Rev. Edward Rondthaler, D. D. BISH01- ' KDWARl) UDXiri II L|.:r was l.orn m Sdiociu ' d , rennsvl- vania. July 24, iS |2. I If mtcnil XazarcUi Hall in 1853. i-ciiiaiiiin,o- there tor live years, at the enii n! whieh time he liegan his studies in the .Mora- vian rhcolo ical Seminary, speniling- four years in this Institutirm — from 185S to 18C12, At the coiielnsinn of his stuilies in the Theological Seminary he went .-iliroail, and remained one year as a student in the Linversity of Erlan en. in Germany. The school year, iSf)4-ri5, was si ent as a teacher in Nazareth Hall. .Vug-ust, 18 .5. he was ordained a IXaenn and took charge of the Moravian con- gregation in I ' .rooklyii, . ' . While pastor of the P.rooUlyn congregation he was united in marriage to .Aliss .Mary V.. Jacobson, daughter of ISisbop John C. Jacohson. This pastorate continuul until the close of the year 1873, when he accepted a call to the l irst Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which charge he letained until October 1, 1877. October JT. 1877, llishop Rondthaler entered upon his duties as ])astor of the Salem Mora ian congregation, which charge he still holds, in the year 1880 he was elected a member of the Provincial lilders ' Con- ference of the Southern Province of the .Moravian I ' hurch, and in 1884 he becaiue Principal of Salem . cademy and College, retaining the same till the spring of 1888, a period of nearly four years. ' Phe Cniversity of North Carolina conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1880. Three times he attended the ( ieneral .Synod in Cermany, in 1871), 1889, and in i8(ji . During the latter year he made an extended tour in the I ast, visiting I ' ale.stine, F.gvpt, ( heece, and other countries. This visit was at the instance of his many friends in the Salem congregation, .Vpril 1 j, i8.m, he was consecrated a P.ishop of the Unitas Fratrum, the P.isho|is ' an leek, liaeliman, and Levering officiating, , lthough Dr, Rondthaler resigned the principalship in 1888, yet he has been most intimatelv connected with the School as President of the Hoard of Trustees, and as lecturer in the class room. P.ut that b which he will be remembered with the greatest love and affection by the puiiils of the School is his great interest in them as indi- viduals, his efforts to strengthen their character and to develop their religious

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