Smithsburg High School - Leopard Yearbook (Smithsburg, MD)

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“£ ur Class Sponsor” Rev. J. Stewart Hartman, A.M. To whom the Class of 1920 respectfully dedicate the volume of “ The Melangeas an evidence of our lore and devotion for his u'ords of encouragement, and his loyal support of every community interest. 4

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Jf orctuorb Melange! Composed by amateurs in the craft But offered as a record of things held dear— Of shadows, shades of things, and tears and frowns, And troubles countless, sleepless nights and such Brought forth into the sunlight, seasoned well. With smiles, anticipations, memories Garnished with our hopes, (), reader dear! Take and taste; but if you like it not, If 'tis too rarely seasoned or too much, '1 oo hot, too cold; if scorched, not cooked enough, Or if you dreamed ’twould be like something else— Remember, gentle reader, how ’tis served, For in truth it is the serving of a thing. The spirit in which ’tis given after all. That makes you like it much or like it not, Tis served with friendship, garnished o'er with love 1 is made up of school days’ hopes and joys. So reader, take a cup, take and try. And drink a long, long life to Sinithsburg High! 3

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$iograpf)ttal tutcf) of fteb. tetoart Hartman J STEWART HARTMAN was horn on January 7, 180.7, on his father’s • farm near Littlestown, Pa. 11 is the son of George W. and Eliza- beth M. Hartman {nee Durboraw). He spent his early life on the farm and attended the rural school until about fifteen years old. He was confirmed after having received careful catechetical instructions by the Rev. 1). N. Dittmar, pastor of Redeemer's Reformed Church, Littles- town, Pa. When he finished his training in the country school he entered Preparatory School at Gettysburg, Pa. He graduated from Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, Pa., in 188.7. In early life he decided to enter the Christian Ministry—therefore, on the completion of his college course, he entered Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church at Lancaster, Pa., from which institution he was graduated in 1888. Shortly after his graduation, he was called to become pastor of the Reformed Church of New Holland, Pa., where he was ordained. On June 7. 1888, he was united in marriage with Miss Ella M. Flickinger, of Littlestown, I’a., by Rev. I). N. Dittmar, in the Redeemer’s Reformed Church. His second field of labor was in the Second Reformed Church of Harrisburg, Pa., of which church he became pastor in 1891. He had a very successful pastorate in Harrisburg, during which he assisted in organizing the St. John’s Mission, which has become one of the most active congregations in that city. In 1899, he accepted a call to the Reformed Church of Silver Run, Maryland. He was successful in building up the congregation at Silver Run and in enlarging its influence for the good in the community by thoroughly adapting himself to rural community life and taking the lead in advancing, in a practical way, the interests of those members of his church engaged in agriculture, a fact which led to prominence in the State Grange, of which organization he was the Chaplain and on the Executive Committee. In 1907, he accepted the call of the Reformed people of Woodstock, Virginia. After serving them most faithfully for nearly two years, he was challenged and elected by the Potomac Synod to the Superintendency of the George W. and Agnes Hoffman Orphanage, which at that time 5