St Lawrence University - Gridiron Yearbook (Canton, NY)

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ST. LAIVRENCIS UNIVERSITY. 7 been instrumental both in sending students, and in adding to the endowment. Twice before he had been urged to accept the presidency, but declined, not through lack of interest in the welfare of the college, but because of duties connected with his pastorate, which he felt to be imperative. The third call, however, prevailed, happily for St. Lawrence. All friends of the University feel that he is the right man in the right place. He entered upon his duties early in November, 1899. President Gunnison has come to us fitted in every way to advance the interests of the rapidly growing institution which he now repre- sents. Under his able leadership The New St. Lawrence is only a question of' time. V --V H - - ,. s. 114- 5-Zu THE COLLEGE CAMPUS BY NIGHT.

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6 THE GRIDIRON. Almon Gunnison, D.D. 4- LMON GUNNISON, now President of St. Lawrence Uni- . gl versity. was born in Hallowell, Me., March 2, 1844-. ll T 3 His father, Nathaniel Gunnison, a native of New Hamp- lllm il shire, was a prominent minister of the Universalist Gifllllh b Church, his mother was the daughter of a sea captain of Cape Cod, engaged in the East India trade. Mr. Gunnison's early education was obtained at Dalhousie College, Halifax, N. S., and at Green Mountain Institute, South Woodstock, Vt. He then entered Tufts College, but left it at the end of two years to enter the Theological School of St. Lawrence University, where he graduated in 1868. While in college he had become a member of the Zeta Psi Fraternity, being a charter member of Kappa chapter. He was always prominent in fraternity matters, and at the meeting of the Grand Chapter in Boston, in 1888, he delivered the address. Immediately upon his graduation from the Theological School he was married to Miss Ella Everest, of Canton, N. Y. Two children have been born to them, a son and a daughter, the former now a successful lawyer in New York. Mr. Gunnison's first pastoral settlement was at Bath, Me., where he remained three years, at the end of which time he was called to the pastorate of All Souls' Church in Brooklyn, N. Y., where he remained nineteen years. During this period the society was greatly built up, a church and chapel were erected, and, what was quite as important, paid for, the cost being fB80,000. In 1883 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from his Alma Mater. He next went to Worcester, Mass., as pastor of the First Universalist Church of that city, where he remained ten years. He then resigned, much against the wishes of his congregation, to accept an urgent call to the presidency of St. Lawrence University. Such is a brief sketch of our esteemed friend and President, who has long been bound to us by many ties. His brothers, Dr. Walter B. Gunnison, '75, and Herbert F. Gunnison, '80, both graduates of St. Lawrence, are well known to all Laurentians. President Gunnison has always been a stanch supporter of the University, serving for several years as a member of the Board of Trustees. He has often

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A .Muff .niiiivfw Editor in Chief EARL XV. SCRIPTER, BGJH. Business MH11HgC1', EDWARD QUINN, ATO. Associates, BENJAMIN F. BUTLER. KATE L. SUDDS, AAA. JOHN B. LAIDLAW, ATQ. MARY V. CONKEY, KKF. HERBERT P. COLE, BED.