Susquehanna University - Lanthorn Yearbook (Selinsgrove, PA)

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IGanthnrn i taff Editor-in-Chief MAURICE R. GORTNER Associate Editors JAMES S.SHANNON CLARENCE E. NAUGLE MATHIAS P. MOLLER Business Manager GUY M. BOGAR Assistant Business Manager CYRIL M. ZECHMAN Advertising Manager STEWART N. HARTMAN Artist WILLIAM T. DECKER Photographer PAULE. RITTER Statisticians ELLIS K.LECRONE FRANK C. KNORR KATHRYN D. McCORMICK JAMES H. GOSS Page Five

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©lie § tnriT nf $usiturliamta ENEATH the majestic pines on Susquehanna ' s campus stands a Gothic Cross, a mon- ument of gratitude, to the great man in whose heart was first conceived and by whose ef- forts was realized the noble institu- tion which we all love. Once a year we meet to celebrate the laying of the first corner stone and to express our appreciation to those God directed men who made it possible. It is then that allowing our minds to wander back into the realms of imagination, we can picture Susquehanna Univer- sity in its most humble beginnings of more than half a century ago and briefly trace its history to the present day. Just what vicissitude of fate brought about the choosing of the site for Missionary Institute, as Susque- hanna was first called, we cannot determine; but we are certain that the fates could not have been more kind. For in a valley of Mesopotamian fertility, surrounded by verdure clad hills, and through which the mighty stream from which the institution later derived its name, wends its way ; was raised up this Temple of Christian Education. For on an eminence overlooking the town of Selinsgrove and the flowing river beyond, the first spadeful of earth was turned and the first stone put in place, amid the prayers of men for the evergrowing prosperity of the school thus founded. From that day and from those beginnings, Susquehanna has grown in honor and power even as the great trees which adorn her campus have grown from small and insignificant twigs. From one building in which both the professors and students lived as well as serving for class room and dining hall, she has steadily gone forward until now there stand on the campus, five structures of splendid design, supplying the needs of the ever increasing number of students. Then when we speak of the triumphs, we must consider the circum- stances through which they all have been brought about In our first con- sideration, we think with awe and reverence of the great and noble service of those learned Doctors, some of whom from the days of Missionary In- stitute and others who from the later time of Susquehanna ' s beginnings as a University have given their full measure of devotion, some of whom Page Sevsn