Susquehanna University - Lanthorn Yearbook (Selinsgrove, PA)

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' 620 EDUCATION ADVANCED AND TEACHERS FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES WERE ENCOURACED TO COME TO SWEDEN

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Staff 1934 Lanthorn Volume Thirty-Seven Edwin Clapper James Bonsall Dr. Wilson Editor-in-Chief Business Manager Advisor Chief Statistician Pauline Crow Assistant Editor Ruth Nelson Athletic Editor Harold Rowe Art Editor Eleanor Brown Managing Editor Edith Frankenfield Assistant Business Manager Calvin Naugle Assistant Statistician Earnest Huston Advertising Manager D. Edgar Hutchinson Assistant Athletic Editors Robert Sala Virginia Andrews Associate Editors Isabella Horn Henry Cassler Nelson King Margaret Wiliiams William Morrow- Ruth Bergstresser Typists Ludlow Nichols Marlin Bottiger Assistants on the Business Staff Aberdeen Phillips Margaret Hausman

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The Story IN 18 56 the Maryland Synod of the Lutheran Church made the first official move to establish an educational institution at Selinsgrove. It was thought that this section along the Susquehanna River would pro- vide excellent classical training for y r oung men of the church who intend- ed to prepare for the gospel ministry. A beautiful Gothic Cross stands in the vicinity of Selinsgrove Hall beneath the majestic pines as a monument of gratitude to the great man in whose heart was first conceived and chiefly by whose efforts was realized the noble institution we all love. Reverend Dr. Benjamin Kurtz, an eminent divine of the Lutheran Church laid the cornerstone of Missionary Institute on Sept. 1 , 18 5 8. Exactly seventy-five years ago beneath a clear sky 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; being born in faith and organized and promoted through prayer, it has grown steadily to its present strength. Just as the great pine trees which adorn her campus have developed from tiny r insignificant twigs, so Susquehanna has grown in honor and in power from one building to twelve fine modern structures of splendid design, capable of supplying the needs of a large number of students. In speaking of the tri- umphs, one must always consider the circum- stances through which they have developed. It was great and noble of those learned doctors, some of whom from the days of Missionary Insti- tute and others who from the time of Susquehanna ' s ,, ,,,, beginning as a University Page Twelve