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Bl-u ' -222XL T5£ LANTHORIN SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY SELINSGROVE, PENNSYLVANIA 1958 •« I n entennial 1858 - 1958 Eleanor Pourron: Editor Gilbert Bannerman: Business Manager
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1 HROUGH THE YEARS of 1858 to 1958 the dedi- cation and dream of one man have grown and flourished bevond the original goal and purpose. With the help of a church, Trinity Lutheran, a town, Selinsgrove, and a faith and belief in the work to be done a foundation was laid for an institution of learning which was to far outgrow its original intent. This dedicated man who provided the basis for this foundation, was the Reverend Doctor Benjamin Kurtz. It was he, who in 1858, founded and became first president of Missionary Institute, the forerunner of Sus- quehanna University. Dr. Kurtz had been impressed by the need for another institution of learning for the ministry of the Lutheran Church. Since the usual course of preparation was eight or ten vears in length he decided to establish a Theological School in which men regardless of age or marriage ties, mioht, by a course in Theoloev of two to three vears in length, be qualified to preach the gospel acceptablv. Through this he hoped to fill the need of the church for ministers and so opened the Theological Department of Mis- sionarv Institute, in connection with a Collegiate Depart- ment, in a room of Trinity Church in October of 1858. Because Mission ary Institute was designed for men and overlooked the fairer sex, the congregation of Trinity Church proposed and successfully initiated Susquehanna Female College as a twin sister of the Institute and to meet the educational demands of the period. By 1873, however, a few changes were made in the student body of Missionary Institute. Susquehanna Female College closed its doors and the Institute, faced with the rising tide of women ' s equality, became a co-educational institution. Not long after, in 1895, another innovation was added for the name, Missionary In- stitute, gave way to a new one and became known as Sus- quehanna University. From the early beginnings of the University, the citizens of Selinsgrove and, more particularly, the congregation of Trinity Lutheran Church had been very actively interested in the development of this higher institution of learning. John App, one of the leading citizens of the community, contributed the land upon which the campus was to be formed and, along with others in the town, supplied neces- sary funds needed to begin the institution. The first building to be erected on the campus was ap- propriately called Selinsgrove Hall. By 1909 the campus could boast of Seibert Hall, a gym and Gustavus Adolphus Hall. Since the building of these early structures there have been several more added to the campus. Among these later buildings were Hassinger Hall, a dormitory, a science build- ing, Steele Science, a newer gym and a library. More recent than these, a classroom building, Bogar Hall, was completed in 1951. This year, the Centennial Year has been climaxed with the dedication of Heilman Hall, a new conservatory of music and, in the near future the new wing of the library, which is now under construction, will be completed and be able to offer Susquehanna ' s student bodv better reference and study facilities. Students, then as now, enjoyed other diversions besides the pursuit of knowledge. Two of the first organizations on campus were the Clionian and Philosophian Societies. Both these societies held out against women members but they too eventually succumbed. Soon after the societies came the fraternal organizations. These fraternities, too, have played an important role in the history of Susquehanna. The first one on campus was a local one called Bond and Key. Later, two national fra- ■V ' t i £si3£g«
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