Temple University School of Dentistry - Odontolog Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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Dr. Conwell and Temple University Forty Two years ago, beginning with a class of seven divinity students at night, Dr. Russell H. Conwell laid the foundation of a University which has grown and prospered into one of the ten largest institutions of learning in the United States. That class of seven has grown into a student body of 10,500 and over 100,000 men and women have benefited through the teachings of our great founder. Numbers, how' ever, meant little to Dr. Conwell. He was concerned with quality. Himself almost an incarnation of a Knight Templar and a man who had proved the tempered steel of his spirit in the Civil War, he had the essential qualities of a commander and counsellor of men. He was able to impart these qualities to his students. Here was a farm boy who became a leader of men. A poor youth who hungered and thirsted for education, and having achieved his aim saw to it that other poor youths should have their chance for schooling. It is recorded that he helped wholly or in part for the education of over 10,000 students. Dr. Conwell enjoyed life not through physical or material pleasures, but by men' tal and philanthropic efforts. He found pleasure not in accumulating wealth, but in giving it away and to say that he gave away to Temple University and her sons and daughters one million of dollars would be putting it mildly. He collected a much greater sum than this through his internationally known lecture, “Acres of Diamonds,” which was delivered over one thousand times to several millions of people, the vast majority of whom profited by the homespun, common'sense of the story. How much money he gave will never be calculated, but it is known that upon his death he left only a few thousand dollars. This was the leader who began in Philadelphia fortyTwo years ago to teach young men and women how to live and reared a school of divinity numbering seven students into a University of 10,500 students scattered through the eleven schools and three hospitals of which it is composed.

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Temple University CHARLES E. BEURY, A.B., LL.B., LL.D. President of the University WILMER KRUSEN, M.D., LL.D. Vice-President of the University LAURA H. CARNELL, A.B., Litt.D. Associate President and Dean of the University BOARD OF TRUSTEES THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA THOMAS F. ARMSTRONG CHARLES E. BEURY, A.B., LL.B., LL.D. LAURA H. CARNELL, A.B., Litt.D. PERCY M. CHANDLER WALTER C. HANCOCK GEORGE deB. KEIM DAVID KIRSCHBAUM WILMER KRUSEN, M.D., LL.D. EDWIN J. LAFFERTY CONRAD N. LAUER fOHN ARCHIBALD MacCALLUM, D.D. HON. HARRY S. McDEVITT EDWIN F. MERRITT ROLAND S. MORRIS, LL.D. ALBERT C. OEHRLE MICHAEL J. RYAN, Esq. IOHN H. SMALTZ ERNEST T. TRIGG GEORGE A. WELSH, Esq. GEORGE WHEELER, Ped.D. ALEXANDER WILSON, Jr. WILLIAM T. WYCKOFF. D.D.S. OFFICERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES CHARLES E. BEURY, A.B., LL.B., LL.D. President WILMER KRUSEN, M.D., LL.D. Vice-President GEORGE A. WELSH, Esq. Secretary JOHN ARCHIBALD MacCALLUM, D.D. Assistant Secretary EDWIN I. LAFFERTY Treasurer GEORGE S. GRAHAM, Esq. Solicitor Eighteen

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The Founder, RUSSELL H. CONWELL, Deceased