Trine University - Modulus Yearbook (Angola, IN)

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D , ...f -. z i . .- 1 -...ill g, ,,, l,,1.i. u,..l..'-.-.- position as a teacher in 1911, and sold his stock to the Company in 1920. In the summer of 1909, Pres. L. M. Sniff resigned his position and Pro- fessor J. F. Bryant was chosen to succeed him. After one year, Professor Sniff returned and took up the' duties of President, and continued in active service until the time of his death. In 1914, Professor Burton Handy, who had taught in the school for one '-year, became a stockholder. Pro- fessor Handy is still a teacher in the institution. President Snif died on September 14, 1922. On Jan. 10, 1923, E. D. Long, a graduate of, and a former teacher in, the College was chosen as President of the institution, and on April 16, 1923, assumed the duties of that oflice. In October, 1923, President Long became a stockholder by purchasing Mrs. Sniif's interest in the institution. Aims Q WN the forty-one years since its organization, Tri-State College has grown from the 60x60 frame building and 40 students to three com- modius buildings and an annual enrollment of approximately1200 students. The school has no endowment and receives no aid from the State. It has nothing to commend it to public confidence but its work. Honest service alone accounts for the splendid growth the school has enjoyed. Without hostility to either Church or State schools, and with full recognition of the fact that both are important, Tri-State College believes that an educational institution which will take a boy with one or two years of high school work, or it may be from the shop, and give him the oppor- tunity to realize his best self, is worthy of respect. From the earliest years Tri-State College has oiered to that great body of young men and women, who, from various causes, have been denied the privilege of a high school education, the opportunity to get an education even at a late day. Furthermore, her doors have always been open to that other group of young people ,who because they did not appreciate the value of education, dropped out of school, only to discover later that education is a necessity. Outside of the School of Education, Tri-State College is not a stand- ardized institution. This makes it possible for her to say to prospective students: You need not have a High school course to enter here. This brings to us many young people who have ability but not much schooling, and accounts for the fact that We always have a body of students such as would be a credit to any University. The fact that Tri-State College is not a standardized school also makes it possible for the directors of the school to put into practice the following motto: Put everything into a course that is necessary, leaving out all that is not necessary. Open this course to any one who can take it. Give all who enter an opportunity to do the work in the shortest possible time, and grant a diploma with the appropriate degree as soon as the course is completed. -.-T The stockholders constitute the Board of Directors, which at the pres- ent time is as follows: Charles C. Sherrard, President, Willis A. Fox, Vice- Presidentg Fred M. Starr, Secretary-Treasurer, William O. Bailey, George G. Niehous, Burton Handy and Ernest D. Long. The members of the Board of Directors are all members of the fac- ulty. At the present time the faculty numbers twenty-two. ' -..aw -.. .- W- .- - - --fe nf, Page 18