Wartburg College - Fortress Yearbook (Waverly, IA)

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Greetings ■ As we look back to the very modest beginning of Wartburg at Waverly in 1879 and see the Wartburg of today, we indeed have reasons to be profoundly grateful to God for its progress. Under the direction of the sainted President Grossmann the school was opened in a rented dwelling with two teachers and thirteen students, and when in 1894 the school had outgrown its quarters in the old main building, and the college department moved to its stately home at Clinton, Iowa, Wartburg at Waverly began its new period of existence with one teacher and seven students. Today its campus and buildings repre¬ sent a value of approximately $300,000, and it has a teaching staff of eighteen members and an enrollment of 262 students in its various departments. Wartburg has again outgrown its quarters, and we are happy to announce that a new central building will be erected so that the school may properly serve the constantly increasing number of students. As an old Wartburger I wish to extend to the host of former as well as present students and to the many friends of our school the most cordial greetings through the medium of the “Wahsa,” this splendid token of our students’ loyalty and cordial attachment to the dear old school. May Wartburg, under God’s guidance, continue to progress and forever remain true to the sacred cause of Christian education. Cordially, [Paw Fourteen]

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I -» AUGUST ENGELBRECHT President of Wartburg Normal College Professor of Methods and German Critic Teacher. Two years Wartburg College. Three years Wartburg Teachers 1 Seminary and Academy. Parochial School Teacher 1882-1890. ■ Professor of Wartburg Teachers ' Seminary and Academy 1890-1909. President of Wartburg Normal College since 1909. w [Page Thirteen]

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OSWALD HARDWIG Principal of Music. Instructor of Piano, Organ and Harmony. Four years Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa. Treacher and Organist at St. Paul ' s Lutheran Church, Waverly, Iowa, 1894-1903. Wartburg Normal College since 1903. KEV. JOHN BECKER Principal of Proseminary Department. Professor of Religion, Greek, German, and Mediaeval and Modern History. Six years Rectorate School, Dreihausen, Germany. J Three years Theological Seminary, Men- dota, Ill. Pastor and Parochial School Teacher, 1881-1909. Wartburg Normal College since 1909. [Page Fifteen]