Wartburg College - Fortress Yearbook (Waverly, IA)

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Many boys have left us during the past months. For each of these boys we have the warmest feelings of respect and loyalty. The call to the colors, however, is not limited entirely to these gallant fighting men. Wartburg has exemplified this fact in many ways. Our V programs bring technical training for the armed forces within our walls. Our bond drives give moral and financial support to our government. Our pre-theologians are patriotic- ally engaged in preparation to meet the spiritual needs of our country now and later. Our war information center and special programs keep us abreast of history in the making. Our active participation in civilian defense projects has made us a part of the home front. Here at Wartburg we realize that each of us must assume his place in the war effort. TOWARD THIS GREAT ENDEAVOR WE DEDICATE THIS DIAMOND .lUBILEE FORTRESS. Page 8

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LATIN AND GREEK SENIOR CLASS OF 1915 As a result, Warlburg Normal College of Waverly was merged with Wartburg College at Clinton in 1933. In the same year Eureka Lutheran College, of Eureka, South Dakota, a former Synod of Iowa institution, was merged in St. Paul with St. Paul-Luther College, a former Joint Synod of Ohio school. Waverly, 1935- Two years later, in 1935, Wartburg College was moved to Waverly, and St. Paul-Luther College in effect merged with it. St. Paul-Luther College had been established as Luther Seminary at Afton, Minnesota, in 1885, by the Joint Synod of Ohio and other States. In 1893 a new campus site had been purchased near Lake Phalen in St. Paul, and the Seminary, with an enlarged curriculum, had been moved to this location. Later the preparatory department had been reorganized as an accredited academy and an accredited junior college. A conservatory of music had been established in 1924, and in 1927 the school had become co-educational. In the same year Luther Seminary had been granted a new charter and the name had been changed to St. Paul-Luther College. Last Spring Hebron Junior College, of Hebron, Nebraska, a former Joint Synod of Ohio institution, closed its doors and trans- ferred its scholastic records to Wartburg Col- lege also. The present Wartburg College, then, represents the merger and continuation of six educational institutions — Wartburg College, 1868; Wartburg Normal College, 1878; St. Paul- Luther College, 1885; Martin Luther Academy, 1909; Eureka Lutheran College, 1910; and Hebron Junior College, 1911. The scholastic records of all these institutions are kept in the office of the registrar of Wartburg College. ANNIVERSARY f f Page 7

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pledge allegiance to the flag of the Unite of America and to the Republic for which it stands one Nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all