Wartburg College - Fortress Yearbook (Waverly, IA)

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REMINISCING WHIBURG WARTBURG AT GALENA A HlSIOn OF OUR SCHOOL Galena, 1868-75 The Synod of Iowa and other States, established in 1854, had conducted a theological seminary from the year of its organization. In the course of time a pre-theological training school came to be felt as an urgent need, and a school for that purpose was established at Galena, Illinois, in 1868. An abandoned monastery, which had been purchased for a nominal sum, provided classrooms, dining hall, and living quarters for the students and for the rector and his family. In 1874 an additional structure was erected to serve as dining hall. The institution remained at Galena until the autumn of 1875, when it was removed to Mendota, Illinois, where the theological seminary had been relocated in the preceding year. Page 4

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This sevenly-fiflh anniversary edition of ihe Fortress was published by the students of Wartburg College at Waverly, Iowa, for you. FORTRESS

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Mendota, 1875-8S The seminarY property included a rather spacious building which had served as a professor ' s residence,- this house was placed at the disposal of the College. The students, twenty to thirty in number, were all housed and instructed in this building,- for meals and daily chapel exercises they went over to the seminary. The College was at this time almost exclusively a preparatory school for the seminary. The curriculum was largely classical. Since there was a very close connection between the College and the seminary, it followed as a matter of course that the professors of the seminary served at the same time as professors of the College,- several other teachers, however, were - added to the College faculty. Waverly, 1885-94 In 1885 the College was moved from Mendota, Illinois, and combined with the Teachers ' Seminary at Waverly, Iowa. Professor G. Grossmann became president of the institution. The curriculum was still largely that of the German Gymnasium. The medium of instruction was German — even mathematics was taught in that language. In consequence of successive increases in the enrollment, the College building soon became too small. When the Church was unable to provide funds for physical expansion, a generous and noble friend of the institution, Mr. F. Schack, made possible the erection of a two-story structure north of the main building. Clinton, 1894-1935 By the beginning of the nineties Wartburg College and Wartburg Teachers ' Seminary were again crowding their common quarters. In April, 1893, the Church resolved to move Wartburg College to Clinton, Iowa. A ANNIVERSARY WAVERLY ' S OLD MAIN Page 5