Wartburg College - Fortress Yearbook (Waverly, IA)

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A New Addition Luther Hall had a welcome addition this year when the new South Wing was completed. Facing Bremer Avenue, the imposing $200,000 structure is the newest building on campus. Dedication ceremonies were observed by a large crowd on Homecoming Sunday, Oct. 28. The modem classrooms received their first use with the beginning of the second semester. Enjoyed by both the student and instructor, the modem science laboratories, new furniture, wide halls, new library space and fluorescent lighting make education in the new addition a pleasure. Administrative offices are still located in the old part of Luther Hall, but the South Wing has taken the classroom pressure off other buildings. The days of classes in Old Main are passing! 11

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averly—The Journey s End God Has Been Good. When the college-seminarY institution at Mendota became hopelessly overcrowded, the Synod decided in 1885 to combine the college with the normal school at Waverly. The first building on the Wartburg campus, Old Main, provided dormitory, faculty, class and dining space. But conditions became crowded here, too. The result was that the college was once more moved, this time to Clinton, in 1894. The college at Clinton continued to be modeled after the German Gymnasium, with a six-year course, until well into the twentieth century. Then it was adapted to American traditions. Meanwhile, the school at Waverly devel- oped a number of departments, and became known as a Normal College. With the three- way merger that resulted in the formation of the American Lutheran Church in 1933, Wartburg Normal College was again merged with Wart- burg College of Clinton. In 1935, however, this combined institution, now officially called Wartburg College, was returned to Waverly. That is the story of Wartburg College: from a combined faculty and student body of eight in 1852 to over six hundred in 1952,- from a rigid classical curriculum to a modern Amer- ican liberal arts program,- from practically no extracurricular activities to seven sports and twenty-eight campus organizations, with wave after wave of gridiron Knights and a choir that has toured a large portion of the nation. As one looks back from today ' s Wartburg through the years of financial stress and crowd- ed facilities, one cannot help feeling that, in the words of the deceased Director Engelbrecht, God has been good! Top left — Far from the modern Wartburg Col- lege library is this one which was housed in Old Main in 1894. Top right — The student body and faculty of 1891 assemble on the college lawn. Upper center left — Otto Kraushaar, one of the early presidents of Wartburg at Clinton and instructor at Waverly, gathers with his Latin class in 1888 for a class picture. Upper center right — The Main building in 1894. Cen- ter — Director August Engelbrecht dictates a let- ter to his secretary. Mr. Engelbrecht served as head from 1909 till 1933. Lower center left — The green in front of Grossmann Hall becomes the center of May Day activities in the late ' 30 ' s. Lower center right — Solemn and bar- ren are words which describe the early gym- nasium in Waverly; yet many exciting contests were held in the interior. Bottom — Interior furnishings of Wartburg Hall were very mod- ern to the women who lived there during the days of World War I. 10

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GROSSMANN HALL ... Stands in a Founder ' s Memory Erected early in the development of Wartburg College, Grossmann Hall stands in remembrance of a man whose endeavors bore fruit in the founding of the college of the Midwest. Pastor Grossmann, one of the enthusiastic promoters of early Wartburg, will long be remembered in the now modern four-story men ' s dorm. Complete with lounge and recreation facilities, Grossmann now houses near- ly 150 men.