Wheaton College - Tower Yearbook (Wheaton, IL)

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- ---.s.:...t,s...:s.-f-f.Y,.,:s .1-W , - v.f,,a,.-.enm .1 - - 3.s.gr.-'..-fugs.-g,:L-:gre . WJJ- .. . ALUMNI Alumni Association of Wheaton College PART of the purpose of the Alumni Association, as stated in the new constitution, is to foster and perpetuate the enthusiasm of the Alumni for the College , as well as to ensure more effective com- munication between them on matters of mutual interest. That there needs also to be a closer bondbetween the Alumni and those who are to become Alumni-the students of the present-both groups are beginning to realize and much, though not all, of the activity of the year among the Alumni has been in that direction. ' The first forward step of the year was the adoption of the new consti- tution at the Annual meeting in June. This provides for a more definite objective and organization of the Association and has prepared the Way for a great advance in the activity of the Alumni. The President and the three Vice-Presidents are no longer simply honorary officers but they have definite duties and responsibilities. The Secretaryrand the Treasurer have no less to do than formerly, but on the contrary are assigned greater tasks. An innovation in the constitution is the article providing for the Alumni council-the Association's officers and a secretary from each class- the Association and the College . It is anticipated that this body will be pro- ductive of much valuable initiatory activity. The Alumni as a body have participated with interest and profit in the Home Coming season and the gathering in honor of the 75th birthday of President Blanchard. Smaller groups have carried on class letters and formed local organizations in one or two places.- Some Alumnae who work in Chicago have started a monthly luncheon-meeting. All these mean closer co-operation and greater activity. r An Association effort of vital importance to both the Association and the College is the movement instituted among the Alumni to give them an opportunity of participating in the building expansion of the College that is about to begin. This is bound to serve as a stimulus to interest, to prayer and to co-operation among the members of the Association. . But there is room for still greater- increase in the activity 'of the Alumni on behalf of their Alma Mater. Sometimes when as the vision is seen of all that can be accomplished for and through the College when all the six hundred Alumni are fired with the possibilities of the situation it causes wonder at the magnitude of the opportunity. More students and more build- ings, more means and more consecration-these can come to the College from the Alumni as they pray, as they work, and as they give, that the cause of Christ and I-lis.Kingdom may be upheldland prospered by all the College family. D Landmarks Left by Alumni '93. The chemistry laboratory. The motto which was placed above the door, Non Sibi Sed Omnibus, now may be found over the door of the Education room. Published the first Echo. '95, The elm at the fork of the main walk. '99. One thousand dollars given within three years of graduation toward the endowment. '07, The Sun dial. 'I l. The Drinking Fountain. 'l2. Stone Bench. Twenty-five

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ALUMNI What They Said Geo. W. Bond: It's the first Home Comingg may the interest and numbers increase with the years. - Charles L. King: What a thrill to see the old College Tower again. Shorty Sagar: One thousand miles to see dear old Wheaton Win. Lu Campbell: 'Tis a great world but there's no place like Wheaton. Ruth WorrellyNelson: I realize how ancient l am when I View these romantic walls. ' John W. Lloyd: Back again among the boys. Rachel B. Mackenzie: O master, they are seven! Not ripe for football yet but coming. ' Julia E. Blanchard: lt does us 'stay-at-homes' a world of good to see old friends back. ' Twenty-four

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ALUMNI 'l3. The Bulletin Board. 'l 6. The Library card catalogue case. '2l. Painting of President fnever 'C0D1Ple'feCU- '22. Endowment for library. Publlshed first Tower- Z3 . Caps and Gowns. '24, blankets for football men. Alumni Notes . '67, Adelaide Edmonds Hemingway, Oak Park, Ill. Passed away Feb. 5, 'l923, and is now in her Heavenly Homer Sincerely, A- P- Hemingway. l . A memorial dormitory has been erected to her honor in the Shansl mission, China, where her son labors. 73. Dr. A. W. Blunt, Clinton, la. Celebrated his 50th anniversary of graduation in Wheaton at commencement, '23, 78. D. Nutting, Utah Gospel Mission. 'il-lave been in Utah in charge of the two gospel cars, holding meetings nearly every evening on the street in the San Pcti valley with an average attendance of l70. Of the thirty-five villages only eight have any Christian workers. Only a very small proportion of young people ever heard the real gospel until this work began. Rev. Nutting wishes he were a dozen men to help meet the need for the next decades, and asks for the best Wheaton men to help, beginning next summer. I 79. Rev. Walter L. Ferris, Wheaton, Ill. ' A man ofsun and kindly light, Yet stern as Cromwell for the right, ln every crisis true. Foursquare he stands upon. the rock That through the ages stood the shock Of every blast that blew! -Frank E. .Herrick. '8l. Elsie Storres Dow, Wheaton, Ill. So I turn with fondest longing as l rove, Backward to the hearts that love me, that l love. Hearts that lead me from the lesser to the more, Show me truth in fairer colors than before. '82. Rev. O. S. Grinnell, Wayne, Ill. '89. Dr. N. Fifield, Kansas City, Mo. Minister. With his son James he enjoyed a European trip last summer. - '9l. Charles Parsons, Des Moines, la. HF or fourteen years Superin- tendent of the Iowa Congregational Hospital. Member of the Board of Directors of the Citizens' Industrial Loan Company of city. A firm believer in Christ and His Gospel as the onlyremedy- for individual ills and the ills of society. . . Miss Wilhelmina Jacobs, the only classmate living, is a physician in the employ of the State Hospital at East Moline, lll. ' Dr. G. Brooks, Wheaton, Ill. Pastor-at-large of the Con- gregational churches of the State of Illinois. I '97. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas L. Johnson fFaith Fischerl, Batavia, Ill. ,'97- Blelle Wilsoni' Kewanee. Ill. Has charge of the William Wilson Studio of which her father was manager for many years. Business has been Twenty-six