Whitman College - Waiilatpu Yearbook (Walla Walla, WA)

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ARCHER W. I-IENDRICK In the future history of VVhitman College, when the students and Faculty shall remember and honor the men who have given their time and strength to its development, to Dean Hendrick there will be paid more than one sincere and grateful tribute. Since the year 1902 Mr. Hendrick has been intimately associated with the life and growth of the college. Until 1906 be was Dean of Billings Hall, in which he lived. He was the firm friend and counsellor of the boys, and their defender in timetof need. During that time he was Principal of Pearsons Academy and Professor Of English in the college. For the past three years, having given UP his teaching, he has been the financial agent for the college. The plans for the Greater Whitman, which look toward the establishing of this institution as-the Yale of the Northwest, have become a part of his verv life. In the Educational Congress of 1908, that Congress which marks the formal launching of the Greater XfVhitman project, and which is probably the most noteworthy event in the educational history of the Northwest, Dean Hendrick was one of the most intiuential powers. It was largely due to his untir- ing energy that the event was made possible. I Finance is a dry and difiicut subject. Yet it must be consid- ered most carefully in the carrying out and sustaining of any great project. The tnan who takes the burden on his shoulders must needs be willing to sacrifice his own interests to those of his work. That he has succeeded so wonderfully this far is unquestion- able proof that to Dean I-Iendrick's zeal and untiring devotion to her best interests, Wliitman owes much of her present prosperity and of her future greatness. 'JOSEPH D. NEILAN Joseph D. Neilan was born in Galena, Illinois, in 1866. From the time he was sixteen years old his life was a wandering one, so he pursued his trade as a carpenter in ditferent places, both North and South. In the year 1893 Mr. Neilan determined to become a minister, and, working toward that end, he entered the preparatory department of Drury College, from which he graduated in 1897. The following September he entered the college de- partment. He worked his way through college and was graduated in 1901. Mr. Neilan's theological course was taken at Chicago Theological Seminary. In his second year there he became pastor of the Morgan Park Congregational 'Church, and Served the people for three years and a half, being ordained in that church just before his graduation from the Sem- inary in 1904. The following year he resigned his Chicago pastorate to take charge of the Congregational Church at VVallace, Idaho. Three years and a half later he threw in his lot with XVhitman College, where he is still doing excellent service in the financial world. 13

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hiimsm What is lfVhitman College today? Out of what has it' grown? What does it aim to become? The answers to all three of these questions are included in that to the second, for what the college is, and what it is to be, are determined by what it has been. We have this year celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its founding, it is, then, among the oldest institutions in the Inland Empire, for the first white settlement in this section dates back hardly sixty years. It was born in the mind and heart of Cushing Eells as he stood at the Great Grave at Waiilatpu and pondered how best to build a monument that should com- memorate the ideals of Christian and patriotic service, the statesman's vision, and the martyr's sacrifice of lliarcus Whitmanr It has gathered its traditions, not by purchase nor by imaginative effort, but by the hard experiences of pioneer days, and by sharing the pains of growth of the States it aims to serve. It has set its criterion of success not at the achievement of greatness itself, just grounds and costly buildings, large endowments and many students, but rather at the' consistent direction of those Who come under its influence toward intellectual culture by its high standard of scholarship, and toward moral character by the sincerity and purity of its Christian life and teaching. A ' The Governing Board, the Faculty, and the students have been singularly free from dissensions, and there has developed in the life of the college a wholesome friend- liness which is held in dear possession by those who have felt its, charm. The courses are all arranged so as to include a general culture requirement in Philosophy, Language, Literature, and Science, together with a thorough, intensive, extended study through the four years in some one department. The library, the campus, the laboratories, and the shop are adequately though not extensively, equipped. The Conservatory offers many opportunities for hearing the best in music, and Pearsons Academy gives secondary courses of unusual excellence. So the college stands today with Christian service as its purpose, and with Quality, not Quantity as its motto, with Scholarship written ,large across its curriculum, with friendship bedded deep in its student life ,-what does the future promise us? With each year's record of successful results attained, there has come new strength and new allies, enabling the enlarging of plans and the extension of courses into fields not before covered. This growth has led in the last two years to the Greater Whitman movement, a plan to so increase the endowment as to make possible the addition of a department, or school, of Engineering and the enrichment of the work along all lines. The Board of Overseers, formed to control the educational and financial policy of the greater college Cnot universityj includes men whose leadership in the intellectual, political, and industrial life of the Northwest leaves no 1'oom to doubt the successful conclusion of their undertaking. Dean Hendrick, to whom the active prosecution of the campaign has been entrusted, reports satisfactory progress, and possibly even before this book is printed the first great step will have been completed. This will mean new and beautiful buildings, extended equipment, an increased faculty, a larger student body, -but unchanged ideals, the, same noble traditions, the same insistence upon schol- arship and character as the necessmy and sufficient basis of good education, the same emphasis upon intellectual and spiritual culture as the prime requisites for successful living, without which professional or technical education must be counted of greatly lessened value. ' Whitman College, then, in its birth and its history stands for service to the Northwest, today its banner is raised in behalf of intellectual and spiritual excellence, its future, resting on, and growing out of, its past and its present is filled with promise. W. A. BRATTON. 12

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Ellyn iHnarh nf Oburrarvra nf Hllhitnmn Qlnllrzge J. C. AINSVVORTH, Portland, Orefron G . SCOTT ANDERSON, Wallace, Idaho PROE. L. F. ANDERSON, WValla Wlalla, WVash. HON. LEVI ANKENY, 'Walla YValla, VVash. W. B. AYER, Portland, Oregon HON. JAMES E. BABB, Lewiston, Idaho VV. VV. BAKER, YValla YValla, Wfash. HON. J. D. BASSETT, Ritzville, Wlash. N. G. BLALOCK, Walla W'alla, WVash. GOV. JAS. H. BRADY, Pocatello, Idaho I-ION. THOS. BURKE, Seattle, XVash. A. B. C.fIIvIPEEI.I., Spokane, Wash. PAUL CLAGSTONE, Clagstone, Idaho F. LEVVIS CLARK, Spokane, VVash. YV. VV. COTTON, Portland, Oregon W. H. COWLES, Spokane, Wash. I-ION. F. S. DIETRICII, Boise Il h , ta O XVM. I'. DOVELL, Seattle, Wash. OSCAR DRUMHELLER, Walla VValla, Wash HON. EDWIN EELLS, Tacoma, Washj HON. O. A. FECHTER, North Yakima, WVash. ' JOHN A. FINCII, Spokane, WVash. RT. REV. JAMES B. FUNSTON, Boise, Idaho HON. FRANK R. GOODING, Boise, Idaho JAY P. GRAVE' S, Spokane, hN73Sl1. REV. SAMUEL GREENE, Seattle, WVash. HERBERT V. GRIGGS, Tacoma, WVash. I'ION. CORNELIUS LIOLGATE HANEORIJ, Seattle Wasl PROF. A. WV. I - ' 1. IIINDRICIR, W'alla Wlalla, Wasli. HON. GII,BERT HUNT, XValla Walla, 'Wash. REV. LIORACE PAYNE JAM4 ' ' Es, North Xakima, NVash. WVILI.IAIvI JONES, Tacoma, Wash. RT. REV. FREDERIC WVM. IQEATOR, Tacoma, Wash. XVILLIAM MEAD L-mo Portlax tl O- . , I , Iegon JOHN YV. LANODON, Walla Walla, Wash. ROBERT LIVINGSTONE, Portland, Oregon GEO. S. LONG, Tacoma, 'Wash REV. MARK A. Mlvrmnvvs, Seattle, Wash. LION. JOHN HRRTE MCGRAW, Seattle, Wash. HON. A. L. MILLS, Portland, Oregon HON. Jlmns A. MOORE, Seattle, Wash. HON. MILES C. MOORE, Walla Walla, XVash. I-ION. JOHN TRACY MORRISON, Boise, Idaho JOHN H. ' MORROW, VValla Walla, WVaSh. FRANK YV. PAINE, VValla Walla, YVaSh. PRES. S. B. L. PENROSE, XValla Walla, Wash. S. G. REED, Portland, Oregon ALLEN H. REYNOLDS, XValla YValla, VVaSh. J. P. M. RICHARDS, Spokan Y 7 e Nash. 1. J. RUDKIN, Noi-at Yakima, Wash. VVII .LIAM RUST, Tacoma, VVash. R. L. RUTEER, Spokane, Yvash. REV. W. W1 SCUOOER, West Seattle, Wash. HON. DREW W. STRNOROD, Pocatello, Idaho HON. G4 T ' EO. URNER, Spokane, Wash. REV. F. J. VAN HORN, Seattle, Wash. THEODORE B. VVILCOX, Portland, Oregon PARK WEED WILLIS, Seattle, VVash. VV. P. WVINANS, VValla Walla, Wasl H f L Oh. VV. D. VVOOD, Seattle, Wash. 14