William Penn University - Quaker Yearbook (Oskaloosa, IA)

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I TRATIO Dear Students of William Penn College: One has asked for a few words concerning the writing of our Alma M3tCl'. I have wished a hund- red times it might have been prepared more critically and written more smoothly. Many thanks to Pro- fessor Baylor for setting it to suitable music. My simple wish is that the spirit of the poem may live to honor the Institution, and to challenge the loyalty of a hundred generations of students rather than to reflect any credit upon the author. It is true that once on a time a few characters of the alphabet assembled into words, the words into lines, the lines into verses and the verses took on sentiment. Memory seemed to wander like a nature loving lad over green slopes in springtime, tree- shacled spots in summer, golden touched shrubs in autumn and white mantled earth in winter. One day he saw stately buildings in new light and learned their significant purpose. Memory made him a youth with many others, stalwart lads and charming maidens. He with all of these, some of whom for more than a half century had been pressing out into world endeavor, seemed singing in unison and in loyalty about the gold and blue -singing- our devotion shall not waver. Someone called it the Dr. Edgar I'I. Stranahan, after several years absence from our cam us, is welcomed back as dean of the college.p He has served twelve Friends Meetings in Indiana, Massa- chuetts, Ohio, Kansas and Iowa in part time or full time pastorates. He has been on the faculties of Wilmington, Erlham, and Friends University. Dr. Stranahan has been very in- fluencial in organizing the William Penn Col- lege activities and establishing better relation- ships between the students and faculty mem- bers. He has served Friends as Chairman of Alma Mater. Sincerely and always your friend, 6 ' W9 the Board of Religious Education, Chairman ofthe Executive Committee and Reading Clerk of the Five Years Meeting, also Iowa Yearly Meeting as Clerk. Kansas and Iowa State Councils of Re- ligious Education have elected him as President and named him on the International Council of Religious Education. Other honors that have come to our Dean are membership in the Pi Gamma Mu honorary society, and his name appears in Who's Who in America and Religious Leaders in America.

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talwart men and Women true To the World taslx slme has sent tlfxem Loyal to the CGGOIJ and B111e.,,

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MR. PAUL N. RUSSELL-BUSINESS MANAGER. Capable, efficient, jolly- he not only fills his office well, but helps the perplexed student with his work program and financial arrangements. MISS CASSA CONOVER-serves in the capacity of Registrar. She is ac- quainted with every student and is able and willing to aid them in many of their problems. DR. C. O. WHITELY is the friendly field-secretary. He is responsible for keeping many communities throughout Iowa, conscious of our college.