William Penn University - Quaker Yearbook (Oskaloosa, IA)

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Dedication The Quaker Staff proudly dedicates the 1957 Quaker to Professor C. A. Coach Micklewright. 1956-57 marks four years of faithful and per- servering service for Coach Micklewright as pro- fessor of physical education and director of ath- letics at Penn College. Before his years of teach- ing and coaching, Coach took his B.A. degree at Pennsylvania State College. During these four years Coach has demon- strated true sportmanship, not only on the athletic field, but in the class- room as a teacher, and as the dean of men. Per- sonally Coach is a Christian gentleman, friend- ly, and fair. He exemplifies a worthy striving toward the goals of excellence in body, mind, and spirit. The l957 Quaker Staff congratulates Coach Micklewright in this 1956-57 year of Victory both in football and basketball at William Penn Coll- ege. We recognize him for his quality of excel- lence as a teacher, as dean of men, and as coach and trainer of youth.

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A Dream Realized Have you ever seen a dream, not walking, but building? We have, right here on the Penn Campus the past year. Eighteen months ago the Physical Education building was still just a pic- ture of a proposed gym-architect's drawings on blue print paper, pledges of money , finally con- tracts with workmen. Then last spring on Ground Breaking Day a few spadefuls of dirt were dug: but the hole made was not even big enough to set a fence post! Before long a bulldozer clanked and snorted, leveling the site: the long arm of a drag- line swung the buckets of dirt out of the trenches for the foundation. Thereafter the west campus be- gan to be cluttered with material, an shed of cement, piles of sand and gravel, bricks and building blocks, steel bars, pipe and drain tile. A complicated pattern of stakes, and later trenches was laid out. The first bit of the building was finally in-the con- crete footings. One by one cement blocks , bricks and tiles went into place: and gradually the walls rose, up to ground level , ia-su high as my head , to the height of the windows , end walls, are all the way up. But other strange things were happening. In the deep trench encircling the foundations a maze of water pipes, drain pipes , steam pipes, electric conduits were laid. Pipes and bars stuck up in the air in all sorts of odd places. More holes and trenches were dug, for sewers, water lines and the connection to the heating plant. Electricians strung the power wires across the field. As the walls rose toward their full height, prospects seemed bright for a gym ready for the first basketball game of the season. Then-the steel strike! Day after day papers were anxious- ly scanned for news of a settlement of the strike: before that finally came the target date for com- pletion of the gym was pushed back a month, six weeks, two months. But at last the suspense endedp and the long arm of the hoist swung the five-ton roof trusses into place. Then the ques- tion was Will the roofing crew get the roof on before it snows or rains ?