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depth of the financial depression and was very successful in the organiza- tion of the faculty and in managing the budget. He strengthened the faculty by bringing several highly trained teachers to his staff. Dr. Collins’ crowning achievement was the securing of admittance of the college to the American Association of Teachers’ Colleges, which meant much to the teachers trained at Wilmington College and to the standing of the school. During Dr. Collins’ administration, the large “Rosa Robinson estate” came to the col- lege in the way of several hundred acres of fertile land in Richland township near Rees- ville. An oil station was erected at the corner of Fife and Rombach Avenues which the col- lege still owns as an investment. This site was formerly occupied by the Triangle dormi- tory for girls. An alumni fund of $700 was raised and used to establish a student center at the corner of Whittier Place and Douglas Street in 1935. Dr. Collins lived on Rombach Avenue in the stucco home now owned by Mrs. Mildred Goodwin. All three of his children were graduated from Wilmington College. He resigned in February, 1940, to acce pt a position with the State Department of Education for Ohio. Dr. Boyd was again chosen to administer the college during the period between the leaving of Dr. Collins and the arrival of his successor. Dr. Sheppard Arthur Watson Eleventh President, 1940-1947 Dr. S. A. Watson, graduate of Friends University and Ohio State Uni- versity, former Professor of Biology at Wilmington College (1920-23) and Dean of Whittier College, came to the presi- dency in 1940. The outstanding piece of work done by Dr. Watson was the admittance of Wilmington College to the North Central As- sociation of Colleges in 1943. To get the col- lege prepared for this step, it was necessary to provide financial security for the college and to build an adequate permanent library build- ing. Both of these, Dr. Watson was able to do. The idea of the living endowment was made to function and produce results, temporarily at least. The new library building was erected in 1941. Additions were made to the endow- ment through the estate of Isaac T. Johnson. and his brother, Charles. Many other additions were made to the physical plant in the building of a heating plant at the gymnasium for the gymnasium, library, and College Hall; the erection of two camps of house trailers; the erection of three temporary barracks for GI students; the erection of Bs
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June, 1928, put an end to the project. Dr. Williams was a man of dynamic personality and was much in demand as a public speaker. As owner and editor of the magazine, THE OHIO TEACH- ER, he was well versed in the methods of pub- licity and able to place the value of college effectively before the public. This magazine, on his death, issued a special edition praising the state-wide work of its capable editor. Dr. Williams’ funeral was held in the College gym- nasium. “Tt is not sufficient to say of this man— that he was a good man; he was more than that—he was a most useful citizen, endowed with great capabilities which he employed to the fullest for the advancement of the cause of education and good citizenship in our State.” This is an excerpt from the June, 1928, issue of THE OHIO TEACHER. Beverly O. Skinner Ninth President, 1928-1931 Beverly Oden Skinner, graduate of the University of Chicago and Ohio University and superintendent of the Marietta Schools, came as president of Wilmington College in the fall of 1928. President Skinner’s ambition was to raise the standards of Wilmington College to meet the requirements of accrediting agencies. To achieve this goal he carried out two finan- cial campaigns. The first campaign in 1929 was for a $100,000 sustaining fund, which was successfully completed, having been headed by him personally and assisted by his faculty and Board of Trustees. The second campaign in 1930, for $500,000 endowment, was not suc- cessful because of the national financial crash which came in full force at that time. President Skinner lived at..Peterson Place. He resigned in 1931 to accept the appointment of Director of Education for the State of Ohio. During the period that intervened between the leaving of President Skinner and the coming of his successor (1931-1932), Dr. O. F. Boyd, of the Department of Chem- istry, served as acting president for the school. Dr. Walter L. Collins Tenth President, 1932-1940 Dr. Walter L. Collins, graduate of Lebanon National Normal Univer- sity, Wilmington College, and the University of Cincinnati, and supervisor of graduate training in the University of Cincinnati, took over presidential duties in the summer of 1932. Dr. Collins came to the college during the Biot
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two faculty apartments; and the erection of the Industrial Arts building. The barracks, the faculty apartments, the trailers, and the Industrial Arts buildings were grants of the Federal Works Agency. The Bosworth farm (275 acres), adjoining the college land on the south and east, was pur- chased in 1947 for a college farm. A campaign for a Townsend Memorial was begun in the summer of 1944 by school men of Ohio and friends of the late Horace R. Townsend, President of the Board of Trustees and Commissioner of Athletics for the State of Ohio. The campaign netted $17,000 which will be used for a Townsend Athletic Field. Dr. Watson resided on Rombach Avenue for a time, later moving to the president’s home on College Street, purchased by the Board of Trustees from Thurman “Dusty” Miller. Dr. Watson resigned in November, 1946, to accept the presidency of his alma mater, Friends University, Wichita, Kansas. Dr. Samuel D. Marble Twelfth President, 1947- Dr. Samuel D. Marble, graduate of the University of New Mexico and Syracuse University, and professor of political science at West Virginia Wesleyan, began his duties as president in the summer of 1947. While Dr. Marble is not the youngest president of the college, he is youth- ful and full of zeal and vigor. He was in- augurated as president on November 23, 1947, at which time Dr. Charles P. Taft, of Cincin- nati, Ohio, gave the address. It was a very colorful and impressive ceremony, and was the first of its kind on the Quaker campus. The only other presidential induction cere- mony, to the knowledge of the writer, was that held for Dr. S. A. Watson on Education Day at the Friends Yearly Meeting in August, 1940. Dr. Marble has set out to give Wilming- ton College a prominent place in the educa- tional world. A $160,000 dormitory for men it now in the process of construction. While it is not the first student project that has been carried out on the Wil- mington College campus, it is unique in that it is the only one that has had sufficient magnitude and has been given sufficient publicity to catch the imagination and attract the attention of the public. Nothing that has ever happened at Wilmington College has given such publicity and so focused the attention of the nation on Wilmington College as has this student project. On Nov. 10-13, 1947, a convocation was held at the College, the theme of which was “Wilmington College Building for a Better Tomorrow.” Many speakers of national note were secured for the occasion. On Sat- urday, November 13, homecoming day was celebrated and was attended by a vast throng... Six hundred old students and friends assembled for a ee ee
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