Wilmington College - Wilmingtonian Yearbook (Wilmington, OH)

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Studenis of 1949 may see in this picture something of what the Wilming- ton College of the past looked like. No Music Building is included in the drawing, just as Douglas Hall has been eliminated. The Library was not yet built. The several faculty apartments and men’s barracks are con- spicuous by their absence along Whittier Place and Douglas Street. In the dinner in the College gymnasium, at which President Clyde Milner, of Guilford College, and Dr. Marble were the speakers. There is a financial campaign being carried on at present to raise the funds for the erection of a much-needed college auditorium-chapel and more class rooms. It is too early to evaluate the work of Dr. Marble, as he has only begun. He is a man of dynamic personality and is able to place forcibly before the public the value and the needs of the college. Teacher Ellen Wright No history of Wilmington College would be complete without men- tion of the life and work of Teacher Ellen Wright. This lady was reared near Highland and came to Wilmington Col- lege in the days of the first president, Lewis Estes. She was graduated — oA

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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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bottom center is the Holbrook Memorial, a building which never passed out of the proposal stages. Along College Street (extreme right) is the old grand- stand ond football field. In the back campus view, there is a track. Main Building has a bannister around the tower. The old tennis courts (near the grandstand) have since been removed. South Hall has no front porch. in the first class, that of 1875, and began service as a teacher of Latin, Greek, and English grammar. She was secretary of the faculty for many years and served under eight presidents. She taught her classes in the room which is now the office of Miss Sarah Castle, dean and registrar. Her chapel talks were always a source of inspiration and delight to col- lege students. She and her brother, J onathan, who taught science, together with President James Unthank, were the backbone of the college for many critical years. She served the college for over forty years, giving her life to its upbuilding. Teacher Ellen lived in the home at the corner of Fife Avenue and John Street, recently purchased by the College. There is no tangible memorial erected to the memory and service of this noble character. She gave substantially of her possessions to the college in that the two cottages near Denver Hall were her gifts. It is time that a memorial room be included in some of our new buildings, ney, aes.