The First Fifty Years- Pacific College 1891-1941

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Edited by VELDON J DIMENT

A record of the first fifty years in the

life of Pacific College—the illustratedstory of her growth as the only Quaker

College in the Pacific Northwest,

com-plete with pictures of the present student

body and faculty

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS

J 0 DR LEVI T PENNINGTON, President of Pacific College for thirty years

—from 1911 to 1941— and now President Emeritus, dean of all Oregon college

presidents, an educator who is recognized not only as an executive, but also as aman of high Christian character, broad vision, magnanimous spirit, and friendlyinterest iri all about him, this book is loyally dedicated by all who have workedwith him at Pacific College

jfwO GENERATIONS have passed through the portals of

Paci-fic College since the school first took root in the little Quaker munity of Newberg, and now fifty years since the founding of thecollege proper, the Board of Managers has authorized this record in

com-book form —the first compiled history of the school

Our purpose has been the production of a story that will forgeforever the links binding together the young and the old of ourAlumni It was planned to touch somewhere the interests and memor-

ies of every individual who has come to know and love PacificCollege

As work on the volume progressed it became apparent that thedecision to undertake the project had been exceedingly timely, for theyears have dimmed the early records and have taken their toll among

those who were the first-hand witnesses to the organization and

early growth of the school

And so we pay tribute to the generations of the past who made

Pacific College what it is today; we express our gratitude to the

hundreds of friends who have made this book possible, and we salutethe new president and the future generations of students who willclaim Pacific College as their Alma Mater

TABLE OF CONTENTS Book I—Pacific College, 1891-1941

Chapter 1. As the Academy Grew 5

Chapter 2. President Newlin Opens the College 7

Chapter 3. President Henry Edwin McGrew 9Chapter 4. Growth in Faculty and Buildings 10

Chapter 5. President Levi T Pennington 12

Chapter 6. The College of Today 16

Book II—Organizations 21

Book III— The Students--Then and Now

Chapter 1. The Students As I Knew Them 25Chapter 2. The Students in Action 30Chapter 3. The Students of Today 33

Book IV —Athletics _ 37

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1891- 1941

jfliE STORY of Pacific College is the

story of the growth of education in a

pioneer Oregon community following the

arrival of the Quakers

Ewing Young was the first settler on

the western side of the Willamette river.

Over 100 years ago he brought more than

600 head of Spanish longhorns from

Mexican California, built a sawmill, and

even led to the organization of the first

government in the Northwest when the

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necessity of Settling his estate arose at Pioneer Quaker Leader

the time of his death

After the passing of the Donation Land Law in 1850, D. D Deskins and

Joseph Rogers took the claims where Newberg now stands

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Ad Mte Academy Qa&ul

In the year 1871 the region was visited by William Hobson, a Quaker

minis-ter from Iowa, who had felt "a call of the Lord to start a settlement of Quakers

in Oregon." He traveled back and forth through various parts of Oregon and

Washington territory, and finally his careful choice brought him to where

New-bergisnow located A postoffice hadbeen established in 1869 by Sebastian Brutscherwho obtained a commission as first postmaster and named the office after his home

town, Newburgh, in Bavaria Hobson returned in 1875 to settle down, and made

good use of the postoffice in sending word to his friends urging them to come to

the newly settled town

Two families from Indiana came to the "Grubby End' of Chehalem valley in

1880 by rail and boat via San Francisco In this party of Quakers were Jesse and

Mary Edwards and their four children and Ezra H and Amanda Woodward and

their son, Walter In this one group was much of the force that founded PacificCollege The two men were both members of the first board Mrs Woodward fol-

lowed her husband in that loyal service Clarence Edwards was a member of the

first graduating class and three others of the children went on to graduation

Itwas during the summerof 1881 that the first school was erected in the berg districtin a stump field now the northwest corner of Main and Illinois streets.

New-thirteen the district.

One evening in the spring of 1884 the ren saw that someone had cut a swath of

child-wheat down along the west side of the

Ed-wards garden where the Friends church now

stands Mr Edwards had been so anxious

to have an Academy started that he had sented to its erection in the center of hiseighty acre field.

con-Chehalem Monthly Meeting had raisedthe money for the erection of a two storybuilding Only the first floor was finished

when Friends Pacific Academy opened onSeptember 28, 1885, with nineteen students

and a faculty of three Dr H. J Minthorn,former superintendent of the Indian schoolthenat Forest Grove, was principal and Mrs

Minthorn and W. R Starbuck completed theforce Among the first students was HerbertHoover, orphaned nephew of the Min-

thorns, who was eleven years old and apupil in the grammar school department

The first board was composed of Ezra H Woodward, president, David J

Wood, secretary and treasurer, Jesse Edwards, Jesse Hobson, and George W.

Mitchell In 1886, they arranged for the erection of a boarding hall and four smallcottages for the use of students boarding themselves The entire charge to stu-dents including tuition andboard and room was only$110 a year

HERBERT HOOVER is the second boy from the left in the front

row of the first Student Body of Pacific Academy, 1885

EZRA H. WOODWARD

President of the First Board

OftJBMA the GolU<f&

2)uRING THE first five years of

its existence Pacific Academy had

made a growth highly

satisfac-tory to its promoters, having

in-creased from an original enrollment

of nineteen to about 130 One

stu-dent had graduated and larger

class-es were coming on The nearest

Quaker college, Penn College in

Iowa, was far away and Oregon

Friends were confronted with the

need for a college of their own

After carefully considering the

matter the Board announced its

de-termination to open a college So

Pacific College came into being

September 9, 1891, in the building housing the Academy, and a college charter was

granted under the laws of the state of Oregon Official management was secured

by the simple expedient of continuing the Board of Trustees that had been ducting the affairs of the Academy.

con-Thomas Newlin came from Spiceland Academy where he had been principal,

to become first president of Pacific College He had received two degrees from Haverford College On the opening day the enrollment was two juniors, four

sophomores, two freshmen, and seven listed as deficient in preparatory work forfull freshman standing There were 136 in the Academy the same year For ttaentire institution there were six professors in addition to President Newlin His

salary was $1000 per year and the others received about $50 per month

Newberg was now an incorporated city of 1000 inhabitants and a movement had begun for more commodious quarters for the new insitution There were at

least three offers The offer of twenty-three acres in the northeast part of town was accepted and the present campus came into beii^g,

A contract was entered into with a Mr. Clark of Portland by which he was

to move the two main buildings (now known as Hoover Hall and Kanyon Hall) to

PRESIDENT NEWLIN and the first graduating class, Clarence J. Edwards and Amos G. Stanbrough

excavate for the buildings and build the foundation walls for the

sum of $1359 Mr. Clark completed the task during the summer of 1892 and thebuildings were ready for use on the new site at the opening of school in September,

1892, the college's second year

By the beginning of the next school year a forty by sixty addition had been

added to the original thirty-six by forty-eight foot structure The boarding hall was

described as "a commodious building of two stories and basement comfortably

furnished for sixteen ladies and twenty gentlemen."

President Newlin was a firm believer in the value of physical education and

had stressed in his first annual report to the Board the need for a gymnasium During the first year in the new location an upper room in the new addition tothe main building was used for physical exercises, but the following year, largely

through the efforts of the students and faculty, a gymnasium was built. Most ofthe actual construction of the building was done by the students themselves Thebuilding is still in use, though later additions have much more than doubled thefloor space

In 1894 the college was organized as a joint stock company with $40,000worth of stock at $50 per share To allay any alarm the stockholders adopted a

resolution affirming their belief in the authority of the Bible

In spite of every effort at economy, receipts from all sources never quite led expenditures Perhaps the nearest to a balance was in the fall of the year1892-93 when the treasurer's report shows that the tuition fees lacked only $13

equal-of paying salaries for the term

From the time the first issue of the Newberg Graphic carried an

advertise-ment of Friends Pacific Academy the paper continued as a loyal supporter of theinstitution The editor said of the first administrator, "President Newlin is thepeer of any college man on the Pacific Coast and he is so regarded throughout

came to Pacific College in 1900 as its second president.

His first efforts were directed toward paying off the collegedebt During the year 1901-02, a strenuous campaign raised more than $14,500.Thetreasurer's reportin June, 1902, showed noliabilities andasmall amountof cash

Although the first president had repeatedly called attention to the need for

some permanent and regular income in addition to tuition and donations, nothing

definite was done toward securing an endowment until 1902 Henry Mills that year

deeded his house tothe college as the beginning of the endowment fund

In 1905 it was proposed to raise $50,000 Subscriptions were not binding untilthe whole amount was pledged and the campaign was not completed because ofthe ill health of the president

The next year, in order to strengthen the control of the Yearly Meeting, thestock feature was abolished and the Pacific College Corporation came into being

Its membership totaled 152 and provision was made for a Boajd of Managers oftwelve members

President McGrew's ill health caused him to resign in March, 1907

THIS EARLY FACULTY includes (front) Harvey Crumley, President McGrew, Mrs Douglas, Mrs Kantner, (back) Marvin Blair, Music Professor Kantner, Prof Jones, and Eleazer Partington

superintendent of Friends work in Mexico for a number

of years and who had degrees from Earlham and the

Uni-versity of Chicago, was chosen as the College's third dent He arrived for the school year of 1907-08 and found himself immediately

presi-confronted with the problems connected with an endowment campaign

During the administration of President Kelsey, a number of people joined theforce who were to make outstanding contribution to the college Eva Hummer Hull and Alexander Hull came to take charge of the workin music and Mrs Hull taught

piano and violin for the next twenty-one years Professor Hull taught voice and

cello, directed the chorus, and taught classes in music and writing for the nexttwenty-seven years until he went to radio station KOAC.

Among others who came at this time were Oliver Weesner, who has been head

of the Department of Mathematics since 1909;

: Mrs Emma Mendenhall Hodgin

BE-DERBIED PROF WEESNER heads this faculty picnic group including Eunice

Lewis, Mrs Hodgin, Mrs William Johnson and Mr Johnson, Mabel Beck, Paul

Brissenden, Mrs William J. Reagan, and Mr. Reagan

who came 909 was on the staff in

var-ious capacities for twenty-three years; and

Miss Mary Eunice Lewis who became a

fac-ulty member in 1910 and taught German

for the next seventeen years

President Kelsey resigned in 1910, later

becoming Professor of Biblical literature at

Penn College, and Professor W. J. Reagan

was appointed acting president He filled

that office duringthe school year of 1910-11

During this time was organized the Women's

Auxiliary to Pacific College which has done

so much through the years to help provide

better equipment for the institution

The largest single appeal for funds for

the college ever made for anything outside

of endowment came in 1910 when plans

were made for a new building The mayor

of Newberg, N. C Christenson, called a

mass meeting on February 10,

preceded by a parade of

stu-dents.At the meetingEzra

Wood-ward, editor of the Newberg

Graphic, took charge and a total

of $16,335 in subscriptions was

raised toward a new $30,000

building During the next few

months a thorough canvass of

the town and surrounding

coun-try was made It was largely the

work of Mrs Amanda

Wood-ward and Mrs Evangeline

Mar-tin who toured the country in a

buggy drawn by faithful "Old

Kit." The magnitude of their

task is clearly illustrated by the

fact that more than 600 names

appear on the list of donors who

gave the money forthe new

build-ing, which was erected and ready

for use in the spring of 1911 In

tribute tothe twowho had worked

so hard the new building was

named Wood-Mar hall

EVA HUMMER HULL

Who with Alexander Hull contributed largely

to music at Pacific College

MRS MARTIN and MRS WOODWARD

Celebrated a good job well done on July 4, 1910

GJiafitefr 5

PRES LEVI T. PENNINGTON

as he looked on arrival in 1911

JJ HE OPENING of college in the fall of

1911 was under the presidency of Levi T

Pen-nington who came to Newberg from the torate of the South Eight Street church in

pas-Richmond, Indiana He had received his A

B Degree from Earlham the year before

The need for more funds for the college

was imperative and the Board had alreadyvoted to attempt an endowment campaign to

raise $100,000 This work was begun in 1912

and at a banquet held at the Imperial Hotel,

Newberg, in October, 1914, it was reported that $65,000 had been pledged and an

additional$10,000 offered Before the end of theyear $118,000 had been raised with

less than $4,500 secured outside the field of Oregon Yearly Meeting The rejoicingoccasionedbythe completion ofthis outstanding task is illustrated in the accompany-

ing cartoon drawn by Professor Walter Spahr After nearly twenty-five years of

existence Pacific College finally had a sizable

endow-ment

Mary C Sutton first came to Pacific College in

1911, and has now been on the staff twenty-nine years.Russell W. Lewis first joined the faculty in 1912 and

has been a professor here for twenty-four years ard McMinn and Walter E Spahr both came in 1914

How-Other faculty members began their terms of service asfollows: Floyd W. Perisho, 1915; Mary L Johnson,1916; Dwight W. Michener, 1922; Perry D Macy,

1920; Chase L Conover, 1926; and Emmett W. Gulley,

1928 The list of outstanding faculty members through

the years is included in the Almanac and only thepressure of material precludes a glowing story of theirindividual achievement

The war period delayed any attempt to raiseadditional endowment until 1920 In December of that

EVERYONE was happy according

to artist Professor Spahr

New-berg Friends church and soon afterward $10,000 was

subscribed at the First Friends Church in Portland A

canvass among Friends in Newberg and Salem brought

the amount up to $47,000 President Pennington and

Dr Coffin raised $51,000 among Eastern Friends By

1925 the annual report showed $200,000 paid in and

invested On another trip East President Pennington

secured $10,000 Before the end of the year 1925 the

cash endowment had been brought up to $215,000

with other subscriptions amounting to $33,000 In 1940

the total endowment, as listed by the auditor, was

$274,930

WALTEK E. SPAHE

now at New York University

and Executive Secretary of the Economists' National Commit-

tee on Monetary Policy

The picture of the financial position of Pacific College is not complete withoutmentioning the tens of thousands of dollars which have been raised through theyears for annual maintenance None of this work was accomplished without realeffort and the stories of achievements in this field will remain part of the College'sunwritten history

PRESIDENT PENNINGTON, Floyd Perisho, Russell Lewis, Gilbert Shambaugh,

and Oliver Weesner form a background for Addie Wright, Mary Johnson, Eunice

Lewis, Mary C Sutton, and Mrs. Hodgin of the 1918 faculty

character of the work done by Pacific College had been considered verysatisfactory by the State Department of Public Instruction from the beginning,but when the United States Bureau of Education adopted a set of conditions to be

met for a college to be recognized as standard, Pacific College had to wait untilthe necessary endowment was raised Its final acceptance by the Bureau of Educa-

tion as a standard college was in December, 1925

There had long been a feeling in the community that there was unnecessaryduplication of work in having a preparatory department with a standard publichigh school in the same town At a Board meeting in February, 1929, it was decided

to discontinue the preparatory department and the commercial work, allowing theclass of 1930 to graduate as the last Academy class. Thus was accomplished the

wish of the first president that the "College course should in no way be

handi-capped by the lower grades."

Carried on for years during the administration of President Pennington was

the Lyceum course founded by Ezra Woodward which annually brought ing speakers and concert attractions to the community

outstand-A survey of this era in college history shows a decided advance in the

require-ments for college entrance At one time Pacific College required only three years

of high school work and Oregon State was requiring only two Along with this

development came increased requirements for faculty members When President

Pennington came to Pacific College the faculty were all on the level of

Bache-lor's degrees and the years increased this to Master's degrees or better.

THIS OUTSTANDING FACULTY of 1930 includes Floyd Perisho, Alexander Hull, HubertArmstrong, Russell Lewis, Esther Binford, Emmett Gulley, Alice Myers, Levi Pennington, Emma

Hodgin, Mary Louise Gould, Chase Conover, Perry Macy, Oliver Weesner, and Mary Sutton

Page Fourteen

The

labor-atory was fully equipped in 1917

The chemistry building was

erec-ted in 1922 and over $2,000 was

spent on additional equipment

Through the years, walks

were built around the campus and

the planting of trees was

car-ried on by students and faculty

Twice during his

adminis-tration President Pennington was

given a leave of absence In the

years 1919-21 he had charge of

the Forward Movement of

Friends in America with offices

at Richmond, Indiana John D

Mills served as acting president

during this time

In 1930-31 President and

Mrs Pennington made a

visita-tion to Eastern meetings with

three months of the time spent in

England, Ireland and Wales

In thirty years as a college president in Oregon, Dr Pennington has served

as president of the Association of Independent Colleges of Oregon more times

than any other man.

Early in 1939, ideas began to form for changes in the girls' dormitory

Inter-ested faculty and alumni groups developed plans which were approved by the

Board Donald W Edmundson of Portland was retained as architect and the

actual work began on July 5 under the direction of Harlan Jones and Laurence

Skene President Pennington and Veldon Diment had worked one day on soliciting

funds and raised $95 From the on until early in November they were kept busy

with other workers providing the balance of the $6500 needed Donations of labor

and material were of great help and the loyal cooperation of all interested in the

welfare of the college brought about the satisfactory completion of one of the

finest material improvements ever made on the campus

At the same time a new drive was put across the campus connecting River

and North streets and anew cement sidewalk was built from the remodeled Kanyon

hall 1941 has seen the addition of several areas of new lawn

By action of the board, ten acres just north of the campus is available to be

added to the present twenty-three acres

LEVI AND REBECCA PENNINGTON

who have served together at Pacific College for thirty years

was elevated to the position of dent on June 10, 1941, as Pacific Col-lege begins its next half century.

presi-Mr. Gulleywas born at Haviland,Kansas, on April 15, 1894 He gradu-

ated from Greenleaf Academy and

later taught there He received his

A B degree from Pacific College in

1917 After a year in the school ofmissions of Hartford Theological

Seminary, he spent five years as aFriends missionary in Mexico

In 1924 he received his M. A

from Haverford and was field tary for New York Yearly Meeting ofFriends for four years He came toPacific College in 1928 and has been

secre-on the force since with a leave of sence to do war relief work in Spain

ab-the first half of the calendar year 1939and to superintend the refugee camp

in Cuba duringthe school year 1939-40.Closely associated with the col-

lege faculty through the years havebeen the loyal members of the Board

who have given unstintingly of theirtime as recorded on page forty-one.Amanda Woodward has served foreighteen years making a total of fifty-

six years she and Ezra Woodward

gave of their best to the College

Following are the present bers of the faculty Their terms of ser-

mem-vice are indicated on page forty-three

in the Almanac

B S., PH B s M A.

Professor of English

Instructor in French

GERVAS A CAREY ALVIN ALLEN

A B., A. M., B D., D D. A- B-> A- M

-Instructor in Religious Education Professor, Psychology and Education

B

- s- M- s - Pupil of Paul Petri

Professor of Chemistry Voice and Chorus Instructor

Violin and Orchestra Instructor

Book 2

ROYAL GETTMANN

Winner State Oratorical Contest

ARLY IN the life of the college the

Ora-torical Association was formed by the students

Much interest was manifested in the work of

oratory From 1894 on for a number of years

a primary contest was held at the college on

the first Friday in February The student who

was awarded the first place in the contest

rep-resented the college at the State Oratorical

contest Later debating was added as another

feature of this work

In each of these two lines of college work,

Pacific College held a splendid record among

the educational institutions of Oregon In the

first fifteen years of the State Oratorical Association, Pacific College representativeswon first place four times and second place three times, thus holding a higher rec-

ord than any other institution The debaters of Pacific won more than half of all

the debates in which they engaged

In 1909-10 the debating team won the championship of the tri-college debatingleague Pacific College debaters brought home a few more laurels from Pacific

University in 1936 The women's team had clinched the title of state champions.After Dinner Speaking Contests, Peace Oratorical Contests, Extemporaneous

Speaking Contests and Dramatics, have crowded out the great importance of theearlier Oratorical contests Although the Old Line oratorical contests are still held,they lack the intense enthusiasm and the loyal support of the contests of earliertimes The crowds with their songs and yells and intense feeling of expectancy are

gone with the passing of the years

In 1917 students and faculty originated the Old Pulpit Extemporaneous

Speak-ing Contest, an annual event, the winner of which has his name engraved upon

a tablet on the first pulpit used in Newberg.

The Prohibition Association flourished for a time Each year the tion sent a representative to compete in the annual prohibition oratorical contest

assoia-One year the representative from the college, Walter Miles, won the National

Prohibition contest

LITERARY SOCIETIES AND PUBLICATIONS

The Crescent Literary Society and the publication, the Crescent, were an

out-growth of the Whittier Literary Society and its publication, the Academician In

the early days of the Academy, much interest was manifested in the Whittier

met every Friday night This society published a monthly

paper, The Pacific Academician, which was edited by a staff elected annually by

the Literary Society

At the time the college was established, the name of the society was changed

to the Crescent Literary Society, and its publication which was published each month was called the Crescent In 1894 the magazine was managed by an editorial staff

composed of seven members and a financial manager The magazine consisted of

twenty pages and a cover and was devoted to literary and college matters At thattime it ranked among the best of the college journals on the coast

In 1914 the Crescent was changed to its present form of a four page paper,published semi-monthly This publication is now managed by the student body

and is devoted to literary and college matters From 1914 on, the Crescent has

continued to be published in the same form and has had an active part in collegeaffairs

At the beginning of the twentieth century, another literary society, the Junta,

was organized by members of the Academy and all college freshmen who were not

members of the Crescent Society

The Agoreton and Helianthus Literary Societies were active during 1906-1907and 1907-1908 They were voluntary societies, meeting for the purpose of literaryculture Their meetings were held weekly

In 1911 the Agoreton was revived as a men's Literary Society At first much

excellent work was done but the interest lagged and it breathed its last in 1922.The women's organization, the Trefian Literary Society, has a brighterhistory In 1914 a group of young women of the College, feeling a need for some

kind of literary organization, met and formed the Trefian Literary Society which

has had an active part in college life since that time It strives for the development

of literary appreciation and for the promotion of good fellowship

THE CRESCENT STAFF in 1913-14 included (front) Florence Kaufman, Emmett Gulley,

Rae Langworthy, Harry Haworth, Lyra Miles, (back) Dale Butt, Melvin Elliott, Delbert

Replogle, Lyle Hubbard, Elma Paulson, Paul Lewis, and Marjorie Gregory

THE GREATER PACIFIC CLUB

This club, called by the students, the Boosters' Club, was most active around

1915 and was ready to do anything and everything that would help the college

from yells at a football game to help in evangelistic meetings or to canvass for

endowment or for new students

The Pep Club was organized in 1938 by the girls to promote pep and itsm in all student body affairs In 1940-41 both boys and girls were included

enthus-STUDENT BODY AND CLASSES

Functioning usually as a unit, but sometimes divided by class strife over a

ban-ner or old Bruin, the students have been organized each year by classes and as astudentbody whichsponsorsplays, May Day, Homecoming, the Crescent, and L'Ami

L'Ami was started as the student annual by the Class of 1938 in 1935 Delmer

Putnam was first editor followed by Wilbur Newby, Arney Houser, Jack Bennett,

and Helen Robertson

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CLUB

The International Relations club of Pacific College was organized in May,

1931, in affiliation with the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace The

meetings are held bi-weekly Both men and women are included in its membership

Its principal interest is the study of international and interracial questions Reviews

ofbooks presented to the club by the Carnegie foundation are given in the meetings

COLLEGE CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS The Christian Associations in the College have from the very beginning been

strong organizations In the first catalogue of the college, 1891-92 one findsthe following

"Both ladies and gentlemen maintain strong Christian Associations and eachholds a prayer meeting at the close of the school day on Tuesday afternoon."

In the succeeding years, a similar mention is made of the activities of thesegroups The young men held meetings Sunday afternoons in addition to their

weekly meetings

The catalogue of 1896-97 says: "The spirit of the Christian Associations

per-meats the entire college New students are welcomed by the members The Christian

THE FRESHMAN

CLASS OF 1920

was an

outstand-ing group—

larg-est to that date

guarded as their intellectual advancement."

Among the special classes organized by these groups were: a personal

work-er's class, Mission classes, a Friends history class, and one in comparative religions

It was in the year 1910-1911 that a chapel period was given to these tions for the^r meetings This practice has been continued ever since. At manytimes through the years, every member of the student body and faculty has be-longed to the Y M. or Y W.

associa-The deputation work of the Christian associations was started early and has

had a large place in their activities.

These groups cooperate in sponsoring many school enterprises Among theseare the reception for new students held each semester, the providing of baskets for

needy families at Thanksgiving time, a Christmas party for the poor children of

Newberg, and caring for the devotional life of the students through prayer ings and regular meetings on Wednesdays at chapel time

Working without an alumni office or employed record keeper, the associationhas accomplished a great deal in binding together loyal graduates They plan soon

to consider uniting with the Old Students' Association in the interests of greaterefficiency Each commencement the alumni entertain the Senior class at the annualbanquetand also hold a spring meeting in addition to cooperating with Homecoming

and the Old Students' Reunion in December

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