Universities and colleges--Finance; Universities and colleges--Endowments; Christian universities and colleges; Dallas (Or.); Dallas College (Dallas, Or.)
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Date
Between 1900 and 1914
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 77
Note (Status of gift)
Promised but lapsed
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Note (Historical note)
Lafayette Seminary was founded by the Oregon Conference at Lafayette, Oregon in 1889. Rev. W. C. Kantner, Ph.D. was its first principal. He was succeeded by Dr. C. A. Bowman, now dean of Albright College. When he resigned in 1895 Dr. C. C. Poling beca me principal and associated with himself Dr. D. M. Metzger, now the Nestor of our educators west of the Mississippi. In 1900 Lafayette Seminary was united with LaCreole Academic Institution at Dallas, Oregon and was incorporated as Dallas College. Dr. Poling continued as its president and Dr. Metzger was elected dean. In 1906 Dr. Poling resigned as President and was succeeded by Dr. Mock, now President of Western Union College, LeMars, Iowa. In 1909 Dr. Mock resigned and was succeeded by Rev. A. A. Winter, now superintendent of the United Evangelical Home at Lewisburg, Pa. In 1914 Dallas College was legislated out of existence by the legislature of Oregon by fixing the standardization of colleges at a sum too high for our people of Oregon to reach in the short time fixed by the bill. A good deal of the property lapsed to the LaCreole Academy. What was left has been taken as a nucleus for the founding of a new institution which was incorporated in May of this year as the Oregon Bible Training College and is affiliated with the Oregon Agricultural College, at Corvallis, Oregon. This is a new venture for the United Evangelical Church and has no exact parallel in the Evangelical Association." [SOURCE: Gramley, A. D. (Andrew Daniel), b. 1873, J. D. (John David) Shortess, and Historical Society of the United Evangelical Church. The Evangelical Centennial Celebration, September 26-27 1916, Observed Jointly by the Evangelical Association And the United Evangelical Church Under the Auspices of the Historical Society of the United Evangelical Church, Held At Dreisbach's, Lewisburg, Winfield, And New Berlin, Pa.. [Harrisburg?, Pennsylvania]: Historical Society of the United Evangelical Church, 1917, pp. 32-33. HathiTrust, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008417465/Home. Accessed 10 Aug. 2018.]