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Dr. Gladdys Muir is a late addition to the faculty. She graduated from McPherson College and received her M. A. from the University of California, studied later at Geneva, Switzerland, and at the Univer- sity of Edinburgh. She received an honorary D. Litt. degree from Mc- Pherson College in 1941. Miss Muir came to Manchester College in 1948 to head the department of Peace Studies, where she has awakened an interest in the problem of peace, and inspired a desire for service in many young minds.
The number of trustees at the College has varied through the years from six to sixteen. For many years they were all elected by the Church Districts owning the College. At present there are fifteen elected trustees, besides the President who holds his office ex-officio. Nine of the trustees are elected by the nine districts of the region, four are nominated by the trustee body and confirmed by the districts, two are elected by the Alumni Association.
Some trustees have given long years of service to the Col-
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lege. Some have been men of great influence. J. Edson Ulrey and G. A. Snider served a long time and also gave many years to the service of the College as field secretaries. George Strausbaugh has been on the Board since 1916, probably longer than any other member. T. A. Shively has served for 23 years. N. B. Wine has been Chairman of the Board for a long time.
Many Trustees have given valuable time, energy, and much thought to the work of the College. Some have served for long periods of time. The starred ones are the Trustees who have served for five years or more :
Aldredge, J. S. Albaugh, H. P. Anglemyer, Jesse*
Barnhart, Wilbur S .*
Blough, Robert*
Bonsack, Charles
Bookwalter, L. A.
Noffsinger, Orville* Ohmart, G. Roy*
Brubaker, J. F.
Parker, I. D .*
Buck, O. D .*
Petersime, Ray*
Burkett, Simon
Priser, Fred
Butler, Dwight
Reiff, M. K. Rensberger, M. N.
Coppock, Jacob*
Crouch, E. M.
Sanger, S. F .*
Shepfer, Edward*
Sherman, Russell Shively, Levi
Deeter, Manly* Dresher, Edith
Shively, A. A .*
Shoemaker, G. L.
Eby, L. H. Emrick, Leland
Shriver, Ruth Snell, Daniel
Snider, G. A .*
Forror, Charles
Frederick, John
Garber, D. B .*
George, T. E. Geyer, Milo
Heckman, I. D. Heeter, G. B .*
McClure, M. J. McCune, F. E.
Metzger, Ida
Minnich, Levi*
Minnich, Spencer
Mishler, J. D.
Bowers, Harvey
Bright, John C .*
Culler, G. F. Cunningham, Jacob*
Fisher, Frank*
Speicher, J. B.
Stauffer, John Stine, Ora W.
Stinebaugh, Virgil
Strausbaugh, George S .* Stutsman, H. V. Syler, Clay*
Teeter, L. W .*
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Hendricks, Eldo Hersch, Elmer Hoff, E. B.
Hollinger, David*
Hollinger, R. C .*
Holsinger, L. T .* Hornish, J. F.
Jackson, I. W .*
Kreider, Frank Knepper, G. B. Kurtz, D. W.
Landis, Moyne* Light, J. B.
Thomas, D. D. Thomas, Lena
Ulrey, Calvin* Ulrey, Edson* Ulrey, S. S.
Wenger, Russel C. Werking, O. D .*
White, Ralph Whitacre, E. C.
Wine, Jacob Wine, N. B .*
Young, E. S. Young, S. S.
Many friends have made Manchester College possible through their gifts. The thousands of smaller gifts have all counted. The family that has given most to the College is Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Ulrey. In about 1937, President Winger persuaded Calvin Ul- rey to deed to the college his property with the provision that he and Mrs. Ulrey should have the income during their lifetime. Mr. Ulrey was to manage the property as long as he could. After he could no longer look after it or after his death the college was to manage it and turn the profits to the College. The estate consists of a large farm, annuities, various securities, and some real estate. Mr. Ulrey passed away at Christmas time in 1942. Since that time Mrs. Ulrey has turned back to the college a large part of her income. In all forms the gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Ulrey to the college now exceed $300,000.00.
Many others have given generously through direct contributions, through wills, and annuities, in amounts that reach $30,000.00 and even $50,000.00. The countless smaller gifts coming to the college from year to year are what has kept the College alive, and now keeps it grow- ing. During the past several years, the General Brotherhood Board and the churches of the region have contributed very helpfully to the support of the College.
The writer of these lines first came to Manchester College in the spring of 1904. E. M. Crouch was President, L. D. Ikenberry was treasurer, I. B. Book was Secretary of the faculty. The faculty was small, no one had had sufficient training for a Ph. D. degree. Some of the faculty had A. M. degrees. Others only bachelors degrees. There were three buildings on the campus then. The boys' dormitory was not built until three years later. Students were mostly of a sub-collegiate level. Life was simple. There were no intercollegiate athletics. There were no movies as yet and no automobiles on the campus.
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But Literary Societies flourished and provided intellectual stim- ulus and social opportunity. The Bible Society was strong and was well supported by those interested in religion. It was a living force on the campus.
Many changes have occurred on the campus. Literary Societies have disappeared. Various departmental clubs have taken their place. The International Relations Club catches the interest of those who are interested in public affairs. The Future Teachers of America pro- vides another club. The Ministerial students have their own organiza- tion and the Manchester Christian Association is the over-all organi- zation coordinating the various religious groups.
The College now also engages in intercollegiate contests in the leading sports : football, basketball, baseball, tennis, track, and cross- country.
In 1950, the college had about 49 teachers and administrators. Thirteen members of the faculty hold Ph. D. degrees and the re- mainder hold an A. M. or its equivalent in some special line.
Administratively, instead of only a president, a treasurer, and sec- retary, the College now has its President, a Dean of the College, a Dean of Students, a Dean (or Counsellor) of Women, a Registrar, a Treas- urer, Public Relations officers, Alumni Secretary, two full-time librar- ians, a Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, and a full force of campus workers, cooks, and matrons.
There are now more than 6,000 alumni of the combined Mt. Morris-Manchester merged colleges. The assets of the College are approximately $2,250,000.00. The library that contained only a few thousand books in 1904 now has more than 40,000 volumes in addition to government documents.
Some thirty or more years ago a set of Chimes was installed on the Administration Building. Again and again they have pealed out the great hymns of the church to the college community. Many times they stir the heart with a song of challenge that quickens the pulse, and hastens the step.
Manchester College has a spirit. It is a spirit of moral earnestness, a spirit of devotion, a spirit of work, a spirit of service. If one doesn't harmonize with that spirit he will not 'be happy at Manchester. If he catches the spirit, and follows the gleam, he will become a "Manchester Man." A Manchester man is one who has caught the spirit of the place at its best, and incarnated that spirit in his life.
CHAPTER VII
CAMP ALEXANDER MACK
Under the leadership of the national youth secretary, C. H. Sham- berger, youth camps were held in the Central Region at Winona Lake, Indiana, in 1921-1922; at Ludlow Falls, Ohio in 1923; and at Camp Nelson Dodd south of Mansfield, Ohio, and at Oakwood Park, Syra- cuse, Indiana in 1924. At the 1924 camps it was decided to endeavor to secure and build a camp ground for the Church of the Brethren centrally located. At Oakwood Park in July 1924 Manly Deeter, John Eberly, Russell C. Wenger, and L. W. Shultz, and Moyne Landis were appointed as a locating committee.
Camp Alexander Mack (Air View, 1947)
John W. Lear, then of Bethany Biblical Seminary, attended both of the 1924 gatherings. After these camps he spent a week on Lake Wawbee. While there he told Jacob B. Neff that he thought this was the site the new camp-to-be ought to be located. Brother Neff wrote L. W. Shultz stating that he gave a hearty welcome to locate the camp on his farm on Lake Wawbee.
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The committee made a careful survey of possible sites and after authorization to proceed was given by the districts of Middle and Northern Indiana in October, the committee decided to purchase six acres from Jacob and Chloa D. Neff on the east shore of Lake Wawbee two and one-half miles southeast of Milford, Indiana. In November an area of forty acres mostly water was purchased from the Syracuse Cement Company to serve as a beach. On Thanksgiving Day in 1924 volunteer workers began clearing the grounds of brush and Mrs. Sadie Stutsman Wampler led the way in drawing plans for building and land- scaping. On this day also the camp name was chosen and the decision was made to give names of Brethren significance to the buildings, markers, and spots on the grounds.
DILS.
Facing Becker Lodge Camp Mack
Becker Lodge
On November 27, 1929 incorporation plans were made by John Eberly, Manly Deeter, Clara (Wine) Bolinger, Ada Scrogum, and Lawrence W. Shultz. It was "the purpose of this corporation to pur- chase and equip a camp site on which to hold conferences, institutes, and youth training camps for the Church of the Brethren in the Cen- tral Region."
The spring and summer work of 1925 (as many another has been since) was a race with time to be ready for the first camp to be held at the camp opening on July 27. During that season W. R. Deeter Cabin, Sarah Major Hall, twelve cabins, and a council circle were con- structed. Later a good hillside auditorium for vespers was built facing the lake and the sunset. (Peter) Becker Lodge was built 1931-1934;
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Quinter-Miller Auditorium
(James) Quinter- (R. H.) Miller (Sr.) Auditorium was sponsored and built by the men of the two northern districts of Indiana 1933-1940. The Ulrich House for staff quarters was built 1945-1948 and the small chapel 1946-1948. In 1948 Sarah Major Hall was remodeled and re- roofed. In 1951 the Auditorium was repaired and a beach sea wall was built.
Ulrich House
A very valuable addition in the form of a twelve panel mural painting depicting the history of the Church of the Brethren was spon- sored by the Youth Camps and executed by Medford D. Neher, then
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pastor of the North Poplar Ridge Church near Defiance, Ohio. This was completed 1945-1949 and dedicated June 5, 1949.
Markers to A. W. Ross, Jacob and Chloa Neff, William Beery, and the Mack stone with the names of Miller, Saur, Becker, Stover are now in position. Samuel Murray Mound for assembly and an outdoor grill and shelter house are useful in the program.
Stone Chapel
To do all this work during the twenty-seven years (1924-1951) came an abundance of volunteer service to aid those who were paid to work. Milo Geyer, Charles Newcomer, Oscar W. Neher, and John Miller served as head carpenters. George Barrett, Emeral B. Jones, Dwight Doty, and L. W. Shultz engineered the mason work.
Additions to the land were made over the years so that now the camp grounds and beach are approximately one hundred acres and the (Melvin Neff) Camp Farm of one hundred and forty acres. Heavy contributors to this project were Jacob B. and Chloa D. Neff, Charles and Mae Sparklin, Mrs. Gladys Dewart, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Ulrey, John W. and Lulu Ulrey Root, J. Q. Burger, Mrs. Rebecca Lesh, and Melvin and Amanda Neff.
THE PROGRAM
Since 1924 the program has expanded from one five day camp to a year round scheduling of events and camps from youth 16-24 in train-
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ing now to the training of all ages 9 years of age and older. During 1951 the Church of the Brethren in the summer season used seven of the 15 weeks scheduled. Other groups use the camp when our church does not schedule camps. The camps have varied from five to ten days but are usually five to seven days in length.
The leaders who have served as deans of the various camps are as follows :
Youth Camps 1925- C. H. Shamberger, Dan West, J. Clyde For- ney, Russell G. West, Edgar Diehm, Fred Hollingshead, Galen Leh- man, Jay Johnson, Merlin Cassell, and Arlo Gump.
Juniors at Dinner
Intermediate Girls 1926- Ollie Heaston Eberly, Georgia Miller Replogle, Ruth Barwick, Opal Browning Brinson, Gletha Mae Noff- singer, Marcea Friend, May Warstler Ober, Fern Geyer Schrock, Mary Keever Burley, Margaret Stump, Treva Carpenter Kintner, Mrs. Van B. Wright, Zalma Weaver, Olive Bagwell Stinebaugh, and Mildred Updike Fulton.
Intermediate Boys 1926- Fred A. Replogle, Perry L. Rohrer, Mark Shellhaas, Harmon Bjorklund, Paul Kendall, Eldon Evans, Al- len Weldy, Arlo Gump, Clarence Sink, Robert Byerly, and Eugene Gnagy.
Junior Camps 1937- Sara Halladay, Lawrence Deardorff, Lester Young, Garland Borden, Samuel Longenecker, and Mildred Fulton.
Training School 1926- Ezra Flory, Rufus D. Bowman, H. L.
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German Students at Camp, 1950
Hartsough, D. D. Funderburg, Raymond Peters, John Metzler, Paul Kinsel, T. G. Weaver, J. H. Mathis and Galen Lehman.
Music Leaders have been A. F. Brightbill, Perry L. Huffaker, Paul Halladay, and William Beery.
Laymen's Fellowship 1937- T. G. Weaver, Chester Connelly, Paul Sollenberger, and O. B. Bosserman.
Other retreats such as peace camps, Northern Indiana Women's Camp, and the Northern Indiana District Conference (since 1940) are held here also.
Emphasis in the camps teaching program is laid on life commit- ment, church music, church history and biography, church doctrines, missions, personality development, social and family relations, inter- racial and international relations, training for church service, recrea- tion, participation in work and planning, and Bible study.
This challenge and experience make for many life decisions and commitments.
ORGANIZATION
Directors who have served during the years are as follows : O. W. Stine, Sadie I. Wampler, Lawrence W. Shultz, Russell Showalter, Fred Replogle, Russell C. Wenger, Jacob B. Neff, Melvin Neff, J. Clyde Forney, A. O. Mote, Ora Delauter, J. J. Anglemyer, Mabel Funderburg, I. C. Paul, Galen Sargent, H. V. Townsend, Glen Weimer, T. G. Weaver, J. Perry Prather, Burton Metzler, Moyne Landis, E. R. Fisher, W. Glen McFadden, Loretta DeVault, Edgar
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Carol Dean Carl Jean Lawrence W
Betty Marie Cora L.
Ruthanne
SHULTZ FAMILY Alumni of Manchester College and Camp Mack
Diehm, Eldon Evans, Wilbur Bantz, G. A. Cassel, Josephine Wise. Wilbur S. Barnhart, Paul Kinsel, John Metzler, J. D. Reber, Virgil Stinebaugh, George U. Heeter, George W. Phillips, Arlo Gump, W. J. Heisey, Homer Kiracofe, Harold Deeter, Charles Vorheis, Joseph Fisher, Albert Whitmore, James Beahm, Glenn Fruth, Don Disler, Galen Lehman, Willard Powers, Mrs. Gladys Klotz, and Margaret Beck Miller.
By the fall of 1951 the Camp including the Camp Farm had assets of nearly $150,000 and liabilities of about $14,000. The auditors stated that if one wished to place the value in terms of current prices the sum above named as assets could be multitplied by 212. The total cash invested by the church and individuals as contributors to September 195I was less than $60,000 and of that sum individuals had contributed more than $10,000. The value has come through donated material, do- nated labor, camp income, and rising prices. Many friends and firms have contributed to this project.
Camp Mack has served many people in and outside the church. 2,500 campers were here in 1951 in addition to the many mass meetings, district conferences, and special days. A nation wide UCYM Confer- ence was held in September of 1951.
Lawrence W. and Cora Shultz have served continuously through these years caring for the work program. Mrs. Shultz has managed the
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dining and rooming facilities. L. W., as he is known, or as "Prof," "Pop", or "Skookum" has done considerable work in the building program as architect, director, carpenter, and mason. He wonders how it was ever done and knows that but for the good help of many hands it would not have been possible.
Camp Mack has been built to serve the Church in its training pro- gram. It is "A Beautiful Camp in an Ideal Setting."
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CHAPTER VIII BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
JOSEPH AMICK
Elder Joseph Amick was born in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania in 1834 and died in Illinois in 1915. He grew up in Pennsylvania and married Sarah Mertz, 1856. In 1862 they located in White County, Indiana, within the Bachelor Run territory. He was called to the min- istry there the next year and in 1865, when the Monticello church was organized, he became one of its faithful workers for the next sixteen years. He became a leading figure in the district and was on the Stand- ing Committee in 1897. He was an advocate of Sunday schools.
In 1881 he went to Mt. Morris and assumed the responsibility for the financial side of our publications. In this he was very successful and he lived to see the business well established in the plant at Elgin. He supported Mt. Morris College and took an interest in the Old Folks' and Orphans' home of Northern Illinois. His wife dying in 1870, he married Hannah Reiff in 1871. She passed away in 1914.
ANGLEMYER
Elder John Anglemyer was born in Westmoreland County, Penn- sylvania. He came to Columbiana County, Ohio, where he married Margaret Hoke March 16, 1843. In 1854 they came to Elkhart County, Indiana. Here they raised four children of their own and three orphans. He was called to the ministry in the Union Center Church and was ordained in 1876. For twenty years he was presiding elder of his home church before his death in 1898, at the age of 80. He was a minister and an elder of influence and power.
David Anglemyer was born in Elkhart County in 1864. He was married to Catherine Moyer June 8, 1884. He was called to the min- istry in 1899, advanced in 1902 and ordained in 1906 by W. R. Deeter and Daniel Wysong. In 1908 he began as presiding elder of the Union Center Church and served in that capacity for many years. His later years were spent in retirement at his home just across the road from the Union Center Church. He died in 1924.
Franklin Anglemyer, another son of Elder John Anglemyer, was a deacon in the Union Center Church for years. His son, Jesse, was called to the ministry at Union Center. After his preparation in Man- chester College, he married Miss Amanda Rodabaugh, the piano in- structor at the College, and they accepted the pastorate of her home
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church near Williamstown, Ohio, where they still live after more than 45 years of faithful pastoral service.
APPLEMAN
Adam Appleman was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, in 1841. He was reared in Marshall County, Indiana. Here he married Hannah Knisley, youngest daughter of Elder John Knisley. He was called to the ministry in 1864 and ordained in 1864. He was one of the earliest Sunday-school workers in our church. He met his death in a singular manner. Near his home was Pretty Lake, where he and others often resorted for swimming and bathing. He was a good swimmer. On July 4, 1877, while he and his wife and son John were at the lake, he ran to the edge, dived in, but did not come up. His wife and son ran to see what was wrong, and found him lying in shallow water. They took him out and did what they could to revive him. He lingered a day or two and died. Death was probably due to an injury to the spine.
Elder Jacob Appleman, a younger brother of Elder Adam Apple- man, served the Union Church in the ministry many years but later moved to Thomas, Oklahoma, where he died.
Elder J. F. Appleman and Wife
John F. Appleman, son of Elder Adam Appleman, was born in Marshall County March 25, 1862. He was married to Laura McClure February 14, 1882. In December, 1884, he was called to the ministry, advanced in 1885 and ordained in 1907 by Elders S. F. Sanger and Daniel Whitmer. He spent most of his life in the Union Church; for five years he was superintendent of the Old Folks and Orphans Home at Mexico. For years he engaged successfully in evangelistic work.
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Having a genuine interest in young people, he had much influence with them in preaching. He helped some of them to secure an education. For some time he was traveling secretary of the General Mission Board. For eight years he was presiding elder of his home church and for three years at Walnut. In 1916 he began service as pastor in the Nappanee Church. After two years there was an opportunity for him to take the newly organized church in Plymouth. Since he had a special interest there he and his good wife spent the rest of their lives serving the Plymouth church. Sister Appleman was always his faithful and most efficient helper. She passed away in the spring of 1933. Brother Appleman felt his loss most keenly and survived her but a few months.
WILBUR S. BARNHART
Wilbur S. Barnhart, son of William W. and Emma Smith Barnhart, was born in Montgomery Co., Ohio, May 23, 1896. At the age of sixteen he became a member of the church at North Man- chester where he attended the academy and college. Mabel Evelyn Stutsman, of Canada, became his wife July 28, 1917. They reside at 5702 East Michigan, Indianapolis, Ind., and have three sons, James, Richard, and Philip. Wilbur completed his A. B. course at Manchester in 1928 and received his M. S. degree from Butler University in 1942. He has taught in the public schools of Indiana since 1915 and since 1919 has served in many capacities in the Indianapolis schools. At pre- sent he is principal of the George Washington High School in West Indianapolis. He has written school texts.
Wilbur is an active churchman locally, in the city federation, and with the state council. He has served the Southern District of Ind. well on its Council of Promotion and since 1948 on the Board of Adminis- tration. At present he represents Southern Indiana on the Manchester
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College Board of Trustees of which body he is secretary. During 1933- 1948 he represented the Alumni on the Trustee Board.
In 1951 he was elected the first chairman of the Department of United Churchmen of the Indiana Council of Churches.
BECHTELHEIMER
The founder of this family in Indiana was Samuel, Sr. He was a native of Franklin County, West Virginia. His wife's name was Kess- ler. They first moved to Ohio, then to Henry County where they were pioneers of the Buck Creek church. He died in 1887, at the age of 94, leaving ten children and many grandchildren. Two sons, David and Samuel, became elders.
David was born in Clermont County, Ohio and was six years old when his family moved to Indiana, 1827. In 1841 he married Mary Stump of Delaware County. They had ten children, eight reaching maturity. They united with the church in 1842 and soon moved to the Beaverdam community, within the territory of the Mexico church. In 1849 Bro. Bechtelheimer was called to the ministry, advanced to the eldership 1850, and did much to build up a strong church at Beaverdam. The split in 1881 hit this church hard, many going with the Progressive group. He moved to Nebraska where he was active for twelve years, 1881-92. His wife died in 1891 and he married Mrs. Elizabeth Hoover, Cass County, in 1892. They moved into the Upper Deer Creek con- gregation in 1893, and he was presiding elder at the time of his death, 1896, of the Lower Deer Creek congregation. He gave nearly fifty years of faithful service .. Three times he served on the Standing Com- mittee. His son was J. M. Bechtelheimer and his grandson, Boyd, a minister now living at Flora.
Samuel, brother of David, was called to the ministry in the Mont- icello congregation in 1875. He lived for a number of years in Upper Deer Creek and was ordained in the Lower Deer Creek church, 1887. He was presiding elder there in 1894, the time of his death.
BERKEY
Elder Jacob Berkey was born in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. He was married to Sarah Lint, a cousin of C. G. Lint, of much note in the Church of the Brethren. There were five children born to them in Pennsylvania, and three after they moved to Indiana.
This move was made in the year 1848. They settled on a quarter section just across the road from what is known as the Berkey, or Rock Run Church. In the building of the home we should note Sister Berkey's part. She was the mother of eight children and tenderly cared for them. By their help she made the garden, cared for the cows, sheared the sheep, spun the yarn and made the clothes for the entire
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family. She could carry a baby and walk three miles to church. Later when her husband became so well known, their home became a kind of hotel where dozens and even hundreds were entertained free of charge. Being of spare build, her endurance was remarkable.
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