Earlham, 1847-1947—An Editorial

BULLETINOF Friends Historical Association Vol. 36Autumn Number, 1947No. 2 EARLHAM, 1847-1947—AN EDITORIAL AS EARLHAM COLLEGE completes its first century of service, we dedicate this number of the Bulletin to a review of various incidents in its past. Our review is an informal one rather than a formal history. The Editors, among whom Opal Thornburg, Executive Assistant to President Thomas E. Jones, should really be considered the chief, have sought merely to give glimpses of Earlham's first century as seen by her sons and daughters and friends. We take pleasure, therefore , in presenting the personal recollections of four living Earlhamites of four different college generations, those of Thomas Raeburn White from the nineties, of Caroline Nicholson Jacob from the Earlham of 1908-12, of Ruth Ketring Nuermberger from the nineteen-twenties ; and, finally, the impressions of a member of the Class of 1949, Fred Valtin. To these we add excerpts from student diaries of almost a century ago, together with the impressions which a conservative Friend received on a visit to Earlham in the days of evangelical fervor after the Civil War. We hope that these brief glimpses of first-century Earlham will interest those who know and love the College, and that they may throw some light on the sources of its unique contribution to Quaker education. May Earlham continue her good work in the century to come! 51 ...