1867 > Drew Theological Seminary holds its first classes on October 16. Daniel Drew, Wall Street financier and steamboat tycoon, founds the Methodist seminary with a gift of $250,000, THE FOREST including the Madison, New Jersey, property known as The Forest. AND ITS > The Greek Revival mansion at the heart of the estate is rechristened Mead Hall in honor UNIVERSITY of Drew’s wife, Roxanna Mead Drew. ENDURE. So they have, in the words of Drew historian John Cunningham C’38— and for 150 years. The ideals of Drew’s founders and the serenity of Drew’s forest are forever immutable. And from that stability generations of students have drawn the confidence to grow and change—as has Drew itself. The institution nestled in the oak woodland west of Bottle Hill started as a Methodist seminary and has evolved to become a prestigious liberal arts university with three schools of distinct yet complementary missions. The students sheltered there, once seminarians preparing to ride the circuit, are now men and women learning to navigate a world All photos courtesy of Drew University Archives, Daniel Drew Roxanna Mead Drew unless otherwise noted. without borders. Like its oaks, Drew endures—rooted in its past while reaching toward its future. 6 Drew Magazine I drew.edu/magazine 1888 A new library, named for trustee and 1867 benefactor John B. Cornell, is built to hold Daniel Drew selects John McClintock, his pastor at St. Paul’s the Seminary’s collection. Cornell Library is Church in New York, as the first president of Drew Theological replaced in 1939 by Rose Memorial Library, The first student a much larger facility built with funds to sign up for a Seminary. Drew also purchases the former Gibbons estate in Drew education was bequeathed by Lenox Sheaf Rose. 25-year-old Madison, known locally as The Forest, as its home. Samuel Knight Doolittle of Pond At a dedication ceremony a few weeks later, Bishop Edmund S. Eddy, New York. Janes exhorts the Drew faculty to train its young ministers as 1894 lions rather than lap dogs: “Let his claws grow, let his A desperately needed modern dormitory— complete with electric lights, steam heat and mane lengthen, let his thunder thicken...until by his roaring he interior baths—is dedicated, thanks to gifts sends terror to all the haunts of wickedness.” from trustees William Hoyt and Samuel W. Bowne. Former President Hurst fusses that the rooms in Hoyt-Bowne Hall might be “a trifle too comfortable.” 1897 Wives of students and faculty establish the Mead Hall Study Circle, the Seminary’s first women’s 1868 organization, to raise funds for needy students. The Seminary receives its charter from the New Jersey Legislature; up to that point, it had been operating illegally. One provision grants the Seminary the power to become a university and offer instruction in fields other than theology—an afterthought that would become critically important 60 years later. 1899 Seminary Hall, built with funds provided by William Hoyt, a trustee, and John S. McLean, opens. It includes a chapel, classrooms and offices. 1876 Daniel Drew loses most of his fortune on Wall Street, tossing the Seminary’s finances into peril. To the rescue comes 1869 President Hurst, whose term is marked Drew’s first seminary class, consisting of nine men, graduates. by his skills as a fundraiser and deft By 1877, there are 77 graduates. stewardship of Drew’s endowment. 8 Drew Magazine I drew.edu/magazine Fall/Winter 2017 9 1915 The faculty votes to admit women “on the same conditions as are accorded to men,” and the first female student enrolls in 1918. A Legacy of Mentorship 1917 Thirteen days after President Woodrow Today at the Drew Theological School, Wilson calls for the United States to enter World War I, 67 seminarians ask to be prophetic leaders continue to inspire excused from classes to join the war effort. those called to ministry, with a spirit A total of 184 Drew students serve in the grounded in Methodist tradition armed forces; four die in the war. and lifted by bold thought and 1918 courageous action. Li Jung-Fang from China earns a doctorate of theology degree. He will go on to become Stephen Moore, Edmund S. Janes Professor the foremost Old Testament scholar in of New Testament Studies; Catherine Keller, George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive China and dean of religion at Yenching Theology; and Traci C. West, James W. University. Pearsall Professor of Christian Ethics and 2017 African American Studies. 1921 INFLUENTIAL MENTORS OF YESTERDAY > To accommodate newfangled automobiles, the quaint gatehouses that graced the entry to the old Carl Michalson George D. Kelsey Gibbons estate are replaced 1943–1965 1951–1976 Theological mentors from 1912 Systematic Theology Christian Ethics by Bowne Memorial Gateway. more than a century ago. The grand Gothic monument is dedicated on October 27, the 150th anniversary of Bishop Francis Asbury’s arrival in America. David Graybeal Nelle K. Morton Thomas C. Oden Ada María Isasi-Díaz Otto Maduro > Jennie Brown Spaeth fills a new 1956–2011 1956–1971 1980–2004 1991–2009 1992–2013 Church & Society Feminist Theology Classical Christianity Liberation Theology World & Latin American position —dean of women. Christianity Bill Cardoni SHARE YOUR MEMORIES AT DREW.EDU/MENTOR. Fall/Winter 2017 11 1923 Campus Cribs Drew creates a chair of home missions to rally attention to the overlooked—immigrants, industrial workers and farmhands; and poor, urban and minority communities. It is the first such position at any seminary in the nation. 1868 ASBURY HALL once housed Daniel Drew’s thoroughbred horses. 1894 HOYT-BOWNE HALL is the first residence hall built for the purpose. 1951 WENDEL HALL 1953 BALDWIN HALL 1955 TIPPLE HALL pairs up with Wendel Hall for a family-friendly complex. 1959 HASELTON HALL, WELCH HALL 1964 BROWN HALL, TOLLEY HALL 1968 THE SUITES comprise three halls— MCCLINTOCK, FOSTER and HURST—named for the first three Drew presidents. 1972 1928 EBERHARDT HALL 1926 An unexpected gift from brothers Arthur and AND TOWNHOUSES, 1926A bronze statue depicting Francis Leonard Baldwin—a staggering $1.5 million— RIKER HALL Asbury—who clocked an estimated establishes an all-male undergraduate college 2009 A bronze statue depicting is 300,000 miles as an itinerant preacher—is of the liberal arts, aptly named Brothers College. MCLENDON HALL Francis Asbury—who clocked an the first residence hall in installed in front of Mead Hall. The statue As envisioned by its first dean, William Pearson New Jersey to win LEED estimatedis donated 300,000 by trustee miles William as an S. Pilling in green certification. Tolley, Brothers College would be “an adventure itinerantmemory preacher—is of his brother, installed Edward S. Pilling in excellence . in its standards of scholarship, in T1885.front of Mead Hall. The statue is donated by trustee William S. culture and conduct.” Its founding prompts a Pilling in memory of his brother, change in corporate name from Drew Theological Edward S. Pilling T1885. Seminary to Drew University. 12 Drew Magazine I drew.edu/magazine Fall/Winter 2017 13 Roy Groething, Lynne DeLade C’12, DeLade, Shelley Kusnetz. Facing page: The Rev. John McClintock The Rev. John Fletcher Hurst The Rev. Ezra Squier Tipple T1887 Paul Hardin III THE DREW They came to the role as preachers, theologians, Handpicked by his parishioner, Daniel Appointed at age 39, he steered Drew This professor of practical theology This “audacious” leader restructured Drew, he oversaw every detail of the through the Panic of 1873. Ordained a set about cultivating beneficial the Board of Trustees and polished scholars and public servants. Here are the new seminary while carrying a full bishop in 1880, he went on to become friendships. His efforts led to the Drew’s profile and its finances. The teaching load. the founding chancellor of the College of Liberal Arts and Drew’s United Methodist Church Archives Hall of American University. transition from Seminary to University. Center and the RISE program are WHO KNEW? McClintock was chief executives who have led Drew over the among his legacies. a former editor of The Methodist WHO KNEW? This avid bibliophile WHO KNEW? Tipple was the first past century and a half. Review. amassed a “library of Americana,” president to be a graduate and a WHO KNEW? Hardin was editor-in- Presidents stretching from books printed by faculty member. chief of the Duke Law Journal. Franklin to manuscripts written The Rev. Randolph Sinks Foster by Poe. Described as “tall, erect, strong of The Rev. Arlo Ayres Brown T1907 Thomas H. Kean physique, with piercing eyes, and Guiding Drew through a depression He served two terms as New Jersey abundant hair and beard,” this former The Rev. Henry Anson Buttz and a world war, he oversaw a governor and chaired the 9/11 circuit rider devoted his life to writing Known as “Buttz the Builder,” he quadrupling of the financial assets of Commission. As Drew’s president, a six-volume magnum opus, Studies oversaw the construction of a library, the university. Enrollment in Brothers he initiated an annual lecture series, in Theology. dormitory, dining hall, gymnasium College grew from 12 to 400 under launched three internship programs and chapel—the infrastructure of a his watch. and shepherded the construction of WHO KNEW? Foster was born in great seminary. Simon Forum and the Dorothy Young an Ohio jail, where his father was the WHO KNEW? Brown served Center for the Arts. jail keeper. WHO KNEW? Buttz taught Greek as an Army chaplain during The Rev. Arlo Ayres Brown T1907 and New Testament for 50 years. World War I. WHO KNEW? Kean sponsored the 1929–1948 1968 Educational Opportunity Act, providing a college pathway to The Rev.