C^entennio-i ^.J^c omecomin^ PrI ro^ram FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8 Homecoming Play—“Susan and God”—High School Auditorium 8:15 P. M. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 Coronation of the Homecoming Queen—Alumni Gymnasium...............................9:30 a. m. Parade—“One Hundred Years at Otterbein College”...................................................10:30 A. M. Forming at the Alumni Gymnasium Non'Fraternity Luncheon—United Brethren Church................................................12:15p. M. Sorority and Fraternity Homecoming Luncheons...........................................................12:15 P. M. Arcady.............To be announced TD....................To be announced Arbutus............To be announced Annex...............To be announced Greenwich . Worthington Inn Country Club . .Masonic Temple Onyx .....................Lambert Hall Jonda........ 159 West Park Street Talisman ............... Beechwold Inn Sphinx .............To be announced Owl.................. To be announced Zeta Phi...........To be announced Homecoming Football Game—Otterbein vs. Albion ........................................ .2:15 P. M. Informal Open House at the President’s Home After the Game Ox Roast—West Campus and Alumni Gymnasium 5 :00 P. M. Homecoming Play—^“Susan and God”—High School Auditorium 8:15 P. M. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10 Morning Worship—United Brethren Church................... 9:45 A. M. A limited number of rooms are available to those who want to remain over night. First come first served! Give number in party and nights for which accommodations are desired. Send requests to your alumni office. A Cordial Invi+ation A Word of Thanks Tickets will be on sale on the campus all day The Alumni Office says “Thank you” to the for the Homecoming events. The climax of the day’s many people who have responded with information program will be the Ox Roast following the game. about our “lost” alumni and ex'Students. There is No reservations are necessary, and we hope every' still a long list of Otterbein people for whom we one will plan to be on hand. You pay your money have no addresses, and your continued interest will and eat all you want! No banquet program, but a help us gather accurate data for the alumni reg' great informal good time for all! ister. OTTERBEIN TOWERS Editor: WADE S. MILLER Associate Editors: EVELYN BALE. ’30. HELEN SMITH. '18 VOL XIX No. I CENTENNIAL Published quarterly by the Alumni Council in the interests of C i L 1i .1847-1947 alumni and friends. Entered as second class matter at the J©pt©rnD©r, I V^O 100 YEARS OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION Post Office in Westerville. Ohio, under the act of Aug. 24. 1912. iJ the This is the year for which we have been looking today along with the best of Christian liberal arts with such keen anticipation — the Centennial year. colleges. This is the year when each of us will want to renew Her standing and prestige are shared with our faith in Otterbein and in the ideals for which everyone who has entered her sacred halls or trod she has stood for a century. This is the year for us her campus walks. Upon each she has endeavored to shuffle off any attitude of indifference which we to leave a benediction of her rich spirit and time' may now possess and pledge anew our support and honored traditions. • loyalty to our alma mater as she begins her second Today she faces the future with confidence century. because her strength is the strength of her hundreds of sons and daughters and her prosperity is in their Great and glorious has been her past. Ours is hands. Today she looks over her huge family and a rich heritage. Every alumnus has ample reason to with justifiable pride says “It is well; Tm satisfied; be justly proud of Otterbein College, for she stands They are mine.” THE COVER PAGE The young lady featured is the Centennial Homecoming queen, Barbara Bone, as she might have been dressed in 1847. The background pictures date back to the days when Otterbein was born. We are indebted to the following artists for use of certain pictures: The “Sewing Ma' chine,” Gayle Porter Hoskins: the “Iron Horse,” Stanley M. Arthurs; the “Spelling Bee,” Walter Stewart; the “Covered Wagon,” Frank E. Schoonover. The Ketterlinus Lithographic Manufac' turing Company gave us permission to use the “Mississippi Steamboat.” The art work was done by Otto Deuss of the Art Department of the Terry Engraving Company of Columbus. THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE Dear Friends of Otterbein: In its 100th year, Otterbein College has its largest enrollment to date. There are 871 fulbtime students; total attendance will rise above 1000. Chapel services are being held in the United Brethren Church, and the large sanctuary is filled to capacity. This unprecedented attendance at Otterbein is part of the “educational bulge” which is common on college and university campuses just now. It is estimated that three million students will matriculate this year in American schools of higher education, which is more than twice the normal pre-war average. The unusual increase in college and university enrollments is attributed to five causes: (1) the return of veterans whose educational careers were delayed by the war; (2) economic prosperity which enables more families to send nonweteran sons and daughters to college; (3) a clearer reali2;ation that college training is of tremendous value in preparing Dr. J. Gordon Howard, '22 for leadership; (4) the increasing demand for Sixteenth President of Otterbein college trained men on the part of business and industry; (5) the pressure of labor unions and other college, and current funds must be used unduly to groups to keep young people off the labor market as meet the demand. To complicate the picture, just long as possible. at the time when income from college endowment is most needed, interest rates are exceedingly low. It College authorities are glad to serve as many is imperative that the Centennial Campaign be students as possible, of course, but there are certain pushed vigorously and every possible dollar sub' sobering factors to keep in mind. scribed and paid. Anything short of the goal will First, unless great care is exercised encyclopedic be crippling. knowledge and academic drilling will take the place There always will be problems, and we can be of real education. Oversized classes and crowded glad for problems of growth and progress rather schedules will hinder the operation of many factors than of shrinkage and retreat. Furthermore we are which are necessary for education at its best. confident of the friendship and cooperation of the Education is expected to produce character and finest constituency a college ever had. culture, as well as stimulate intellectual attainment, Homecoming this year, November 9, celebrat' and for such results there should be close contact ing our 100th year, will be a grand and glad between teacher and student and purposeful leisure occasion. The “welcome” sign will be conspicuous. to assimilate and evaluate classroom experiences. Grads and their friends will find students and In the second place, the large influx of students faculty ready for a big “Hello!” Homecoming this places a severe strain on college finances. When Centennial year should be the best ever. Plan now Otterbein’s enrollment reaches 800, income from to be on hand for plenty of fun and fellowhip. endowment is insufficient to fulfill the needs of the —J. GORDON HOWARD Excerpts from the Address on Opening Day in 1847 “Education, in itself considered, is either right or from the earth. If it is right, then it is the duty of the wrong, and those engaged in promoting it are, so far as Church to engage in it so far as she is able. this work is concerned, doing right or they are doing “Today we commence our efforts and oh, let us labor wrong. If it is wrong, then it is the duty of the Church and pray that it be not a feeble effort. Let us be united to exert her influence against it, not only by withdrawing and concentrate our efforts. Let us feel as though we her support, but by enjoining upon her members to sepa- had a work to do in common with our sister churches— rate themselves from it and by instructing her ministers one which involves the interests of the American people, and let us ask the blessing of Him who holds the destinies in the sacred desk to raise their voices against it and not of nations in His hands upon our labors, and success will to cease their opposition until it shall have been driven crown our efforts.”—William R. Griffith, Principal PORTRAIT OF TWO GREAT EARLY LEADERS PHILLIP WILLIAM OHERBEIN LEWIS DAVIS When the leaders of the Scioto Conference “Founder of Otterbein College” and “Father were seeking for a name for their new institution of Education in the United Brethren Church”— they finally decided to name it after the founder of such are the titles and marks of distinction of the denomination, Phillip William Otterhein. Rev. Lewis Davis. Otterbein came to America from Germany in Lewis Davis, a native of Virginia, had only 1752 as a missionary of the Reformed Church. He eighteen months of formal education before becom' preached in eastern Pennsylvania against the lifeless ing a minister in the United Brethren church in formality of the church of that day. Societies of 1838. By diligent study he became one of the converts sprang up. He had no intention of start' outstanding preachers in the Scioto Conference. ing a new denomination but by 1780 there were so Dr. Davis pleaded for the purchase of Blendon many of these societies that representatives met and Seminary and became one of the first three trustees organized the Church of the United Brethren in of Otterbein College.