The Story of the Almont New Church Summer School 1900-1924

by Helen Hamilton Finch
Done into a booklet by Arthur Rattray, Almont, Michigan 1925

Soon after Rev. E. J. E. Schreck became pastor of the Detroit society of the New Church he was called to conduct a funeral near Almont. Surprised at the number of New Church people he met and impressed by their need and desire of ministerial work among them, Mr Schreck conceived it to be his duty to do what he could for this scattered flock. In 1898, therefore, he began spending his summer vacations with the Almont society, conducting services in their rural church on Sundays and with characteristic energy plying his bicycle during the week in pastoral visits.

Among the devoted New Church people who thus became known to Mr. Schreck was the aged Mrs. John Allan. This lady was one of the original members of the Almont society, a pioneer of sturdy Scottish stock, a woman of unusual strength and sweetness of character, known the country round in those hard early days for her wise head, kind heart and good works. Grandma Allan felt she had but few years more on earth; deep and constant was her anxiety that her numerous grandchildren should have opportunity to learn the doctrines of the church she dearly loved, and this longing she expressed to Mr. Schreck. From the Parish Bulletin for June 1921, issued by the Detroit society, we quote as follows from an article furnished by Mr. Schreck: "The next year, impressed with the fact that the descendants of the pioneer members were living scattered over a circuit of sixty miles, and needed and desired instruction in the Doctrines of their church, I proposed to start a summer school. I met with no encouragement frm Mrs. Brink, of Capac, the others thinking it was impractical. "I decided to make the effort, and next spring issued invitations to all the young people whose names and addresses I could secure, to come together to the Almont Church for a week during the summer, and to bring provisions and necessary articles for camping out. Of those who came great distances, most secured accommodations with relations nearer by. Mrs Schreck and our little daughter and Mrs. Brink slept on cots in the church, and I in the small vestibule. We had a tent as a kitchen, and another as a dining room. The daily attendance ranged from twenty to thirty. I taught them all morning and part of the afternoon each day, giving lessons in the letter of the word, in the Doctrines, elements of science, elements of Hebrew, and singing of chants and hymns. Six young ladies formally united with the church on the following Sunday. "So great was the enthusiasm, so great the success, that all doubts of the impracticability of a summer school vanished, and we decided to have another session the following summer, and that it was to last two weeks. Through the exemplary self-sacrifice of "Grandma Allan," one of the original pioneers, a nucleus for a building fund was provided which resulted in the ercetion of a dormitory by the following summer-the shell of a house, it is true, but affording shelter and making it possible for all who came to stay on the grounds, and so prevent such late-coming as we had experienced on the part of some the first summer. The upper story was for the women and girls; the lower for men and boys. All slept on the floors, on mattresses improvised from neighboring haystacks. At a given hour in the mornings I started a morning hymn, which roused the sleepers and which was joined in by one after another, till the house was full of harmony. Breakfast was preceded by the raising of the school flag and its salute. At nine o'clock (or was it a quarter of an hour earlier?) We had an opening service in the church attended by all. Then I instructed the children, while the young people and ladies washed the dishes and tidied up the house generally. The instruction was carried on much on the same lines as in the preceding year. Children, young people, adults, all had their turn. At sunset the flag was lowered with another short ceremony. The year following, "Uncle Jim" Hamilton wrote a heart-gripping ode for the flag ceremony. At nine o'clock in the evening we had another brief religious services in the church, and the retired for rest. The common meals and talks, and common tasks, and common worship and instruction, all brought us together as a big, loving family. You, old friend, will member spending the weekend with us, and that, after the girls had retired upstairs and were supposed to have sunk to sleep, for the house was perfectly silent, you remarked very quietly to us that you had brought a box of candy, when suddenly a fringe of arms and hands appeared round about our ceiling (which was the girls' floor) and which left spaces between the upright "two by fours" of the walls. There never was reasonable demand made at the summer school, either for spiritual or material good things, but they were immediately supplied!" "The first building put up for Summer School uses had but one room below (the present general sitting room) and two above. Small part as it is of the present establishment, it seemed then a great undertaking. Grandma Allan's children had made her a gift of money, expecting her to spend it on new clothes. But the dear old lady determined it should start the building fund; and she lived to see the cottage in use several years. This building stood in the northwest corner of the church enclosure, gables north and south. Cooking was done in the west end of the shed on a gasoline stove furnished by Mrs. Brink; baked food was brought from the homes; potatoes, bread, milk and eggs were plentiful; Mr. Schreck set the example of being satisfied with the simple meals and of setting his hand to the homeliest necessary tasks. The housework was done by the ladies and girls. The custom of drawing slips telling which task became his or her immediate duty. Mrs. Brink, Mrs Schreck, and Mrs. Johnson supervised their work. "The experiments, makeshifts and mishaps of those early days are amusing in retrospect, even if they meant vexation and discomfiture at the time. A tiny "cellar" reached by a trap door in the church entry, at first kept the milk and butter cool; afterward "iceless refrigerators" were made and used with considerable success, especially after dogs carried off 15lbs. Of meat bought for Sunday dinner; a "hay stove," a primitive fireless cooker, constructed by Miss Jennie Buell, cooked the breakfast porridge. In 1901 a "lean" to kitchen and pantry were added to trhe cottage. These are now bedrooms north of the sitting-room. In a year or so, the bedrooms west of the sitting-room were added. Great was the joy and pride over each improvement. In 1904, Grandma Allan died. Her family felt her fittest monument would be to meet some crying need of the enterprise she loved. So they furnished funds for the "Allan well," peculiarly appropriate memorial to one who had quaffed so deeply from the fountain of living waters and whose joy it was to lead others thereto. The first summer its water was used, a large china loving-cup was filled and passed at the "Last Sunday" dinner-table, a touching ceremony continued for some years. After Mr Schreck removed from Detroit to Chicago, being succeeded in Detroit by Rev. John Whitehead, he returned two seasons as the writer remembers, to Summer School. Mr. Whitehead then took charge, having already become familiarized thro assisting Mr. Schreck, and ably continued the work. Thus Mr. And Mrs. Whitehead, their three daughters and two sons were identified with the School up to and including the summer of 1907. Mrs. Whitehead's services to Summer School were thus summed up in the Bulletin for July, 1921. "In those years of its beginning there were many elements to be harmonized, many details to be worked out, many policies to be settled. In all this, Mrs. Whitehead's warm heart, quick mind, ready tact, knowledge of the world and self-control, placed Summer School deeply in her debt." The three talented daughters led in the social life of the school. The Whitehead boys, the Hamilton boys, the Marshall boys, the Allan boys-their pranks made the school ground lively. The old dining room used to be adorned by several spirited pencil-sketches. One of these would appear on the wall mysteriously, soon after some exciting event among the youngsters. It was an open secret that Mrs. Florence Whitehead and Miss Margaret Gould were responsible. No record is at present available of any ministers associated with Mr. Whitehead in 1904-5. In 1906, Rev Thos. A. King, then in Cleveland and lakewood, )., joined him and continued on the faculty for 17 years. All who kknow Mr. King will understand what he brought to Summer School those 17 years: his genial presence, his power in oratory, his thoro understanding of Church history and his unsurpassed gift of accurate and lucid exposition of the spiritual sense, with what a wealth of apt illustration from the letter of the Word. In 1906, 1907, 1908, James R. Hamilton, Secretary of the Almont Society, an ardent New-Churchman, and from its beginning a devoted worker for Summer School, sent out little circulars announcing session. Your historian has copies of these, adorned with half-tones of the little church as it was, of the tented field, and of groups of members. The instructors announced for 1907 are Rev. Messrs. Whitehead, Seward and King, and Mr. C. E. Ritter of the New-Church Theological School. We remember, these were all present. Miss Buell, of Ann Arbor, and Misses Edith and Helen Whitehead assisted with the younger members. The session of 1907 was the last attended by the entire Whitehead family. For it, they came all the way from Waltham, Mass. Rev S.S. Seward, the Pastor of our General Convention, succeeded Mr. Whitehead in the Detroit pastorate, and assisted him at Summer School in 1907. Keenly interested in the work, he promised to take charge in 1908. So again as we bade one wise and faithful leader an affectionate and reluctant farewell, we could welcome another with hopeful anticipation. Summer School was yet so young and tender an infant, its growth had been so bewilderingly rapid, those who have known it only lately can hardly realize our dismay when first father, Mr Schreck, then its foster-father, Mr Whitehead, had to leave it. But such fears are past. As Mr. Seward himself wrote later when "Uncle Jim" Hamilton was taken away, "If this is the Lord's work, as we all feel it is, He will not permit it to suffer; but will raise up others to carry it on." The session was notable for other changes. Robertson Field, west of the church, had been purchased and presented to the Society by Miss Mary Ann Robertson in memory of her parents; this had been used for tent space and playground. Now the cottage was moved to its present site on this field, and a much larger building, with dining room below and bedrooms above was added on the west. This was dedicated the first Sunday of the 1907 session. Before this time the school had outgrown the former simple domestic arrangements. It became necessary to hire a cook. In 1907, a kitchen force of 4 was required. Only two customs now remind us of the days when all the household tasks were performed by members of the Summer School family. The big boys still form a corps of waiters, uniformed in caps and aprons of white with red swastikas, and led by "Dora and Eleanore" (names to conjure with in Summer School history). And after "Miss Alice" joined our faculty, she brought her girls to the aid of the overburdened hired help and they clear the tables with neatness and dispatch. The administration of Summer School on the material plane has become comparatively complicated. Among the perplexities and difficulties incident thereto, some of us older ones are apt to look back wistfully to the plainness and simplicity, yet the cheerful cooperation withal, that marked those early summers. As we contemplate the changes, Tennyson's lines come to mind: "The old order changeth, giving place to new, An God fulfills himself in many ways, Lest one good custom should corrupt the world." In 1908 Mr Seward took charge of the school, Dr. King again assisting and also Rev. Louis G. Landenberger, of St. Louis, Mo. Thus another well-known laborer in the great field of the church came to our little corner, to return regularly later on.That is one of the wonderful things Summer School has brought into the lives of many isolated N. C. people; that names known from the pages of the Messenger became persons walking familiarly, and holding everyday converse with us. This summer Miss Olive McGurn, then teaching in Detroit schools, took charge of the little folks. After this session, the history of Summer School depends no longer mainly on memory. A circular letter or Round Robin had for some years made irregular progress around the increasing Summer School circle. This was now replaced by the Summer School Bulletin, to be sent quarterly to all friends of the school without charge. For nine years, or until his death, Dr. William B. Hamilton, President of the Almont Society, did most of the editorial work. The Bulletin now affords a nearly complete history of our enterprise. Before the 1909 session the large addition west of the cottage was sided and the whole building painted. The church grounds and Robertson field were enclosed by an ornamental wire fence, the gift of Miss Robertson, and minor improvements were made. 1909 was a red-letter session. Five ministers were on the grounds at once. Rev. Messrs. Seward and King lectured on "Leading Doctrines" and "Church History" respectively, and were interesting and convincing as ever. Rev. Louis G. Hoeck, of Cincinnati, took a large class of younger people thro a series of Bible stories, preached once or twice, and added to the delights of various occasions his Scottish songs and readings. Rev. Robert S. Fischer, Mrs. Hoeck's father assisted in various ways and radiated learning and good cheer. Rev C. S. Mack and his son Gordon paid the school a brief visit. They liked us and we liked them, and better acquaintance a few years later intensified the liking. Miss Dora Pfister took charge of the little people this year. December 13, 1909, James R. Hamilton passed away from this world, and the loss to Summer School seemed irreparable. He was born and nurtured in the New Church, and in maturity had entered more and more fully into its doctrines and life. He had served the Almont Society and the Michigan Association as Secretary for years. From the very beginning he had been identified, heart, head and hand with Summer School. For it he played his violin, composed songs, did business errands, fitted in everywhere. How he was missed! Another place had to be filled the next summer. Our well-loved superintendent Mr. Seward and Mr. Hoeck were to represent Convention at the International Swedenborg Congress in London. Rev. E. D. Daniels, of Berlin, now Kitchener, Ontario, consented to take charge, and brought ability and enthusiasm to the task. Over 30 years before, while a Methodist minister in Almont village, he had been introduced to N. C. Doctrines by Rev. J. M. Shepherd, then pastor of the Almont Society, and later entered the N. C. ministry. Thus old acquaintance was now happily renewed. Mr. Daniels had made church music a special study, and under his direction the singing class was unusually interesting. Mr. Daniels' assistants this year were Dr. King and Rev. H. C. Small, then of Indianapolis. Each of the 3 ministers gave a fine course of lectures on Doctrines and Evidences, Church History and Liturgies, and Bible History and Interpretation respectfully. Miss Lillian Daniels, Miss Buell and Miss Edith Hamilton taught the younger classes. The attendance this year was rather small owing to various causes, the boarders averaging about 30. But a deficit of $100 from the year before was cancelled, and plans were made for improvements to buildings and for a record-breaking session the coming summer. Accordingly, in 1911, a roomy chancel was added to our little church. The outside was painted, the inside redecorated, and the handsome chancel furniture given when the Grand rapids society was dissolved could now be placed; the chairs (from the same source) were rearranged. The pride and the delight of the Almont Society in the result was shared by the Summer School arrivals, most of whom rushed across the road at once for a glimpse. This summer Mr Seward felt obliged to leave Michigan, Detroit and Summer School. But Mr. Daniels and Dr. King, old friends, happy in working together in what they both felt an important use, stepped into the breach again. This year they had no other minister with them. But each surpassed himself in their lectures, the former on N. C. Evidences, the latter on Miracles, and between them they managed to meet all the exacting demands, which, be it well understood, means a good deal for hard-working ministers, supposed to be on vacation. Miss Pfister and Miss Hamilton looked after the interests of the young. The attendance was little more than in 1910. But a high mark was set in the instruction given, the interest shown and the beautiful sphere that prevailed thruout. One adult was baptized and another confirmed the last Sunday; 52 took communion, the largest number in thge history of the school. Mr. Daniels and Dr. King were earnestly and unanimously requested to continue in the work and felt they could not refuse. 1912 was one of our great years. A roomy porch was added to the cottage; the church sheds were shingled; Miss Robertson gave a belfry and bell. All were delighted with these much needed improvements. Mr. Daniels and Dr. King surpassed themselves as usual. Rev. Chas S. Mack, of Toledo, took the young men's class for this and 4 following sessions. He and his family were numerically and socially a great addition to the school. Mrs. Mallette, of Cleveland, taught the young girls; Miss Pfister taught the little people as she has done ever since. About this time Miss Edith Hamilton took up the duties of Organist, Treasurer and Book-keeper and kept them efficiently till her marriage in 1920. The average number of boarders was 75; over 20 had to be turned away for lack of room. The last Sunday saw 150 at morning services; 1 adult was baptized, 8 were confirmed; 69 took communion. A number of heavy rainstorms caused some discomfort, especially in the tents, but did not prevent a good deal of outdoor enjoyment. This seems to have been the first year of the hay ride to Almont and the movies, ever since an annual feature, until 1922 when superseded by a trip to Forest Hall, Dryden. Our accommodations were so strained that plans were made for a new building to contain dining room and kitchen with sleeping rooms above, estimated to cost about $1,000. Upon application, we were promised $500 from the Grand Rapids fund if we could raise an equal amount. This was done and the building was ready for the 1913 session. Even with this addition there was little room to spare. Rev. Frank A. Gustafson had now assumed the Detroit pastorate and for this summer took charge of Summer School. He was a not a stranger here, having made a flying visit from Urbana some years before. Miss Alice Sturges joined the teaching staff this year and has been our faithful "Miss Alice" ever since. The rest of the faculty were the same as in 1912. When the Summer School family assembled in 1914, another member was missing for the first time. Mrs. Annie Brink of Capac, had entered into the joys prepared for the faithful. 14 years she had worked and planned for Summer School. We wondered how it could go on without her, but it had to and it did. Because of impaired health Dr. Gustafson resigned his charge at Summer School and Mr. Daniels returned. Mrs. Nellie Husman (who, later, became Mrs. Daniels, of Lakewood was added to the faculty for an intermediate class. Altho the attendance at this session was not as large as in some previous years, the enthusiasm and appreciation of the instruction and other advantages offered was very marked. Moreover, the school paid expenses with a balance toward the deficit of the year before. Before the session of 1915, Mr. Daniels had become an invalid. Dr. King now became head of the facility, remaining such until 1923. Rev John Whitehead came back from Massachusetts to help him- how good it was to see and hear him again! Miss Eleanore Boston, of Cleveland, took the intermediate class of boys and girls, and has been one of the staff ever since. This was an especially interesting and well attended session. 3 were confirmed and 2 infants baptized the last Sunday. By this time, after 16 sessions, various customs and policies had become settled things at Summer School. Mr Schreck had set up a flag pole in the church grounds and flown from it a flag of red and white, a reminder to all of the Lord's Love and Wisdom. The raising of this banner became the first business of the morning. Old and young joined hands in a great circle and raised their voices in an appropriate hymn, while the flag was raised, then marched in to breakfast singing, "Brightly gleams our banner." After breakfast all repaired to the church for a brief service. Then came the younger classes. At 10 came the first lecture; at 11 the second. After the mid-day meal, 2 hours might be variously filled. At 3 all but the children gathered on benches before the church except in unfavorable weather when the cottage porch was used, and the question box was opened. In this box questions on doctrine or life had been dropped during the day. These were divided among the ministers, and answered by them before the assembly, and opportunity given for discussion. Question box has been a pleasant and useful characteristic of Summer School. Next it became usual to devote an hour to instruction and practice in singing. After the evening meal all again joined in a circle around the flag and sang "Softly now the light of day" while the banner descended. Then singing "Onward Christian Soldiers" they proceeded to the church for a brief vesper service. Mr Seward presented a U.S. flag which is always raised with the other. The first school flag finally wore out and Howard L. Ives, of Detroit, who had grown up with the school, gave a new one in 1922. The privilege of holding or receiving the flags is sought after by the youngsters, and exercised with due care. The flag-pole now stands in Robertson Field. In the days when all the domestic tasks were done by members of Summer School, dishwashing could wait; and after each Sunday dinner a further feast of wit and wisdom was enjoyed in brief talks by members and visitors, and in reading letters from absent friends of the School. After it was necessary to turn the kitchen work over to hired assistance this pleasant old custom had to be given up. Besides the ministers previously named in this history, these have assited in Summer School work: Rev L. E. Wethey, 1916-17-18; Rev H. A. Gustafson, 1917, 1920; Rev L. A. Dole, 1920; Rev H. F. Reynolds, 1921; Rev J. J. Morton, 1921; Rev G. E. Morgan, 1924; Rev L.G. Landenberger has been on the faculty for 5 years; Dr. Mack returned for the 1922 session; Rev Mr. Whitehead returned for 1924; Dr. Thompson, Dr. Forquer, Dr. Albaugh, of Cleveland; Mr. Laitner of Detroit, and Donald Gustafson, now of the Theological School, have given lay assistance when needed. Memory and available records carry these names, but may have omitted a few. Miss Rose Pfister has taught a juvenile class several years, besides acting as organist. Mr John Laichinger of Detroit has been of late years an unofficial master of sports. Miss Frances Darracott took Miss Sturge's place in 1919. Last year (1923) Miss Lucile Gould, a kindergarten teacher, gave mothers and guardians a welcome relief by keeping the small folk busy and happy in Recreation hall during lecture hours and question box. This has become a regular arrangement. If the many others who from love to the Lord and to the neighbor have given of time, strength and means to the uses of Summer School, space fails us to name them or to give each his just meed of gratitude. And what can be said if the eloquent, faithful ministers through whom the Lord has opened our eyes to behold wondrous things out of his law; of time upon time when we have sat enraptured, scarce conscious of time and place. Not in vain have been these many sublime discourses. Of there content of Devine Truth it shall surely be, as the Lord says: It shall not return unto Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I send it. The Summer School family on this earth is scattered from Maine to California. Every year some familiar faces are missed, some never to be seen again this side the veil. Every year new faces are seen, and the sphere of Summer School is sure to bring some of them back again. Among those passed away since 1915, members of our Summer School family by reason of generous contribution, personal work or regular attendance are: Rev S. S. Seward, John Brink, Mrs. Ross, Hon. G. W. Thayer, Mrs. Christie, Dr. Hamilton, Mrs. J. R. Locke, Elaine Marshall, Miss Wagar, Mrs. Whitehead, William McGeorge (of Michigan), Rev. H. F. Reynolds, Mr. And Mrs. Ives, and three children, Mrs. Mair, Mrs. Charles Marshall, Dr. Albaugh, Mrs. Emma Locke, Mrs. David Marshall and Mrs. E. C Hallock. Each name as we read it calls forth its own tribute from our hearts. We shall bring this chronicle to a close with a brief survey of material changes in the last 10 years. The N. C. Society of Hoboken N. J. Sent $100 to Summer School as a memorial to Rev. Mr. Seward. This was used to put four bedrooms above the north side of the original cottage. In 1916, it became evident that the maintenance of Summer School called for more system in management and a division of labor; a Board of management of both local and other members was named, E. H. Ives, chairman. He instituted an energetic campaign for improvements, and soon a fine cooling plant and some much needed sanitary arrangements were installed, pipes were laid from well to kitchen, kitchen drainage was provided and many minor conveniences added. But the world war was now upon us. Some of our boys were called to the colors; home war work absorbed time and energy; prices for food and labor soared. Just to keep Summer School going was all we could do for several years. But like other worldly things this, too, passed. By 1920, the need of more room was so plain subscriptions were obtained toward a new building. The present Recreation Hall with sleeping rooms above and a large room for entertainments below, was ready for use in 1921. In 1922, the Almont New-Church Assembly was formally organized, and is now a corporate body, able to hold and transfer property and receive gifts and bequests. Its officers are: C. O. Hallock, president; B. G. A. Laitner, vice-president; F. R. Hamilton, secretary-treasurer. The church and its grounds, and Robertson field with its three large buildings are held at present by the Almont N-C society. This society cares for the church, the other buildings are kept up by the Assembly. The last notable additions to Summer School conveniences are a tent-house to take the place of the girl's tent, and electric lights. Such, then, is the story of our little Summer School. Its future no man can predict. Little it is, in the great world, but considerable to us who have watched it grow. Of this we can be sure: so long as it is a fit instrument toward necessary ends in the hand of Providence, so long will it last. When its fitness or its use come to an end, the school will end. Our part is to keep it fit, working harmoniously, humbly and unselfishly. If dear old Grandma Allan could look thro the eyes of some attendant at Summer School some evening this year, how strange would be the sight compared with her memory of early days; the little church, enlarged, refurnished and brightly lighted, would be unfamiliar; the Field beyond with its half dozen buildings all twinkling with electricity would be entirely new to her. Ah, let us all who love Summer School, hope and pray and strive that the sphere of loving-fellowship, of eager truth seeking, of willing co-operation shall be strengthened and enlarged while all these other things are being added unto us; so that such saintly souls might find that sphere home-like and congenial. Relationships (People mentioned in the document) Helen Hamilton Finch Arthur Rattray Mrs. John Allan Mrs Brink (Capac) "Uncle Jim" Hamilton Mrs. Johnson Miss Jennie Buell "The Whitehead boys, the Hamilton boys, the Marshall boys, the Allan boys" Mrs. Florence Whitehead Miss Margaret Gould James R. Hamilton Edith and Helen Whitehead Robertson Field Miss Mary Ann Robertson Dr. William B. Hamilton F. R. Hamilton Miss Dora Pfister Mrs. Mallette Miss Alice Sturges Mrs. Nellie Husman (who, later, became Mrs. Daniels) Miss Eleanore Boston Howard L. Ives, of Detroit Miss Rose Pfister has taught a juvenile class several years, besides acting as organist. Mr John Laichinger of Detroit has been of late years an unofficial master of sports. Miss Frances Darracott took Miss Sturge's place in 1919. Miss Lucile Gould John Brink Mrs. Ross Hon. G. W. Thayer Mrs. Christie Mrs. J. R. Locke Elaine Marshall Miss Wagar Mrs. Whitehead William McGeorge (of Michigan) Mr. And Mrs. Ives, and three children Mrs. Mair Mrs. Charles Marshall Dr. Albaugh Mrs. Emma Locke Mrs. David Marshall Mrs. E. C Hallock C. O. Hallock E. H. Ives, chairman B. G. A. Laitner Ministers/Pastors Rev. E. J. E. Schreck, pastor Rev. John Whitehead, pastor Rev Thos. A. King, pastor Rev S.S. Seward, pastor Mr. C. E. Ritter of the New-Church Theological School Rev. Louis G. Landenberger Rev. Louis G. Hoeck and his wife Rev. Robert S. Fischer, Mrs. Hoeck's father Rev Chas. S. Mack and his son Gordon Rev. E. D. Daniels, of Berlin, now Kitchener, Ontario and his daughter, Miss Lillian Daniels Rev. J. M. Shepherd Rev. H. C. Small Rev. Frank A. Gustafson Rev L. E. Wethey, 1916-17-18 Rev H. A. Gustafson, 1917, 1920 Rev L. A. Dole, 1920; Rev H. F. Reynolds, 1921; Rev J. J. Morton, 1921; Rev G. E. Morgan, 1924; Rev L.G. Landenberger has been on the faculty for 5 years; Dr. Mack returned for the 1922 session; Rev Mr. Whitehead returned for 1924; Dr. Thompson, Dr. Forquer, Dr. Albaugh, of Cleveland; Mr. Laitner of Detroit, and Donald Gustafson, now of the Theological School, has given lay assistance when needed.