Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-06-20
LIBRARY BUILDING
! IS DEDICATED
Ex-Regent Connor Delivers
Stirring Address at Ded-
icatory Exercises.

Beautiful and impressive was the
ceremony which occurred last Wednes-
day, in which officers of the Grand
Masonic lodge of Washington laid the
corner stone of the new library and
auditorium building of the Washington
State College. At 10 80 in the fore
noon several hundred Masons from
many lodges of eastern Washington
met in the local Masonic hall; and an
hour later, led by the State College
military band, the long procession
moved up College hill to the place
where dedication was to occur.
1t was ex-Regent Conner, of Spo-
kane, who, many years ago, put the
motion before the regents, the vote
on which resulted in the choosing of
President E. A. Bryan as head of the
Washington State College. Speaking
of the work of the college since Pres.
Bryan's incumbency in office, Mr..
Connor said:
81 have lived long enough, and seen
enough of the State College. at the
different stages of its existence to
know the true value of the work of
the man who is now your president
| know that from the time we chose
him president many years ago, until
the present day. he has been the guild
ing spirit of the State College, and
has made it what it is Do | say too
much when | say that he has done
more for the good of the State College
of Washington than all other men to-
gether who have worked in its behalf?
| believe not.
81 hope that may live to see the
day when some energetic class of this
institution, or the student body of the
college, will cause to be erected a
splendid monument on the campus
fronting the Administration building,
which will be fashioned in the likeness
of your college president, and will be
known far and wide as "The Bryan
monument. - 1t will be deserved
honor, and indeed not too great a
one. 3"
The officers of the grand lodge who
par ticipated in the ceremonial were:
Worshipful Grand Master H. W.
Garfield. of Colfax; Deputy Grand
Master Hon. r. C. McCroskey, Of
Garfield; Junior Grand Warden R. P.
Turnkey, of Rosalia; Grand Treasurer
G. W. Barkhuff, of Cotton: Grand
Secretary VIM. J. White of Johnson;
Senior Grand Deacon S. H. Breeze of
Pullman; Junior Grand Deacon N. E.
J. Gentry of Pullman; Senior Grand
Steward A. B. Baker ofPullman: Jun
Tor Grand Steward V. L. Higgins of
Pullman; Grand Bible Bearer James
A. Hungate of Pullman; Grand Sword
Bearer J.R. Collins of Moscow; Grand
Chaplain RI. Hanna of Colfax Grand
Marshal A. E. STUNT of Colfax; Grand
TYLER Prof. Charles Timblin of Pull
man. Others who participated in the
ceremonial were Congressman Wesley
L. Jones, lately returned from Wash
ington, DC, and who in his present
candidacy for the United States senate
has the support of great number of
Washington citizens ex-Regent Con-
nor, now a resident of Spokane, and
who has seen a chapel assembly of
W.S.C., then WAC, at which there
were only II students; Judge Her
man D. Crow, who has just received
degree of LID. from the State Col
lege; Hon. Peter McGregor of the
Board of Regents; Hon. Lee A. john
son, President of the Board of Re-
gents Mr.. Dow of Spokane, the arch
itect in whose office were drawn the
plans for the building; Governor Ale.
Mead: President E. A. Bryan.