Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-08-07
DIR. w. o. CARRIER RESIGNS AS
PRESIDENT OF CARROLL COL.
LEGE, WAUKESHA, WIS.

| DIR. WILDER Oscar Carrier, president
of Carroll college, has presented his
resignation to take effect on SeItem-
Der l. He will take up the duties
of secretary of the church extension
board, with headquarters at Chicago.
DR.. Carrier accepted the presidency
of Carroll college at Waukesha, Wis,
to which he was elected on October
6, 1903, the first day of January, 1914
Previous to that time he was pastor
of the Belden Avenue Presbyterian
church in Chicago, resigning Decem-
ber Z, 1903. Before going to Chicago,
DR.. Carrier was pastor of the First
Presbyterian church in Wausau for
twelve years and previous to his
coming here was in charge of a
church in New York. AS the result
of hard work DR.. Carrier built this
school up, and today it is numbered
among our best secondary colleges in
the country.
At a meeting of the Board of Trus-
tees of Carroll college held in the
college offices on August l, the fol-
lowing action was taken, which ex-
hibits the respect in which DR.. Car
rier is held:
Resolutions
On the Resignation of the Office of
President of Carroll College by
Rev. WILDER Oscar Carrier,
ID. d.; LII. T..
Whereas: The resignation of the
Rev. w. 0. Carrier, d. d. LII. D., of
the office of president of Carroll coll
lege has been most reluctantly ac-
cepted by the Board of Trustees, be-
cause of a call to a wider field, and
his insistence upon its acceptance, we,
the members of said Board, can not
refrain from giving expression to the
feelings of our hearts and in bearing
testimony to our high appreciation of
his work as president of this college,
to his untiring faithfulness; to his
forecast of plans for the future of
the college; to his self-sacrificing de-
votion to the high aims for which
the college stands. And
Whereas: The following brief re-
view of this work but gives emphasis
to the regretfulness of the acceptance
of his resignation, we record that
DR.. Carrier was elected president at
the October meeting of the Board in
1903, when the institution was an
academy; but, however, with a curri- |
piU Of
work. At this meeting the institution
was raised to a full college.
At the earnest solicitation of the |
Board of Trustees, and after DR.. Car
rier had consulted with personal |
friends; with friends of the college;
with the Synod at it's meeting at |
Neenah; and especially with DR.. w. |
l.. Rankin, his predecessor; he ac-
cepted the position, entering upon the |
duties of the Office in January, 1904. |
Al this time the college possessed |
valued at about 100000. At |
present the college is in possession |
of assets valued at more than 500, 1000. |
In addition to this more than half
increase in the assets |
of the college, DR.. Carrier has been
compelled to raise quite a consider !
able sum each year to meet the de- |
ficit caused by the excess of expense
over income, to an amount aggregat- |
ing approximately $150,000.
A little more than 100 students in |
the academy and II in the newly
formed college classes greeted his
coming. From that beginning thir-
teen years ago the college has been
raised to student body of nearly 300. |
Even in so brief a period as this
more than ten per cent of the Pres
byterian ministers of this state, be-
sides those in other states and for
eign lands, are it's graduates.
DIR. Carrier has secured for the col
lege a faculty that ranks the equal
of any in ability; a body of men and
women of high ideals, Christian in
spirit, noble in purpose, with hearty
enthusiasm for, and sincere loyalty
to, the college. Therefore,
Resolved: That in the resignation
of DR.. Carrier, the college loses from
its service a noble personality, a
man of nationwide influence in edu-
cational activities and work for the
church.
Resolved: That we bespeak for
him in the future, in the great work
to which he has been called and
which takes him from our college:
health, happiness and prosperity; the
out-poured influence upon him of the
Spirit of God; to the end that the
work to which he shall devote his
future forcefulness may be rich with
highest fruitfulness.
Resolved: That copy of these res
olutions and preambles be spread on
the minutes of the Board and a COPY
furnished to DR.. Carrier.
Signed:
Alfred s. Badger.
Henry NJ. YOumans.
Andrew ]. Frame.
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