The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-04-09

High praise is given Western Mary
land College, and the people of the
state are urged to help it raise the
additional endowment of $4,000 that
will secure for it from the Rockefeller
Foundation a further endowment of
S125,OO0 and from the state a gift of
S125,000 for a new building.
Robert ]. Gill, Colonel Bob" to
those who followed him in battle over
seas, and who is prominent lawyer
of Baltimore, is chairman of the cam
paign committee Mr.. Gill is a grad
uate Of Western Maryland. He points
cut the need of college training and
says that Western Maryland College
offers such training amid the best
surroundings.
Charles R. Miller, president of the
Fidelity & Deposit Company, Balti-
more, the leading surety company Of
the country, is also a graduate of
Western Maryland. He was raised in
Westminster, virtually in the shadow
OF the college and knows thoroughly
what great good it is doing. He, too,
urges statewide support for the cam
paign.
Another prominent Maryland man
who is intensely interested in the
growth of the college is Mr.. William
G. Baker, of Baker, Watts & Co., Balti-
more, who says:
ITO those who know the work &C.
complished by Western Maryland Col
lege during the fifty years Or more of
Its existence, the possibility of in
creasing its usefulness means much.
1t has never been large college, as
numbers go these days, but it has al
ways done excellent work, providing
at very reasonable rates facilities to
many who otherwise might not have
received a college education. The
campaign about to be inaugurated to
raise S375,000 should appeal not only
to those who have been closely asso-
ciated with the college, but to every
one interested in the state 1t should
mean placing the institution on a firm
financial basis, adding not only in
creased facilities, but measurably
strengthening it's endowment funds. l
hope very much that it will succeed"
Mr.. Miller says:
Every few persons have had the
opportunity to know Western Mary
land College and its work as l have
had" said Mr.. Miller 81 was born in
Westminster and grew up almost in
the shadow of the college. l want to
say that l know Of no college that is
doing more for the young men and
women Of Maryland than is my alma
mater-Western Maryland College.
ut offers to the youth of the state
a splendid opportunity The Chris
tian atmosphere which surrounds it,
the great care given to its student
body by the faculty, the excellent
courses Of study offered by it, togeth-
er with the fact that it is an institu-
ton that is truly Maryland in every
sense of the word, should commend it
and its financial campaign to every
person who has the welfare of the
state at heart.
TITS success in raising the S375,0C0
required to obtain for it the Rookie
Teller Foundation endowment of S125,-
600 and the State appropriation of
S125,000 for a new building, will place
the college high up in the ranks OF
American colleges. 1t already enjoys
a high standing but with increased
endowment its power for good will be
greatly multiplied"
The call for support for the cam
paign is emphasized by Mr.. Gill who
says:
1--WE have reached a period in which
1t is scarcely necessary to present