Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-09-10

bookkeeping in over-doses, but they
took 1t with good grace.
How we'll VIC remember the good re-
suits secured by Mrs. Meta A. Jones
in the classes in Elocution, Rhetoric
| and English Literature! And Miss
Core Teaff, as piano instructor.
Our own Island resident, Oliver
VanOlinda, made stenography and
typewriting seem so easy
Sergeant VIM. H. p. Redinger d.
rected military organization and drills
from the first
All will cherish the memories OF
dear Mrs. Anna Farrow as preceptress
and Nora ]. Gilmour as librarian.
The attendance grew and 1t became
necessary to add Commercial Hall in
1894. This building became the home
| Of Commercial Department; a large
gymnasium; and dormitory quarters
| for ninety young men. In 98 a wing
was added to this building, making
room for twenty more men, and fol
the heating and lighting plants. Ar
addition to Main Building in 1899 pro-
vided amply for the music department
which then occupied sixteen rooms
Girls dormitory room was thus in.
creased SO that the institution was
prepared to provide comfortable rooms
for two hundred boarding students
In 1901 the armory was erected, af-
fording at that time the largest drill
hall in Washington; so in 1900 Vashon
1 yyaC RI a NJ
the largest number of students in Its
own buildings of any college in the
state.
What has been said of the first
group of students and faculty men,
bers may be said to have prevailed
throughout the almost thirteen years
of my connection with 1t as its presi-
dent. I have not known such real
brotherly love and consideration for
the comfort and happiness of other
members of SO large group. 1t GER
tainly reflected real home life. /
marvel as think of 1t all. And the
careers Of those men and women who
spent some years at Vashon College
have often provoked flattering COM
ment. There are but few whose
records indicate failure. Many have
risen to prominence.
1t is we'll known that Vashon COL
lege was fully self-supporting after
the first year of its history.
Lest I bore those who must listen
in" I will omit detailed accounts of
the successive years, though they come
flooding back to me with the bright,
happy, hopeful, youthful faces beam
| ing into my very soul! Those joyful
days and friendships cannot leave us
while memory endures-I am SO glad!
The vision of college, properly
equipped and conducted isolated from
all that detracts from wholesome
moral and Intellectual growth and de-
velopment; environed by natures
bounties of beauty health and out
look, and by Christian community,
became a fully demonstrated fact to
Mr.. Hatch, as result of his having
been instrumental in the creation of
Vashon College He expressed his
satisfaction to me more than once.
Vashon College had become a we'll
recognized fact. So in the summer of
1904, my dream seemed coming true.
had hoped that sometime I should
be partly instrumental in bringing this
institution to the notice of some per-
son or persons, whose funds and
patronage would give it permanence,
larger patronage and more extensive
plant and equipment, which would
justify my retiring from its manage
ment. Such conditions seemed en-
bodied in proposition submitted by
Rev. Jno. M. Foster of the Baptist
denomination, setting forth the fl
nancial support back of him and the
sure patronage to come to Vashon,
when under Baptist administration
from that denomination, in the en-
tire Northwest.
1t seemed that to refuse this pro-
posal would be wholly selfish on my
part, I reluctantly consented to be-
come separated from that which I
loved as my own life. Thus, with an
enrolment the previous year of near
two hundred; a host of friends and
hundreds of former satisfied students
to encourage their friends to patron
ize Vashon College, the management
passed into Rev. Fosters hands.
hope I am to be pardoned for this
long narrative of dear old by-gones,
and reverently declare that Vashon
College was not an accident-it was a
legitimate child of progress and we
are its offspring. Time, the tomb
builder, has cruelty drawn the cur
tain and barred the doors to our
shrine, worthy of today's ceremonies,
but among our sweetest memories,
Vashon College ranks with our loved
ones who, too have passed on.
A. G. Jones'
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