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Volume 6 Relation of U.B/EUB Virginia Conferences to Shenandoah University Dec. 26, 2013
1896 U.B. Yearbook Statement. Shenandoah Institute, Dayton, Va. Founded, 1876. Rev. G. P.
Hott, A.M., Principal. [1895 U.B. Yearbook, p. 20]
June 1896 Shenandoah Institute Graduates: A. K. Blakemore, Marie Alfred (Mrs. Weaver?), G. S.
Funkhouser, J. H. Funkhouser, Pauline Head, C. W. G. Rohrer, H. S. Sanger, and Mrs. Marie Weaver.
24. 1897 Reports
Officers of the Conference (p. 2). Trustees of Shenandoah Institute—George P. Hott, J. W.
Howe, C. P. Dyche, S. Burtner, J. N. Fries, E. Ruebush, J. E. Hott, J. H. Fleming, and Michael Hinkle;
Visiting Committee to Shenandoah Institute—Rev. Rudolph Byrd and Rev. J. B. Chamberlain.
Report of the Presiding Elder, Shenandoah District (p. 5). Prof. E. V. Hoenshel took charge
of Shenandoah Institute in September. He and his amiable wife are well received and a most hopeful
outlook is before the School. Recently Bro. Howe was appointed to solicit funds to liquidate the
indebtedness, in which work he is succeeding well. Help him. We should pay this debt and pay it now.
I have given my whole time to the district, excepting that required to complete the year’s work in
Shenandoah Institute…. Gratefully submitted, George P. Hott, P.E.
Excerpts of the Report of the Committee on Education (pp. 12-13). …What the young
people of this country, and especially of this Church, need most, then, are institutions of learning to
teach them not only to live, but to live forever. Therefore, recognizing this need and the increasing
demand for the services of persons trained in such institutions, be it: Resolved, (1) That we highly
appreciate the existence of Christian colleges and seminaries in our country, and especially in our
Church, and hereby reiterate our Determination to encourage and support all such means to a higher
Christian education, by our influence and means as far as possible. (2) That we deeply deplore the
causes which have plunged so many of our institutions into heavy debt, and heartily endorse every
commendable method used to speedily liquidate these debts and place these institutions on a more
economical basis. (1) That we recognize in Shenandoah Institute an indispensable aid to the work in
Virginia Conference, and hereby pledge her our earnest support in her present effort to free herself of
debt. (2) That our interest in Lebanon Valley College and Union Biblical Seminary is hereby re-
affirmed, and that we rejoice that the $60,000 for the latter’s Quarter Centennial has been secured.
Respectfully,W. O. Ewing, [for the] Committee.
It was discussed by Rev. H. B. Dohner, E. U. Hoenshel, J. W. Howe, S. L. Rice, A. P.
Funkhouser and others. Pending the adoption of the report, the following resolution was offered:
Resolved, That the conference raise $800 for Shenandoah Institute on the debt to secure the $1,056
already secured by the agent, and that $400 be assessed to the charges this year. It was adopted.
Report of Shenandoah Institute (p. 14). It is a voice new to this
Conference that speaks to you to-day concerning your child, the Shenandoah
Institute. Therefore, it is not expected that this report shall treat at all of the history
of former years or former methods of work. With these you are, no doubt, familiar.
Of the change in the faculty you have heard. Of the perplexing conditions to meet,
and awkward and uninviting situations to recognize, it is needless even to mention
any to you. It is but proper to state, however, that the people of Dayton received the
present Faculty very kindly, and have given evidence of interest in our work. This
we thoroughly appreciate. As to the attitude of the ministry of this Conference toward us and our work,
I have no positive information upon which to base an opinion. Judging, however, from the fact that 28
out of 30 failed to reply to special letters of inquiry sent out in January, the attitude would seem to be
Reports 1896 144
1896 U.B. Yearbook Statement. Shenandoah Institute, Dayton, Va. Founded, 1876. Rev. G. P.
Hott, A.M., Principal. [1895 U.B. Yearbook, p. 20]
June 1896 Shenandoah Institute Graduates: A. K. Blakemore, Marie Alfred (Mrs. Weaver?), G. S.
Funkhouser, J. H. Funkhouser, Pauline Head, C. W. G. Rohrer, H. S. Sanger, and Mrs. Marie Weaver.
24. 1897 Reports
Officers of the Conference (p. 2). Trustees of Shenandoah Institute—George P. Hott, J. W.
Howe, C. P. Dyche, S. Burtner, J. N. Fries, E. Ruebush, J. E. Hott, J. H. Fleming, and Michael Hinkle;
Visiting Committee to Shenandoah Institute—Rev. Rudolph Byrd and Rev. J. B. Chamberlain.
Report of the Presiding Elder, Shenandoah District (p. 5). Prof. E. V. Hoenshel took charge
of Shenandoah Institute in September. He and his amiable wife are well received and a most hopeful
outlook is before the School. Recently Bro. Howe was appointed to solicit funds to liquidate the
indebtedness, in which work he is succeeding well. Help him. We should pay this debt and pay it now.
I have given my whole time to the district, excepting that required to complete the year’s work in
Shenandoah Institute…. Gratefully submitted, George P. Hott, P.E.
Excerpts of the Report of the Committee on Education (pp. 12-13). …What the young
people of this country, and especially of this Church, need most, then, are institutions of learning to
teach them not only to live, but to live forever. Therefore, recognizing this need and the increasing
demand for the services of persons trained in such institutions, be it: Resolved, (1) That we highly
appreciate the existence of Christian colleges and seminaries in our country, and especially in our
Church, and hereby reiterate our Determination to encourage and support all such means to a higher
Christian education, by our influence and means as far as possible. (2) That we deeply deplore the
causes which have plunged so many of our institutions into heavy debt, and heartily endorse every
commendable method used to speedily liquidate these debts and place these institutions on a more
economical basis. (1) That we recognize in Shenandoah Institute an indispensable aid to the work in
Virginia Conference, and hereby pledge her our earnest support in her present effort to free herself of
debt. (2) That our interest in Lebanon Valley College and Union Biblical Seminary is hereby re-
affirmed, and that we rejoice that the $60,000 for the latter’s Quarter Centennial has been secured.
Respectfully,W. O. Ewing, [for the] Committee.
It was discussed by Rev. H. B. Dohner, E. U. Hoenshel, J. W. Howe, S. L. Rice, A. P.
Funkhouser and others. Pending the adoption of the report, the following resolution was offered:
Resolved, That the conference raise $800 for Shenandoah Institute on the debt to secure the $1,056
already secured by the agent, and that $400 be assessed to the charges this year. It was adopted.
Report of Shenandoah Institute (p. 14). It is a voice new to this
Conference that speaks to you to-day concerning your child, the Shenandoah
Institute. Therefore, it is not expected that this report shall treat at all of the history
of former years or former methods of work. With these you are, no doubt, familiar.
Of the change in the faculty you have heard. Of the perplexing conditions to meet,
and awkward and uninviting situations to recognize, it is needless even to mention
any to you. It is but proper to state, however, that the people of Dayton received the
present Faculty very kindly, and have given evidence of interest in our work. This
we thoroughly appreciate. As to the attitude of the ministry of this Conference toward us and our work,
I have no positive information upon which to base an opinion. Judging, however, from the fact that 28
out of 30 failed to reply to special letters of inquiry sent out in January, the attitude would seem to be
Reports 1896 144
