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Volume 6 Relation of U.B/EUB Virginia Conferences to Shenandoah University Dec. 26, 2013
trustees for said School, And Whereas by the reason of the failure to pay the annual fees required by the
Statutes of Virginia, the Charter of said Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and School of Music” has been
forfeited, And Whereas a form of certificate for Charter of Incorporation, of ‘‘Shenandoah Collegiate
Institute and School of Music,” has been presented to this Annual Conference, for its consideration and
approval, And Whereas, after due consideration, the Conference approved said certificate for Charter, on
motion of A. S. Hammack it was ordered by the Virginia Annual Conference of the United Brethren in
Christ, in session at Edinburg, Va., this 16th day of March, 1907:
That when the Charter of Incorporation shall have been granted, creating the “Trustees
of Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and School of Music,” a body political and corporate,
then the Directors, Trustees, or such other persons or body, in whom the legal title is vested to
the property of the Shenandoah Institute,” or “Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and School of
Music,” are hereby authorized, empowered and directed, to transfer and deliver possession of
all such property, real, personal and mixed, and the legal title thereto by proper conveyance
in writing, to the said “Trustees of Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and School of Music,” to
be held by them and their successors in office with absolute title.
Signed in behalf of the conference, J. S. Mills, Bishop; George P. Hott, Secretary.
Other Business—Two Resolutions for Trustees of Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and
School of Music (pp. 32-33). The committee, appointed by the board of trustees of Shenandoah
Collegiate Institute and School of Music, presented the following resolutions. [These were] spoken
upon by Prof. E. U. Hoenshel, Prof. J. H. Ruebush, J. N. Garber, A. S. Hammack, S. R. Ludwig, J. C. S.
Myers, Bishop J. S. Mills, G. W. Stover, Geo. P. Hott, G. H. Crowell, and C. P. Dyche.
First Resolution: To the Board of Trustees of Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and School of
Music, as your committee on plans to pay the debt of the institution, we beg to recommend the following
paper, Resolved, (1) That we recommend to the Board and the Virginia Conference that the months of
August, September, and October be set aside for the time for concerted action upon the part of all of the
friends of the institution to free it from its present indebtedness and to prepare the way for much needed
improvements. (2) That the board and faculty will pledge $2,500, on condition that the full amount of
the debt, $7,741.91, be secured by assessing 50 cents per member on the charges. (3) That the faculty
assist, as far as possible, in this debt raising campaign, by going through the Conference lecturing,
preaching, and singing, charging only their expenses in this work. Respectfully submitted, W. F.
Gruver, J. N. Garber, and J. H. Ruebush, the Committee. Adopted.
Second Resolution: The following resolution was adopted. Resolved, That the faculty and
executive committee of the Board of Trustees be constituted a central committee to direct the financial
campaign to cancel the debt on Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and School of Music, and that the first
quarterly [charge] conference appoint a committee on each charge to cooperate with the same.
Report of Shenandoah Collegiate Institute (pp. 33-34). Dear Brethren: For me simply to say,
in bringing to you this, my 11th
annual report, that your School is
flourishing, would scarcely be
satisfactory to you. Hence, I shall
tell in brief what has been done
since my last report was given.
Not for several years have we
been able to accommodate in our
Reports 1907 173
trustees for said School, And Whereas by the reason of the failure to pay the annual fees required by the
Statutes of Virginia, the Charter of said Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and School of Music” has been
forfeited, And Whereas a form of certificate for Charter of Incorporation, of ‘‘Shenandoah Collegiate
Institute and School of Music,” has been presented to this Annual Conference, for its consideration and
approval, And Whereas, after due consideration, the Conference approved said certificate for Charter, on
motion of A. S. Hammack it was ordered by the Virginia Annual Conference of the United Brethren in
Christ, in session at Edinburg, Va., this 16th day of March, 1907:
That when the Charter of Incorporation shall have been granted, creating the “Trustees
of Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and School of Music,” a body political and corporate,
then the Directors, Trustees, or such other persons or body, in whom the legal title is vested to
the property of the Shenandoah Institute,” or “Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and School of
Music,” are hereby authorized, empowered and directed, to transfer and deliver possession of
all such property, real, personal and mixed, and the legal title thereto by proper conveyance
in writing, to the said “Trustees of Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and School of Music,” to
be held by them and their successors in office with absolute title.
Signed in behalf of the conference, J. S. Mills, Bishop; George P. Hott, Secretary.
Other Business—Two Resolutions for Trustees of Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and
School of Music (pp. 32-33). The committee, appointed by the board of trustees of Shenandoah
Collegiate Institute and School of Music, presented the following resolutions. [These were] spoken
upon by Prof. E. U. Hoenshel, Prof. J. H. Ruebush, J. N. Garber, A. S. Hammack, S. R. Ludwig, J. C. S.
Myers, Bishop J. S. Mills, G. W. Stover, Geo. P. Hott, G. H. Crowell, and C. P. Dyche.
First Resolution: To the Board of Trustees of Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and School of
Music, as your committee on plans to pay the debt of the institution, we beg to recommend the following
paper, Resolved, (1) That we recommend to the Board and the Virginia Conference that the months of
August, September, and October be set aside for the time for concerted action upon the part of all of the
friends of the institution to free it from its present indebtedness and to prepare the way for much needed
improvements. (2) That the board and faculty will pledge $2,500, on condition that the full amount of
the debt, $7,741.91, be secured by assessing 50 cents per member on the charges. (3) That the faculty
assist, as far as possible, in this debt raising campaign, by going through the Conference lecturing,
preaching, and singing, charging only their expenses in this work. Respectfully submitted, W. F.
Gruver, J. N. Garber, and J. H. Ruebush, the Committee. Adopted.
Second Resolution: The following resolution was adopted. Resolved, That the faculty and
executive committee of the Board of Trustees be constituted a central committee to direct the financial
campaign to cancel the debt on Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and School of Music, and that the first
quarterly [charge] conference appoint a committee on each charge to cooperate with the same.
Report of Shenandoah Collegiate Institute (pp. 33-34). Dear Brethren: For me simply to say,
in bringing to you this, my 11th
annual report, that your School is
flourishing, would scarcely be
satisfactory to you. Hence, I shall
tell in brief what has been done
since my last report was given.
Not for several years have we
been able to accommodate in our
Reports 1907 173
