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Volume 6 Relation of U.B/EUB Virginia Conferences to Shenandoah University Dec. 26, 2013
By a recent act of our State Legislature, provision has been made for the establishment of a state
normal school for ladies at Harrisonburg, Va. The State will provide excellent dormitories, furnishing,
and other needed equipment for those who may attend that school. So the probability is that within a
year or two the overflow at your School will seek that, or some other school, unless we as a church
supply the demand by providing more and better buildings and equipment. Not for several years have
our dormitories been ample enough to provide homes for all our ladies, and the boys must all room in
homes in the town.
The movement to lift all indebtedness of the Institute is a very worthy one, and it has now
become imperative that the work be completed at the earliest possible date. The needs of your School as
enumerated in last year’s report have not yet been met. The period set apart for the enlightenment of our
membership upon the worth, work, and needs of the Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and School of
Music has not been as fruitful of good results as we had hoped for; but it was the beginning of a good
work that through the superintendency, ministry, and laity should continue until the desired end is
reached.
Valuable additions to the faculty have been made in the persons of Rev. D. D. Brandt (Lebanon
Valley College and Union Biblical Seminary), Mrs. D. D. Brandt (Lebanon Valley College), Miss Effie
Bateman (Dunsmore Business College), and Miss Ola Warren Chase (Greeley School of Oratory). Our
present matron is Miss Florence Burgess. The work in all departments is highly commendable. The
attendance is a pronounced increase over any previous year. Our students are well cared for, and their
individual interests are studied.
It is still the aim of the management to keep the rates as low as possible, so that the deserving
poor may find it possible to get an education with us when debarred from other high-priced schools.
The rich and poor meet on common ground with us in the race for the coveted prize. The written and
unwritten history of the Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and School of Music is good. Under the
blessing of God, and with your help and sympathy, it shall be better. E. U. Hoenshel, Principal. He then
spoke interestingly of the Institute and the report was adopted.
Visiting Committee to Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and School of Music. No report.
Other Business—Secretary of Education (pp. 39-40). At a called meeting of the Board of
Trustees of Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and School of Music, it was unanimously recommended that
Rev. A. P. Funkhouser be elected by this conference as Secretary of Education for the conference year,
his compensation to be fixed by the trustees of Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and School of Music.
J. N. Garber, President.
1908 U.B. Yearbook Statement (pp. 58-59). Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and School of
Music belongs to the United Brethren in Christ. It is controlled by trustees elected by the Virginia
Conference. It does not in any respect belong to the faculty, except as arranged by the trustees. There
has not been one dollar of indebtedness incurred in the running expenses of the School for many years.
Every penny of money given by the people of the Church goes for permanent improvement. The faculty
pays all insurance, advertising, repairs, and running expenses. The present debt was made in putting up
new buildings, and in a heating plant. Let each member of the Church rally to the institution, and make
this a great year.
Read the following resolutions adopted by the last annual conference: 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
Reports 1908 177
By a recent act of our State Legislature, provision has been made for the establishment of a state
normal school for ladies at Harrisonburg, Va. The State will provide excellent dormitories, furnishing,
and other needed equipment for those who may attend that school. So the probability is that within a
year or two the overflow at your School will seek that, or some other school, unless we as a church
supply the demand by providing more and better buildings and equipment. Not for several years have
our dormitories been ample enough to provide homes for all our ladies, and the boys must all room in
homes in the town.
The movement to lift all indebtedness of the Institute is a very worthy one, and it has now
become imperative that the work be completed at the earliest possible date. The needs of your School as
enumerated in last year’s report have not yet been met. The period set apart for the enlightenment of our
membership upon the worth, work, and needs of the Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and School of
Music has not been as fruitful of good results as we had hoped for; but it was the beginning of a good
work that through the superintendency, ministry, and laity should continue until the desired end is
reached.
Valuable additions to the faculty have been made in the persons of Rev. D. D. Brandt (Lebanon
Valley College and Union Biblical Seminary), Mrs. D. D. Brandt (Lebanon Valley College), Miss Effie
Bateman (Dunsmore Business College), and Miss Ola Warren Chase (Greeley School of Oratory). Our
present matron is Miss Florence Burgess. The work in all departments is highly commendable. The
attendance is a pronounced increase over any previous year. Our students are well cared for, and their
individual interests are studied.
It is still the aim of the management to keep the rates as low as possible, so that the deserving
poor may find it possible to get an education with us when debarred from other high-priced schools.
The rich and poor meet on common ground with us in the race for the coveted prize. The written and
unwritten history of the Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and School of Music is good. Under the
blessing of God, and with your help and sympathy, it shall be better. E. U. Hoenshel, Principal. He then
spoke interestingly of the Institute and the report was adopted.
Visiting Committee to Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and School of Music. No report.
Other Business—Secretary of Education (pp. 39-40). At a called meeting of the Board of
Trustees of Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and School of Music, it was unanimously recommended that
Rev. A. P. Funkhouser be elected by this conference as Secretary of Education for the conference year,
his compensation to be fixed by the trustees of Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and School of Music.
J. N. Garber, President.
1908 U.B. Yearbook Statement (pp. 58-59). Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and School of
Music belongs to the United Brethren in Christ. It is controlled by trustees elected by the Virginia
Conference. It does not in any respect belong to the faculty, except as arranged by the trustees. There
has not been one dollar of indebtedness incurred in the running expenses of the School for many years.
Every penny of money given by the people of the Church goes for permanent improvement. The faculty
pays all insurance, advertising, repairs, and running expenses. The present debt was made in putting up
new buildings, and in a heating plant. Let each member of the Church rally to the institution, and make
this a great year.
Read the following resolutions adopted by the last annual conference: 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
Reports 1908 177
