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Volume 6 Relation of U.B/EUB Virginia Conferences to Shenandoah University Dec. 26, 2013
The Financial Agent was able to collect $1,350 at the 1913 Conference from members present in
order to meet a conditional pledge of $6,000 to the School. The Board of Trustees authorized the
purchase of $3,500 worth of new pianos for the School of Music.
During the tenure of Prof. Ruebush, a committee from the Virginia State Board of Education
visited the institution (in 1915-16) and accredited the preparatory or high-school completion courses.
The 2-year college program was listed in the catalogue for 1915-16, designed to follow the preparatory
program and meet all standard college requirements for the first 2 years. [Zynodoa 1975, p. 8].
The War Years. Enrollment at SCI and School of Music dropped off sharply during the War.
The town of Dayton furnished a complete unit to the American Army in the form of the 116th
Infantry Band, which made itself famous during the Argonne Campaign. Dayton was the smallest town
in the United States to furnish a complete unit. This band was under the director of Lt. William H.
Ruebush, who for many years had been associated with his brother in the School of Music. Most of the
members of the band had originally been in the Second
Regimental Band and had served on the Mexican Border from
September 1916 to March 1917. All the members but two had
been trained at SCI and School of Music. The gift of a captured
German WWI gun to Dayton, placed on the SCI campus [the
picture at the right is from the 1928 U.B. Yearbook], was a
symbol of the thanks of the nation for Dayton’s contribution to
the War Effort.
Endowment Fund Campaign, 1918-25. Prof. E. N.. Funkhouser, of Hagerstown, Md.,32
presented tentative plans to the March 1918 Virginia Conference, with a view to raising an Endowment
Fund for Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and School of Music. Tentative Proposition: (1) To raise a
minimum of Sixty Thousand ($60,000) for Endowment purposes for Shenandoah Collegiate Institute,
with $75,000 as the goal; all pledges to be conditional upon raising at least $50,000. (2) To accomplish
this, the Conference should elect a Campaign Committee before it adjourns, who will arrange for the
campaign, select a date, and be responsible for carrying it through. Bishop Bell should be Chairman of
this Committee. (3) The Campaign Committee should immediately take charge of the project and select
a Director, who will lead the drive and give his entire time to the effort from the time it is begun until it
is completed. (4) The Director will then select key men in different districts throughout the Conference
who will be definitely responsible for the work in their territory. Each individual church will in turn be
organized under the leadership of the Pastor or some aggressive layman for an intensive effort during a
period of 10 days. (5) The intensive effort will be preceded by an educational campaign through
literature, exchange of pulpits, personal interviews, etc. It is the purpose that during the campaign the
Virginia Conference will devote its entire attention to this project of raising funds for Christian
Education. (6) Every dollar secured during the campaign shall go toward the Endowment Fund, as the
expenses incurred in carrying on the drive will be provided for by private individuals. (7) The
Endowment Fund shall be held intact, and only the income may be expended. No part of the principal
may be used for any purposes except investments in bonds, securities, etc., as prescribed by the Court.
(8) The amount secured will be handled through the Conference Treasurer, and the funds invested by a
committee of six men elected by the Virginia Conference, who shall constitute the Finance Committee
32 Churches in Western Maryland, as well as in the Eastern Panhandle and South Branch Region of West Virginia,
remained in the Virginia Conference after the creation of the Maryland Conference in 1889. —The Editor.
Miller, et al., on History of S.C., 1875-1950 23
The Financial Agent was able to collect $1,350 at the 1913 Conference from members present in
order to meet a conditional pledge of $6,000 to the School. The Board of Trustees authorized the
purchase of $3,500 worth of new pianos for the School of Music.
During the tenure of Prof. Ruebush, a committee from the Virginia State Board of Education
visited the institution (in 1915-16) and accredited the preparatory or high-school completion courses.
The 2-year college program was listed in the catalogue for 1915-16, designed to follow the preparatory
program and meet all standard college requirements for the first 2 years. [Zynodoa 1975, p. 8].
The War Years. Enrollment at SCI and School of Music dropped off sharply during the War.
The town of Dayton furnished a complete unit to the American Army in the form of the 116th
Infantry Band, which made itself famous during the Argonne Campaign. Dayton was the smallest town
in the United States to furnish a complete unit. This band was under the director of Lt. William H.
Ruebush, who for many years had been associated with his brother in the School of Music. Most of the
members of the band had originally been in the Second
Regimental Band and had served on the Mexican Border from
September 1916 to March 1917. All the members but two had
been trained at SCI and School of Music. The gift of a captured
German WWI gun to Dayton, placed on the SCI campus [the
picture at the right is from the 1928 U.B. Yearbook], was a
symbol of the thanks of the nation for Dayton’s contribution to
the War Effort.
Endowment Fund Campaign, 1918-25. Prof. E. N.. Funkhouser, of Hagerstown, Md.,32
presented tentative plans to the March 1918 Virginia Conference, with a view to raising an Endowment
Fund for Shenandoah Collegiate Institute and School of Music. Tentative Proposition: (1) To raise a
minimum of Sixty Thousand ($60,000) for Endowment purposes for Shenandoah Collegiate Institute,
with $75,000 as the goal; all pledges to be conditional upon raising at least $50,000. (2) To accomplish
this, the Conference should elect a Campaign Committee before it adjourns, who will arrange for the
campaign, select a date, and be responsible for carrying it through. Bishop Bell should be Chairman of
this Committee. (3) The Campaign Committee should immediately take charge of the project and select
a Director, who will lead the drive and give his entire time to the effort from the time it is begun until it
is completed. (4) The Director will then select key men in different districts throughout the Conference
who will be definitely responsible for the work in their territory. Each individual church will in turn be
organized under the leadership of the Pastor or some aggressive layman for an intensive effort during a
period of 10 days. (5) The intensive effort will be preceded by an educational campaign through
literature, exchange of pulpits, personal interviews, etc. It is the purpose that during the campaign the
Virginia Conference will devote its entire attention to this project of raising funds for Christian
Education. (6) Every dollar secured during the campaign shall go toward the Endowment Fund, as the
expenses incurred in carrying on the drive will be provided for by private individuals. (7) The
Endowment Fund shall be held intact, and only the income may be expended. No part of the principal
may be used for any purposes except investments in bonds, securities, etc., as prescribed by the Court.
(8) The amount secured will be handled through the Conference Treasurer, and the funds invested by a
committee of six men elected by the Virginia Conference, who shall constitute the Finance Committee
32 Churches in Western Maryland, as well as in the Eastern Panhandle and South Branch Region of West Virginia,
remained in the Virginia Conference after the creation of the Maryland Conference in 1889. —The Editor.
Miller, et al., on History of S.C., 1875-1950 23
