Blast from the Past—March 9, 2021 Edition
Musselman Library (Photo Allyson Frantz/The Gettysburgian)
By Shannon Zeltmann, Staff Writer
This week in 1941, class years were holding their monthly class meetings. Seniors were to meet in the chemistry lecture room in Science Hall to discuss their senior gift, and juniors would be going over “routine business” in the physics lecture hall in the Science Hall. Sophomores were meeting in the SCA auditorium and the first-year class would be meeting in the newly built Brua Chapel to discuss their new class constitution.
This week in 1946, high school juniors and seniors from all over Adams County were coming to Gettysburg College for the second annual Career Day. The college was expecting over six hundred students to attend. The Gettysburg College students would serve as guides for the high schoolers, and could help them find Brua Chapel where the Career Day event was being held. The high school students could also attend an hour-long class. Several professors would also be talking to the high schoolers about professional occupations.
This week in 1956, the library highlighted one of the founders of the college, Samuel Simon Schmucker, who also founded the Lutheran Seminary. Schmucker was admitted into the ministry in 1829 and ordained in 1821. He hoped to found a Lutheran seminary and college, and translate theological works from German to English, which he did during his life. He died in July 1873 and is buried in Gettysburg. One professor at the Lutheran Seminary, A.R. Wentz, was in the process of writing a biography about Schmucker to shed more light on the work he did for Gettysburg and Lutheranism.
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