Word: otterbein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trustees to award scholarships of $100 a semester to every Lithopolis (or Bloom Township) boy & girl who wanted to go to college, no matter what his grades or promise. Last week the first two scholarships had been approved: Marilyn Good, 18, would study the organ at Ohio's Otterbein College, and Donald Speakman, 18, was planning to take up farming at Ohio State. But Lithopolitans were worried. As Mrs. Mabel Stevenson, the memorial's secretary, said: "With all this new money, you can't tell just what kind of people it will bring here. But the trustees...
With Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess, with bearded Jimmu Tenno (Emperor of Divine Valor), with the 14,000 kami (gods) of wind and mountain and sea, Lieut. William K. Bunce, U.S.N.R., wrestled for three months. Then the tall, slight, 38-year-old former dean of Otterbein College (Westerville, Ohio), for three years a teacher in Japan, produced a directive reshaping the relationship of 77,000,000 Japanese to the Shinto faith. Last week, with not even a penciled change by Allied headquarters, Shinto according to Bunce was promulgated in Tokyo...
WILLARD W. BARTLETT Otterbein College Westerville, Ohio...
Songwriter Hanby was just the right age, 23 and a sophomore at small Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio, when he wrote Darling Nelly Gray, in 1856. What caused it was a boyhood memory: when he was a child, a fugitive slave stopping at his father's house had told how his sweetheart, Nelly Gray, had been sold into slavery. Hanby mailed the manuscript to a Boston publisher. The song swept the nation, sold more copies than any previous song except Foster's Old Folks at Home...
...member of North Austin Lutheran Church who could not attend the Easter services was Pastor Otterbein himself. He had a stroke in February 1940, is still unable to resume his work. His one object in life is to return, and doctors say some day he can. Only parish activity they now allow him is two pastoral visits a week. A sick man, he makes these to the sick because he can share their suffering. But though he has not conducted a service there for over a year, North Austin Lutheran's attendance has continued to grow under a succession...