The 1950s marked a decade of growth for Elizabethtown College. Before the start of the decade, the campus consisted of five major buildings, but over the next 11 years, four more were added to the campus. Faculty members also nearly doubled, increasing from 30 to 58 members.<\/p>\n
Because of the growth of faculty, both the variety and number of courses offered at the College increased as well. A marked change in student ideology was also taking place on campus. Students were slowly breaking from Brethren ideals, with a strong pushback against mandatory chapel attendance growing. The students’ views toward the Korean War were in contrast to the church\u2019s pacifist ideals, with 10 students inducted into the military with strong campus support.<\/p>\n
A Look Through the Decade<\/strong><\/p>\n 1950<\/strong> – Zug Memorial Hall is dedicated on Oct. 20.<\/p>\n 1952<\/strong> – Etown joins the newly formed Foundation for Independent Colleges, a group of 38 non-tax-supported schools.<\/p>\n 1953<\/strong> – A.C. Baugher gives a televised lecture on WGAL-TV News 8’s College of the Air<\/em> program, reaching 760,000 viewers in six counties. He was the first of many Etown faculty to give a lecture on the program.<\/p>\n 1954<\/strong> – Etown\u2019s first woman member of the Board of Trustees, Mildred H. Enterline, begins her first three-year term.<\/p>\n 1954<\/strong> – Paul Eugene Greiner \u201954 passes away. He was the College\u2019s only Korean War casualty.<\/p>\n 1956<\/strong> – Construction concludes on a new women\u2019s dormitory, which would eventually be named Myer Hall. The dorm was named in honor of Elizabeth Myer, one of the original faculty members and the first woman to teach at the College.<\/p>\n 1956<\/strong> – Etown\u2019s first African American professor, John Jasper Spurling, begins teaching at the College.<\/p>\n 1958<\/strong> – The west wing of Gibble Science Hall opens, doubling laboratory space and adding two large classrooms, a lecture hall, and a faculty office space.<\/p>\n 1959<\/strong> – Construction on Ober Hall, named in honor of past President H.K. Ober, is completed.<\/p>\n Snapshots of the Decade<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t
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