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The new Icing is ill contrast to tile old tree. This view is from side of the adduion. facing Taneytown Road.Through College on Faithby Barbara Zimmerman Cressman, '42CO)[EKT)(EDITOR'Sfol/uwing /lrlicle The is about u r!iUerrmttime when perhaps the need for higher educationWClsn't as evident, lItu/truirlg this hard/u obtain oru:~ often II//llelifed sillu 10 caeualohsercers. U lmdullbted1!l he fttlllilitlrnAil (r.\.IOTI/ to the parents of 1l1O/I!I C(1I"Tel,1 suulentstllliwill revive memuriesfor aiumni,With till the talk ofdwnge in this issue.~eemed al'pro)lfi(lte /0 mention someitfilings which Ii/we 1I0t changed. Dreams ofa college etitlctifiOiI and mger!ious methods/o/ifi//IIC(!Otle tire slili with ns.As far back in my childhood as I can rememberday I wouldI wus told that some :.(0 to college. College meant little to methen except that we all knew and acceptedas a matter of courso thut our family budgetincluded regulur payments on the small collegedebt that still remained from myfather's years of preparation for thl::ministry.miraculous mannerIt must have been thein which my father educated himself thatgaY{' Illy parents the firm conviction thatthey could educate the four of us.I! was necessary for my father to stopschool and earn a living for himself whenhe was orphaned at 12. Shortly after, hewas knocked down by a man hurrying froma trnlley and developed an abscess on thebrain, requiring several operations. Uponrelease from the hospttnl his older sisterreluctantly, but of necessity, placed him ini\ children's home. He was soon taken by acouple to their Fnrrn where he worked as afarmhandWhile living with his foster parents, myfather began attending the nearest churchan(\ took such an interest in the services thatby the time he was 18 the minister suggestedhe study for the ministry. My fatherhad not attended school since the death ofhis mother; so with funds that the ministerwas able to help him borrow he was enrolledin a prcpamtcry school. While there he didpage nine