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May Day Pageant

The May Day Pageant was started around 1901 by the Y.W.C.A. The May Queen is selected from the senior women, by the men students, while the women elect a Cardinal to crown and attend to the Queen. The procession marches across the campus to the…

Dr. Charles Griffith

Dr Charles Griffith, Chairman of the Fine Arts Department, playing the organ in Spencer Chapel.

Depression

During the depression William Penn College students could use farm animals and produce to pay on their tuition bill.

Class of 1903

Class picture in front of Old Main, Class of 1903

Baseball Team

William Penn College baseball team.

Charles S. Beal

Spanish Influenza ravaged the state of Iowa starting in the fall of 1918. This inevitably led to a statewide quarantine in October of 1918. Penn College closed from October 14, 1918 to November 4, 1918. On November 21, 1918, President McGrew ordered…

Group Picture 1938

William Penn College group picture, taken September 30, 1938 by Roy D, Young Studio from Mt. Vernon, Iowa, in front of Penn Hall

Baseball

William Penn College baseball team under Coach Barton Thiele.

Herman Coil, Elton Trueblood, and Mother Reinhart

Spanish Influenza ravaged the state of Iowa starting in the fall of 1918. This inevitably led to a statewide quarantine in October of 1918. Penn College closed from October 14, 1918 to November 4, 1918. On November 21, 1918, President McGrew ordered…

Basketball

Basketball at Penn really started taking off in 1900. They became Hawkeye Conference champs in 1914-15, and Iowa Conference champs in 1970-71. Both men's and women's basketball went on to become state champs multiple times during the 70's and 80's.

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