The first Commencement was in 1875 with Linda Ninde Dorland graduating. Commencement typically lasted all day starting with the Baccalaureate, and ending either with the President or a professor hosting the Commencement Dinner. In later years, it…
Penn College was founded by Quakers, who believed education to be a necessity in their lives, but public schooling had not yet come to Iowa in the late 19th Century. Oskaloosa seemed like the perfect location for a Quaker college due to the two…
This is the Penn Academy Class of1915 photographed inside Old Main. The Penn Academy offered college preparatory courses from 1872 until 1926 and was housed at Penn College. Two of the students in this class are Margaret Welch and Preston McCracken.…
Old Main, Domestic Science Laboratory, Cooking Class, each girl has her own desk including a gas plate, drawer and cupboard, and various cooking utensils, there are large gas ranges for baking, during the summer a dining room is to be furnished in a…
Old Main, interior image, Physical and Chemical Laboratories, it was the policy "of the department to add each year some first class pieces of apparatus, believing that by this means an excellent working laboratory can be built up.
Zoology Class in the Old Main Laboratory, dissecting cats, Mahlon Kirk Teacher, Elmer Jones, Will Terrill, Corwin Oneal, Loren Morgan, Harly Carver, harry Hayes, Bernice Lacy, Charlie George, Ashby, Luella Woodward, Albert Watland, Olive Floger,…
Penn College was founded by Quakers, who believed education to be a necessity in their lives, but public schooling had not yet come to Iowa in the late 19th Century. Oskaloosa seemed like the perfect location for a Quaker college due to the two…
From 1944 to 1949, William Penn College had the honor of having Cecil E. Hinshaw as its president. A Quaker minister, who was originally from Kansas and North Dakota, became president of Penn in 1944. During his time at Penn, he welcomed students…
