Dennis M. Scott
20th April 2007, 11:15 PM (23:15)
The last couple days I have enjoyed having my parents with us for a visit. They brought with them some copies of ONU's yearbook, the Aurora, from 1917-1922. In the 1917 edition are pictures of my grandfather, R. L. Scott, who married Naomi Schlagle, who is also pictured. She died shortly after having my father. My grandfather shortly thereafter remarried, and his new wife became the grandmother I knew. The Aurora picture of my dad's blood mother is the only picture of her I have ever seen. Two photos away from her is the picture of Byron Nease, one of her classmates, and brother to Linda's grandfather, Floyd William Nease. Consequently, family members on both sides of my children are seen in that yearbook from so many generations ago. Small world, the COTN.
On another page in that yearbook is a picture of Dr. R. Wayne Gardner, who later became President of ENC, serving just prior to Linda's grandfather. This Sunday at the Wollaston Church, I am to assist in the dedication of infant Jered Edward Gardner, the son of my niece and her husband, Edward Gardner IV, who is the great grandson of Dr. R. Wayne Gardner.
Also in that yearbook is highlighted the ministry of Elmer Kaufman, who was grandfather of the late Sally Zink, as well as Dr. Tim Kaufman, presently pastor of the Cambridge, Ma, COTN. Seems like maybe many of those frequently thought to be Easterners had roots deep in Midwest Nazarenedome.
Class president that year was Hugh C. Benner, later to become NTS president and General Superintendent. Another faculty member in those days was Rev. E. M. Borders, who later pastored the Malden, MA, COTN, where several generations later I served, as did in the thirties Orval J. Nease, the third of the Nease brothers. That Dr. Nease eventually also twice served as General Superintendent.
Speakers in revival and lectureships that year were R. T. Williams, Hiram F. Reynolds, and J. W. Goodwin, all of whom eventually served as GSes.
Undoubtedly there were other significant members of that class, known better to others than me. The combined total college and academy graduates that year was apparently 27.
I've been of the opinion for years that there really are only about a dozen Nazarenes. They just keep moving around and changing their names.
On another page in that yearbook is a picture of Dr. R. Wayne Gardner, who later became President of ENC, serving just prior to Linda's grandfather. This Sunday at the Wollaston Church, I am to assist in the dedication of infant Jered Edward Gardner, the son of my niece and her husband, Edward Gardner IV, who is the great grandson of Dr. R. Wayne Gardner.
Also in that yearbook is highlighted the ministry of Elmer Kaufman, who was grandfather of the late Sally Zink, as well as Dr. Tim Kaufman, presently pastor of the Cambridge, Ma, COTN. Seems like maybe many of those frequently thought to be Easterners had roots deep in Midwest Nazarenedome.
Class president that year was Hugh C. Benner, later to become NTS president and General Superintendent. Another faculty member in those days was Rev. E. M. Borders, who later pastored the Malden, MA, COTN, where several generations later I served, as did in the thirties Orval J. Nease, the third of the Nease brothers. That Dr. Nease eventually also twice served as General Superintendent.
Speakers in revival and lectureships that year were R. T. Williams, Hiram F. Reynolds, and J. W. Goodwin, all of whom eventually served as GSes.
Undoubtedly there were other significant members of that class, known better to others than me. The combined total college and academy graduates that year was apparently 27.
I've been of the opinion for years that there really are only about a dozen Nazarenes. They just keep moving around and changing their names.