God Gave the Increase

The annual Cedar Day celebration, 1923. The first observance of Cedar Day was so successful that the celebration of Cedar Day be– came an established custom which continued until the year 195 7. The faculty regarded Cedar Day as the day of all year when the community and the college joined in wholesome fun and A person who served the college un– der every adminstration including the present and through every changing cir– cumstance until February, 1954, was Dr. Frank A. Jurkat. Dr. Jurkat's six-and-a– half foot frame on the. pathway crossing the campus was a familiar sight to hundreds of students who grew co love and respect him during h is fifty-eight years with rhe college. The way his students felt about him is well expressed in the 1951 Cedmr which was dedicated to him. "We dedicate this. the 1951 Cedrus. to him because. although a man of prodigious learning, he wears that learning lightly; because, like Yorick, he is a man of infinite jest; because an hour of one of his classes is a delight co those who share it, when not only mind and spirit arc fed with wit and wisdom, but the flesh, too, is sustained by the cookies and candy that he carries up the path in his market basket along with books- and, above all, because he is loved and greatly admired, and re– membered by his sn1dents long after their other tc.:achcrs have been forgotten." In April of 1954, Dr. Jurkat was called to be with the Lord whom he served; bur his influence is still felt on the campus, not only by those who knew him personally, but even by those who knew him only through the memories of others. pleasure. The people of the community regarded Cedar Day much as they regarded the fourth of July. It was a general holiday when businesses were closed, farm work was abandoned, baskets were filled and the whole family came ro spend the day on the college campus. Dr. Jurkat, friend to all.