1948 Cedrus Yearbook

%NemoPteafekt A. I. HOSTETLER "None of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord: so then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and the li-Jing." Rom.14:7-9 Professor and Mrs. A. J. Hostetler met their death in an automobile accident on Feb- ruary 13, 1948.Professor Hostetler was Dean of Education atCedarville College for the past twenty years. He taught many classes during that period and influenced hundreds of students. His failure to pass an examination for certification as a teacher when he was seven- teen may account for his later success. He was in turn a class-room teacher, principal, county school supervisor,director of a normal school, and finally dean ofeducation at Cedar- ville. At his death, he had completed nearly fifty years of teaching. Many school superin- tendents eagerly sought graduates of Cedar- ville College, confident that they would have good character and a sound basis of scholar- ship. One of his colleagues paid him a remark- able tribute when she said he was one of those rare teachers who can lift a student to heights of which he did not know himself capable. She congratulated the students who had been privi- leged to study with him. Long ago, two pupils said, "Did not our hearts burn within us,while he talked to us by the way and while he opened to us the scriptures?" 50