< PreviousAugust 15, 1942, Augsburger stepped >ff the train that had carried him rom Vermont to Niles, Michigan, to pend one year as an informant in Tench to missionaries-in-training. >osition in the college at that time," Augsburger remembered with a laugh. )le practice their French. The goal ras to speak like a native, so the mis- msly in the countries they were going vith Jniversity of Arizona and the Jniversity of Michigan, to name a ew, he said, "I have often felt that it s necessary to stay in one place to nake a mark in life. I wanted to nake my mark with Andrews Jniversity." Augsburger has surely succeeded in naking that mark. He served as itudent Association (SA) sponsor ;een as more of a social entity on :ampus previous to 1948, but Augsburger made it his mission to he students could go to voice their :oncerns. At one point, lights out in :he dorms was set for 9:30 p.m. "It vas not uncommon," Augsburger •emembered, "to see students in the iormitory hallways crouched on the loor, studying by the dim night ights." He asked each of the students :o talk to their favorite teacher on :ampus and get them behind theirBY KATIE SHAWon their farm. For a dormitory, the college rented the Hotel Oronoko, located on what is now Ferry Street in down town Berrien Springs. Students would pay $2.50 a month for their rooms and 3 cents for a dish of food. One hundred years later, Emmanuel Missionary College has blossomed into the flagship institution for the Seventh- day Adventist church, changing its name in i960 to Andrews University in honor of the first Adventist foreign mis sionary, J. N. Andrews. Our school still echoes the prayer spoken by Andrews as he left Boston for Switzerland, "And now, as we set forth, we commit ourselves to the merciful protection of God, and we especially ask the prayers of the people of God that His blessing may attend us in this sacred work."Next >