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The Horizon Line Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation http://www.archive.org/details/tayloruniversity2009tayl The Horizon Line Taylor University Fort Wayne 2008-2009 Yearbook This your daddy's isn't yearbook. ...Or like any yearbook you've ever seen before, ifonly because it's made by us. The best way to read this book isjust like any other, from right to left, top to bottom, cover to cover. This isn't a traditional yearbook; it's more like a timeline ofthe year's events, with an attempt at some sort ofchronological order we didn't always achieve. What do we mean by this? Look six inches to the right - yeah, it's kind oflike that. Like we said, this isn't a traditional yearbook. So, enjoy Relive all the stupid things you did. Remember that one time at that one place. Get a bit nostalgic. And maybe,just maybe, you'll join with us in laughing a little about this crazy place we call college. And yes, those are my parents. We'll let you guess whose. Matt and Natalie 4-5:HistoryoftheSchool August 8-9:LeadershipWeek 10-11:WelcomeWeekend 12:Chapel September 14-15: 8o's RollerSkating 16:Women'sVolleyball 17: Roommate Day 18-19:HomecomingWeekend 20-21:Candids 22:A Cartoon October 24-25:Soccer 26:TheWhite Page 27:The BlackPage 28-29: Halloween 30-31:Candids November 32: 10Things 34-35:An InspectorCalls 36-37:Candids 38: Curseof'og December 40-41:Christmas Banquet 42: B-dubs 44-45: Basektball January 46-47:Trips 48-49: Candids 50:Ringdowns February 52: Intramurals 53: Breakfastat Midnight 54-55: In Class... 56: Coffeehouse 58-59:Candids March 60-61: DC 62-63:Airband 64: Faculty/Staff April 66-67: Unless 68-69: End oftheYear Bash 70:Quotes 71:Thanks 73: Prayers 74: Benediction The Timeline A History Brief Fur the past 121 years, with more name changes than the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince, the intersection of ' •*;:« S&&5 iMi i if Rudisill Blvd. and Indiana Ave. has been the home to students from across the state and the country seeking to know God and serve Him more. When Bethany Bible Institute opened in Bluffton, Ohio in 18X8. it began with a class of25 students. After moving to Fort Wayne in 1904, the school Schultz Hall opens with Bethany Hall is built for Founders Hall construction Lexington Hall, now classrooms, dining hall, $60,000 and used as a fe- begins, later to house 25 known as Hausser Hall, kitchen, lihrary, laundry, male dormitory, later to practice rooms, 4 studios, 3 opens and can house 100 chapel, offices, reception house offices, classrooms, classrooms, chapel, gymna- students on 2 floors, plus a area and 40 dormitory mailroom, hookstore. and sium, dining room, recre- basement with a full rooms for 2 people each. reception hall. ation room, and offices. kitchen 1905 1929 1941 1965 of This Place "Let us pray, not so much that God will make [this] a great institution, but rather that He will use it in a large way to accomplish His pur- pose." -1928 Fort Wayne Bible Collegeyearbook 11 fir grew, reaching its largest en- rollment in 1974 with 626 students. In 1989, the school changed its name to Summit Christian College. Threeyears after that, it merged with Tay- lor University in Upland, Indi- ana to become Taylor University Fort Wayne as we know it today. ij.il Witmer Hall, an academic Eicher Student Commons Calvin H. English Library- Ramseyer Hall built to re- building with classrooms, are built, including a cafe- is built housing 80,000 place Schultz Hall as an a lecture hall, science lab, teria, lounge, mailboxes, books, several classrooms, upperclassmen men's and offices, opens. bookstore, offices, and and a children's collection dorm, named in honor of prayer chapel. and reading area. the college's first Presi- dent. I.E. Ramsever. 1970 2001 2004 2006 i una ——-a*^ <3W dedicated to: TUFW the family may you find in these pages a piece of your own history Or for those about to rock: we salute you. -AC/DC