Dr.
Delos Fall Plaques
There are two of these
plaques embedded in the sidewalk between Robinson Hall and
the Kellogg Center.
More info to come.
Class
of 1910 Gift
The
College Bell
The College Bell sits on a
pedestal behind Robinson Hall. More info to come.
The
Stone Pile
In front of the Gerstacker International
House
In May 1870, the 14
members of the Albion College graduating class searched the
countryside for boulders that would represent each of them
in a momument. The boulders were then brought back to
campus by horse and wagon and assembled on the Quadrangle
to create what became known as the "Stone Pile."
A member of the class and later alumni editor for the first
edition of "The Pleiad", Isaac Riddick, delivered an
oration entitled, "Footprints," at the dedication of the
class memorial in the spring. In it, he spoke of the
footprints the class left behind them during their student
lives, and the footprints that were yet to be made in their
lives after graduation. He concluded with these lines: "And
now [my] fellow classmates[,] we have met this hour in
harmony to make footprints more, which shall be a memorial
telling to those who cameafter us that thro' these halls
and o'er these grounds [as] brothers and sister we have
trod. And toward our memorial I trust in the future, many
eyes will look with kindness and glad voice be heard
saying, "There are the stepping stones of '70 around which
year [after] year we shall meet. . . And now as you go out
to labot as philosophers, essayists, politicians, orators,
poets, historians, naturalists, seekers and teachers of
truth. . . may all your deeds, all your words, all your
smiles[,] all your footprints shine with glory as the
stars."
-Jennifer Thomas, Marilyn Crandell Schleg Archivist at
Albion College
Class
Gift, Class of 1870
Close-up of
image from Gage Printing postcard. (c. 1904)
Editor's
note: Class of 1870
Stone Pile is visible on the lawn near Robinson Hall.
Robinson
Hall, Albion College, Albion, Michigan.
Real Photo postcard, unknown publisher
The
Stone Pile was originally erected
between Robinson and South Halls in 1870
•In 1950, the family of
Isaac Riddick presented the College with a plaque which was
placed on the Stone Pile to identify it for later
generations
•In 1994 the Stone Pile was
photographed and numbered prior to being moved due to
construction of the Kellogg Center.
•In 1995 the Stone Pile was
repositioned in front of the Gerstacker International House
The
Class of 1896 Fountain
Just off Cass Street, next to the Frederick Lutz Memorial
Plaza.
From Io
Triumphe, the Albion College
Magazine:
While it no longer serves its original purpose, the bronze
drinking fountain is still a fixture on Albion's campus
more than a century after it was presented as a class
gift.
The
Rock
Northwest corner of Vulgamore Hall.
More info to come.
The
Original Stone Foundation
Behind the Furgeson
Building
Moved to its present
location is a stone from the original foundation of the
first building that was to be later know as Albion College.
This original building was located in Spring Arbor,
Michigan. More info to come.
Gift
from Class of 1958
Across the street from
Wesley Hall near Goodrich Chapel
Richard Barrie Leach,
Sculptor. More info to come.