A Couple of Articles About Capital University From 1920s

I was looking through an old book at my church today before a wedding rehearsal and I found three really interesting articles that involve Capital University, where I attend school.  These articles come from around the 1920s.

Palestine Student at Capital Dies 

Afif Nicola Shahla, 26, a native of Palestine who was enrolled in the Theological Seminary of Capital University, died late Tuesday at Mt. Caramel Hospital following an operation of appendicitis.  He was widely known thruout [sic] the state by his lectures on the Holy Land

Student Dies

Palestine Youth Succumbs To Appendicitis Attacks

Funeral services for Afif Nicola Shahla, 26, a native on Palestine an a student in the Theological Seminary of Capital University, who died Tuesday evening in Mt. Caremel Hospital, will be held at Christ Lutheran Church in Bexley, of which he was a member.  Death followed an operation for appendicitis.  he had been ill for 11 weeks. 

Shahla was born in Jerusalem and was a shepherd boy in Palestine for 12 years.  He worked for the British government for two years and came to this country in 1921.  He entered Capital in 1922 and would have been graduated in another year.  He was a naturalized citizen of this country. 

Shahla paid for his college expenses by delivering lectures on the Holy Land.  He leaves his parents, five brothers and five sisters, all living in Jerusalem.  Burial in Eastlawn Burial Park.

Mr. and Mrs. Otto Schenk

Wheeling, W. VA. leading benefactors of Capital University, are shown above congratulating President Otto Mees of Capital University (right) on the celebration of his forty-ninth birthday. 

Mr. and Mrs. Schenk were in Columbus this week to attend the opera, "Rigpletto," Wednesday night.  THey were donors of the [destroyed] which made possible the [destroyed portion of article] of the Divinity Hall the building which houses the theological seminary of Capital University, and which is one of the finest examples of collegiate Gothic architecture in the county. They, in company with Dr. and Mrs. Mees dined at the new girls' dormitory Wednesday evening, and Mr. Schenk addressed the co-eds. 

He has said that is very anxious to see the further growth of Capital university, and intimated that he is willing to give his financial aid to the expensive [rest of article destroyed].

I thought these articles were interesting, since they predate the founding of Trinity Lutheran Seminary.