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62 °F Forecast | Road Cams Sunday, May 8, 2005 Today's News | Shop Our Valley | Tempo | Health | Community | Home Delivery | Contact Us SECTIONS Home Page Local News Sports Business Obituaries Life Opinion Tempo AP News Weather Classified Archives Site Map SPECIAL SECTIONS Since We Asked Outdoor Journal Menu Guide How To Guide Health Readers' Choice Real Estate Showcase Real Estate Guide Joy Magazine Homelife Magazine Wedding Guide Passport to the Rogue Valley SHOP OUR VALLEY AutoFinder HomeFinder JobFinder Classified Place an ad TOP JOBS EXTRA Ashland News NIE Personals Movie Times TV Times E The People Volunteer Moving here? eSouthernOregon CUSTOMER SERVICE FAQ's Advertise with us Home Delivery Employment Contact Us Media Kit Oregon Road Conditions & Cams Email Story to a Friend May 8, 2005 Since You Asked N.Y. college came to Ore. by way of Ill. Every time I drive through the tiny hamlet of Lincoln on the Greensprings highway I wonder how it happened that Houghton College, a small liberal arts college in New York, founded an extension learning center there. It must be an interesting story. Did an alumnus donate the property to his alma mater? Did they buy an old mill? How many students and faculty work there? —Douglas K., Medford How the little mill town, founded in 1929, became a center of learning is an interesting tale. The mill operated fitfully until the mid-1960s, when it was demolished, leaving just auxiliary buildings. In the early 1970s, the site attracted the attention of a group of ambitious young academics from Trinity College in Deerfield, Ill., who wanted to start an off-campus liberal-arts program, explained Doug Frank, one of those founding faculty members who still teaches at Lincoln. They had searched the West for a home for their program and, along with a supporter and developer from California, bought the old mill town in 1974. Advertisement In the mid-’80s, Trinity could no longer support the remote mini-campus, so the founders contacted Houghton College, in western New York, to adopt the program, Frank said. Five faculty and staff members live in Lincoln year-round and each fall, about 35 students from a collection of Christian colleges come for a one-semester exploration of philosophy, history, theology, psychology and sociology, Frank said. Send questions to "Since You Asked," Mail Tribune Newsroom, P.O. Box 1108, Medford, OR 97501; by fax to 541-776-4376; or by e-mail to [email protected] . Mail Tribune Home | Local News | Sports | Business | Obituaries | Life | Opinion AP News | Archives | Site Map | Community | Classified Copyright © 1997-2005 Mail Tribune, Inc. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy | Terms & Conditions | Website Feedback Free Music Downloads Conference Calls - $50/Month Home Security Systems Trunks, Footlocker, Trunk, Footlockers home equity loans helzberg diamonds Distance Education Diamonds Paris Hilton Online Poker Auto Insurance Mesothelioma Slippers Student Loans Tatoo tcg student loan consolidation teleconferencing Website Design & Marketing Memory Foam Mattress w2 forms Tatoos Mortgage Calculator Free Home-Loan Referrals Payday Loans Advertisement s