William Crothers This is Me

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1. 1. Pearce Memorial Free Methodist Church

   www.pearcechurch.org/messenger - [Cached]

   Published on: 11/14/2001   Last Visited: 8/10/2002

   Isabelle (Izzie) Carr and William (Bill) Leupold met in March 1942 and were married in January 1944 in the Staines Home on Buffalo Road where they began their married life in an apartment.
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   Bill, born March 31, 1918, in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, graduated from Lock Haven High School, came to Chesbrough, and finished one year while working to pay tuition, room and board. With a growing family they moved to 3 Orchard Street and later to the basement (which Bill had done first) of their current home on Westside Drive while Bill continued to complete the house above ground. Bill obtained employment at Taylor Instrument Company, then at Kodak, even as he worked on their house. In 1980 he retired from Kodak as Stock Room Supervisor.
   
   Bill is interested in "fixing things" and helping where he can. He helped plow the church walks and parking lot in large snowstorms and he cut grass for Pearce Church for years, donating his time and energy. He painted both before and after his retirement, completing many of the lower level children's rooms and other areas as requested. He ushered 45 years as Pearce Church met in the original Buffalo Road building, in Cox Hall, in Parmerter Hall, and then in the present sanctuary. He also served on the Official Board.
   
   As he was working on his house it occurred to him that he could help the college, which was going through financial struggles, by contacting former students in the community and asking them for contributions. He talked to President Merlin G. Smith and enlisted a couple of friends to help convince him of their desire to help. With the encouragement of Mrs. Smith, the president's wife, Bill and his friends knocked on doors, compiled addresses, and raised $3,400 the first year.
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   Bill has great respect for President Bill Crothers for all his work to make the college visible in the Rochester area and across the nation.
   
   Izzie was born January 13, 1922, in Red House, New York, near the Salamanca Indian Reservation (site of the Kinzua Dam). The family house is now Red House Inn.
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   Among her students were Elwyn Cutler (pastor of Pearce Church 1961 to 1972), William Crothers (president of Roberts Wesleyan College 1981 to 2002), and Mark and Ruth Logan.
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   As a teenager Bill, one of 10 children, was asked one day to take a neighbor's children to Sunday school. After he had delivered the children back home, he returned to the church where a revival meeting was in progress. He attended again at night. On the fourth night he felt led to go forward to give his life to Christ. This began a journey of faithful Christian living.
   
   The Leupolds had four children: Sheryl, David, Steven, and William, two of whom are teachers in area public schools. They have two grandchildren, Yale and Tracy.
   
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