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Charles Fremont Sitterly began his career at Drew in 1892 as assistant to the president. He had completed a Ph.D. from Syracuse University in 1885 and pursued further study at Drew in 1886. In 1891, Sitterly married President Buttz's daughter, Julia, and he stayed at Drew as adjunct professor. In 1895, he was appointed full professorship in Biblical literature and Exegesis of the English Bible. Sitterly retired in 1935. Three years later he published a history of Drew titled The Building of Drew University.
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Reproduced from The Teachers of Drew, 1867-942, A Commemorative Volume issued on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of Drew Theological Seminary, October 15, 1942. Edited by James Richard Joy. (Drew University, Madison, N.J., 1942)
In 1892 a young preacher who had been pastor of the Methodist Church in Madison and had taken his bachelor's and doctoral degrees at Syracuse University and his B.D. at Drew was elected to a new post-the adjunct professorship of New Testament Greek and Exegesis of the English Bible. He had been preparing himself diligently for his work for several years. He had been one of Dr. Crooks' most promising pupils, and had twice won the fellowships for foreign study which had just been established. Thus he had enjoyed a year at Oxford and another in Germany all these advantages when such opportunities were almost unprecedented in the Methodist educational world.
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But Dr. Sitterly practised one activity with which no outside assignment could ever interfere. That was his close sympathy with the hard beset individual student and his problems, both educational and personal. The entering junior was quick to recognize that the man to go to for advice and friendly guidance was Dr. Sitterly. There were some of the "Five Demigods" to whom he might have hesitated to open his heart, and there were other barriers, probably unintentional or even imagined, which seemed to surround other teachers. But the door to Dr. Sitterly's heart always stood ajar. Many a young man whom he helped over the hard places would confess to a peculiarly tender feeling toward him for assistance which a perplexed youth can not glean from text-books or the most erudite lectures. It is no reflection upon otehrs or upon his own pedagogic skill, if we place emphasis on this man's Christian brotherliness as his best contribution to the common life in Drew Forest.
In a generation which produced such stalwarts as Ezra Squier Tipple , William F. Anderson, Hebert Welch, John L. Nuelsen, and many others, none rated stronger than he. While these won many or all of their laurels off the campus, this promising young man really never left Drew Forest, except for graduate study abroad. His name is bracketed with that of Horace Lincoln Jacobs as holder of one of the first fellowships granted by the seminary for graduate study. Thus he was the first of a line of students who went from Drew to the British and German universities for advanced work. On that long roll of honor one may read such shining names of John L. Nuelsen, Frederick Carl Eiselen, William H. McMaster, Edwin Lewis, Clement D. Rockey, Fred G. Holloway and Malcolm S. Pitt.
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Sitterly passed away on November 8, 1943. Sitterly House, which currently houses the English Department and "The Other End," was named after him. Also see his collection of materials: http://www.drew.edu/depts/library.aspx?id=6477
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Reproduced from The Teachers of Drew, 1867-942, A Commemorative Volume issued on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of Drew Theological Seminary, October 15, 1942. Edited by James Richard Joy. (Drew University, Madison, N.J., 1942)
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