Darlington School - Jabberwock Yearbook (Rome, GA)

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uma JZMA z 14, HEN Mr John Paul Cooper decrded that a prrvate school ror boys ought to be established rn Rome Georgia he wrote to hrs old teacher and lrte long friend Joseph James Darlington for a suggestrorr as to someone who should head the new enterprise In replying Mr Darlington recommended Mr James Ross McCarn a grad uate of Erskine College After his graduatron from college Mr McCarn had talcerr hrs LL B degree at Mercer Unrversrty and havrng subsequently practiced law for two years rn Spartanburg South Carolina entered the teaching professron as prrncrpal of the hrgh school at Covington Tennessee He had been engaged rn this latter positron for two years when early rn June ot l905 Mr Cooper wrred hrm for an rntervrew and he came to Rome for that purpose later going on to the Unrversrty of Chrcago where he had enrolled for the summer session school he had been invited to head There were no burldrngs no trustees no faculty no students but a vrsrt rn the home ot Mr and Mrs J P Cooper convinced the pro spectrve teacher that they had a splendid ideal and that they would malce a success of rt whoever might head the school Accordrngly he agreed to become prrncrpal and going on to Chicago he left to Mr and Mrs Cooper the entire details of organ rzrng the school and even ot getting the students Mr Cooper havrng secured a group of hrs business friends to be the trustees pro ceeded wrth the purchase of a tract of land rn East Rome lthen a separate corporatron and wrth the erection of a new burlclrng However the new structure not havrng been completed rn trme tor the rnrtral opening the upper story of the East Rome Frre Hall was used for the first months of school When rn September of I905 Mr McCarn returned to Rome to take up hrs new dutres Mr Cooper and hrs family had already gone to Boston where they stayed for . L . I f . . I . I . . - . I f . , . . ' , . - . . . I . . . . . . I t . . . . I . I . . . . . I I Upon his arrival in Rome, Mr. McCain was surprised to find no evidences ot the I ' l I I f I I H . . . . . . , , - - , H . . . . I , f . I ' ' . . I I . . ,

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WILLIAM WALKER BROOKES he dad not care to enter the polutncal arena and he ever afterwards confuned humself to legal practuce For a tnme he was nn the offlce of Judge Fouche Later he was closely connected wrth has brother In law Judge Waller Turnbull l-le had a remarkable analytical mnncl and was a brrllrant and lmpassxoned pleader at the bar Hrs ascendancy IH has pro fesslon was rapud and led to a drstlnguushed career From early youth he had evinced an exalted spnrutual nature and deep rellglous convlctron At thirteen years of age he had jorned the Frrst Baptlst Church and as he became establrshed In lnfe he concentrated has energles In efforts for the benefit of humanity and the mcomrng of God s Knngdom Ever interested IH education he as slsted many young men through higher rnstrtutlons of learning When John Paul Cooper determrned to found the Darlington School he requested Wnlllam Walker Brookes hns old schoolmate and fellow pupul under Mr Darlrngton to become a member of the courage and nobility of hrs life was an Inspiring example for the young men of thus rnstrtutlon Having absolute faith In the Chrlstran relrglon he lrved a llfe of personal sacrrflce that he might use hls means to carry the gospel of Chnst to the ends of the world He generously lent hrs and to hosprtals where the unfortunate might receive healing Mr Brookes also labored enthusrastncally for the development of Shorter College rn Rome Georgia glvrng unselfushly of hrs tame and means to thus worthy enterprise Soon after the completuon of thus great Woman s College he was united rn marriage wrth Miss Shatteen Mntchell removed to Atlanta and retrred from the practnce of law From that time to the close of hls abundant llfe hrs concentrated thought endeavor and prayer was for every phase of work for the betterment of humannty When IH the month of May l924 God called hem xnto a hlgher life the answer had come to the boy under the canopy of heaven Make me of use to my generatnon' first Board of Governors, in which capacity he served the school for many years. The

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