Due West Female College - Arrow Yearbook (Due West, SC)

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, The Arrow, Nineteen Twenty-Seven - 'tm 5 , 'EF Tl. -H M LE gm1nmn.mA..H.....smN...-.-fm-mmmu 1- n1.1.m......mm ...--...um-.-r-F1-n-lx....m1-I m umm-nu um .L Qsrgfm' ' ' '1 Alma Mater Hail to our own Alma Dlater, In the land of palm and pine, The blue hills and glad sunshine, With her old and honored charter Dated eighteen fifty-nine. Rah! for Due West Wor2zan's College, The College we love best, H Wave the garnet and the gray, Colors that we love for aye. Rah! for Due West Wov11an's College, The College we love best, Three rousing cheers give alway For the Garnet and the Gray. 'Neath these skies of radiant glory, In the old Palmetto State, Fortune's star has guided fate. And we praise in song and story All our college founders great. Greet we thus our halls of learning, President and faculty, Students all and each trustee, For to you our hearts are turning ln true love and loyalty. mm mm.I-lu...-nl-lu.--..'3l..1 M Page tfwenty-eight

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. r ., 4- , ' The Arrow, N1neteen Twenty-.Seven 4-'T ' I ,, ,S-' ig-'.:1Lf- Tv1i -I '11 v v I mlrmui vluvu I -I 11. ..,. ,, ,,,,.., generosity of Mrs. Sallie Miller Brice, of the class of 1875. In 1914 Alumnae Me- morial Hall, containing the auditorium and ample rooms for the Department of Music, was erected in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the col- lege. In 1922, Robinson Hall, the second residence building, was completed. The funds for this beautiful and convenient building were obtained by the Forward Move- ment Campaign, and furnished by the Alumnae through the untiring efforts of Mrs. I. H. Hunt, President. In 1922, the college purchased ten acres additional ground for the campus, and a hedge fence has been planted enclosing the college property. In 1922, the senior class, with the valuable assistance of its sponsor, Mrs. J. B. Green, obtained funds for the erection of a handsome gateway at the Main entrance, while the class of 1878, with the inspiration and generous help of Mrs. Fannie Bonner Brownlee, one of its members, presented the college a gateway at the West entrance. It is impressive and interesting to add here a list of the presidents, with a few items pertaining to their lives and services. The first president, Rev. John Irwin Bonner, D.D., was born in Monroe County, Alabama, in 1823, graduated in 1842 from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, grad- uated from Erskine Theological Seminary, Due West, S. C., in 1845, editor of Er- skine Telescope, and Associate Reformed Presbyterian, was president of Woman's College of Due West, 1860-1881. The second president, Prof. John Pressly Kennedy, was born August 13, 1826, graduate of Erskine College, professor of Latin in Erskine College, professor of Latin in Due West Wom,an's College, 1866-1881 , president of Due West Worr1an's College, June 15, 1881, until 1887, when he resigned on account of failing health. The third president was Mrs. Lila Morse Bonner. Mrs. Bonner was born in Albany, New York, graduate of Troy Female Seminary, was professor of Piano in Woman's College of Due West from 1861 to 1887, elected President of the College in 1887, resigned in June, 1895, president emerita until her death in 1915. The fourth president was Rev. Charles Edward Todd, born in Laurens County, October 23, 1862, graduated from Erskine College in 1881, Erskine Theological Seminary, 1883, pastor, First Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, N. C., 1887 until 1895. Called to the presidency of the College in 1895, was president, 1895-1899. The fifth president of the College was Rev. James Boyce, D.D., was born in Gaston County, N. C., January 25, 1860, was graduated from Erskine College in 1878, graduated from Erskine Theological Seminary in 1881, pastor of Seventh and Chestnut Street Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Louisville, Ky., from 1884 to 1896, pastor of Church at Huntersville, N. C., 1887-1899, president from 1899- 1 10. 9 The sixth president, now in office, Richard Lee Robinson, D.D., was born near Lancaster, S. C., October 31, 1872, was graduated from Erskine College, 1892, and from Princeton Theological Seminary, 1899, graduate student in Princeton Univer- sity, 1896-1899, pastor of Church at Camden, Alabama, 1899 'to 1909, pastor of Church,'Lancaster, S. C., 1909-1910, elected to presidency in 1910, since IQIO, pres- ident and professor of Bible. ' R. L. ROBINSON. Page twenty-.vefven ...fi . ..,.....,..... Y, 1 'T'ExXX?9X..M.1,T h

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