Liberty Ladies College - Liberty Yearbook (Liberty, MO)

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38 LIBERTY LADIESl COLLEGE. While we feel that all who are interested in the welfare of the College and rejoice in its success must unite with us in honoring him who has had so large a part in accomplishing these results, we would feel our work only half done if we failed to mention, in terms of highest praise, the earnest, devoted labors of Mrs. Yancey. Faithfully has she aided her husband in hlS work, and her Christian teaching and consistent example have made impressions that time can never efface. Signed: GEO. A. ROSS. A. E. GUERNE. C. W. CLARKSON. H. HAY. E. MCMASTERS. C. E. VVISSNER. M. MCLANE. L. B. JAMES. M. I. CHILD. M. O. SCHULZ. B. J. HOOK. S. BECKER VON GRABILL. PRESIDENTS OFFICE, WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE, June 24, 298. I wish to welcome you to our town as joint owner and President, with Mr. C. M. Williams, of Liberty Ladiesl College. Your splendid career of twelve years at Hardin College, is the best assurance of success in your new field. You have shown wonderful enterprise and great ability as President of Hardin College. All our citizens will give you a hearty welcome. They can congratu- late themselves on having two such able and experienced men at the head of this College for young ladies. Signed: Very truly, J. P. GREENE, President William Jewell College. Rev. J. C. Armstrong, D. D. 'of St. Louis, says: No man connected with the education of young women in Missouri has achieved larger or more satisfactory results than President A. K. Yancey. His business plans have been broad and his expenditures generous, not only to gather pupils, but to supply a teaching force of highest grade. His abilities as instructor have been equalled only by his energy in that peculiarly difficult task of managing well the business affairs of a large institution. Justice constrains me to speak in highest terms of President A. K. Yancey. His wonderful success in getting and holding so large a number of students can be accounted for only by the first-class quality of the teach- ing done under his instruction, and the wholesome influence he exercises over the lives of his pupils. $ 95 tk An up-to-date progressive educator, a large-hearted Christian gentlemen. Signed: J. E. COOK, Pastor First Baptist Church, St. joseph.

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LIBERTY LADIESl COLLEGE. 37 EX-GOVERNOR C. H. HARDIN, A. M., L.L. D., Late President Board of Trustees of Hardin College, Mexico. MO. I have known Professor C. M. XVilliams of Hardin College for several years, very favorably, and can most cheerfully recommend him. He has special executive ability, and is a ripe scholar. He is hrm and decided in all his convictions, rules with prudent judgment and conservative action. He has special ability in the business management of a college-indeed, I think he has few equals in this respect. REV. G. L. BLACK, D. D., Liberty, Missouri. I knew President Williams as a cultiired Christian gentlemen prior to his coming to Liberty. I know him as an experienced educator and practi- cal business man. His manner of life, his methods of instruction, and his tact 1n governing young ladies of varied tastes and temperaments peculiarly tit him for the position he occupies. He is also well married. Mrs. Williams is admirable adapted by natural endowments and education to be female head of such an institution. She readily wins and permanently holds the love and confidence of the girls. This makes the school a Christian home for all committed to their care. CONCERNING THE WORK OF A. K. YANCEY. lPresident Yancey, educated at Richmond College, Virginia, and the Virginia University, has been a successful educator a quarter of a century: Six years in Virginia; six years President of Central College, Alabama; twelve years President of Hardin College at Mexico, Mal IExtract from Hardin College Faculty Record, June, 1897.1 We, the Faculty of Hardin College, receiving with deep regret in- telligence 0f the purpose of our esteemed President to retire frorii the position which he has soilong, so ably and so successfully-hlled, des1re .to express publicly our high regard and our appreciation of his Wise adminis- tration. . . . . Several of us working for years under his JUdlCIOUS government, know as no others can, how his whole life and energies, and a large part of his income, have been devoted to the interests of the school, and how the school has grown, year by year, in numbers and increased in excellence uiitil it ranks among the first. We fully realize how much 15 due to hisclear-s1ghted judgment and self-sacrificing devotion to this cause.

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LIBERTY LADIES COLLEGE. 39 Much credit is due Professor A. K. Yancey for pushing forward the great work of female education. For twelve years his wise, aggressive policy has stimulated a generous rivalry which has brought gratifying results. His skill as manager of school property and his tact as an advertiser have brought to him a large degree of success. The fact that he and Rev. C. M. XVilliams are associated in the ownership of Liberty Ladies' College fore- tells the grand future that awaits that institution. Signed: A. w. PAYNE, Business Manager Central Baptist. Office of STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES, NEVADA, M0,, May 27, 1898. . If natural and acquired attainments, long service, and phenomenal success entitle one to preeminence in anyi'department of work, President A. K. Yancey is surely entitled to that distinction in the work of Female Education. I know of no one who has outstripped him in his Chosen pro- fession. Eight years ago I became his pastor in Mexico, Mo., and was thrown into most intimate relations with him. Hardin College had only about 40 boarding pupils. Through his indomitable energy and faithful work, he has increased its patronage nearly four-fold. Even fmancial panic could not retard the work. Several times the building has been enlarged, and yet the constant cry has been, ttmore room? I attribute no small part of President YanceyTs success to the inhu- ence of his cultured, consecrated wife. In both College and Church, her intinence is a benediction. President Yancey and wife are henceforth to be associated with President Williams and wife, in the management of Liberty Ladies College. This quartet insures the greatest success for this already successful institu- tion. The work of these educators at Hardin forecasts the future of Liberty Ladies College. The ideal location, the magnihcent buildings, the intelli- gent, cultured community, are additional guarantees of success. A. E. ROGERS, Secretary of State Board of Charities. FROM THE BANKERS, OF MEXICO, MO. May 20, 1898. Prof A. K. Yancey became President of Hardin College in 1885, when its patronage was comparatively small. The College has greatly prospered under his management. The standard has been raised, the course has been extended, the patronage has been increased from 40 boarding pupils to I40, coming from 26 states. During the years of panic and bankruptcy, when great commercial firms were pushed to the wall, the College, under Prof. Yancey's management, reached the greatest prosperity in:its history. . From length of service-24 years as college presidentmfrom his superior educational advantages, and especially, measured by the phenom- enal success he has achieved, Prof. Yancey has proven himself an educator of high order. A w a ..v........s