Miller School of Albemarle - Blue Ridge Blast Yearbook (Charlottesville, VA)

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MISS NANNIE BINF ORD Assistant Instructor in Primary Department MISS BETTY S. NELSON Assistant Instructor in Intermediate Department JOHN DICKENSON BURRALL, B. S. Assistant Instructor in Chemistry Heads of Departments and Other Officers JAMES W. SMITH Head of ,Department of Steam Heating and Water Works DABNEY C. CARVER Head of Laundry and Boys' Clothing Department WILLIAM G. MORAN Head of Horticultural and Agricultural Departments MEREDITH A. THOMAS Head of Department of Lighting and Power MRS. MARY L. WALLACE Head of Subsistence Department MISS EVELYN H. RYLAND Head of Boys' Primary Department MISS THALIA S. WOOD Head of Girls' Primary Department E. GRANVILLE TAYLOR MRS. MARGARET S. GORDON B0OkkeePe1' Librarian JOHN. D- SMITH, M- D- PENCE o.W1ANT Resident PhYS1C1311 Secretary to the Superintendent P. O. MILLER SCHOOL VA. ! STONEWALL J. BROWN, Postmaster. 26

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MISS MARY C. MOORE Intermediate Department and Languages MISS ELLA K. ANDERSON Principal of the Primary Department MISS RENA ROSSMAN Principal of the Dressmaking Department MISS REVA EASTHAM , MISS CORNELIA E. SIMON Sewing and Drafting Domestic Science ERNEST W. GOODWIN MRS. GRACE D. WALSEMANN Drawing Vocal Music MISS LUCY J. MUNSON V Art and Manual Training ROWLAND H. LATHAM, M. A. ROBERT C. BEALE, jr., M. A. Physics and Mathematics Languages and Literature MISS FLORENCE RODES MISS CARRIE SUTHERLIN Primary Department Primary Department MISS LILY H. JENNINGS MISS HELEN M. POLLARD Dressmaking Physical Culture and Elocution V Instructors and Assistants HOWARD S. HARRIS WALTER L. THOMASSON Instructor in Woodwork Instructor in Iron Work ELLIS B. CRITZER Instructor in Forge and Foundry Work MISS PAULINE BARNES Assistant Instructor in Dressmaking JOHN T. JONES Assistant Instructor in Forge and Foundry Work I O GEORGE H. HALL V Assistant Instructor in Iron Work 25

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The Appointment of Pupils to the Miller School HE school trustees o-f the County of Albemarle and of the City of Char- lottesville meet at the School on the Tuesday after the third Monday in January and in July of each year. Of these meetings the County Superin- tendent of Schools is chairman and the Clerk of the Circuit Court is secretary. At these meetings those children are selected and designated who come under the requirements of Mr. Miller's will. From the children who are thus selected and designated, the Circuit Court appoints the pupils of the School. It is to be noted that the children must be poor orphan children, and other white children whose parents are unable to educate them, the said orphans and other children being residents of the said County of Albemarle, and must be between twelve and sixteen years of age. But exceptions may be made in favor of children under twelve years of age whenever, in the judgment of the recommending and appoint- ing powers, special benefits will thereby be conferred. In October, 1878, the first pupils were admitted into the School. The School began with twenty boys. It was then quite difficult to find children whose friends were willing to have them appointed to the School. In july, 1884, a paper in reference to the rights of girls to the benefits of Mr. Miller's gift was submitted by Prof. Francis H. Smith to the Visitors, and by them to the Court. After securing the opinion of some of the leading lawyers of the Albemarle bar, the Court at the August term, I884, entered the following order, viz. : It appearing to the Court that the provision made in the twenty-fifth clause of Mr. Miller's will, for the education and support of as many poor orphans and other white children of Albemarle County as the profits and income of the fund therein devised will admit of, or compass, can be more effectually carried into operation by forming the School into two separate and distinct departments, and by the admission of children of both sexes, therefore it is ordered that the District School Trustees of the County from and after this date shall make the selections for appointments to the School from both sexes having the required qualifications, regard being had to the numbers to be admitted each year of each sex, and for whom separate and necessary accommodations have been previously prepared. In accordance with this order, a department for girls was authorized under the authority and control of the superintendent. Girls were first admitted in Novem- ber, I884. 2