Montgomery Bell Academy - Bell Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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Brownxee O. Currey Montgomery Bell I ■ • i - r. B, A. is fortunate indeed to have as chairman of its Board of rrustccs Mr. Brownlee O. Currey, who has been a student of the school and a lifetime res- ident of Nashville. To his foresight and industry we owe many of the splendid innovations which have been made, and in his deep and abiding interest we find an additional reason for loyalty to M. B. A. This sch(K)l takes its name from Mont- gomery Bell, Nashville industrialist and banker, whose will in 1852 created a trust fund for educational purposes.

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MOniTliOM»V BELL Montgomery Bell Academy was originally started in 18()(), as the preparatory de- partment of the old University of Nashville, rhe school started under the conduct of the Board of 7 ' rustees of the University of Nashville, and today its operations are conducted by a board still operating under the title of the “Board of Trustees of the University of Nashville.” In 1855 the Western Military Institute was merged with the preparatory school which continued to operate as a department of the University of Nashville. The school continued under this direction until the opening of the Chvil War, and for the six years from 1861 through 1866 its activities were dormant. However, in 1867 the Board of Trustees met and decided to accej t the legacy of the Honorable Montgomery Bell, a Nashville industrialist and banker, who in 1852 left a trust fund for the education of worthy boys. This trust fund jn ' ovided for the educa- tion of twenty-five worthy boys free of charge, and also stipulated that the school to be established for this purpose must be called “Montgomery Bell Academy.” The trustees of the University of Nashville accepted his legacy and established Montgomery Beil Academy as a separate school and department of the University of Nashville. From September, 1867, to date, the school has been operated as pro- vided in the will of the Honorable Montgomery Bell, and under the direction of the said Board of Trustees of the University of Nashville.

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foreword In one Iniiulrcd ihiriy-ciglu years of siuressful exisience, Montj oinery Hell Academy has never liad a yearbook. One explanation of the fact may l)e that until a time of world wide chaos arose, the memory of this sc1hm)1 remained particularly clear in the minds of all its graduates. Now, however, in as much as the number of distractions and callings to which each of us finds himself cxposc‘d is increasing, and because, too, in times of stress people have a natural tendency to try to put into somewhat secure and permanent form those values and ex|x?riences of life which they prize, we, the Senior Class, wish to leave this annual as a record of a great year at Afontgomery Hell— a year of s|)ecial significance to us. rrue, the various members of our class may not in life after school demonstrate such (piali- ties of greatness in character and talent as we find in Sam Davis and General Frank M. .Andrews, M. H. A. graduates, nevertheless, there does exist in our hearts the ambition to go hirth into the world to bring credit to our institution. Cireat deeds may lie ahead of some of us, but great thoughts and high hearts are for EACH of us an endowment from Montgomery Bell. May the students of the classes here carry on in the true tradition of our school. 1 ME SENIOR CLASS.