Montgomery Bell Academy - Bell Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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MONTGOMERY BELL MR. BROWNLEE O. CURREY M. B. A. is rortunatc indeed to have as chair- man of its Board of Trustees Air. Brownlee O. Currey, who has been a student of the school and a lifetime resident of Nashville. To his foresight and industry we owe many of the splendid improvements and innovations which have been made, and in his deep and abiding interest we find an additional reason for loyalty to M. B. A. MR. This school takes its name from Montgomery Bell, Nashville industrialist and banker, whose will in 1852 created a trtist fund for educational purposes.

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Montgomery Bell Academy was originally started in 18()(), as the preparatory de- partment of the old University of Nashville. The school started under the conduct of the Board of Trustees 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 Civil 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 accept the legacy of the Honorable Montgom- ery Bell, a Nashville industrialist and banker, who in 1852 left a trust fund for the education of worthy boys. This trust fund provided for the education of twenty-6ve worthy boys free of charge every year, and also stipulated that the school to be estab- lished for this purpose must be called “Montgomery Bell Academy.” The Trustees of the University of Nashville accepted his legacy and established Montgomery Bell Academy as a separate school and department of the University of Nashville. From September, 1867, to date, the school has been operated as provided 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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MR. RICHARD LEE SAGER Headmaster— M Richard Lee Sager, who has spent most of his life either gaining education or edu- cating others, is certainly a well-tjiialified person to serve as headmaster here at Montgomery Bell Academy. Mr. Sager received his B.. . at Hampden-Sydney College and his M.. . at George Peabody College for Teachers. He has been with us only two years .so far hut we hope he will remain at M. B. A. for a long time, for he has done many things and instituted many new ideas which have greatly helped the school to become what it is. ■ Ill ■■ nil I IIIIIIIIIIB Mill I I ■