Oak Ridge Military Academy - Dress Parade Yearbook (Oak Ridge, NC)

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HIGH LIGHTS IN THE HISTORY OF OAK RIDGE NUMBER 3 The first principal of Oak Ridge Institute was John M. Davis, A.B., a graduate of Yale. The members of the first Board of Trustees were: Dr. John H. Saunders, Jesse Benbow, Allen Lowery, James B. Clark, Wyatt F. Bowman, Daniel Pegram, William O. Don- nell, Thomas Graham, James N. Nelson, James H. Bell, and Rev. Charles F. Deems. The officers of the Board were Rev. Charles F. Deems, ex officio Chairman of the joint Boards of Trustees and Visitors, and Dr. Jobn H. Saunders, Secre- tary and Treasurer. The members of the Board of Visitors were Dr. Sidney Powell, Archibald Bevill, Julius Harmon, David F. Caldwell, Dr. Alexander Robbins, John S. Rankin, and Elisha Raper. The members of the Examining Com- mittee were Edmund W. Ogburn, Rev. Solomon Lee, George C. Mendenhall, Dr. William Withers, Nathaniel Fleming, Rev. Cicero Harris, and Wyatt W. Ragsdale. Sixty-three students, from various sections of North Carolina and the border counties of Virginia, were enrolled. The first student enrolled was Charles R. Benbow. The last surviving member of the class of 1852 was Charles T. Wilson, of Summerfield, who died only a few years ago. Page seventy-two

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