Pfeiffer University - Chimes Yearbook (Misenheimer, NC)

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WlCK S. Sharp. President B.A. Simpson College: M A. Colorado State College: D.Ed. High Point College: Graduate Study Colorado State Teachers College. 1 his issue of the PaJaCa presents the record of student life at the college during the current school year, vet it does not tell the whole story unless one gets from its pages how this student bodv has responded to the loftv standards embodied in the co-operative educational plan at Pfeiffer Junior College. You have seen the influence of these ideals on the campus in the lives of your comrades and teachers, in social organizations, and in the life of the church. Certain of these standards have been dear to you. You have held to them, sacrificed and labored for them. 1 hey will grow into habits, form character and stay with vou throughout life. 1 he quality ol your principles will determine the excellence of your achievement. Do not be dis- couraged it sometimes you fall short of your ideals because they would not be ideals if they did not make you reach with your utmost strength. Some people may tell vou that vou must do as the world does. In many little things of life, flexibility and adaptation are necessary but there are certain fundamentals which your own common sense will reveal to you. Hold fast to these ideals for yourself, your home, and hu manitv. 9

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History of Pfeiffer Junior College Pfeiffer Junior College, which is located in Misenheimer, North Carolina, is under the management of the Woman s Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The school was originally located at Lenoir under the direction of Miss Emily Pruden. It was built with money donated by Mrs. Mitchell in mem- ory of her step-son, Ebenezer Mitchell, a soldier in the War between the States. The institution was moved, after a fire in 1903, to its present location in Misenheimer, on U. S. Highway No. 52, nineteen miles southeast of Salisbury and fifty-six miles northeast of Charlotte. The high school, begun in 1910, was accredited by the State Department of Public Instruction in 1914. The main building was destroyed by fire in that year. Cline Hall, the boys’ dormitory, was then used for classrooms and as a girls’ dormitory, while the boys roomed in cottages in the village. In 1923 the present Adminis- tration Building was built and the classroom work was carried on there. The National Board of Trustees of the Woman’s Home Missionary Society authorized two years of college work in 1928 and from then on the lower grades were gradually abandoned. The present Junior College was recognized by the State Department of Public Instruction in 1934. The year 1 935 marked a new epoch in the life of the school, for in that year five modern brick buildings of colonial pattern were con- structed, a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pfeiffer of New York City. In honor of them and in gratitude to them the name of the institu- tion was changed to Pfeiffer Junior College. By additional gifts from the Pfeiffers the Administration Building was remodeled in 1 936, and in 1937 a science hall was constructed. The high school work will be definitely discontinued at the close of the school year 1938-1939 and the entire effort of the school will be devoted to the betterment of Pfeiffer Junior College. Page Nine

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4 VE DA Stryker B.A.. M S. Registrar Mabel Edgerton Financial Secretary Helen J. Aull B.A.. B.S. in L.S. Librarian Page Eleven