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DAVID HALL
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LAWNDALE, NORTH CAROLINA 9 well lighted and well ventilated recitation rooms, a dining room, thirty-three by seventy, a kitchen with many con¬ veniences, an office and rooms for the Principal and his family. The whole of the upper story of this building is used as a dormitory for girls. The next is the stately building containing the department of music, the business school, the primary department and an auditorium fitted with raised seats and modern stage scenery. Its seating capacity is about nine hundred. The Waters’ Library building was completed seven years ago. This building, by the bequest of Miss Nancy Waters, was erected in memory of her brother, Capt. A. G. Waters, who was a brave Confederate soldier, killed in the battle of Gains Mill, near Richmond, Va., June 27th, 1862. The build¬ ing, thirty by thirty-six, two stories, built of pressed brick, the smallest but the finest of our buildings, adorns the crest of the hill. It is a fit monument for one who gave his life for native land—more appropriate by far than glistering marble or lofty granite. On the evening of February the fifteenth, 1918, when the majority of the boys were attending church in Lawn¬ dale, fire broke out in Newton hall, and in spite of the water-works and heroic efforts on the part of those present, the building could not be saved as it was too far gone when discovered. There was some insurance and the hall was duplicated by the opening of the next ses¬ sion. May the seventeenth, 1911, the last day of Commence¬ ment, after an inspiring address by Hon. T. W. Bickett, Major H. F. Schenek, President of the Board of Trustees, presented the needs of the school to the audience, and asked for five thousand dollars to pay off the existing in¬ debtedness, to paint the buildings and to install water¬ works. A wave of enthusiasm, such as is seldom seen, when the people are asked for money, passed over the audience. Wealthy men, boys and girls working their
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