Salem College - Sights and Insights Yearbook (Winston-Salem, NC)

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SALEM ACADEMY AMD COLLEGE

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MISS LEHMAN

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Salem Academy and College Founded 1802 WHILK .W ' W l- n,t;laml was still discussin;,; tlio inKstidii wlicllicr the educa- tion (if Minns;- women was a desirable tiling ' , there was fonnded in Xorth Carolina the Salem Academy and C ' ollesje, a school which at once united all the neeils of a hi.yh-Ljrade institution of learning;- and the re(|uisites of a refined, home life. .Vbdut the car IJ .S. or a little earlier, the school for S ' ' ' ' ' - ' founded in S.nlem. This school |]ourished and did its work for a (|iiarter of a century or more. Then the need of higher collegiate education was felt and a [ ' resident for this higher school, now known as Salem Academy ami College, was elected, hrom the time of its beginnin.g till the yiresent day it has had an unbroken history, and even though nearly a century and a half has gone by since as a little village school its