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EVELYN E. HOLT HALL
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DR. EARL H. McCLENNEY MR. EDWARD I. LONG
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HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE Infinitesimal in number, as compared to the humanity they serve, are the salient figures of history. One such figure was James Solomon Russell, founder and first Principal of the Saint Paul’s Normal and Industrial School. The newly ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church arrived in Lawrencville, in Brunswick County, Virginia, March 16, 1882. Here he found a small group of Negro communi¬ cants in St. Andrews Church, and organized them into a congre¬ gation. By February, 1883, the first St. Paul’s Chapel had been constructed and was ready for occupancy. Immediately a parochi¬ al school was organized in the Vestry room of this small frame chapel. Soon these quarters of the parochial school became too small for the increasing enrollment, and a three room frame struc¬ ture was built with funds contributed by the Reverend James Saul of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On September 24, 1888, with fewer than a dozen students, the Saint Paul’s Normal and Industrial School was started in the building known as the Saul Building. More students came, as word about the school traveled. The members increased to such an extent that the Founder, the Reverend James Solomon Russell, realized the need for a program for expansion and development. By an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, on March 4, 1890, the school was incorporated as the Saint Paul’s Normal and Industrual School, and by that name it was given a perpetual suc¬ cession and a common seal. On March 11,1907, Saint Paul’s became an affiliate of The American Church Institute for Negroes, an agency of the Protest¬ ant Episcoal Church in the United States of America. A collegiate department of teacher training was started in 1922 and was accredited by the Virginia State Board of Education in 1926. As a result of this development, a large percentage of the teacher in the elementary and secondary schools of Virginia and the neighboring states of North Carolina and Maryland are grad¬ uates of Saint Paul’s.
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