Weaver College - Mountaineer Yearbook (Weaverville, NC)

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[57 • •• • ■ • •• • •• ■ • • • • • ♦ • • • • • • • • ■ • • 51 ; ♦ f IS II l The Editor ' s Foreword ft f T « .;. « •: We have endeavored in this volume to record some of ♦.•• ♦ • the happier incidents of the spirit and life of Weaver. I . ; ; ♦: :• ♦: We send it forth, hoping these things will be pleasant to ? ♦• - - , , • . » remember hereafter. It is our first attempt to get out ♦ . . 2 an Annual for Weaver, and we are sure it is not perfect. :• £ St A a ? But those who have come up through the great trihula- 3 ♦ v . - T I : tion of making a Year Book will be generous enough to ; ♦: A ... iii » • • • . . forgive our imperfections. We trust all other readers , , will be merciful I ' : %% If Bi 4 •: •: •:•♦♦•: ♦•:••:• .••: : :••:• ? :••: ' •: •: ' •:• :•♦•:••:••:• :• :••: : : •: ♦-: •. ♦ :

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History of Weaver College The first session of the Weaverville School was held in the Conference House. This building was erected for the meeting of the Holston Annual Conference which convened at Weaverville in 1836. A neighborhood school was conducted in this rude structure until 1854, when patronage had grown to such an extent that a new frame building was erected and known as Temperance Hall. At this time the school be- came a boarding school and drew patronage from the mountain section. This building was destroyed by fire in 1872. In the same year, largely through the efforts of the local community, a brick building was erected, and the school was chartered as a college. In 1883 the property was deeded to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and since that time has been conducted as one of the institutions of the church. In 1912 the school was reorganized as a, Junior College, and the curriculum was arranged accordingly. The diploma of the school admits the graduates of Weaver College to the Junior Class of standard colleges without examination. In 1915 the General Assembly of North Carolina granted the college a new charter, greatly enlarging its powers and privileges. The college is now controlled by a board of trustees, consisting of fifteen members nominated by the board of trustees and elected by the Western North Carolina Conference. For forty years this school has been a leader in moulding public opinion, in direct- ing the intellectual life, and in disseminating a larger culture throughout the western section of North Carolina and her influence has been felt through all the Southern States. Her larger history is written in the useful lives of hundreds of men and women who have gone out from her doors to enrich the life of the nation. Every lover of learning is proud of the record of the past and looks forward to greater things in the future for the college on the mountain top. [5]