William Carey College - Crusader / Pine Burr Yearbook (Hattiesburg, MS)

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' .l r i F History of Mississippi Woman s College Since 1925 m a NEW era began for the college in 1925. Before that time, with the excep- tion of two sessions, during each of which, $10,000 was received from the Education Commission, the income on which the annual budget was predicated wJ came principally from tuition and student ' s fees. Aside from the revenue thus received fSi there were no certain sources of support and so the budget for any college year would t4 not be known to an approximate degree until after the session had opened. Appreciat- f ing the hardships which such a system imposed upon those charged with the financial OLU administration, the Board of Trustees in the opening months of 1925 cast about for a -— solution to these problems. Mr. J. E. Byrd, one of the original trustees and head of 31 the Baptist Sunday School work in Mississippi for more than twenty years, proposed tSSS the plan which was finally adopted. This consisted in the main of asking the State iVa Baptist Convention to issue bonds for endowment in the sum of $100,000 and to aA i ' ji guarantee the annual payment of the interest upon an additional $200,000, provided wSU f ' the trustees of the college would raise in cash in South Mississippi the sum of $200,- [Wjl h .J 000. This would provide an endowment of $500,000, which is the minimum endow- f? ment fixed by the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools for full pfffl !.! ■» membership in that body. The Education Commission, having agreed to recommend r . ' ' ' this plan to the State Convention, the trustees selected the president of the college Oi as the head of the campaign for $200,000 and he in turn secured Dr. W. A. McComb 19S of Gulfport to assist in the field work. The city of Hattiesburg assumed responsibility B J f ' ' ?«,;5? ° $75,000, and a large committee headed by Hon. George W. Currie, a leading Tfi K C ' .i attorney of the city and an elder in the Main Street Presbyterian Church, put on a — campaign and raised this amount in two weeks. ISh ■ ' By the time of the meeting of the State Convention in November, the quota of j $200,000 was raised in cash. This was accomplished only by the heroic work of many K2] ' pastors and laymen and the securing of many generous gifts. Space would fail to give v [if ' Yl the names which should be written upon the Roll of Honor of this campaign and vj mention will be made of but two, both of whom are citizens of other states. One of f these is B. B. Jones of Berryville, Virginia, the founder of the Feild Co-operative IfeJ Association, and the warm friend of every educational interest in Mississippi. The other is Crawford Johnson of Birmingham, Alabama, a brother of the president of I. V« college. These two men made it possible to carry the campaign on to a successful Ji.J ' ' ' ■ conclusion. v: ' ' ' When the State Con ention met at New Albany in November, 1925, the recom- ■ mendations of the Education Commission were unanimously adopted. Application ' , ' for membership was made to the Southern Association, which is the standard and official means of accrediting in the South. •; (Continued on Page 62) M f?

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Officers of Aaministration L. C Brai)(,i; ' g ISiulmss Manaycc. Madelin McCaxn M.C.T., A.B. Student Secretary L. E. Shirley R.N. Colleijc Nurse 1 Ir.s. H. K. Waller Matron nf Dormitories Mrs. Maize S.mith Housekeeper Mrs. Ethel Gill Thomp.son Colleyc Secretary Mrs. C. C. Vaxdergrife Dietician

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