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Page 11 text:
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An Early Campus Scene above Students in Front of Congdon Hall high on a hill beside the railroad was obtained and building plans were submitted. Five hundred dollars ($500) was subscribed by whites, one thousand dol¬ lars ($1000) by Negroes, and two thousand dollars ($2000) by members of the New York Yearly Meeting. By spring 1894 the building was completed. In December, 1894 Mr. Meade, the principal, was replaced by Mr. Frank Clarke. His teaching staff con¬ sisted of Thomas and Hannah Leggett. In 1895 Booker Washington of Tuskeegee Institute was asked to suggest, as principal, a Negro man “well- versed in education mechanics, carpentry and agricul¬ ture; and a cottage was constructed to house the prin¬ cipal and his family, for the Friends thought that a successful principal should be married. To help in feeding the students and faculty, five acres of the campus were planted in corn, wheat and sweet potatoes. In June 1897 the new principal, Alfred J. Griffin, came to High Point to assume his command. By 1899 the school’s enrollment had reached 276. Congdon Hall was built to house the girls during 1899-1900. The boys of the school dug clay, made bricks and con¬ structed the building which later housed the science department and the industrial departments of William Penn until 1952. The 1899-1900 catalog listed the following courses of study: sewing, dressmaking, cooking, algebra, me¬ chanics, bricklaying, plastering, blacksmithing, farm¬ ing, botany, geometry, physics, chemistry, bookkeep¬ ing, instrumental drawing, voice culture, Bible, Latin, and pedagogics. Listed expenses included: board and tuition, $7.00 monthly; day students’ tuition $1.00 monthly. Students might pay $2.00 monthly in labor. The Class of 1925 7
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Page 10 text:
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IT WRITES OF BEGINNINGS— Booker Washington once said that if one man would keep another buried in the mire of ignorance he must himself get down in the mire and hold him there. This became the battle cry of all those pioneers striving to create and improve educational opportunities for Negroes in the period following the Emancipation, for they all realized that if the once proud Southern states were ever to take their places among the leading states of this nation they must educate all their people. Truly, they argued, no man can develop responsible citizenship if he remains illiterate. One such pioneer was Solomon Blair who in 1867 began to teach Christianity and the three “R’s” in a two room building on what is now North Centennial Street just east of the present Beeson’s Warehouse. By 1890 the city and the school had grown to the extent that the facilities were enlarged and funds were solicited for a new building. In 1891 the Asheboro Normal School maintained by the Quakers of New York for the training of Negro teachers outgrew its facilities and no boarding places for its 76 out of town pupils could be found there. High Point because of its location on the main line of the Southern Railway was determined to be the most suitable site for relocation. May, 1892 concluded the first year’s work here. 193 students ranging in age from 14 to 64 (10 of whom were married) were taught by Principal W. E. Meade and Mrs. Annie E. Loftin. Classes were conducted in two rooms each 20 feet by 20 feet. There were no windows and the only ventila¬ tion was through numerous cracks in the wall. Sensing a need for greater work, the chairman of the New York Yearly Meeting of Friends came to High Point to secure a suitable site for a new building. As¬ sisted by Messrs. Daniel Brooks and George Gray a site Solomon Blair’s School (1867-1891) An Early H.P.N. and I. Student Body A Cooking Class at H.P.N. and 1. 6
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