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Page 18 text:
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IT WRITES OF LEADERS, FEAR- SOLOMON BLAIR DANIEL BROOKS O. E. DAVIS S. S. WHITTED MRS. EUNICE GUY The honor roll of pioneers in Negro education in High Point is long, but the name which leads the list is Solomon Blair, a Quaker, who established the first school for Negroes and became its first teacher. He was the father of Misses Emma and Ada Blair for whom two of our local schools are named. Later John R. Tabor, president of the New York Yearly Meeting of Friends was instrumental in estab¬ lishing and maintaining here for many years the High Point Normal and Industrial Institute. His untimely death in 1922 was mourned by students, faculty and alumni. 14
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LESS MEN OF VISION Two Negroes did much to influence the Quakers to establish here and then secured a site upon which the new school was to be constructed. These were Elder Daniel Brooks (father of Mesdames Sarah Davis and Lola Curtright) and George Gray. 0. E. Davis, H.P.N. and I. graduate and retired prin¬ cipal of Fairview Street School, recalls that Will Cole, drayman for Snow Lumber Company, placed him atop the first load of lumber destined for the new school. W. Elmer Meade assumed the position of first prin- ALFRED J. GRIFFIN Alfred J. Griffin became the first Negro principal at the suggestion of Booker T. Washington. In 1897 after three years of brilliant teaching, Mr. Griffin moved with his wife and children to High Point. During his tenure, he saw H.P.N. and 1. develop from a single wood structure housing classes, lodging, dining and all other facilities with 193 students served by 2 teachers to one of 6 buildings and 276 students. cipal of the school and he was followed by Frank Clarke, last white principal. An early graduate of H.P.N. and I. was Sheppard S. Whitted, retired principal of Leonard Street School. The first Negro girl graduate was Mrs. Eunice Bow¬ man Baldwin Guy. She later was an honor graduate of St. Augustine College and after a successful teaching experience in Charlotte came home to teach in the new William Penn High School from which she retired. EDWARD E. CURTRIGHT The first principal of William Penn High School, Edward E. Curtright, was summoned to a teaching positio n at H.P.N. and I. from Atlanta. When the Society of Friends donated that institu¬ tion to city, he was asked to be principal. Under his able guidance great progress was made and soon the school was regarded as one of the best in the South, eighth accredited A by the Southern Asso¬ ciation. 15
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