Winston Salem State University - Ram Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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In T953 the Nursing School of Winston-Salem Teachers College was established. The basic nurs- ing program covers four calendar years of study, with equal emphasis on academic and professional training. Graduates are granted the degree ot Bachelor ot Science in Nursing. , Having served the school and college from its beginning until his death in i934, except tor the inter- mediate principalships of C.G, O'Kelly and l:.M. Kennedy, Dr, S.G. Atkins was succeeded by his son, Dr. Francis L. Atkins, who served as president until his retirement in July, i96l. Dr. Kenneth R. Williams was elected President oi the College in l96i. The College is accredited by the following: The North Carolina College Conference The Southern Association oi Colleges and Schools The National Council tor the Accreditation at Teacher Education. It holds membership in the following: The American Association ot Colleges for Teacher Education The Association ot State Colleges and Universities Piedmont University Center ot North Carolina, Incorporated. The North Carolina General Assembly changed the name oi the institution to Winston-Salem State College in lvlay, 1963.

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FORETHOUGHT l-AMSON HALL - First Building on Campus. Site of present Blair Library and Administration Building, WINSTON-SALEM STATE COLLEGE HISTORY AND HIGHLIGHTS Winston-Salem State College was established as The Slater Industrial Academy by Simon Green Atkins in Columbia Heights at Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in September, i892 The academy was named tor John E. Slater, a philanthropist who established the Slater Eund tor educational purposes and to toster industrial education. Early trustees were S.G. Atkins, J.S. Hill, EP. Mayo, VV.A. Blair, HR. Star- buck, Thomas H. Sutton, J.C. Alston, C.N. Grandison, CB. Cash, Henry E. Fries, and A.H. Eller. Mr. Eries became chairman and lvlr. Blair became treasurer ol the Board ot Trustees. The Slater Industrial Academy actually began operations in i893 with QS pupils and one teacher. Gr. S.G. Atkins, tirst president ot the College, devoted his lull time as head of the school starting in TSQS. About V905 he was succeeded by Professor C.G. G'Kelly who was tollowed in oltice by Professor Elvl. Kennedy. Gr. SG. Atkins returned as head ot the institution sometime prior to l9l5. Gn March 6, l899, the General Assembly ot North Carolina passed a new enactment under which the name ot the institution became Slater Industrial and State Normal School. On July l3, l9'JS, the Trustees oi Slater Industrial and State Normal School conveyed the institution and its properties to the State Board ol Education ol ot North Carolina. The school thus passed under the lull control of the State. lt was not until l92O, however, that the tirstclass completed regular courses above the high school level, A year later, the Slater State Normal School was placed under the supervision ot the State Board at Education. From the beginning, the school has insisted upon the vital importance ot Negrocitizenship, and emphasis has, theretore, constantly been placed upon the quality and quantity ot training for these teachers. By an act ratitied on March 7, l925, the General Assembly ol North Carolina enacted in Section l that: The Slater State Normal School, located at Winston-Salem, shall hereafter be known as the Winston-Salem Teachers College. The General Assemblygranted the school a new charter, extending its curricula above high school and empowered it under authority ot the State Board of Education to conter appropriate degrees. The Winston-Salem Teachers College thus became the first Negro institu- tion in the United States to grant degrees for teaching in the elementary grades.

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ACHIEVEME T EDUCATIO DR. S. G. ATKINS Tlrzsidcul rf Illusion-Sakm CJ Tmrlrrrs College From an Article by Thos. L. Dabney, Staff Correspondent, in the Norfolk Journal and Guide of October 12, 1929. ORIAIVI - FOUN There are few men in all the world that merit a special article in a newspaper or magazine. Who a man is as well as what he does will determine his imprint upon his peers and posterity alike. It was the inimitable critic and writer, Frank Harris, who popularized the habit in modern supposedly great leaders. In his criticisms the breadth and depth or the culture of men weighed more heavily than so many jobs put over to their credit. This being a suitable criterion, the writer is applying the same yard stick in part to Dr. S. G. Atkins, president and founder of the Winston-Salem Teachers College. The writer has had the pleasure of meeting a number of Negro educators in the South and writers and business men from all sections of the country. In some cases the time spent in conversation with certain of these leaders ap- pears as so much time wasted in an intellect- ual void. And yet there are many Negro educators, writers, business men, and leaders whose lives are inspiring and stimulating. Dr. Atkins belongs to this group. Careful Student: Veteran Educator After all it is not what Dr. Atkins has done, as important as this is, but the man himself that impresses his admirers. 'He is a careful student of the race problem as well as a veter- an educator. His chief interest is in ideas and principles rather than things.- The large plant at his college is but the crystallization of his best thought in the field of education. And tho the ideal is high, the school is rapidly approaching it. Dr. Atkins is a graduate of the St. August- ine Normal and Collegiate Institute and a life long student of social and educational prob- lems. His long years of service in education have added immensely to his formal training in the class room as a student. His years of teaching at Livingstone College, Salisbury, North Carolina, as principal of the Grade School in Winston-Salem, and as secretary of education for the A. M. E. Zion Church were rich with experience. Under Dr. Atkins' direction and leadership what was formerly The S-later Industrial Aca- demy, incorporated in 1892, has developed thru several stages into The Winston-Salem Teachers College with A rating granted by the state of North Carolina, in 1926. The school plant consists of ten large well equip- ped buildings the majority of which are fire- proof and modern in every respect. Teacher-Training Pioneer Dr. Atkins has devoted his whole life to the work of education. He is a pioneer in the field of teacher-training in Negro education. His college is specializing in teacher-training. The Winston-Salem Teachers College, I be.