Winthrop University - Tatler Yearbook (Rock Hill, SC)

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DAVID BANCROFT JQHNSON. In making our first bow to the public, we wish to tell the story of our honored Presidents life-a life conse- crated to the higher education of the women of the South. He was born at La Grange, West Tennessee, january IO, 1856, and was, while very young, bereft of the care of his father-himself president of a college for women. ' Depending chiefly on his own efforts for support, Mr. johnson accomplished successfully the classical course in the University of Tennessee, being graduated with the highest honors of his class and the rank of senior captain of the corps of cadets. On quitting the University he began his life-work as educator, bringing to it a devotion that has known no shadow of turning. From the Knoxville High School, of which he was Assistant Principal, he was called to his aima main' to become the Assistant Professor of Mathematics. It was fortunate for South Carolina when, in 1880, he took charge of the Abbeville Graded School. After a short absence from the State, spent in the successful establishment of a graded school at Newberne, N. C., he was asked, in recognition of his distinguished work as an organizer and manager, to take control of the schools of Columbia, S. C., this city having just determined to adopt the graded school system. Here his success was signal, t-hat, too, in the face of opposition from some of the most intelligent and influential citizens of the capital. In 1886 he began a work which in its completion stands as a Htting tribute to his energy and ability. Feeling the need for trained helpers, he organized, through the aid of the Peabody fund and the State legislature, the Winthrop Training School for Teachers. The great success of this institution led him to consider plans for the extension of its usefulness--an object the more easily accomplished through the generous help of many friends of the movement. As a result, the Winthrop Training School grew into the VVinthrop Normal and Industrial Collegeg and the creator of the smaller became the President of the larger institution. All honor to our President-the first man in South Carolina to secure an appropriation from the legislature for the higher education of women.

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BUARD GF TRUSTEES. MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO. His Excellency W. H. ELLERBE, Governor. Chairman of the Board. . . Hon. W. D. MAYFIELD, State Superintendent of Education ........... Hon. W. A. BROWN, Chairman Senate Committee on Education ...... Hon. JOHN P. THOMAS, jr., Chairman House Committee on Education .... .... MEMBERS ELECTED. Hon. j. E. BREAZEALE.. .. . ................ . . . .. . Hon. W. N. ELDER.. . .. Hon. A. C. FULLER ..... Prof. E. S. JOYNES ....... Hon. D. W. MCLAURIN.. . .. Hon. A. H. PICTATERSON.. . .. Dr. T. A. CRAWFORD ..... VV. J. RODDEY, Esq .... Hon. B. R. TILLMAN. . . Hon.WIL1E JONES .... Columbia. Columbia. Marion. . Columbia. Anderson. Guthriesville Laurens. Columbia. Selkirk. Barnwell. Rock Hill. Rock Hill. Trenton. Columbia.