Our Schools by C. Sorenson

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 7, 1909

Our Schools

By C. Sorenson

Keene Industrial Academy

The Keene Industrial Academy opened September 30, two weeks earlier than our time of opening in past years. Although several of the young people living in the village had not returned from the cotton fields, there was a larger attendance of students from a distance than in former years.

On the opening day of the school, several of the members of the Board were present, and their helpful remarks were much appreciated by all.

After refitting the building formerly used for a sanitarium as a dormitory for young men, we fully expected to have all the room that could be called for this year; but in a few days after the opening of the school, it became necessary to rent rooms in homes adjoining the campus for a number of young men, until rooms could be fitted up in the upper floor of the academy building. At the time of this writing, nine rooms have been arranged on that floor, and others are in preparation.

At this time last year there were only eighty-five in the school home; this year there are one hundred twenty-five, and others are arriving almost every day.

The total enrolment is one hundred seventy-eight in the academic department, and forty-two in the normal department. A good spirit prevails in the school, and the prospects are good for the best year's work in the history of the institution.

C. SORENSON, Principal.