Keene Academy by H. H. HAMILTON

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 6, 1916

Keene Academy

By H. H. HAMILTON

KEENE ACADEMY has just closed its most prosperous year. Under the able management of Prof. F. R. Isaac, who leaves us to become the president of Clinton German Seminary, most encouraging progress has been made.

The aims of the founders of the school have been realized, and it is with pleasure that we announce the addition of two more grades, and that Keene Academy will hereafter be known as the Southwestern Junior College. Prof. W. E. Nelson, who has long been associated with the work at Walla Walla, has been called to the presidency of our college. Professor and Mrs. Nelson arrived about a week before the close of school, and they have already endeared themselves to the students and the residents of Keene.

The closing exercises of the academy this year were the most profitable and entertaining that have been held in the history of the institution. The graduating class numbered twenty-four, a number of whom will return next year to take up the extra work offered, while others will enter the work as colporteurs, business workers, and church-school teachers.

Keene Academy numbers among its graduates a host of young people who are now active workers in the cause. Many of these are in foreign lands. Of the total number of graduates, eighty-seven per cent are engaged in the Lord's work. H. H. HAMILTON.