p. 396 | The Healdsburgh College by William Clarence White

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Aug 31, 1882

The Healdsburgh College.

By William Clarence White

MONDAY morning, August 5, we attended the chapel exercise which opens each day’s work at the College. This was about two weeks after the opening of the term, and there were sixty scholars in attendance. The seating of the commodious chapel with the most approved school seats and desks, had been completed the day before. There is now desk room for one hundred and fifty persons, and seats for fifty more. Some necessary repairs made during vacation, with the addition of new furniture to that which was in the building when we bought it, have added much to the convenience of the building.

As the students assembled in the chapel for the first time, with a cheerful, earnest determination expressed on almost every countenance, and as we conversed with the teachers and surveyed the building, large, convenient, and substantial, we were filled with gratitude to God that his providence had so rapidly forwarded the establishment of our school since our last camp-meeting.

No effort will be spared by the Board and the Faculty to make this a good school. The Faculty is reinforced this week by the arrival of Brother C. C. Ramsey, an experienced and energetic educator, who has been several years connected with the Battle Creek College.

The preparations for building a large, commodious boarding-house, are going steadily forward. Much thought has been bestowed upon the plan of the building, that it may be exactly suited to the purpose for which it is erected, and that when built it may be as home-like as possible. Rooms will be provided for classes in cookery, laundry work, dress-making, and other branches of woman’s work, while the five acres of ground on which the building is to be placed, will afford some opportunity for practical education in gardening and fruit culture.

This structure will be 38x100 ft., three story and basement, and will accommodate a family of seventy persons. The brick foundation is nearly complete, lumber is arriving rapidly, and carpenter work will begin next week.

We shall need funds for the completion of this house, therefore we ask those who have pledged to this school enterprise, and those everywhere who desire to take stock in the College, to send in their pledges and payments as fast as possible.

The legal incorporation of the College, upon the same general plan as our Publishing Association is organized, will be accomplished at the camp-meeting if not before. Prior to that time the Pacific Press will receive and be responsible for all donations or loans.

In this connection we ask all who owe the Office for books or papers to make as early a payment as possible. We also ask those who have pledged to the Oakland and San Francisco Church debt fund to make payments as large and as fast as possible, because a large amount is overdue from the San Francisco Church to Bro. Morrison, who, if he receives it soon, will use it in the school enterprise.

There will be work for a number of first-class carpenters on the boarding-house. For particulars about wages, cost of board, etc., address J. C. S. Whalin, Healdsburgh, Sonoma Co., Cal. W. C. WHITE.