Prosperous Days for Mount Vernon Academy

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Aug 17, 1916

Prosperous Days for Mount Vernon Academy

It will be of interest to the readers of the REVIEW to know of the progress of the work in connection with Mount Vernon Academy. For a number of years this institution operated successfully as a college. A few years ago, on its becoming necessary to operate fewer colleges, Mount Vernon was reduced to an academy. While this proved quite a disappointment to many, it is becoming evident to all that the institution has a large and important field in which to operate as an academy.

About the same time that this change was made, we were in the midst of a campaign to pay off the debt of the institution. It has already been announced that Mount Vernon Academy is now wholly free from debt.

In connection with these two important changes,—the change of the status of the school and the freedom from debt,—a strenuous effort has been made by the managing board to bring about another change. It has been our object to make Mount Vernon one of our strongest academies. We are endeavoring to meet the high standard that has been set before us in educational reform. In working to this end, many changes and improvements have been made.

We have been successful in securing a strong and efficient faculty for the year 1916-17. The home has been much improved by changes that we have been able to make, and by the addition of some new furniture. The improvements that have been made in the dining-room, business department, library, and music department, will add much to the efficiency of the institution. Industries are being added, which we feel will make the school much stronger than it has been in the past.

We desire to appeal to the parents and young people of Ohio, western Pennsylvania, and West Virginia in behalf of this institution, and we urge that early plans be made on the part of those who expect to attend the academy the coming year. Those who desire to receive the annual calendar, or who wish to inquire regarding the institution, should write to Elder N. S. Ashton, who will give such inquiries prompt attention.

Quite an army of missionaries who received their training at Mount Vernon are now actively engaged in our work in foreign fields as well as in the homeland. Shall we not see every young per-