The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1896-07-08
A CARD FROM PROF. SIMMONS
IN WHICH HE CORRECTS A NEWS.
PAPER PUBLICATION.
BE viii Continue at the Head of Union
Female College. High Praise From the
Board of Trustees.

Board of Trustees.
Professor T. j. Simmons, president
of Union Female College at Eufaula,
Ala, furnishes THE NEwssthe follow
ing card for publication:
PROF. SIMMONS YcARD.
EUFAULA, ALA, July 3rd.-To the
DAWSON News My attention has
just been called to new weekly paper
in Dawson and an item of supposed
news, whose author can certainly claim
to have very vivid Imagination. AS
some of the people of Dawson may
perhaps have gotten a wrong impress
sion from this item in the "Dispatch. -
wish you would kindly correct it
through your paper.
Perhaps the only reply necessary to
make through your paper to the ''Dis-
patch's" misrepresentation is the re-
cent unanimous letter of the board of
trustees of the college, which, in the
interest of truth, please publish below.
Very truly yours,
/. j., SIMMONS, President.
TRUSTEES LETTER.
Office of Board of Trustees of Union
Female College, Eufaula, Ala, June
29th.-In 1898 Prof. and Mrs. T. J.
Simmons took charge of Union Female
College, and during the past three
years they have, by their untiring en-
ergy and efficient management, placed
it among the foremost female colleges
of the land.
After the past three years aequaint-
ance with the work of Professor Sim
mons and his faculty, and after care
full consideration of all matters per-
tanning to the college, we, the board of
trustees, wish to endorse, in the strong
est terms, the work of the college dur
ing the said years. Prof. Simmons has
more than fulfilled the promises made
to the board when he assumed control:
and If merit ever insures success Union
Female College, under its present
management, has brilliant career
before it.
We have roted carefully the eminent
qualifications of the large corps of in
| structOrs engaged for the coming ses-
sion, all of whom have had very sue
cessful experience in teaching in first
| class colleges. We feel confident that
such changes as have recently been
made are, in every instance, improve
ments; and we desire to claim that
what has been said during the past
three years of the colleges superiority
over other similar institutions will be
all the more true as to its future
work.
1t affords us pleasure to bear testi-
mony to the high character and excel
lent scholarship of Prof. Simmons, and
to say that these qualifications, added
to his experience and success as teach
err, commend him and his school in the
highest degree to all persons who have
daughters to educate.
Mrs. Simmons, the gifted wife of the
| president, at the head of the depart
ment OF music and voice culture, enjoys
well earned reputation. She has few
equals IN America or Europe. As a
teacher of instrumental music and
vocallzation she is almost without a
peer.
In its literary department the col
lege affords facilities for higher cult
ure which fully meet the most exact
ing demands. In the ornamental
branches, especially the music under
Mrs. Simmons and her superb corps of
assistants, young ladies enjoy the Rest
instruction given in any college in
this country. Union Female College
IS, moreover, christian home for our
daughters, and stands for the purest
and best in the development of true
| culture and christian womanhood.
In view of the healthfulness of Eu-
faula, its accessibility, the home-like
care of the pupils. the thOrOughness
of the instruction impaired and the
reasonableness of the terms of the
school, no parents in this or neighbour
ing states should fail to educate their
daughters in Union Female College.
Not only have Professor and Mrs.
I. j. Simmons given to Eufaula a col
lege of such high character, but they
have been lavish in the expenditure of
their own money in adding to the
beauties of the home; and we, the
board Of trustee, heartily bespeak for
them the aid and encouragement they
so richly deserve.
JAMES MILTON, Pres,
E. B. Young,
G. L. Conner,
l.. Y. DEAN,
j. r. BARR,
j. l.. PITTS,
Z. A. BARNES,