The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-11-02

cooking school, it is the aim to teach
! 1.-THE best and latest methods of prepar-
ting and serving food, and other house
hold duties. Most of those who attend
the afternoon cooking school, also at
Itend the night school. Thirteen are at
present attending the afternoon cook
/ ing school.
/ Counting those who are in regular
| attendance at the institution, together
with those in the training school, town
night school and the town afternoon
cooking school, there is a,totaI of 1 ,514
/ students reached by our teachers. This
number does not include the hundreds
of adults who are reached through the
| Tnskegee Annual Negro Conference,
together with its numerous local Ne.
! gro conferences. 5# $
! There are in the employ of the
/ school, in the capacity Of officers, acad-
emic teachers, industrial instructors,
assistants, clerks, ETC., 100 persons.
! Since its beginning 6, S498 persons have
i8received diplomas and certificates OF
! graduation from it's various depart.
ments, and these are at work in vari-.
] Gus fields Of usefulness in every part of
| the South.
WORK OF GRADUATES.
| Aside from those who have gradu-.
ated, it is safe to gay that there are
more than three thousand who have
not remained long enough to receive a
| diploma or certificate, but who, never
theless, have been so much benefited
by the school that they are doing
}praiseWorthy work. b
| In the early years of the school, the
/ larger. proportion Of our graduates be-
came teachers. Attic present time a
/ very large proportion follow the trade
Tor. industry learned at this Institution
Idurings the whole of the time. Others,
|. combine their Industrial knowledge
with teaching, while still Others. teach
| a portion of the year and work at their
trade the remainder of the time.
The calls that come to us almost
|daily, not only from the Negro race
ibut from whites as we'll, for our grad
uates to enter various fields of useful
ness, are many-more than we can
supply. The calls from white people
/ for our graduates to take charge of
various departments of agriculture, are
/ especially numerous II we had the
room and means, we could find oppor-3
tunities for the greatest usefulness for.
many times more graduates than we
iare sending out. 81
In accordance with a vote of the
/ Trustees, Rev r. &c. Bedford, one OF
TOUR trustees, is spending portion Of
each year in making personal inspec-
j ton of tie work of our graduates and
under graz lates, and one gratifying
fact in connection with this inspection
lis that very few men and women who
have spent any conside rable time lat
this institution are to be found in idle
4 ness.
Since the entire. value Of our work
is to be tested by the success of our
4 graduates, we feel that We cannot be
]. too careful in keeping in close and acc
lcurate touch with the work Of those
4 who have been educated here
4 In several eases graduates of this In
Z stitution are planting the methods and
the spirit of this work III a surprising
& " successful manner, on a large scale,
81 IN. various parts OF the Scout Espe-
eialIy is this true Of the school known
as the Mt. Meigs Institute, ait Waugh,
Ala the Snow Hill Industrial Insti-
tute, Snow Hill Ala; the Christians
burg Institute. at Cam ria the
d Denmark Industrial School at DEN
mark, S. sC., as we'll as several others.
It is a notable and encouraging fact
that IN the case OF the schools at Snow
Hill and Denmark that the prime NOV
pers in starting and encouraging these
& schools have been Southern white men
More and more each year We are