The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-07-14
GREENSBORO FEMALE COLLEGE
WILL NOT BE CLOSED.

Aycock has accepted an invitation TO adj
dress the gathering, and leading citizens
in Greensboro viii also urge the people
that it is going backward in education
by closing its Oldest educational i~nstitu-
ton.
Twenty years ago, when by reason OF
Female College was put under the ham
mer and sold it was purchased by five lib
eral Methodists. They were Julian S.
Carr, f. ]. Lilly, r. T. Gray, ]. A. Odell,
and Mr.. Winstead, Of Person, if we mis-
take not. Since that time all the stock,
except a few shares, has been purchased
by Mr.. J. A. Odell, the principal owner,
and other Greensboro Methodists. They
were a~ctuated by no motive except to save
the college to the church. During all these
years they have conducted it as a church
school and it has most of the time been
self-sustalning and paid the interest on
the $40, 600 bond issue made to enlarge
and modernize the college. The loss in
1 running expenses has IN some years been
about one thousand dollars, which the
generous owners paid. They have given
to educate young women, made large do
nations, and otherwise won the gratitude
of their church. During the past
year, which, under the presidency of Mrs.
Lucy H. Robertson, has been one of the
best years in the history of the college,
the owners, feeling that the Methodist
church as a whole did not cooperate with
them as they had a right to expect, came
to the conclusion that the Wisest thing
to do was to turn the property over to
the trustees of Trinity College and let
both institutions be conducted under one
management. To that end they offered
Oearly all of them to give their stock to
Trinity College, thus giving Greensboro
Female College to that institution if it
would assume the payment OF the bonded
Indebtedness of $40, 900, with 81, 900 addi-
tlonal necessary to buy certain stock.
The Trinity trustees, unwilling to conduct
institutions at different places, declined
the Oll6I. IueTeupOu the OWNERS OIL InG
college announced that it would be closed,
Its library given as a memorial was re
turned to its donors who sent it to Trinity
College at Durham, and it was printed
that the owners would accept an offer OF
So, 600 for the magnificent property.
Then, when it looked like there wasn't the
ghost of a chance to save the college to
the church, Rev. G. +. Smith, pastor of
Edenton Street Methodist church, Raleigh,
offered a resolution in the Raleigh Dis
trict Conference requesting the owners to
sell it to the church at the price at which
it was offered to Trinity College. Anoth-
er action-and the most potential and en-
thusiastic-was the action of the alumnae
association of the college, of which Mrs.
Lucy A. C~unninggim is president, and
Miss Mamie Lee Smith Is secretary. They
began an agitation to save the college.
This agitation will eliminate tonight in
a great meeting at Greensboro. The
faith of these women, which is great, should
save the college. We have no doubt that
| enough money will be raised at the meet
ing in Greensboro tonight which, supple
mented by the contributions which will
come from other places, will keep the col
lege open. The paa value OF ali the stock
Of the college is between $24, 900 and $25.-
goo. The alumnae propose to buy this
they propose to keep the college open and
appeal to the Conference to raise next
year $4,000 to pay off the bonds. The
annual interest on the bonds, which is
So, 400, has been paid every year. Relieved
of that annua charge, the college could
/ pay its own way and steadily increase in
patronage and usefulness, every year
adding to its glorious history as the sec
ond Oldest woman college in the South
} The financial record Of the college is good
Il has been splendidly managed, but nc
college ought to be expected to make
money or pay rental or interest on the
cost OF buildings. Freed from such yearly
Expenses, Greensboro Female College
would have ample income even if it die
i not increase It's attendance.
; IL iiSht Ot6ilIS " DIodh. lit ONlleIf
of the college, seeing that others ar,
willing to help and that the alumnae o
the college are ready to do great thing.
for its success, will now without doubt
k have their faith in the college restored
p They do not want the college to close
f They have done too much for it in the pas
II to contemplate its closing without deep re
IS gret. They wish it to grow and they will
welcome the new interest in the institutio,
which has been awakened all over tn,
State. 1t would be good news to all VIII,
believe IN the education of women, an,
particularly to all Methodists In the State
to read III tomorrow's paper that at to
nights meeting the owners Of the college
who have already done so much, ha,
joined hands with the alumnae and other
to reopen Greensboro Female Colleg