The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-05-26
Links Education
With Industry
High Point Gets
M. p. College
Wins Over Two TOwns-BOth Green's
horo and Burlington Made Bids
for the Institution.

High Point citizens won their
hattie for the Methodist Protestant
college and the institution will be
escaped in the Furniture City imme-
diateIy after completion of drive
for funds, according to decision
reached by the North Carolina board
of education of the denomination
when it met in executive session Fri
day Mi ght in the O.. Henry hotel in
Greensboro. The board voted unan-
imously to build the college in High
Point, eliminating Burlington and
Greensboro, which had made bids for
the denominational institution.
A drive for funds will be launched
bv the Methodist Protestanrs on
June 5 and it means that Immediately
after the campaign is brought to a
conclusion the actual construction
work on the great institution viii
begin The college will be erected
on the Greensboro turnpike just in
side the city limits of High Point.
Sixty acres have been included in
the site and a donation of $1OOOOO
will be made. The terms were salts
factory to the board and the commit
tee did not hesitate in showing that
it appreciated what residents of the
Furniture City had done to make the
erection of the college possible here.
Friday was great day in High
Point. The board came to- the city
at 1 o'clock Friday and following in
spection of the site and a parade
through the principal streets of the
city the board went to the basement
of Wesley Memorial church where
dinner was served and the claim of
High Point presented to the men in
vested with authority to select the
location for the only Methodist Pro-
testant college in North Carolina.
Organizations Represented i
Speeches wer made by Mayor
Hedrick, Fred N. Tate, j. J. Farriss
and T. J. Gold, who presented the
cjty's claim to the committee. After
the foregoing speakers had made
claims of what the city has to offer
such an institutions other men and
women took the floor, representing
local organizations and declared that
there is no other town in North Car
olina more interested in education
than High Point.
Wom4E4@ speakers were Mrs. Henry
White, Mrs. w. c. Jones and Mrs.
S. S. Coe.
The Kiwanis club was represented
by Rev. James A. Clarke; ministers,
Rev. W. A. Lambeth; attorneys, Car
l." Dalton: physicians, DR.. H. b.
Hiatt; labor organizations, Grover
-,,r.; Junior or0er, j. w. Sechrest;
Masonic order, J. Allen Austin; bank
ers, V. A. J. Idol; merchants asso-
citation, Gilbert w. Clark; WoOdmen
the World, J. D. Koonce; Red Men,
W. L. Stamey.
DIR. RroWn Speaks
Rev. George r. Brown, D. D., pas
tor of the First Methodist Protest
ant church here, spoke for more than
1,1OO Methodist Protestants. in High
Point.
The speaker was confident, he
said, that if the membership in North
Carolina knew he would be called up
on to speak yesterday IS per cent
rwoud vote on erection of the college
in High Point DR.. Brown thought
the members ought to be consulted IN
a vital matter like selection Of a To-
cation for the denomination college.
The minister referred to the fact
that among the subscriptions rece!v-
'ceived there are names OF MeLnoo1SI
Protestants representing $3O,OOO. In
subscriptions negotiable in any High
Point bank today they have express
ed desire for the college, he sald,
DR.. Brown believed High Point would
have raised $15O,OOO had it been
necessary.
The speaker declared that, the
Methodist Protestants didn't do IL
alone The chamber of commerce,
Kiwanis and Rotary clubs learned
that a movement had been launched
to have the college established mere
and these organizations came in and
expressed a desire to help. And they
did it, DR.. Brown said, adding that
the organizations would always. be
behind it. The minister also pointed
out that he was speaking for II ];
Methodist Protestant charges in Gull
ford county.