Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1922-07-05
HERES oHANoE FOR w OMEN.
"Opportunity School" to be Conduct
q cd Mt Lander College,. 81 81.

South Carolina Conference, will con-
duet unique school at Lander Col
lcge, beginning July Gath and clos
ing Aug. 10. This school is for girls
over fourteen and women who in
youth did not master the "three
RS" While emphasis will be placed
on teaching reading, writing, arith-
metic and spelling, yet the student
will have all the cultural contact con-
nected with a Christian college. And
aside from drill work of the class
room there will be good> lectures, !,
musicals and educational pictures.
The dates selected for holding the
school were chosen because August
Is often vacation month in both
country and mill, and so will permit
tho women to utilize their vacations
in a most valuable way.
Tho school is non-sectarian and
nondcnominational. The teachers
are among the best in the State and
were appointed because Of their pc
crliar fitness. In addition to the reg
ulnr teachers there will be called to
tncir assistance The best trained ex-
perts and specialists to give talks
and demonstration lessons on the
preparation Of foods, home nursing,
personal hygiene, etc.
Any girl or woman who hasn't
completed the fifth grade and who
cannot attend a public school will be
admitted. Expenses for the month
have been reduced to a minimum
board S12.50, laundry fifty cents per
week, books s1.5O' to $3.50, and rail
road faro.
The classes will be small and the
pupils will be classified according to
ability rather than grade, thus per-
mitting very rapid progress to be
made. In one month it will be posi-
BILE for an adult to mako as much
progress as Il child in an entire year.
The educated public is asked to
assist in making this school a success
by calling it to the attoltion OF girls
| and women in need or such instruc-
| ton. Where an ambitious girl is un-
| able to provide the means, some
charitable, social or church organiza-
tion IS asked to send her on schol-
arship. A bulletin giving detailed in
formation may be had from Lander
College, Mss Elizabeth Alexander,
Greenwood, S. G.
|
says: "The summer school for girls
and young women realizes long
cherished dream and meets a long
felt need. The enthusiastic interest
or every minister and every church
has made this experiment possible.
| The students are to receive their in
| PRODUCTION to books and to culture
in the fine atmosphere Of the college.
| They will learn valuable lessons from
| books, but far more valuable lessons
from one another and from the sum-
mer school authorities.
New Educational Fra. .
This summer marks a new cduca-
| tional era in South Carolina. 1t secs
novel school inaugurated TO bring
! learning to native white girls and
women who in thcir youth had no
chance. 1t beholds tho State Depart
mcnt Of Education opening Lander
College for these forgotten women
from tenant home, mill village and
mountain cabin. They number over
| fifteen thousand, these women. Over
fifteen thousand potential mothers
and wielders Of destiny; over fifteen
thousand voters with no knowledge
OF conditions which the ballot may
remedy. Summer schools for teach
ers, ministers and doctors are an ac-
lnowledged fact; no doubt about tho
need for training there. why not
summer schools for illitreate women?
Is 1t not fitting that the Upper Meth
odist Conference and the State De-
partment Of Education should Join
hands to lift these women from the
darkness and isolation Of ignorance,
should plan to give them month Of
actual instruction in the needed three
| "R's'--a month Of dwelling In coli
lege atmosphere among cultural
ideals?
Such school should be commend
ed by every patriotic Siuth Carolin-
ian anxious to do his or her part in
eradicating illiteracy. The schools
possibilities should be sounded far