Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-11-20
INTERESTING LETTER
FROM A BERRY" BOY
Great Institution for Boys and Girls
of Georgia Gives Opportunity to-
Many of Limited Means to
Make Useful Citizens

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Long, Ben Hill county boy, will be
read with interest by many of the
children in the county and we hope
will be the means Of getting others to
make use of the open door" at Ber-
ry school which promises so much to
the development of Georgia boys and
girls.
We are proud of the fact that Cla-
renee has achieved to the exchange
editorial chair of the college paper,
to which, members of the Georgia
Press Association donated modern
printing pres last year. to which we
i had the pleasure to add our mite.
We shall expect to receive occasion
al letters from Editor Long.
Clarence's letter of hope and oppor-
tunity is as follows:
Editor The Leader,
Fitzgerald, Ga.
| Dear Mr. Gelders:-
have read several comments in
The Leader about the Berry Schools.
| am very glad to know that you are
interested in the work Miss Berry is
! doing
l am a Ben Hill county boy who is
privileged to attend Berry. | first
came to Berry January /, 1923, So
far as | know, my brother and l are
the only students here from Ben Hill
county 1t occurs to me that there are
MANY BOYS and girls in Ben Hill coun-
ty and surrounding counties, who
would be at Berry if they only knew
OF it, and what wonderful institution
it is
| There are many young men and
women who have the ambition to
gain an education, but often give up
in despair, because they felt that they
are not financially able to realize their
ambition. | wish it was so that l
could talk to everyone that feels that
! way and tell them of the Berry School.
Berry schools were started twenty
two years ago, in little log cabin, by
Miss Malta Berry Miss Berry found
ed the school with a three-fold pur-
pose in view: the training OF the
head, heart and hands. This is still the
object of the schools
The schools have steadily grown
from the start They now have o,OOO
acres of land, go buildings and 600
students on roll. Berry school con
sists of three separate schools, as fol-
lows: the Boys High school, the
Girls school and the Foundation
school, -
Five courses are offered at Berry:
Agricultural Mechanical. Home Econ
omics, Normal and Literary Sclentl-
fc.
The Berry schools are strictly a
Christian Industrial school. They have
| 1000 acres of land under cultivation,
modern dairy, work shop, an up
todate steam laundry, printing office
equipped with Linotype, cylinder
press job presses etc, lumber yard
and wood shed.
| The Berry campus has the reputa-
ton of being one of the most beautl-
full in the country. The beautiful trees,
hedges, green lawns and flowers all
harmonic with the magnificent build.
inps with their beautiful columns OF
Georgia marble.
Berry schools probably have more
distinguished guests visiting it than
| any OIleT SCHOOl III tlIC olelIO. ~AAio .
some who have visited Berry, may be
mentioned William G. McAdoo, Hen,
ry Ford, Theodore Roosevelt and
Princess Borgheese of Rome, Italy.
One of the many advantages OF be-
ing a student at Berry is that one IS
given an opportunity to work at the
school during the summer vacation
By working at the school during the
four months summer vacation, one is
able to pay his way for the next eignt
months, and thus gain an education
on his own resources.
| So the young man or woman OF the
| South who has the ambition and is
willing to work for an education Ber-
ry schools extend helping hane.
The schools are located on the SUM
merville pike two miles north of Rome
Ga. Anyone interested may write to
the Berry Schools, Mt. Berry, Ga fof
further information
Yours truly,