The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-19
Fassifern, Blue
Ridge, Fruitland
Are Preparatory
All Are Of Standard Grade
and Fit Many for
College

With three private preparatory
schools within its borders, in ad-
d.tion 20 the excellent city and
county school systcGIs and H.
maculata Catholic school for the
grammar grades, Henderson coun-
tvs educational advantages are
surpassed by few counties in the
south.
The three private schools are
Fassifern School for Girls, Blue
Ridge School for Boys, and Fruit
land Institute, co-educatiOnal. All
are of standard grade and Of
high degree Of excellence.
No matter what a community
NAV achieve in the realm of ma
terial progress and commercial
advancement. it can not be re-
garded the well-rounded or ideal
community unless due stress is
laid upon cultural values and up
on the provisions Of agencies and
institutions that stand above the
realm of the material
There is a life culture and
learning and a whole field of in
-ellectual activities cente II
around an institution Of learning,
with a faculty of trained men and
women devoting themselves to the
service of the next generation:
with the ardent loyalty of alumni
associations and attendant re-
unions and banquets; with the
perennial stream of boys and
girls and the panorama of their
athletics, concerts, debates. re-
ceptions, and football parades-
all of which goes to make up the
pageant of life and add to its
color and significance in the
typical modern city.
FASSIFERN SCHOOL
Fassifern School for Girls, one
of the outstanding preparatory
schools for girls in the south, at,
tracts girls of culture and refine
ment from all sections of the
country. 1t is a comparatively
small school with an average en-
rollment of about rs, but offers
the very finest advantages in
preparatory education.
DR.. Joseph R. Sewer is the
president and has associated with
him faculty Of experienced
teachers. This school stresses indi-
vidual attention. This is sure TO
help girls to make progrest
much more rapidly than is pos
sible in the public schools where
the proportion of students to the
teacher is much greater.
Fassifern stresses thorough
work. The students are taught
to study, and concentration is in
sisted upon. All distraction that
would interfere with good work
is barred from the school.
Girls graduating from Fassi-
fern enter the best colleges in
the north and south where their
records show that they have had
excellent training.
DR.. Sewer is a strong believer
in the value of physical educa-
ton. A new gymnasium serves a
very useful purpose in the growth
of strong and healthy bodies.
Most all the year the girls can
play in the open where they en-
Joy tennis, basketball, hockey and
horse back riding.
Fassifern is unique in having
the use of Camp Greystone, one
of the best equipped girls camps
in the south. Almost every after
noon in the fall and spring girls
from Fassifern enjoy the sport
of swimming and canoeing at
Greystone.
The buildings and equipment
, are all that could be desired, oc-
cupying one of the most beauti-
full and commanding sights in
Hendersonville. The students en-
Joy the inspiration of magnificent
mountain views. The buildings
have been steadily improved un-
til today they are as completely
equipped as any such buildings
e anywhere.
Happiness and good work are
the keynotes of Fassifern girls.
The steady growth during its 25
years Of history is evidence OF