The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-25

College, Athens, Alabama, where for three years, one.third of the student body has been working It's way through school by operating 0 hosiery mill. This working group of youngsters was carefully Sel- ected according to their scholastic records, their ability, and their eagerness to work. Few If any of these youths ever would have had a chance at @ college education without help which would enable them to pay their entire way through four years of school.
 Tn August, with the curtailment of silk, 1t was the heartbreaking task of pr. E. R. Naylor, youthful president of the college, to notify over half of his working students not to return to school until some means was provided for the mill to resume full operations.
 Now, Dr. Naylor has hit upon the plan of asking women all over the country to contribute their worn- out silk and nylon hose so that his girls and boys can come back to school. These hose will be recon ditioned and "backwound" into good thread for knitting new stock ings. The process will be done un- der government supervision, and fortunately, over half the silk and nylon (hut not rayon) can be re- claimed no matter how badly the hose may be damaged.
 Athens College is a standard four year college granting B. A. and B. s. degrees. It is known for having one of the finest business schools and fine-arts departments in the country. It also offers three-year preparatory courses (for law, medi- cine, engineering, etc) with credits acceptable in every state In the union.
 The college was founded as 0 girls academy in the early part of the 18th century, but was not chartered until l843. It now claims to be the second oldest girls school in Amer ica. The administration building one of the show places of the South - was built n l84S. and was de- signed by Hiram H. Higgins, the Negro architect who built Thomas Jefferson's historic Monticello. Th.s building is one of the few of south- ern colleges which was neither dam aged nor destroyed during the Civil war. The entire structure, fronted by magnificent four-story columns, is built of brick, fired by slaves of neighboring plantations.
 Today the campu5 has grown to include numerous dormitories, a mu- sic hall and auditorium, library and gymnasium, faculty and student h o m e s, classroom buildings, and the factory which houses the knit ting machineS--a model of its kind. The college is now co-educational with an enrolment of over 800 stu- dents. Aside from the mill project, the college operates a dairy, sev- eral truck farms, small canning project, and numerous other op- erations-all of which are run by students who work to help pay theIr way through school.
 It is Dr. Naylor'S. hope that, by the beginning of the year, enough old hose will have been contrib uted not onl. to recall the mill Stu- dents ba:L to school, but many on a long waiting list can be admit ted. And, SO eager are American boys and girls to work their way through school, that on file at Ath- ems College are 2.300 applications for every 115 available jobs.
 Church and civic organizations, societies and woinen's clubs have generously offered to collect and ship old silk and nylon hosiery to the college, and other organizations have been asked to participate in the campaign. As pr. Naylor has pointed out, these organizations will not only be investing in col- lege education for deserving girls and boys, but, for every two pairs of old hose contributed, one more new pair will be returned to ths now limited hosiery market. Addi. tional information concerning ths campaign, according to Dr. Naylor will be supplied by Athens College Athens, Alabama.
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