When the Southern Industrial Institute of this city opens for its fall term next month it will be with considerable new equipment and a new and stronger organization. This school, the first in the South and probably the first in the country, to attempt to give students an opportunity to work their way without any means at all, has recently added to its equipment a complete wood-working shop, which will provide work for a large number of boys and young men, and a dressmaking establishment for girls.
The board of directors has been reorganized and is now constituted as follows: John Paul Lucas, chairman; John L. Dabbs, A.J. Draper, Ramsey Dulin, S.A. Van Every, Paul Haddock, W.E. Price, S.B. Tanner, E.A. Terrell, Ira B. Turner, A.H. Washburn, J.L. Wiggins, Pierce Wyche, Dr. L.W. Hovis, and Mrs. B.D. Heath of Charlotte; D.D. Bruton and R.N. Page of Biscoe; L.W. Clarke of Spray; Hugh Parks of Franklinville; J.H. Separk of Gastonia; and Mrs. Henry Wait of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Rev. J.A. Baldwin is president of the institution, and H.E. Davis has been secured as business manager. Mr. Davis, who is a school man and business man of experience, will relieve Mr. Baldwin of the business details of the institution so that his time and energy can be devoted more largely to the educational features of the work.
The institute, which owns a tract of land comprising approximately 300 acres near Hoskins, is also at this time being refinanced through the issuance of $25,000 of bonds to take up the present mortgage indebtedness and provide for new equipment. A considerable portion of the bonds have been taken by directors, and the balance will be offered to investors.
From The Charlotte News, Sunday, Aug. 7, 1921
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