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Perry-‘Hainey—A Splendid Co-Educational College
One of the fitting schools in Georgia that is doing
a splendid and inspiring work for boys and girls
of a large rural section is Perry-Rainey College at
Auburn, Ga. —beautifully situated on the Seaboard
Air Line between Classic Athens and busy Atlanta.
This institution perpetuates the names of two of
the generous and enterprising men oi that section
who loved boys and girls and the advancement of
Christian education better than thev loved their
money. While Mr. W. T. Perry, one of the found
ers of the school, has been called to his reward, he
has left a legacy to his family and his section
worth more to them than brick blocks or broad
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MAIN BUILDING AND AUDITOR IUM—PERRY-RAINEY COLLEGE.
acres, and his practical investment only furnishes
another beautiful illustration of the plain, true
saying:
“We are only remembered by what we have
done.”
Rev. H. N. Rainey, the other founder and present
benefactor of the institution, is fairly lengthening
his days by the love, the means and the hard work
he is pouring into Perry-Rainey College, and he is
so proud of the school and the boys and girls
are being blessed upon its classic, rolling campus,
that whenever he visits Perry-Rainey, he looks like
he wants to take the whole institution in his lap
like a father holds his babe, and “trot it on his
knees.” Mr. Rainey is a big-hearted, big-bodied,
wise-headed preacher-farmer, who makes money to
do good with during the week, and travels far and
near, preaching cm Sundays for the spiritual uplift
of the people.
He is studying the situation in the school of
his love, weighing the best possible manner in which
to do the largest possible good, and it is believed
that he will soon make a large investment in the
institution, both for equipment and for endow
ment.
The twin towns of Auburn and Carl, and the
surrounding country for several miles, furnish the
local patronage for the primary and academic
classes, while the college department is drawing
boarding pupils from all over that semi-mountain
section.
There are good Methodist and Baptist churches
to bless the village life, and ether churches in the
rural communities near by.
The people are enthusiastic over the prospects
for the future, and are moving especially to open
the way for struggling boys and girls.
Mr. R. F. Sloan, a plain, earnest, loyal friend
of Perry-Rainey College from its infancy, sends
The Golden Age the following sketch in which we
are glad to have him tell the straightforward story
of its early days:
A Sketch of the Beginning, by R. F. Sloan.
Tn 1890, the Mulberry Baptist Association met
with the Apalachee church, and a committee on
The Golden Age for May 9, 1907.
education, instead of making the usual report,
recommended that a committee be appointed to
take into consideration the advisability of build
ing a high school within the bounds of the Asso
ciation. This committee consisted of R. F. Sloan
and others.
The next year the Association met with Bethel
church, and the committee made the following re
port: “We have investigated the ihatter of build
ing a high school within the bounds of the Asso
ciation, and find that the enterprise is a feasible
one, and recommend that a committee be appointed
to carry this into effect.” The following commit-
tee was appointed: G. L. Bagwell, J. M. Pool J.
W. Davis, AV. T. Perry, R. F. Sloan.
In a few weeks after this committee was ap
pointed, it met at Auburn. The first thing was to
ask for divine blessings upon this enterprise.
The committee then decided that Auburn was the
place for the location of the school. Plans were
made for the building, and in a short while it was
in operation. Prof. Bagwell was the first princi
pal.
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“Benefactor Perry-Rainey College.
This school continued for three years, and some
of the pupils had gone as far as they could in their
studies in a school of this grade. These boys were
ambitious and wanted to continue their course and
were not able to go off to college.
The patrons and citizens held a mass meeting.
At this meeting a young man from South Georgia
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made a speech that moved to action every one
present.
At the close of the speech, Rev. H. N. Rainey
and Mr. W. T. Perry arose and said: “Boys, you
shall have the college.” These men had the money
and they put it into the enterprise. They both
lived to see much golden fruit as a result of their
labor. Although God, in His all-wise providence,
has seen fit to call Mr. Perry home to his reward;
his works live on, and generations yet to come shall
call him blessed.
Rev. H. M. Rainey yet lives, an active minister
of the Gospel, and a zealous worker for the college.
THE BOARDING HOME—PERRY-RAINEY COLLEGE.
Present Condition of the College.
The college has never had a brighter outlook
than at present. Rev. J. B. Brookshire, a graduate
of Mercer University, is the much-loved president.
He is a wise and cautious leader of untiring en
ergy. He is a strong preacher of the Gospel, and
as H. N. Rainey has said of him, “He’s a natural
born teacher.”
Auburn Public School.
The public school is superintended by Prof.
Brookshire. He has the strongest and best quali
fied teachers for the public grades that are to be
found. The children are started right, and well
grounded in the fundamental principles of an edu
cation.
The college has an academic department, which
is the link between the public school and the col
lege. After finishing the academic course, pupils
are required, for graduation, to do three years’
collegiate work.
Boarding Facilities.
The college owns one large eighteen-room d >r
mitory, suitable lor four pupils lo a room. Board
in the dormitory is about $7.50 per month. There
is a pressing need for another dormitory for which
the trustees are planning in the near future. Board
is now secured in private homes at about the same
price as dormitory board. Stress is laid on plain
living and high thinking.
We are praying that God will open the hearts
of men with means, as He did rhe founders of the
institution, that they may put their money in the
building of another dormitory.
Literary Societies and Lecture Course
The college has made a great step forward in
establishing a regular lecture course. This enter
prise had its beginning at the opening of the i res
ent fall term, by a visit and lecture from Mr. Will
D. Upshaw, who inspires everywhere he touches
lhe pupils have two active literacy societies
which meet every Friday afternoon, these socie
ties are strong and helpful competitors of each
other.
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