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HAINES NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL ■rawwii W I* »■———W—r—l—————— bhmbmmhhbbmmhmihbi ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ AUGUSTA GEORGIA LUCY LANEY, Principal w&Bammwßzwi®m&tt.3E2Kssm i iri■■■■miinihimiim iiii hi wi ■hi—inii——■ ■■miMiiniMiiiwiiiiMiiiiiiiinMiin i n' miiii/riinMii—m One of the Leading Colored Normal and Industrial Schools of the South LUCY LANEY Founder and Principal of the Haines Normal and Indus trial School. “The Haines Normal and Industrial School” is a eo-educational hoarding and day school for colored young people, under the care of the Hoard of Mis sions of Freedmcn, of the Presbyterian Church, locat* ed at Augusta, Georgia. It was founded by Miss Lucy C. Laney, one of the foremost women of her race in America. Its purpose is to give a practical Christian education to the boys and girls of the city and State in which it is located. The curriculum em braces literary and iuduxt rial courses, with special classes for special work. The literary course includes preparatory work, teachers’ training course and a course for advanced study. The industrial course for girls embraces sew' ing, laundry work, cooking, etc., with all that pertains to housekeeping and liomemaking. The young men and boys are taught carpentry, shoemaking, printing and gardening. The printing office has prepared a number of young men for filling important positions. One of the graduates has a creditable printing establishment in Brooklyn, X. Y., with a branch office* in New York City. Another has charge of a newspaper pressroom in a Southern city, while others have found employment in newspaper and general printing offices in a number of places. One of the early graduates of Haines is super intendent of a large modern hospital in Augusta. Six are teachers hi their alma mater, several in other high-grade selna A, while many are employed in the public schools of tlx- cities and in the rural districts. A number of young men are ministers, some practicing physicians, some teachers; others are en gaged in business, in the various trades and in farm ing. A number of the girls arc dressmakers, while a $64.00 Will Support a Student in this School for an Eight Months’ Term Haines is Entirely the Work of Negro instructors from its very inception, and Both Founder and Teachers are the prodpct of Missionary Schools THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA. • jj -ilmil " •*" : 1/BBw • -a*. - *■ JirSfnhit.'uW&wm 'PH wWSsmjy- frA . - « f -. ■■ >-r ;iii '" ! . 1: .ft* < Vv *. A i %;.. Ii MARY 0. JACKSON Co-Principal of Haines Nor mal and Industrial School. number are homemakers. Not one of the 250 gradu ates lias been a failure or brought discredit to the school. Especial emphasis is placed upon the training of Christian workers in this school, for it is only through such agencies that the people can be truly elevated. It was for the purpose of giving the girls and hoys of this great State of Georgia a training that would fit them for usefulness that Miss Laney early in life resolved to devote herself to the work of build ing up a Christian school, and she counted no struggle too great that she might get the necessary prepara tion. Never for a moment lias she faltered in her pur pose from the day when she opened a little school in the basement of a church in Augusta up to the pres ent time. She began to work single-handed and alone, and with but few pupils. As time went on her school increased in numbers and she gained the confidence and love of the people of the city, where her future work was to he. For three years she did the founda tion work of the “Haines School” of today. AY lion the school was first established, in 1883, it was nominally under the care of tlie board, receiv ing from it moral support only. No financial aid was furnished, as none was available, but Miss Laney was granted permission to collect money from the pupils and friends of the school to meet incidental expen ses. In 1886 the board granted financial aid, making it a hoarding as well as a day school. Three build' mgs were secured for dormitories, An old barn was fitted up for a school house, three teachers were em ployed and the school moved from the basement to its new quarters. Four years later, in 181)0, two new buildings were erected, at a cost of $20,000, including the furnishings. One, which has been used since as the main school building, is of brick, five stories high, m ' &&■)& ■' £$ |cl?£& §§§§,£« s'-ml '%&** ’4s ' -v / ?S&. -^^^WBj|n|&|W^^y^- s -'^^>^^<^^BB^H A Recent Photograph of Haines Normal and Industrial School. Augusta, Georgia. containing dormitory, class rooms and boarding de partment. The other two-story frame building used for kindergarten purposes. The money for these buildings was given by the Thompson-Bell estate, Pittsburg. Another building has recently been erect ed for industrial training, the work being done by the students under the direction of the industrial teacher. Miss Laney, in 188 5, attended the meeting of General Assembly at Minneapolis, where she met M rs. F. E. If. Haines, First Secretary of the Wo men’s Board of Home Missions. Each recognizing in the other a superior Christian woman, they were mutually attracted, and became fast friends, and up on her return to Augusta, Miss Laney named her school the “Haines Normal and Industrial,” in honor of her friend, Airs. Haines. In 1894, Aliss Laney secured an able worker in Aliss Alary C. Jackson, a cultured woman and a* fit co-laborer with her in the great work which she had undertaken to do. Together they have, with the aid of faithful and efficient teachers, brought the school to its present high standard. Haines has for a num ber of years felt the need of increased accommoda tions for both dormitory and class room purposes. This need has been provided for by a new building recently finished to he known as “McGregor Hall.” It consists of twelve commodious class rooms and a large and convenient Assembly room or chapel'. It will provide ample class room and chapel accommo dations for the more than 800 pupils connected with the school and will allow the former building to be give n u]) entirely to the home life of the hoarding de partment. The building was erected at a cost of about SIB,OOO, and was the gift of Airs. Tracy Alc- Grcgor of Detroit, Mich. Twentyeight teachers are employed to do the work in this institution.