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ST. AUGUSTINE’S RECORD
^ugusitine’s; Eetorb
Published bi-monthly during the College year at
Raleish, N. C., in the interest of St. Augustine’s
College. Rev. E. II. Goold, President.
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Entered at the postofflce in Raleigh as second-class
matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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provided for in section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917,
authorized April 11, 1921.
THE BISHOP TUTTLE SCHOOL
To see the Tuttle School in action would be far
more illuiniiiatiiig than to read about it here. It
is pleasant to know how many of our readers have
seen it, however, and from the number of appli
cants we turned away this year a great many more
know about ns.
There have been several changes this fall. First
of all, we have lost iliss Snodgrass as head of the
Dei)artnient of Ileligious Education. Her teach
ing and counsel have been a vital j)art of the
school since its beginning. Until wo are settled
the class work carries on with energy, we are tak
ing a large share in the Neighborhood Sunday
School, and connecting well with all the different
aspects of the whole curriculum. We have
put all class work on the first three days of the
week, filling them full. Thursdays and Fridays
are free for field work, visits to agencies, clubs,
and the many things we have never seemed to have
time for before.
Miss Coleman spent the whole summer in col
lege at Ames, Lowa. ^Irs. Bromley spent her sum
mer at the -New York School of Social work and
also atteiuh'd the Annual Conference of Social
AVork at JkIinneai)olis in June. I3oth of them be
gan tlie year with enthusiasm and with so many
new ideas that the girls trembled at the prospect!
There are four college graduates in our junior
class, which means that wo have discontinued al
lowing such students to crowd our work into one
year, a distinct advance. Last year’s graduates
are all placed—four of them in the Associated
Charities in Washington, one in a school for de-
liu(pients in Delaware, one in the Church Army,
one an executive secretary in child placement in
Richmond, and our two luirses both in South
(’arolina, one under Archdeacon Baskerville, and
the other at Voorhees School, the first, we hope, of
many to go to one of the Church Institute Schools.
Another has the appointment as Field AVorker
under the Woman’s Auxiliary. As part of her
further training for this, Aliss Brown attended the
Triennial in Denver, and is now gaining exper
ience under the IJev. Mr. Plaskett in the diocese
of Newark, and at the Missions House under Miss
Beardsley.
The Community House was in charge of a
junior this summer, with a graduate co-worker,
and the success of the enterprise exceeded our
most sanguine hopes. Nine clubs were kept going,
of every age and activity, a garden was the busi
ness of the l-H boys, the girls had training in sew
ing, canning, and preserving. By various means
almost enough money was raised to make the work
self-sujjporting, and the “Community House” has
a firm hold now on the hearts of those for whom
Mrs. Hunter gives it. Besides the clubs that con
tinue to meet there with uudiininished energy, we
have this autumn been able to open a Nursery
School. Mrs. Bromley brought down her two little
boys and with them a Miss Barnes who is in
charge of them, with assistance from our students,
and one of our pleasant sights now is the little
procession of fifteen as we see them out for exer
cise, and on various expeditions. One day they
were over on the campus—“To see the pigs,” Miss
Barnes explained. “We have just had a lesson on
eating, so we are going to see how not to do it.”
The Tuttle School has seldom made an appeal,
but it does ask now for help in carrying on this
neighborhood work. It is something that not only
works as a transforming agency in the whole com
munity, but it is also a big inspiration in the train
ing. We read to the students all the letters from
the graduates in which thej' describe their work,
and the girls see there the wide field ahead—in
this community work they see their present oppor
tunities. B.H.
ST. AGNES HOSPITAL
After spending the entire summer at St. Agnes
Hospital ilrs. Worrall and Sister Anna ^lary are
having a well earn«l vacation. Are you imagi
native enough to picture our hospital without
them? We tried but are forced to admit that we
could not do it. We surely miss them.
In their absence we have gained a greater in
sight into the responsibilities that rested upon
them with a real opportunity for cooperation
among ourselves. The work is apparently pro
gressing smoothly, the vacant places being effic
iently filled by two recent additions to our staff.
Our out-patient department has continued to in
crease in attendance and we feel that something
constructive is being done. We are aware of the
fact that there are many others worthy of our
care. Do help us to reach them that we may ren
der a greater service to the community.
We are pleasantly anticipating the return of
our friends and know that they will come back
with new courage inspirwl by interesting exper
iences. M.E.G.