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REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT
MAY 25, 1932
To the Trustees of St. Augustine’s College:
Gentlemen :
During the past yeai’, the sixty-fifth Annual
Session, there luive been enrolled 358 stndents,
coming from eighteen states and two foreign coun
tries, classified as follows:
SUMMAEY
College Department
Senior Class -
Junior Class
Sophomoi-e Class ‘’IJ
Freshman Class
High School Department
Fourth Year
Third Year
Second Year
First Year ,
St. Agnes Training School for Nurses
Graduates 1031
Seniors _
Juniors I
Probationers
Bishop Tuttle School ;;
Seniors
Juniors ■'
Total
This is a slight increase over the total enroll
ment of last year due to the increase in the num-
hor of College students, 179 of whom enrolled in
that department.
As the College work expands we shall need ad
ditional facilities and an increased faculty ^yitll
adequate training in order to meet the situation.
We have already remodelled our old iilement-
*iry School Building and are now using it as a
Science Building. We have also added largely to
the volumes in our Library, helped in part by
gifts from friends, the Church Periodical Club,
and tlie Kosenwald Fund. The progress of the
Library under Miss Snodgrass, our Librarian, and
her assistants has been most gratifyiug. All in
all I feel that the year has been one of Academic
advance and that the morale of faculty and stu
dents has been good.
We luive lost recently by death Miss Laura
Beard, a cousin of the late Bishop Delaiiy, A\ho
for more than forty years rendered faithful and
devoted service to the Institution as a teacher of
sewing and helper in the care of our chapel and
altar. Part of her property she willed to St.
Agnes IIos])ital. Her spiritual influence will be
greatly missed.
Blans have been matured for the removal of the
Bishop Payne Divinity School from Petersbuig,
Virginia, to Raleigh where it will be located in
close proximity to St. Augustine’s and be affiliated
with it. Bishop Cheshire is the President of the
new Board of Trustees of the Bishop Payne
School.
During the Epiphany Season a very helpful
Teaching Mission was held under the leadership
of Kev. Cyril Bentley who has recently become
Associate Director of the American Church Insti
tute for Xegroes.
We are endeavoring to raise our full quota of
$900 for the Forward Movement and are en
couraged by the fact that the Lenten Offering for
Missions was practically no less than that of a
year ago.
AVe are grateful to the Woman’s Auxiliary of
the Diocese for making a Jubilee Offering of
$1,500 towai’d the Cheshire Building Fund thus
enabling us to remove all obligations connected
with the erection of this building in honor of
Bishop Cheshire.
The usual St. Augustine’s Conference for
Clergy and Church Workers, including a Young
People’s Conference w'ill be held shortly after the
close of the College year.
By comparison with many other Institutions of
learning our financial situation has been fairly
satisfactory and we expect to close the current
college year without a deficit. This result has
been made possible by strict economies in all mat
ters, by the voluntary acceptance on the part of
our Staff of a salary reduction and by aid received
from the General Education Board and other
friends of the College. Fortunately we have not
been obliged to send away for financial reasons
alone, any stiulents of good scholarship who
showed earnestness in their studies and in self-
support.
Owing to the condition of finances of the
Xational Church the American Church Institute
for Xegroes has been obliged to reduce our appro
priation. This fact is reflected in the reduced
budget which is being presented to you.
The present need of the College is for an in-
ci’eased endowment. Permanent endowment of
professorships, or scholarships, as memorials
would help to build up our endowment fund.
In this connection we note with satisfaction a
legacy from the late Miss Anne Wilson of Toledo,
Ohio, to be known as the Ann Wilson Endowment
Fund. The exact amount of this legacy cannot
as yet be determined.
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