Hahn, Stella Blanche, Graduation Essay, 1918

Posted on September 1, 2026 by montamoena

Stella Blanche Hahn, a 1918 graduate, wrote this graduation essay, titled The Function of the Church’s Bible School, that same year. Click on the images to enlarge. A transcription follows. Courtesy of great-nephew, Joel Walters.

Handwritten copy:

Typewritten copy:

Transcription:

THE FUNCTION OF THE CHURCHS BIBLE SCHOOL.

Handwritten: Senior Essay (1918–19)

Outline

I—Introduction.

A—History.
(1)—Origin of Sunday school in America.

II—Body.

A—Definition of Sunday school.
(1)—What it is not.
(a)—Not an evangelizing agency.
(b)—Not childrens church.
(2)—What it is.
(a)—A Nursery.

B—Aim and Importance of Sunday school.
(1)—Teaches the Bible.
(2)—Builds Christian Character.
(3)—Preparing for Christian Service.

C—Method of Instruction.
(1)—Question and Answer method.
(2)—Illustrations.

III—Conclusion.

(1)—Opportunity of Sunday school.

“THE FUNCTION OF THE CHURCH’S BIBLE SCHOOL”

The Christian world has always realized the importance of religious training. The time of this training dates not from Luther nor from Raikes’ but from the begining of Christianity itself. The form of instruction has varied throughout the ages, but the content has remained the same.

The Scriptures record that Abraham gave religious instruction to his household. We do not know whether or not this instruction was given on the Sabbath, but it is evident that the content was the same as the instruction in the modern Sunday school.

Later, we learn, in the history of the Jewish nation that the head of each household and of each tribe, gave religious instruction to his people. Moses, was one of the great teachers of this time. The judges and prophets of the age succeeding Moses were also religious teachers.

The synagogue school was the Sunday school of the Jews, and it served to keep alive their consciousness of God. It taught the children to fear God, and to walk in His way and thus helped to make a strong religious nation of the Hebrew people. It aimed at and accomplished the same results, as does our Sunday school of to-day.

In the fifteenth century Luther recognized the ignorance of the common people in spiritual things and prepared two small catechisms to aid in their instruction. These books are considered the best ever written for the religious instruction of children.

The father of the Sunday school in its modern form is Robert Raikes. After noticing the spiritual conditions of the children, he gathered some of them together on the Lords day in order to teach them and keep them from the street.

The importance of Raikes’ work lies not so much in the fact that he started a school on the Lord’s day; others had done the same. But the importance lies in the fact that he began to establish such schools in many places in 1783.

The modern Sunday school was introduced into America by Bishop Asbury of the Methodist Church in 1789. At first the new movement met with great opposition and the Lutheran Church was not the least to oppose it. The reason the Lutheran Church opposed it was because of her Catechetical and Parochial schools. Through these agencies the children were instructed, and thus the need of the Sunday-school was not as imperative in the Lutheran Church as in those denominations where there were no congregational schools. But later, the Lutheran Church found a place for the Sunday-school, and now she is a very enthusiastic advocate of it.

The Sunday-school of the Lutheran Church is different from that of other denominations. There are certain fundemental principles which are peculiar to the Lutheran-school.

The Lutheran Church does not look upon the Sunday-school as preeminently an evangizing agency. She has such a conception of the preaching of the Word of God and the doctrine of the ministry as precludes such a view. God has appointed and ordained the office of the ministry for this special purpose. The children who come to the school are not hethern but young Christians and are to be brought to a personal consciousness of their Christian duty. We do not mean to say that the Lutheran Sunday-school is never an evangelizing agency. It is. There are children in every neighborhood who have not been brought into the fold of Christianity and the Lutheran Sunday-school reaches out and tries to win them. But we emphasize the fact that the one great object of the Sunday-school is to teach.

The Lutheran church does not consider the Sunday-school the childrens Church. The Church is believed to be the sanctuary where “The gospel is rightly taught and the sacraments rightly administered”. While the Sunday-school teaches the gospel, it does not have the sacraments, and thus it is not a Church but only an important part. The wrong idea that it is the childrens Church has done much to bring about the present deplorable conditions. Children have been led to believe that when they have attended Sunday-school they have fulfilled their religious duty, and consequently they have not been trained to attend Church service.

The Lutheran Sunday-school may properly be called a nursery, when we understand a nursery to be a place where children are taught and trained. Just as a nursery seeks to develop him, so does the Lutheran Sunday-school seek to add to that which the child has already received at baptism. But the Lutheran Sunday-school, is not only a place for small children, as word nursery might indicate. It is an institution for all members of the Christian congregation— a place where the entire congregation meets for instruction in the word of God.

The Lutheran Church interprets and understands Gods word differently from other Churches. One aim of the Sunday-school is to teach her children in accordance with this Lutheran view. This particular aim gives the Sunday school a right and claim to existance. If it did not aim at this it would have no right to exist as a Lutheran Sunday school. Then we might conduct our Sunday schools as our day schools and have one school in each community for all children.

The second great aim of the Sunday school is to build Christian character which is a very important part of the Churchs work. The secular school aims at preparing men only for a useful life in this world, while the Sunday school aims at fitting men not only for this world, but also for the world to come. The young Christian who has been built up in Character is a gem of great value. The Sunday school takes those precious stones in the rough and hews and polishes them untill they shine forth in all radiance of Christian character.

Another aim of the Sunday school is to develop the student in Christian Service. This is often over-looked. We do not strive in the Sunday school as we should, to fill the student with the desire to serve God in his Church and to do the blessed Work of His kingdom. Here is the golden opportunity to make efficient Church workers, enthusiastic, strong and true.

Let us look briefly at some of the important methods of teaching. The most common method is by questions and answers. This method is as old as instruction itself and is very effective. The simple telling of a truth may fall on listless ears, but the question immediatly arouses attention and secures cooperation. Great teachers have without exception, been great questioners, and a common fault with most young Sunday school teachers of to-day, is that they talk too much and question too little.

Illustrations are indispensable to the teacher. All who attempt to convey thought to others will soon recognize their value and importance. A well chosen illustration will convey the truth much more clearly than a simple statement.

In the use of illustrations the teacher will find that his field is unlimited. Every walk of life will furnish him with material in abundance. But his best source of illustration is the Bible and he should search its sacred pages for material.

There is nothing that will draw the attention of the children so quickly as a story. This was the Savior’s favorite method of securing attention. By this method He never failed to secure the attention of the largest multitudes, and our teachers will be wise if they will follow the Savior’s method.

Now since the Lutheran Sunday school seeks to teach the Word of God in its truth and purity; since she preeminently seeks to train not only the young, but also the adult in the fundamental facts of Christianity, she thus fulfills the great command of Christ. Since she strives to build Christian Character she is not only preparing the student for time but also for eternity. Since she endeavors to develop Christian workers, we see that the Sunday-school is absolutely a necessity, to the Church and must be fostered and encouraged.

Hahn, Stella Blanche, Student Essay, 1918

Posted on September 1, 2026 by montamoena

Stella Blanche Hahn, a 1918 graduate, wrote this essay, titled Martin Luther and the Reformation, that same year. Although dated 1918, it was not her graduation essay. Click on the images to enlarge. A transcription follows. Courtesy of great-nephew, Joel Walters.

Transcription:

Cover

Essay
Seminary 1918

Stella Hahn.
M. A. S.

____________

Outline

Martin Luther and The Reformation.

I. Introduction

What it was.
Where? When?

II. Body

Luther
Cause of Reformation
Leaders.

III. Conclusion

Effect.

Martin Luther and The Reformation

The name, Reformation, was applied to the great revolt against certain doctrines and practices of the Roman Catholic Church. This revolt occurred in Europe in the sixteenth century, and wrought an entire change in the Church.

The Reformation first started in the heart and mind of the great Reformer—Martin Luther. While he was studying at the University at Erfurth, he found a Bible in the library. He read and meditated upon the “word of God” especially upon this passage, “The just shall live by faith.”

Later, Luther became a teacher of philosophy. He was alarmed by the sudden death of a friend, and determined to become a monk. A few years later he was called to be a professor in the University at Wittenberg. While Luther still believed that the pope was the holy vicar of Christ on earth and that Rome was the seat of holiness he was commissioned to go to Rome. On this journey he observed that Rome was very wicked. He also heard such vile reports of the popes, which showed them to be guilty of base crimes, and he was miserably disappointed. His reverence for the Pope and Rome was very much shaken. On his homeward journey, he was taken sick and it was then that he realized the meaning of the words, “The just shall live by faith.” It was perfectly clear to him then that, “man cannot become just before God by works but by faith.”

During the few years immediately preceding the Reformation, the papacy was making strenuous efforts to complete St. Peter’s Church in Rome. A large amount of money was needed for this purpose. To secure this amount Pope Leo X commanded a general indulgence to be preached. Priests went from place to place and sold indulgences. The people bought them for the remission of temporal and eternal punishment due to sin. These indulgences granted by the pope or Church were supposed to save the sinner from purgatory. The people believed that by buying the indulgence every sin already committed, would be forgiven. They even went so far as to say that if they would buy the indulgence their sins would be forgiven in advance.

When Luther heard of the indulgences and the disorder they were causing, he began to preach mightily against it. His preaching availed very little so on the 31st of Oct. 1517 he nailed his ninety five theses against indulgence to the door of the castle Church at Wittenberg. This was the beginning of the Reformation. In the ninety five theses Luther declared that the Pope had no right to forgive sins for money.

In the fourteen days that the theses were on the Church door at Wittenberg, they had not only reached Rome, but had spread over all Germany and soon became known throughout the whole of Europe. The Pope demanded that Luther should recant, but he firmly refused to do so. He repeatedly requested that he should be taught differently, from the Sacred Scriptures, else he could under no circumstances retract. The Pope did not yield to an insignificant monk but issued a bull on June 15, 1520 which pronounced Luther a heretic and ordered his writings to be burned. Luther publicly burned the papal bull on Dec. 10, 1520 before the gate of Wittenberg in the presence of a large number of people.

Frederick the Wise asked of the Emperor that Luther’s affairs be presented at the Diet at Worms in 1521. The Emperor promised Luther safe conduct to and from Worms. His friends advised him not to go but he said, “If there were as many devils in Worms as tiles on the roofs, I would still go thither,” and trusting in his God he proceeded to go on his journey.

When he appeared before the diet, he was repeatedly asked to recant. He answered, “Unless I am convinced by Scripture or other clear proofs, I neither can nor dare retract anything for my conscience is bound to God’s word. I cannot submit my faith either to the Pope or councils, because it is clear that they have frequently erred and contradicted each other, and it is neither safe nor advisable to act against conscience. Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise; so help me God! Amen!” Luther was still pronounced a heretic.

On the 26 of April, Luther left Worms. As he was traveling through the Thuringian forest on the 4th of May, he was seized by several armed knights who dragged him out of his carriage with seeming violence, threw a military cloak over his shoulders and placing him on a horse, in a few moments vanished with him in the gloomy forest. They rode on until they reached Wartburg at eleven o’clock that night. Here he was kept in a place of safety until the first storm had subsided.

Luther could not be idle in his exile, so he translated the New Testament into pure German and published the first part of his Church Postil.

Ten months later, Luther heard of the disturbances at Wittenberg. The Zwickau Prophets had produced great confusion by their preaching. Without permission from the Elector he appeared in Wittenberg on May 3, 1522. He preached night and day and soon succeeded in reestablishing order. He then continued his work of translating the Bible. So that assisted by several of his friends the Bible was printed in German in 1524.

As a result of the Reformation the Evangelical Lutheran Church assumed a permanent form and the princes united in a league to protect themselves against the Roman Catholic Church. The Church was purified and to-day, we have the word of God preached in our Churches, and also our present religious freedom is due to the Reformation.

Letter from Susan Bittle Myers to Mrs. G. W. Bowman, 25 Nov 1897

Posted on July 20, 2026 by montamoena

Continued on first page

TITLE:
Letter from Susan Bittle Myers to Mrs. G. W. Bowman, 25 Nov 1897

SUBJECT:
Correspondence

DESCRIPTION:
Photocopy of a handwritten letter to 1881 Mont Amoena graduate Margaret Catherine Barrier Bowman. Susan E. B. Myers expressed sympathy to Mrs. Bowman over Dr. W. S. Bowman’s stroke. Reflecting on her own life at age sixty-nine, she recounted her upbringing as the daughter of a Massachusetts clergyman and her travels across the United States, noting that the happiest years of her life were spent in North Carolina as the wife of Rev. Daniel Bittle. She fondly remembered her former friends, neighbors, and students from Mount Pleasant and Mont Amoena Seminary, asking about several by name. Myers described her continued work as a governess and teacher following the death of her second husband, Rev. Abram Myers, emphasizing her commitment to keeping pace with modern educational methods. Although she praised California’s universities for attracting brilliant scholars, she lamented what she viewed as the growing influence of evolution and Darwinism, expressing concern that traditional Christian beliefs were being abandoned. She concluded with warm wishes for Dr. Bowman’s recovery and reaffirmed her enduring affection for her North Carolina friends.

CREATOR:
Susan Eustas Biglow Bittle Myers (first principal of Mount Pleasant Female Seminary, 1859-1860), Dunlap, Fresno County, California

SOURCE:
Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum, Mt. Pleasant, NC

DATE CREATED:
25 Nov 1897

RIGHTS:
Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum, Mt. Pleasant, NC

Collection
Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum, Mt. Pleasant, NC

FORMAT
jpeg

SPATIAL COVERAGE
United States

SOURCE INSTITUTION
http://www.ecshmuseum.org

TRANSCRIPTION:

Mrs W. S. Bowman
Care of Rev. W. S. Bowman
Mt. Pleasant North Carolina

Dunlap Fresno Co. Calif.
November 25th-1897

My Dear Mrs Bowman [Margaret Catherine Barrier Bowman]

I was much pleased to receive a letter from you, but very sorry to hear that Dr. Bowman had a stroke of paralysis. Of course as we advance in life, we expect to ecperience the natural ills that come with age, but he has been so active and young for his years, that I had hped he would remain vigorous for at least another decade.

I was sixty nine years old this month. I feel often as though I had lived one hundred years.

I commenced my life as the daughter of a clergyman in Massachusetts near Boston, and have wandered over nearly all the United States. The happiest part of my life was spent as Dr. Bittle’s wife, and in the dearly loved Southern states. I cherish an abiding love for my many friends in North Carolina. Your Uncle Shimpoch’s family and Mrs. Lawson Heilig’s children and Mr. & Mrs Paul Heilig Mrs. Barnhardt and your dear mother [Margaret Boger Barrier], whom I did not know so intimately as I did many others. Your oldest sister Mrs. Rose (I think) [step-sister Martha Barrier Rose] who died young, was a beautiful girl, and died a Christian’s death indeed. Your brothers Wiley & Augustus I knew well, especially Wiley. He was a favorite of Dr. Bittle’s & myself. I would much like to know if Mrs. Laura Barier 9formerly Laura Brown) one of my scholars at Mt Amoena Seminary, is living and where she is , also Mattie Cook & Jennie Shimpoch. I received a letter a year or two ago from Lizzie Heilig. She said she was married. I answered it, but don’t know if she ever received it, nor do I now know her present name.

I have been teaching ever since Mr. Myers died, as Governess and in Boarding schools. I am as strong mentally as ever, and have kept my standard right along with the Public School Manuals and the University Text Books. The methods of teaching are so different from what they were years ago. That one has to study everything new as it appears in order to keep in touch with the scientific men & women of the present time.

In California I think we have collected the brightest and most advanced minds of the age as instructors in our two large universities, and yet I do not at all endorse or admire the infidel tendency of these men who are at the head of these institutions. Evolution and Darwinism have overset the Gospel truths, and not one in twent of the students or the Professors believe in Jesus Christ as the true Son of God and of his miraculous conception and birth. The Bible is practically abrogated in California. Where it will all end I don’t know. I look for terrible calamities to occur when something can be done to convert the multitudes out here who follow their own desires and wishes.

I will be very glad to hear from you at any time, and I earnestly hope that my dear friend of former years may be restored to health & to you God bless you both.

Sincerely your friend

Susan E. B. Myers

Student Accounts, 3rd and 4th Quarter, 1922 (?)

Posted on June 10, 2026 by montamoena

TITLE:
Student accounts, 3rd and 4th quarter (1922?)

SUBJECT:
Document

DESCRIPTION:
Handwritten in ink. List of students’ last names with numbers. On the front and back of 1 sheet of Mont Amoena stationery, 8.5″x 11″. It is not clear if these numbers are amounts paid or due.

CREATOR:
Possibly Hilbert Adam Fisher, Treasurer

SOURCE:
Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum, Mt. Pleasant, NC

DATE CREATED:
1922 (?)

RIGHTS:
Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum, Mt. Pleasant, NC

Collection:
Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum, Mt. Pleasant, NC

FORMAT:
jpeg

SPATIAL COVERAGE:
United States

SOURCE INSTITUTION:
http://www.ecshmuseum.org

Mont Amoena Alumnae Association Solicitation Letter

Posted on June 10, 2026 by montamoena

TITLE:
Mont Amoena Alumnae Association Solicitation Letter

SUBJECT:
Document

DESCRIPTION:
Typewritten on 8.5″ x 11″ Alumnae letterhead.

CREATOR:
Mary Heilig, Treasurer

SOURCE:
Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum, Mt. Pleasant, NC

DATE CREATED:
1919

RIGHTS:
Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum, Mt. Pleasant, NC

Collection:
Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum, Mt. Pleasant, NC

FORMAT:
jpeg

SPATIAL COVERAGE:
United States

SOURCE INSTITUTION:
http://www.ecshmuseum.org

Mont Amoena Billing Form, 1920s

Posted on June 10, 2026 by montamoena

TITLE:
Blank Mont Amoena Billing Form, 1920s

SUBJECT:
Document

DESCRIPTION:
Printed blank form, 8.5″ x 7″. A handwritten pencil list of numbers on the back, totaling $11,888.

CREATOR:
Unknown

SOURCE:
Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum, Mt. Pleasant, NC

DATE CREATED:
1920s

RIGHTS:
Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum, Mt. Pleasant, NC

Collection:
Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum, Mt. Pleasant, NC

FORMAT:
jpeg

SPATIAL COVERAGE:
United States

SOURCE INSTITUTION:
http://www.ecshmuseum.org

Mont Amoena Song/Poem, 1922

Posted on May 5, 2026 by montamoena

TITLE:
Mont Amoena Song/Poem, 1922

SUBJECT:
Document

DESCRIPTION:
Handwritten in pencil on lined paper.

CREATOR:
Unknown

SOURCE:
Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum, Mt. Pleasant, NC

DATE CREATED:
1922

RIGHTS:
Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum, Mt. Pleasant, NC

Collection:
Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum, Mt. Pleasant, NC

FORMAT:
jpeg

SPATIAL COVERAGE:
United States

SOURCE INSTITUTION:
http://www.ecshmuseum.org

TRANSCRIPTION:

Looking backward o’er the pathway
Trod in earlier days,
Hand in hand with you, our comrades,
We’ve come now to parting ways.

Shall we leave you but a mem’ry?
Nay!Our ideals, too!
Golden milestones we’ve erected,
They’re all be far guides to you.

One’s for brave and earnest effort,
One’s for lives that give,
One’s for love and reverence’s footstool,
One’s for hearts that live.

One’s for hope, and one’s for friendship,
One’s for thoughtfulness,
One’s for love of home and country,
One’s for God and His goodness.

We’re not afraid to leave behind us
These our mem’ries bright,
Our successes and failures
May but help you toward the light.

Mont Amoena! Thou whose spirit
Hovers o’er us here!
Be our guide, our inspiration,
Be for all time near.

Keep ambition always burning,
May we faithful be,
Ever true our hearts we’re turning,
Mont Amoena! Unto thee!

Correspondence between Capt. Jonas Cook and Rev. Z. W. Bedenbaugh, 1891

Posted on March 11, 2024 by montamoena

TITLE:
Letter from Capt. Jonas Cook to Rev. Z. W. Bedenbaugh

SUBJECT:
Correspondence

DESCRIPTION:
Hand-written announcement of Bedenbaugh’s election as Principal of Mont Amoena Female Seminary.

CREATOR:
Capt. Jonas Cook, Mt. Pleasant, North Carolna

SOURCE:
Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum, Mt. Pleasant, NC

DATE CREATED:
Undated, first quarter, 1891

RIGHTS:
Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum, Mt. Pleasant, NC

Collection
Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum, Mt. Pleasant, NC

FORMAT
jpeg

SPATIAL COVERAGE
United States

SOURCE INSTITUTION
http://www.ecshmuseum.org

TRANSCRIPTION:
Mount Pleasant,
Cabarrus Co., N. C.

Rev. Z. W. Bedenbaugh,

Dr. Sir & Bro.:
It is my pleasure to officially inform you that at a recent meeting of the Board of Trustees of Mont Amoena Female Seminary, at this place, you were unanimously elected Principal of said Seminary. The conditions of the call are as follows, Viz: You are to furnish, employ teachers, and have entire control of the institution, subject to the approval of the Board, and to pay to the treasurer of said Board one hundred dollars ($100) annually – the Board assuming no responsibilities. It was in the mind of the Board, when you were elected, that the church in this place (Holy Trinity E. L. Church) would also extend to you a call to become its pastor. (Waiting for an action of the church explains the course of the delay of this letter). I regret to say that the church has its eye upon another man and therfore the call from said church is not extended.

With the same mail of this letter I send to you the last catalogue, for your information.

Very truly yours
Jonas Cook, Sec.
B. T. Mont. A. F. S. [Board of Trustees, Mont Amoena Female Seminary]

P.S.
It will cost something like $800⁰⁰ to furnish the Seminary and you would need to employ at least two (2) assistants and a Music & Art teacher.
____________

RESPONSE

TITLE:
Letter from Rev. Z. W. Bedenbaugh to Capt. Jonas Cook

SUBJECT:
Correspondence

DESCRIPTION:
Hand-written response to being elected Principal of Mont Amoena Female Seminary. He declined the position.

CREATOR:
Rev. Zaccheus Wright Bedenbaugh, Newberry, South Carolina

SOURCE:
Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum, Mt. Pleasant, NC

DATE CREATED:
June 3, 1891, Prosperity, South Carolina

RIGHTS:
Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum, Mt. Pleasant, NC

Collection
Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum, Mt. Pleasant, NC

FORMAT
jpeg

SPATIAL COVERAGE
United States

SOURCE INSTITUTION
http://www.ecshmuseum.org

TRANSCRIPTION:
Prosperity, S. C. June 3rd, 1891

Capt. Jonas Cook
Secty. B. Trustees M. A. F. S.
[Secretary, Board of Trustees Mont Amoena Female Seminary]

Dear Sir & Bro.: – I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter informing me of the action of the Board of Trustees of Mt. Amoena Female Seminary in electing me Principal of said institution. Since the reception of your very kind and fraternal letter, I have had the matter under serious and prayerful consideration, that I might know His will and my duty in this matter. It is a source of great satisfaction to me to know of the confidence and esteem of the Board of Trustees of Mt. Amoena F. Seminary, and a matter of much regret that I cannot see my way clear to accept the position so kindly offered me. Various reasons have influnece [sic] me in my decision, not the least of which is that I believe it necessary for the perpetuity and success of the institution that a man better qualified in every way for the work be called, and not from any lack of interest in the ~~in the~~ Seminary or unwillingness to take up distinctive Church work I beg that you communicate my decission [sic] to the Board, and express to them my sincere thanks and appreciation of their kindness and confidence. With best wishes and many prayers for the success of Mt. Amoena F. Seminary,

I remain yours in Christ,
Z. W. Bedenbaugh

Purchase of 5 Haines Brothers Pianos

Posted on August 9, 2022 by montamoena

TITLE:
Purchase of 5 Haines Brothers Pianos

SUBJECT:
Correspondence

DESCRIPTION:
Purchase 5 Haines Bros. Pianos.

CREATOR:
Haines Brothers, The artist’s choice. [Portraits and testimonials from musicians, singers, etc.]

SOURCE:
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008614132

DATE:
1910s

DATE AVAILABLE:
20th century

DATE CREATED:
New York, 1913.

Collection
Publications. New York Public Library.

FORMAT
jpeg

SPATIAL COVERAGE
United States

SOURCE INSTITUTION
HathiTrust.org

1924 Hand Railing Plaque

Posted on August 12, 2018 by montamoena

1924 Hand Railing Presentation Plaque.

TITLE:
Mont Amoena Female Seminary Hand Railing Plaque

SUBJECT:
Cultural History

DESCRIPTION:
Mont Amoena Female Seminary Bronze Hand Railing Presentation Plaque.

SOURCE:
From the steps of Mont Amoena Seminary. Donated to the museum by Bobo and Mary Frances Allmon.

DATE:
19 Oct 1924

DATE AVAILABLE:
20th century

DATE CREATED:
1924. Commissioned by Lottie L. McDonald Rippy.

RIGHTS:
Rights reserved by the source institution.

FORMAT
Bronze Plaque

SPATIAL COVERAGE
United States–North Carolina

TRANSCRIPTION:
LOVE IS THE FULFILLING OF THE LAW
THEREFORE THE RAILINGS ARE
LOVINGLY PRESENTED
BY
LOTTIE L MCDONALD RIPPY
OCTOBER 19, 1924

Charlotte Observer, October 23, 1924, p. 16.

MONT AMOENA SEMINARY GIVEN STEEL RAILINGS
Special to the Observer

MOUNT PLEASANT, Oct. 22 – A pleasant visitor at the Mont Amoena seminary was Mrs. Lottie McDonald Rippy of Birmingham, Ala. a former pupil whose object was to present to the institution a pair of steel hand rails for the new cement front steps. A lovely brass plate at the head of the railings will be thus engraved:

“Love is the fulfilling of the law. Therefore the railings are lovingly presented by Lottie L. McDonald Rippy – October 19, 1924.”

This highly appreciated gift by one who does not forget the benefits she has received from her Alma Mater, makes a beautiful entrance to the already imposing edifice.

Mrs. Rippy gave the girls an inspiring and uplifting address in the chapel, the subject of the talk being “Love.” She has also kindly offered a gold medal annually for the best essay on the same subject, competition being open to the whole school.

Memories of Mont Amoena

Educating Young Women in Mount Pleasant, NC 1859-1927

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Hahn, Stella Blanche, Graduation Essay, 1918

Hahn, Stella Blanche, Student Essay, 1918

Letter from Susan Bittle Myers to Mrs. G. W. Bowman, 25 Nov 1897

Student Accounts, 3rd and 4th Quarter, 1922 (?)

Mont Amoena Alumnae Association Solicitation Letter

Mont Amoena Billing Form, 1920s

Mont Amoena Song/Poem, 1922

Correspondence between Capt. Jonas Cook and Rev. Z. W. Bedenbaugh, 1891

Purchase of 5 Haines Brothers Pianos

1924 Hand Railing Plaque

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