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
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
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,
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
SOURCE INSTITUTION Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum All rights reserved by the source institution.
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.
RIGHTS: The SA of NC considers this item in the public domain by U.S. law but responsibility for permissions rests with researchers.
Collection
Charters. Governors’ Office Records. State Archives of North Carolina
FORMAT Laws (documents), jpeg
SPATIAL COVERAGE United States–North Carolina
SOURCE INSTITUTION State Archives of North Carolina, North Carolina Digital Collections
TRANSCRIPTION: THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA
TO ALL WHO SHALL SEE THESE PRESENTS, GREETING:
Whereas, D H Bittle, J. C. McEachern, Paul Miller, John S. Henderson, M. Widenhouse, Moses Barrier, John A. Troutman, and M. H. Carter
have associated themselves together under ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT now on file in the Office of the Secretary of the State, acknowledged before the Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Cabarrus County, on the 29th day of March, 1859, and have applied to be incorporated for the purpose of forming a Literary Institution for the promotion of education under the corporate style of “The Montamoena Female Seminary” to pursue the business of a high school to encourage education at Mount Pleasant in the County of Cabarrus, for the term of Thirty years.
Now Therefore, In pursuance of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, ratified on the eighth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, entitled ” An Act to incorporate Literary Institutions and Benevolent and Charitable Societies,” We do by these presents declare the before-mentioned persons and their successors a Corporation, according to the terms prescribed in said ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT, under the name and corporate style of “The Montamoena Female Seminary” to carry on the business of a high school to promote & encourage education, at Mount Pleasant, in the County of Cabarrus, for the term of Thirty years from the date hereof: to have all the rights, privileges, powers and immunities conferred by the before recited Act of the General Assembly, and to be subject to all the limitations, liabilities and restrictions imposed by said Act.
In Witness Whereof, His Excellency John W. Ellis, our Governor, Captain-General, and Commander in Chief, hath signed with his hand these presents, and caused our Great Seal of the State of North Carolina to be affixed thereto.
Done at our City of Raleigh, on the 2nd day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty nine, and in the eighty third year of our Independence.
BY THE GOVERNOR: John W. Ellis
Graham Daves Private Secretary.
DESCRIPTION: An article from unknown newspaper reminiscing about Mont Ameona Seminary.
CREATOR: Staff writer
SOURCE:Mount Pleasant Unknown newspaper(Cabarrus County, NC). c. 1970s
DATE: 1970s
DATE AVAILABLE: 20th century
DATE CREATED: c. 1970s
RIGHTS: Rights reserved by the source institution.
FORMAT Articles
SPATIAL COVERAGE United States–North Carolina
SOURCE INSTITUTION Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum All rights reserved by the source institution.
CITATION: Staff Writer, “Certificates Of Graduation Are Presented To 22,” Mont Amoena: Educating the Young Ladies of Cabarrus Couunty 1859-1927, accessed December 27, 2014, https://montamoena.org/2014/12/28/n-c-educational-center/
TRANSCRIPTION:
Unknown newspaper, c. 1970s
N. C. EDUCATIONAL CENTER
Rev. C. L. T. Fisher, Re. Henderson N. Miller, Rev. J. H. C. Fisher, Rev. R. A. Goodman and Prof. H. T. J. Ludwig.
Emphasis was placed on economic operation of Mont Amoena. Cost of tuition was amazingly low by today’s standards. It was possible to attend the school for as low as from $62 to $80 per year, including tuition, room and board, in the 1890’s to less than $200 in the era before World War I. Costs were somewhat higher in the years before the school ended its distinguished career.
Residents of Mt. Pleasant will particularly be interested in this paragraph from the Mont Amoena catalog for 1923-24:
“The town is pleasantly situated in a fertile section of the State, and is free from all malarial diseases. Persons suffering from chills and fever are always benefited, and in some instances cured, by a residence in town. These facts are stated in order that parents may feel safe in sending their daughters to the school.”
Says the catalog of 1897-98:
” The community (Mt. Pleasant) is highly moral and intelligent and is protected, by legislative enactment, from all exhibitions of an immoral tendency, and from the sale of spirituous liquors within its corporate limits. . . .”
The catalog of the school also placed emphasis on physical training for its students, pointing out that in addition to tennis, basketball, and croquet courts, there was a regular walking course prescribed for the young ladies. One capes us, says about the exercise of walking. . . .”The more walking the better.”
Memories of Mont Amoena 