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Mont Amoena Song/Poem, 1922

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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.

And those milestones stand forever
Binding us to you,
Standing for our best endeavor,
The honest, the loyal, the true.

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!

1924 Hand Railing Plaque

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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

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.

Girls at M. P. C. I.

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TITLE:
Girls at M. P. C. I.

SUBJECT:
Cultural History

DESCRIPTION:
An article from Mount Pleasant Collegiate Institute’s newsletter, The Institute, about students moving to M. P. C. I.  after the closure of Mont Amoena

CREATOR:
Staff writer

SOURCE:
The Institute (Mount Pleasant, NC). c, 1927.

DATE:
1920s

DATE AVAILABLE:
20th century

DATE CREATED:
c. 1927

RIGHTS:
Rights reserved by the source institution.

FORMAT
Document

SPATIAL COVERAGE
United States–North Carolina

SOURCE INSTITUTION
Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum
All rights reserved by the source institution.

CITATION:
Staff Writer, “Girls at M. P. C. I.,” Mont Amoena: Educating the Young Ladies of Cabarrus Couunty 1859-1927, accessed December 5, 2014, https://montamoena.org/2014/12/06/girls-at-m-p-c-i/

TRANSCRIPTION:
The Institute, c. 1927

GIRLS AT M. P. C. I.

Following announcement that Mont Amoena Seminary would not open for the session of 1927-1928, solicitious inquiries were received by the management of the Collegiate Institute as to the admission of girls. This presented a rather perplexing question. The Collegiate Institute is a distinctively Boys’ School. The military feature is definitely established. The admission of girls seemed incongruous. However, there was a disposition to accommodate those knocking for admission, especially those who were desirous of completing their preparation for college. Accordingly, it was decided to receive such as Day Students.

In the September Institute News, something in the nature of a prophecy was expressed in these words: “An added touch toward the refinement of the finished product – a 100 per cent, successful school year- will be realized, let us believe, in the presence of a limited number of sisters  counted for the first time in our student body. Just enough to give color to a handsome picture and set the pace, maybe, in scholastic achievement.”

The nine girls who were enrolled have fulfilled the “prophecy.” The photographic cut of the “Specials,” which will appear in the new catalogue, is evidence of the enhancement of the “color” and “refinement” of the student-body; and, those who have access to the Record can testify that the girls duffer not in comparison in the mater of scholastic achievement.”