Wake County NcArchives News.....School Matters in Raleigh June 25, 1891 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Linda Blum-Barton http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00003.html#0000645 April 4, 2006, 8:22 pm The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Ga. June 25, 1891 Meetings in the Interest of Two STate Institutions Raleigh, N. C., June 24. -- The executive committee of the board of trustees of the Agricultural and Mechanical college met yesterday and elected Charles B. Park, of Raleigh, as assistant instructor in the mechanical department. Plans for two additional dormitories were agreed on. The board of trustees of the Colored Agricultural and Mechanical college also met this afternoon and elected W. H. Pace, president, and John S. Leary, secretary. It was decided to advertise for the most advantegous proposals for the location of the college, bids to be made not later than August 26th. S. McD. Tate, W. B. McKay, Charles S. Moore and John S. Leary were appointed the executive committee to confer with the committee of the white college and make arrangements for conducting the colored college here provisionally for a period not to exceed one year until the college is regularly established. The college cannot by law be permanently connected with any existing institution. It was agreed by the committee to equip the colored college out of the first appropriation under the Merrill act, work to be done in teaching for the provisional session by teachers from the white college. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/wake/newspapers/schoolma24gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb