The Story Of Athens College Athens Alabama PDF Download

Excerpt from Announcement of Athens College for Young Women, Athens, Alabama: Eighty-Sixth Session, 1929-30 In 1870 the North Alabama Conference was organized. Athens, with all the northern part of the State of Alabama, came into the boundaries of that Conference. All Church property in the terri tory formerly held by the Tennessee Conference was also transferred to the North Alabama Conference. In 1872 the charter was amended, the name being changed to Athens Female Institute. In 1889 the charter was amended again, and the name changed to Athens Female College. The name has since been changed to Athens College for Young Women. In 1913 Athens College was recognized as a Standard College Of a-grade by the General Board of Education. It has held this grade continuously since that date. Its students are admitted for post-graduate work to the leading Universities and the under graduate work oi Athens College has won a place of esteem through the students who have taken advanced degrees in these Universities. Athens College has sent Missionaries to every field in which the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, has entered; its daughters fill ing leading social and educational positions in America. Athens College girls are the wives of Supreme Court Judges, Governors, Bishops, Ministers and Professional men. Athens Alumnae may well be proud of the records made by Athens College graduates. Among those who have registered their faith in Athens College by their gifts to the Institution are: The Founders, A. L. P. Green, Thomas Maddin, Ambrose F. Driskill, Joshua Bucher, Frederick F. Ferguson, Daniel Coleman, Ira E. Hobbs, Benjamin W. Maclin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.