| Show KINGSBURY congregational A 10 ftp ft A aw THE WILLCOX ACADEMY 1920 by rev george A downey kingsbury KInc ebury congregational church hot tor for nearly twenty year years mints lored to ili din boods of now new people luto thu tile ashley valley an as ull well an all to HOUK who have boon been herel longor it linh ling n minall but comfortable building and holds services regular 15 1 eada sunday it ling has nearly ono one hundred members on ite its roll and about ty enrolled onro llod in ite its sunday school tho the christian endeavor society taken full charro charge of the sun duy evening meeting rue eting ind and ie Is train liik it lUl forty young people for or work tho tile various of willcox academy havo have served as pastors anat 41 tile earliest years the school having become so largo that ie Is la is ilk mane job in itself tho the homo llomo missionary society la is now looking for a man to tako take chargo charge of tit the church thus leaving mr downey free to give all hie his time to school 0 I 1 1020 willcox academy wae was founded in by tho the congregational educational dional society of or doston boston from a chool with one teacher it has grown r to an academy with a seven room building ono one hundred sixty five pu vu alir and arid seven teachers tea cherB the equip both ln in aho claas toil apa the playground in is being cons 11 increased with a view to making tho the school facilities complete Is nearly n as may way be possible the tile junior high school plan in several years ears ago hae has meet with approver app by patrons and vi pupils I 1 under thia this plan pupils 1 in the seventh I 1 and eight grades hare have the advantage i of several teachers all more or loae leas in their line of work in place of one teacher who must alone carry all the subjects of theao these grades an opportunity is also afforded of taking up ai nit extra extras subjects not ordinarily in the tile course of theao grades tho the school otters offers a business course including typewriting ond and shorthand of which many are avail 1 ing the hope of a Durn Dom ostle science department next year ie to giving great encouragement since th need of this has long beon been felt by those who have the interests Inte reate of the school at hoart heart tho the teachers aro are all young 0 onion of christian character cha and in anti are devoting their on tire time to the success cess of the de do Part Monts which they represent and to tho the welfare of the students under their care and training tho the primary tend te bor miss rolfe and mrs mildred downey of the antor dopart department ment havo have had bad a number of years of successful work in their departments of ho the high school department atlases alice and alvaretta alvaretto kor gor and cinq 1 julia russell are all in III third year of untiring and unselfish service bliss Tit tiffany tany hae has had many years of training in business methods and charge of tho the commercial work those these teachers are all college graduate graduates and with conscientious are helping tho the students 1 to broader and nobler lives while willcox la Is sustained by tho the amort missionary association yet it 1 anti offering the ht same assistance to all classes of students and leaving free the I 1 loua fous preference of each the moral trend of the school Is ever up ward the social reah reach Is over ever outward and onward dihe principal rev georee george A downey Is now in III hia his eight 5 ear car of ot service for willcox he ile believes in the school does not spare himself in hie his endeavors to make the work a success mrs downey doney Is to tho the efficient chent matron of the teachers home in the modern house of ex mayor E D samuels in ili oll probability thice house will A ill bo be pui elis d as a a hoine for the ali faculty kil addition of one room rom and arid an and tho enlargement of one ane of the classroom rid ii i i among the plans of the A at 51 ak architect who visited vernal la last laa a summer |
