at times, I would all but give
up.

I was at Tuskegee for six years, and I recall those years with much
pleasure and satisfaction. During my stay there I made many friends, and
I can not refrain from mentioning the Rev. R. C. Bedford, who has helped
me in so many ways; Mr. Warren Logan, the Treasurer of the school; Mrs.
F. B. Thornton, the Matron, who took me as her son, and my dear friend,
the farm manager, Mr. C. W. Greene. Many others were also very kind to
me.

I completed my course of study in 1900. By this time Mr. Bedford had
secured a position for me at Denmark, S. C., as stenographer to the
principal, Miss Elizabeth E. Wright, a Tuskegee graduate. I did not hold
this position very long before it was decided in a meeting of the board
of trustees to have me act as the school's treasurer. On being asked to
take this place, I answered that I would do my best. I have now been
here since the fall of the year of my graduation. I like the work
immensely.

A word about the school: It is known as the Voorhees Industrial School,
and is located in the midst of an overshadowing Negro population. It has
just completed the seventh year of its existence. Miss Wright, the
principal, founded it on faith. She is a delightfully spiritual woman,
and was at first greatly opposed in her efforts by both the black and
white people of this section. She persevered, however, and all the
people are now her friends. Her work here has been but little short of
marvelous. The pride of the grounds is a splendidly arranged Central
Building, which cost $3,000. It contains offices, class-rooms, and a
chapel that will seat 600 persons. A large building for girls, costing
$4,000, has also been erected. A Tuskegee graduate drew the plans for
both of these buildings. A barn which cost $800 we have also been able
to complete, and are now using.

In our Faculty, in addition to Miss Wright, who is of the Class of 1904,
Tuskegee Institute, we have six other Tuskegee graduates: a farm
superintendent, a carpenter, a teacher of drawing, a principal of the
primary department, a sewing and cooking teacher, a millinery teacher
and industrial helper, and a treasurer and bookkeeper, myself.

The day- and boarding-pupils number 300.

Voorhees is one of the sixteen larger "offshoots" of Tuskegee Institute,
manned and controlled by Tuskegee graduates. It is a chartered State
institution, and has on its board of trustees white and colored persons,
Northern a