The Hillcrest School

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#CC9966" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="04600640dkesoe.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Medical Missionary Press</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#006633" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FF3300" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#CC0033" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Medical Missionary Press"><B>home</B></A></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=190 BGCOLOR="#CC9966" TEXT="#080000"> <div> Back to <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Education">Education</A></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Hillcrest School Information</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="W.C. White Visit around 1911">Willie White Visit around 1911</A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> The Hillcrest School</div> <div> The Hillcrest School was started in 1907 for the stated purpose of providing education to colored workers who would go out and carry forward the gospel work at their own charges" (in other words, be self-supporting). It was started by O. R. Staines and others near Nashville. This school was different from the one started at Madison in that it was specifically for colored students, whereas the Madison School was started for white students who would come primarily from the north and would devote themselves to work in the southern field. The state charter which was drawn up for legal incorporation was pretty much identical to that of the Madison School (which at that time was known as The Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute).</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Floyd Brallier, a brother-in-law of Edward Sutherland, was also on the founding board. Many of the documents that are available describing the work at the Hillcrest School indicate that it was modeled very closely after the Madison School. Floyd Brallier had been a worker at the Madison School and could well have been an agency in utilizing material, and even the exact wording, of descriptive statements from the Madison School reports and materials and applying them to Hillcrest.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> The State of Tennessee Charter of Incorporation states that the purpose of the school is "for the teaching and training of missionary teachers, and farmers, who are willing to devote at least a certain portion of their lives in unremunerative missionary labor for the glory of God, and the benefit of their fellow men."</div> <bR> <bR> <div> For more information you may read Pamphlet #37, entitled "Hillcrest School Farm" published by Southern Publishing Association (reprinted by Leaves of Autumn in Pamphlets in the Concordance, volume 1, beginning on page 393).</div> </td> </tr></table></body>