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The Wildcat, 1930 University of Central Florida STARS Text Materials of Central Florida Central Florida Memory 1-1-1930 The Wildcat, 1930 Bethune-Cookman University Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-texts University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Yearbook is brought to you for free and open access by the Central Florida Memory at STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Text Materials of Central Florida by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation Bethune-Cookman University, "The Wildcat, 1930" (1930). Text Materials of Central Florida. 261. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-texts/261 ^v-^" ,®; .r^^^ ^^.<<>^ .C^' ne W|L0<ilT for 1930 Published Annually by STUDENTS of BETHUNE-COOKMAN COLLEGE Daytona Beach, Florida Copyright, 1930, by BERNARD MILTO.N JONKS, General Manager Printed by BuRCM.\N BROTHERS Daytona Beach, Florida ^ ^ -•s^P^ (D DEDieATIOM As an expression of our gratitude and appreciation for her incomparable leader­ ship, for her motherly love and care she manifests toward every student, and for her great contribution to the Negro race, and to America, we dedicate this, the first volume of the "Wildcat" to our beloved President, jyHary iyiclL/eoJ. iJetJaiuLiie JU)reword e-^ss^ H N BEHALF of the student body of Bethune-Cookman College, we, the members of the "Wildcat" Staff, present this first volume of the "Wildcat". We hope that you who have been a part of the campus life, as students and teachers, will find this book in the future a means of retaining vivid in your memory friends and scenes that have grown dear to your hearts. To the friends of our institution, we hope that these pages will increase your interest in us, serving both as a source of information and pleasure. 1^ WILDCAT 1930 (^<3 O^O PRESIDENT'S OFFICE PRESIDENT'S HOME (T^O OO Page Eig/it ^:^ WILDCAT 1930 (^O C^:) ilisiory oi JoetJiiuLiiie^VyOotmiani College During the month of October, 1904, in a little rented cabin, with five little girls, a dollar and a half in capital, a vision of the future, and a firm faith in God, the Daytona Normal and Industrial Listitute for Negro Girls was established by Mary McLeod Bethune. The first payment of five dollars on the present site, then an old dumping ground, was raised by means of concerts and festivals. This unsightly spot became in a short time a clean, wholesome place upon which to b.uild and is now looked upon as one of the most desirable sites in the City of Daytona Beach. The following year, 1905, found the Institution placed upon a firmer basis with the organization of Trustee and Advisory Boards and the securing of a charter. The first five years of the Institution were years of prayer, increasing toil, and anxiety. Oftimes with little or no food the founder worked away, believing that God would help her realize her vision. During the long years of toil, when imperative demands had to be met, friends came always in time to ward off a crisis, and the institution grew. Today the founder feels that difl^culties and obstacles are but temporary, and with faith in God and humanity, looks forward to a bright future of the growing institution and a steady growth and ever-widening extension of the great work so humbly begun. As the institution grew it attracted state-wide attention, and later became known nationally. Men of national prominence became affiliated with it, serving on its Board of Trustees. In 1922 this institution was brought to the attention of the Board of Education for Negroes of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who, seeing in it an opportunity to build up in this state one of the greatest co-educational centers in the South, decided that Cookman Institute, which was being supported by the church, would serve to help p,ut over the enlarged program for education in Florida. Cookman Institute was founded in 1872 by the Rev. S. B. Darnell. It was the first institution for the higher education of Negroes founded in the State of Florida, and for a long time, was the only school of its kind in the State. In point of service no other institution of its kind in Florida equals it. During its half century of service it has maintained a uniformly high standard, morally, spiritually and intel­ lectually, for the young men and women who have come under its influence. The high standard of its work and ideals, the emphasis placed ,upon thoroughness in scholarship and Christian character, have given Cookman Institute a sure and abiding place in the hearts and afltections of the great mass of colored people in the state of Florida. Even yet they love and honor "Cookman Institute". In July, 1923, the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute was taken under the auspices of the Board of Education for Negroes of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Cookman Institute was merged with it, the institution thereupon becoming co­ educational and the name being changed to Bethune-Cookman College. C^-^ C^^ Page Nine 9h^ WILDCAT 1930 (T^-O nnnC^O IT ranees JtveyiioMs M^eyser A.B. Hunter CollfKe New York, N. Y. Tlie student botiy of Betliune-Cooknian College is seeking to pay tlie tremendous debt they owe to Mrs. Frances Reynolds Keyser, by treading diligently in the paths of culture, refinement and intellectuality tliat she laid during the early years of the school's existence. Mrs. Keyser came to this institution in 1911, when the school was known as "The Daytona Eilucational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls." She gave up the work of social service in which she was engaged in New York, to come to Mrs. Bethune and help in the herculean task of building a Christian institution to meet tlie needs of young women of tiiis section. Mrs. Keyser came to the school unusually well-equipped for service in this work. She had been, for many years, officially connected with the White Rose Home for Girls, of New York; she was well prepared intellectually for teaching and organizing; her patient understanding and hopeful Christian spirit made hers a guiding hand of love as well as development. Mrs. Bethune could luue secured no more staunch anti true lieutenant in her work. Mrs. Keyser was the combined instructor in Englisli, Dramatics, Public Speaking and Latin, and bookkeeper of the school, during her years of service here; she served as the first Dean, organizing the curricula of, first the junior high school and then the senior higii sciiool, and directing all academic activities with efficiency and thoroughness. Tiiis noble woman, whom every stuiient in Betliune-Cooknian reveres, is kept by illness at this time from being with us. But the cheeriness of her spirit and the strength of her devotion for Bvtiiune-Cookman are unimpaired. Neitiier time nor conditions can efface the results of her "labor of love" here r.nil witii profound respect and gratitude we greet her in this first issue of The Wildcat. C^<3 OO Page Ten 9hz- WILDCAT 1930 (T-O C-^^ LIVING ROOM, COOKMAN HALL LIVING ROOM, CURTIS HALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC BEDROOM, COOKMAN HALL LIBRARY PRACTICE COURT C^<3 OO Page Eleven 9he- WILDCAT 1930 (T-^ ART DiPARrMi NT T> DOMESTIC ART DEPARTMENT TEACHERS' COTTAGE DOMESTIC SCIENCE DEPARTMENT COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT PHYSICS LABOR.vroRY r^„ CHEMISTRY LABORATORY c-^O CVO Page 'l\iel<ve ADMIMISTRATIOM AMD IMSTRUCTIOM 9hB WILDCAT 1930 (T-O C/^^ BOARD OF TRUSTEES Dr. T. A. Adams, Atty. N. K. McGill, Daytona Beach, Florida Chicago, Illinois Dr. Will W. Alexander, Dr. R. R. Moton, Atlanta, Georgia Tuskegee Institute, Alabama Rev. H. W. Bartley Mr. F. J. Niver, Jacksonville, Florida Daytona Beach, Florida Mrs. Mary McL. Bethune, Dr. I. Garland Penn, Daytona Beach, Florida Cincinnati, Ohio Dr. M. Edith Campbell, Mr. Lawton L. Pratt, Cincinnati, Ohio Jacksonville, Florida Col. G. Edward Dickerson, Rev. S. P. Pratt, Jacksonville, Florida Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Mrs. Lee Mcllvaine Luquer Mrs. Leonard Elmhirst Mount Kisco, New York London, England Mrs. C. M. Ranslow, Dr. L. N. Gatch, Daytona Beach, Florida Cincinnati, Ohio Miss Margaret Rhodes, Dr. Z. J. Jerry Daytona Beach, Florida Sanford, Florida Mr. G. D. Rogers, Dr. L. H. King, Bradenton, Florida New Orleans, La. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Rev. Frank Hamilton, Porto Rico, B. I. Daytona Beach, Florida Dr. D. H. Rutter, Mrs. Mae R. Hawkins, Daytona Beach, Florida Daytona Beach, Florida Dr. Emmett J. Scott, Dr. Stanley High, Washington, D. C. New York, New York Dr. Arthur V/alls Smith, Dr. M. J. Holmes, Jacksonville, Florida Chicago, Illinois Mr. W. S. Snead, Dr. W. A. C. Hughes, Daytona Beach, Florida Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Mr. Albert Steiger, Rev. Perry B. James, Springfield, Massachusetts Tarpon Springs, Florida Mrs. J. Sutherland Stuart Bishop Robert E. Jones, Daytona Beach, Florida New Orleans, La. Dr. Laurence Thoinpson, Bishop F. T. Keeney, Daytona Beach, Florida Atlanta, Georgia Senator F. C. Walcott, Dr. M. M. Kugler, Washington, D. C. Cincinnati, Ohio Mr. Smith G. Young, Rev. Ralph Long, Lansing, Michigan Daytona Beach, Florida Mr. E. R. Matthews, New York, OfficersNew Yor ofk the Trustee Board Bishop F. T. Keeney, Chairman Rev. Ralph Long, Secretary Mr. W. S. Snead, Vice-chairman Mr. F. J. Niver, Treasurer (^-O O^) Page Fourteen 9he. WILDCAT 1930 C^O OO THE ADVISORY BOARD RESIDENT MEMBERS Mrs. T. A. Adams, Mrs. Emery Herrick, Mrs. Sarah U. Percy, Daytona Beach, Floriila New York, New York Hoosick Falls, New \'ork Mrs. H. A. Ainsworth, Miss Myrta Jones, Mrs. C. M. Ranslow, Michillinda, Michigan Cleveland, Oiiio Daytona Beacii, Florida Mrs.
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