Talk:Sunnydale Adventist Academy

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Here is an info box I made just for Seventh-day Adventist academies. Template:Infobox_Seventh-day_Adventist_Academies. You can see an example of it at Georgia-Cumberland Academy. In Jesus -- Anthony White 03:59, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Chronology for Sunnydale Adventist Academy
1944

The Academy Commission

On August 14, 1944, at the Missouri Conference constituency meeting which was held at Jefferson City at the time of the annual camp meeting, a committee known as the Educational Commission was appointed and empowered to act in the establishment and location of an academy for the Missouri Conference.

This committee consisted of the local conference committee and one member from each of the nine districts within the state of Missouri.

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After considerable searching, this committee met again on November 4, 1945, at which time they voted to locate the Missouri academy, now known as the Sunnydale Academy, on the A. B. Chance farm near Centralia, Missouri. This action, however, was taken with the understanding that the union and the General Conference give approval to the location. We wish also to express our hearty and sincere appreciation to the Central Union Conference and its constituency who have contributed $40,000 and to the General Conference who contributed $30,000, making it possible for us to locate the Sunnydale Academy on the A. B. Chance farm.

D. C. BUTHERUS

DonaldRichardSands (talk) 19:34, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

1945

The Central Union Conference and the General Conference presented the Missouri conference "with a very fine farm, fully equipped and ready to begin work on..." A board had been chosen. It planned first to build a girls dorm. H. C. Hartman was chosen to be the principal and business manager. His wife took charge of the music department. The board invited C. M. Babcock to be the Bible teacher. Babcock was a minister with "long experience, true and tried...". Turner, a successful Missouri farmer, agreed to manage the farm work which was envisioned as a major industry. Miss Hilda Fern Remley agreed to be the girls dean; Delmer Holbrook to be the boys' dean. Both were from Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska. The board planned for the school to open September, 1946. They planned for funds to be available from the Missouri church members.

The Missouri Conference of Seventh-day Adventists set a fund-raising goal of $60,000, an average of $20 per member. They hoped to raise this amount in the few weeks remaining in 1945. Leaders of the churches were asked to visit every Adventist home in Missouri in an effort to meet the goal. Construction could not begin until 75% of the funds had been raised.

DonaldRichardSands (talk) 19:34, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

1946

Ground-breaking Ceremony at Sunnydale Academy

Promptly at 2 o'clock on the afternoon of February 18 a goodly number of workers, lay members, business associates and friends from the surrounding com- munities met on the future nine-acre campus for a ground-breaking ceremony marking the beginning of the girls' dorm- itory, the first building to be erected at our academy.

The program was presented from a temporary platform erected on the future site of the new building. Superinten- dent H. C. Hartman served as master of ceremonies, introducing the program and speakers.

Elder Leon Robbins from St. Louis offered the opening prayer. Elder G. E. Hutches, president of the board of di- rectors, sketched the "Historic Back- ground," relating the activities of the academy commission from the day it was organized until the day in October, 1945, when the end of the long search for an academy site was reached.

A hearty welcome was extended to the academy from Centralia by Mr. Julius Ed- wards from the First National Bank and from the community by Mr. John Shindler.

Elder G. R. Fattic, Central Union ed- ucational secretary, outlined the purposes and objectives of our three hundred ed- ucational institutions the world over, assuring the hearers that we had come

to be a permanent institution in this community and the state of Missouri.

Elder E. E. Cossentine, president of Union College, welcomed Sunnydale \cademv into the sisterhood of acade- mies comprising Union's territory. He stated that Union College would be happy to accept the first graduates as well as future graduates in view of the fact that Sunnydale will be staffed quite largely by fully accredited teachers from Union College.

Mr. Hartman pointed out the loca- tions of the proposed building sites for the girls' dormitory, boys' domitory, ad- ministration building, teachers' cottages, superintendent's home, and other fu- ture structures to be erected on the spacious nine-acre plot. He then intro- duced Mr. Robert Deering, Columbia arcritect who drew the plans for the girls' domitory. Mr. Deering briefly out- lined the outstanding features of the building which will house 80 girls and expressed his belief in its beauty, prac- tibility, and adequacy.

Staff Sergeant Willard L. Bresee was next introduced as building supervisor and he made a brief response. Because of Sgt. Bresee's experience in supervising the erection of a number of other large buildings, such as the auditorium and Don Lo\e industrial building located on the Union College campus, we can be assured of well constructed edifices.

In an earnest dedicatory prayer Elder C. M. Babcock from Columbia pre- sented the plot of ground to the throne of grace, asking that the purposes for which it had been set aside be carried out.

Then with Mr. Hartman at the con- trols of a caterpillar tractor and Elder Hutches guiding the plow, Mr. HerscJiel Turner driv ing -a team of typical Missouri mules and Elder Babcock holding an- other plow, deep furrows were made in preparation for laving the foundation of the new building.

In spite of cloudv, wet weather every- one seemed to recognize the advantages of a location where pure air, sunshine, and spacious, roomy lawns provide an ideal setting for student home life.

A serious, interested atmosphere pre- \aded the group as this milestone was reached, and we rejoice that our acad- emy is started; for its primary purpose

is to help save Missouri youth and aid in preparing them for the kingdom of God.

MRS. H. C. HARTMAN

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The ground-breaking ceremony for the girls' dorm took place on February 18, 1946. This was the first building to be erected at the academy. After the program, Principal Hartman took the controls of a caterpillar tractor and Missouri Conference President Hutches guided the plow. Farm manager Herschel Turner drove a team of Missouri mules with C. M. Babcock holding another plow. The two teams ploughed some furrows in preparation for laving the foundation of the new building.

The elementary teachers' institute held at Sunnydale Academy, November 27- 30, was a history making occasion. Being the first of its kind that Missouri has ever held in our own Missouri school, many things happened worth remembering. The Thanksgiving program planned by the school was one of the high lights of the occasion. Elder L. R. Rasmussen of the General Conference educational depart- ment, Elder G. R. Fattic of the union edu- cational department, and Elder E. M. Cadwallader of Union College were present. Elder G. E. Hutches spoke at the Friday night service during the institute. Saturday night at the close of the pro- gram Brother A. S. Zvtkoskee presented Sunnydale with a 16mm. Ampro moving picture projector.

http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/CUR/CUR19461210-V15-49__C/index.djvu?djvuopts&page=7

http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/CUR/CUR19461210-V15-49__C.pdf#view=fit

DonaldRichardSands (talk) 19:34, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Link left in comment tags between Herschel and Turner
I think this link leads to a pointless download? It was left in between Herschel Turner's names in the history section. If anybody can establish its use, it might be a reference or just something I'm glad I deleted. Thanks! Rvanarsdale (talk) 23:32, 19 February 2016 (UTC)