Excerpt from The Pajaca, 1943 We at Pfeiffer feel that our school has one of the brightest futures of any school of its type in the country In order that everyone interested might have a better knowledge of the amazing progress which is our history, the staff has decided to include a short historical sketch in this issue. In 1899, Miss Emily Pruden, one of the early leaders of education in North Carolina, established a small school in Lenoir, North Carolina. It was named in honor of Ebenezer Mitchell, a veteran of the Union Army in the War between the States. Mrs. Mitchell of Dayton, Ohio, his mother, had contributed money to the founding of the school. Fire destroyed the school in 1903, '\and the authorities appealed to the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church for help._ The society took over the operation and management of the school and moved it to its present location at Misenheimer in 1907. Two buildings were erected, Mitchell Home for girls and Cline Hall for boys. Again in 1914, the school was the victim of another fire. This time the main building was destroyed and Cline Hall had to be used as a girls' dormitory. The boys were housed in the village. Also in 1914, the high school was accredited by the State Department. In 1928, two years of college were authorized and the lower grades were gradually abandoned. The school then concentrated on the last two years of high school and the first two years of college. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.