From the Lafayette Advertiser of January 13th, 1900: SLI; INTRODUCING PROF. STEPHENS. Prof. Edwin Lewis Stephens, the recently elected president of the Industrial School to be located in Lafayette, was born in the parish of Natchitoches in 1872. He attended school in Natchitoches and at Keachie, La., until, at the age of 17 he entered the Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge. Graduating there with the degree of bachelor of arts in 1892, he was elected to the chair of Latin in the Louisiana State Normal School. In 1896 he received appointment to the Helen Gould scholarship in the School of Pedagogy of New York University, from which he was graduated in 1899 with the doctors degree in pedagogy. He has done much institute work in the Summer Normal Schools of the state during the past six years or eight years, and has had part in the educational organizations that have been uplifting the condition of the schools and the teachers profession. At the time of his recent election he was the teacher of physics and chemistry in the New Orleans Boys High School. We learn that Prof. Stephens, said it was his present expectation top begin the construction of the main building within a very short time, hoping to have it sufficiently near completion to open School at the beginning of the next school year. This is to be the academic building, consisting of class rooms and an assembly hall. A second building providing for machinery, wood work and iron work, and representing the more specifically industrial characteristic of the institution. is expected to follow. Prof. Stephens will leave within this week to make a tour among the cities of the north and east, visiting and studying the industrial and technological institutions of the country. Upon returning he will take up residence at Lafayette, and begin the work of the institute immediately. Lafayette Advertiser 1/13/1900. From the Lafayette Advertiser of January 13th, 1894: THE LAFAYETTE HIGH SCHOOL. It is with profound satisfaction the ADVERTISER makes the announcement that definitely, the graded public school (not high school, yet) for which the people of this parish has opined for so long, will be opened in the High School building on the 22nd day of the present month. The necessary funds for defraying the expenses of operating the school have a secured, and are already set aside for the purpose to provide against any possible interruption on this score, during the scholastic term about to be begun. Prof. Wesley A. LeRosen, a native of Shreveport, La., has been engaged on high recommendation, to take charge of the school, and, as he announces in another column of this issue will commence examining applicants for admission next Thursday, the 18th instant. For the guidance of teachers and the public a full text of the different grades, as established, is also published. Lafayette Advertiser 1/13/1894. From the Lafayette Gazette of January 13th, 1894: THE HIGH SCHOOL. As per announcement in another column of this paper the High School will be opened on Monday, Jan. 22, under the direction of Prof. W. A. LeRosen, whose services have been engaged. Prof. LeRosen comes to us highly recommended by prominent citizens and leading educators of this State. He is a graduate of the Peabody Normal School of Nashville, Tenn., and is a teacher of experience, having served as president of the Arcadia Male and Female College and of the Simsboro Institute of Bienville parish and having taught school a number of years in the State of Georgia. The examination of pupils desiring to enter the High School will take place at the High School building on Jan. 18 at 10 oclock. Lafayette Gazette 1/13/1890. Picture: 1908 View of SLII campus from the Roy house. The old Martin Hall (known then as the Main Building) is in the center of the picture. In Craig Zimmermans Archives.
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