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2 de feb. de 2024 · Storer College started as Storer Normal School which was a school to train teachers to go out and instruct in the Shanendoah Valley. There were about 30,000 newly freed people in the Harpers Ferry ...
10 de oct. de 2022 · Madison Spencer Briscoe was born on March 4, 1904 in Winchester, Virginia. The "bug man", as he would later be known as, graduated from Storer College in 1924 and returned as a professor in 1930. Briscoe was fundamental in designing the pre-medical curriculum at Storer in 1934. In 1941 he left Storer to teach at Howard University and begin his PhD but quickly joined the war effort ...
25 de oct. de 2022 · The president (of Storer College) called him once “A man of sterling worth and a friend of every righteous cause.” He was known for helping struggling students, he boarded students in his home. And he taught an amazing breadth of classes from math, science, to professional studies in teaching, to sociology, to history of West Virginia and ...
13 de nov. de 2017 · Read Part 1 . For excellent resources on Storer College’s history, see Dawne Raines Burke, An American Phoenix: A History of Storer College from Slavery to Desegregation, 1865-1955 (Pittsburgh, PA: Geyer Printing, 2006) and “To Emancipate the Mind and Soul” Storer College 1867-1955, edited by Catherin Baldau (Harpers Ferry, WV: Harpers Ferry Park Association, 2017).
According to historical documents, the Storer College Alumni Association was formed in 1877 by a small group consisting of faculty members and students. Read More. A.S Roper. Vice President. A.S. Roper serves as the Vice President of the Storer College National Alumni Association. Roper is the daughter-in-love of two Storerites Russell Roper ...
Storer College of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, emerged from the aftermath of the Civil War with the purpose of educating former enslaved Africans who were now facing the world with few skills and no education. It began in 1865 as a school in the Lockwood House, a private residence, with the support of the Freewill Baptist Home Mission Society ...
Welcome to the 2020 Storer College National Alumni Association Reunion! I hope you are well, safe, and surrounded by loved ones while we wait for this coronavirus global pandemic to run its course. My name is James Green, Jr., and I am the proud son and nephew of Storer graduates from the 1940s. As President of the Storer College National ...
