South Lancaster Academy

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South Lancaster Academy (SLA) / Browning Elementary is a co-educational PreK-12 school owned and operated by Seventh-day Adventists to provide a Christian education for the community and vicinity of South Lancaster, MA.

[edit] History

1882 Organized as a preparatory school on Feb 5th, under the leadership of Stephen Nelson Haskell (1833-1922)

1882 On April 19th, first day of class for "that New England school"

1883 On Dec 12th, incorporated and formerly named as South Lancaster Academy

1887 In May, certificates were given to thirteen students who had completed the intermediate course of eight grades.

1888 On May 12th, first SLA graduation ceremony was held.

1912 On Oct 12th the cornerstone was laid for the J. T. Browning Missionary and Industrial School

1913 Browning Normal school dedicated

1918 Renamed Lancaster Junior College, after advanced work was carried on for several years in theology, teacher training, and business.

1922 Renamed Atlantic Union College, after offering a four-year theological course and being authorized degree-granting powers conferred by the Massachusetts legislature. The Academy and College became separate institutions with the Academy having its own board of trustees and faculty.

1967 South Lancaster Academy re-situated at its current location on George Hill Road in South Lancaster, MA.

[edit] Principals

1882-1884 Goodloe harper bell (1832-1899)
1884-1885 Dores A. Robinson (1848-1899)
1885-1888 Charles Cornell Ramsay (1857-1942)
1888-1894 George W. Caviness (1857-1923)
1894-1899 Joseph H. Haughey (d.1935)
1899-1907 Frederick Griggs (1867-1952)
1907-1909 Benjamin F. Machlan (1865-1928)
1909-1913 Charles Smull Longacre (1871-1958)
1913-1916 Benjamin F. Machlan (1865-1928)
1916-1917 William G. Worth
1917-1920 Mahlon Elsworth Olsen (1873-1952)
____-____ Irvil Atwood Armstrong (1887-1936) First Principal after College faculty separated
____-____ Linton Garfield Sevrens (1895-1975)
1944-1945 William B. Higgins (1899-1968)
1945-1952 Chester E. Kellogg (1892-1984)
____-____ Harold F. Lease (1904-1995)
____-____ Edwin Charles Harkins (1908-1993)
____-____ Lloyd Stanley Davis (1916-1995)
1976-1989 Alfred P. Aastrup (b. 1929)
2002-____ Allyson E. Cram (b.1965)