South Lancaster Academy

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.

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.

= Principals =

*1882-1884 Goodloe harper bell (1832-1899)
*1884-1885 Dores Alonzo Robinson (1848-1899)
*1885-1888 Charles Cornell Ramsay (1857-1942)
*1888-1894 George W. Caviness (1857-1923)
*1894-1899 Joseph Harvey Haughey (1857-1935)
*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)
*1920-1920 Otto Marion John (1883-1938)
*1921-1922 George R. Lehman (1905-1986)
*1922-____ Irvil Atwood Armstrong (1887-1936) First Principal after College faculty separated
*c1930-____ Linton Garfield Sevrens (1895-1975)
*1944-1945 William Burton Higgins (1899-1968)
*1945-1952 Chester Everett Kellogg (1892-1984)
*c1952-____ Harold F. Lease (1904-1995)
*c1955-____ Edwin Charles Harkins (1908-1993)
*c1961-1966 Lloyd Stanley Davis (1916-1995)
*1966-1967 Don Lake
*1967-1968
*1968-1969 J. Melvyn Clemons
*1969-
*1976-1989 Alfred Peder Aastrup (b. 1929)
*1989-
*2002-2007 Allyson E. Cram (b.1965)
*2007-current Ron Huff

ee also

*Seventh-day Adventist Church
*List of Seventh-day Adventist academies and elementary schools‎

References

* Rowena Elizabeth Purdon, "That New England School", The College Press, 1956
* [http://www.sla-browning.org/about.html Official Website for South Lancaster Academy]
* [http://www.atlanticuc.edu/ Official Website for Atlantic Union College]