Central Nazarene College

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established = 1909
closed = 1929
type = Private
affiliation = Church of the Nazarene
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city = Hamlin
state = TX
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country = USA
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Central Nazarene College was a higher education institution of the Church of the Nazarene established 1909 [ [http://www.historicmarkers.com/Texas/Jones_County_Texas/Hamlin__TX2256/ HistoricMarkers.com] ] in Hamlin, Texas. It was originally established as a grammar school, academy, and junior college [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=DAInK0AMQVAC&pg=PA58&lpg=PA58&dq=%22central+nazarene+college%22&source=web&ots=kp82h9xkWg&sig=uQuqJ7AjmVx7ipmXTzjLVlv2rXQ Handbook of American Churches] ] for the Hamlin, San Antonio, and New Mexico Districts of the Church of the Nazarene. The curriculum was primarily for the education of ministers. In 1929, it was merged with the Bethany-Peniel College at Bethany, Oklahoma. [http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/CC/kbc11.html The Handbook of Texas ONLINE: Central Nazarene College] ]

History

The school opened in 1911 under the leadership of Reverend W. E. Fisher, superintendent of the Abilene and Hamlin districts, with J.E.L. Moore as its first president. [Moore left in 1917 to be principal at Pentecostal Collegiate Institute (PCI) in North Scituate, Rhode Island. He also became the first president of Eastern Nazarene College when PCI became a liberal arts college in 1918. When the college moved to Wollaston, Massachusetts, however, Moore took the presidency at Olivet University. See James R. Cameron, "Eastern Nazarene College—The First Fifty Years, 1900-1950", Nazarene Publishing House (1968).] As a "holiness" school, the charter required faculty to meet church requirements for the teaching of "sanctification."

Central became the only Nazarene college in Texas when the Nazarene Bible Institute at Pilot Point, Texas was merged with it in 1911. [See ]

President B.F. Neeley later agreed to a consolidation with Bethany-Peniel College in 1929.

Campus

The college was located southwest of downtown Hamlin and consisted of a grey stone administration building and two wooden dormitories on a 23-acre campus. Library and laboratory facilities were inadequate for standard work, however. After the college merged with the school at Bethany, the former administration building was used as a church by the local Nazarene congregation. It burned in 1934, and a new church was built to replace it in 1936.

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ee also

*Southern Nazarene University