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Bertie County Schools

Aulander School

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Contributed by Claudia Williams
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Aulander 1944-45
Mrs Janice Jenkins Corbus 8th grade teacher

Aulander 1944-45
Sitting: Emily Castilloe, Dorothy Bradley, Massie Dunning Girls Standing: ?????, Jean Lawrence, Jane Ellen Jernigan (Baker)
Boys: Boy with Army Cap: Jay Willis Slade

Aulander 1944-45
Mrs. Clark's Class (On back 1944)
First Row: (On right) Irene Conner
Second Row: (Girl on left) Clara Broglin

Aulander 1944-45
Aulander School Mrs. Clark's Class
First Row: Mrs Clark, (3rd from right) Irene Conner (Last on row-right) Clara Broglin
Second Row: (3rd from left) Ralph Taylor

Aulander 1944-45
Five (5) of Eighth Grade Class
Emily Castilloe, Dorothy Bradley, Jane Ellen Jernigan (Baker), Clara Bow Lassiter

BERTIE ACADEMY

Bertie Academy was located in Windsor prior to 1900. Established by the prominant Blacks as a learning institution, private, boarding school at the end of Granville street, it is now the Bertie site of Martin Community College. It rapidly became the state's leading Black School.

Originally established as Rankins Richards Institute for Negroes and financed by people in the North became the Bertie Academy in 1901 and was located on Triangle Hill.

One of the stipulations was that African children would also be taught there. These were diplomats children and by that time missionaries were sending African converts to America to be educated to go back to African as teachers and ministers. Bertie Academy had a classic curriculum that for the time would match any white institution and also had dormitories. This meant that there would not be a housing problem.

Most of the leading Black educators in the region came from this institution. When the State took over public school education circa 1920's, this school closed. The last Black Superintendent went over to the Public system, and had a school named and dedicated to him W. S. ETHERIDGE HIGH SCHOOL in Windsor, NC. The last yearbook from Bertie Academy is in the "Southern Collection" at Wilson Library UNC.

The old teacherage for the Academy is still extant in Windsor today. Contributed by Harry Thompson and Benjamin Speller