Voorhees College. Office of the Chaplain

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Denmark Industrial School, a school for blacks, founded 1897 by Elizabeth Evelyn Wright, a Tuskegee Institute graduate, with one teacher, Jessie Dorsey, and fourteen students in a rent free, old store in Denmark, S.C.; M. Ralph Voorhees, a white philanthropist from Clinton, N.J., donated $4500 to buy a plot of land and $500 to erect the first building; in 1902 the school was renamed Voorhees Industrial School in his honor; school became affiliated with the Episcopal Church in 1924; became junior college in 1929 and was called Voorhees Normal and Industrial School; in 1947 name changed to Voorhees School and Junior College; in 1962 became Voorhees College; first baccalaureate degrees awarded 1968.

From the description of Episcopal Church records, 1934-1979. (Voorhees College). WorldCat record id: 70968214

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South Carolina--Denmark
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African American universities and colleges
African American Episcopalians
African Americans
Christian universities and colleges
Church work with youth
College chaplains
Episcopal Church
Episcopalians
Episcopalian universities and colleges
Junior colleges
Private universities and colleges
Women in the Episcopal Church
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