Presbyterian Training School

Presbyterian Training School, Warren, Arkansas

Date unknown, but the card is postmarked 1907.

This photo postcard submitted by Melissa Jones.

This photograph appears courtesy of Brenda Ezell.        NEW PHOTO ADDED! 4 October 2009

July 2, 1986 ~Eagle Democrat~

"WARREN TRAINING SCHOOL-- Presbyterians in the Pine Bluff Presbytery in South Arkansas were siezed with fevor 80 years ago to establish
their own college and Warren people gave them the most money to locate. The building was on the site of the current junior high; the school
operated seven or eight years as a college prep institution but it gave Warren an everlasting gift: its colors were orange and black, athletically,
just was were those of Princeton, where the headmaster had gone to school. When the Lumberjacks take the field against the Lakeside Beavers of
Lake Village in September, they'll be attired in orange and black. The building, used as a junior high in Warren several years, burned in the early 1930's.

Transcription courtesy of Robbie Reaves

INFORMATION from Kim Hedrick:

This is Jane Beachboard writing for my dad - Kim Hedrick.

Kim Hedrick was born in 1907 and he said he attended this school when in the 1st and 2nd grades. It was located on West Pine where the current Jr. High is now. It was closed in 1916 - he thinks - and made a part of the public school system. His brother - Maudrel "Bill" Hedrick graduated the year after it was closed. He was born in 1899 and graduated when he was 18. He went there for 11 years. He was in first graduating class of Warren High School.

The Presbyterian Training School burned in 1931. (The students had to go to the old North Ward school the year that it burned. That's the old Primary School that is on the block between Myrtle and Main - across from Krogers.)

Baldwin Meek, John Frazer's mother. and all the Meek children went to the Training School.

Dr. Paisley was superintendant at one time. ~ Jane

MORE INFORMATION on the Presbyterian Training School:

"After the Warren High School Building, that was located where the present post office is located, burned, the Warren School District obtained the Presbyterian Training School building and used it as the Warren High School until it burned in about l931. It was replaced at the same site with the building that is now known as the Warren Junior High School building which was constructed in 1933 during the heart of the Great depression.

I am not sure when the Presbyterian Training School was constructed but I do know that my mother, Athleen Martin Hankins, attended this school and graduated there in 1908."

Thank you Martin Hankins for this additional information!

From the EAGLE DEMOCRAT, THURSDAY DEC. 18, 1930 - NEW INFORMATION 1 AUGUST 2007
Warren Senior High School Building Is Destroyed By Fire Sunday Night

"The senior high school building was built in 1906 and was used by the Presbyterian Training School until 1915, when the school closed for lack of funds. The property was then acquired by the Warren School Board and used as a junior high school building until a few years ago.

Prof. D. L. Paisley, now superintendent of the State Hospital for Nervous Diseases, served as first principal of the school and the board of trustees was composed of Rev. B. E. Wallace, H. N. Clapp, Jr., S. B., Meek, Dr. J. W. Martin, W. R. Appleton, A. B. Banks, R. F. Powers and Noel Martin. Coach Dan Estes, present athletic director of the State Teacher's College at Conway, one time taught mathematics and coached in the Presbyterian Training School. Hill Carruth had charge of the militray work for boys.

The idea for establishing the school was advanced by Rev. S. C. Alexander of Pine Bluff. Warren citizens placed the best bid for the school and work on the building was begun in September 1906. Dr. J. W. Martin gave the ground on which the school was located."

See the full article HERE

This information appears courtesy of Brenda Ezell.