Santa Paula Academy Announcement

Santa Paula Chronicle
Friday, April 19, 1889

Circulars, giving full information concerning the academy, have been issued this week and generally distributed. From the array of names of prominent citizens and college graduates on the Board of Trustees, and the comprehensive and varied course of study, it is manifest that the Institution is to be all that our citizens could wish. Our people here, have contributed most generously toward the founding of the school, and they confidently look to the people of Santa Paula in particular, as well as to the citizens of our country, for a generous support and patronage of the Institution. The price of tuition is less than that generally charged in similar schools. Pupils who desire a business education only, those who have been irregular in their studies, as well as those looking to a complete collegiate course, can be accommodated.

The school will open Monday, April 29th, in the public school building of Santa Paula, the use of which until the Academy building is completed, the District Board have kindly tendered.

The corner stone of the Academy will be laid with appropriate ceremonies on Wednesday next, April 24th. The exercises will be held in the afternoon. As address is expected from Professor Theodore S. Woolsey, Prof. of International Law in Yale College, and son of Ex-President Woolsey. Short addresses will also be delivered by members of the Board of Trustees and other prominent educators. A general invitation is extended to all our own people as well as the people of the county. Although the Academy is located at Santa Paula, yet it is a county enterprise and will undoubtedly prove a benefit to all our people, and all should help support it. Our citizens will give their best moral and material support and will ad it in every possible way.

It is with a feeling of pardonable pride we pen the above, and in anticipation of the future beneficial results, consequent on the founding of the new Academy, we can see a long line of eminent scholars, and successful business men, who will point with pride to the Santa Paula Academy as their Alma Mater.