Permission to Leave Campus

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Title

Permission to Leave Campus

Date

December 13, 1904

Creator

Alabama Girls Industrial School

Description

The independent freedoms that students enjoy today at the University of Montevallo are quite different than the freedoms during the 1904 era. The school, then called the Alabama Girls Industrial School, required students to remain on campus unless they had the schools permission to leave. The above letter, drafted by the parents of a student, requests Dr. Peterson, the President of the school, to allow their daughter to come home for the “Christmas holidays.”

The protection of the girls attending the university was the responsibility of the school in 1904. Dr. Peterson was charged with the welfare of the girls while they were away from home attending school, and he was looked upon like a father figure by the students and parents.

Parents being required to ask for permission for their own children to return home when school was not even in session would thought of as crazy by today's standards.

Language

En-US

Rights

University of Montevallo

Subject

A parents request for a student to be allowed to come home for Christmas.

Source

Presidential Papers

Contributor

DDenney

Publisher

University of Montevallo

Relation

Presidential Papers

Format

jpeg

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Text

Wacoochee, Ala. Dec. 13th 1904
Dr. Peterson,
With your consent we desire our daughter Annie Laurie should come home for the Christmas holidays.
Yours truly,
H.G. & M.S. Jones

Original Format

Paper

Files

Note 001 - Copy small.jpg

Citation

Alabama Girls Industrial School, “Permission to Leave Campus,” Archiving Montevallo, accessed December 23, 2024, https://carmichaeldigitalprojects.org/archivingmontevallo/items/show/114.