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1 10 JOURNAL OF ADVENTIST EDUCATION SUMMER 20051853 Martha Byington, daughter offuture General Conference (GC) Presi-dent John Byington, opens the first-known church school for SabbatarianAdventists in Buck s Bridge, New Battle Creek, Michigan,Goodloe Harper Bell opens the firstschool sponsored by the seventh -dayAdventist G. White writes her seminalessay, Proper Education, which ap-pears in installment form in The HealthReformer and later in Testimonies for theChurch, volume Creek College, the firstAdventist college, opens with SidneyBrownsberger as president. It enrollsboth male and female order to provide oversight for itsnew program of education, the GeneralConference organizes the EducationalSociety, incorporated in first Adventist textbook,A Natural Method in English, is producedby Goodloe Harper Bell. 1882 The church opens its secondcollege program, Healdsburg College, innorthern California.

2 1883 The church s first school ofnursing opens at Battle Creek Sanitar-ium, operated by Drs. Kate Lindsay andAnn Stewart under the auspices of Harvey Kellogg. 1887 The General Conference cre-ates the office of Secretary of Education,appointing W. W. Prescott to the posi-tion in addition to his responsibilities aspresident of Battle Creek church s first teachers institute convenes in Battle Harbor Springs (Michi-gan) Teachers Institute meets, the firstconvention for all North Americanteachers. Its approximately 100 atten-dees initiate the first reforms in Ad-ventist education, advocating that theBible be the center of all Union College,the first Adventist college outside of theUnited States, opens in Kenilworth,South Creek Sanitarium es-tablishes the first Adventist school ofmedicine, American Medical MissionaryCollege, with John Harvey Kellogg Edson White begins the firstchurch school for African-Americansaboard the Morning Star, in Vicksburg, from South Africa andNorth America establish Solusi Missionin Matabeleland after receiving a grantof 12,000 acres of land from CecilRhodes to educate Industrial Schoolopens in Huntsville, Alabama, as a train-ing school for African-Americans afterGC President O.

3 A. Olsen personallyleads a commission to prepare buildingsand Creek College establishes thefirst Adventist teacher-preparation de-TIMELINE For seventh -day Adventist EducationCOMPILED BY FLOYD GREENLEAFB ased on my research in writing a new book about the history of Ad-ventist education, I offer the following timeline of the hundred or somost important happenings and persons in the 150-year developmentof seventh -day Adventist education, worldwide. The items selected rep-resent my opinion; other researchers would doubtlessly differ on whatto include. I hope that this list will stimulate discussion and an improved under-standing of the events and issues that have formed the denomination s large andvery diverse system of education. Floyd Morning Star,on which James Edson White established the first Adventist school for African-Americans in 6/15/05 3:42 PM Page 1011 JOURNAL OF ADVENTIST EDUCATION SUMMER 2005partment, led by Frederick school for Chris-tian Workers (the future Avondale Col-lege), begins classes in Cooranbong,Australia, with C.

4 B. Hughes as A. Sutherland, president of BattleCreek College, launches the Movementof 97, which dramatically increases thenumber of church schools. 1898N. Z. Town founds the firstworker-training school in South Amer-ica, the forerunner of River Plate Ad-ventist University, at Las Tunas, EntreRios, Argentina. Frank Westphal andfellow workers later re-establish theschool near Friedensau,the predecessor of Friedensau AdventistUniversity, offers its first classes on anold estate, Klappermuhle, near Magde-burg, T. Magan begins a cam-paign to eliminate the debts of Adventistschools and other institutions. EllenWhite donates the proceeds from thesale of Christ s Object Lessonsto raisemoney for from North America s 220elementary schools gather at BattleCreek, Michigan, for the church s firstinstitute for church school General Conference cre-ates the EducationalDepartment with JohnHarvey Kellogg aschairman and P.

5 T. Ma-gan as Missionary Col-lege, precursor to New-bold College, opens inLondon, England, withH. R. Salisbury as McCreadyPrice publishes Outlinesof Modern Science andChristianity, the firstAdventist book offeringscientific support Whitepublishes Education, theleading Adventist trea-tise on education. It be-comes a leading sourcefor college classes on principles ofChristian A. Sutherland and P. launch the Nashville (Tennessee)Agricultural and Normal Institute, thebeginning of the self-supporting educa-tional movement in the American Thompson establishes the firstAdventist school in China, Bethel Girls school in Canton, which later evolvesinto Hong Kong Adventist Training school (the fore-runner of Fulton College) opens in Fijifor Pacific Southern CaliforniaConference buys a resort hotel that willbecome Loma Linda University and, thefollowing year, opens a school of General Conference adopts a harmonious system of education thatintegrates elementary, secondary, andcollege levels and articulates teachingmaterials and manuals.

6 The GC Educa-An early photo of Healdsburg College, established in Healdsburg, California, in 1882. The name was changed to PacificUnion College in 1906, and three years later, the school moved a few miles to its present location in photo of Avondale College in Cooranbong, Australia, which opened in 6/15/05 3:42 PM Page 1112 JOURNAL OF ADVENTIST EDUCATION SUMMER 2005tional Department becomes the Depart-ment of Education. 1906 Pacific Press publishes thefirst Adventist church school Training Collegein Takoma Park, Maryland, becomes theWashington Foreign Missionary Semi-nary with H. R. Salisbury as Yuk Shin Hak Tai Hak (KoreanSchool for Boys), forerunner of Sahm-yook University, opens in Press begins to publish theTrue Education Reader Series, gradedreading books for elementary schoolsauthored by College of MedicalEvangelists (CME) receives a charter tooperate schools of medicine and den-tistry, and admits its first class of Press begins publishing AlmaMcKibbin s Bible Lessons, a graded seriesof Bible textbooks for Griggs establishes theFireside Correspondence school , whichlater becomes Home Study Interna-tional and Griggs Education, the first denomi-nation-wide periodical about education,begins publication with FrederickGriggs as editor.

7 Thirty years later, itbecomes the Journal of True Education,the forerunner of the Journal of AdventistEducation. 1910 Three seminaries for Scandi-navian- and German-speaking Adventiststudents open in Minnesota, Missouri,and receives a C ratingfrom the American Medical Association,sparking a 25-year debate over Camacho collabo-rates with Fernando and Ana Stahl tobuild La Plateria Mission in Peru, thefirst of a system of mission schools thathelped to transform society among An-dean Seminary in Brazilstarts classes with 18 students and J. as director. It later becomesBrazil Adventist india Training school (fore-runner of Spicer Memorial College)opens in Coimbatore under the direc-tion of G. G. seventh -day Ad-ventist Academy (later the AdventistUniversity of the Philippines) Rebok conducts thechurch s first teachers institute Indian Training school ,the first permanent worker-trainingschool in the Caribbean and forerunnerof Northern Caribbean University,opens in Mandeville, Adventiste duSaleve opens in Collonges-sous-Saleve,France, and serves for many years as thechurch s primary worker-preparationschool for French-speaking GC Department of Edu-cation designates assistant and associatesecretaries for elementary, secondary,and higher education.

8 Sarah Peck be-comes the first female member of thedepartment, assigned to elementary Far Eastern Branch of the Fire-side Correspondence school , the firstbranch outside the United States, opensin Shanghai, E. Howell, GC Secretaryof Education, conducts the first worldcouncil for Adventist educators in Col-orado Springs, Association of seventh -day Adventist Colleges and SecondarySchools is formed with its executive arm,the Board of Regents, to accredit Ad-ventist General Conferencedrafts a position statement on creation-ism and authorizes a program of re-search and publication to refute evolu-tion. Science and math teachers inNorth American colleges meet to begindiscussions of by student physicians, the first school of Medicine building at the College of Medical Evange-lists in Loma Linda, California, included administrative offices for the president, a faculty room, asmall library, and building at Seminaire Adven-tiste du Saleve in France, about 6/15/05 3.

9 42 PM Page 1213 JOURNAL OF ADVENTIST EDUCATION SUMMER 20051932 Pacific Union College earnsaccreditation from the Board of Re-gents, the first Adventist college to ob-tain denominational Junior College becomesPhilippine Union College, the first Ad-ventist four-year degree-granting insti-tution outside North Union College isawarded accreditation by Northwest As-sociation of Secondary and HigherSchools, the first Adventist college to beregionally Advanced Bible school (forerunner of the seventh -day Advent-ist Theological Seminary) is organizedat Pacific Union College, in Angwin, Medical Cadet Corps is intro-duced at Union College (Nebraska),with Everett Dick as the heated debate, GC ses-sion delegates approve of regional ac-creditation for Adventist Education Secretary Morrison conducts the Blue RidgeEducational Convention, the second(and last) world council for Adventist College of Beirut,the only Adventist postsecondary insti-tution in the Islamic Middle East andforerunner of Middle East College,opens with G.

10 A. Keogh as seventh -day AdventistTheological Seminary moves into newand separate quarters in Takoma Park, Agricola IndustrialMexicana (forerunner of MontemorelosUniversity), begins classes at Monte-morelos, Mexico. The church establishes the Hispanic-American Seminary in Corrales, NewMexico, to serve the world church authorizes itsseminary to grant Master s College (Pune, india )becomes the second Adventist four-year,postsecondary institution outside College inauguratesthe church s first baccalaureate programof nursing building at Newbold College in England, about of Montemorelos University in Mexico, about building at Solusi College (now Solusi University) in Zimbabwe, in the 6/15/05 3:42 PM Page 131947 Education resumes at Frie-densau, East Germany, after having beenclosed during World War Training Institutecloses following the Communist Union College be-comes the first Adventist school outsidethe United States to receive authority tooffer graduate courses.