Early Executive Committee Meeting Minutes and Report
May 8, 1875
At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Concord Normal School in the town of Concord, Mercer County, West Virginia held in the Concord Church on the 8th day of May 1875. Present, James R. Vermillion, William A. Cooper & A. B. Phipps, members of the Committee. On motion James R. Vermillion was appointed President, A. B. Phipps, Secretary, and William A. Cooper, Treasurer. The original minutes are shown here.
May 10, 1875
Concord Normal School formally opened on May 10, 1875. The minutes of the Executive Committee that day: At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Concord Normal School held in the Normal School Building on the 10th day of May 1875. Present James R. Vermillion President, A. B. Phipps & William A. Cooper. The Normal School was this day organized in presence of the Committee, James H. French, Principal and William M. Reynolds, assistant, being present and taking charge of the same. See the minutes here.
April 22, 1876
At a regular meeting of the Executive Committee of the Concord Normal School April 22nd 1876, it was ordered that the Secretary of the Executive Committee notify the county Supt. of Schools of Mercer Co. that D. C. Clendenin has by his absence from school vacated his place as a State Scholar. See the minutes here.
May 12, 1876
At a regular meeting of the Executive Committee of the Concord Normal School May 12th 1876. Ordered that the Treasurer let to contract the enclosing of 1 Acre of land around the School Building. Also the clearing off of the same. Wm. Holroyd and Wm. M. Reynolds undertook the enclosing this school building at $161.00. The cleaning up this land and digging up the stumps cost $20.00. See the minutes here.
September 20, 1876
Be it enacted by the Executive Committee of the Concord Normal School that the Trustee of Sub District No.___ shall have the privilege of a room in the Normal School building for teaching or having the Free School taught for the year 1876. (signed) A. B. Phipps, Secretary of Exct. (sic) Be it enacted by the Executive Committee of the Concord Normal School that all the State Students who shall leave the Normal School for the purpose of teaching school that their places are declared vacant according to law and on application by any one eligible thereto may be filled by the County Supts. of any of the counties represented in the Normal School. (signed) A. B. Phipps, Secretary of Executive Comm. Be it enacted by the Executive Committee that the treasurer pay $7.00 to the secretary to purchase stationary to carry on a correspondence with those who are interested in the school. (signed) A. B. Phipps, Secy. See the minutes here.
November 10, 1876
The Executive Committee of the Concord Normal School held a meeting in the school hall today in connection with the faculty to consider the necessity of taking a recess of the school for a short time until the Normal students who are absent teaching in the free schools of the State return to their places. But not knowing whether the Executive Committee had the authority to call a vacation, it was enacted that the Secretary write to the Hon. H. J. Samuels and ask his opinion in the matter. It was enacted at this meeting that the Treasurer pay the janitor for his services. (signed) A. B. Phipps, Secy. See the minutes here.
CSNS Executive Committee Report for the First 3 Years
At the first session of the Normal School at Concord there were 27 State Students and 34 pay students. This was a 5 months session for the year. The whole amount collected for tuition fees was paid out for finishing the building, pay janitors, and defraying the necessary expenses of the school. The second year of the school at Concord there was 27 State Students in attendance and 44 pay students. The tuition fees were expended for defraying expenses of school and liquidating a debt against the school building. The 3rd year of the school there were 54 State Students in attendance and twenty pay students. The tuition fees were expended in defraying expenses of school and paying off a debt against the school building. See the report here.
