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Holding Institute
Holding Institute was a United Methodist-affiliated former community center in Laredo, Texas, originally founded in 1882 as a kindergarten and primary school. For nearly a century thereafter, Holding was a state-accredited boys’ and girls’ boarding school. Having been ravaged by a flood in 1954, the boarding school relocated to north Laredo〔Gabriela A. Trevino, "Flood of 1954: Devastating natural disaster caused serious damage," ''Laredo Morning Times'', June 28, 2015, pp. 1, 18A〕 but closed some three decades later as a result of funding difficulties. It re-opened as a community center downtown in 1987 and functioned for twenty-four years until its closing in 2011.
==Background==
The roots of Holding date to 1880, when Mrs. Jacob Norwood began to instruct several Mexican girls at her residence in Laredo, the county seat of Webb County in south Texas. The next year, women of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South set aside funds to establish the kindergarten and primary school. The Reverend Elias Robertson donated ten acres on the bank of the Rio Grande south of the United States Army installation of Fort McIntosh, and in 1882, the first building opened. Known then as "Laredo Seminary", the institution operated under the direction of missionaries Annie Williams and Rebecca Toland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=John H. McNeely, "Holding Institute" )〕
In October 1883, Miss Nannie Emory Holding, a Methodist missionary from Covington, Kentucky, began a 30-year tenure as superintendent of the institution that later was named for her.〔 Her sister, Delia Holding, also taught during the first few years in the primary school. In 1886, early in the years of Nannie Holding's leadership, the all-girls school became coeducational when ten boys were admitted.〔 Nannie Holding oversaw the growth of the school campus to include seven buildings on 〔 and she planted flowers, shrubs, and trees on the sand dunes adjacent to the Rio Grande to convert the land to a garden.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History of Holding Institute )〕 She obtained a 50-year charter for the school in 1891.〔
By the time of Nannie Holding's retirement in 1913, when she was 68 years old, the institution had expanded to the normal school level, conferring some teacher-training bachelor's degrees. Dr. J.M. Skinner, originally from West Virginia, became superintendent in 1913. The name was changed to the current Holding Institute. New buildings were added, and the high school department gained state accreditation. The operation of the school was transferred from the Foreign Missionary Society to the women’s section of the Division of National Methodist Missions.〔〔〔(History ), Holding Institute website, accessed August 15, 2011〕
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