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Sullins College〔Information is from archives of the college, now kept in the King College archives〕 was a former Methodist, female, junior college located in Bristol, Virginia, United States, founded about 1868 and named for David Sullins, a Methodist minister. It ceased operations after the class of 1976 graduated. ==History== It began as a high school for girls and about 1870 also a junior college, operated by the Methodist Church. Its first location was in downtown Bristol. The entire building burned during Christmas vacation in late December 1915, and the Methodist Church decided not to rebuild. Some of the citizens of Bristol prevailed upon William E. Martin, a Methodist pastor in Alabama who had at an earlier time been president of Sullins, to return to Bristol and re-open the school. This he did and it was rebuilt in an entirely new location in a residential area of Bristol, occupying an eminence overlooking the entire city. No longer a Methodist institution, Martin operated it as a proprietary women's school controlled by his family. It attracted a clientele from among wealthy families throughout the Southeast looking for a junior college with the prestige of being in Virginia. Sometimes in the thirties, Martin also opened a subsidiary institution, Arlington Hall, in the Virginia outskirts of Washington, D.C. During World War II, Arlington Hall was closed, and the facilities came under the control of the government, which operated it as an American Bletchley Park—a super secret facility where enemy radio messages were carefully decoded. The facility is still a government enterprise. Sullins College in Bristol remained under the control of the Martin family until sometime in the 1960s, when they passed it to an independent board of trustees. The college appeared to be doing fine for a while, and additional buildings were constructed. In 1976, the school was valued at $16 million and the campus comprised with 14 buildings in addition to the Camp Sequyoa.〔 In April of 1976, the board of trustees reached an agreement with the city to transfer the school to the city's school system to operate as a coeducational institution. The city would assume the school's $1.2 million debt, keep the name of the college, and would use the property only for educational purposes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sullins College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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