School for Christian Workers
The School for Christian Workers was a school established by Rev. David Allen Reed in
colporteurs, and lay home mission workers.[1]
The school was organized as four departments: a school for YMCA administrators, a French Protestant school, a technical school, and a school for religious pedagogy; by 1890, each department split off into an independent institution.[2]
The YMCA departments, Secretarial (YMCA management) and Physical (physical education), split off to become the
International Young Men's Christian Association Training School in 1890 which later became Springfield College
.
The religious education part took the name
Hartford Seminary. The two institutions remained legally separate, but shared resources[2] until their final merger in 1961.[3]
The technical school became the
Christian Industrial and Technical School in 1890; it trained future missionaries in carpentry, blacksmithing, foundry work, typesetting, and bookbinding; it was renamed to the Springfield Industrial Institute in 1895 and closed in 1898.[4]
Notes
- ^ "School for Christian Workers", New York Times, November 27, 1884, p. 3 full text
- ^ ISBN 0-8028-2946-5, p. 288
- Hartford Seminary. Archived from the originalon 24 September 2008. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
- Boston Traveller). full text