heated by wood stoves.61

Since the girls' dormitory was the only main building on campus

in l896 when David DeWitt Turpeau, a new student, first arrived, that

building must have been what he called the Administration building.62

Just as during Grandison's time, the classes must have been taught here.

63

The dining area downstairs in this building probably contained both

6“ By I900, this building,

the teachers‘ and students' dining rooms. then twenty-two years old, needed general repairs, eSpecially inside the rooms and on the roof.65

Other buildings appeared on the campus during Chavis' thirteena year presidency. A “primary building" accompanied the two main build- ings in the 1899—l900 year,66 and by the year l901-l902 a laundry build—

67 The previous year, 1900-1901, Dr° Chavis had re-

ing was on campus. quested funds for a press and printing machine and a carpenter and wheel- wright shop,68 but no subsequent mention of such facilities was made° 6ers. Pearl Hogan, interview, 20 June 1969. Mrs. Hogan at- tended Bennett College for four years, l897-l898 through l90l=l902.

Her brother, Mr. Wilbur Morgan, also contributed information.

62David DeWitt Turpeau, EB From the Cane-Brakes: Ag Autobio- graphy (n.p.,n.d.U94aL p. 30.

63Mrs. Hogan.

6(“Turpeau, op. Sii" p. 32.

65Bennett College, Annual Catalogue, I900, p. 9.

66Ibid., p. 6.

67Mrs. Hogan

68Bennett College, Annual Catalogue, l900,