Danville, Ky. January 9, 1905
Board of Trustees of Caldwell College met at Citizens National Bank. Present Gavin E. Wiseman, Sr., Alfred B. Nelson, J.M. Wallace, John A Quisenberry, Robert T. Quisenberry, and John A. Cheek.
The Building Committee presented their report and the Treasurer presented his report from July 1st 1902 to January 2nd 1905, which on motion were referred to a committee consisting of Gavin E. Wiseman, Sr. and Alfred B. Nelson to examine and report to a meeting of the Board to be held within the next few days.
Board adjourned.
John A. Cheek, Secretary; Gavin E. Wiseman, Sr., President
Danville, Ky. March 6, 1905
Board of Trustees of Caldwell College met at the Citizens National Bank. Present Gavin E. Wiseman, Sr., Alfred B. Nelson, Robert T. Quisenberry, J.J. Craig, John A. Quisenberry, and John A. Cheek.
Minutes of previous meetings were read and approved as recorded.
The committee consisting of Gavin E. Wiseman, Sr. and Alfred B. Nelson appointed at last meeting to examine and audit the report of the building committee and the account of John A. Cheek, Treasurer of the Board of Trustees, made the following report which was approved and ordered spread on the minutes of the Board, together with the report of the Building Committee.
Report of the Building Committee of Caldwell College to the Board of Trustees of Caldwell College.
Gentlemen:
It gives the Building Committee of Caldwell College pleasure to state to you that it has completed its task, and that the new dormitory has been occupied since September 1903, and has been found to be a most convenient and comfortable structure for the purposes and uses for which it was designed. Time has proven that the workmanship upon it was faithfully and skillfully performed, and the materials used in its construction of the character and grade specified. This new dormitory, including its steam heating plant, is giving perfect satisfaction, and its arrangement has been found to harmonize perfectly with your old buildings to which it is joined and with which it is connected.
The plans and specifications submitted to you my Messrs. Dittoe & Wisenall, architects of Cincinnati, Ohio, were adopted by you for which, including their services specified, you paid them one thousand dollars, $1,000.
For the advertisement for bids you paid the sum of seventeen dollars.
The contract for the erection of this new dormitory according to the plans and specifications of Dittoe & Wisenall, was awarded to A.J. Craig of 24 West 9th Street, Covington, Ky., on September 12, 1902 for the sum of twenty six thousand four hundred and sixty two dollars, ($26,462.00) and work was immediately begun thereon.
According to the common experience of all who undertake to build, unforeseen things arise with the progress of the work, which require extra expense and your committee was confronted with many such matters during the performance of their duties. To our very great surprise, the excavation for this new dormitory revealed the fact that its foundation walls ran across an old icehouse, which had been filled with cinders, and also through a cistern. These two items entailed an extra expense amounting to $616.42. Before the dormitory was completed, it was thought wise to rearrange the bathrooms so that each would accommodate two tubs instead of one, which was ordered done at an extra cost of $130.00. Time speedily demonstrated the wisdom of this re-arrangement, because within the first two months of the occupancy of the dormitory, the demand for two tubs in each bathroom became imperative, and they were accordingly put in, thus doubling the number of tubs originally planned.
Two extra stone steps, two extra windows in the north end of the new dormitory, rearrangement of the doors of the sleeping apartments, changed guttering, two gas outlets, and bolts on doors entering Arcade entailed an extra expense amounting to $73.35.
The foregoing are about all the extras connected with the new dormitory, but when the committee undertook the task of re-arranging and remodeling the old buildings so that they would harmonize with the new, it was confronted at every turn with extra expenses, and which was necessary in order to put them in condition to serve the purposes for which they were to be used.
The main old building was refloored throughout (except basement and four rooms on second floor) with new maple flooring, floor joists of 3rd floor bridged, deck roof tinned, new window placed in Art room, front veranda repaired at an extra cost of $377.05.
All the foregoing work and materials were done and furnished by A.J. Craig, except the extra bathtubs above mentioned, at a total cost of $27,658.82, from which amount you were allowed a credit for old brick, old material, and the omission of paint underneath the tin roof of $163.99.
$27,494.83
The main old building was repaired, and mouldings put up at an extra cost of $423.50. Its closets were remodeled, its grates, mantles and hearths overhauled, and in some instances new ones put in at an extra cost of $141.25. The old brick chapel was divided into suitable classrooms, all opening into a hallway connecting the Arcade of the new dormitory with the dining room in the frame chapel. A new roof was put on the frame chapel, gas placed in it, and it was converted into a dining hall, kitchen and pantries, with china closets, all at an extra cost of $1,224.43.
All the buildings were connected by inter-communicating telephones, and electric bells at an extra cost of $132.00.
Proper plumbing has been placed in these old buildings including the kitchen. All the buildings drained of storm surface water, and connection with the water main in the street has been made with a new and larger water pipe all at an extra cost of $750.00.
The gas fixtures for all your buildings cost $386.41.
The hardwood floors throughout the buildings except those in the Arcade, Chapel, and four adjoining classrooms, were finished in varnish at an extra cost of $202.65.
A curb and gutter were laid on Lexington Avenue, the windows of the dining hall and kitchen and pantries screened. A new coal house built and the yard partly graded at an extra cost amounting in all to $319.92.
The desks, chairs, & slate black board, cost extra $1,043.99.
In the judgement of your committee, a considerable estimate of the value of your buildings & grounds would place them at $52,881.79, to which amount add for desks, slate black boards, and chairs $1,048.99, and you have a total of $53,930.78.
It has been the endeavor of this committee to expend the money only in the necessary items, but at the same time to place nothing upon your property except the best materials and best workmanship constructed according to the most approved plans and advanced ideas, coupled with the finest taste and style.
Mr. John C. Acheson, the present Principal, has equipped these buildings at a cost to himself of about six thousand dollars ($6,000) which Caldwell College is under contract with him to buy from him at a fair valuation when his connection with the school terminates, and his apparatus and machinery for running the school are far from what they should be.
The report from your Treasurer will show that Mr. Acheson has paid into your treasury $1,775 since 1903.
In order to finance the foregoing operations, your Treasurers report shows that both the first and second mortgage bonds have been dispensed of as per thus proving that your corporation has credit equal to the best.
The immediate needs of Caldwell College are a thoroughly equipped laboratory, a handsome veranda for the main building, its basement remodeled into music practice rooms, the grounds properly graded, and drives and walks built. The buildings contain a beautiful room for a laboratory which has been set aside for that purpose, and a special fund amounting to $1,450 to be thus used has been raised by Mr. John A. Quisenberry in accordance with a previous order of this Board authorizing him to solicit funds for the school.
Permission to add that in our judgement the completion of this committee's task marks a new era and epoch in the history of Danville, made possible only by the whole generosity of its educated, cultured, liberal minded, and public spirited citizens, for which the town from its earliest history to the present time has been noted.
The possibilities of Caldwell College are in their infancy. This report shows only a beginning, a most worthy one it is true, but only a beginning.
Dated January 2nd 1905
Respectfully submitted
Robert T. Quisenberry; John A. Quisenberry; John A. Cheek, Chairman Building Committee
The report of the Treasurer which was ordered to be spread on the minutes is as follows
John A. Cheek, Treasurer
In account with Caldwell College
Receipts
| July 1, 1902 | |
| Balance cash on hand | $258.89 |
| Subscriptions sundry parties list attached | $12,263.00 |
| 1st mortgage 4% bonds sold at par | $12,000.00 |
| 2nd mortgage %5 bonds sold at par | 15,000.00 |
| Amount from John C. Acheson under contract | $1,775.00 |
| Total | $41,296.89 |
Disbursements
| By amounts paid on contract new building | $27,284.63 |
| Dittoe & Wisenall architects | $1,000.00 |
| Advertising for bids | $17.00 |
| Alterations old chapel, dining room | $1,224.43 |
| T.F. Clarke plumbing & drainage | $750.00 |
| Electric bells | $132.00 |
| Papering and Mouldings | $423.50 |
| Varnishing floors | $202.65 |
| Closets, mantles, etc. Main Bdg. | $141.25 |
| Gas fixtures | $386.41 |
| Curbing & gutter Lexington St. | $170.00 |
| Grading yard & road | $15.66 |
| Desks, chairs, & blackboards | $1,048.99 |
| Wire screens dining room | $112.28 |
| New coal house | $21.98 |
| $32,930.78 | |
| By amount paid old mortgages & interest | $5,877.54 |
| Old suit W.R. Scott & Co. | $175.00 |
| Interest | $1,372.23 |
| Insurance | $390.63 |
| Repairs | $279.19 |
| Mortgages & charter | $6.90 |
| Certifying bonds & express | $22.25 |
| January 2, 1905 | |
| Balance cash in Bank | $242.37 |
| Total | $41,296.89 |
John A. Cheek Treasures in account with Caldwell College Special Fund
| January 2, 1905 | |
| To cash on hand amount of subscriptions to chemical & physical laboratory, etc., list of subscriptions attached | $1,250.00 |
| Note of G.H. Mourning (not collected) | $100.00 |
| George W. Welsh subscription not collected | $100.00 |
| Total | $1,450.00 |
The foregoing account submitted for approval of the Board of Caldwell College January 2, 1905.
John A. Cheek, Treasurer
List of contributors to a fund of $12,263.00 for the improvement of the buildings at Caldwell College set out in above report.
| John A. Quisenberry | $2,500.00 |
| Robert T. Quisenberry | $2,500.00 |
| John A. Cheek | $1,500.00 |
| Gavin E Wiseman, Sr. | $500.00 |
| James A. Shuttleworth, Louisville, Ky. | $1,000.00 |
| William H. Lucas, Kansas City | $500.00 |
| George W. Welsh | $500.00 |
| Charles H. Rodes | $500.00 |
| John J. Craig | $300.00 |
| Samuel R. Cheek | $250.00 |
| Guy E. Wiseman, Jr. | $200.00 |
| Harry W. Wiseman | $100.00 |
| Augustus Rogers | $100.00 |
| Hood Worthington | $100.00 |
| Peter Gilcher | $100.00 |
| B.J. Durham | $100.00 |
| A.B. Robertson & Bro. | $100.00 |
| Gentry Farris | $100.00 |
| Charles P. Cecil, Sr. | $100.00 |
| Mary M. Helm | $75.00 |
| Eugenia Young | $50.00 |
| Sarah L. Young | $50.00 |
| James B. Welsh, Kansas City | $50.00 |
| J.B. Fisher | $50.00 |
| Henry & Sam Lyons | $50.00 |
| Andrew G. Whitley | $50.00 |
| Charles P. Cecil, Jr. | $50.00 |
| F.H. Montgomery | $50.00 |
| W.S. Glore | $50.00 |
| Alfred B. Nelson | $50.00 |
| Chase Palmer | $50.00 |
| G.W. Chestnut | $50.00 |
| Danville Planing Mill Co. | $50.00 |
| E.R. Dillehay | $30.00 |
| Samuel Harding | $25.00 |
| C.A. Smith | $25.00 |
| Clifton R. Anderson | $25.00 |
| T.P. Curry | $25.00 |
| Roberts & Caldwell | $25.00 |
| T.O. Miller | $25.00 |
| John S. Wells | $25.00 |
| Caldwell & Lanier | $25.00 |
| James H. Letcher | $25.00 |
| Robert Harding | $25.00 |
| J.P. Frank | $25.00 |
| N.K. Tunis | $25.00 |
| John W. Redd | $25.00 |
| G.R. Spilmam | $15.00 |
| John B. Stout | $10.00 |
| Kentucky Advocate Co. | $10.00 |
| Henry C. Bright | $10.00 |
| Murry & McAdams | $10.00 |
| William H. Lillard | $10.00 |
| William G. Dunlap | $10.00 |
| W.S. Center | $10.00 |
| Watts & Tribble | $10.00 |
| G.S. Gains | $10.00 |
| Fayette Dunlap | $5.00 |
| J.B. Nichols | $5.00 |
| E.V. Puryear | $2.00 |
| C.P. Muiller | $2.00 |
| A. Longo | $2.00 |
| Cash contributed | $4.00 |
| Total shown in foregoing account | $12,263.00 |
List of contributors to a special fund for Chemical & Physical Laboratory and other Improvements
| John A. Simpson, Covington, Ky. | $500.00 |
| John A. Quisenberry, Danville, Ky. | $175.00 |
| Robert T. Quisenberry | $175.00 |
| J.A. Cheek | $175.00 |
| Mrs. M.T. Scott, Bloomington, Ill. | $100.00 |
| W.B. Belknap, Louisville, Ky. | $50.00 |
| Mrs. Ann Barret | $50.00 |
| Hugh L. Barret | $25.00 |
| G.H. Mourning (not collected in this report) | $100.00 |
| George W. Welsh (not collected in this report) | $100.00 |
| $1,450.00 |
The undersigned appointed a committee by the Board of Trustees of Caldwell College to examine and audit the accounts of John A. Cheek, Treasurer, as well as the accounts of the Building Committee hereby report that they have examined the foregoing account covering the receipts and disbursements between July 1, 1902, and January 2, 1905, and found the same to be correct and the vouchers were presented to the Committee showing the amount of disbursements as set forth in the account. We recommend that said account be approved and spread in full on the minutes.
Signed Gavin E. Wiseman, Sr., Chairman; Alfred B. Nelson
On motion, President appointed Gavin E. Wiseman, Sr. and Alfred B. Nelson a committee to report the sense of the Board about the work of the Building Committee.
On motion, John A. Quisenberry and John A. Cheek were appointed a committee to audit the accounts of John C. Acheson and report to Board.
On motion, the contract with Mr. John C. Acheson was extended another year ending July 1st 1906.
On motion, the Board adjourned.
John A. Cheek, Secretary; Gavin E. Wiseman, Sr., President Board [of] Trustees
Danville, Ky. April 6, 1905
Board of Trustees of Caldwell College met at Citizens National Bank. Present Alfred B. Nelson, Robert T. Quisenberry, J.M. Wallace, John C. Acheson, N.K. Tunis, J.E. Wiseman, J.H. Letcher. Jr., John A. Quisenberry and John A. Cheek.
Messrs. Acheson, Tunis, Wiseman & Letcher being new members took the oath required by the charter before H.L. Briggs a notary public for Boyle County, Ky.
On motion by Mr. J.M. Wallace, Mr. John A. Quisenberry, John A. Cheek, and Robert T.. Quisenberry were appointed the Executive Committee of this Board and the plans for a new department of Chemistry & Physics prepared by W.R. Scott, architect, were approved, and the Executive Committee were authorized and directed to have same built without delay. The efforts of Mr. John A. Quisenberry to raise money for the Chemistry & Physics department were approved, and on motion he was requested to continue his efforts to raise $5,000 for the equipment of these departments and for the building concrete walks and drives in the grounds.
Board adjourned.
John A. Cheek, Secretary; Gavin E. Wiseman, Sr., President Board [of] Trustees
Danville, Ky. June 5, 1905
The Board of Trustees of Caldwell College met in the Second Presbyterian Church, Danville, Ky. Present Gavin E. Wiseman, Sr., Robert T. Quisenberry, George W. Welsh, J.H. Letcher, Jr., J.E. Wiseman, John A. Quisenberry, John J. Craig, N.K. Tunis and John A. Cheek.
On recommendation of the Faculty, the following diplomas with and without degrees were conferred on the graduating class.
For degree of Bachelor of Arts
Kate Bogle, Danville, Ky.
Lida Payne Edelen, Frankfort, Ky.
Leila Grant, Danville, Ky.
Ruth Hall, Danville, Ky.
Annie G. Linney, Danville, Ky.
Diploma in Literary Course
Christine Bright, Danville, Ky.
Nannie B. Caldwell, Danville, Ky.
Josephine Hudson, Danville, Ky.
Em Smith, Danville, Ky.
Sadie Taylor, Burnside, Ky.
Mary Worthington, Danville, Ky.
Marie McConnell, Danville, Ky
Certificates for Work done
Georgia Black, Barboursville, Ky.
Margaret Deering, Nicholasville, Ky.
Mary Hudson, Danville, Ky.
Sara Logan, Danville, Ky.
Edna Linney, Danville, Ky.
Louise Sims, Danville, Ky.
Nannie B. Alder, Danville, Ky.
On motion Board adjourned.
John A. Cheek, Secretary; Gavin E. Wiseman, Sr., President Board [of] Trustees