San Joaquin County Biographies
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LODI ACADEMY
Few institutions of learning in California have done more to help shape the destiny of the younger and fast-growing communities than has the Lodi Academy, whose excellent standing is due in part to the scholarly, thorough work of its principal and his associates. The Lodi Academy is a Christian institution operated by the Pacific Union Conference for the training of Christian workers, and Christian principles have first place in determining its policies. It was started in 1908 as a Normal institution, but several changes have been made in its organization in later years; however, there has been but one aim before the school from its founding, that young men and women should pass out of its doors fully equipped to do their part in carrying the Gospel to the world. The Academy is the joint property of the Northern California and the Central California Conferences of Seventh Day Adventists, and from these conferences and the state of Nevada students are solicited. The Academy offers the full work of the academic grades as well as training in musical, commercial and normal lines, and has a department covering the first eight grades of studies. The academy property is situated south of Lodi, and the school property comprises forty acres, about half of which is planted to Tokay grapes. Several acres are occupied by the buildings, consisting of a girls' dormitory, a boys' dormitory and the main school building, which contains the assembly hall and chapel; the remainder of the land is used for general garden purposes and the academy is supplied with water for domestic purposes and for irrigating from its own wells. From the fifteen-acre full-bearing vineyard is received a reasonable income each season, thus enabling the school to be partially self-supporting. The average enrollment of the school is about 420 students.
Elmer E. Farnsworth, principal of Lodi Academy, was born in Washington, N.H., June 2, 1865, and received his education in Lancaster Junior College, Lancaster, Mass., and in 1908 was ordained to the gospel ministry and the most of the past fifteen years has been spent as instructor in Union College, Collegeview, Neb.; Southwestern Junior College, Keene, Texas, and principal of Campion Academy at Loveland, Colo., and of Mt. Ellis Academy, Bozeman, Mont. In the month of September, 1922, he came to Lodi as principal of the academy and was re-elected for the following year.
Frederic T. Oakes, the present business manager of the academy, as well as the head of the commercial department, was born in Oakland, Cal., and attended the Oakland grammar schools and later the Healdsburg and Lodi Adventist schools; he also attended the Heald's Business College, at San Francisco. After his graduation from the Lodi Academy he became instructor and assistant business manager and for the last four years he has been the business head of the school. His teaching connection with the school has covered a period of thirteen years.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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