Description:
Text transcribed from caption: CHURCH FARM SCHOOL HEAD #3550 PHILADELPHIA --
Rural Life Sunday (May 26) draws attention to institutions such as the Church
Farm School, located 25 miles west of here. This unique institution, founded
by Dr. Charles W. Shreiner, farmer pastor of a church in West Philadelphia,
is now completing is 26th year. The school enrolls boys whose fathers are
either dead, or have divorced or deserted the boy’s mother. It has 700
acres of land, and the students do practically all the farm work. Chief crop
is grain, but the boys also raise chickens and pigs, and tend to a herd of
150 guernsey cows and heifers. Dr. Shreiner (above) has been the school’s
headmaster since its founding. He believes that a boy is not educated until
he knows how to work, and so half a boy’s time at the Farm School is spent
in classrooms--the other half is taken up with work. Credit Must Read:
RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (LM-5B-6-W-A-E)
Creator:
Heilman, Grant, 1919- (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., Church Farm School--Faculty., Church Farm School., Church Farm School--Students., Shreiner, Charles Wesley.
Topics:
Church schools--Pennsylvania--Exton., Private schools--Pennsylvania--Exton., Students--Pennsylvania--Exton., Boarding school students--Pennsylvania--Exton., Labor--Religious aspects--Christianity., School farms--Pennsylvania--Exton.
Geographic subjects:
Exton (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:359481