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Oberlin Academy Preparatory School
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<noinclude> </noinclude> Oberlin Academy Preparatory School, originally Preparatory Department of Oberlin College, was a private school in Oberlin, Ohio which operated from 1833 until 1916. It opened as Oberlin Collegiate Institute which became Oberlin College in 1850. The secondary school serving local and boarding students continued as a departmemt of the college. The school and college admitted African Americans and women. This was very unusual and controversial. It was located on the Oberlin College campus for much of its history and many of its students continued on to study at Oberlin College. History Oberlin Institute, a secondary school, was established in 1833. It faced opposition from Democrats in Ohio who opposed its admittance of African Americans. Nevertheless, in 1850 the school was granted a charter and became Oberlin College. The undergraduate education program continued afterwards as a preparatory school sometimes referred to as "prep". In 1887, the school moved into French Hall and part of Society Hall. on South Professor Street in Oberlin. The Preparatory Department was the only primary education in Oberlin until the community organized a school district and eventually launched public schools. John Fisher Peck alse served as the schools principal. His daughter, Emily Peck, tutored Latin and Greek at the prepatory department and was an artist who depicted fellow Oberlin alums in sculpture. Alumni of Oberlin Academy include John Mercer Langston, the first African American congressman from Virginia, and John Dube, who founded the predecessor organization that became the African National Congress in South Africa. Oberlin College maintains an archive of school records. In January 1910, the Oberlin Alumni Magazine published an entry on the school, its significance, and the need for continued support of it. In 1912 a new building opened for the academy and the Oberlin Academy Alumni Association was organized. Oberlin Academy competed against the University School of Cleveland, Shaw High School and other area schools at a track event in 1910. Alumni Alumni include: *John Dube *Sinclair Lewis *John Mercer Langston *George Herbert Mead * *James Monroe Gregory *Ellen Hayes *Richard Theodore Greener *Calvin Brainerd Cady *Henry H. Straight *Forrest M. Hall *Josiah T. Settle *Eloise Bibb Thompson *Charles Robert Hager *Jacob Dolson Cox *William W. Hannan *Byron R. Newton, journalist who attended from 1862 to 1864 *Benjamin F. Randolph *Katharine Wright *Robert Maynard Hutchins Faculty Teachers included: *Sarah Cowles Little *Edgar Fauver See Also
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