Cordell Academy - Cordell, OK
Posted by: 
hamquilter
N 35° 17.669 W 098° 59.227
14S E 501171 N 3905700
This marker is located on the north edge of Lee Park, across from the skate Park.
Waymark Code: WM11FPR
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 10/15/2019
Views: 3
This is a bronze plaque similar to the hundreds found throughout Oklahoma sponsored by the Oklahoma Historical Society and the State Highway Commission. This was erected in 1957.
The historical marker reads:
Cordell Academy
Site three blocks east
Opened in 1906, under auspices
of the Dutch Reformed Church,
this pioneer school taught the
youth here in Christian living.
Its motto was "Labor omnia vincita."*
Presidents to its closing in 1911
were: Myron B. Keator, Dr. Jacob
Poppen, Rev. C.H. Spaan. Teachers
include Harold C. Amos, Laura B.
Hilger and Valonia Corley.
Oklahoma Historical Society & State Highway Commission - 1957
* "Work conquers all"
Opened in 1906 under the name Cordell Academy of the Reformed Church in America, it began with 65 students who each paid tuition of $6.00 per Quarter. The school continued for five years, when the Board of Domestic Missions of the Reformed Church determined there wasn't enough growth of church members, and the church retired from Oklahoma. It continued one additional year under leadership of the Southern Presbyterian Church, and was then sold to the City of Cordell.