With no administration and a bleak financial outlook, H.C. Darden, then superintendent of the Clyde schools, accepted the position as president of the school in 1907.
He recently had become a member of the church and was known to some of the board members as a capable administrator.
With the job he accepted the responsibility of selecting a faculty, recruiting enough students for the faculty to teach and trying to raise enough money to pay the faculty, support his family and make up existing deficits and other deficits that were sure to arise.
Despite these adverse conditions, the school not only survived the year but reached a memorable milestone -- four students graduated.
At the close of the thrid year, as the financial burden grew, Darden resigned.
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