Citation: “Southern Educational Building Co., Incorporated in 1899,” Southern Educator, October 1900, p. 5. The Southern Educator is a publication of the Southern Normal School and is available to researchers on microfilm, drawer 77, box 1. See also UA96 Southern Normal School Records.

The Southern Educational Building Company is a body politic and corporate organized and incorporated under the laws of Kentucky in 1899. The affairs of the company will be conducted by a board of seven directors and such other officers, agents and employees as the Board of Directors may elect.

The company was organized by the citizens of Bowling Green in order to give the Southern Normal School and Bowling Green Business College a thoroughly equipped, commodious, attractive, convenient and modern school home in the city of Bowling Green and provide for the growing demands of the institutions by offering accomodations for fifteen hundred students.

The articles of incorporation further state that the company was organized in order to promote and advance the cause of education generally, and especially to aid young men and women who are self-dependent to obtain an education.

The successful organization of this company and the raising of a large amount of money and the completion of one of the finest educational structures in the United States is the passing of another mile-post in the life of the largest school in the South.

The following persons have been elected to the Board of Directors of the company: J. Whit Potter, President of Potter-Matlock Banking Co.; T.J. Smith, Col. Third Regiment Kentucky Volunteers, and Book Dealer; L.R. Potter, Cashier Warren Deposit Bank; M.B. Nahm, of E. Nahm & Co.; Dr. E.G. McCormack of New York Life Insurance Co.; S.M. Lawson Furnisher and Clothier; H.H. Cherry, General Manager Southern Normal School and Bowling Green Business College.