General, 1906-1978

This is a small subseries, with a total volume of less than one cubic foot. It is a fragmentary file consisting primarily of unrelated legal and administrative documents. Those dated prior to the 1970s are from the files of the presidents, while most of the papers generated in the 1970s originated in the files of the guidance counselor. The majority of the materials previous to the 1960s concern such property transactions as deeds, leases, surveys, and construction contracts. Other informative files from those years are the enrollment records (1930-57), and a file on the Magoffin Baptist Institute, a defunct neighboring school whose properties were transferred to the Institute in 1963.

The records from the 1960s include administrative documents, the most notable of which are the papers regarding acquisition by OBI of the assets of the Teresa Thompson Foundation. These administrative files—enrollments, class rosters, student data forms, student and teacher manuals c. 1972-77—were the files of Mrs. Wilson, the guidance counselor from the beginning of the Moore administration until her death in 1977.