Charles R. Warren was the founder of the Warren Training School

Warren Training School

- History :The Warren Training School was a boys-only day school in Chatham, Virginia founded in 1906 by Charles R. Warren. It averaged an enrollment of approximately twenty students....

 and the first and only headmaster of the Chatham Training School

Hargrave Military Academy

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Biography

Charles Warren, a graduate of the Trinity College

Duke University

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 in Durham, North Carolina

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, arrived in Chatham, Virginia in 1906. He had heard of the dire need for schools in the Chatham area, and decided to take on the challenge himself. Warren organised a day school at the end of Merchant Street, which came to be known as the Warren Training School. WTS averaged an enrollment of twenty boys. After its third session in May, 1909, a lack of funds forced Warren to close the school.

Warren was hired as headmaster of the Chatham Training School for the 1909-1910 year. He and John K. Hutton constituted the entire CTS faculty, presiding over seventeen boarding and eighteen day students. At the close of the second session in 1911, Charles R. Warren submitted his resignation. After Warren's departure, the office of headmaster was abolished at the Chatham Training School.

Legacy

Charles R. Warren was the first to make a significant effort towards addressing the then-dire need for schools in and around Chatham, Virginia. Though this effort, the Warren Training School, was short-lived, it helped inspire the foundation of the Chatham Training School. Warren led this school during its very first years, helping it survive past the three years that WTS lasted. Warren's most lasting legacy is the ultimate survival of the Chatham Training School, now known as Hargrave Military Academy, to the present day.