History

• 1882 Organized as a preparatory school
  University-preparatory school
  A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school is a secondary school, usually private, designed to prepare students for a college or university education...
  
   on Feb 5th, under the leadership of Stephen Nelson Haskell (1833-1922)
• 1882 On April 19, first day of class for "that New England school"
• 1883 On Dec 12th, incorporated and formerly named as South Lancaster Academy
• 1887 In May, certificates were given to thirteen students who had completed the intermediate course of eight grades.
• 1888 On May 12, first SLA graduation ceremony was held.
• 1912 On Oct 12th the cornerstone was laid for the J. T. Browning Missionary and Industrial School
• 1913 Browning Normal school
  Normal school
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  dedicated
• 1918 Renamed Lancaster Junior College, after advanced work was carried on for several years in theology, teacher training, and business.
• 1922 Renamed Atlantic Union College
  Atlantic Union College
  Atlantic Union College was a Seventh-day Adventist college in South Lancaster, Massachusetts. Its final year operating as an independent institution was the 2010-2011 school year following loss of accreditation from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges...
  
  , after offering a four-year theological course and being authorized degree-granting powers conferred by the Massachusetts legislature. The Academy and College became separate institutions with the Academy having its own board of trustees and faculty.
• 1965 Browning Elementary is re-situated at its current location on George Hill Road.
• 1967 South Lancaster Academy re-situated at its current location on George Hill Road in South Lancaster, MA.
• 1985 Administrations of Browning Elementary and South Lancaster Academy are combined into one.
• 2009 South Lancaster Academy/Browning Elementary is officially renamed to South Lancaster Academy with Browning Elementary being included as part of the school brand but not in title.

Principals

• 1882-1884 Goodloe harper bell
  Goodloe Harper Bell
  Goodloe Harper Bell , born to David and Lucy Bell, was the first teacher at the first Seventh-day Adventist school and co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist school system. This first school was located on the first floor of the old Review and Herald building in Battle Creek, Michigan...
  
   (1832-1899)
• 1884-1885 Dores Alonzo Robinson (1848-1899)
• 1885-1888 Charles Cornell Ramsay (1857-1942)
• 1888-1894 George W. Caviness (1857-1923)
• 1894-1899 Joseph Harvey Haughey (1857-1935)
• 1899-1907 Frederick Griggs (1867-1952)
• 1907-1909 Benjamin F. Machlan (1865-1928)
• 1909-1913 Charles Smull Longacre (1871-1958)
• 1913-1916 Benjamin F. Machlan (1865-1928)
• 1916-1917 William G. Worth
• 1917-1920 Mahlon Elsworth Olsen (1873-1952)
• 1920-1920 Otto Marion John (1883-1938)
• 1921-1922 George R. Lehman (1905-1986)
• 1922-____ Irvil Atwood Armstrong (1887-1936) First Principal after College faculty separated
• c1930-____ Linton Garfield Sevrens (1895-1975)
• 1944-1945 William Burton Higgins (1899-1968)
• 1945-1952 Chester Everett Kellogg (1892-1984)
• c1952-____ Harold F. Lease (1904-1995)
• c1955-____ Edwin Charles Harkins (1908-1993)
• c1961-1966 Lloyd Stanley Davis (1916-1995)
• 1966-1967 Don Lake
  Don Lake
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• 1967-1968
• 1968-1969 J. Melvyn Clemons
• 1969-
• 1970 1973 - Dale Twomley (South Lancaster Academy School Board Minutes)
• 1976-1989 Alfred Peder Aastrup (b. 1929)
• 1989-
• 1996 - 1998 Jeff Foote
• 2000 - 2001 - Gary Force
• 2001 - 2002 Sandy Durand
• 2002-2007 Allyson E. Cram (b.1965)< minutes of South Lancaster Academy School Board>
• 2007-current Ron Huff< minutes of South Lancaster Academy School Board>

See also

• Seventh-day Adventist Church
  Seventh-day Adventist Church
  The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the original seventh day of the Judeo-Christian week, as the Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent second coming of Jesus Christ...
  
  
• List of Seventh-day Adventist secondary and elementary schools