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"JA: Now do you go to the Seventh Day Adventist Church?
EW: Yes. I started going when my daughter was four. We was going to church on Sunday and she was, she wanted to go on Saturday. So I wanted to see what was going on, why this child wanted to go to church on Saturday, what’s going on, this a cult around here? So I went, started seeing what she was liking about the church. And she was coming home telling me about sermon. What is this, a four-year-old talking about sermon. And she said, “Mama, I prayed in church today,” because Miss Baldwin, Miss Baldwin did not let you do anything without prayer. And Miss Baldwin taught them how to pray. And so I started going with her and by the time she was round about six or seven, I joined, and we’ve been there ever since. And like I said, she went all the way through school there. Yes. And I’m glad I did.
JA: So is there a big difference between, like, a Seventh Day Adventist school and other schools other than--
EW: It’s the discipline, the Bible and the discipline. It makes a big--Miss Baldwin, she was not afraid--and you know now how it is--she was not afraid to discipline your children, your child. And then she would let you know she disciplined. And you had to go by certain codes for her. You could be even [a]sleep--she, sometimes she would take a nap but she--the children be reciting the Bible and they do it wrong. She’ll just wop them. And they got back in line. But she said that God’s words should always be first. She would not let those children eat, she would not let them walk in that classroom without prayer first. And, and what I see the big impact personally with me--my daughter is a social worker, like I said. But she’s in Omaha, Nebraska, [unclear] to start--her and her husband--to start a church school, Seventh Day Adventist church school. So the impact has lingered. Which she probably wouldn’t have never done that if she hadn’t never went to Baldwin Chapel."
Object Description
| Title | Interview with Eleanor Wonce [The Baldwin School: Yesterday and today] |
| Date | 2006 |
| Time period (decade) | 2000-2009 |
| Creator (individual) | Wonce, Eleanor |
| Contributors (group/organization) | Graduate Program in Public History. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| Subject headings | Greensboro (N.C.) -- History -- 20th century |
| Topics | Schools |
| Place | High Point (N.C.) |
| Type | Sound |
| Original format | interviews |
| Original publisher | [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] |
| Language | en |
| Contributing institution | Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries |
| Source collection | CC032 The Baldwin School: Yesterday and today |
| Collection description | On loan from contributor. UNCG does not hold a physical copy of this item. |
| Rights statement | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Additional rights information | IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse. |
| Object ID | CC032.009 |
| Digital access format | audio/mpeg3 |
| Digital publisher | The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5305 -- http://library.uncg.edu/ |
| Notes | The Baldwin School, Yesterday and Today was a Spring 2006 UNCG Public History Program class project at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Its purpose was to document the history and legacy of the school opened in 1942 by Rosetta Baldwin in her living room in High Point, N.C. For the following seven decades, the school provided religious-based, private education primarily to the city's African-American and Seventh-day Adventist communities. The story of Baldwin school has been told by its class of 1963, and captured by a group of graduate students. |
| OCLC number | 899259906 |
Page/Item Description
| Title | Clip 1 - Impact of Miss Baldwin |
| Full text |
"JA: Now do you go to the Seventh Day Adventist Church?
EW: Yes. I started going when my daughter was four. We was going to church on Sunday and she was, she wanted to go on Saturday. So I wanted to see what was going on, why this child wanted to go to church on Saturday, what’s going on, this a cult around here? So I went, started seeing what she was liking about the church. And she was coming home telling me about sermon. What is this, a four-year-old talking about sermon. And she said, “Mama, I prayed in church today,” because Miss Baldwin, Miss Baldwin did not let you do anything without prayer. And Miss Baldwin taught them how to pray. And so I started going with her and by the time she was round about six or seven, I joined, and we’ve been there ever since. And like I said, she went all the way through school there. Yes. And I’m glad I did. JA: So is there a big difference between, like, a Seventh Day Adventist school and other schools other than-- EW: It’s the discipline, the Bible and the discipline. It makes a big--Miss Baldwin, she was not afraid--and you know now how it is--she was not afraid to discipline your children, your child. And then she would let you know she disciplined. And you had to go by certain codes for her. You could be even [a]sleep--she, sometimes she would take a nap but she--the children be reciting the Bible and they do it wrong. She’ll just wop them. And they got back in line. But she said that God’s words should always be first. She would not let those children eat, she would not let them walk in that classroom without prayer first. And, and what I see the big impact personally with me--my daughter is a social worker, like I said. But she’s in Omaha, Nebraska, [unclear] to start--her and her husband--to start a church school, Seventh Day Adventist church school. So the impact has lingered. Which she probably wouldn’t have never done that if she hadn’t never went to Baldwin Chapel." |
