And how many interesting people we know!

A visitor might have the impression that she had come into the midst of a family instead of into a school; it is both a family and a school. To be sure we rise in the morning by a bell for an early breakfast, for the dishes have to be washed and the house cleaned up by eight-fifteen. At that time each day a member of the household takes a turn at leading in worship in our lovely little House Chapel. After this there are classes till lunch – Bible, Social Case Work, Home Management, Community Organization, Community Recreation, Psychology and Teaching in the Church School. In the afternoon the household is busy at many things – field work in home visiting, hospital, Tuttle Community Center, social agencies, attending church school staff meetings or department conferences to plan work, working in the library and so forth.  In the evenings there is study, or we join with other groups on the campus for chapel service, meetings, games or other socials, or we have a social evening at home. On Sunday mornings fifty-six children come in for church school which is planned and carried on by the students in training and students from the campus, under supervision. Through the boys and girls in the church school, families in the community are met and made friends of, so that our group grows week by week. The Bishop Tuttle School is a place where people feel at home.  Visitors drop in and longer visits are made by friends who are welcomed by the family just as friends are everywhere – and how many interesting people we know!

(Source: Louise E. Rich, “The Bishop Tuttle School:  A Training Center for Training in Church Work,” St. Augustine’s Record, December 1940/January 1941)