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Rh W. W. Beckett, who now presides over this diocese, has done some splendid work.

Turner College, Shelbyville, Tenn., organized (1885) by the Tennessee Conference, Evans Tyree, T. B. Caldwell, G. W. Bryant, all appointed in full power to act which they did. Rev. C. S. Bowman of Shelbyville was appointed principal. Bishop Carey now presides over this district and the school progresses nicely under his administration.

Flipper Key Davis, the youngest child of learning (1917) under Bishop J. S. Flipper came into being at Tullahassee, Okla. Bishop H. B. Parks now presides over the district.

We maintain Foreign Mission Schools in Barbadoes, Haiti, British Guiana, Dutch Guiana, Sierra Leona, Liberia, and South Africa. The marvelous thing that has happened is the magnificent school building built by Bishop Brooks in Liberia, and the palatial Episcopal residence bought by the Women’s Mite Missionary Society through the lamented Mrs. Nora Taylor, upon which the last cent was ordered paid at the Mite Missionary Convention, Brooklyn, N. Y., in October, 1923. The College Presidents are: