Meet Martha
What is Alabama?
Marth opened this school in 1902.
What is the Boys Industrial Schol?
The first Mountain Day celebrated this occasion.
What is Martha Berry’s birthday?
This Saturday tradition involves students marching in increasingly larger groups.
What is the Grand March?
The first Mountain Day occurred in this year.
Martha Ber was born on this date.
What is October 7, 1865?
This school opened in 1909 as a sister school to the Boys Industrial School.
What is the Martha Berry School for Girls?
Students walked this many miles to Mountain Campus on the first Mountain Day.
What is five miles?
During this tradition, students make a small donation that now supports Berry scholarships.
What is the Penny Drop?
The Martha Berry School for Girls opened in this year.
What is 1909?
Martha first witnessed poverty in the Appalachian foothills while riding around Oak Hill with this person.
Who is her father/Thomas Berry?
This two-year institution opened in 1926 and eventually became the four-year Berry College.
What is the Junior College?
More than this number of students participated in the first Mountain Day.
What is 200 students?
This residence hall won the first recorded Mountain Day Championship.
What is Clara Hall?
The Grand March tradition traces its origins to a marching drill held in this year.
What is 1923?
Before committing herself to education, Martha considered pursuing this career.
What is a writer?
Students at the Boys Industrial School helped cover their tuition in this way.
What is working to help operate and build the school?
Martha's first birthday cake weighed this many pounds.
What is 32 pounds?
Historically, senior women wore this color during the Grand March.
The event was first officially called the “Mountain Day Olympics” in this year.
What is 1974?
A chance encounter with these people inspired Martha to open several day schools.
Who are local children who did not have access to a school?
Name the three major schools or programs established in 1902, 1909, and 1926.
What are the Boys Industrial School, the Martha Berry School for Girls, and the Junior College?
Martha told students she had not celebrated her birthday since she was this age.
What is 16?
This student-focused Saturday-night Mountain Day event was introduced in 2005.
What is Marthapalooza?
The Penny Drop was combined with the Grand March in this year.
What is 1945?