A NEW ERA OF
Boarding at Ashley Hall By Jennifer Turner, Editor & Director of Content Beginning in 1909 with Ashley Hall’s first class of fourteen boarders and thirty day students, the Boarding Program was an integral part of founder Miss McBee’s commitment to offering young women in the Southeast (and eventually nationwide) a quality educational experience that would fully prepare them for college. For hundreds of young women, Ashley Hall not only became a second home but also the location of some of their most meaningful life experiences. Discontinued in 1974, the Boarding Program was revived in 2011 to welcome international students, who settled into the newly opened Elizabeth Rivers Lewine ’54 House in 2015. Now, this treasured Ashley Hall boarding tradition with its proud legacy returns to campus this fall to begin a new era of welcoming young women from across the nation and around the world. Visit ashleyhall.org/boarding to learn more about Ashley Hall’s Boarding Program
| Counterclockwise from top: Students attend a tea in the McBee House drawing room in the 1940s | Boarders enjoy a snowball fight during a rare snowfall in 1973 | The Elizabeth House today | Boarding students in their bedrooms in the 1930s | Boarding students in their bedrooms today. Photos by Kelly Grace Photography and from the Ashley Hall Archives | Opposite, L-R: Missee Tuttle Fox ’73 and Betsy Cheek Howland ’74 sit in the McBee House drawing room and reminiscence on their Boarding Program days. Photo by Paula Harrell
