The whole executive force,
including instructors and clerks, now numbers eighty-six. This
force is so organized and subdivided that the machinery of the
school goes on day by day like clockwork. Most of our teachers
have been connected with the institutions for a number of years,
and are as much interested in it as I am. In my absence, Mr.
Warren Logan, the treasurer, who has been at the school seventeen
years, is the executive. He is efficiently supported by Mrs.
Washington, and by my faithful secretary, Mr. Emmett J. Scott,
who handles the bulk of my correspondence and keeps me in daily
touch with the life of the school, and who also keeps me informed
of whatever takes place in the South that concerns the race. I
owe more to his tact, wisdom, and hard work than I can describe.
The main executive work of the school, whether I am at Tuskegee
or not, centres in what we call the executive council. This
council meets twice a week, and is composed of the nine persons
who are at the head of the nine departments of the school. For
example: Mrs. B.K. Bruce, the Lady Principal, the widow of the
late ex-senator Bruce, is a member of the council, and represents
in it all that pertains to the life of the girls at the school.
In addition to the executive council there is a financial
committee of six, that meets every week and decides upon the
expenditures for the week.
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