Sunnydale Adventist Academy

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History
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Sunnydale Adventist Academy, a co-educational boarding secondary school,
operated by the Iowa-Missouri Conference of Seventh-day Adventist, opened to
students in 1946. Sunnydale provides a comprehensive educational program that
includes spiritual, academic, and social development.
        Plans to establish a boarding academy were laid at a business meeting held
        in Jefferson City, Missouri, in 1945. The desire for a rural location where
        agriculture might furnish training and employment for students, and an
        invitation form the Centralia Chamber of Commerce, prompted the
        committee of 18, under the chairmanship of G. E. Hutches, to investigate the
        Centralia area. The committee closed a deal with A. Bishop Chance, founder
        of A. B. Chance Company of Centralia, to purchase his farm with equipment
        and livestock on October 18, 1945. After the erection of two three-story,
        redbrick dormitories, Sunnydale Academy opened on September 30, 1946,
        with Harvey C. Hartman as the first principal and an enrollment of 125. The
        administrative offices and classrooms were in the farm house and the hayloft
        of the barn was used for assembly and recreation purposes.


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6818 Audrain Road 9139 • Centralia, MO, 65240 • 573-682-2164