| The Purpose of the Andrew Drumm Institute |
“Said trustees shall establish an Institution in Jackson County, Missouri, to be known as the Andrew Drumm Institute for the maintenance, care, education and protection of orphan and indigent boys, or either... ...The youth who may be received in the Institute shall be required and trained to care for themselves as much as is consistent with their age and good discipline. They shall be required to assist in the cultivation of as much of the land as may be thought best by the trustees and in the raising of fruit, vegetables, flowers, hay, cereals, poultry, swine and such other products and things that can be cultivated, manufactured or raised with profit or for the best education of the youth received ín said lnstitute, or any of them; and they shall be carefully instructed in such other work or pursuits in which said trustees may think they should be educated and trained... The youth who shall be received into the Institute shall not be under the age of five years nor over the age of seventeen years, and the custody and control of such youth shall be surrendered to said institute and its management and such custody and control shall be as absolute and complete as the law will permit. The said trustees shall have the right to expel at any time, any of the youth whose conduct shall be immoral or whose presence in the school shall be found to be otherwise undesirable... The youth who shall be received in said Institute shalt be plainly, decently, but not distinctively clad. They shall not be made to feel that they are the objects of dependence, but that they are doing something for themselves in the Institute. They shall be kept at the Institute until they have reached the age of eighteen years, or for a longer period if the trustees so order, and when they leave said Institute, an effort shall be made by the trustees and officers in charge to procure them suitable homes, places, positions and employment. The management of the Institute shall be wholly non-sectarian, and shall at all times be kept free from partisan or political control, but those in immediate charge shall carefully inculcate into the minds of the youth received in the Institute the highest principles of morality, honesty, industry and good citizenship.” From the will of Andrew Drumm. |