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R. A. WEST.

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Mr. R. A. West, the subject of this sketch, was born in the city of St. Louis, and received the major part of his grammar-school training in the L'Ouverture School there.

He came to Lincoln Institute in 1893, and was graduated from the normal department with the degree B.S.D. in the class of 1901.

The year after his graduation was spent in study in Dixon College, Dixon, Illinois.  He returned to Lincoln Institute in 1902 to assist in the office of the president and his services became so valuable that he was elected assistant in English and secretary to the president the next year.

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R. A. WEST.

The progress of Lincoln Institute became so rapid that it was necessary to elect additional teachers to the force and permit Mr. West to devote all his time to the work of secretary of the faculty and librarian, which position he still holds with credit to himself and to his Alma Mater.

Mr. West has been very valuable to Lincoln Institute in many ways, and is taking advantage of every opportunity to make himself efficient along his lines.

For two years he attended a business college in Chicago, doing work in shorthand, typewriting and bookkeeping.

He has the reputation of being the best all-round athlete the school has ever had, and no contest in that line has ever been given since he has been connected with the school that did not include him.

He is director of athletics, and the "Lincoln Tigers" is now the best colored football team in this section.

At the recent game in Kansas City, Missouri, between Lincoln Institute and the colored team of the University of Kansas, is which the Kansas team was defeated by a score of 11 to 0, all who were present congratulated the team on being so ably coached by Mr. West, who is a graduate of the school, and who represents the possibilities of the work even along the line of athletics.

Lincoln Institute has no son or daughter who is more loyal and who will do more to hold up her good name than R. A. West, and the world will hear from him after awhile.