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A Century in Montgomery:
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Citizens secure the 58-acre site where the The Montessori School is
College is to be built in Montgomery, a introduced; the British launch
college for Methodist women to be called the Mauritania, sparking a
1907 Womans College of Alabama series of luxury liners.
Dr. J. M. Dannelly is appointed by Dr. Massey
to raise funds to support the College's move
to Montgomery. Landscape architect
Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. is employed to
design the campus and entrance, and
suggests the approach to campus should
come from the north, thereby switching it to
Fairview Avenue from the originally intended
Woodley Road. The wife and children of
John Jefferson Flowers pledge a gift of The Singer Building and King Carlos and Crown Prince
$50,000 in his memory to fund the first Metropolitan Life Building, are assassinated in Portugal;
building on campus to match $100,000 raised 47 and 50 stories, Bulgaria declares
from other sources for the operation of the respectively, become the independence; Peary traverses
1908 campus. first true skyscrapers. the North Pole.
A Century in Montgomery:
Huntingdon College and the World, 1909-2009
The original architect for Flowers Hall, a Mr.
Poindexter, of Washington D.C., passes
away and the original plans are scrapped. H.
Langford Warren, of Warren and Smith in
Boston, is employed for a new building
design. In June, the foundation is laid for the
building. Dr. William E. Martin is appointed to
serve as president of Woman's College of
Alabama, the new name for the College. On
August 24, ACFC officials move the
furnishings, pianos, laboratory equipment,
chemicals, and records of the first 50 years
into Hamner Hall, a brick building in
Montgomery. The same evening, a fire
destroys the building and all of its contents.
With Flowers Hall not yet ready for The Wright Brothers
occupation, ACFC students transfer to Sullins establish a "Flying School"
College in Virginia for one year, an outside Montgomery; the boll
arrangement made by Dr. Martin, who came weevil, destoyer of cotton, William Howard Taft is US Navy Commander Robert Kewpie dolls are the rage; Lipton
to ACFC after serving Sullins College as enters the state at the inaugurated as the 27th Peary reaches the North Pole. tea and the electric toaster are
1909 president. Mississippi border. president. Sigmund Freud visits the US. introduced.
State population=
2,138,093.
1910 Federal Census -
White population=
1,228,832
African-American
population= 908,282
Urban population=
370,431
Rural population=
1,767,662
Cotton production in Father's Day is celebrated for the
In the fall, faculty and students move in to an bales= 1,129,527 first time; Hallmark cards, food
unfinished Flowers Hall, with no doors and no Corn production in mixers, and trench coats are
windows, ladders where staircases would bushels= 30,695,737 Japan annexes Korea and introduced; the Boy Scouts of
later be, and no roof over the Chapel. Four Number of manufacturing continues to occupy through America is founded. Leo Tolstoy
1910 Greek societies are added. establishments= 3,398. the end of WWII. and Mark Twain die.
A Century in Montgomery:
Huntingdon College and the World, 1909-2009
Windows are installed in the Chapel. The
first edition of the Bells and Pomegranates New: Indianapolis 500, Domino
1911 yearbook is published. NAACP founded sugar
The cornerstone for Pratt Hall, the first
residence hall, is laid May 31; a Department New: Keystone Kops, Universal
of Home Economics is established. Alabama Pictures, Oreo and Lorna Doone
Conference ranks the College as A-grade, cookies, the Girl Scouts of
and the College sets its sights on SACS America, Hellman's Mayonnaise,
1912 membership. The Titanic sets sail and sinks. LL Bean.
5000 women march on
Washington, D.C.,
demanding the right to vote.
The first home electric
refrigerator is introduced by
GE ($900). Ford begins the
automobile assembly line.
The Federal Reserve is New: American Cancer Society,
created. The 17th Peppermint Life Savers, the
Greek social sororities are eliminated, but Amendment allows for direct Consumer Price Index, the
literary societies grow. Athletics teams in election of senators. Erector Set. Notre Dame football
tennis, basketball, and volleyball have Woodrow Wilson is Niels Bohr's quantum theory of players Knute Rockne and Gus
intramural-type contests. A debate program inaugurated as the 28th the structure of atoms is Dorais perfect the technique of
1913 begins among the literary societies. president. published. the forward pass in football.
Austrian Archduke Franz
Ferdinand is assassinated by a
Serbian. Austria declares war
on Serbia. Russians enter war
in defense of Serbs. Germany
enters war to defend Austria
against Russia and France.
Germany attacks Belgium.
The words to the Alma Mater first appear in Great Britain enters the war in
the College's magazine. Students contribute defense of Belgium. The US
funds to build a swimming pool in the intervenes in the Mexican Civil
basement of Flowers Hall. Students sneak War. Germany invades New: Crossword puzzles,
out to a forbidden restaurant called Rus at the Luxembourg. Russia invades automobile maps, Wrigley's
corner of Fairview and Narrow Lane, where Prussia. The Panama Canal doublemint chewing gum,
1914 they buy red soda pop and sandwiches. opens. Mother's Day, Tarzan of the Apes .
A Century in Montgomery:
Huntingdon College and the World, 1909-2009
An adaptation of the Alma Mater by Blanche Germans launch air raids
Loveridge, dean from 1914 to 1916, appears against London; a German
in Bells and Pomegranates . Dr. Mifflin Wyatt The first transcontinental submarine sinks the cruise
Swartz, a classical scholar and native of telephone conversation ship Lusitania, holding 1200
Virginia, takes over the presidency. takes place between New passengers (including 128
Women's suffrage lectures are held on York and San Francisco (by Americans); Germans New: aspirin in tablet form, gas
1915 campus. Alexander Graham Bell). complete capture of Poland. masks, Kraft processed cheese.
A great deal of attention is paid to cost-
cutting under President Swartz. Barbecues,
bake sales, and candy-making contribute to
the proceeds for building a library, including
$3,024.82 and a number of collected books,
but the trustees decide that a second Woodrow Wilson is re-
residence hall is a more pressing need. In elected president. The first
December, the cornerstone from the ACFC * Camp Sheridan comes to child labor law is passed,
building in Tuskegee and the cornerstone for Montgomery, and the infusion banning interstate
Massey Hall are laid in the same foundation. of young men serving in the commerce of goods made US troops intervene in the
The tradition of White Christmas, which lasts armed forces is considered a by children. Jeannette Dominican Republic; the Battle New: windshield wipers, lipstick
many years, begins. A brief try at threat and disruption to the Rankin is the first woman of Somme claims more than a in metal cartridges, Keds, Lincoln
intercollegiate athletics in basketball begins lives of the pure young elected to the US House of million lives between English, Logs, Lucky Strike cigarettes, the
1916 under the initiation of L.E. Williams. women at Women's College. Representatives French, and German forces. National Park Service
America enters WWI in
response to unrestricted
German U-boat activity and
Massey Hall is completed to serve as a after intercepting a
residential facility. WCA is declared a "no communication promising
man's land" as President Swartz forbids Mexico it would regain part of
fraternization between WCA students and the the US if it supported Germany
men at Camp Sheridan. Olive Stone in the war; Russian Revolution
becomes the first SGA president. The Grand (part I), Lenin returns to
Council, consisting of the heads of all of the Russia; Bolshevik Revolution New: Pulitzer Prizes and World
campus organizations, is formed; the first puts the Soviets in control in Book encyclopedias. George M.
1917 Halloween Party is held. Russia. Cohan publishes "Over There."
A Century in Montgomery:
Huntingdon College and the World, 1909-2009
Dr. Massey passes away April 22.
Enrollment grows at a rapid pace during Dr.
Swartz's administration. With patriotism on
the rise, flag raisings become a celebrated More than a million American
activity. The WCA gets a flagpole in the troops in France make slow
circle at the center of the Flowers front drive and steady progress against
(later moved to its current location when the Germany; the German Army
original pole rusts). War work is the norm-- mutinies; Kaiser Wilhelm II
with students knitting socks and mufflers and abdicates; a harsh armistice is
making bandages for the war effort. WCA imposed by the allies on the
students pledge $3168 during the War Work Germans; Poland and
effort, the largest sum promised by any Czechoslovakia are declared
college in Alabama and one of the few in the independent; the Armistice is
US paid in full. Influenza threat puts WCA in signed 11/11/18, ending WWI. New: Raggedy Ann dolls, pop-up
quarantine. Armistice Day celebration breaks The first air mail service A worldwide influenza outbreak toasters, Daylight Saving Time,
the quarantine, and President Swartz allows Influenza outbreak closes begins between New York kills 20 million, 5 million in the three-color traffic lights, the
1918 students to go home for Christmas. most public places. and Washington. US by 1920. United Lutheran Church.
New: pogo sticks, dial
The College suffers 175 cases of flu as The Treaty of Versailles is telephones. The Chicago White
students return from Christmas break--90 The 18th Amendment signed, officially ending WWI; Sox lose to the Cincinnati Reds in
women depart, but there are no deaths from prohibits the manufacture, the League of Nations is the World Series to an outcry of
the outbreak. The tradition of "Rat Week" sale, and transportation of created; Navy seaplanes cross game-fixing. Sir Barton wins the
1919 hazings begins and continues into the 1960s. liquor. the Atlantic for the first time. Triple Crown.
A committee is formed to come up with a list
of eligible, upstanding men for the women to The Senate and House Tuberculosis, the second most
socialize with, but only in selected areas of override a Wilson Finland gains independence deadly ailment in the US, kills
the campus, at selected times of the day. presidential veto and from USSR; Ireland granted 150,000 per year. Agatha
The faculty choose the men. The Beauty enstate Prohibition; the 19th home rule from Britain; Gandhi Christie's first book is published.
Revue begins as a selection of Who's Who Amendment gives women leads the Indian Independence New: boysenberries, Baby Ruth
1920 Among American Colleges and Universities . the right to vote. Movement. candy bars.
A Century in Montgomery:
Huntingdon College and the World, 1909-2009
29th president Warren
Harding establishes the
Bureau of Budget; the first
restriction on immigration is
passed to "maintain the
character" of the United Sacco and Vanzetti are tried New: Chanel #5, Band-Aids,
States; the Battleship for murder. Reza Khan Betty Crocker, the polygraph, the
The first May Day Queen is presented--Edith Alabama is sunk by Army becomes ruler of Persia; Miss America Pageant. Rudolph
1921 Shields. aircraft. modern Turkey is formed. Valentino plays The Sheik.
The YWCA Hut is completed, funded by
student work and contributions. The Hut
opens October 14. Dr. Swartz resigns and
becomes a bank president in Mississippi; Dr.
Walter Agnew begins as president. New: Insulin for diabetes,
Extensive attention is paid to aesthetic Vitamin D, skywriting, technicolor.
appearance of the campus, as the College Emily Post establishes herself as
grounds move from barns and pastures and a "Mrs. Manners." The Lincoln
hay field to a beautiful campus as intended by First US aircraft carriers are Memorial is dedicated. King Tut's
1922 Olmsted's plan. launched. Mussolini seizes power in Italy. tomb is opened.
Dr. Agnew becomes known as "The Builder" New: the Charleston, Milky Way
as the College enters a few "boom" years. Upon President Harding's and Butterfinger candy bars,
With the help and encouragement of sudden death, Vice Adolf Hitler tries to overthrow Maidenform bras, Time
committed trustee chairman Fred M. President Calvin Coolidge the German government but Magazine. Bessie Smith is the
Jackson, unprecedented improvements are takes over as president, the Munich Beer Putsch is nation's top black performer.
the outcome. Painting, the acquisition of declaring "The business of suppressed. An earthquake Charlie Chaplin is The Little
equipment and pianos, and similar America is business." The hits Japan, nearly destroying Tramp . Kahlil Gibran publishes
1923 improvements continue. Ku Klux Klan is exposed. Tokyo and Yokohama. The Prophet.
Architect Frank Lockwood is contracted to
design a new infirmary, named Miriam
Jackson Home because of a generous gift The Teapot Dome scandal
from Fred Jackson that financed and exposes widespread abuses
equipped the building. Enthusiam and of power for private gain
optimism reign as Hanson Hall, a residential during the Harding
facility, is completed. Peak enrollment of 555 administration; American
is reached in 1924–1925. President Agnew aircraft complete the first Lenin dies--Stalin and Trotsky New: Gershwin's "A Rhapsody in
places a head resident in charge of each around-the-world flight. vie for power in Soviet Union. Blue," Wheaties cereal, Macy's
dormitory, giving the women a bit more Clarence Darrow defends Gandhi conducts a 21-day Thanksgiving Day Parade,
1924 freedom for off-campus activities. Leopold and Loeb. hunger strike for unity. Kleenex tissues.
A Century in Montgomery:
Huntingdon College and the World, 1909-2009
The need for approval and accreditation by
the Southern Association of Colleges and
Secondary Schools leads a drive to build President Coolidge's second
enrollment and to better support the College's administration begins. The The Great Gatsby is published.
science programs. The tradition of Fire Frolic Scopes Monkey Trial takes Louis Armstrong rises with his
1925 is introduced. place. "Hot Five."
Color TV is introduced; the New: NBC, Good Humor,
first commercial digital miniature golf. A.A. Milne
computer is introduced and Trotsky is ousted by Stalin and publishes Winnie-the-Pooh . Mae
1926 sold to the Census Bureau. assassinated in exile in Mexico. West stars in the play, "Sex."
Al Jolson is The Jazz Singer .
Gerber baby foods, Wonder
Charles Lindbergh crosses Bread, and Hostess Cakes hit the
The Little Theatre (now Seay Twins Art the Atlantic on the first non- market. Laurel and Hardy make
Gallery) opens, offering a small space for stop solo flight in The Spirit the first of nearly 90 comedies as
1927 public theater performances. of St. Louis. a team.
SACS membership is achieved; a paved
driveway and sidewalks are added to the
campus; architect Frank Lockwood
completes Bellingrath Hall for sciences and
begins plans for Houghton Memorial Library Amelia Earhart becomes the New: broccoli (introduced in the
and a central heating plant for the the first woman to fly across the The era of rule by Chinese US from Italy), commercial
College. New attention is paid to campus Atlantic (as a passenger-- warlords ends as Chinese peanut butter, bubble gum. Ty
social life. Intercollegiate athletics are not as the pilot); television is Nationalists, led by Chiang Kai- Cobb retires. "Amos 'n Andy" hits
1928 replaced with a college-wide "play program." introduced in the US. Shek, capture Peking. the radio waves.
A Century in Montgomery:
Huntingdon College and the World, 1909-2009
On the eve of the Stock Market crash, the
college is forced to borrow $100,000 to
finance the building that has taken place, as
well as the cost of paving the streets on either
side of the campus. The crash causes a
budget deficit by the end of the year, and the
College endowment shrinks. The tradition of
May Day begins. The Prelude literary The first Academy Awards
magazine is published for the first time. In ceremony takes place. William
response to interest in international affairs, The Stock Market crashes, Faulkner's The Sound and the
the International Relations Club is formed. losing 40% of its market Stalin enforces "forced Fury, Virginia Woolf's A Room of
Old literary societies are replaced by clubs value. The St. Valentine's collectivization" of farms in the One's Own, and Erich
and organizations. Alpha Psi Omega drama Day Massacre pits "Bugs" Soviet Union; Soviet Remarque's All Quiet on the
1929 honorary comes to campus. Moran against Al Capone. agriculture never recovers. Western Front are published.
Houghton Memorial Library is completed, and
the library moves from Flowers Hall's East
Wing to the new building; a commuter Greek
organization is formed (Theta Eta); the Oracle
Hunt tradition begins; SACS becomes
concerned about the College's finances
during the Depression as donors ask to be American physicist Earl
excused from their pledges. The naming of Lawrence introduces the The Nazi Party becomes the
an annual "Miss Charming" begins and cyclotron (atom smasher); second largest political party in World population is 2.1 billion.
1930 continues through the '30s and 40s. the flash bulb is introduced. Germany. New: Scotch tape
A Century in Montgomery:
Huntingdon College and the World, 1909-2009
March 25 - Nine black
youths, soon to be known as
the Scottsboro Boys, are
arrested in Paint Rock and
jailed in Scottsboro, the
Jackson County seat.
Charged with raping two
white women on a freight
train from Chattanooga, the
sheriff had to protect them
from mob violence that night.
Within a month, eight of the
nine were sentenced to Pearl Buck's The Good Earth and
Dr. Agnew's health suffers and he takes a death. Based on Empire State Building, the Jean de Brunhoff's The Story of
leave of absence for the fall semester. A questionable evidence, the largest building in the world, Babar are published. Bisquick,
business manager is added--Dr. Paul Stone. convictions by an all-white opens. "The Star Spangled Alka-Seltzer, and Dick Tracy are
Faculty and staff accept 10% salary jury generated international Banner" is adopted as the new. Frankenstein hits the box
1931 reductions to reduce the annual deficit. outrage. national anthem. office.
Because families in Montgomery cannot
afford to send their young men away to
College during the Depression, WCA accepts
37 young men as a Depression measure to Hattie Wyatt Caraway of
build enrollment and assist the local need. Arkansas is the first woman
Faculty and staff bear the cost of the budget elected to the US Senate,
deficit caused by building debt service. While filling a vacancy caused by
17 Methodist colleges fail during the the death of her husband. The British government
Depression, WCA faculty and staff accept She is later re-elected. The declares the Congress Party
whatever salary is available without causing a Lindberghs' baby is illegal and again arrests
1932 budget deficit. kidnapped and murdered. Gandhi.
A Century in Montgomery:
Huntingdon College and the World, 1909-2009
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is
elected as the 32nd
president. Roosevelt begins
"The New Deal" to combat
the Depression; Tennessee
Valley Authority is Hitler becomes Chancellor of
established; Prohibition is Germany, dissolves the
repealed; the Hoover Dam is Reichstag, and expels Jews
completed. The 20th from positions of power in Monopoly, Windex, and Ritz
Amendment moves government; Dachau crackers are new. Jean Harlow
WCA faculty and staff accept a 61% salary presidential inaugurations concentration camp is stars in Bombshell . King Kong is
1933 reduction so that the budget will balance. from March 4 to January 20. established. released in theaters.
The first male student, Frank Moseley,
graduates from WCA, to thunderous
applause at Commencement. The College
discusses a name change as "Womans
College of Alabama" no longer represents the
enrollment and sounds like a state school.
Dr. Agnew believes the name should honor a Bonnie Parker and Clyde
woman who was active in Methodism, and Barrow are ambushed at the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
proposes Huntingdon College, after Selina, end of a 21-month crime Stalin institutes another purge-- dance into the spotlight. Comic
the Countess of Huntingdon, a driving force in spree, having murdered 12 the end result 8 million books hit the presses. Ella
the Wesleyan/Methodist movement in people. John Dillinger and members of the Communist Fitzgerald is a rising star. Cole
Europe. The new name is well-received by Pretty Boy Floyd also grab party are killed, imprisoned, or Porter's "You're the Top" defines
1934 all. headlines. sent to Siberia. the culture of the year.
Social Security Act; Amelia
Earhart is the first woman to
cross the Pacific; Howard Hitler denounces the Treaty of
Hughes slashes the land Versailles. TheCommonwealth
speed record at 352 mph in of Phillippines is declared. New: Kodachrome film, beer in
January 11 a naming ceremony is held, and his custom-built Hughes The Greek monarchy is cans, Iran, Toyota, Alcoholics
1935 the College is known as Huntingdon College. Racer. restored. Anonymous' 12-step program.
A Century in Montgomery:
Huntingdon College and the World, 1909-2009
Civil War in Spain; oil
discovered in Saudi Arabia;
Lawrence County native Jesse
SACS expects a return to standard salaries Owens wins four gold medals
for faculty and staff and puts the College on in the Berlin Olympics. New: Waring blender,
probation until they can achieve this. John E. Edward VIII abdicates the trampolines, Tampons,
Trimble Memorial Building is built, serving as throne in England to marry his Volkswagens, Polaroid
1936 faculty housing. love, Wallis Simpson. sunglasses.
Dr. Agnew indicates his intention to retire by
his 65th birthday. The board does not accept State sales tax instituted to Japan invades China. India's
his resignation, but goes ahead with a help fund education; National Congress party wins Billie Holiday rises as one of the
search for a new president. Dr. Hubert Alabama Senator Hugo Black election and begins greatest female jazz artists of all
Searcy is hired to succeed Dr. Agnew. At the is appointed by President The Hindenburg explodes governance. The Axis is time. Frank Lloyd Wright
age of 29, he is one of the youngest college Franklin Roosevelt to the US upon landing in New Jersey; formed in a pact between Italy, completes "Fallingwater." Karen
1937 presidents in the country. Supreme Court. Amelia Earhart disappears. Germany, and Japan. Blixen writes Out of Africa .
Superman, the steam iron, the
March of Dimes, Hewlett-
Packard, and electro-shock
therapy are introduced. Bette
Davis, Mickey Rooney, Judy
Presidents Searcy and Agnew work side-by- Garland, and Lana Turner are
side for the spring semester. The campus popular at the box office. "The
newspaper changes from Wo-Co-Ala News Fair Labor Standards Act War of the Worlds" radio
to The Huntress . The College achieves a establishes the Minimum Germany invades Austria; broadcast causes widespread
1938 small surplus. Social life relaxes a bit. Wage at 25 cents per hour. Kristallnacht in Germany. panic.
Germans enter Prague;
Spanish Civil War ends; Hitler
and Mussolini sign the Pact of
Steel between Italy and
Germany; DDT is discovered
as an insecticide; Stalin signs
the Non-Agression Pact with
Einstein writes Roosevelt Hitler, giving the balance of Air conditioning in automobiles is
explaining the potential of power in Europe to Germany; introduced. John Steinbeck's
nuclear warfare. The US Germany invades Poland; The Grapes of Wrath is
The Miss Huntingdon pageant grows from the declares neutrality in the Great Britain and France published. Lou Gehrig says
1939 Beauty Revue/Who's Who tradition. European conflict. declare war on Germany. goodbye to baseball.
A Century in Montgomery:
Huntingdon College and the World, 1909-2009
The world population is 2.3 billion.
Montgomery Mayor Gunter arranges for a Germany invades Norway, the Mae West and W.C. Fields team
$5000 annual appropriation from the City Netherlands, Luxembourg, and up to write and star in My Little
Commission to be used for advertising the Belgium and drives into Chickadee . Carson McCullers
College to the public to promote recruitment, Northern France, dividing the pens The Heart is a Lonely
which gives the final measure of stability British and French forces in Hunter and Eugene O'Neill writes
required by SACS. Full membership in half; France surrenders; Long Day's Journey Into Night.
SACS is restored as financial questions are Germany attacks Britain by air Edward R. Murrow is one of the
resolved. Dr. Robert R. Ellison is hired as the The first Xerox machine is in the Battle of Britain; Italy first journalists to work strictly in
1940 first full-time fundraiser for the College. invented. invades Greece. broadcasting.
Dr. Ellison and Dr. Searcy work vigorously to
wipe out the College's debt. Dr. Searcy's
chief concern beyond debt is supporting
scholarly pursuits by faculty and enhancing
teaching and library holdings for the
academic programs. During the 1940s,
numerous grants are secured from the
Carnegie Foundation that support faculty
attendance at regional and national meetings,
scholarly research, and library holdings.
Speakers who present public lectures during
the '40s include ambassador to Japan Franklin Roosevelt's third Germany invades Greece, Orson Welles stars in Citizen
Joseph C. Grew, correspondent Joseph Training of African-American inauguration takes place. Yugoslavia, and Russia. Japan Kane . Modern commercial
Bellaire, biographer Emil Ludwig, and Ruth military pilots, the "Tuskegee Penicillin is used to treat attacks Pearl Harbor, and the television is born. Glenn Miller
1941 Bryan Owen. Airmen," underway. humans. US enters WWII. and big band music are the rage.
Students jump into the war effort under the
direction of Dean of Women Marylee Collins, The Battle of Midway is the
organizing the Student Defense Council. The turning point in the war in the Betty Grable becomes America's
group sells war bonds and stamps, saves Pacific; Guadalcanal pin-up girl with her shapely legs.
waste paper and metal, knits, and rolls President Roosevelt issues offensives underway; Russian C.S. Lewis publishes a defense of
bandages for the Red Cross, and many enroll an order to intern Japanese- troops wear down German Christianity. Humphrey Bogart
in first aid courses. International emphasis Americans living on the forces as they battle for control and Ingrid Bergman star in
1942 dominates the May Day theme. West Coast. of Stalingrad. Casablanca.
A Century in Montgomery:
Huntingdon College and the World, 1909-2009
Students collect textbooks for service men,
conserve electricity, type blood for Red Cross
emergencies, study nutrition for defense,
assist in ration-book registration, and submit
to meatless meals--all as part of the war
effort. The College hosts the Institute for
World Affairs, part of a series of numerous Woody Guthrie publishes his
speakers on international issues. War brings FDR seizes the railroads in autobiography, Bound for Glory .
social changes to campus as the women are the midst of a labor dispute. The Rodgers and Hammerstein
allowed to mingle with servicemen stationed Dwight D. Eisenhower is The Warsaw Ghetto uprising; stage play Oklahoma changes
at Maxwell and Gunter AFBs--from America, named supreme US troops launch daylight air the American musical. Jacques
Britain, and France. Independent study is commander of the Allied raids in Germany; Allies land in Cousteau begins to explore the
1943 added as a study option at the College. Expeditionary Force. Italy. ocean with the new Aqua-Lung.
The mortgage debt of $150,000 is finally paid
off, and the note is delivered to Dr. Searcy at
Commencement 1944. The remainder of the
total debt of more than $243,000 is liquidated
by June 1. Dr. Searcy is lauded in
Montgomery and in the higher ed community Anne Frank and her family are
with numerous awards and roles of betrayed and sent to a Nazi
leadership in national higher ed organizations death camp. Russian troops The GI Bill, Chiquita bananas,
and on local boards. He is regarded as a cross into Poland; D-Day leads five-star generals and admirals,
gentleman, scholar, and supreme fundraiser. to the liberation of Paris and and Seventeen magazine are
A new Honor Council, part of the SGA, Allies advance to Germany; new. Rosie the Riveter is the icon
1944 presides over issues of an honor code. Battle of the Bulge. for the domestic war effort.
A Century in Montgomery:
Huntingdon College and the World, 1909-2009
Huntingdon "Minute Maidens," in costumes
furnished by the College, have entire charge
of selling war bonds in Montgomery. In a Soviet forces liberate
single day in 1945, they sell more than Auschwitz; US forces liberate
$46,000 in bonds. Founders Day sees the Bergen-Belsen and Dauchau
awarding of Mrs. W. A. Bellingrath with the concentration camps; US
College's first honorary doctorate degree. At Franklin Roosevelt is forces land on Iwo Jima;
Commencement, the chair of the religion inaugurated for a fourth Germany surrenders; Potsdam
program is named for Mr. and Mrs. Walter D. time. Soon after, he dies of Conference; atomic bombs
Bellingrath, generous benefactors of the a stroke and is succeeded dropped on Hiroshima and
College. Campus improvements by vice president Harry Nagasaki; Japan surrenders. New: Tupperware, frozen orange
accommodate a growing enrollment of men, University of Alabama Truman. General Patton WWII ends. The United juice, bumper stickers. Abbott
and the Green takes on a park-like Medical School moves from dies in a car accident in Nations is established. and Costello wonder "Who's on
1945 appearance. Tuscaloosa to Birmingham. occupied Germany. Winston Churchill resigns. First?"
The return home of GIs given GI Bills to
complete their education results in more First meeting of UN General
complete coeducation at Huntingdon. The Assembly; Juan Peron
curriculum begins to offer courses of more becomes dictator of Argentina.
interest to veterans, particularly pre- Italy's King Umberto II leaves New: bikinis, Tide detergent, the
professional courses in agriculture, forestry, Benjamin Spock publishes a for exile in Portugal and the Slinky, Fulbright fellowships,
journalism, pharmacy, theology, architecture, book on baby care; the first 900-year House of Savoy Timex watches. Rita Hayworth
law, and fields of medicine. Tri-Beta biology all-electronic computer is ends. Hitler's henchmen are stars in Gilda . It's a Wonderful
1946 honorary is added. designed, weighing 30 tons. judged in the Nuremberg Trials. Life hits the box office.
The faculty grows to accommodate the new
majors. A Department of Business is added.
Enrollment of 200 men thrusts the college Georgiana's Hank Williams The Marshall Plan is
student population to a new peak of 860. signs a recording contract unveiled; the Taft-Hartley
Ligon Hall is completed as a dormitory for with MGM and becomes a Act is passed in the wake of
women, and 100 women move in in February regular on The Louisiana a wave of strikes across the India and Pakistan gain Christian Dior introduces new
1947 1948. Hayride radio program. country. independence. fashions in France.
The State of Israel is declared;
South Africa embraces
Apartheid; Soviets introduce Milton Berle becomes "Mr.
the MIG jetfighter; Mohandas Television." Velcro is introduced.
Gandhi is assassinated; the Andrew Wyeth completes
Soviets blockade Berlin in the "Christina's World." B.F. Skinner
The Polaroid Land Camera first major crisis of the Cold publishes his thoughts on
1948 Gamma Mu music society is established. goes on sale. War. behaviorism.
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Silly Putty, television soap operas
and sitcoms, Scrabble, Legos,
and Emmy Awards are new.
NATO is founded; Ireland Hank Williams is one of the
becomes independent; Federal greatest stars in the history of
The Delchamps family of Mobile funds the Republic of Germany created; country music. Maria Callas stars
building of the President's Home. Jimmy The first non-stop flight Soviets detonate an atomic at the opera. Arthur Miller's
Wright is the first male inducted into Tri- around the world is bomb, sparking an arms race "Death of a Salesman" is
1949 Sigma. completed by an Army plane. that would last until 1990. published.
State population=
3,061,743.
1950 Federal Census -
White population=
2,079,591
Mr. Walter D. Bellingrath gives Bellingrath African-American
Gardens to a charitable, religious, and population= 979,617
educational foundation with the Urban population=
understanding that 25% of the proceeds will 1,228,209
go to Huntingdon College. Student Rural population=
Government expands to allow membership by 1,833,534 World population reaches 2.5
town students, thereby allowing men to join Cotton production in billion. Blue jeans become the
and hold office. Air conditioning comes to the bales= 824,290 symbol of casual American style.
executive offices of Flowers Hall. Alpha Beta Corn production in The Space Age is dawning.
honorary is introduced. The Alumnae bushels= 40,972,309 Charlie Brown, Diners Club credit
Association for women, established in 1873, Number of manufacturing North Korea invades South cards, and Minute Rice debut.
is joined by the Alumni Association for men, establishments (1954)= The Brink's armored truck Korea, sparking the Korean William Faulkner accepts the
1950 started by Jim Upchurch Jr. 3,893. company robbery War. Nobel Prize.
Rod Frazer is the first male to hold class The first color television
presidency. SGA is reorganized with an The first commercial digital Jordan's King Abdullah is slain. broadcast airs on CBS. "Dennis
Executive Council and Town/Dormitory computer is introduced and The US detonates a hydrogen the Menace" debuts. "I Love
1951 sections. sold to the Census Bureau bomb. Lucy" is a TV sensation.
The first Holiday Inn opens.
Sugar-free soft drinks are
Mr. Walter D. Bellingrath presents the Queen Elizabeth is crowned at introduced. The Revised
replacement (and present) Green Window in age 27 after the death of her Standard Version of the Bible hits
1952 the College Chapel. The polio vaccine isinvented. father, King George VI. bookstores.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower is
inaugurated as the 34th
president. Julius and Ethel Korean armistice; Stalin dies
The first men's dorm space is provided in the Rosenberg are executed for and Kruschev takes power in
top floor of Faculty House. New windows of espionage after selling the the Soviet Union. Edmund Marilyn Monroe is the
Belgian and French glass are installed in the formula for the atomic bomb Hillary and party reach the "Sweetheart of the Month" in the
1953 Chapel. to the Russians. summit of Mount Everest. first Playboy magazine.
Majors listed in the 1954-1955 catalog are
art, biology, history, home economics, Senator Joe McCarthy's
mathematics, music, psychology, religion and witch-hunt against
philosophy, secretarial science, sociology, Communism leads him to
Spanish, speech, pre-medical technology, investigate the US Army in
and teacher education. Recent speakers on public hearings; segregation
campus include a long list of regional and Democratic nominee for state is declared illegal; the first Frozen TV dinners hit the market.
national figures of great import (p. 265). The Attorney General, Albert kidney is transplanted; The phrase "under God" is added
first Founders Day Convocation is held. Patterson, ismurdered in Brown vs. the Board of to the Pledge of Allegiance.
Intramural tournaments take place in archery, Phenix City, prompting clean- Education declares J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the
tennis, swimming, ping-pong, hit pin football, up of the "wickedest city in segregation of schools Rings captures a widespread
1954 bicycling, basketball, and baseball. America." unconstitutional. audience.
Rosa Parks is arrested for
refusing to give up her seat
for a boarding white Kentucky Fried Chicken, Play-
passenger as required by Doh and the Ford Thurderbird are
Montgomery city ordinance. new. Rebel Without a Cause
Her action prompts the makes stars of James Dean and
****Source for information beyond 1954 is the historic Montgomery Bus Natalie Wood. Johnny Cash's
Huntingdon College Archives, compiled by Boycott and earns her a First McDonalds restaurant music hits the airwaves.
the Senior Capstone Communication Studies place in history as "the opens in Illinois. The polio Disneyland tops the television
class of 2008. The first fencing tournament is mother of the modern day vaccine is introduced. The ratings. Ann Landers starts her
1955 won by Jean Pate and Warren Davis. civil rights movement. " AFL and CIO merge. Geneva Summit advice column.
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*Army Ballistic Missile
Agency established at
Huntsville's Redstone
Arsenal.
*Autherine Lucy
unsuccessfully attempts to
desegregate the University of
Alabama.
*December 21 - The
Supreme Court ruling
banning segregated seating
on Montgomery's public
transit vehicles goes into Elvis Presley is king. Brigitte
effect. Reverend Martin Bardot is the nation's female sex
Luther King Jr. and Rosa symbol. Comet detergent is new.
Parks are among the first "In God We Trust" is printed on
people to ride a fully US currency. Julie Andrews stars
integrated bus, ending the in "My Fair Lady" on Broadway.
historic year-long Grace Kelly marries Prince
1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott. Rainier.
The Common Market
established; Sputnik is
The Southern Christian Federal troops integrate launched; Francois Duvalier
Leadership Association is schools in Little Rock; begins a 14-year reign of terror
founded by Dr. Martin Luther Dwight D. Eisenhower as dictator of Haiti; US and
King Jr. and others in begins second term as Russia launch intercontinental Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat is
1957 Montgomery. president. ballistic missiles published.
The Dodgers and the Giants take
The US launches the first the field, and America is gripped
1958 Delchamps Student Center is built. satellite, Explorer I. by baseball fever.
Intercollegiate basketball begins under Neal
Posey, the first coach and athletic director.
The team loses the first game to Birmingham-
Southern but finishes the season 12-9. John
Ed Mathison is a stand-out player on the Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie
team. Others are Tommy Fields and Tommy St. Lawrence Seaway Reynolds, and Eddie Fisher star
Evans. Men's tennis and golf are added. opens; Alaska and Hawaii in a real-life love triangle. Barbie
The first synchronized swimming event is become the 49th and 50th dolls hit the market. Motown is
1959 held. states, respectively. Castro seizes power in Cuba on the rise. Pantyhose are new.
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Huntingdon cheerleaders appear for the first
time; Hawk Day celebrates athletics at the
College; the first annual basketball Two airplanes collide over
tournament is held in Delchamps gym. May Brooklyn, prompting a Mauritania, Chad, World population reaches 3.2
Day begins incorporating male escorts for the nationwide overhaul of air Madagascar, Nigeria, Mali, billion. The first birth control pill
women presented. Modern and jazz dancing The George C. Marshall traffic control. John F. Niger, and French Congo becomes available. Psycho is
replace the May Pole dancing during May Space Flight Center in Kennedy is elected become independent; the released. The VW bug hits the
1960 Day. Huntsville is dedicated president. Republic of Congo iscreated. roadways.
The first European Travel Group, led by Dean
Harper, goes overseas. A faculty bulletin Harper Lee of Monroeville
board lists forbidden off-campus places for (who attended Huntingdon
students. Girls are not allowed to ride in cars 1944-45, her freshman year) John F. Kennedy is
with boys unless they have the permission of wins the Pulitzer Prize for To inaugurated as 35th
their parents. Strict dress codes for women Kill A Mockingbird ; The president; the Peace Corps
are enforced. No "secret marriages" are Freedom Riders arrive at the in founded; the Bay of Pigs Kuwait gains independence
allowed. Girls sunbathe on certain Greyhound bus terminal in invasion fails; US severs from Great Britain; the Berlin
designated areas of the campus, known as Montgomery where they are diplomatic relations with wall goes up, dividing East and Weight Watchers, valium, and
1961 "Pebble Beach." attacked by an angry mob. Cuba. West Germany. Coffee-Mate are new.
Algeria, Uganda and Burundi
Rachel Carson's book, become independent; US
Silent Spring , launches the troops increase to 8,000 in
Lynn Livingston Hicks is the first graduate to environmental movement; Vietnam, and are given
join the Peace Corps. Intercollegiate Alan Shepherd becomes the permission to fire on the Viet
baseball is added, with alumnus John Mabry first American in space; Cong. The Cuban Missile
is the coach. Women students are allowed to John Glenn becomes the Crisis takes place. The
date on Sundays for the first time. Freshmen first American to go into Vatican II begins as the Marilyn Monroe is found dead at
1962 are made to wear "rat hats" during Rat Week. orbit. Catholic Church modernizes. age 36.
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*Governor George C.
Wallace is inaugurated for
the first of four terms in office.
*Birmingham bombings of
Civil Rights-related targets,
including the offices of the
Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, the
home of A.D. King (brother of
Martin Luther King, Jr.), and
the 16th Street Baptist
Church (in which 4 children
were killed), focus national Betty Freidan publishes The
attention on racial violence in Feminine Mystique; Medgar
Julia Walker Russell Dining Hall is built; Dr. the state. Evers is slain; President K Mart and Walmart stores are
Thomas F. Staton, head of the psychology *Governor Wallace's Kennedy is assassinated; born. The Beatles are on the
program, publishes a volume on the "stand in the schoolhouse vaccine against measles rise. Stevie Wonder is
Dynamics of Adolescent Adjustment that is door" at the University of introduced; Lyndon Johnson introduced. Joan Baez and Bob
adopted by colleges and universities across Alabama protests federally assumes the presidency.; Dylan popularize folk music.
the country as their preferred textbook. The forced racial integration. Dr. Martin Luther King John Wayne rises at the box
Gargoyle is a member of the Associated *University of South delivers his "I Have a office. Helen Gurley Brown
1963 Collegiate Press. Alabama founded in Mobile. Dream" speech. publishes Sex and the Single Girl.
Huntingdon alumna and Juilliard graduate
Christine McCann presents a benefit concert
to raise money for a fine arts building and to The Beatles appear on the
establish scholarships in memory of her Ed Sullivan Show; the Civil
parents; the College celebrates Rights Act of 1964; Dr.
Shakespeare's Quadricentennial. A contest Martin Luther King Jr.
names the Hawks' mascot "Apogee," receives the Nobel Peace
submitted by W. Corbitt Wilson. Huntingdon Prize; President Johnson
basketball wins NAIA District 10 and goes on defeats Goldwater; the GI Joe dolls and the Ford
to the national tournament in Kansas, losing Surgeon General reports on Mustang are new. Hemlines
1964 in the second round. smoking. move upward.
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*March 7 - Six-hundred
demonstrators make the first
of three attempts to march
from Selma to the capitol in
Montgomery to demand
removal of voting restrictions
on black Americans.
Attacked by state and local
law enforcement officers as
they crossed Selma's
Edmund Pettus Bridge, the
marchers flee back into the
city.
March 21 - The Rev.
Martin Luther King leads
3,200 marchers from Selma
toward Montgomery in
support of civil rights for
A new organ, financed by Jean Bellingrath black Americans, after two
Layne, is installed in the Chapel, and a earlier marches had ended at President Johnson signs the
dedication concert is held. The basketball the Edmund Pettus Bridge - Voting Rights Act,
team finishes second in the NAIA District 27 the first in violence and the prohibiting discriminatory The Stones get rolling. Sylvia
1965 playoffs. second in prayer. practices in voting. Plath publishes.
Phoebe Crump is the president of the new
women's tennis club. Dances are held after Miranda rights are
1966 Friday night basketball games. established.
The NFL and the AFL square-off
in the first Super Bowl, with the
Women's basketball begins competing in Green Bay Packers beating the
intercollegiate athletics for the first time since Kansas City Chiefs 35-10. Bart
the College moved from Tuskegee. Students Starr is voted MVP. Aretha
are required to attend Chapel three times Franklin is dubbed the "Queen of
each week. Dating booths are established in Lurleen Wallace is A South African surgeon Soul." Twiggy changes the
Ligon Hall where men from Massey can visit inaugurated as state's first performs the first heart fashion world and leaves a new
1967 women in Ligon in a regulated environment. woman governor (died 1968). transplant silhouette for the world to revere.
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Dr. Allen Keith Jackson takes over the
presidency. The first African American 2001: A Space Odyssey is
student is admitted. The College furnishes a released. Waterbeds are
color television in each dormitory. The first Robert Kennedy is killed; introduced. Peggy Fleming is the
Miss Huntingdon Pageant replaces the Richard Nixon is elected; Dr. darling of the Winter Olympics.
Beauty Revue and ball. Jeff Sessions is the Martin Luther King Jr. is North Korea captures the USS Dan Rowan and Dick Martin host
1968 president of the Dorm Court. assassinated. Pueblo. "Laugh-In."
William Buckley speaks at Huntingdon.
Music professor Dr. Harald Rohlig and
Thomas Britten begin the project of recording
everything J.S. Bach ever wrote for organ.
They record between the hours of 11:00 p.m.
and 3:00 a.m. so there is no outside noise.
Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling speaks Rioting and violence in
against the Vietnam War in a convocation. First 747 flight; Woodstock; Northern Ireland warrant "Sesame Street" introduces a
The Women's Athletic Council and the Men's Apollo 11 space mission occupation by British troops, new age of children's
Athletic Council join to make the Huntingdon The University of Alabama at places astronauts Neil who remain for more than 25 programming. Robert Redford
Athletic Association. Jeff Sessions is the Huntsville and at Birmingham Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin years; Okinawa returns from and Paul Newman star in Butch
1969 president of the SGA. are established. on the moon. US to Japanese control Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
National Guardsmen kill four
Hubert F. Searcy Residence Hall is built. A unarmed protesters at Kent War in Vietnam spreads to World population reaches 3.7
Huntingdon student makes it to the finals of State University. The North Cambodia. India invades billion. Childproof safety tops and
tryouts for the Metropolitan Opera. Coach Twin Tower of the World Pakistan. The new state of no-fault divorce are new.
1970 Posey gets his 200th win. Trade Center completed. Bangladesh is formed. Doonesbury column begins.
The first male African American student is
admitted. The Little Theatre becomes the art
gallery as the Dungeon Theater opens in
Massey Hall. Men's tennis wins the school's The South Twin Tower of
first conference championship. A short-lived the World Trade Center The Kennedy Center and Walt
wrestling team is established. May Day completed. The 26th Disney World open. Shaft hits
changes its name to Homecoming. Dee Amendment lowers the Idi Amin comes to power in the box office. "All in the Family"
1971 Koza is the first Homecoming Queen. voting age from 21 to 18. Uganda starts its run on TV.
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America withdraws from
Vietnam. President Richard
Nixon makes a historic visit to
Communist China. Arab
terrorists murder 11 at the
May 15 - Gov. George C. Spiro Agnew resigns; Gerald Olympic Games in Munich,
Wallace is shot in Maryland Ford is selected as vice where Mark Spitz wins 7 gold
while campaigning for the president by President medals in swimming. Britain
Democratic nomination for Nixon; the Watergate takes control of Northern
1972 A sailing club is established. president. Scandal breaks. Ireland. The Godfather is best picture.
The Huntingdon Art Institute provides
noncredit art instruction on campus to The CAT Scan is introduced College athletic scholarships for
members of the community. The basketball to the medical world; the Paris Peace Accords begin women, the Rabies vaccine, the
team wins the National Small College Athletic Sears Tower is completed. complete US troop withdrawal Sydney Opera House, and
Association national championship and the The Supreme Court rules on from Vietnam; communism supermarket bar codes are new.
1973 Southern State Championship. Roe v. Wade. takes over two years later; Psychedelic music is in vogue.
The first African American model
appears on the cover of Vogue .
A national speed limit of 55 mph
is enforced to save energy.
Jones Law School opens on campus. Calculators replace slide rules.
Women's softball begins an intramural Haile Selassie is deposed in Carrie is a sensation at the box
1974 program. President Nixon resigns. Ethiopia. office.
Disposable razors, Lyme disease,
catalytic converters on cars, and
The first annual Parents Weekend is held. A light beer are new. Muhammad
Cultural Events Series is instituted, featuring Pol Pot takes over in Ali defeats Joe Frazier in the
plays, speakers from on-campus and off- Cambodia; Communists "Thrilla in Manilla." Jack Nicklaus
campus, and musical events. Alpha Omicron capture South Vietnam. The is tops on the course. "Saturday
1975 Pi sorority is established on campus. Vietnam War ends. Night Live" begins.
The Huntingdon Repertory Theater presents
plays during the academic year and in the
summer. The Huntingdon College
Playmakers is revived. The International Apple Computer is
Students Club is founded. Tennis player Rick introduced. America
Cleveland becomes the first All-American in celebrates its bicentennial. CB Radios are the rage. Dorothy
Huntingdon College history. Chi Omega Legionnaires' Disease Hamill is the darling of the
1976 sorority is established. spreads. Olympics. Rocky rocks theaters.
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President Jimmy Carter
takes office as the 39th
president, pardons 10,000 "Roots" miniseries appears.
draft evaders. Gary Gilmore The US gives up Panama Generic products appear. Star
1977 Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity is established. is executed by firing squad. Canal. Wars hits theaters.
Indira Gandhi expelled from
The Countess of Huntingdon visits campus. First birth by invitro Parliament; smallpox Saturday Night Fever and disco
1978 A women's volleyball program is established. fertilization eradicated from the earth reign.
Southern Rhodesia becomes
Zimbabwe; the Shah of Iran is
ousted by the Ayatollah
Khomeini; a peace agreement
is signed between Egypt and
Israel; militant students seize
Huntingdon celebrates its 125th anniversary the US Embassy in Tehran
at Founders Day. A Christmas Madrigal Three Mile Island nuclear and hold 49 hostages for more
Dinner begins a new tradition. Men's accident in Pennsylvania than a year. Mother Teresa Sony Walkman and Trivial Pursuit
1979 basketball is discontinued. occurs. wins the Nobel Prize. games are new.
Lillian Carter holds a press conference in
Flowers Hall to discuss her son's presidency.
The first annual Scholarship Banquet is held. World population is 4.5 billion.
The International Student Organization holds The electronic revolution is
a banquet. The front cover of the Gargoyle John Lennon is The Iraq-Iran War begins when underway. Everyone wonders
1980 has a picture in color. assassinated. Saddam Hussein invades Iran; "Who shot J.R.?"
President Ronald Reagan
takes office as the 40th
president and prompts a
$180 billion expansion of the
The country music group US Military. Reagan fires
Alabama is selected "Vocal 2,000 striking air traffice Pope John Paul II is shot twice
The first Jane Williams medals are given. Group of the Year" by controllers. An in an assassination attempt.
The art gallery is refurbished. A Wind Academy of Country Music; assassination attempt is Martial Law is declared in
Ensemble is established with 20 members. went on to garner five committed against President Poland, and Lech Walesa is
Sir Edward Heath is the speaker for the first consecutive "Entertainer of Reagan by John Hinckley. imprisoned. Israel destroys
Scholarship Banquet. The first Alumni the Year" award from the Sandra Day O'Connor is the Iraq's nuclear reactor. Egyptian
Phonathon is held. Kappa Sigma fraternity Country Music Association first woman Supreme Court leader Anwar Sadat is The world watches as Prince
1981 begins on campus. (1986). Justice. assassinated. Charles marries Lady Diana.
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The Music Department receives accreditation The deadline for the Equal
from the National Association of Schools of Rights Amendment passes
Music. A Liberal Arts Lecture Series is without the necessary votes.
established, featuring subjects such as The Vietnam War Memorial
humanism, drama, free market, music, and is dedicated. Ma Bell
nature. The golf team gets a new coach and breaks up. The first artificial War in the Falkland Islands; Michael Jackson releases
1982 cracks the top five nationally. heart transplant takes place. Israel/Lebanon war "Thriller." E.T. phones home.
Two computer science majors are added to
the curriculum. Cooperative Education is Soviets accidentally shoot
established by a Federal Title VIII grant. The down a Korean airliner carrying
Film Society presents movies on Friday 269 passengers from New
nights. Hawks golfers finish third in the state. York to Seoul, all perish; 200
Joe Durant and Dave Falkenberry become Marines serving as
the first freshmen in Huntingdon history to peacekeepers in Lebanon are
make All-State in golf. The first "Mr. Sally Ride becomes the first killed. The US invades
1983 Huntingdon" is crowned. woman in space. Grenada.
Indira Gandhi is murdered by
Henry Kissinger speaks for the fouth annual two Sikh bodyguards,
Scholarship Banquet. The golf team AIDS becomes an epidemic, prompting rioting that kills
becomes a national power after finishing third infecting 7,000 in the US. 2000 Sikhs. Poison gas
in the national championships, and three Geraldine Ferraro is the first escapes from a Union Carbide
make All-American (Joe Durant, Scott female vice presidential plant in India, killing 2000 and
1984 Warzecha, Don Penny). candidate. harming 200,000 others. Rap is on the rise.
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Sybil Smith Music Building is built.
Huntingdon offers associates degrees in
general studies, business administration,
computer programming, and paralegal
studies. Marie Benson of Geneva, Alabama,
provides funding to purchase 12 new pianos
for the music program. Huntingdon alumnus
Randy Sewell designs stained glass windows
for the music building. The Stallworth Lecture Gorbachev takes power in the
Series is established by Mary Elizabeth Soviet Union. France sinks
Stallworth in honor of her parents and the Greenpeace ship the
brother. The first speaker is Dr. Thomas Rainbow Warrior. Palestinian
Anderson Langford of Duke University. terrorists seize the Achille
Huntingdon men's soccer takes the field. The Lauro cruise ship and kill an
golf team wins the NAIA championships (the Ronald Reagan is American touristt. TWA Flight
first of six). Dan Penny wins the individual inaugurated a second time; 847 is hijacked. The Titanic is
1985 national golf championship. Reagan Tax Reform. found. Cocaine is the "drug of choice."
James W. Wilson Building is built and
equipped by benefactor and trustee James
W. Wilson Jr. in honor of his father.
Huntingdon alumnus and Pulitzer nominee
Andrew Hudgins returns to Huntingdon for a
poetry reading. Former US Chief Justice
Warren Burger speaks for the Scholarship
Banquet. Dr. Jeanne Shaffer's light opera
"The Ghost of Susan B. Anthony" is
performed in the Dungeon. Opera star Soviet nuclear disaster at
Beverly Sills visits the College for the Chernobyl. Ferdinand and
Stallworth Lecture series. Dr. Ken Deal's The Space Shuttle Imelda Marcos flee the Robert Penn Warren is named
fencing team qualifies for nationals in two Challenger explodes. Iran Phillipines after 20 years of the first US Poet Laureate.
1986 events. Contra Deal exposed. rule. Oprah emerges.
The Film Society begins to dwindle. Joe
Durant wins the individual national Reagan and Gorbachev An Iraqi missile damages the
championship in golf. President Jackson meet in Washington and USS Stark, a frigate, by
proposes a travel program beginning with the sign the INF Treaty that accident. Uprising by
first trips to Costa Rica, New York, the begins the end of the Cold Palestinian youth in Gaza Women are admitted into US
1987 Caribbean, Israel, and the Panama Canal. War. comes to be called the Intifada. Rotary Clubs.
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The USS Vincennes
accidentally shoots down an
Arun Ghandi and his wife, Sunanda, visit Iranian passenger plane, killing
several classes to talk about world peace. all 300 aboard; Soviets pull out
David Schreyer wins the individual national of Afghanistan; **airliner Lights are added at Chicago's
championship in golf. The women's softball bombed over Lockerbie, Wrigley Field. Fax machines are
1988 program begins. Scotland. must-have equipment.
George H.W. Bush is
inaugurated as the 41st Solidarity wins election in
Local artist Leon Loard offers to restore the president. The Exxon Poland. The Berlin wall comes
College's collection of oil paintings, to be Valdez runs aground. An down; Vaclev Havel comes to
hung in the library upon completion. The earthquake kills 57 in San power in Czechoslovakia,
Dixon Wing is added to the library. Nicky Francisco. The first liver ending Communist rule there.
Martin wins the individual national transplant takes place at Pro-Democracy rallies are held Pete Rose is banned from
1989 championship in golf. Chicago medical center. in Tiananmen Square; baseball.
Boris Yeltsen is elected
president of the Russian
Federation; East and West
Germany formally reunite;
Yugoslavia breaks into multiple
parties; Lech Walesa becomes
the first freely-elected
president of Poland; Nelson
Mandela, leader of the African
National Congress, is freed in
South Africa; Namibia
becomes independent from
South Africa; Iraqi troops
The College hosts a Medieval Festival invade Kuwait; the Gulf War World population reaches 5.3
1990 sponsored by English professor Claire Morton. begins. billion.
The Hubble telescope is
launched. President Bush
announces massive nuclear Rhajiv Ghandi is killed by a
cutbacks. Anita Hill testifies bomb. The first free elections
against Clarence Thomas in in Taiwan are held. The Soviet
Supreme Court confirmation Union ceases to exist. The
1991 hearings. Cold War ends.
1992 Dr. Karl Haas is the Stallworth Lecturer.
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William J. Clinton is
inaugurated as the 42nd
president. A bomb explodes
in the basement of the
World Trade Center. Police
officers are declared "not
guilty" in the attack on
Governor Guy Hunt, in Rodney King, sparking the
second term as first LA riots. David Koresh
Republican governor of the orders his followers to
Dr. Wanda D. Bigham becomes the College's state since Reconstruction, is commit suicide when
13th president. The Concert Choir convicted of misuse of public authorities invade their 18 Marines are killed in
participates in the Requiem in D Minor by funds and removed from compound in Waco, Texas-- Somalia. Israel and the PLO Michael Jordan retires from
1993 Mozart at Carnegie Hall. office. 86 people die. reach accord. basketball.
State Senator Ann Bedsole speaks at
Founders Day Convocation. Dr. John Horner,
dinosaur expert, speaks for the Stallworth
Lecture Series. President Bigham begins a
new tradition of a tree lighting ceremony.
Construction on a new residential facility
begins. An entrance gate is constructed in
honor of President Allen K. Jackson. A pond
is built on the Green. A Capital Campaign is OJ takes flight.
launched with a two-for-one matching gift of Republicans take control of
$1 million from Carolyn and Wynton ("Red") Congress in the "Contract Nelson Mandela is elected
1994 Blount. with America." president of South Africa.
The Wilson Building sets up a 24-hour President Bill Clinton bails
computer center, funded by a grant from the out Mexico; OJ Simpson is
National Science Foundation. The found not guilty of charges
Huntingdon Plan is introduced. Huntingdon of murdering his ex-wife and
participates in the Business Education her friend.; ***The Alfred P. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
Initiative in Northern Ireland for the first time. Alabama's Heather Murrah Federal Bldg in Rabin is assassinated.
Korean international exchange agreements Whitestone serves as the Oklahoma City is bombed President Clinton sends troops
are set up with Handong and Sungshin first Miss America with a by domestic terrorist to Bosnia on a peace-keeping
1995 Universities. disability. Timothy McVeigh. mission.
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Blount Residence Hall is built. The
Huntingdon Plan is put into place, including a
computer for every full-time student,
travel/study in the junior or senior year, and a
restructured core curriculum with Liberal Arts
Symposium courses. LAN lines are installed
to connect all college buildings to the
Internet. Mr. and Mrs. Blount donate a gift
that names Blount Residence Hall. The first
phase of Houghton Library's automation
project is completed. A fountain is donated
by Mr. Tom Radney and installed outside the
entrance to Houghton Library (later relocated The Atlanta Olympic Elections in Bosnia; Taliban
in front of Flowers Hall for the filming of Big bombing; crash of TWA 800, captures Afghanistan; suicide
1996 Fish ). the Unabomber is captured. bombers hit Israel
Men's basketball returns under Coach Buzz
Phillips. A $1 million gift establishes the
Edwin and Mae Rousseau Teague
Scholarships in the sciences and
mathematics. Anne Shinn, Jolie Jackson,
and Jenny O'Brien become the first
Huntingdon students to study in Northern
Ireland through an exchange program. PDQ
Bach creator Peter Schickele is the Stallworth
Lecturer. Supersports Saturday, an adapted
sports program for children with physical
disabilities, begins with a grant from the
Lakeshore Foundation. Campus streets are
repaved and curbing is replaced. The College Britain turns over Hong Kong
purchases property across Woodley Road Mars Pathfinder lands. to China. Princess Diana is
from Trimble Hall, renovating the facility as a President Clinton's second killed in an automobile
1997 child care center. term begins. accident.
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A comprehensive renovation of Flowers Hall
begins. Bellingrath Memorial Organ is
removed for cleaning, restoration, and
expansion. Women's basketball begins.
Enrolled head count reaches 705, the highest
since the 1980s, and residential head count Catholics and Protestants in
reaches 460, a 63% increase over 1994 Northern Ireland sign a major
levels. The College begins the SACS self- Anniston native Dr. David peace accord. US embassies
study process. Seven grants bring in nearly Satcher is appointed Surgeon in Kenya and Tanzania are
1998 $875,000 for the College. General of the United States. bombed.
The first Huntingdon Plan travel-study
experiences embark across the world. President Clinton is
Huntingdon is approved as a provisional impeached by the House of
member of the National Collegiate Atheltic Representatives but
Association (NCAA) Division III. Searcy Hall acquitted by the Senate for
is renovated. The College receives a lying in the Paula Jones trial;
generous gift from Wynton and Carolyn the Monica Lewinsky Kosovo--US successfully
Blount that helps the Capital Campaign scandal arises; Columbine expels Serbians after ethnic
exceed its $6 million goal with a final tally of High School shootings. US cleansing of more than 10,000
more than $9 million. DeeDee Myers is the and China sign a historic Albanians; Nelson Mandela
1999 Stallworth Lecturer. trade agreement. retires.
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** Source for 2000-2008:
Flowers Hall reopens after a long renovation. http://www.infoplease.com/ye
The Chapel renovation is completed and ar/2000.html; Wary
renamed for donors Leon and Myra Allman investors cause stock
Ligon. The newly expanded Bellingrath *State plunge, ending internet
Memorial Organ, designed by Professor population=4,447,100. stock boom; Elian Gonzalez
Harald Rohlig, is installed. The College * 2000 Federal Census - is reunited with his father;
achieves 10-year reaffirmation of White George W. Bush wins
accreditation from SACS. The campus is population=3,188,102 presidency by the slimmest
included on the National Register of Historic African-American margin in history, eventually
Places. Hawks baseball wins the National population=1,138,726 sealed by the Supreme
Small College Athetlic Association World Hispanic Court's ruling that there
Series. Dr. Harald Rohlig is named population=45,349 could be no further recounts; **Source for 2000-2008:
"Outstanding Educator of the Year" by the Etowah County Circuit Judge Federal spending: http://www.infoplease.com/year
United Methodist Foundation for Christian Roy Moore is elected Chief $1,788.83 billion /2000.html The Concorde
Higher Education. A $1 million gift from Leon Justice of the Alabama Federal debt: $5,674.2 crash kills 113 near Paris;
Ligon endows 26 new scholarships. The Supreme Court. Moore rose billion presidents of North and South
Quatrefoil Park is constructed on the Green. to national attention earlier Consumer Price Index: Korea sign peace accord; US
An NSF grant purchases an ultraviolet visable when he was sued by the 172.2 sailors on Navy destroyer Cole
spectrophotometer. The women's soccer ACLU for displaying the Ten Unemployment: 4.0% killed in Yemen terrorist attack;
team wins the National Small College Athletic Commandments in his Cost of a first-class stamp: Mad Cow Disease alarms
2000 Association championship. courtroom. $0.34 Europe;
A Century in Montgomery:
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A grant from the US Department of Education
installs "Smart" classrooms in each
classroom building. The Elizabeth Belcher
Cheek Piano Concert Series is endowed and
a Steinway grand piano is donated by Mr.
Ben F. Cheek III and family. The National
Association of Schools of Music issues 10-
year reaffirmation of accreditation. The Birmingham native
baseball team wins a second NSCAA World Condoleeza Rice is Terrorists conduct attacks in
Series. The men's basketball team wins the appointed National Security New York, Washington DC, Ariel Sharon wins election in
NSCAA championship. Huntingdon launches Advisor to President George and Pennsylvania, killing Israel amid the worst
the Campaign for Cloverdale to purchase and W. Bush. She is the first thousands in the first Palestinian-Israeli violence in
renovate property across Fairview Avenue. woman to occupy that terrorist attack on US soil. years. US spy plane and
The acquisition adds 12 acres, a former junior position. The US submarine Chinese jet collide. In
high school, a community center, and a *(November) Winfield Greeneville sinks a response to the Sept. 11
football field to the campus property. The native and CIA operative Japanese fishing boat, terrorist attacks, U.S. and
inaugural concert for the Elizabeth Belcher Michael Spann dies in killing 9. Bush signs new tax- British forces launch bombing
Cheek Piano Concert Series takes place. aprison uprising in Mazar-e cut law, the largest in 20 campaign on the Taliban
Justin Walters wins the individual national Sharif, Afghanistan, years (June 7); Timothy government and al-Qaeda
championship in golf. Several majors are becoming the first US McVeigh is executed. An terrorist camps in Afghanistan
eliminated or suspended in the declining casualty in the war in anthrax scare rivets the (Oct. 7). Bombings continue on
2001 economy. Afghanistan. nation. a daily basis.
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The College announces that football will be
added in 2003. Huntingdon is listed as
having the fourth highest percentage of Bush signs a corporate
students who study abroad before graduation reform bill (July 30) in
by US News and World Report . An Adult response to a spate of
Degree Completion Program is established, corporate scandals: Enron,
with the first partnership at Enterprise Ozark Birmingham native Vonetta Arthur Andersen, Tyco,
Community College. Two college Flowers and teammate Jill Qwest, Global Crossing,
benefactors announce challenge gifts of $1 Bakken win a gold medal in ImClone, and Adelphia,
million in support of the Campaign for bobsledding at the Winter among others, were
Cloverdale. The Library Automation Project Olympics in Salt Lake City. convicted or placed under
is complete, with the unveiling of the new Flowers is the first African federal investigation for
online catalog, The Countess. Huntingdon American to win a gold medal various misadventures in
Plan computers go portable with lap-tops in a winter Olympics. Bobby fraud and crooked
provided to entering freshmen. A grant from Frank Cherry is convicted of accounting.US changes
the Department of Education establishes the murder for his part in the policy to deny recognition of
Huntingdon Technology Initiative. Columbia bombing of Birmingham's Palestine until Yasar Arafat
Pictures moves the production offices of the Sixteenth St. Baptist Church. resigns. PA miners rescued U.S. and Russia reach a
film Big Fish into Hntingdon's Cloverdale Cherry is the last living after 77 hours. Snipers landmark arms agreement to
Campus for the duration of filming, bringing suspect to be prosecuted for attack outside DC, killing 10-- cut both countries' nuclear
an estimated $25 million economic impact to the Sept. 15, 1963, blast that later it is discovered the arsenals by up to two-thirds
the area. Alumna Mab Segrest speaks for killed 11-year-old Denise snipers also attacked in over the next 10 years (May
the Rhoda Coleman Ellison Lecture Series. McNair, and 14-year-olds Mongomery; Department of 13). East Timor becomes a
Dr. Martin Marty is the Stallworth Lecturer. Carole Robertson, Cynthia Homeland Security created; new nation. UN calls for Iraq
The dance program is eliminated in budget Wesley, and Addie Mae sexual abuse scandals rock to disarm nuclear missiles. UN
2002 cuts. Collins. the Catholic church arms inspectors return to Iraq.
A Century in Montgomery:
Huntingdon College and the World, 1909-2009
The Adult Degree Completion Program opens
on-campus opportunities for returning
learners. A sesquicentennial planning
committee is formed. Delchamps Student
Center locker rooms get a facelift. The quiet
phase of the campaign to renovate and
expand Bellingrath Hall begins. The The Space Shuttle Columbia
Campaign for Cloverdale nears its goal of explodes. Congressional
$3.5 million. The Reverend J. Cameron West Budget Office predicts a
becomes the College's 14th president after federal deficit of $480 billion
President Wanda Bigham retires. The annual in 2004 and $5.8 trillion by
Christmas concert changes to A Service of 2013 (Aug. 26); California
Lessons and Carols. Hawks football begins-- governor Gray Davis is
the first games are played at the St. James ousted in a recall vote; actor US and Britain launch war
School. The Paul A. Duffey Institute for Arnold Schwarzenegger against Iraq. Saddam Hussein
2003 Church Leadership is established. elected in his place . is captured by American troops.
The Center for Career and Vocation is
established. Majors in accounting, religion,
and elementary education are restored. The
Dr. Laurie Jean Weil Center for Teacher
Education and Human Performance is
renovated, renamed, and dedicated. The
Blount Foundation endows a new scholarship
at the College. New service programs lead
students to adopt an elementary school in Armed rebels in Haiti force
Florida devastated by Hurricane Ivan and to President Aristide to resign
partner with the Montgomery Area Non- and flee the country; Chechen
traditional Equestrian Center. Hawks terrorists take about 1,200
Football takes the field under new head schoolchildren and others
coach Mike Turk at the newly named Charles Abu Ghraib prison scandal; hostage in Beslan, Russia; 340
Lee Field. The team achieves its first victory Bush and John Kerry run for people die when militant
against Southwestern Assemblies of God president--Bush wins; detonate explosives; an
University, 35-21 and goes on to finish the Hurricanes Bonnie, Ivan, enormous tsunami devastates
2004 season 5-5. Jeanne hit the Gulf Coast Asia, killing more than 200,000.
A Century in Montgomery:
Huntingdon College and the World, 1909-2009
Former professor Dr. Rhoda Coleman Ellison,
who served the College from 1930 to 1971,
dies at the age of 101, leaving the College
more than $4 million from her estate.
Huntingdon's MANE Team is honored as
Montgomery's College Volunteers of the
Year. The first Karl K. Stegall and John Ed
Mathison Fellows enroll. The new Cross and
Flame Grant provides half-tuition
scholarships for Methodist students.
Students unite in several projects for
Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. North
Alabama Conference Bishop William A.
Willimon and his wife endow the Bishop's
Lectureship in Christian Higher Education. A
May term is added for travel/study, and the Hurricane Katrina kills more
traditional Jan Term is dropped. The athletic than 1000 and leaves
training program achieves national millions homeless; Sandra
accreditation. Carlos Eire delivers the Day O'Connor resigns; Chief
Stallworth Lecture. The College begins a Justice William Rehnquist Pope John Paul dies, Benedict
strategic planning process. Harald Rohlig dies; John Roberts becomes XVI takes over; London is hit
celebrates his 50th year on campus. Hawks Chief Justice; Hurricane Rita by Islamic terrorist bombings,
Football has its first winning season, with a further deepens damage in killing 52; the IRA officially
record of 7-2. A gift from the W. James the Gulf Coast; Samuel Alito ends violence and opts for a
Samford Jr. Foundation makes possible iselected to the Supreme political approach; a Pakistani
2005 stadium expansion and renames the stadium. Court. earthquake kills 80,000.
A Century in Montgomery:
Huntingdon College and the World, 1909-2009
Long-time benefactor and board member
James W. Wilson Jr. passes away--his
combined gifts were the largest contributions
in College history. The Sybil H. Smith Trust
supports the College's Rural Church
Leadership Initiative. A pre-college
Huntingdon Academy of Music is introduced.
A portion of the Cloverdale property is sold to Bush uses presidential veto
developer Jimmy Lowder's Cloverdale to strike down stem cell
Development Corporation. Natasha research legislation;
Trethewey is the Ellison lecturer--later she Democrats gain control of
wins the Pulitzer Prize for her work. House and Senate in mid-
Huntingdon celebrates Mozart's 250th term elections. The Census Iran reveals it has enriched
birthday with a performance of Mozart's Bureau estimates that the Uranium; North Korea test fires
Requiem combined with the choir of Frist US population surpasses nuclear missiles; Saddam
2006 Methodist Church. Men's tennis returns. 300 million. Hussein is hanged in Baghdad
A Century in Montgomery:
Huntingdon College and the World, 1909-2009
The Staton Center for Learning Enrichment is
established in honor of Thomas F. Staton,
professor emeritus of psychology, and his
wife, Emma. Dr. Staton passes away soon
after the announcement is made. The
football program joins the St. Louis
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The
men's golf program finishes fourth at the
NCAA-III National Championships. The Seay
Twins Art Gallery is renovated and renamed.
The Stallworth Lecture Series presents
Pulitzer prize-winning cartoonist Doug
Marlette in one of his final appearances
before his untimely death the following year. Iraq Edges Toward Stability
In the fall, Elizabeth Spencer delivers the • Destruction of CIA
Stallworth Lecture. Roberto Plano gives the Interrogation Tapes •
Cheek Concert. Operatic tenor David Dismissal of Federal
Cangelosi presents a concert and master Prosecutors • Democrats in Report Says Iran Has Halted
class. The Adult Degree Completion Control of Congress • Nuclear Weapons Program •
Program establishes a Brewton campus. Presidential Election; Palestinian and Israeli Leaders
Java City opens in the library. A gift renames Minimum wage increases to Pledge to Work Toward Peace
the Will and Kelly Wilson Community and $5.85 per hour. Nancy • North Korea Makes
Athletic Center after renovating the volleyball Pelosi becomes the first Concessions on Nuclear
gym and renaming it the James W. Wilson Jr. woman Speaker of the Program • Political Turmoil in
gymnasium. Catherine Dixon Roland Arena House. Shootings at Pakistan • Sudan Resists UN
2007 is renovated and renamed. Virginia Tech University. Efforts for Peace
The fourth year of record enrollment
increases brings total head count past 1000
for the first time since the 1960s. Greek life
expands with Sigma Nu, Kappa Alpha Psi,
Phi Mu joining Greek offerings on campus.
Van Cliburn medalist Alexander Kobrin
performs for the Cheek Concert Series.
2008 Cross Country and women's golf are added.
Barack Obama, the nation's
first African American
Pianist Vadim Serebryany joins the faculty president, is inaugurated
2009 and presents the Cheek Concert. and takes office.
