Palm Beach Community College - Galleon Yearbook (Lake Worth, FL)

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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: Shirley Mumm Wolfe, Joan Do- brow Hill, Glennie Buntyn Massey, Martha Ann Harper Duncan, Delores Stone, Lucille Meebold Bates, Jean Ermeti, Clyde F- Windham, Richard Hill, Jr., J. J. Cater, Jr., Wayne Self, Ed Eissey, John Johnston, Winston O. Dodge. Not pictured: Mary Louise Archibald, George Jones. EMMETT S. ROBERTS DICKINSON HUSSELL O. MORROW Led by Senator Russell O. Morrow, long a stanch supporter of PBJC, the Palm Beach County delegation to the State Legislature, which in- Representatives Fred O. Bud Dickinson and Emmett Roberts, joined educators irom other junior college localities to sponsor a bill appro- 1 riating funds for development of the four public junior colleges in Florida. On the morning of May 4, 1955, the headline that blazed across the Palm Beach Post read SOLONS APPROVE $1,047,000 FOR JUNIOR COLLEGE. A million dollars! Could the dream be coming true? C COUNTY COMMISSION: Paul Rardin, Roy Michaels, Ken Foster, Lake Lytal, Ben Sunday. 8

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BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION: left to right are Judge C. D. Blackwell, attorney for the board; Jack Horner, member; Irene Bacon, secretary to the Superintendent; George W. Slaton outgoing chairman Howell L. Watkins, Superintendent; Luella Bowman, aud- itor; Henry O. Earwood, chairman; Elizabeth Hand, mem- ber; Ralph Kettler, member; Thurmond Knight, member. This air of permanency faded with the out- break of the Korean conflict. War meant reacti- vation of the field and once again the college was without a home of its own. Students and alumni were aided by local newspapers in their plea for another location but none were large enough to facilitate the needs. Then the Town of Lake Park offered its town hall as a temporary haven and in August 1951 thousands of library books, furni- ture and equipment were moved in. Limited space in the town hall meant cutting the enrollment to 200 or less, reducing the faculty and staff to half but, as always, the faculty took it in stride and upheld the scholastic standards and the college remained accredited. During the next four years the morale around the little orphan college , as it was beginning to be nicknamed by the newspapers, was booste d by the friendly spirit that pervaded its halls and the knowledge that local civic organizations, office holders, alumni, and others were still working to keep it intact. James A. Ball, Jr. ADVISORY BOARD Richard D. Hill, Sr. Mrs. Robert S. Ersldne John J. Cater, Sr. Frank Atkinson

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■ jc-w ' MiSr ' i- WEST PALM BEACH LOCATION Morrison Field was reactivated in 1951; therefore Palm Beach Junior College moved to its third and final temporary home at the city hall in the Town of Lake Park. LAKE PARE SITE The first temporary location of Palm Beach Junior College was on Gardenia Street in West Palm Beach in the present science building. In 1947 the college moved to its second tem- porary site at Morrison Field and enjoyed several outstanding facilities. J3— ' : ' .? [ l HachI unTorI I ' IsV) MORRISON HELD FACILITIES Among the offers for a permanent campus was a 1 14 acre tract near Lake Osborne proposed by the County Commission and this site was finally approved by the School Board, Advisory Committee and State Department of Education. In September 1956, the first of five modern build- ings to house administration, library, lecture rooms, laboratories, student union, cafeteria, physical education and fine arts was completed and the doors were opened to the largest student body in PBJC history. President Leonard had rea- lized his dream of a permanent campus and the little orphan college at last had a home of its very own. As the construction of the building gets under- way, land is cleared, building materials are trucked in, and the progress leads from to this to this and finally to .