Athens State College - Columns Yearbook (Athens, AL)

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President Philpot and Board Chairman Carl Martin check the master plan for Athens Col- lege growth and expansion. OUR ILLUSTRIOUS FUTURE With Lifted Head SINGING Proud to be alive . . . Piling job on job Month after month Athens College students glimpse the silent struggle that spreads a blaze of spiraling skyscrapers in steel, marble, and concrete dormito- ries, department structures, college union edifices, and office towers to our campuses. From Beaty to U.S. Speed- way 3 1 , and from Forest to Pryor. spi- rals our liberal arts family into a chal- lenging universe . . . and so we have change and all of us are aware of this. COME SEE OUR CAMPUS

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ATHENS COLLEGE Athens College is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state. In 1822 the citizens of Athens purchased from Judge McKinley a five-acre plot of ground to be used for a female academy. In 1831 Judge McKinley deeded an- other five-acre lot to Robert Beaty. All this land was later to become a part of Athens College campus. As the academy prospered, leading Method- ists in the area encouraged its enlargement to a four-year college. A Methodist Conference in 1842 adopted a resolution calling for the estab- lishment of a female institute of high grade. The town of Athens enthusiastically donated, in less than three weeks, the required $10,000 to begin work on the building — today known as FOUNDERS HALL. OUR RICH PAST FOUNDERS HALL

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FACULTY APARTMENTS Built 1830 Aerial View of Old Campus Mr. Ingersoll once wrote: I gave a beggar from my little store of well-earned gold . . . and he came again, still hungry and cold as before. I gave a thought, and though that thought was mine, he found himself a man, supreme, divine, bold, clothed with blessings manifold; and now he begs no more. Few may know what they are capable of doing but by voluntarily performing under the lash of necessity they discover the capacity for achievement. Since books, then, with their thoughts, their experiences are the master instructors, the li- brary of wisdom is more precious to man than all riches.