Campbellsville University - Maple Trail Yearbook (Campbellsville, KY)

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0 HISTORY The Baptists of the Russell Creek Association for a number of years prior to the erection of the buildings of the Russell Creek Academy, realized that they needed to give their children something a stdte could not give --- a Christian education. They wanted a school where the Bible would be taught daily. This sentiment became so great that in 1900 at the Association at Salem, a committee was appointed to raise funds to build a school but nothing LL 3 was accomplished until 1906 when the work was begun on the first building. The first school began in September l907, with Professor N. G. Welbourn as Principal. At a meeting of the General Association of Kentucky 3aptists in Covington in Hovorbor l?25, authority was given J the trustees to raise Russell Crook Academy to the rank of junior college. As o result of this action the legal rc- quircmonts for chanting the cornwrftc nine nur: met and Russell Creek Academy bccgne Cmnpbcllsville College which opcnfd its doors is such in lQ?H. ln Lpril lTTT the collcqc becdre in accredited instit- ution by the Vnivcrsitf of Kentucky and has continued to m intein t'ot affiliation. ln IQFF the collcyf was admitted to menbcrslip in the Kentucky . '. ssocidtion of Colleges and Soconddry Schools which was organized in tint year. It has for several yefrs hold rembership in the American Associa- tion of Junior Colleges. On April ln,lQZ9 fire of undcttrnined origin dfstroycd the administration building and all cortcnts including science laborctorics and library. The Board of Trustees imncdiitcly provided for construction of s new cdministrn- tion building, and the present building was cowplctcd in JFHUSTY l9MO, less than a year after the dostructiin of the old one. The librgry which was totally destroyed by the fire contained about 5,ooo volumes, Throuch the generosity of friends, publishing houses, 'nd collects, thtsc were rc- placed within . ycfr and since Shit time additional books hove been donotcd and purch sed until at pr -c.1 sunt there are approximately T,500 propcrly cft,loguoi volumes.

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