Florida Institute of Technology - Ad Astra Yearbook (Melbourne, FL)

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f approval and support to in business adminis- inical engineering and ior High School. The faculty le. The enrollm@i for cli sé Boris Pen in dist Church on were held at the Eau Gal started off with a total of 2 was 175 students. ae ger “competi-— ER also “traffic jams

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be reached. ® 61 the University of on of BEC and is the p cluded forty acres of 3 dollar a years, Phe,U classes for t rte a school of philos 1 admis sions office. Construction was immediately began on the present day classroom quad. The existing building be- came the first library. The first graduation ceremonies were held in the Mel- bourne High School auditorium on June 15, 1961. The graduating class consisted of twenty students. May 18, 1962 the announcement was made that BEC would become the Florida Christian University. The Uni- versity would keep its existing programs and add liberal arts and a post graduate seminary. This plan was scrapped in February of 1963 when agreements could not