Troy University - Palladium Yearbook (Troy, AL)

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Troy State College — established as Troy State Normal School by the Alabama General Assembly in 1887. The Alabama Legislature has approved the following changes in the name: Troy State Normal College 1893, Troy State Teachers College 1927. Troy State College 1957, and Troy State University 1967. Land and the first building for the original downtown campus and the land for the present site were provided by the city of Troy. The college was moved to the present campus in 1930. The State Board of Education authorized the College to grant the Bachelors Degree in 1929 and the Master ' s Degree in 1956. Presently there are six schools which consist of Business and Commerce, Education, Nursing. Arts and Science. Jornalism and Fine Arts. Introduction 5

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Jutst A Closer Look . . . u.x - The Campus The People 4 Introduction

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Donation Provides Troy State With Chapel, Four Academic Chairs Troy — A gift of approximately $4.4 million from the estate of Brundidge native Anise Johnson Sorrell is providing Troy State University with a chapel and four academic chairs. The chapel, to cost approximately $250,000. will be ' a haven for people of all faiths on campus, ' TSU President Dr. Ralph W. Adams said. The non-denominational facility will occupy about 2.800 square feet on a lot adjacent to Wallace Hall and will be used by students, faculty, staff and campus organizations. Preliminary plans are being coordinated by the Dothan architectural firm of Spann. Hall and Ritchie. Bids for the construction work will be let this winter. The chapel will be named in honor of Mrs. Sorrell ' s late husband Jeff, a native of Saco, who accumulated his wealth through land and timber. At one time. Sorrell owned 12.000 head of cattle and 35,000 acres of land. In addition to the chapel. TSU ' s Board of Trustees has agreed to name a building on campus in Sorrell ' s honor. The McCall Hall annex, connected to the original portion of TSU ' s science and history building, will be named Sorrell Hall. In Mrs. Sorrell ' s will, it was suggested a portion of the TSU donation be used for a chapel and to name a building after Sorrell. Adams said. The Troy State Board of Trustees has obligated $3 million of the TSU donation to endow academic chairs to be filled by professionals of national or international repute. Each chair has been endowed with $750,000 and a goal of $1 million has been set for each fund. Professionals will be hired on a quarterly or yearly basis. A chair in journalism has already been filled for fall quarter by Washington. D.C. columnist and commentator M. Stanton Evans. Evans is teaching, lecturing and planning guidelines for the chair, and will help select a name for the chair. The university has established the first chair in nursing in Alabama. The chair, one of 10 chairs in nursing in the nation, is named for Mrs. Sorrell and will be filled by January 1981. The Adams-Bibby Chair of Free Enterprise has been established in TSU ' s School of Business. The chair is named for Mr. and Mrs. Walter Berry Bibby of Dallas, former Birmingham residents, and Mrs. Bibby ' s father. Eason Young Adams. The Bibbys contributed $100,100 to the chair, bringing the total of the fund to $850,100. The business chair was the first one established at the university. Officials anticipate the chair will be filled by the first of next year. Another chair will be established later in either the School of Education or the College of Arts and Sciences. The remaining $1 million of the donation will be placed in an endowment fund, Adams said. To be flexible, we didn ' t want to use all of the money at once. The Sorrell donation places Troy State ahead of most universities in the establishment of chairs, he noted. Of the some 3,000 colleges and universities in the country, only about 100 have chairs. And while most schools spend years trying to raise money for chairs, we have a good start in beginning our own. Adams said. He noted that Harvard University has the largest endowment fund — about $100 Million — in the nation. The Sorrell donation should grow from nearly $4.5 million to $10 million or $15 million by the time I leave Troy State, Adams added. About $5 million has been deposited in TSU ' s endowment fund since Adams became president in 1964. University Press Release v f t.UUIOH SDttWfSr)llfMHION 6 Introduction