University of North Alabama - Diorama Yearbook (Florence, AL)

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Sometimes March can ' t contain the madness, and it spills over into April. People find themselves doing things they wouldn ' t ordinarily do, like running around wearing grass skirts and straw hats. Or dancing the Twist in front of a green screen while wearing a corset. It was all Ashley ' s fault, insists Denise Seagraves of Sodexho, blaming her involvement in the Fun Flicks event on Ashley Reeves of SGA. She put that hoochie-mama thing on me. Seagraves and fellow Sodexho ladies Linda Laxson and Pat Sundquist, along with Gwen Hodges of Jazzman ' s and a handful of students including Reeves, participated in Fun Flicks during Spring Fling. The week ' s activities began on Monday with a DJ in the Guillot University Center atrium throughout the day and music from Locos por Juana in the Performance Center that evening. Other events included a spoken-word perfor- mance by J. Ivy and Gemineye, various field games, and the crowning of Mr. and Ms. Spring Fling, concluding Friday evening with a performance by comedian Tony Tone. SHAKE IT BABY, SHAKE IT BABY, 1-2-3! Loads of laughter, singing, dancing, and frolicking in the sun wearing grass skirts was the Island Breeze theme of the 2005 Spring Fling. Many students, professors, and employees enjoyed themselves greatly belting out songs, busting rhymes, spinning records, dancing, or just playing silly little garner out in the sun.

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Jifl!W!.i»KiaM»!»iL ' .ai«i!yS «iWll!W»S ' iW. ' . ' iW On January 11, 1830, LaGrange College (established in January, 1829, by Methodists) opened in the Alabama town of Leighton, and the Rev. Robert Paine was appointed president. The school had 70 students and three faculty members, and tuition cost $10 per session. The State Legislature chartered LaGrange on January 19, 1830, making it the first chartered college in Alabama. The first degree was awarded to J.D. Malone of Limestone County, in 1833. In 1855, a session of the Alabama and Memphis (Methodist) Annual Conference voted to move the college to Florence. On Valentine ' s Day that same year LaGrange College was incorporated as Florence Wesleyan University. Wesleyan Hall, completed in 1856, housed the administrative offices and classrooms for 180 enrolled students. The school ' s name was changed to Florence State Teachers College in 1929, changed to Florence State College in 1957, and operated under three different names during the Norton presidency before it finally became the University of North Alabama in 1974, under the presidency of Guillot. That same year Leo I arrived and made UNA the only schoo in the nation to have a lion mascot that lived on its campus. LaGrange College (painting above) in Colbert County had opened its doors in 1830, built on a hilltop four miles west of Leighton. Most of the faculty and students deserted LaGrange in 1855 when the school moved to Florence. After the move, LaGrange was denied the use of the same name by the state and Wesleyan University was incorporated. Wes- leyan Hall (image at left), still in use today, was the center for the fledgling institution of higher learning over 150 years ago. Enrollment has steadily increased, as have the numbers of sub- ject fields in the universi- ty ' s bachelor ' s and mas- ter ' s degree programs. Today, in its 175th anniversary year, the University of North Alabama is counted among the finest, such institutions in the South- east.