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

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Uiiiveisilv oi Noiil ' Ala Dr. Robert A. Young (1862-1865) Dr. T.J. Mitchell (18S6-1SS7) Dr. E.B. Norton (1948-1972) Dr. .Edward VVadswurtl (1846-1852JIII Actor ptirtr.n iii Dr. James Ward Hardy S v (1852-1853) ■,, « ' ' » Acting i ' rfMdtnl Smith W. Moore (1853-1854) Dr. William Henry Anderson (1868-1871) Dr. Septimus Primus Rice (1873-1881) Dr. Hardie Brmvn (1881-1885) 1 Dr. Richard Henderson Rivers (1854-1861) m Ur|jame -AbramHeard (1885-18861 Dr. James Knox Powers (1887-1897 1911-1913) Marshall Clark Wilson (1897-1911) Dr. Henry J. Willingham Dr. James Albert Keller (1913-1937) 04 7-1948) Robert M. Guillot (1972-1989) Robert L. Potts (1990-2004) IntiTim PrfMdt-nt Dr. Garry Warren (2004-2005) Dr. William Cale Jr. (2005- ) ' I

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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.

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uthem Adventure Days from home: 12 Miles traveled: 2,800 States visited: 9 Time of your life: Priceless Not everyone realizes the magnificent natural wonders that are present in the Southern states. One summer class gave students the opportunity to explore the natural wonders of our world while form- ing bonds with fellow students and earning college credit. Geomorphology 435, a three-credit-hour inter- term class, gave 18 students the opportunity to view regional landscapes of the Southeastern United States while providing an understanding of the geomorphic and tectonic processes that shaped the landscape. Students began preparing for the class by pack- ing their camping gear and supplies. For 11 rughts they would be sleeping on the ground and camping in tents, preparing their meals and generally rough- ing it. The GE 435 class, taught by Dr. Greg Gaston, set out on Monday, May 16, and drove to the New Madrid Seismic Zone and Reelfoot Lake. The New Madrid Seismic Zone lies within the central Mississippi valley, extending from northeast Arkansas, through southeast Missouri, western Tennessee and western Kentucky, to southern Illinois. Historically, the area has been the site of some of the strongest earthquakes in North America. Between 1811 and 1812, according to contemporary journals, four catastrophic earthquakes, with magnitudes now estimated to have been greater than 7.0, occurred dur- ing a three-month period. While on site, students observed landforms and surface features associated with neotectonic activity. Later, the class drove across the upper end of the Mississippi Embayment to Johnson ' s Shut-Ins State Park in Missouri where they observed fluvial process- AS GOOD AS GOLD. The tree-covered ridges are part of the Appalachian Moiintain Fold in Alabama.