University of Southern Mississippi - Southerner Yearbook (Hattiesburg, MS)

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HON. H O N Ho N H 0 N H ri N v. Boaliridl Oi? Trustees OFFICERS FPHEODORIQ G. BILBO. . .......... GOQ'1'I'Il0I' of JlIi5.vi,v5ijvp1 HON. VV. F. BOND ...... . . Szzjwrrizzlnzilrzzi of Publir Edzzraliozz T. VV. HARRIS . . . Columbus, Miss. R. F. BASS ...... Iflnttieslwurg, Mi VV. I. STONE . . . Coffeeville, Miss. NIISS M. B. fXUS'1IX .... Jackson, Mi L. P. BROWN . . . Meridian, Miss. HON. A. A. CONN . . . Brnuklinven, Mi J. XV. BRliICI.fXNIJ . . . Sumner, Miss. MRS. R. B. FIOHNSON . Clem-lnud, Mi X 'J 'iii O ik ffa'

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Historical IHE State Teachers College was founded by act of the l.egislature of 1910 underwthe name of lllississippi Normal College. il mime was changed to btate Teachers College in February, 1924. b. 1. L. opened 9 'wtf' j its doors for students o11 September 18, 1912. During the first session the enrollment was 876. During the session of 1927-1928 the enrollment was 1,627. The total number of individual students enrolled for the sixteen years was 1o,893. During the first te11 years of the life of the college there were two regular courses -one, the Certificate course, leading to a five-year first grade state licenseg the other, the Diploma course, leading to a professional life license. During the 1922 session of the Legislature a bill was passed authorizing the college to grant degrees. Up to the close of the sixteenth session the college had issued 2,112 certificates, 752 diplomas and 248 degrees. In October, 1927, application was made for membership in the Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the Southern States. .According to regulations of that organization this application could not be acted upon until the December meeting of 1928. After due oihcial inspection and thorough investigation the special committee on teachers' colleges recommended that State 'lieachers College be admitted to member- ship. This recommendation went to the Council of the Commission on Institutions of High Education, was approved, and sent forward to the executive committee of the association. The executive committee, for reasons not given by it to S. T. C. authorities, declined to nominate tl1e college for membership. It was placed on the non-membership list so that its graduates might teach in all-Southern high schools. But 8. T. C. has gradually come into its own. ln February, 1929, it was placed on the UA list of the American Association of Teachers' Colleges. -'lust ten months later, December, 1929, it was placed on the A-1 list of the Southern Association of Colleges. 9 X I J