The Agricultural department was popular especially among the rural students, but the location of a site for the new agricultural school proved to be a problem. Beginning in the summer, 1890, the professor of the Agricultural and Mechanical...
Bennett College -- Campus Building; Buildings; College Buildings; Presidents
Wilbur F. Steele Hall Was Completed in 1922 and is One of the Earliest Buildings on Campus. It Was Designed as a Dining Facility. The building Was Named in Honor of Wilbur F. Steele, the President of Bennett College From 1881-1889. In 2004 the...
Fisk Graduates at Virginia State; Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute
In the middle of the top row, reading left to right, Johnella (Frazier) Jackson. Miss Frazier would join the faculty at the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute in 1919 and would write the music for the university alma mater. In 1922 she...
Mary Branch graduated from the Normal Department at Virginia State Normal and Collegiate in 1897. She returned to the campus in 1905 as an instructor and remained until 1920. She earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of...
Program for the Sacred Concert given in honor of the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The first sacred concert was held in 1922. "Many called it singing for the budget."
Hermanze Edwin Fauntleroy obtained his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and his M.E. from Purdue University. In 1922, Mr. Fauntleroy became Professor of Trade Science and Mathematics. There is a building named for him at Virginia State University.
Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State Normal School Became a College in 1922, and the First Graduating Class to Use the New College Name Was in 1924. Picture Here are Walter P. Denny of Lebanon, Tennessee; Aeolian Lockert of Clarksville,...
