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Homecoming Float Decoration, 1981
No full textDepiction of float decoration for the 1981 University of North Alabama Homecoming Parade.https://roar.una.edu/una_homecomings_images/1032/thumbnail.jp
Bookstore in the Summer of 1987
No full textThe University of North Alabama bookstore during the summer of 1987.https://roar.una.edu/una_life_images/1002/thumbnail.jp
Phi Mu, Step-Sing
No full textPhi Mu sorority during the annual Step-Sing event.https://roar.una.edu/una_life_images/1014/thumbnail.jp
Student Nurse at ECM
No full textStudent nurse, Heather Trousdale, at Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital taking notes.https://roar.una.edu/una_life_images/1019/thumbnail.jp
Students Eating Pizza
No full textStudents seated on floor eating pizza.https://roar.una.edu/una_life_images/1024/thumbnail.jp
Irvine Place (Also known as Coby Hall)
No full textJohn Simpson, a representative of James Jackson, came to this area in 1818 to buy land and operate a mercantile establishment for Jackson. A frame home was located on the site of where Irvine Place was constructed. In 1843, he built this home. In the early 1850s, James Bennington Irvine bought Irvine Place with his wife Virginia Prudence Foster (daughter of George Washington Foster) and established this as their home prior to the Civil War. The house was inherited by Mrs. Maddie King (Harriet Susan) in the 1930s, who restored the home and grounds of Irvine Place after World War II. *This home has been associated with 6 generations of the Irvine/Foster family*https://roar.una.edu/una_arch_images/1079/thumbnail.jp
Dr. Richard Henderson Rivers, LaGrange College and Florence Wesleyan University (1855-1861)
No full textDr. Richard Henderson Rivers left his position as president of Centenary College in 1854 and filled the position of president as well as Chair of Mental and Moral Philosophy at LaGrange College. At the time, the citizens of Florence urged the Tennessee Conference to remove LaGrange College from Lawrence Hill and put it in Florence, and this was granted. In January 1855, Dr. Rivers and all the faculty, except one, moved with students to Florence. Rivers continued as the fourth president of what became Florence Wesleyan University (1856) until December 1861. He was appointed as president of the Female Department of the Centenary Institute at Summerville, Alabama that same month. He died June 21, 1894, and is buried in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky.https://roar.una.edu/una_president_images/1003/thumbnail.jp
Dr. Edward Wadsworth, LaGrange College (1846-1852)
No full textEdward Wadsworth was born in Newberne, North Carolina in 1811. He converted on September 24, 1829, and in February 1831, was licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church\u27s Virgina Conference. He became vice president of the Virginia Temperance Society and also became chaplain at Randolph-Macon College (a Methodist college) in Athens, Virginia. At the same time, he enrolled at Randolph-Macon as a student and received his A.B. degree in 1841 and his A.M. degree in 1844.
In the fall of 1846, he was named the second president of LaGrange College and was also appointed Professor of Mental and Moral Science. In 1847, Randolph-Macon College and Emory & Henry College conferred on Wadsworth the honorary Doctor of Divinity degree. He resigned the presidency of LaGrange College in the fall of 1852 and returned to preaching.
He taught English and belles-lettres at the University of Nashville from 1853-1855. He helped establish the Methodist-affiliated Southern University in Greensboro, Alabama, where he was a professor in moral philosophy from 1859-1863. He became acting president of the university from June 1868-Febraury 1871, when he resigned as professor. He died in 1883 in Greensboro, Alabama.https://roar.una.edu/una_president_images/1002/thumbnail.jp
Dr. Robert Paine
No full textRobert Paine was born in Person, North Carolina on November 12, 1799. He moved to Giles County, Tennessee in 1814. Before entering Cumberland College in Nashville in October 1817, he had a religious conversion that led him to go into the ministry. He received a Methodist preacher\u27s license in 1818 and was ordained in the Methodist Episcopal church by the Tennessee Conference, first as a deacon in 1821 and then as an elder in 1823. From 1823 until 1829, he served as a presiding elder, overseeing Methodist preachers in the Nashville area. During 1829, two governing bodies of the Methodist church, the Tennessee Conference and the Mississippi Conference, founded LaGrange College and Paine became its first president in 1830. Paine did receive a degree of A.M. from Cumberland College (University of Nashville).
This portrait was painted by M.E. Mason in 1904 and hung at Emory University.https://roar.una.edu/una_president_images/1001/thumbnail.jp
Towers Complex
No full textTowers Complex-Residence Halls and Dining Roomhttps://roar.una.edu/una_arch_images/1066/thumbnail.jp