Thursday, February 24, 2011

Cox College, Georgia


A viewbook of Cox College is available and includes 22 pages of photographs and text.

The institution was initially founded as LaGrange Female Seminary and experienced numerous changes in name [LaGrange Collegiate Seminary for Young Ladies in 1850, Southern and Western Female College in 1852, and Southern Female College in 1854]. It was also sometimes called Western Georgia Female College and moved to Manchester, Georgia and later to College Park in 1895. It was informally called Cox College by the 1890s and Cox College and Conservatory by 1913. The institution then closed from 1923-1933 and reopened in 1933 before closing a final time in 1934. 

Dakota Bible College, South Dakota




Roger Kasa's article from June 2010 includes a brief historical sketch for Dakota Bible College. The institution opened in Huron, South Dakota in 1942 and the last class graduated in 1985.





A 1943 brochure for the institution is available.







Link for 1972 Commencement Program.

Friday, February 18, 2011

Pillsbury Baptist Bible College, #2









A previous post noted that Pillsbury Baptist College in Owatonna, MN closed in 2008. Brian Johnson now reports that the campus is for sale.

Campus buildings were constructed between 1882 and 1914. In 1987, the campus was listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places. The institution founded as the Minnesota Academy by the Minnesota Baptist State Convention as a college preparatory school. The name was changed to the Pillsbury Academy in 1886 in honor of one of its chief donors, the George A. Pillsbury of the First Baptist Church, Minneapolis, and onetime mayor of the city. In 1920 it was renamed the Pillsbury Military Academy. The campus served as a college prep school and a military school, the Pillsbury Military Academy, before it became Pillsbury Baptist Bible College in 1957. The bible college has been closed for over two years. The entry on Wikipedia provides more extensive details.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Ushaw College, Durham, UK


Mark Greaves writes in the Catholic Herald that Ushaw College will close in June. The institution was founded in 1568 in what was then the Spanish Netherlands as the Douai English College. It moved to near Durham in England in 1808. A more detailed history is available on Wikipedia.