Christmas at PC
December 2011
Merry Christmas from Presbyterian College Archives
& Special Collections!
Dr. Anne Austin Young ’11
November 2011
Anne Austin Young is one of the most honored female doctors in South Carolina. She was the first female obstetrician/gynecologist in the state. Indeed, she was one of the few women doctors of her time. Anne serves as an inspiration to all women desiring to become doctors because of her determination and her independence. – Read More –
Campus Housing at Presbyterian College – Part 2
October 2011
Our overview of campus housing at Presbyterian College began in the August 2011 edition of Blue Notes, covering the first few decades of the college’s history; this month we’ll continue from then until the present. Our thanks to archives assistant Sarah Leckie for this month’s blog. – Read More –
Introducing our Archives Intern, Tyler Todd
September 2011
Hello all! My name is Tyler Todd, and I am a senior History and Political Science double major. This fall I will be putting what I have learned in the classroom to the test as I intern at the Archives in the Thomason Library. I am very excited about my work and I look forward to working on several projects this semester. – Read More –
Campus Housing at Presbyterian College, Part 1
August 2011
For many years the norm for campus housing at most colleges was one smallish room with at least one roommate and a bathroom down the hall shared with dozens of others. Students today, at Presbyterian College and on most other college campuses, have housing options that would have amazed the students of just a few decades ago, such as the single rooms of Senior Hall or the apartments of the Townhouses. So much has changed in a relatively short time that we thought that an overview of campus housing through the years might be interesting. – Read More –
Other Brushes with Baseball Glory
July 2011
OK, we promise to stop writing about baseball after this one. But while we were doing the research on Chick Galloway, Charlie Wilson, and Everett Booe, we ran across several other major and minor league players who have been associated with PC. – Read More –
Booe Hooe
June 2011
Since we seem to be in baseball mode these days, we thought we’d tell some interesting tales about Everett Booe, who was brought to PC in 1913 as the first real athletic coach and the first head of the physical education program. – Read More –
“Two Gun” Baker
May 2011
Ken Baker, son of longtime PC professor Kenneth Baker and himself a PC grad, recently sent us some stories about PC that were shared with him by his father and his Uncle Ralph. – Read More –
Charles Woodrow “Swamp Baby” Wilson
April 2011
Since it’s spring, and we’re into baseball season, we thought we’d write about another one of PC’s early major league baseball players – Charles Woodrow Wilson. – Read More –
Turner Map Collection
March 2011
We recently received a wonderful collection of South Carolina maps from Marvin S. “Steve” Turner, ’67. These 23 maps, many of them very early, show many facets of the state’s development. – Read More –