Catherine Madry Stewart

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Friday, August 14, 2009

AMMU 1927 - 1954 - THE BUILDER

1927-Joseph Fanning Drake

The Fourth President institutes a massive building program. He is irrevocably tagged with the name of "The Builder" due to his accomplishments in expanding the college physically and academically, even in the midst of the great depression of the 1930’s.
He built on the campus, through federal, foundation and state funds:

Councill Hall
Hurt Hall
Thigpen Hall
J. F. Drake Dining Hall
Bibb Graves Hall
The College Center
Grayson Hall
Annexes,
Walker Wood Hall
Carter Science Building
Vocational building,
Gymnasium,
Eight teachers cottages,
Faculty apartments,
Four Trades Buildings,
Twenty Farm Buildings,
The First Greenhouse.

1939-State Board of Education gives authority to offer course work on the senior
college level.
1949-Name changed to Alabama A&M College.
1954-Councill Federal Credit Union established.



Dr. Drake might also have well been called "The Savior" because only the efforts of his administration prevented the school from being entirely closed. So sure were the faculty and local residents that Dr. Drake had been sent to close the school that he found it necessary to remark quite often: "I did not come here to conduct the funeral of A&M." Besides buildings, Drake added 616.13 acres of land.

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