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Louisiana College is a private institution of higher education located in Pineville, in the central portion of the U.S. state of Louisiana. Affiliated with the Louisiana Baptist Convention, it serves approximately 1,300 students. The college operates on a semester system, with two shorter summer terms. Although the college is affiliated with a group of Baptist churches, who make up the membership of the Louisiana Baptist Convention, students need not be a member of that denomination to attend. The school colors are orange and blue, and their athletics teams are known as the Wildcats and Lady Wildcats. ==History== Louisiana College, known as "LC", was founded on October 3, 1906, in Pineville, across the Red River from the larger Alexandria. The college began in tents with four professor and nineteen students. Since 2006, LC has reported an enrollment growth of 50 percent.〔"Capital Campaign Q&A with Dr. Aguillard", ''Columns: the Magazine for Louisiana College Alumni and Friends'' (Winter 2013), pp. 10-11〕 Baptist clergyman and educator Edwin O. Ware, Sr., is considered to have been the principal founder of the institution. He was from 1906 to 1907 the LC financial agent and its first president from 1908 to 1909. LC is the successor to two earlier Louisiana Baptist schools, Mount Lebanon College, sometimes called Mount Lebanon University, and Keatchie Female College. The first, a men's school founded in 1852 by the North Louisiana Baptist Convention, was located in the community of Mount Lebanon in Bienville Parish. The women's college, founded in 1857 by the Grand Cane Association of Baptist Churches, was located in the community of Keatchie in De Soto Parish south of Shreveport. After a history beset by financial difficulties, both schools came under the control of the Louisiana Baptist Convention in 1899. An Education Commission was selected by the state convention to administer the schools with the understanding that both would be succeeded by a more centrally located institution as soon as a suitable campus could be selected. When Louisiana College was opened in 1906, Mount Lebanon College closed, followed by Keatchie a few years later. Since the first class of nineteen students in 1906, more than ten thousand have graduated from the institution. Until 1921, Louisiana College was administered by the Education Commission. The new charter established a board of trustees. The first administrative head of Louisiana College was W. F. Taylor, whose title was chairman of the faculty. Since its opening under President Edwin Ware, LC has had these seven other presidents: *Dr. W. C. Friley, in 1909, also the first president of Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas *Dr. Claybrook Cottingham, in 1910 *Dr. Edgar Godbold, in 1942 *Dr. G. Earl Guinn, in 1951 *Dr. Robert L. Lynn, in 1975 *Dr. Rory Lee, in 1997 *Dr. Joe W. Aguillard, in 2005 *Dr. Argile Smith, in 2014 (interim) *Dr. Rick Brewer, in 2015. During part of 1941, Hal Monroe Weathersby (1885–1965) served as acting LC president until the arrival later in the year of Edgar Godbold, the former president of Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas. From 1911 to 1914, the Baptist Weathersby was professor of history and Greek. From 1914 until his retirement in 1965, he was the dean of Louisiana College. Like Godbold, Weathersby graduated from Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi, and the University of Chicago. The Weathersby Fine Arts Building, completed in 1961, is named in his honor.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Weathersby (Hal Monroe) Papers )〕〔Hal Weathersby and his wife, the former Matalee Thompson, had three children, Hal T. Weathersby, Scott M. Weathersby, and Rose W. Normand. Weathersby died in Pineville and is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Ball, Louisiana〕 In 1958, the Louisiana Historical Association was reorganized in a statewide gathering on the LC campus. Edwin Adams Davis, head of the history department at LSU and author of a popular Louisiana history textbook, became the first president of the revised association. Among the benefactors of Louisiana College has been the family of Simon W. Tudor of Pineville, who founded Tudor Construction Company in 1946. Tudor coached basketball, football, and baseball at the college in the 1910s. The men's dormitory Tudor Hall is named for him. Tudor was also chairman of the board of trustees from 1943 to 1953. In 2012, the Louisiana Baptist Convention granted approval to Louisiana College to seek $12 million in donations from member churches within the state as part of the institution's $50 million capital improvements program. The $12 million will be earmarked for improvements in student housing. Cottingham Hall, named for President Claybrook Cottingam and built in 1941, is in particularly need of full renovation, roof, plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, and ventilation.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Louisiana College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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