Weatherford College Celebrating 150Th Anniversary
Thursday, December 27, 2018
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Madelyn Edwards reports for the Weatherford (TX) Democrat inwards "Weatherford College remembers its history" that faculty, staff, students as well as alumni volition kickoff celebrating the 150th anniversary of the institution's founding inwards 1869.
The establishment was founded yesteryear the Phoenix Lodge of the Masonic Order inwards Weatherford, TX as well as was chartered every bit the Masonic Institute. The name was changed to Cleveland College inwards 1884 to abide by USA President Grover Cleveland. Then 5 years later on the Central Texas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, moved Granbury College, which had originally opened inwards 1873 as well as had been nether the conference's authorization since 1880, to Weatherford as well as combined the 2 institutions every bit Weatherford College.
David S. Switzer guided the establishment through the 1890s alongside average yearly enrollment of unopen to 300 students as well as the schoolhouse offered classes from flat schoolhouse through the senior twelvemonth of college. Switzer left inwards 1902 to flora his ain college as well as from 1903 to 1921 the schoolhouse operated intermittently.
In 1921 the establishment was reorganized every bit a junior college as well as was known every bit Weatherford Junior College. Southwestern University took over functioning inwards 1944 every bit a branch institution. Five years later on inwards 1949 Southwestern transferred the college to the county as well as the schoolhouse officially became Weatherford College of the Parker County Junior College District.
You tin take in the 150th Anniversary webpage for a timeline of Weatherford College history, events planned for 2019, as well as a centennial number of The Hiltop, an alumni magazine with to a greater extent than information.