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Cynthia Shackelford
Cynthia Shackelford, a Montevallo alumna, took over as the university’s director of public relations in 1993. Until her death in 2011, she actively cultivated the campus’s reputation for ghosts. In fact, she welcomed a number of paranormal societies…
Costume and character sketch for Tangerine (Purple College Night character)
The 1943 Purple College Night production was an adaptation of Edward Everett Hale's short story, "The Man Without a Country." This sketch depicts the character Tangerine.
College Night is the Homecoming tradition of the University of Montevallo.…
College Night is the Homecoming tradition of the University of Montevallo.…
College Night Program
A program from College Night in 1937. At this time, the University of Montevallo was still called Alabama College and was a university only for women. The picture is of Palmer Hall, the building where College Night is held annually.
College Night Hand Signs
One of the traditions of college night that developed later in its course were the hand signals. A purple will hold up the 'peace sign' to represent their side, and a gold will hold up the 'thumbs up' sign to represent theirs. In this source, you see…
Captain Henry Reynolds
Henry Clay Reynolds, first president of the Alabama Girls’ Industrial School, was not an educator, but rather an enthusiastic advocate for public education. A businessman and town notable, Reynolds lobbied for the state to build a school for girls in…
Calkins Hall
Calkins Hall was built to house the Department of Music and it served that purpose from 1917 to 1971. Renovated for administrative offices, it opened for that purpose in 1973. Calkins remains, along with Main Hall, and Reynolds, one of the campus’s…
Bottle Cap
Alabama College, later the University of Montevallo, established a dairy to provide the school with easy access to milk and butter. Eventually, the school began to sell the milk to local grocers. They used glass bottles with these types of cardboard…
Birmingham News Article Featuring Delores "Dolly" Brumsfield White.
This article was published Sunday February 27, 1994 by Bill Piott of The Birmingham News. In this article Delores “Dolly” Brumsfield White talks about her playing days with the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and how she played…
Becoming Sculpture
The Becoming Sculpture was created by Ted Metz, a University of Montevallo art professor. The sculpture, 16 feet tall and made of bronze, was unveiled on February 15, 2003. The pedestal underneath the sculpture is made of limestone and red bricks.…
Alumni photo from the 2009 Homecoming
Alumni photo of the classes of 1950-1955 from Homecoming 2009. Since Montevallo lacks a football team each year their homecoming traditions include student run events and culminate in a musical performance. College Night is completely student based…
Alabamian Article (1978) Reports Supernatural Activity
In the mid-seventies students reported ghosts and various kinds of supernatural activity at buildings across campus including Palmer, Reynolds, King, and Main. The campus appeared saturated with supernatural activity. This newspaper article appeared…
Alabama College Wins Prize
The Holstein Friesian Association of America sent Alabama College (as The University of Montevallo was known from 1923 to 1969) a check on May 28, 1929. The check was made out for the amount of thirty dollars in prize money ( $435.29 in 2017). The…
Alabama College Holstein-Friesian Cows
Alabama College had a herd of certified Holstein-Friesian cows. The prized cows of Alabama College brought great pride to the school and surrounding community. The cows won numerous state and regional awards for their milk production. In a ten month…
Alabama College Farm and Cows
These are photographs of the Alabama College Dairy's cattle which consisted of both award-winning Holstein and Jersey cows. By the end of the dairy's operation in 1960, the cattle consisted of over a hundred cows. All cows occupying the campus farm…
Alabama College Dairy
President Palmer and the board began discussions to buy property for a dairy on May 20, 1908. His idea for starting the dairy was "to furnish the school with good wholesome milk and butter at a reasonable cost." By 1913 the Alabama College Dairy was…
Alabama College Bulletin ( 1923-1924)
Alabama College's fall bulletin in 1923 provides many details of the University of Montevallo’s early development. Identified as the “Extension Division Announcement 1923-1924,” it was the college’s first bulletin published under the name “Alabama…
Admission ticket to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum event "Dirt on Their Skirts" at Wrigely Field.
On March 18, 2003 the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum sponsored an Electronic Field Trip at Chicago’s Wrigley Field. This field trip would turn the baseball field into a huge classroom and would be broadcast online nationwide. The event was…
Acetylene Gas Machine
In 1899, the President of the University of Montevallo (then called Alabama Girls Industrial School) Francis Peterson was given an advertisement for an Acetylene Gas Machine from the Craig Reynolds Foundry Company.
This “illumination machine”…
This “illumination machine”…
A Faithful Horse
This short newspaper clipping humanizes President Palmer and shows us a softer side of the gargantuan figure who oversaw Montevallo for nearly two decades. This document, commemorating the death of Dr. Palmer's horse of twenty five years, Old…
1943 College Night Program Cover and Greetings
World War Two affected College Night and the Alabama College campus in general. The greeting on the first page of the program for the 1943 College Night discussed the importance of celebrating the art of peace during a time of war.
1943 College Night Program
Pages 3 through 6 of the 1943 College Night program frequently mention World War Two in some way whether directly or indirectly. Three out of the four songs contained lyrics that either explicitly mentioned the war or greatly implied it. Three out of…
1922-1923 Session Report Letter to the Governor and Board of Trustees
On February 9, 1923 a committee gathered to divide funds set aside for the expansion of the Institute’s courses of study into a full fledged Bachelor’s program. Alabama College began session in the fall of 1923. In previous years the Institute had…
1921-1922 Session Report Letter to the Governor and Board of Trustees
In the Fall term of 1921, the Alabama Technical Institute and College for women began offering a four year degree in home economics, the first of its kind in the state. Colleges all around ridiculed the institute because home economics was not on the…
"Tuscaloosa's 'Hysteria' Is Apt To Stigmatize City, Professor Thinks"
In the wake of Steelman's confrontation with the Ku Klux Klan in Tuscaloosa, Charles Edmndson of The Birmingham Post allowed Steelman to recount what happened and share his perspective. Steelman mocked the Klan's accusations, saying that they applied…
"Dolly" and the South Bend Blue Sox
Delores "Dolly" Brumfield (White) was only 14 years old when she reported for spring training in Havana, Cuba with the South Bend Blue Sox in 1947. Dolly played one season (1947) with the pictured South Bend Blue Sox.
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