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1911 |
January 13 - State Board of Education awards
Agricultural and Industrial Normal School for
Negroes to Davidson County, Tennessee. |
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1912 |
June 19 - First Summer
school session-the Agricultural and Industrial
State Normal School opened with thirteen
teachers and 245 students. |
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September 12 - First issue of the State
Normal School Bulletin published. |
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September 20 - State Normal School opens with
300 students. |
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October 4 - Athletic team organized at Normal
School. |
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November 22 -
The motto coined by Dr. W.J.
Hale. ＾Our watch words are Think, Work, Serve￣
W.J. Hale. President |
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1912 |
January 16 - Formal dedication of the Colored
State Normal School held in the chapel at 2p.m.
Governor Ben. W. Hooper was the principal
speaker. |
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May 23 - First Annual Commencement held at State
Normal School. |
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1918 |
May 24 - Professor W. J. Hale was re-elected
President of A&I State Normal School. |
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October 25
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Military training for State
Normal students- a unit of the Student training
Corp has been established on the Normal Campus. |
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1923 |
The Alumni Association of the school was
reorganized during its annual business session
during commencement. C.C. Purdy, Normal ¨22, was
elected President. |
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1925 |
August 19 - New title for the institution
＾ Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial Normal
College.￣ |
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1926 |
Summer - First twelve week Summer School
initiated. |
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1927 |
The institution changed its name to Tennessee
Agricultural and Industrial State College. |
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June 27 - The new science and college
hall named after Commissioner P.L. Harned.
Dr. Carter G. Woodson, Negro historian,
addressed the students on ＾ the Negro in
American History.￣ |
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1929 |
October - One thousand students enrolled for
Fall Quarter with a waiting list for the Winter
Quarter.
October - First seal of Tennessee A&I State
College appeared in the |
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1932 |
November 18 - The first Ivy Leaf Club on
A&I campus was organized. Miss Lois H. Daniel
was elected President. |
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1933 |
February 27 - A&I State College was
admitted into the American Association of
Teachers Colleges. |
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1935 |
January 28 - The Pan-Hellenic Council was
organized on A&I College campus.
May - Tennessee A&I State College dedicated six
new buildings: Practice Hall, Administration and
Health, Men¨s Hall (East), Hale Hall, Wilson
hall, and Science Hall (Harned).
October - Tennessee A&I State College has been
granted the right to give the Master¨s degree in
Elementary, Secondary and Vocational Education. |
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1940 |
November - The Speech and Drama Department
announced the opening of its first speech
clinic. The clinic will treat such speech
defects as stammering, stuttering, and the hard
of hearing. |
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1941 |
Summer - A&I State College begins a program of
graduate instruction in Educational
Administration and Supervision, Home Economics,
Agriculture, Industrial Education, Secretarial
Commerce, and the teaching of high school
subjects.
December - A&I State College receives national
recognition for their graduates who are admitted
to full graduate and professional work in
leading universities of America. |
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1944 |
October - First Freshman Week observed.
March 8 - Beta Kappa Chi Honorary Scientific
Society was established. |
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1946 |
May - First swimming team organized. |
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1948 |
December -
Library named for Miss Martha M.
Brown. |
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1950 |
April - The A&I State College Employee¨s Federal
Credit Union was organized.
May 24 - Student paper, The Meter, was born. |
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1951 |
September - A&I State College becomes a
university. |
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