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An Unwavering Promise 2016-2017 Annual Report of Giving 1867 Mission Statement Vision Statement Talladega College is an institution rich in history whose mission is to Talladega College aspires to be a center of academic excellence in liberal equip its graduates for the global community through academic excellence, arts higher education; thus preparing students not only for graduate moral values, community service and professional development. studies but also for the global community. Adopted by the Board of Trustees, July 21, 2016 President’s Message Dear Old Dega is more than Crimson and only at Talladega College. It is the heartbeat Blue…it is the Pride that runs through our of our family that flows as fond thoughts veins and makes us one…. One Family! You encroach your memory and remind you of may have spent your college years here, or what makes your connection to Dear Old you may be a lifelong TC fan. Generations Dega a treasured one. of your family may have attended this great institution, or you may be the first in your There is strength in numbers when we family to hold a TC degree. You may have all work to achieve a common goal. Let’s walked around these hallowed grounds as continue this pursuit of excellence by recently as yesterday, or it may have been lending your financial support. Much is still years since your last visit. Whatever your needed to make OUR College a better place connection is, the bond you share with TC is for future generations. Let’s join together in something special. These things bond us and giving future generations a foundation such make us family. as that precious Talladega College degree on which you stand. Since 1867, Dega has been pride and tradition. Our tradition of academic Remember Dear Old Dega is more than excellence and success is recognized Crimson and Blue…It is your family. Let’s nationwide. Though time has changed rekindle our memories, desires, and pride to societies, communities and views, Dega pride ensure our family continues to grow! and tradition continue to bind and define the Dega family. Because of your connection, Sincerely, Dega is the spirit that runs through each of us. No matter how far you are from campus, the Dega spirit in you continues to burn because of your continued strides Billy C. Hawkins, PhD and legacies. I hope this message compels President and empowers you to feel a sense of loyalty because you are a part of something found An Unwaivering Promise 3 2016-2017 Annual Report of Giving 2016 – 2017 Board of Trustees Dr. Harry L. Coaxum, Chairman Dr. Billy C. Hawkins, President – Talladega College 1867 Dr. Richard A. English, Vice Chairman NEW Mr. James Smith, Secretary CONSTRUCTION Dr. Harry L. Coaxum Mrs. Tracey Morant Adams Mr. Jimmy E. Kelly, III Chairman Mr. Gregory Austin Mrs. Valerie D. Lewis-McGee Mr. James Cole, Esq. Mrs. Rica Lewis-Payton Ms. Zenda Bowie, President, TCNAA Mr. Marc A. Love Ms. Shirley A. Brown Mr. Charles R. Matthews Mr. Arnold L. Greene Mrs. Gladys Swain, Faculty Representative Mr. Jesse Henderson † Mr. Gardner C. Tabon James A. Hill, MD Ms. Jade Wellman, Student Representative Mr. Isaiah Hugley Student CenterNew Student Center 2016 – 2017 Executive Officers of the College Dr. Billy C. Hawkins, President Dr. Lisa Long, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Mr. Sama Mondeh, Vice President of Administration and Finance Dr. Sharon Whittaker-Davis, Vice President of Student Affairs Mr. Walvid King, Acting Vice President of Institutional Advancement 2016 – 2017 Residence HallNew Residence Hall Talladega College National Alumni Association (TCNAA) Board Dr. Joe A. Lee, Vice President Ms. Denita Johnson, Recording Secretary Ms. Zenda Bowie Mr. Norman P. Campbell, Financial Secretary President Ms. Karen Y. Houston, Treasurer William R. Harvey Art Museum An Unwaivering Promise 4 2016-2017 Annual Report of Giving The images in this painting depict replicas of the first school house for Negro children in Talladega County and surrounding areas; founders William Savery, Thomas Tarrant and Ambrose Headen; and Swayne School. “The Beginning,” an original oil painting by Dr. Arthur Bacon a few others, and their wives, who “stood children in Talladega County. The building nobly by them,” they opened a school was constructed on land that became The in one room of a house to the east of the part of Talladega College, where DeForest hilltop building that eventually became Chapel currently stands. Beginning Swayne Hall. Leonard Johnson, a Negro teacher who in some way – despite the The new school moved twice: from the one In November 1865, two men of the Alabama law of 1832 prohibiting Negro room of a home into a rebuilt carpenter’s community, William Savery and Thomas education – had learned the rudiments shop; from there into the red brick Tarrant, attended a Freedmen’s Convention of reading and writing was put in charge. building on the hill. Ambrose Headen and in Mobile, Alabama. Returning from that It quickly became necessary to add a other enslaved workers of the 1850s had meeting they set to work with community night school and then to provide a larger unknowingly made ready a building for families to carry out one of the convention building. Lumber was scarce, so the society the school in which their children could be resolutions: the education of their children. purchased an old carpenter shop, tore educated. it down and rebuilt it in a more usable With the help of Ambrose Headen, form on a lot they had somehow secured. Harry Knox, Hilliard White, Savannah This was the first school house for Negro Cruikshank, James McCann, Lewis Jacobs, An Unwaivering Promise 5 2016-2017 Annual Report of Giving the early buildings were given through encouraged to assist the college monetarily The Historic the generosity of men and women who in many ways. Both men spent much of donated funds to build them. Seven of their summer breaks in the northern states those buildings are still in use today. canvassing friends and organizations as Legacy Of they sought funds to operate the college for • Swayne Hall (the college’s first building) was the next school year. named for Alabama’s head of The Freedmen’s Donor Giving Bureau, General Wager Swayne and built in 1852- 53 by slave labor. Whether by individual gifts, planned • Foster Hall (currently under renovation and first gifts, or major gifts, the mission of our At Talladega dormitory for female students and teachers) was fundraising efforts is to fund student named for Reverend Lemuel Foster and built in success initiatives and prepare students 1869. to provide the kind of service that will College • Foy Cottage (currently under renovation and former industrial training site for young women) make communities better places in which was named for Mrs. J. H. Foy and built in 1901 to work and live. The college hopes to A major source of revenue for Talladega • Goodnow Fine Arts Center (originally Goodnow continue to inspire our donors by the College since its founding in November Infirmary) was named for Mr. E. A. Goodnow and successful outcomes of its graduates for 1867 has come from donor giving. built in 1910. it is through donor giving that the college • Seymour Hall (originally a dormitory for men) Enabled by donations from the American was named for Mr. Lyman Kay Seymour and built is able to be the proud producer of world- Missionary Association, The Freedmen’s in 1923. class individuals whose stories of survival, Bureau, The Cleveland Aid Society and • Callanan Union Building (still serves its original service and growth are the greatest tribute men and women of means from the purpose) was named for Dr. James Callanan and to our donors during the past 150 years. northern states, the dream of former slaves built in 1924. On the walls in the lobby of historic Savery • Fanning Refectory (the college dining facility) to open a school in Talladega, Alabama was named for Dr. David H. Fanning and built in Library, the epitaph of Earl Courtenay, Earl from which no one is debarred because 1927. of Devonshire (d.1419) speaks to the heart of race, religion, creed or color became of all donors: a reality. Even after the college began Impressed by the work of early operating, students were encouraged to administrators such as the first principal What I gave I have, contribute whatever they could afford, of the school, Reverend Henry Edwards be it monetary donations, food from Brown of Oberlin, Ohio, and the first What I spent I had, home or working in needed capacities to college president, Dr. Henry Swift Deforest What I saved I lost. sustain the college’s operations. Many of of Otsego County, New York, donors were An Unwaivering Promise 6 2016-2017 Annual Report of Giving University six years following the A Donor’s Legendary Legacy receipt of her doctorate to teach Jewel Plummer Cobb, Ph.D. and continue her research. She (January 17, 1924 – January 1, 2017) also taught and conducted research Cell Biologist, Educator, College President at Sarah Lawrence College. Many honors were given her which included A Chicagoan by birth, a Talladegan by choice and a appearing on the cover of Time great trailblazing scientist and educator by calling, Magazine (Special Edition) for recognition as Scientist of the Year. Dr. Jewel Isadora Plummer Cobb spent her lifetime in service to humankind. She wanted to make Her achievements as an academician/ administrator were equal things better in all ways that she could. Her great- to her research work. She held professorships and deanships grandfather was a freed slave, her grandfather was at Connecticut College and Rutgers University.