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- Two students enjoy a quiet conversation.
- Name/Creator
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Thuma, Cynthia
- Abstract/Description
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Two students enjoy a quiet conversation in 1963 on the Davie Campus.
- Date Issued
- 1963
- Identifier
- BC269, 2
- Format
- Image (JPEG2000)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/broward/fd/BC269
- Title
- Students brought their fishing poles.
- Name/Creator
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Thuma, Cynthia
- Abstract/Description
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Students brought their fishing poles and nets to take a light-hearted jab at drainage problems at the parking lots on the western side of Central Campus.
- Date Issued
- 1965
- Identifier
- BC294, 22A
- Format
- Image (JPEG2000)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/broward/fd/BC294
- Title
- Nursing remains one of the most.
- Name/Creator
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Thuma, Cynthia
- Abstract/Description
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Nursing remains one of the most popular health sciences offered by the college. The first class of nurses began in 1963.
- Date Issued
- 1963
- Identifier
- BC286, 18A
- Format
- Image (JPEG2000)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/broward/fd/BC286
- Title
- Nursing students chat as they stroll.
- Name/Creator
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Thuma, Cynthia
- Abstract/Description
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Nursing students chat as they stroll to class on Central Campus. Behind them is the library building and to their left is the distinctive round science lecture theater.
- Date Issued
- 1969
- Identifier
- BC287, 18B
- Format
- Image (JPEG2000)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/broward/fd/BC287
- Title
- Classes filled quickly at the Davie campus.
- Name/Creator
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Thuma, Cynthia
- Abstract/Description
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Classes filled quickly at the Davie campus. Even before exterior work was complete and the landscaping was installed, classrooms were filled with students. By the start of the second year, enrollment had doubled to 1,400. More than 2,500 students were enrolled by September 1963.
- Date Issued
- 1965
- Identifier
- BC290, 20A
- Format
- Image (JPEG2000)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/broward/fd/BC290
- Title
- From the front steps of Central Campus.
- Name/Creator
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Thuma, Cynthia
- Abstract/Description
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From the front steps of Central Campus one can see the Nova schools to the south.
- Date Issued
- 1969
- Identifier
- BC295, 22B
- Format
- Image (JPEG2000)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/broward/fd/BC295
- Title
- New Gym To Help BJC 5.
- Name/Creator
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McGill, Andy, Liptak, Mike
- Date Issued
- 1965-08-26
- Identifier
- BC2178
- Format
- Image (JPEG)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/broward/fd/BC2178
- Title
- A Librarian's Dream Comes True for Him.
- Name/Creator
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Strickland, Ken, Hyde, Gene
- Abstract/Description
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Grady Drake is building a college library from scratch.
- Date Issued
- 1960-06
- Identifier
- BC1022
- Format
- Image (JPEG)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/broward/fd/BC1022
- Title
- Our College To Boom.
- Name/Creator
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Marsh, Georgia
- Date Issued
- 1964-11
- Identifier
- BC1891
- Format
- Image (JPEG)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/broward/fd/BC1891
- Title
- More programs were added over the years.
- Name/Creator
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Thuma, Cynthia
- Abstract/Description
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More programs were added over the years, including wrestling, women's badminton, soccer, tennis, golf, and swimming and diving for men and women. The college selected the seahorse as its mascot.
- Date Issued
- 1963
- Identifier
- BC300, 26A
- Format
- Image (JPEG2000)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/broward/fd/BC300
- Title
- Coach Wheat (standing) pitched for the Philadelphia Athletics.
- Name/Creator
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Thuma, Cynthia
- Abstract/Description
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Coach Wheat (standing) pitched for the Philadelphia Athletics during his major league career and was known to grant extra credit to students who could produce his major-league baseball card.
- Date Issued
- 1965
- Identifier
- BC299, 25B
- Format
- Image (JPEG2000)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/broward/fd/BC299
- Title
- A college architect, Causeway Lumber president Gene Whiddon and Dr. Rushing discuss the president's office.
- Name/Creator
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Thuma, Cynthia
- Abstract/Description
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A college architect, Causeway Lumber president Gene Whiddon and Dr. Rushing discuss the president's office at the new Central Campus in Davie in November 1963. Whiddon, a supporter of the college from the start, provided paneling for the president's office. He later became the founding chairman of the Broward Community College Foundation.
- Date Issued
- 1963
- Identifier
- BC283, 16A
- Format
- Image (JPEG2000)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/broward/fd/BC283
- Title
- The men's baseball teams flourished under the direction.
- Name/Creator
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Thuma, Cynthia
- Abstract/Description
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The men's baseball teams flourished under the direction of coach Leroy Wheat. The program sent many players to college teams and also produced several players who reached the major leagues, including Craig Skok and Don Newhowser. Until a diamond was built on Central Campus, the team practiced at New River Middle school and played its games at Holiday Park in Fort Lauderdale.
- Date Issued
- 1964
- Identifier
- BC298, 25A
- Format
- Image (JPEG2000)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/broward/fd/BC298
- Title
- Students kicked off their shoes to do the twist.
- Name/Creator
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Thuma, Cynthia
- Abstract/Description
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Students kicked off their shoes to do the twist and the other popular dances of the day at a sock hop after a basketball game at Mayer Gymnasium on Central Campus.
- Date Issued
- 1965
- Identifier
- BC293, 21B
- Format
- Image (JPEG2000)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/broward/fd/BC293
- Title
- The Buehler Planetarium, dedicated in 1966, remains a favorite for South Florida school children.
- Name/Creator
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Thuma, Cynthia
- Abstract/Description
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The Buehler Planetarium, dedicated in 1966, remains a favorite for South Florida school children, who learn about the heavens from the planetarium's extensive educational programs.
- Date Issued
- 1966
- Identifier
- BC308, 31
- Format
- Image (JPEG2000)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/broward/fd/BC308
- Title
- In her autobiography, Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser, author, screenwriter, and BCC alumna Rita Mae Brown.
- Name/Creator
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Thuma, Cynthia
- Abstract/Description
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In her autobiography, Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser, author, screenwriter, and BCC alumna Rita Mae Brown wrote that the college was "a couple of buildings and a mess of sandspurs." Those sandspurs are evident along the sidewalk from the science lecture theater to the library. The young college, Brown added, "offered little by way of aesthetics, yet a lot by way of education."
- Date Issued
- 1963
- Identifier
- BC285, 17
- Format
- Image (JPEG2000)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/broward/fd/BC285
- Title
- Dr. Rex Kidd, director of the evening program, points out the library building to touring students.
- Name/Creator
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Thuma, Cynthia
- Abstract/Description
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Dr. Rex Kidd, director of the evening program, points out the library building to touring students as the Central Campus neared completion of its first buildings in 1963. Kidd, who died in 2002, was jokingly called the "Dean of Darkness" because a high percentage of students attended night classes during the early days of the college.
- Date Issued
- 1963
- Identifier
- BC284, 16B
- Format
- Image (JPEG2000)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/broward/fd/BC284
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- Dr. Elzie Lauderdale, a Mississippian, was BCC's.
- Name/Creator
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Thuma, Cynthia
- Abstract/Description
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Dr. Elzie Lauderdale, a Mississippian, was BCC's first dean of instruction and helped establish the emphasis on academic excellence. When he called Mildred Bailey Mullikin in May 1960 to recruit her to head the drama department at the college, Mullikin's mother took the call. "Who is Dr. Lauderdale in Fort Lauderdale?" she asked her daughter. Dr. Lauderdale encouraged Mullikin and her mother to visit Fort Lauderdale. "Needless to say," Mullikin wrote years later, "I fell head over heels in...
Show moreDr. Elzie Lauderdale, a Mississippian, was BCC's first dean of instruction and helped establish the emphasis on academic excellence. When he called Mildred Bailey Mullikin in May 1960 to recruit her to head the drama department at the college, Mullikin's mother took the call. "Who is Dr. Lauderdale in Fort Lauderdale?" she asked her daughter. Dr. Lauderdale encouraged Mullikin and her mother to visit Fort Lauderdale. "Needless to say," Mullikin wrote years later, "I fell head over heels in love with Fort Lauderdale."
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- 1963
- Identifier
- BC291, 20B
- Format
- Image (JPEG2000)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/broward/fd/BC291
- Title
- Here, landscape workers plant coconut palms at the east entrance of the campus.
- Name/Creator
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Thuma, Cynthia
- Abstract/Description
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Here, landscape workers plant coconut palms at the east entrance of the campus. When the campus opened in August 1963, it had 7 buildings spread out over 152-acres; it was built on land donated by the United States government. Other fixtures on Central Campus at the time of its opening were temporary trailers for the bookstore and horticulture program.
- Date Issued
- 1963
- Identifier
- BC282, 15B
- Format
- Image (JPEG2000)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/broward/fd/BC282
- Title
- College Classes European Style.
- Name/Creator
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Devine, Larry, Wagner, Minerva
- Abstract/Description
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The science building peaks jut upward behind Architect Otto E. Haack…blending angular contemporary and old world design in junior college.
- Date Issued
- 1963-07-28
- Identifier
- BC1712
- Format
- Image (JPEG)
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/broward/fd/BC1712