我们的历史和传统
大学的历史时间表
1885: Northwest Kansas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church’s (a predecessor of the United Methodist Church) raised $3,500美元资助一所新学院. Several Kansas cities submitted bids to host the new college, but the District accepted Salina’s offer of 15 acres and $26,向第一栋楼走去, known simply as the Administration building.
1886 | 9月. 15: 行政大楼 opened its doors to the first class of 2 (a senior and a freshman) college students, 预科班学生61名, 11名教职员工. Tuition and fees were $13 per term.
1887亨利·M. Mayo becomes the first graduate of Kansas Wesleyan.
“It is the strength acquired by meeting the obstacles and overcoming them that makes us better and stronger men and women. It is the victory over those obstacles that gives us the courage for life’s best work.”
牧师. H.M. 梅奥，1887年毕业演讲
1890: 两份学生刊物, the Wesleyan Lance and the Kansas Wesleyan Advocate, merge to form the Wesleyan Advance.
1891: C. W. Burch becomes the first graduate to complete all his work at Kansas Wesleyan. He went on to earn a legal degree and established one of the first Kansas law firms: Burch, Litowich, 和罗伊斯.
1904: Kansas Wesleyan opened its first residence hall, 霍尔斯凯勒, named in honor of a much-loved university founder, Dr. 亚伦斯凯勒.
1908: Construction began on KWU’s second academic facility, 卡内基科学馆. The science hall contained classrooms, 实验室, 一个博物馆, 一个望远镜, 还有大学图书馆.
1909: University Methodist Church (known as the University United Methodist Church, UUMC) was organized to serve the university and south Salina, with services held in the KWU 行政大楼 until 1917 when the current church building was constructed adjacent to the campus.
1911: Glenn Martin (1908) flew his self-built plane over southern Salina, near campus. 马丁参加 堪萨斯卫斯理商学院 but later moved to California, establishing several aircraft and aerospace companies.
1916: King Gymnasium, Kansas Wesleyan’s first permanent athletic facility, 打开. 以院长阿尔伯特·金的名字命名, 中大教授, 管理员, 和支持者, 体育馆有一个游泳池, 篮球场, 储物柜, 和其他设施. The face of the beloved clock which graced the gym, was salvaged after a fire destroyed the gym in 1987. The clock face is preserved in the Advancement Office in the Hall of the Pioneers.
1918: Kansas Wesleyan contributes to the First World War by conducting the “Student Army Training Corps.”
1921: 行政大楼 is moved to a new campus location to make room for a new administration building, 先锋队纪念堂(先锋大厅).
1922: Excavation begins on 先锋大厅, but it is two more years before the cornerstone is laid. The building is not completed until 1930 although it is used in part starting in 1926.
1928: Grafton-Club mural “The Coming of the Pioneers” in Sams Chapel is dedicated.
1928: KCAC与KWU组成, 伯大尼大学, 渥太华大学, 贝克大学, 麦克弗森学院, 和圣. 玛丽的.
1928雅典的鲁珀金斯, OH, 土狼队的跑锋, becomes the first African-American to play college football in Kansas. Despite discrimination by teams that refused to take the field with him, he earned All-KCAC First Team honors his freshman and sophomore years.
1930: 十大赌博平台排行榜’s tuition, room and board total $400 a year.
1936: Marking its 50th anniversary, KWU has grown to 24 faculty members and a student body of 450.
1940: 格伦马丁体育场 is built with Works Progress Administration (WPA) labor, including KWU students. The football team wins the KCAC Championship.
“I studied Business Administration and played football for three years. 我们打了整整60分钟. 整个队有20名队员. We won the school’s first KCAC Championship in 1940. I also helped build Martin Stadium as a Works Project Administration project and got paid 25 cents an hour. Only three students on campus had a car back then.——比尔·基勒，44岁
1940: Kansas Wesleyan holds the inaugural 淡紫色的节日.
1948: 纪念图书馆 is built and dedicated to the 24 students who died in World War II. Students help transport the books from 卡内基科学馆 to the new building using stretchers.
1956: KWU earns accreditation through the North Central Association, now called the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). The University continues this accreditation today.
“The women’s dorm, Pfeiffer Hall, had curfew hours. 简·布莱德利小姐, 的女舍监, stood inside the front door … and she locked it exactly at 10:30 p.m. 或午夜! If you were to approach Pfeiffer Hall’s front door around 10:20 p.m. 工作日晚上——或者晚上11点50分.m. on Saturday—you would see a bevy of couples within 20 or 30 yards of the front entryway. Obviously, they would be shaking hands and bidding each other ‘Good Night.’”——鲍勃·平卡尔(1958
1968: Enrollment hits a record 800 students. Many male students are shuttled to campus from rented barracks at the former Schilling Air Base because the campus residence halls are full.
1968: Women’s athletics begins with the formation of the Association of Kansas Women’s Intercollegiate Sports.
1969一间男子宿舍开放了. It was called “New Men’s Dorm” until the mid-1990s, when it was renamed Wesley Hall.
1978: KWU Kansas Delta chapter of Alpha Chi honor society is chartered.
1979:缪尔体育馆建成.
“我记得那些比赛, 的讲座, the connection to the University Church and many more things that made Kansas Wesleyan feel like home. My most embarrassing moment was when I blew up a microscope in Dr. 纽伯格的微生物课. I went on to graduate in 1977 with a B.S.，同时还有R.N. diploma from Asbury Hospital School of Nursing.”
——jerri Phillips, 77年，92年，07年
1986: KWU 体育运动 Hall of Fame is launched with 100 inductees to celebrate KWU’s 100th anniversary.
1988: KWU acquires the Asbury nursing program, located at Asbury-Salina Regional Medical Center. In 1994, the program moved to campus.
“When I arrived at Kansas Wesleyan in 1980, I was an inner city kid from Newark, NJ, coming from a single-parent household. I was the first one in my family to attend college. 我记得返校节, 淡紫色的节日, the Christmas concerts and dinner at a professor’s house for those who couldn’t go home for Thanksgiving. I learned not only how to live alone but also how to live a life at Wesleyan.——约翰·布鲁克斯(1984
1994: MBA program is launched; fiber optic cable is run to most of the buildings on campus.
“Being in choir was the greatest joy for me at KWU, and choir tour was one of my favorite experiences. The musical performances were fun, but the bus trip and traveling with my friends was the best.”—Amanda (Montgomery) Gutierrez ’92
2006: first Project HERO (Helping Everyone Reach Out) day, 两个高年级学生的创意, is organized by the Student Activity Board, and continues annually giving KWU students an opportunity to give back to the local community through community service projects.
2008: 学生活动中心 打开 and includes the Hauptli Student Center, 布朗夹层, Mabee竞技场, 缪尔体育馆, 丹和约蒂书店.
2010: Communication students launch the first Internet radio broadcast of KKWU.
2011: Albert Nelson Student Success Center 打开 in 纪念图书馆.
2014: Demolition begins on 格伦马丁体育场 to make way for the Graves Family Sports Complex.
2014: Wesleyan Journey program is launched.
2015: $1.2 million of technology upgrades expand Wi-Fi and fund the installation of new fiber cable in every campus building.
2015: Graves Family Sports Complex stadium 打开 Oct. 3人，而当时创纪录的2人,011; legendary coach Gene Bissell helped cut the ribbon as the new Gene Bissell Field was dedicated.
2015: KWU forms the only marching band in the KCAC.
2016: Three fully online degrees are launched: Bachelor’s degrees in Criminal Justice and Emergency Management and a Master’s degree in Business Administration.
2021年1月: 500万美元 护理教育中心 打开.
校园历史建筑
- 洛克伍德霍尔(1886 - 1959)
校园里的第一座建筑, 洛克伍德霍尔, 9月15日完工, 1886 allowing Kansas Wesleyan to open its doors for the first time. The city of Salina donated 15 acres and $26,000 while the rest of the money for the project was secured through donations. The initial three story structure contained class rooms, 实验室, 一座教堂, 一个博物馆, a hall for literary societies and the president’s room. In 1921, the building was relocated at a cost of $40,000 to make room for the new administration building. On June 6, 1922 a service of dedication was held in memory of Rev. J.H. 洛克伍德, pioneer founder of KWU and on its first board of trustees, and the building was renamed in his honor. The building was used for Liberal Arts until construction was completed for 先锋大厅. 洛克伍德霍尔 then housed the Division of Music and Art until it was demolished in 1959.
- KW商学院(1892-1935)
- 斯凯勒大厅(1904-1966)
In 1904 construction began on a women’s residence hall estimated to cost around $12,000. Every aspect of the project, including labor and materials, was associated with a donor. 2004年9月, students began to move in to the building even though only two of the four floors were completed. 完成后, 霍尔斯凯勒 contained 50 large student rooms, a dining room with accommodation for 200 and reception and library rooms. The total cost of the project, including surrounding infrastructure, totaled $17,000. The new women’s residence hall was dedicated in honor of Dr. 亚伦斯凯勒, the university’s second president. The dining hall was dedicated in honor of Mr. F.D. 金布尔，一个慷慨的捐赠者.
- 卡内基科学馆 (1908 — 1979)
The construction of this much needed science hall was made possible by the conditional gift of Mr. Andrew Carnegie in the amount of $25,000. He stipulated that an equal amount must be raised by Kansas Wesleyan and all outstanding deficits were to be cleared. The cornerstone was laid on November 15, 1908. The three story brick structure was surmounted by an observatory dome that housed a 12 inch reflecting telescope. The first and second floors of the building contained four large recitation rooms, lab and apparatus rooms and teachers offices. The third floor was temporarily revised for the university’s library and museum. The building stood strong until 1979.
- 国王体育馆(1916-1987)
A ground breaking ceremony was held on October 15, 1914 for the new gym on campus. The construction was made possible largely due to the efforts of Dean King and a group of his professional associates. The group was able to secure $14,000 in cash and pledges for the project. After numerous delays the cornerstone was laid on October 2, 1915. The building was completed and dedicated to King in 1916. The estimated value of the building was $35,000 without equipment and was considered by many to be among the finest athletics structures in the state of Kansas at the time. The structure stood proudly until 1987, when it was razed due to structural damage stemming from a fire in 1979.
- TW Roach President’s House (1909—1966)
- 先锋大厅 & 萨姆斯·查普尔(1922年至今)
Construction for the new administration building, officially known as the Hall of the Pioneers, began in 1921 after the original administration building was moved to the southwest corner of campus. Much of the framework for the new building was completed by 1923. On March 29, 1924, the cornerstone laying ceremony took place with the deposit of a time capsule. Members of the community grew frustrated by the lengthy construction project, so a campaign was launched by local professionals with the goal of raising $50,000. Thanks to a generous donation of $25,000 by E.C. Sams, the president and chairman of the board of J.C. Penney, the $50,000 was raised by 1925. On May 30, 1926 Sams Chapel was dedicated in honor of E.C. 山姆的父母. The project was finished in late 1929, allowing for spring classes to take place in the building during 1930. The dedication and celebration of the completed Hall of the Pioneers, for all of the pioneers who gave their time and funds to maintain the university, 发生在9月14日, 1930.
- JW Bean Memorial Wishing Well (1928—present)
- 格伦·马丁体育场(1940-2014)
格伦·L. Martin Stadium served as the home field for 十大赌博平台排行榜 from its official name dedication in 1940 to its demolition in early 2014 to make way for the new Sports Complex. The old stadium was one of many Works Projects Administration (WPA) projects in Kansas.
Martin Stadium was under lights with night games starting in 1983 and ending in October 2006. The stadium and well-used field were also to Sacred Heart High School Football beginning in 1978 and continuing through fall 2013.
Glenn Martin 1933 访问 for KWU Honor – Salina Journal
Glenn Martin Biography and Obituary
- 纪念图书馆(1947 -现在)
Prior to 1948, the Kansas Wesleyan library was housed in Carnegie Hall. The cornerstone for 纪念图书馆 was laid in 1948, and the building was dedicated to all Kansas Wesleyan students and families that lost their lives during World War II. 今天, 图书馆里住着60多位老人,000册书, 在9,500种期刊和杂志, hundreds of DVDs and tens of thousands of electronic books and magazines.
- 菲佛·霍尔(1951 -至今)
- Sams Hall of Fine Arts (1952—present)
- South Hall Apartments (1957—present)
- North Hall Apartments (1958—present)
- 高地之家(1966年至今)
- 希腊大厅(1966-1969)
- 独立厅(1966-1969)
- Frederick Conrad Peters Science Hall (1969—present)
- Fieldhouse (1969 - 2013)
- 韦斯利·霍尔(1969年至今)
- 缪尔体育馆(1979年至今)
- Hauptli Student Activity Center (2006—present)
- Mabee竞技场(2006 -至今)
