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76-519: Winslow S. Anderson, a faculty member of Rollins College and founder of Tau Lambda local fraternity, had an idea for a new national fraternity to expand to large universities and small colleges in 1921. In 1924, he found three like-minded men, Otho Robert McAtee of Springfield, Missouri , Jerry Homer Krenmyre, vice president of Iowa Wesleyan College , and Donald Fisher Lybarger, an attorney and founder of Phi Sigma . These men were members of three different local fraternities. Theta Kappa Nu fraternity

152-561: A Masters in Business Administration ( MBA ) through three different programs: The Rollins MBA programs are listed in several national rankings of business schools, including: Emily Helen Butterfield Emily Helen Butterfield (August 4, 1884, Algonac, Michigan – March 22, 1958, Neebish Island ) was a pioneer in the Michigan women's movement . She was Michigan's first licensed female architect , one of

228-625: A children's book, Young People's History of Architecture (1933). She also contributed its illustrations, which she had drawn from her many travels. Butterfield was an accomplished illustrator, working in pen and ink and watercolor , illustrating mainly nature, Michigan, and architectural scenes. She exhibited at the J. L. Hudson Gallery and at the Toledo Artists Club . Her artwork was used in her publications. Butterfield retired to Neebish Island , where she served as postmaster during World War II. She died on March 22, 1958 and

304-423: A fire in 1909 which destroyed Knowles Hall and scorched Pinehurst's exterior. Pinehurst, originally a women's residence hall, over the years transformed into a men's dormitory, co-ed dormitory, the home of President Ward, a Library, chemistry lab, infirmary and then classroom. In November 1985, Pinehurst received Winter Park's Historic Preservation Commission's Historic Landmark award. The college renovated to maintain

380-417: A full-scale drill with armed police officers was held to make sure the college was ready in the event a hostile incident was to take place on campus. In October 2014, school officials alerted the student body of four incidents at one of its public parking garages near the campus where female students were threatened by a male aggressor. The 70-acre (28 ha) campus contains a range of amenities, including

456-542: A gift from a former Rollins College faculty member. In October 1994, the school made international headlines when the government of Japan, per the request of its Okinawa Prefecture , asked for the return of a statue that was taken as war loot after the Battle of Okinawa in 1945 by Clinton C. Nichols, at that time, a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy and a Rollins alumnus. Nichols had presented

532-522: A harmony of design, these leaders left present and future generations a deeply profound legacy: architectural beauty and unity create a spiritual sense of place that inspires the entire educational and social life of a college." In 1930, President Holt announced the gifts of Cornelius Pugsley and an anonymous donor for the construction of two women's dormitories, with their interiors designed by Virginia Huntington Robie . Pugsley and Mayflower Halls were dedicated in 1931. Mayflower Hall received its name from

608-465: A large amount of prescription drugs in her system. At first, the assistant medical examiner at the Orange County coroner's office ruled Kairis' death as a homicide . However, that conclusion was quickly changed after Shashi Gore, the county's chief medical examiner ruled that she had died as a result of an accidental prescription drug overdose. Kairis' parents, who always believed their daughter

684-414: A response from Carnegie's secretary James Bertram that noted the request was too general for consideration, and that Carnegie would need a profile of the university before consideration. Little progress was made for over a year, when Blackman again wrote to Carnegie, noting the university's need for a library. Trustees and friends of the university wrote to Carnegie on Blackman's behalf, including W.W. Cummer,

760-739: A shield with eleven chevrons in argent and sable, with a red inescutcheon in the center. Above, is a red lion rampant holding a white rose. Benneath the shield, is a scroll with the motto Vir Quisque Vir Est. It was designed by Emily Helen Butterfield . Theta Kappa Nu had alumni clubs in Birmingham, Alabama; Chicago, Illinois; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; DeMoines, Iowa; Indianapolis, Indiana; Kansas City, Missouri; Los Angeles, California; New York City, New York; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Portland, Oregon; Richmond, Virginia; St. Louis, Missouri; Shreveport, Louisiana; Springfield, Missouri; and, Washington, D.C. Rollins College Rollins College

836-706: A theater for performing arts; the Cornell Campus Center; and the Alfond Sports Center. The college is located in a picturesque setting in Winter Park, FL right across from Park Avenue. The Rollins campus is well known for its highly decorative Spanish and Mediterranean Revival style architecture . According to College Historian and Professor Emeritus Jack C. Lane, the Spanish-Mediterranean style blended best with

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912-467: A trustee from Jacksonville who served on the board of the city's new Carnegie Library. A letter dated 22 June 1905 and written from Carnegie's home in Scotland brought the welcome news of the offer of a library. Carnegie offered $ 20,000 ($ 678,222 today) for the construction of a library provided that the same amount would be raised for the library's upkeep. While grateful for Carnegie's proposal, Blackman

988-620: Is a private liberal arts college in Winter Park, Florida . It was founded in November 1885 and has about 30 undergraduate majors and several master's programs. Florida's fourth oldest post-secondary institution, it has an approximate enrollment of 3,000 students, composed of roughly 2,500 undergraduates and 500 postgraduates. Rollins College is Florida's fourth oldest post-secondary institution, and has been independent, nonsectarian, and coeducational from conception. Lucy Cross, founder of

1064-550: Is a historic chapel on the Rollins campus. In February 1998, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places . Ground was broken for the chapel on March 9, 1931, and the cornerstone was laid on May 12 of the same year. The dedication service for the chapel took place just a year later on March 29, 1932. Though founded by a Congregational Church educational committee, Rollins has no religious affiliation, so

1140-474: Is a historic theater in Winter Park, Florida, located on the premises of Rollins College. The theatre was named after the English-born actress Annie Russell in 1931, who taught at Rollins until she died of lung disease in 1936. It was designed by the architect Richard Kiehnel of Kiehnel and Elliott . In October 1998, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places . The Knowles Memorial Chapel

1216-627: Is located on school grounds and contains works of art and objects from antiquity to the 21st century. The museum was built instead of what would have been the Ackland Art Museum at Rollins; millionaire and amateur art collector William Hayes Ackland (1855-1940) wanted to leave his fortune to a Southern university for an art museum and narrowed his choices to Duke University , the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , and Rollins, in that order. After Ackland's death, Duke refused

1292-541: Is named after Lucy Cross, the "Mother of Rollins College" (see above). Cross Hall is named after Lucy Cross, the "Mother of Rollins College" (see above). Hooker Hall was named after, the first president of Rollins College, Edward Payson Hooker (1838-1904). The building was originally used as housing for the Theta Kappa Nu fraternity then, in 1939, the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity moved in. Hooker

1368-506: Is named. Rollins made substantial donations to enable the founding of the college, and was a trustee and its first treasurer. Another early benefactor was Franklin Fairbanks of St. Johnsbury, Vermont . Fairbanks was president of the family business, Fairbanks Scales, and was a founder of Winter Park, a donor to Rollins College and a trustee. In March of 1936 during a visit to Central Florida , U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt

1444-542: Is now known as BPW/Michigan. This chapter is a part of Business and Professional Women (BPW), the oldest and largest organization for working women in the world. The national BPW organization is made up of federations from each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia , Puerto Rico , and the Virgin Islands . Butterfield was active in the college Greek movement, which flourished with new chapters established in

1520-487: Is one of the oldest and most extensive in Central Florida , dating back (1909-1951) to its Carnegie Library founding as one of the original 14 Florida libraries funded by Andrew Carnegie . The original collection, at the founding of Rollins College in 1885, consisted of one Christian Bible and one dictionary. According to Cohen (2006), Carnegie's "donation of 108 libraries to colleges in the first two decades of

1596-566: The Alpha Gamma Delta Quarterly , the fraternity publication, for 7 years. Butterfield had a strong influence on her sorority and Greek life, as noted in the 2004 Alpha Gamma Delta Centennial Keynote Address: Butterfield and her father shared a love for, and studied the art of, heraldry . Following creating many heraldry designs for fraternal organizations, she also wrote College Fraternity Heraldry, published in 1931. To further education in architecture, she published

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1672-506: The Zeta Tau Alpha sorority coat of arms and the crest of Tau Kappa Epsilon . Butterfield designed the coats of arms for the following fraternities: Alpha Kappa Psi , Sigma Delta Rho , Sigma Tau Gamma , Theta Upsilon Omega (later merged with Sigma Phi Epsilon ), and Theta Kappa Nu (later merged with Lambda Chi Alpha ). With George Banta , she created the coat-of-arms (adopted in 1910) of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity,

1748-588: The coat of arms , the white tudor rose , the pledge pin design (now the associate member pin) , a pledge ceremony which is a condensed version of Theta Kappa Nu's ritual, and the Latin open motto Vir Quisque Vir , or "Every man a man". It also brought an infusion of leadership to Lambda Chi Alpha that helped steer the united fraternity through the end of the Depression Era and World War II . The fraternity's colors were argent, sable, and crimson. Its flower

1824-685: The 1987 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry . Construction of the redesign of the Archibald Granville Bush Science Center began in the spring of 2012 and was completed prior to the beginning of the fall 2013 semester. The science center, which has 103,580 square feet and cost $ 30 million to upgrade ($ 40.6 million today), is now the largest building at Rollins. It has three floors and includes 51 offices, 15 classrooms, 15 teaching labs, 19 research labs and 18 student/faculty lounges. The Cornell Fine Arts Museum

1900-657: The 1990s, there were rows of shrubbery on either side of the sidewalk leading up to Pugsley Hall, which sits at the end of Park Avenue. Chase Hall was built in 1908. It was first used as a men's dormitory until 1966. From 1966 until 1999 it was used by the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, followed by the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. The Lucy Cross Center for Women and Their Allies was established in 2010 at Rollins College in Chase Hall, Room 205. The center

1976-506: The Crummer Graduate School of Business. Other graduate degrees granted include Master of Public Health (MPH), Master of Arts in teaching, Master of Education in elementary education, Master of Human Resources, and Master of Liberal Studies. Its most popular undergraduate majors, by number out of 593 graduates in 2022, were: Rollins' admissions process is "more selective" according to U.S. News & World Report . For

2052-771: The Daytona Institute for Young Women in 1880, first placed the matter of establishing a college in Florida before the Congregational Churches in 1884. In 1885, the church put her on the committee in charge of determining the location of their first college in Florida. Cross is known as the "Mother of Rollins College." Rollins was incorporated, organized, and named in the Lyman Park building in nearby Sanford, Florida , on April 28, 1885, opening for classes in Winter Park on November 4 of that year. It

2128-522: The Greek letters Θ , Κ , or Ν in gold on the outer triangles. The inner triangle features a Tudor rose and a mystical symbol. The badge can be jeweled with pearls and diamonds. The fraternity's pledge pin was a silver circle with four raised black enameled triangles, separated by crossed silver bars. The fraternity also had a recognition pin for alumni and active members; it was a small coat of arms in either silver or gold. The coat of arms featured

2204-559: The Mohammed stone was brought back from Mecca by a student's sister, "at the risk of fine and imprisonment." After Holt retired as president of the college in 1949, there no longer existed a central authority for the Walk of Fame, and over the next two decades stones began to disappear, often around graduation time; many were thrown into Lake Virginia. Only in the 1980s, under the presidency of Thaddeus Seymour (president from 1978 to 1990),

2280-577: The Pilgrim ship. The Society of Friends at Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, gave Rollins a 16-inch section of beam from the ship, which, it had been discovered, had been salvaged to build a haybarn in England. The block of wood was placed above the fireplace in Mayflower Hall. Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity moved into Pugsley Hall in 1997 and have occupied it all but one academic year since. In

2356-575: The Regional Universities South category. According to U.S. News & World Report ' s 2020 "Best Regional Universities South Rankings", Rollins was ranked first overall in the southern United States out of 136 regional universities whose highest degree is a Master's, first for "Best Undergraduate Teaching", tied for fourth for "Most Innovative Schools", seventh for "Best Value", and tied for 87th in "Top Performers on Social Mobility". The college has also been named one of

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2432-481: The Walk of Fame were predominantly American, but later additions would include stones from places associated with internationally famous figures as diverse as St. Augustine , Emperor Humayun , and William Wordsworth . By 1932 the Walk of Fame had over 200 stones, many of which Holt himself had brought back to campus: the Charles Dickens stone he had picked up while visiting Gad's Hill , and he claimed that

2508-511: The building's original appearance. Today, Pinehurst is a co-ed residence hall that houses a special interest group which promotes academic fulfillment outside the classroom. Built in 1988 to fulfill the Rollins College waterski and sailing teams ' needs. The Alfond Boathouse sits on lake Virginia and has a total of 3 offices used by the waterski and sailing coaches, as well as a classroom, boat bay and observation deck. The exterior

2584-429: The campus to hide from law enforcement officers as well as the armed robbery of two students who were sitting in a car outside their dormitory within one week, the college's administration initiated discussions on new security measures. Some measures included blocking or limiting access to four of the school's entrances and installing new security cameras to assure student and faculty safety on campus. On January 7, 2014,

2660-439: The chapel is interdenominational. A Protestant service is held on Sunday mornings, and Catholic Mass is held on Sunday evenings. A highlight of the chapel is a circular window of the seven liberal arts designed by Ralph Adams Cram and William Herbert Burnham. The Rollins Walk of Fame, which circles Mills lawn, consists of stones taken from places connected to historic people. Past college president Hamilton Holt came up with

2736-473: The class entering Fall 2018, 3,635 freshmen were accepted out of 5,455 applicants, a 66.6% acceptance rate, and 549 enrolled. Fall 2018 enrolling students had an average GPA of 3.31; the middle 50% range of SAT scores was 590–680 for reading and writing, and 560–680 for math, while the ACT Composite range was 24–30. Women constituted 58.3% of the incoming freshmen class, men 41.7%. Rollins College

2812-447: The collection is to use art as a medium through which students can better understand multifaceted issues — global politics, economies, cultures; the tensions around social structures and marginalized populations; conflicts between human development and the environment; art as a concept, expression, and a communication tool; and other contemporary issues that students will encounter in their coursework and everyday lives. It can be accessed in

2888-553: The college and Shogaku Junior and Senior High School , the Okinawan school where the original statue has been placed. On March 31, 1998, the body of Jennifer Leah Kairis, a sophomore student, was found in her Ward Hall dormitory room by a residential assistant . Kairis, who had attended a fraternity party held by the Tau Kappa Epsilon chapter on campus hours before she had died, was both legally intoxicated and had

2964-536: The cutting edge of innovative education, for refusing to sign the loyalty pledge. The American Association of University Professors censured Rollins. The widely publicized case was investigated by the American Association of University Professors , and it is known as the "Rollins College Case" among historians of tenure . The four fired faculty quickly founded experimental Black Mountain College , with

3040-567: The early 20th century with the expansion of college education. As an associate of the George Banta publishing company, Butterfield combined her design abilities and her knowledge of heraldry to design the coats of arms of several sororities and fraternities, among them her own sorority, Alpha Gamma Delta (ΑΓΔ), coat of arms in the spring of 1906. She also designed the coats of arms for Lambda Omega (later merged with Delta Zeta ), Theta Phi Alpha , and Phi Beta sororities. She co-designed

3116-399: The extent of Twenty Thousand Dollars." ($ 752,100 today) The library, to be named Carnegie Hall, was dedicated on February 18, 1909. The building had over 8,000 square feet of space, and was the school's first dedicated library building. It served as a library from 1909 until 1951. In addition to its function as a library, Carnegie Hall also served as the school's post office. Since the library

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3192-707: The founders of the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, active in Greek life , and a founding member of the Detroit Business Women's Club, the first professional women's club in the nation. Butterfield was born in Algonac , Michigan , in St. Clair County . She attended Detroit Public Schools. Butterfield and her father shared a great love of art. In her teenage years she and her father went on sketch trips to

3268-464: The fraternity's permanent fund was reduced from $ 28,500 to $ 12,200. By the end of the decade, fraternity leaders realized that a merger with another fraternity was necessary to continue solvency. In 1939, Lambda Chi Alpha merged with the Theta Kappa Nu in what was regarded as the largest fraternity merger to date. Theta Kappa Nu's heritage entered that of the united fraternity with additions to

3344-486: The grandchildren of abolitionists and confederate soldiers, in about equal numbers, sit together in the same class-room and play together on the same athletic field, and learn thus to understand, respect and love one another; Blackman's request consisted of $ 35,000 in total ($ 1,186,889 today): "$ 20,000 for a fireproof building, $ 3,000 for books, and $ 12,000 as an endowment for the continued purchase of books" ($ 678,222, $ 101,733 and $ 406,933 today respectively). Blackman received

3420-728: The idea in the 1920s, and based the Walk of Fame on the "ancestral walk" at his home in Connecticut. The idea, Holt wrote, was "unique in conception and execution." Holt officially dedicated the Walk of Fame in October 1929, originally calling it the Memorial Path of Fame. Holt presented 22 stones, including stones from the homes of American luminaries George Washington , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Daniel Webster , Calvin Coolidge , and Ralph Waldo Emerson . Early additions to

3496-556: The meantime, the first charter was granted to Missouri Beta at Westminster College on October 6, 1924. Theta Kappa Nu had, over its first decade, become the fastest-growing fraternity until that time, chartering forty chapters with almost 2,500 initiates by the close of 1926. Most of Theta Kappa Nu's chapters were established at small, private colleges as local fraternities. The fraternity placed great emphasis on academics , offering graduate scholarships throughout its history, even during dire financial crises. Its quarterly magazine

3572-461: The national fraternity for men in music. She designed the chapter houses of Alpha Gamma Delta at Syracuse and Michigan State universities. When the fraternity established a summer camp (the "Alpha Gamma Delta Summer Camp Lodges") for underprivileged children in Jackson, Michigan in 1920, Butterfield was the architect of the camp. She also served as camp manager until 1924. She served as editor of

3648-462: The natural environment of Florida, and that Rollins 8th president Hamilton Holt felt "the college's unified curriculum should be reflected in the architectural style." Lane goes on to state that Rollins' campus architecture has stayed consistent since its opening, and that "the college has been extremely fortunate to have leaders who recognized the significance of architectural style for the educational process. By making certain that new buildings retained

3724-601: The public. Following the legacy began by President Hamilton Holt and continued by President Hugh McKean, the Institute launched in the fall of 2008, the first guest being U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins , who has returned every year since. Other guests include Robert F. Kennedy Jr. , Ken Burns , Gloria Steinem , Jane Goodall , Paul Simon , Itzhak Perlman , Nicholas Kristof , Sheryl Wu Dunn, Jane Pauley , and most recently, Sir Paul McCartney . Rollins' Olin Library

3800-763: The reading room of Olin Library's Archives and Special Collections. The Olin Electronic Research and Information Center was also established in 1998 with a second gift of US$ 2.7 million from the F.W. Olin Foundation ($ 5.12 million today). The center features the latest technology, including computer stations, color printers, scanners, audio and video digitizers, compact discs, videodiscs, and videotapes. These tools facilitate creativity as students pursue research questions, prepare multimedia presentations, and create Web pages. Olin Libraries' collection

3876-510: The request, and UNC and Rollins, excised from Ackland's final will, both brought suit to locate Ackland's museum on their campuses. In a case that went to the United States Supreme Court , Ackland's trustees sided with UNC, but a lower court ruled for Rollins; a higher court finally granted the bequest to UNC. Rollins was represented in the case by former U.S. attorney general Homer Cummings . The Annie Russell Theatre

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3952-527: The school if the original was returned to the island. After consulting both with the U.S. State Department and the school's board of trustees, then-President Rita Bornstein accepted the offer and the statue was returned to Okinawa in 1995 in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II . In addition to providing the school with a replica of the original statue, the government of Okinawa and Rollins signed "an agreement of cooperation" that pledges to develop additional cooperative projects between

4028-595: The second floor of the Mills Memorial building. In 2000, the Rollins College's Peace Monument was featured in a New York Times article. The Winter Park Institute, located in the Osceola Lodge on Interlachen Avenue, brings scholars, leaders, and artists from diverse fields of disciplines and expertise to the Rollins campus for symposiums , seminars , lectures , interviews , exhibits , readings , and master classes that are always free and open to

4104-540: The state. Her other projects included factories, summer camps, stores, schools, and homes. Butterfield was among the three co-founders, along with publisher Emma Spoor, and manufacturer's agent Grace Wright, of the Detroit Business Women's Club in 1912. It was the first professional women's club in the nation and Butterfield served as founding president. In a series of mergers, the Club became part of what

4180-484: The statue of Ninomiya Sontoku , a prominent 19th-century Japanese agricultural leader, philosopher , moralist , and economist , to then-President Hamilton Holt, who promised to keep the statue permanently in the main lobby of the Warren Administration Building. At first, the school rejected the offer made by Okinawan officials, who suggested that a replica of the statue will be presented to

4256-440: The top national producers of Fulbright Scholars among Masters granting institutions throughout the U.S. Since inception of the scholarship in 1951, 48 Rollins students have been awarded the honor, as of 2019 . In 2010, the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Professional Studies have a total of 1,884 students and a student to faculty ratio of 10 to 1. The Rollins College Crummer Graduate School of Business offers

4332-471: The twentieth century assisted 10% of the institutions of higher learning in the United States. Carnegie had a preference for colleges and universities that served African-American students, which Rollins College president William Fremont Blackman noted the school did in a letter to Carnegie appealing for a library in 1904: The fact that it is the only college in the country, North or South, in which

4408-436: The uttermost, in the effort to raise $ 230,000 in two years ($ 7.8 million today). I am by no means sure that we can meet Mr. Carnegie's conditions. In a January 1906 letter Blackman wrote to Carnegie expressing concern about meeting the conditions for the gift, noting that the college had a large debt that took "considerable self-sacrifice on the part of our friends." That summer, another Florida college, Stetson University ,

4484-710: The western United States and Europe. In 1903, Butterfield was accepted into the architecture program at Syracuse University in New York. After graduation, in 1907 she became the first licensed woman architect in the state of Michigan. With her father, in 1917 she established the firm of Butterfield and Butterfield. The firm specialized in church architecture . It led the transformation of churches, especially Methodist , from Sunday meeting halls to centers of daily community and social activities. She practiced architecture in Detroit and Pontiac , designing 26 churches throughout

4560-487: Was The Theta News . Its headquarters were in Cleveland, Ohio . The Great Depression significantly impacted the small colleges where most Theta Kappa Nu chapters were located. Expansion nearly ceased and chapters began closing in the early 1930s. The Grand Council reduced membership fees in 1933 and 1935 with hopes of maintaining its membership, covering the reduction in income from its "permanent fund". Over seven years,

4636-459: Was a Chi Psi at Middlebury College (Mu '54) and played an integral part in bringing the Chi Psi chapter, Alpha Mu Delta, to Rollins in 1977. Today, Hooker Hall is home to the Chi Psi fraternity, and is known to many faculty and students as The Chi Psi Lodge. The Rollins College website states that Pinehurst Cottage and Knowles I, the two structures established when the college founded, suffered

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4712-499: Was again named No. 1 in the U.S. News & World Report ' s 2021 "Best Regional Universities South Rankings". The institution was also named "No. 13 overall for Best Value Universities in the South". Rollins earned the first overall spot on U.S. News & World Report ' s 2021 "Best Regional Universities South Rankings". The college was also named No. 1 for "Best Undergraduate Teaching" and 14th for "Best Value Schools" in

4788-530: Was awarded $ 40,000 ($ 1,356,444 today) for a library from Carnegie. Upon learning this Blackman again wrote to Carnegie, seeking to amend the original terms of the agreement to match the amount that Stetson was awarded. He was turned down, but a year later was able to notify Carnegie that the school's trustees had been able to match the $ 20,000 necessary for the gift to be awarded. Bertram wrote to Blackman to inform him that Carnegie had "authorized his Cashier…to arrange payments on Library Building, as work progresses, to

4864-650: Was conferred an honorary degree in literature at the Knowles Chapel on campus. Other U.S. presidents who have visited the campus include Calvin Coolidge (1930), Harry Truman (1949), Ronald Reagan (1976; prior to his 1980 election), and Barack Obama (2012). President Hamilton Holt decided to require all professors to make a "loyalty pledge" to keep their jobs. In March 1933, Holt fired John Andrew Rice , an atheist scholar and unorthodox teacher, whom Holt had hired, along with three other "golden personalities" (as Holt called them), in his push to put Rollins on

4940-505: Was dedicated in 1985, with a US$ 4.7 million grant from the F.W. Olin Foundation ($ 13.8 million today). It is four stories high, with 54,000 square feet (5,000 m ) containing thousands of volumes, periodicals, serials, electronic resources, a number of special collections, and hundreds of compact discs, DVDs, and videotapes. From 1909 until 2011, the library was a federal government documents repository. Olin still provides access to hundreds of online government resources. Olin Library

5016-399: Was established by New England Congregationalists who sought to bring their style of liberal arts education to the frontier St. John's basin . A commemorative plaque listing the names of the founders was dedicated 1 March 1954 and is displayed in historic Downtown Sanford. Early benefactors of Rollins College included Chicago businessman Alonzo Rollins (1832-1887), for whom the college

5092-486: Was founded when delegates from eleven local fraternities from nine different states united to form the new fraternity. The organizing meeting took place in Springfield, Missouri on June 9, 1924. The organizations included: The representatives from the various organizations became the charter members of Theta Kappa Nu. The charter members were: Anderson was selected as the fraternity's Grand Archon (chairman), McAttee

5168-463: Was moved from Carnegie to the newly built Mills Memorial Library, it has also housed a bookstore, admissions office, faculty offices, and human resources office. The Bush Science Center at Rollins has state of the art SMART classrooms, faculty offices, and 38 teaching and research laboratories for the physical and behavioral sciences, mathematics, and computer science. The science center is where Donald J. Cram launched his chemical studies, becoming

5244-466: Was officially closed on April 13, 2005. Regardless of the investigation's outcome, the Kairis family asked then Governor Jeb Bush to bring in an outside medical examiner to take another look at the case and autopsy results and order an independent investigation of their daughter's death to resolve what they called the "Dueling Medical Examiners". In September 2011, as a result of robbery suspects' use of

5320-623: Was one of three recipients of the 2013 ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award. In 2021, Olin Library collaborated with Rollins' Department of Art & Art History and the Rollins Museum of Art to establish the Rollins Book Arts Collection, an interdisciplinary teaching collection, directly supporting the college's curriculum and its long tradition of liberal education. The purpose of

5396-589: Was raped and murdered by her college boyfriend, requested a lengthy state investigation into their daughter's death due to their belief that the Winter Park Police Department botched the case. On March 4, 2004, Bruce Hyma, the Miami-Dade County chief medical examiner and expert toxicologist hired by State Attorney Lawson Lamar ruled that Kairis had committed suicide via a prescription drug overdose . The seven-year investigation

5472-479: Was renovated in 2016. Erected in 1938 and dedicated on Armistice Day by college president Hamilton Holt, it consists of a German artillery shell, surrendered by Germany at the end of the First World War, mounted on a pedestal, bearing this inscription: The top half of the monument was stolen by vandals during World War II , but the plaque from the bottom half survives and is in the stairwell leading to

5548-588: Was the Grand Scribe (secretary), Lybarder was the Grand Treasurer, and Krenmyre was the Grand Oracle. Anderson, Krenmyre, Lybarger, and McAtee drafted its constitution, ritual, and business system. On October 11, 1924, where the local chapters officially changed their names with an installation ceremony, along with a "badging out ceremony" held where members received their Theta Kappa Nu badge. In

5624-457: Was the white Tudor rose. Its motto was Vir Quisque Vir Est or "Every man is a man". Its flag featured three horizontal stripes–white on top, crimson in the center, and black on the bottom–with gold letters ΘΚΝ on top, diagonally from upper left to bottom right. The Theta Kappa Nu badge consisted of three equilateral triangles that were joined at their top, underneath a fourth triangle. The triangles are filled with black enamel and have one of

5700-854: Was there an Official Lapidarian responsible for taking care of the stones. As of 2003, the Walk of Fame had about 530 stones, the vast majority (455) honoring men. Most stones are associated with specific people, but a few—like the stones from Australia and the Berlin Wall —honor places or events. Rollins has three divisions that offer a variety of programs: College of Arts and Sciences; Crummer Graduate School of Business; and Hamilton Holt School. US News states that undergraduates at Rollins can choose from about 30 majors, ranging from Latin American and Caribbean studies to computer science and biochemistry to theatre arts and dance. In addition to its undergraduate programs, Rollins offers an M.B.A. program through

5776-488: Was uneasy with its terms because the amount of funding required to match Carnegie's offer would put a strain on those who had donated to start the college's endowment fund of $ 200,000 as well as paid a debt of $ 30,000 ($ 7.8 million combined today). In correspondence to Bertram dated July 11, 1905, Blackman wrote (according to Cohen): Our college is in the poorest of States [Florida], remote from all centers of wealth and population, and our friends have strained themselves to

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