Louisiana College history

Winston De Ville (born 1937), noted Louisiana genealogist and publisher

Built in 1940, Cottingham Hall houses three hundred women.

Cottingham Hall, named for President Claybrook Cottingam and built in 1941, is in particularly need of full renovation, roof, plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, and ventilation.

Among the benefactors of Louisiana College has been the family of Simon W. Tudor of Pineville, who founded Tudor Construction Company in 1946.

In 1958, the Louisiana Historical Association was reorganized in a statewide gatherin on the LC campus.

The Weathersby Fine Arts Building, completed in 1961, is named in his honor.

Cavanaugh Hall of Science, built in 1969, contains offices, classrooms and laboratory facilities for the departments of biology, chemistry, mathematics, and nursing.

Guinn Auditorium and Religious Education Center, built in 1973 in an earlier capital improvements program, is home to the religious studies department and contains the 300-seat Frances Bolton Chapel and the 1,800-seat Guinn Auditorium.

As of 2006, more than 12,000 have graduated since the college was founded.

On October 25, 2008, LC inaugurated Wildcat Stadium.

On December 15, 2010, the LC trustees received a $1 million contribution from an anonymous foundation in order to launch a divinity school on the Pineville campus.

These first three articles were not the first written on LC but they tell my story as far as what happened to me in 2011.

LC ended its fiscal year July 31, 2012, with a deficit of $1.3 million deficit; the institution spent $30.5 million during that time but collected only $29.2 million in revenues.

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* Louisiana Baptist Executive Director David Hankins: The Consolidation and Corruption of Power (Mar 7, 2014)