Warren Wilson College history

In 1901 he became superintendent of the Department of Church and Country Life.

Warren Wilson received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1908 and that same year joined the staff of the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church (United StatesA.) as one of two superintendents in the Department of Church & Labor.

In 1923, the school graduated its first high school class.

A Presbyterian church was started at the school in 1925 so students and teachers would no longer have to walk three miles to Riceville; it was also named for Warren Hugh Wilson, former superintendent of the Presbyterian Church's Department of Church and Country Life.

The first post-high school programs offering vocational training began in 1936.

Warren Wilson was first recorded in 1941 by Harold E. Johnston.

In 1942, the junior college division was established.

In 1952, the college became one of the first in the South to desegregate, when it invited Alma Shippy, an African American from Swannanoa, North Carolina, to attend.

The excavation history of Warren Wilson began during the fall of 1965, during a North American Archaeology class taught by Doctor Joffre Coe.

Warren Wilson College was established as a four year college in 1966, until then it served as a junior college.

Warren Wilson College was a junior college until 1967, when it became a four-year college offering six majors.

In 1972, the National Board of Missions deeded the WWC property to the college's Board of Trustees.

1976 • Cherokee Prehistory: The Pisgah Phase in the Appalachian Summit Region.