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94-620: Rollins College is Florida's fourth oldest post-secondary institution, and has been independent, nonsectarian, and coeducational from conception. Lucy Cross, founder of 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

188-565: 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 the public. Following the legacy began by President Hamilton Holt and continued by President Hugh McKean,

282-426: 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 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

376-528: 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 the 1990s, there were rows of shrubbery on either side of the sidewalk leading up to Pugsley Hall, which sits at

470-574: 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 the second floor of the Mills Memorial building. In 2000, the Rollins College's Peace Monument was featured in

564-682: A Masters in Business Administration ( MBA ) through three different programs: The Rollins MBA programs are listed in several national rankings of business schools, including: Sanford, Florida Sanford is a city and the county seat of Seminole County, Florida . It is located in Central Florida and its population was 61,051 as of the 2020 census . It is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford Metropolitan Statistical Area . Known as

658-578: 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

752-699: A greater network of trails as part of Florida's Coast to Coast connector—linking the west and east coasts of central Florida. Sanford has multiple Lynx bus routes serving various destinations including its historic downtown, Seminole State College , the Sanford Sunrail Station , and its mall (Seminole Towne Center). Sanford is the southern terminus of Amtrak 's Auto Train which conveys Eastern Seaboard travelers and their vehicles to Lorton, Virginia , about 25 miles (40 km) south of Washington, D.C. The nearest passenger-only Amtrak stations are in nearby Winter Park, FL and Deland, FL. SunRail ,

846-563: 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 was officially closed on April 13, 2005. Regardless of

940-414: 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,

1034-478: 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 was renovated in 2016. Erected in 1938 and dedicated on Armistice Day by college president Hamilton Holt, it consists of

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1128-529: 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 the Pilgrim ship. The Society of Friends at Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, gave Rollins

1222-521: A trade center, the city retains a significant collection of older commercial and residential architecture, on streets shaded by live oaks hung with Spanish moss . Its location on Lake Monroe and access to the navigable waterway of the St. Johns River has made it Central Florida's additional center for numerous marinas, allowing access for pleasure boats and commercial vessels to and from the Atlantic Ocean and

1316-462: 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

1410-413: 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 the building's original appearance. Today, Pinehurst is a co-ed residence hall that houses

1504-559: Is a bike/walk/run trail that was completed in 2004. The ten-foot wide paved walkway spans a distance of several miles in Sanford's downtown area along the waterfront of Lake Monroe . Phase 2, which adds over 3000 feet to the trail, was completed in 2014. Phase 3 is expected to be complete by 2020. The city completed multimillion-dollar streetscapes of 1st Street and Sanford Avenue in its historic downtown, using brick pavers, creating wider sidewalks, and adding trees, flowers, and benches. Sanford

1598-485: 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

1692-521: 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

1786-482: Is about 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Orlando . Sanford is home to Seminole State College of Florida and the Central Florida Zoo and Botanical Gardens . Its downtown attracts tourists with shops, restaurants, a marina, and a lakefront walking trail. The Orlando Sanford International Airport , in the heart of the town, functions as the secondary commercial airport for international and domestic carriers in

1880-441: Is connected to the central Florida commuter railway SunRail , with the station 2 miles from the downtown. To support green initiatives, Sanford has added five electric car charging stations. The city is proposing to replace streetlamp bulbs with LED lights. In 2012, the city launched the "Imagine Sanford" initiative, which asks all Sanford residents to get involved in city planning by submitting and voting on improvement ideas via

1974-467: 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 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

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2068-611: 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

2162-527: 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 was a Chi Psi at Middlebury College (Mu '54) and played an integral part in bringing

2256-422: 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

2350-447: The 2010 United States census , there were 53,570 people, 18,911 households, and 11,379 families residing in the city. The Orlando Sanford International Airport (SFB) provides some international and commuter airline service for central Florida. Approximately 2.9 million passengers used SFB in 2017. Sanford's Riverwalk is a key bike route following Lake Monroe and passing through Sanford's downtown. By 2020, it will link up with

2444-516: The Brooklyn Dodgers . Since the Dodgers organization did not own a spring training facility, training took place at several local baseball stadiums, including Sanford Field. Robinson's presence on the team was controversial in racially charged Florida. He was not allowed to stay with his white teammates at the team hotel, and many other local towns prevented the team from playing while he was part of

2538-461: The Great Freeze of 1894 and 1895 ruined the citrus industry, farmers diversified by growing vegetables as well. Celery was first planted in 1896, and because of this Sanford is nicknamed the "Celery City." On December 1, 1891, merchant William Clark and registered African American voters of Goldsboro incorporated as a town just to the southwest of Sanford. In 1878, Mrs. Henry Sanford created

2632-597: The Intracoastal Waterway via Jacksonville and Mayport to the north. Sanford Field, built in 1926, was the location where Jackie Robinson first took the field to play as a member of a racially-integrated baseball team. Robinson arrived at Daytona Beach, Florida in early 1946 for spring training with the Montreal Royals of the Class AAA International League , a minor league affiliate of

2726-614: The St. Johns River , then the major artery into Central Florida from the East Coast . Consequently, an army garrison was established upstream, on the southern side of Lake Monroe near a trading post . Established as Camp Monroe in 1836, the camp was enclosed by log breastwork on three sides but open to the river, with approximately 300 men based there. The camp was attacked by Indians on February 8, 1837. It would be strengthened and renamed Fort Mellon in honor of Captain Charles Mellon,

2820-597: The Vietnam War . As a result of the increasing costs of the Vietnam War and concurrent federal domestic spending related to President Lyndon Johnson 's Great Society social programs, NAS Sanford was one of several stateside military installations identified for closure by the Department of Defense in 1967. Flight operations were rapidly scaled down during 1968 as the squadrons of Reconnaissance Attack Wing ONE transferred to

2914-560: The "Historic Waterfront Gateway City", Sanford sits on the southern shore of Lake Monroe at the head of navigation on the St. Johns River . Native Americans first settled the area thousands of years before the city was formed. The Seminoles arrived in the area in the 18th century. During the Second Seminole War in 1836, the United States Army established Camp Monroe and built a road now known as Mellonville Avenue. Sanford

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3008-661: 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

3102-632: The Central Florida commuter rail system, serves the city out of a new station off State Road 46 . A new trolleybus (route and schedule) provides service between Sunrail and the historic downtown. Sanford is near the northern end of the I-4 Corridor between Daytona Beach and Orlando. The State Road 417 or Seminole Expressway begins in Sanford at Interstate 4 and forms the Eastern Beltway around Orlando ending at Walt Disney World Resort . Sanford

3196-466: 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 a fire in 1909 which destroyed Knowles Hall and scorched Pinehurst's exterior. Pinehurst, originally

3290-565: The City of Sanford. In 1911, the community of Sanford Heights seceded from Sanford, because of discord over municipal services provided by Sanford. This added to concerns that Sanford's ability to expand would be constrained by the surrounding towns of Goldsboro, Georgetown and Sanford Heights, as well as Lake Monroe to the west. Florida State Representative and former Sanford mayor Forrest Lake led legislative efforts to curtail Sanford Heights' ability to incorporate as an independent entity. Goldsboro

3384-729: 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 the natural environment of Florida, and that Rollins 8th president Hamilton Holt felt "the college's unified curriculum should be reflected in

3478-493: 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

3572-459: 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 was dedicated in 1985, with

3666-548: 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),

3760-680: The New York Giants. The ballpark is located just south of Lake Monroe on Mellonville Avenue, less than a mile from Historic Downtown Sanford. Other Major League stars have played in the Sanford stadiums, including Babe Ruth , Willie Mays , Tim Raines , and David Eckstein . Sanford was in the news in 2012 due to the killing of Trayvon Martin and the actions taken by the Sanford Police Department . A city streetscaping project began in 2004 as city leaders sought to attract new businesses and visitors to downtown. By 2016, downtown Sanford

3854-686: The Orlando metropolitan area. The Mayaca or Jororo Indians inhabited the shores of Lake Monroe at the time of European contact. By 1760, however, war and disease had decimated the tribe, which would be replaced by the Seminole Indians. Florida was acquired by the United States from Spain in 1821, but the Seminole Wars would delay settlement. In 1835, the Seminoles burned the port of Palatka on

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3948-562: 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

4042-473: 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

4136-621: The airport commenced commercial airline service in 1995 and was renamed Orlando Sanford International Airport the following year. The Navy's presence is commemorated at the airport by two historical markers and the NAS Sanford Memorial Park , which was dedicated on Memorial Day in May 2003 and includes a restored RA-5C Vigilante on loan from the National Naval Aviation Museum that was placed on permanent static display at

4230-454: 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 a harmony of design, these leaders left present and future generations a deeply profound legacy: architectural beauty and unity create

4324-412: 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, a full-scale drill with armed police officers

4418-454: 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 was raped and murdered by her college boyfriend, requested

4512-499: The back-breaking work of establishing a new town and clearing the sub-tropical wilderness in advance of creating a citrus empire, arriving by steamboat in 1871. Incorporated in 1877 with a population of 100, Sanford absorbed Mellonville in 1883. In April of that year, President Chester A. Arthur arrived by steamer to vacation for a week at the Sanford House, a lakeside hotel built in 1875 and expanded in 1882. Meanwhile, Sanford

4606-437: 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

4700-458: The city has a total area of 26.5 square miles (68.63 km ), 22.96 square miles (59.47 km ) of which is land and 3.54 square miles (9.17 km ) of which is water. Sanford is bordered by Lake Mary to the southwest and to the north by Lake Monroe and DeBary . Like the rest of Central Florida , Sanford experiences a warm humid subtropical climate with dry warm winters and wet hot summers. The dry season lasts from October to May, while

4794-590: The city's Imagine Sanford website. The city of Sanford also launched a redesigned city government website in 2012. Okinawa Shogaku High School Okinawa Shogaku High School ( 沖縄尚学高等学校・附属中学校 , Okinawa Shōgaku Kōtō Gakkō Fuzoku Chūgakkō ) is a middle school and high school in the Kokuba district of Naha, Okinawa . Okisho, as it is called, is known for its performance in high school baseball tournaments , including National tournament wins in 1999 and 2008. Its colors are green, yellow, and maize. The school motto

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4888-464: 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

4982-447: 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

5076-578: The county seat of Seminole County, created from Orange County. Agriculture continued to dominate the economy until 1940, when it proved cheaper to cultivate produce in frost-free South Florida . In 1942, Naval Air Station Sanford was established, which conducted operational training in the Lockheed PV-1 Ventura , Lockheed PBO Hudson , Grumman F4F/General Motors FM-1 Wildcat and the Grumman F6F Hellcat . At its peak in 1943–45, NAS Sanford

5170-606: 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 is named after Lucy Cross, the "Mother of Rollins College" (see above). Cross Hall

5264-530: The entrance to the commercial airline terminal. The opening of Walt Disney World Resort in October 1971 shifted the economy of Central Florida away from agriculture, military installations, defense/aerospace industries, and the NASA crewed and uncrewed space programs, and further towards tourism, service industries and residential development, the center of which is Orlando . But because of Sanford's former preeminence as

5358-399: 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

5452-453: The first fruit packing plant built in 1869. In 1870, "General" Henry Shelton Sanford bought 12,548 acres (50.78 km ) to the west of Mellonville and laid out the community of Sanford. Believing it would become a transportation hub, he called it "The Gateway City to South Florida." Sanford imported two colonies of Swedes (totaling about 150 adults) as indentured servants to labor a year for their travel expenses. The Swedes would do

5546-467: The first library for public use in Sanford. A room was provided with a few books and a paid librarian. The initial library failed. In 1889, Mrs. Thrasher and Mrs. A.M. Deforest attempted to revive the library project with the aid of the Wednesday Club, the president, Mrs. Brown encouraged the women to begin fundraising efforts. The effort's fundraising progress was slow and sporadic. A Subscription library

5640-587: The former Turner AFB, renamed Naval Air Station Albany , Georgia. This resulted in a significant economic downturn for the City of Sanford and Seminole County with the departure of all military personnel and their families. The airfield was conveyed to the City of Sanford via quitclaim deed by the General Services Administration (GSA) in 1969, renamed Sanford Airport and redeveloped as a general aviation facility. Subsequently renamed Sanford Regional Airport , then Central Florida Regional Airport ,

5734-486: 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

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5828-652: 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

5922-466: 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 the campus to hide from law enforcement officers as well as

6016-738: The mid-1960s, the base was home to nearly 4000 military personnel, comprising the air station personnel complement, an Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Department, the Navy Dispensary, the Marine Barracks, a Replacement Air Group/Fleet Replacement Squadron for the RA-5C, and nine deployable Fleet RA-5C squadrons that routinely deployed aboard large aircraft carriers to the Mediterranean and the Pacific. The latter were heavily engaged in combat operations during

6110-490: 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 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

6204-467: 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 a large amount of prescription drugs in her system. At first,

6298-402: The population were female persons. In 2020, the median value of owner-occupied housing units was $ 196,100. The median gross rent was $ 1,255. 94.7% of the households had a computer and 86.9% had a broadband internet subscription. In 2020, 89.3% of the population 25 years and older were high school graduates or higher and 25.9% of that same population had a bachelor's degree or higher. As of

6392-689: 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

6486-497: 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

6580-519: 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 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

6674-409: The roster. The police chief in Sanford had threatened to cancel the game there if Robinson was to play. Robinson joined his team despite the threat, but the uproar from the mainly white audience in the stands caused him to be escorted off the field and he was not able to play. Historic Sanford Memorial Stadium was built in 1951 near the site of the old Sanford Field as the Spring Training Facility of

6768-435: The sole American casualty. General Zachary Taylor had a road built connecting a string of defenses from Lake Monroe to Fort Brooke (now Tampa ). The town of Mellonville was founded around Fort Mellon in 1842 by Daniel Stewart. In 1845, Florida became a U.S. state . That same year, Mosquito County was renamed Orange County and the county seat was moved from Enterprise to Mellonville. Orange groves were planted, with

6862-483: 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 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

6956-461: 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 the college and Shogaku Junior and Senior High School , the Okinawan school where

7050-485: 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

7144-407: 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

7238-436: 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 ,

7332-429: The wet season is from June to September. As of the 2020 United States census , there were 61,051 people, 22,236 households, and 14,084 families residing in the city. According to the 2020 census , there were 2.66 persons per household and the population per square mile was 2,589.21. By age, the population in 2020 was split with 6.4% under 5 years old, 23.3% under 18 years old, and 12.4% 65 years and over. 49.2% of

7426-493: 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

7520-592: Was also a target in Forrest Lake's annexation process, prompting Goldsboro's leaders to start a letter writing campaign to local newspapers. On April 6, 1911, the Sanford city council passed a resolution to annex Goldsboro and on April 26, 1911, the Florida legislature passed the Sanford Charter Bill, dissolving the incorporation of both Sanford and Goldsboro, and reorganizing Sanford as a city that included Goldsboro within its boundaries. In 1913, Sanford became

7614-530: 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

7708-478: Was becoming a hub of rail transportation. The South Florida Railroad opened a narrow-gauge route from Sanford to Orlando in 1880, and eventually built a connection to the Port of Tampa by the end of 1883. The standard-gauge Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railroad opened a route from Sanford to Jacksonville in 1886, completing a rail link across the peninsula. The Orange Belt Railway , another narrow-gauge line,

7802-484: Was becoming known as a center for craft beer production in Central Florida, with two microbreweries , a home brewing supplier, and at least five other pubs focused on craft beers. The approximate coordinates for the City of Sanford is located at 28°47′21″N 81°16′33″W  /  28.78917°N 81.27583°W  / 28.78917; -81.27583 . According to the United States Census Bureau ,

7896-463: Was established in 1885 and reached St. Petersburg in 1888. (All three of these railroads would become part of the Plant System in the 1890s, and the narrow-gauge lines were standardized.) Easy access to transportation soon made the area the largest shipper of oranges in the world. In 1887, the city suffered a devastating fire, followed the next year by a statewide epidemic of yellow fever . When

7990-454: Was established in a storefront on First Street. Mrs. Duver was the librarian at this location. The library later moved to Magnolia Avenue next to the theatre at this location the library was run by volunteers. The library grew at this location, until it moved in 1914 to the Women's Club on Oak Avenue. An official Public Library was built and opened in 1924 on 5th Street. This library was supported by

8084-399: 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 a theater for performing arts;

8178-594: Was historically a hub for Central Florida transportation as a port on the St. Johns River . Today, it has a downtown marina that includes free day slips for boaters visiting the downtown. The Sanford public school district is served by Seminole County Public Schools . Sanford is served by the North Branch Library of the Seminole County Public Library. It is located at 150 N. Palmetto Avenue, Sanford, Florida 32771. The city's RiverWalk trail

8272-628: Was home to approximately 360 officers, 1500 enlisted men and 150 WAVES and included an auxiliary airfield to the east near Lake Harney known as Outlying Field Osceola. The base was inactivated and reduced to caretaker status in 1946, but was reactivated in 1950 in response to the Korean War and the Cold War . A major construction program ensued, with NAS Sanford redeveloped as a Master Jet Base for carrier-based Douglas A-3 Skywarrior and later North American A-5A and RA-5C Vigilante aircraft. At its peak in

8366-490: 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 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

8460-459: 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

8554-593: 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

8648-622: 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 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

8742-840: 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

8836-488: 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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