Midway College
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| Midway College | |
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| Motto | Ama Vicinum Acte |
| Established | 1849 |
| School type | Private Undergraduate Liberal Arts |
| President | William B. Drake, Jr. |
| Location | Midway, Kentucky, USA |
| Campus | Rural |
| Enrollment | 1,200 |
| Faculty | 131 |
| Mascot | Eagles |
| Athletics | NAIA |
| Religious Affiliation | Disciples of Christ |
| Homepage | Midway College |
Midway is an independent, liberal arts college with approximately 1,200 students, offering two and four-year degrees. Midway is the only college for women in Kentucky.
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History
Originally called Kentucky Female Orphan School, with the school motto Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself, Midway College educated girls orphaned by epidemics and the harsh existence of early Kentuckians. Founded in 1847, Midway has served, at various times, as a elementary and high school, a junior college, and since 1989, a fully accredited baccalaureate-granting institution. Dr. Lewis Letig Pinkerton, a physician and minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), spearheaded the effort to start the first school in the United States to educate orphaned girls.
Originally training women to be teachers or homemakers, today, the college offers baccalaureate degrees in fourteen disciplines and associates degrees in four disciplines. The School for Career Development is the college’s co-ed evening and extension division for working adults.
Campus
The school is located on a 199-acre farm in the heart of Kentucky Bluegrass Region. The campus overlooks Midway, Kentucky, a small town in Central Kentucky. The National Parks Service placed Pinkerton Hall, the oldest buiding on campus, on the National Register of Historic Places on November 20, 1974.
Academic buildings
Equine Education Center houses a 105 foot x 235 foot indoor riding arena, eight stalls, laboratory, classroom, a large tack room, audio-visual room, wash stall and faculty offices.
Keeneland Equine Education Center contains an indoor riding arena, 16 stalls, a tack room, washroom and office space.
Marrs Hall, with a clock tower, houses the Office of the President, the Arthur Young Lloyd Board Room, the offices for the Provost, the Vice President of College Relations and Development, and faculty offices. The Midway College School for Career Development is housed on the second floor.
Pinkerton Hall, the oldest building on campus, a two-story Greek revival building, was rebuilt in 1852 following a fire that destroyed the original structure in 1848. Pinkerton Hall contains the Offices of Admission, the Director of Financial Aid, the Business Office, and the Offices for Financial Affairs.
Starks Hall was built in 1925 and serves as the major classroom building for the campus. The building also contains the offices of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, the Vice President and Associate Dean for the School for Career Development, and the Registrar. On the second and third floors are classrooms, faculty offices, and Alumnae Chapel.
Anne Hart Raymond Mathematics, Science & Technology Center building opened in the fall 2003 semester. A 46,000 square foot building with laboratories for biology, anatomy, microbiology/immunology, botany, physics, chemistry and physical/environmental science. Faculty members and upper-level students have access to dedicated laboratory space to pursue more advanced research projects. Additionally, the building has a 450-seat auditorium, classrooms, and faculty offices.
Residential buildings
Buster Hall houses 142 women in traditional-style rooms with community bathrooms on each floor.
Belle Wisdom Hall students live in suite-style rooms, sharing private bathrooms with 2-4 residents. Belle residents have a small community atmosphere, living in a building that houses a maximum of 81 women.
Traditions
Ring Shield
- Lamp: truth and knowledge
- Date: 1849
- Key: knowledge
- Oak Leaf: strength
- Star: merit, guidance, heavenly wisdom
- Scales: justice
- Wings: protection, chivalry
- Trumpet vine: Kentucky
- Shield: faith, protection
- School Colors: blue, gold and white
- School Motto: Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself
Night of Lights
A truly unique tradition, Night of Lights marks the end of the academic year with its special way of enabling friends to say farewell. Small candles are floated down the stream by the Path of 0pportunity. Legend has it that if the candle stays aflame while passing beneath the bridge, one's wish will come true.
Pinkerton Bell
Originally used to signal wake-up, meals and classes, now, the bell sends out its glad tidings for any happy occasion.
Alma Mater (School Song)
- Here banded together, dear Old Alma Mater
- Secure in our heritage by old girls bequeathed,
- Led by their conquests and the future offered,
- We trust to thy wise guidance, thy voice of wisdom heed,
- We trust to thy wise guidance, our youth and its need.
- Then forth from thy doors, dear Alma Mater send us,
- All ready to honor thee wher'ere we may be,
- Strong in self-knowledge, wise in understanding
- We sing now to thy glory, our strength thy victory,
- We sing now to thy glory, we offer to thee.
Original words by Lucy Peterson, 1906-1962, sung to the tune Adeste Fideles. Amended by Dr. Tracey Miller, 1990.
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