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Source Collection
Cecil C. Humphreys collection, University Archives, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
sc.ua.po_hump.013_025.001
Description
Ernest C. Ball (Tennessee Board of Education)(left), Memphis State University president Dr. Cecil C. Humphreys, and former president J. Millard Smith (right), standing near the soon-to-be demolished President's House on Patterson Street, survey excavations for the new Humanities Building (later named Patterson Hall) in August 1966. The cut-down tree was planted by a former president in 1924. Ball was a student at the university when it first opened in 1912. Smith lived in the house from 1946 to 1960, and Humphreys from 1960 until moving to a new president's residence off-campus on Grandview Drive.
Date
1966 August
Recommended Citation
"Excavation begins for Humanities Building, Memphis State University, 1966" (2021). Cecil C. Humphreys Collection. 10.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-ua-hump/10
Keywords
Memphis State University.; Humphreys, Cecil C. (Cecil Clarence), 1914-1995.; University of Memphis.; University of Memphis.