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  1. President Oscar E. Remick
    date July 1, 1980 to June 30, 1987map Gratiot, Michigantags Oscar Remick, Alma College

    Oscar E Remick became Alma College’s tenth president in 1980. He was born in Ellsworth, Maine on August 24, 1932. Before becoming president he received his Artium Baccalaureatus (A.B.) degree from Eastern College. In 1957 he was ordained. Dr. Remick served as president of Alma College for seven years. Dr. Remick had a vision of what he wanted to accomplish at Alma College. During his first interview...

  2. How Alma College became "The Scots," and the start of the Highland Festival in Alma, Michigan.
    date November 10, 1931map Gratiot, Michigantags Highland Festival, Herbert Estes, Scottish Influence, Mascot, The Scots, Alma College

    The Scottish Influence   The history behind the Alma College mascot began with the student-run newspaper, The Almanian, which ran a series of stories over a three week period in 1931 asking the students of Alma college to participate in a contest to come up with a new school mascot to replace the then current one: the Fighting Presbyterians. According to the first announcement of the contest in the...

  3. Alma College Majors and Minors This episode looks at the Academic Programs that Alma College offered in its first 100 years of existance.
    date 1987map Gratiot, Michigantags Alma College, Education, Majors and Minors

    Alma College did not require students to have an academic major until the 1908-1909 school year. Prior to that year, students were only required to complete a general degree of study, such as a Bachelor of Arts or Sciences. The 1908-1909 catalog states, “in order to secure to the student the advantage of intensive work, he is required at the proper time to choose two subjects in which he must secure...

  4. The Development of Service Organizations at Alma CollegeThis piece looks at the various philanthropic organizations that have been present at Alma College over the past 25 years.
    date 1986 to 2009map Gratiot, Michigantags Alma College, Organizations, Philanthropy

    According to a ranking by the Washington Monthly regarding Liberal Arts Colleges around the country, Alma College is ranked 4th for Community Service participation and hours received. Alma College has consistently offered campus organizations to its students which have allowed them to give back to their local community, to the nation, and to the world. In the late 1980s, Alma College offered one major...

  5. Alma College Homecoming
    date 1917 to 1942map Gratiot, Michigantags Homecoming, Alma College

    The origins and starting date of the homecoming tradition are largely debated, but the yearly Harvard-Yale football game is said to have been inviting alumni to return since 1870. Alma College’s Homecoming is first mentioned in the 1917 Almanian.   The 1925 Almanian explains that activities for each year’s homecoming have expanded from a football game to an alumni focused weekend, including a...

  6. Influential Alumni of Alma College
    date 1983 to 1991map Gratiot, Michigantags Alma College, Alumni

    The alumni of Alma College have received multiple awards and honors, been chairs of multiple boards, published works of art and literature, started businesses, and crossed into foreign territory to defend our freedom. To name all the successful alumni of Alma College would be a feat, so only a few alumni will be highlighted. The following alumni have succeeded both during and after their time at Alma...

  7. The Oscar E. Remick Heritage Center for the Performing Arts
    date March, 1992 to 1992map Gratiot, Michigantags Alma College, Buildings - Heritage Cent, Performing Arts Center

    In the mid 1900’s roughly one-third of Alma College’s student body was involved in the performing arts either through music, dance, or theatre, and there was not enough space to house all of the college’s performing arts groups. The college was in desperate need of a performance center. Designs and drawings of such a center were first seen in a 1962 yearbook. However, the construction did not...

  8. Wright Hall
    date March, 1901 to 1901map Gratiot, Michigantags Buildings - Wright Hall, Alma College

    Wright Hall is dedicated to Ammi Wright, the local businessman who donated the original thirty acres of land on which Alma College is located. In early 1900, Mr. Wright donated more land to the college, including a block and a half located on the south side of Superior Street, directly across from the campus. Mr. Wright wished for new buildings to be erected on this land, specifically a new dormitory. Construction...

  9. The Bishop: Dr. Thomas Mar Makarios
    date 1981map Gratiot, Michigantags India, Religious Studies, Makarios, Bishop, Alma College

    As the Bishop of the American Diocese of the Syrian Orthodox Church, Thomas Mar Makarios was invited by Reverend David McDaniels to speak at Alma College after hearing him speak at a college in Ohio in 1981.  The Bishop was thought to be a perfect candidate to further the knowledge of the students as “a worldwide figure in an Orthodox tradition which [we], as Americans, know next to nothing about”...

  10. The Revolution of Vocal Assemblage
    date 1887map GRATIOT, Michigantags Liberal Arts, Choir Tour, Choir, Alma College

    The choral programs at Alma College have been an important part of the liberal arts experience.  Through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries a wide variety of choral groups were formed such, as the early Almaroon Quartette, Choral Club, Men’s and Women’s Glee Clubs and several a cappella choirs and have been named some of Michigan’s finest small choirs.  At times, after a student’s...

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