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Rollins College
MottoFiat Lux (Latin)
Motto in English
Let there be light
TypePrivate
EstablishedNovember 4, 1885; 138 years ago (November 4, 1885)[1]
Endowment$365.3 million (2020)[2]
PresidentGrant Cornwell
ProvostSusan Singer
Academic staff
231[3]
Students3,127 (2018)[4]
Undergraduates2,034 (2018)[4]
Postgraduates556 (2018)[4]
Other students
537 (2018)[4]
Location
Winter Park
,
Florida
,
United States
CampusSuburban, 80 acres (32 ha)
Radio stationWPRK
Colors  Rollins Blue
  Rollins Gold
NicknameTars
MascotTommy Tar
Websiterollins.college
Rollins College theatre

Rollins College is a private liberal arts college in Winter Park, Florida. It was founded in 1885 and has about 30 undergraduate majors and several graduate programs. It is also Florida's oldest post-secondary institution, established in November of 1885.

History[edit]

Rollins College is Florida's oldest post-secondary institution,[5][6] and has been independent, nonsectarian, and coeducational from conception.[7] Lucy Cross, founder of the Daytona Institute in 1880, first placed the matter of establishing a college in Florida before the Congregational Churches in 1884.[8] In 1885, the church put her on the committee in charge of determining the location of the first college in Florida.[8] Cross is known as the "Mother of Rollins College."[8] Rollins was incorporated, organized, and named in the Lyman Park building in nearby Sanford, Florida on 28 April 1885, opening for classes in Winter Park on November 4 of that year.[1] 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 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.[9]

Another early benefactor was Franklin Fairbanks of St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Fairbanks was president of the family business, Fairbanks Scales, and was a founder of Winter Park, a donor to Rollins College and a trustee.[10]

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).[11][12]

Controversies[edit]

Firing of John Andrew Rice and required loyalty pledge[edit]

In March 1933, President Hamilton 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. Holt then required all professors to make a "loyalty pledge" to keep their jobs. The widely publicized case was investigated by the American Association of University Professors, and it is known as the "Rollins College Case" among historians of tenure. The American Association of University Professors censured Rollins. Rice and the three other golden personalities, all of them dismissed for refusing to make the loyalty pledge. They quickly founded experimental Black Mountain College, with a gift from a former Rollins College faculty member. [13]

Okinawa statue[edit]

In October 1994, the school made international headlines when the government of Japan, per the request of its Okinawa Prefecture, asked for the return of a statue that was taken as war loot after the Battle of Okinawa in 1945 by Clinton C. Nichols, a then-lieutenant commander in the United States Navy and a Rollins alum. 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 the statue permanently in the main lobby of the Warren Administration Building.[14] 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 the statue was returned to Okinawa in 1995 in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II.[15] 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 the original statue has been placed.[16]

Kairis case[edit]

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.[17] At first, 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,[18] requested 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.[19] The seven-year investigation was officially closed on April 13, 2005.[20] Regardless of 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".

Immigration article[edit]

In March 2011, the school generated significant media coverage after an op-ed article published in the school's newspaper, "The Sandspur," and written by freshman student writer Jamie Pizzi resulted in an outcry by many students and faculty members at the school. In the article, Pizzi compared undocumented immigrants to home intruders and criticized granting automatic citizenship to all children born in the U.S. regardless of parental citizenship.[21] Appearing on Fox & Friends, Pizzi apologized for her choice of words when describing undocumented immigrants' children. However, she stood by her opinion that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution should be changed to end automatic citizenship for children born on American soil.[22]

Security measures[edit]

In September 2011, as a result of robbery suspects use of the campus to hide from law enforcement officers as well as the armed robbery of two students who were sitting in a car outside their dormitory within one week, the school's administration initiated discussions on new security measures. Some measures include blocking or limiting access to four of the school's entrances and installing new security cameras to assure student and faculty safety on campus.[23][24][25] On 7 January 2014, a full-scale drill with armed police officers was held to make sure the school was ready in the event a hostile incident was to take place on campus.[26] 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.[27]

Campus[edit]

The Rollins 70-acre (28 ha) campus[28] contains a range of amenities, including a theater for performing arts; the Cornell Campus Center; and the Alfond Sports Center.[29] The college is located in a picturesque setting in Winter Park, FL right across from Park Avenue.

Pugsley Hall & Mayflower Hall[edit]

In 1930, President Holt announced the gifts of Cornelius Pugsley and an anonymous donor for the construction of two women's dormitories. 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 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.[30] Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity moved into Pugsley Hall in 1997 and have occupied it all but 1 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 the end of Park Avenue.

Chase Hall[edit]

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.[31] The Lucy Cross Center for Women and Their Allies was established in 2010 at Rollins College in Chase Hall, Room 205.[32] The Center is named after Lucy Cross, the "Mother of Rollins College" (see above).[33]

Cross Hall[edit]

Cross Hall is named after Lucy Cross, the "Mother of Rollins College" (see above).[33]

Hooker Hall[edit]

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.[34] Hooker was a Chi Psi at Middlebury College (Mu '54) and played an integral part in bringing 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.

Pinehurst Cottage[edit]

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 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 a special interest group which promotes academic fulfillment outside the classroom.[35]

Alfond Boathouse[edit]

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.[36] The exterior was renovated in 2016.

Peace Monument[edit]

Sunrise over Lake Virginia from Rollins College campus

Erected in 1938 and dedicated on Armistice Day by college president Hamilton Holt, it consists of a German artillery shell, surrendered by Germany at the end of the First World War, mounted on a pedestal, bearing this inscription:[37]

Pause, passerby and hang your head in shame
This Engine of Destruction, Torture and Death Symbolizes:
The Prostitution of the Inventor
The Avarice of the Manufacturer
The Blood-guilt of the statesman
The Savagery of the Soldier
The Perverted Patriotism of the Citizen
The Debasement of the Human Race
That it can be Employed as an Instrument of Defense of Liberty, Justice and Right in Nowise Invalidates the Truth of the Words Here Graven.
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  2. ^ As of June 30, 2020. U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2020 Endowment Market Value and Change in Endowment Market Value from FY19 to FY20 (Report). National Association of College and University Business Officers and TIAA. February 19, 2021. Retrieved February 20, 2021.
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  6. ^ "House Resolution". Florida House of Representatives. Retrieved 2010-09-30.
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  9. ^ Gayle Prince Rajtar, Steve Rajtar, Winter Park Chronicles, 2011, page 35
  10. ^ Winter Park Public Library, Winter Park History Digital Collections: Colonel Franklin Fairbanks, retrieved January 14, 2014
  11. ^ "Celebrating President's Day". Rollins College. 2012-02-22. Retrieved 2012-08-08.
  12. ^ "President Barack Obama Holds Grassroots Event at Rollins". Rollins College. Retrieved 2012-08-08.
  13. ^ Mary Seymour, "The Ghosts of Rollins (and Other Skeletons in the Closet)", Rollins Magazine, fall 2011, http://www.rollins.edu/magazine/fall-2011/ghosts-of-rollins-2.html; https://www.jstor.org/stable/40218822
  14. ^ Honan, William H. (1994-10-24). "Okinawa Seeks Return Of Statue". New York Times, 1994. Retrieved 2010-09-30.
  15. ^ "College Is Returning Statue to Okinawa". The New York Times, 1994. 1994-11-05. Retrieved 2010-09-30.
  16. ^ Honan, William H. (1996-05-27). "New Twist in Cultural Saga". The New York Times, 1996. Retrieved 2010-09-30.
  17. ^ Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking from Google Books. Retrieved on 2011-02-11
  18. ^ "SLAYINGS INQUIRIES MAY LACK EXPERTISE; A ROLLINS CASE HAS BEEN DEBATED BECAUSE SOME EXPERTS THINK A KILLER HAS GONE FREE". Orlando Sentinel, 2004. 2004-03-28. Retrieved 2010-09-30.
  19. ^ "Toxicologist Rules Death Of Rollins Student Overdose". WPBF, 2004. Retrieved 2010-09-30.
  20. ^ "Death Of Rollins Student Ruled Suicide". WPBF, 2005. Retrieved 2010-09-30.
  21. ^ Jamie Pizzi, Rollins College Columnist, Compares Illegal Aliens To Home Intruders from the Huffington Post 28 March 2011
  22. ^ Student's op-ed piece stirs controversy from WOFL 25 March 2011
  23. ^ Rollins Plans New Security Measures Crimes Shake Campus from WESH 27 September 2011
  24. ^ Suspect in violent robbery at Rollins College on the run from Central Florida News 13 26 September 2011
  25. ^ Arrests At Rollins Unrelated To Love Triangle Shooting from WKMG 19 September 2011
  26. ^ Emergency drill held at Rollins College in Winter Park from www.myfoxorlando.com 8 January 2014
  27. ^ Rollins College alerts students of four suspicious incidents at parking garage from WFTV 3 October 2014
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  32. ^ "Rollins Welcomes the Lucy Cross Center for Women and Their Allies". Rollins.edu. 2010-10-20. Retrieved 2014-08-14.
  33. ^ a b "THE LUCY CROSS CENTER for Women and Their Allies | Rollins College". Rollins.edu. 2012-11-06. Retrieved 2014-08-14.
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  37. ^ "Holt's Peace Monument". Rollins Archives Library. Retrieved 2010-09-30.
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