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Item Metadata only Alma Shippy Memorial Dedication(Warren Wilson College, 2017-10-07) Lytle, Rodney; Morton, Lynn; Wheeler, Billy Edd; Shippy, Perry; Wykle, JohnAlma Joseph Lee Shippy enrolled at Warren Wilson College in 1952, two years before Brown v. Board of Education, the United States Supreme Court ruling that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional. By a vote of 54 to 1, the boys of Sunderland Hall welcomed Shippy "on the same basis as any other boy in any activity or work crew on which boys participated.”Item Metadata only Frontiers yet unknown: the history of Warren Wilson College(2013) Hunt, Jeremey Max; Grant, Faye; Pullman, Bill; Collins, Stephen; Banker, Mark; Sanderson, Diana; Warren Wilson College Archives; Blomgren, Richard; Green, Katie; Heller, Andrew; Disher, JohnTraces the history of Warren Wilson College from its founding in 1894 until 2013. Founded in 1894 in Swannanoa as the Asheville Farm School by the Woman’s Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church, it was a boarding school that offered the first three grades of elementary education to underprivileged boys in the Appalachian mountains. The Farm School graduated its first high school class in 1923. In 1942, the Asheville Farm School merged with two other Presbyterian mission schools for girls, the Mossop School in Harriman, Tennessee, and the Dorland-Bell School in Hot Springs, North Carolina, to form the coeducational Warren H. Wilson Vocational Junior College, located on the Farm School campus. The junior college became Warren Wilson College, a four-year liberal arts college, in 1962.Item Open Access A History of Warren Wilson College(Warren Wilson College, 1974) Jensen, Henry, W.Published on the occasion of the College's Eightieth AnniversaryItem Open Access Towards Frontiers Yet Unknown(Warren Wilson College, 1984) Banker, Mark T.;Ninetieth anniversary history of Warren Wilson CollegeItem Metadata only "Warren Wilson College 1986" Promotional Video(1986)This is a promotional video made by the College in 1986. It was digitized from a VHS tape.Item Metadata only Warren Wilson College Commercials, 1986(1986)This video is a short collection of two commercials for the College, made in 1986. These videos were digitized from VHS tapes.