Lane College held its annual Founder’s Day Convocation on Sunday, March 6, 2011. Each year on the first Sunday in March, Lane faculty, staff, alumni and students gather to celebrate the college that began as a high school 129 years ago. The College was founded by the Colored (now Christian) Methodist Episcopal Church in America, which Bishop Isaac Lane presided over at the time. The high school was changed to Lane Institution in 1883 and became Lane College in 1895.
“You get the feeling of the history of the school when you step on this campus,” said Adrian Ingram, network support technician for Lane. “You get the sense of the struggles they have overcome to go from, say, 25 to 30 students to 2,200 today.”
Knowing that history helps Lane College students bond and understand what their great-grandparents, grandparents and some parents had to overcome to get them into college, said Dr. Dorothy Dallah, a professor in Lane’s Education Department. Knowing the college’s history also makes students stronger by giving them a sense of the future.
“As you begin to look back and forward,” she said, “there is a relationship. History is to the group as memory is to the individual. Very few people stand alone.”
Speaking inside the Chambers-McClure Academic Center, Bishop Lawrence L. Reddick III told his 700+ audience that one of the four keys to the college’s continued livelihood and the future success of its students is perseverance. Reddick was Sunday’s featured speaker and gave the Founder’s Day Address.
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