Rhodes College Digital Archives - DLynx

Ashner Gateway is in the foreground and Residence Hall is in the background of this image taken in 1925, about the time that the College opened in Memphis.

Kennedy Hall was called Science Hall when it first opened in 1925. In 1968, it was remodeled and named for Berthold S. Kennedy, Class of 1912. It is on the National Register of Historic Plces.

This is the amended Plan of Union from 1873 in the Charlter and By-Laws of Southwestern: The College of The Mississippi Valley in 1925.

This is a picture of the ceremony for planting acorns from trees at the Clarksville campus on the new Memphis Campus during the Inaugural Celebration.

This announcement appeared in the Memphis Commercial Appeal and the News Scimitar on July 20, 22 and 23, 1925.

This is a sheet of stationary from 1922 when plans were being made to move the College to Memphis from Clarksville. The proposed name for the new College in Memphis was Southwestern, the College of the Mississippi Valley. The image at the top of the document shows an artist's conception of the buildings. The lower image is a photograph of the land being cleared for the new campus with the help of donkeys and carts. Some trees have been cut down with the wood stacked in piles. Missouri Railway cars that arrive on campus by way of a railway spur are in the background and are hidden by the piles of cut wood. The railroad cars brought the stone from the College's quarry in Bald Knob, Arkansas.

This publication was used to raise funds for the new Memphis campus and an endowment to sustain it. It contains a block plan, descriptions and costs of the proposed buildings,

Speech given by President Diehl at a meeting of "The Egyptians" in October of 1956 recounting the early history of Southwestern, with a specific focus on the College's move from Clarksville to Memphis.