"We Were the 1st Public College in the State"



Palm Beach State College Archive’s Celebration July 20th, 2011-Part I

 Margaret Richardson Brown, Brian Kelley, Idella Wade

Idella and Margaret are two of the librarians from Roosevelt Jr. College

Palm Beach Jr. College at the Palm Beach High location

Thank you to Suellen Mann, Executive Director of the College Foundation, for sponsoring the refreshments and partnering with the library to organize this event. Mr. Brian Kelley, Library Director of the LLRC, explained the reason for inviting everyone today and to talk about how the college alumni might be able to help the college. He also wanted to talk about some exciting new possibilities of what the college could do for them.

To help preserve our college history, Mr. Kelley showed the guests the boxes, arranged by decade, that contain photos of mostly unnamed individuals and events. He is asking for help to identify these pictures. He encouraged everyone to ‘spread’ the word to others. Mr. Kelley said “Eventually we hope to digitize the majority of the holdings of the archives of the college. There will be additional identification possibilities in the future as we make the unidentified photos available online”. He also reviewed the history of the school from the year 1933 that began with 41 students to the present with over 50,000 students. Our new BAS program began in 2009 with our first graduating class this past May 2011. Mr. Kelley introduced Suellen who told more about the Emeritus employee association benefits.

Idella Wade, librarian from RJC and PBCC
 Estaline Rogers, librarian from PBCC/Palm Beach State


As part of the history, we now have an Internet Archive. Internet Archive link: http://www.palmbeachstate.edu/x20487.xml

Miss RJC and attendants

 Queen and entire court

Dr. Edward Eissey was 3rd president of PBJC/PBCC, center of picture.

He was a student at the PBJC, shown here in the library at Morrison Field 1948.









Burt Reynolds won the 1956 Florida State Drama Award for his performance in "Outward Bound".
Reynolds calls Watson B. Duncan his mentor and the most-influential person in his life.