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Kilgore College
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Kilgore College is a two-year community college located in Kilgore, Texas, approximately 120 miles east of Dallas, Texas, and 70 miles west of Shreveport, Louisiana. It has an enrollment in excess of 5,000 students. Kilgore College has one of the lowest costs per hour of any college or university in Texas. In addition to preparing students for undergraduate degrees complete at 4-year colleges and universities, KCs programs also include continuing education, the college offers Associate in Arts and Associate in Applied Science degrees, and tech prep and certificate programs including welding, corrosion technology, and process operations. In addition to academics, the school has programs include various musical ensembles, The Flare newspaper. The group most people associate with the college are the Kilgore College Rangerettes, the college has an exceptional band which numbers between 100 and 125 members each year. In June 1986, the Texas Shakespeare Festival opened its season at Kilgore College. The college provides financial support and facilities for the festival, which is a cultural asset for all of East Texas. Van Cliburn Auditorium in the Anne Dean Turk Fine Arts Center is named for him, media related to Kilgore College at Wikimedia Commons Official website
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Ranger College
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Ranger College is a community college located in Ranger, Texas, a small town 90 miles west of Fort Worth, Texas. The colleges website asserts that it is one of the oldest public two-year colleges in operation in the state of Texas. In conjunction with its campus in Ranger, the college maintains several satellite campuses across Erath County and Brown County. Ranger College provides dual-credit courses to over 30 area school districts, the main campus is located at 1100 College Circle, Ranger, TX76470. The school opened on September 13,1926 with thirty students, the State Department of Education recognized it on March 23,1927. Ranger College was a governed by the school system until August 18,1950. The school thereafter has been governed independently by a Board of Regents and its own presidents, in 2010, Ranger College opened campuses in Early and Stephenville, Texas. Ranger College is accredited as an institution by the Southern Association of Colleges. In 2011, Ranger College, along with Frank Phillips College in Borger, Brazosport College in Lake Jackson, the Texas Association of Community Colleges rallied successfully to keep the four institutions open. We pledge to work with you to reach a fair and equitable solution, the decision to close these four colleges is unfair and inequitable in that it appears to be arbitrary and ill-advised. We stand in support of our colleges, and we look forward to a productive debate. The 2011 proposal to close the schools was not adopted, construction is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2017 and be completed approximately 18 months later. Ranger Colleges athletic teams are nicknamed the Rangers, the Rangers compete in mens and womens basketball, baseball, softball, cross country running, golf, rodeo, soccer, and volleyball. The basketball teams play at Ron Butler Gymnasium, the baseball team plays at Ellis Burks Field, named after Ranger College alumnus and retired Major League Baseball player Ellis Burks. In 1978 the Ranger College football team won the NJCAA national championship, in June 2007, Ranger College won the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association mens team title in the College National Finals Rodeo held in Casper, Wyoming. Ranger had only been competing again since 2005, after a 25-year hiatus, in August 2007, Ranger replaced its football program with mens and womens soccer and mens golf programs. The football team finished the year with a record of 4 wins and 5 losses, in 2013 the Ranger College mens soccer team won the NJCAA Region V Championship and participated in the NJCAA Division I national tournament. In 2015-16 the mens team was twice found to have committed serious violations
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Navarro College
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Navarro College is a two-year public institution consisting of a main campus located in Corsicana, with branches in Fairfield, Mexia, Midlothian, and Waxahachie, Texas. The college currently features annual student enrollment of more than 9,000 students, the Corsicana campus has strong ties with Texas A&M University–Commerce, which has branches at the Navarro College campuses in Corsicana and Midlothian. In spring 1946, a group of citizens met to form a steering committee for the purpose of establishing a junior college in Navarro County. In a general election held July 16,1946, voters approved the creation of Navarro Junior College, in that same election, voters chose a seven-member board of trustees to govern the college. The first students began classes in September 1946, most of the 238 members of that first student body were returning veterans from World War II taking advantage of assistance available under the newly enacted GI Bill of Rights. The first campus of Navarro College was the site of the Air Activities of Texas, in 1951, the campus was moved to its present location, a 47-acre tract west of downtown Corsicana on Texas State Highway 31. In keeping with the new role, the word junior was dropped from the institutions name. Later, a third and fourth off-campus centers were added in Midlothian, in October 2014, Navarro College received criticism for sending admission rejection letters to two prospective students from Nigeria. The letters, signed by the international programs director, informed the applicants that the college was not accepting international students from countries with confirmed Ebola cases. Nigeria was identified by the World Health Organization through the summer of 2014 with multiple confirmed cases of Ebola, the rejected applicants lived in Ibadan, Nigeria, approximately 80 miles from Lagos, where the most recent infected cases were identified. S. State Department have identified as at risk, the Corsicana campus has expanded to 103 acres with 23 buildings. The Cook Education Center also contains the Pearce Collections Museum, home to many American Civil War artifacts as well as an art collection. As defined by the Texas Legislature, the service area of Navarro College includes all of Ellis, Freestone, Leon, Limestone. Navarro is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the accreditation was given in 1954 and reaffirmed in 1964,1974,1985,1995 and again in 2006. Waxahachie Global High School is partnered with Navarro College, and set up in a way that students at Global can take classes at Navarro, thus they can graduate high school with an associate degree or transferable credits to a 4-year university along with their high school diploma. The college athletics teams are nicknamed the Bulldogs, in 2011, the baseball team won the NJCAA Junior College World Series in Grand Junction, Colorado. The Bulldogs beat Central Arizona College, 6–4, on J. T, files walk-off home run in the 10th inning. Navarro offers athletic scholarships in the sports for men, football, basketball, baseball and for women, soccer
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Garden City Community College
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Garden City Community College, commonly referred to as Garden City CC or GCCC, is a fully accredited community college located in Garden City, Kansas, United States. GCCC has regional accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges, the GCCC Nursing Program is accredited by the Kansas State Board of Nursing and the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission. Certain GCCC programs have also obtained other specific individual accreditation, Garden City Community College was established in 1919 to provide a means for post-secondary education for area residents. The college moved to the then-new Garden City High School building in 1954, the Kansas Legislature passed the Community College Act in 1965, authorizing establishment of 22 independent colleges including GCCC. Today GCCC is one of 19 Kansas community colleges, Garden City Community College is a member of the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference and offers a variety of sports programs, referred to as the Broncbusters and Lady Broncbusters. GCCC has experienced success in football, basketball, and baseball. Notable alumni of the school include former NFL Pro-Bowler Corey Dillon, current NFL player Phil Loadholt, the first four community colleges in Kansas were established in 1919, and GCCC is one of two from that group which still exist. It was created by election on April 1,1919. The first graduate, Mildred Hope of Garden City, earned her degree in the spring of 1920. The college moved to the then-new Garden City High School building in 1954, the first effort to establish GCCC as an entity separate from the Garden City public school system was launched in 1958. It was killed in a Kansas legislative committee, an attempt was also rejected in 1962. In 1963, the college moved back to Sabine and Calkins Halls, the Kansas Legislature passed the Community College Act in 1965, authorizing establishment of 22 independent colleges including GCCC. This authorized the institution to levy taxes, conduct its own programs, county voters elected the first GCCC Board of Trustees in July 1965. Today, GCCC is one of 19 Kansas community colleges, the present 14-building, 63-acre campus at 801 Campus Drive was designed between July,1965 and January,1966. Voters approved a $2.5 million bond issue, supplemented by a $538,000 federal grant for construction, the Collins Technical Building was added in 1974, and a residential life addition was built in 1978. The Penka Building was added in 1986, when additions were completed to the Joyce, Collins, williams Stadium, a baseball facility, was also added. In January 1996 a 15,000 sq ft.1.4 million dollar technical teaching laboratory was completed so that GCCC could provide more training for workers in area and national industries. The 19, 260-square-foot, three-level, two-story Student and Community Services Center opened in August,2006 and was dedicated in October of the same year, attached to the original Administration Building, the $3
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Cameron University
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Cameron University is a four-year, state-funded university located in Lawton, Oklahoma, that offers more than 50 degrees through two-year, four-year, and graduate programs. The degree programs emphasize the arts, science and technology. The Oklahoma Legislature created six agricultural high schools in each judicial district just a year after statehood in 1908, Lawton was chosen to receive a high school over Anadarko in April 1909, due to their having already set aside a portion of land for a higher educational institution. The University Improvement Association, under the auspices of the Lawton Chamber of Commerce and its original goal was to secure a private Baptist college. Arrangements with the Baptists fell through in the summer of 1908, the Catholic Church approached the Association with an offer to form an all-male institution on the site. This plan was not acceptable to the town leaders, Cameron State School of Agriculture was named for the Rev. E. D. Cameron, a Baptist minister and Oklahoma’s first State Superintendent of Schools. The first classes were held on Statehood Day, November 16,1909, in the basement of a bank building, Cameron added junior college work in 1927 when local higher education needs exceeded what was available in Southwest Oklahoma. With this changed function came a new name, Cameron State Agricultural College, baccalaureate degrees were authorized in 1966 by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, following action by the Legislature. The institution’s name was shortened to Cameron College in 1971, then changed to Cameron University in 1974, Dr. Donald J. Owen served as Camerons President from 1969-1980. Camerons sports teams, particularly football and basketball, excelled during that time, in 1988, State Regents expanded Camerons functions to include offerings at the masters degree level. This change in function was the first granted to an Oklahoma institution since Cameron was given the authority to offer bachelors degrees more than 20 years earlier, in the 1990s, Cameron University came under the Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma. Don Davis was President of Cameron University from 1980 to 2002 and his father, Clarence L. Davis, was President of Cameron from 1957-1960. As a child, Davis lived in the Presidents house on campus with his mother, father, where this house once stood now stands a state-of-the-art science center. As a former legislator from Lawton, Davis was able to secure funding for Cameron that allowed it to grow into the institute for higher education in southwestern Oklahoma. Also during Davis tenure, a radio station, KCCU89.3, was founded. Numerous renowned scholars, including Richard Leakey, Cornel West, have spoken at Camerons annual Academic Festival, in May 2004, Cameron took over the Duncan Higher Education Center in Duncan, Oklahoma, and renamed it Cameron University - Duncan. In June 2005, the State Regents approved the first Master of Science in Entrepreneurial Studies in the state, the Entrepreneurial Studies program was rated by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the top 10 limited-curriculum programs in the nation. S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, in 2008, the program was named the model graduate program in entrepreneurship with the Small Business Institute international program
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Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
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Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College is a community college located in Perkinston, Mississippi. It was founded as Harrison County Agricultural High School in 1912, MGCCC also offers a Community Campus that provides workforce education programs, onsite and online, to south Mississippi residents and employers. The colleges athletic teams are known as the Bulldogs and they compete in the Mississippi Community College Athletic Conference in football, basketball, baseball, soccer, softball, golf and tennis. MGCCC won the National Junior College Athletic Association Football Championship in 1971,1984 and was champion in 2007. MGCCC began as the Harrison County Agricultural High School on September 17,1911, four years later, north Harrison County became Stone County, and both counties continued to support the school. On September 14,1925, with the support of Jackson County, Harrison-Stone-Jackson Agricultural High School, George County then added its support in 1942, and the institution took the name of Perkinston Junior College. In 1962, the Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College District was formed, between 1965 and 1985,4 new centers were opened. The college name was changed to Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College on October 1,1987, in 1996, the Community Campus, a campus without walls, was added as a fourth campus. In 2006, President George W. Bush became the first sitting President to speak at a community college graduation, MGCCC has been nominated for the Aspen Institute Prize for Community College Excellence. It is currently in the 120 eligible schools for the 2013 award, MGCCC was among the top 10 finalist for the same award in 2011 as well
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Georgia Military College
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Georgia Military College is divided into the junior college, a military junior college program, high school, and middle school in Milledgeville, Georgia. It was originally known as Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural College, GMCs seven campuses, five extension campuses, and online campus across Georgia serves nearly 14,000 students. GMC is one of five military junior colleges that participates in the U. S. Armys Early Commissioning Program, students who graduate from GMCs two-year, military science-oriented curriculum receive an officers commission in the U. S. Army. Although GMC is a state funded institution, it is not part of the University System of Georgia or the Technical College System of Georgia, the junior college was established in 1879, and later added a preparatory school for students in sixth grade through twelfth grade. GMCs military preparatory school for Cadets is in Baldwin County and has approximately 279 middle school students and 277 high-school Junior ROTC students, the other campus locations serve as junior colleges to their local communities. Georgia Military College Columbus Campus is the liberal arts Junior College in Columbus. The Columbus campus opened on Fort Benning in 1997, then moved to Cross Country Office Park in 2004, since January,2013, Georgia Military College Columbus has been enjoying its beautiful, newly built campus at 7300 Blackmon Road. GMC Columbus completely wireless campus features the latest educational technology, including Promethean Interactive Whiteboards, GMC also operates a growing online campus. The addition of an online campus allows GMC to offer degrees to individuals that work and dont have the time to come to campus, the online campus allows GMC to serve not just local but also global communities as well. GMCs Early Commissioning Program is specifically designed to enable students to become a Second Lieutenant in the US Army after the first two years in college, GMC offers funding specifically to help pay costs for Corps of Cadet members on the Milledgeville Campus. The State Service Scholarship Program provides 39 full scholarships to qualified Georgia residents with an interest in service as well as a quality college education. The program is funded through the Georgia General Assembly, Scholarship recipients are required to become members of either the Army or Air National Guard and must be nominated by a member of the Georgia General Assembly. These scholarships cover tuition, fees, rooms, board, books, Scholarship winners must join the Corps of Cadets and participate in Army ROTC. Army ROTC Scholarships are also available for qualified cadets interested in the Early Commissioning Program and these scholarships are funded through ROTC and cover tuition, fees, and an amount for books, plus a monthly stipend. There are various options for ROTC scholarship based on the desire for active duty or reserve component duty. Georgia is the state in the country to have both a senior military college and a military junior college. Combined, GMC and UNG currently have almost 900 cadets pursuing a commission in the U. S. Army, one of the ways in which a student can become an ECP cadet is to attend the Cadet Initial Entry Training at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The course is 29 days long and the Cadet will be paid by the U. S. Army for completing the course, between the Cadets freshmen and sophomore years, the Cadet will attend the Cadet Leadership Course at Fort Knox, Kentucky
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Boise State Broncos football
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The Broncos play their home games on campus at Albertsons Stadium in Boise, Idaho, and their head coach is Bryan Harsin. The program is 11–6 in bowl games since 1999, including a 3–0 record in the Fiesta Bowl, originally a junior college, Boise State first fielded a football team in 1933 under head coach Dusty Kline. That team compiled a record of 1–2–1, Kline was succeeded by Max Eiden. Under Eiden, the Broncos posted a record of 17–23–1 from 1934 to 1939, the Broncos posted records of 4–2, 3–4, and 2–4–2 in 1940,1941 and 1946 under head coach Harry Jacoby. After a year as an assistant, Lyle Smith was promoted to football coach of Boise Junior College in 1947. Riding a 31-game winning streak in 1950, the moved into a new 10. With the outbreak of the Korean War, Smith missed all and he returned in 1952 and was a leading candidate for the vacant job at his alma mater Idaho in 1954, but withdrew his name from consideration, content at Boise. Boise won thirteen titles in football under Smith and the NJCAA National Football Championship in 1958. Boise States football program moved up to four-year status in 1968 under new head coach Tony Knap, the Broncos were accepted into the NCAA in October 1969, and a month later into the Big Sky Conference, effective the following July. The Broncos began NCAA competition in 1970 in Division II in a brand new Bronco Stadium, Knap and the Broncos won three consecutive Big Sky titles from 1973 to 1975 and compiled a record of 71–19–1. Knap was succeeded by Jim Criner in 1976, an assistant the previous season under Dick Vermeil at UCLA. BSU won the Big Sky again in 1977, and in 1978, the Broncos, off probation in 1980, BSU won its first national title, taking the I-AA national championship over defending champion Eastern Kentucky in Sacramento. A runner-up to Idaho State in the Big Sky in 1981, BSU hosted Eastern Kentucky in the I-AA semifinals, Criner departed after the 1982 season to accept the head football coach position at Iowa State. Lyle Setencich was promoted from defensive coordinator to head coach of Boise State following Criners departure, under Setencich, Boise State posted a 24–20 record in four seasons. He lost all four games against Idaho and resigned following the season. Skip Hall, previously an assistant coach under Don James at Washington, was hired after Setencichs resignation, in Halls second season, the Broncos returned to the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs, their first appearance since 1981. Hall lost all six against Idaho and resigned as the Broncos head coach after six seasons, the Broncos turned to Portland State head coach Pokey Allen to lead the Boise State football team after Hall resigned. Under Allen, the Broncos returned to the game in 1994
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National Junior College Athletic Association
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The National Junior College Athletic Association, founded in 1938, is an association of community college and junior college athletic departments throughout the United States. It is divided into divisions and regions, the current NJCAA holds 24 separate regions. The idea for the NJCAA was conceived in 1937 at Fresno, the constitution presented at the charter meeting in Fresno on May 14,1938, was accepted and the National Junior College Athletic Association became a functioning organization. In 1949, the NJCAA was reorganized by dividing the nation into sixteen regions, the officers of the association were the president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, public relations director, and the sixteen regional vice presidents. Each institution belonging to the NJCAA chooses to compete on the Division I, Division II colleges are limited to awarding tuition, fees, course related books, and up to $250 in course required supplies. Division III institutions may provide no athletically related financial assistance, however, NJCAA colleges that do not offer athletic aid may choose to participate at the Division I or II level if they so desire. http, //www. njcaa. They may be home to teams from multiple regions, the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference includes only schools in Kansas. All are members of the conference in other sports, the three Iowa schools play each other and also have a scheduling alliance with the KJCCC. The College of DuPage, the only Illinois school that still has football, harper, Joliet and Grand Rapids all disbanded their football programs. North Dakota State School of Science joined the MCAC, the Minnesota College Athletic Conference, includes schools in Minnesota and North Dakota. All of the Minnesota schools participate in the conference in other sports, North Dakota State School of Science and Dakota College only participate in football. The Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges only includes schools in that state, none of the Louisiana members of Region 23 field a football team. The Northeast JC Football Conference includes schools from regions 15,19 and 21 Lackawanna, the Southwest Junior College Football Conference includes teams from both regions in Texas, Northeastern Oklahoma A&M and New Mexico Military. Western States Football League includes teams from Arizona and Utah, there are also independent schools in regions 2,3,8,10,12,15, and 17. Onondaga Community Colleges football program does not compete in the NJCAA, regions 7,9,16,20,22 and 24 do not have any football programs
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East Mississippi Community College
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East Mississippi Community College, formerly known as East Mississippi Junior College, is a community college in Mississippi. EMCC serves and is supported by Clay, Kemper, Lauderdale, Lowndes, Noxubee, the college has two principal campuses and offers courses at five other locations. One of fifteen community colleges in Mississippi, EMCC is the home of the 2011,2013 and 2014 NJCAA National Championship EMCC Lions Football team. EMCC is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award the Associate of Applied Science degree, the college offers a broad range of academic/university parallel, career-technical and workforce training programs. Community colleges in Mississippi were originally designed to make educational opportunities more accessible for residents of rural areas throughout the state, East Mississippi Community Colleges original campus is located in the Kemper County town of Scooba. It was founded in 1927 following its beginnings 15 years earlier as Kemper County Agricultural High School. The town is adjacent to the Kansas City Southern Railroad, U. S. Route 45, the college owns 287 acres of land,25 of which make up the campus. The central administrative office for all of EMCCs locations is in the Thomas L. Davis Jr, the college maintains six residence halls and thirty cottages on the Scooba Campus which house nearly 600 students. Student residences are air-conditioned and equipped with furniture, cable TV outlets, Wi-Fi, security, gilbert-Anderson Hall, the main residence hall for women, has living accommodations for 170 students. The Womens Honor Residence Hall can house 46 students, assignment to this residence hall requires students to demonstrate, Residence halls for men include Lauderdale Hall, Noxubee Hall and Sullivan Hall. The Mens Honor Residence can house 46 students, assignment to this residence hall requires students to demonstrate, the campus also includes three athletic villages made up of 30 Katrina-style cottages, each housing four or five students, for a combined capacity of 104. New dorm, Due to increasing demand, a new hall for the Scooba campus is currently in the planning stages. The Golden Triangle campus was opened in 1968 and it is located in Mayhew, an unincorporated area in Lowndes County. On 83.46 acres adjacent to the road of Highway 182. The campus is 10 miles east of Starkville,10 miles south of West Point, the Golden Triangle campus of multiple building with more than 200,000 square feet. Also located in the Douglas Building is the Aaron Langston Student Center, Thomas Douglas Annex, This facility includes classrooms, labs, and office space for three career-technical programs, Automotive Technology, Welding and Fabrication and Industrial Maintenance. Math and Science Building, This facility provides classrooms and additional space for faculty, recruiting staff. It contains three science laboratories, which are used concurrently as chemistry, physics and biology classrooms, a 70-seat elevated seminar classroom for larger group instruction is supported by laptop connections
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Tyler Junior College
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Tyler Junior College is a two-year community college in Tyler, Texas, United States. TJC is one of the largest community colleges in Texas, with an enrollment of more than 12,000 credit students each year with an additional 20,000 continuing education enrollments annually and its West Campus includes continuing education and workforce training programs. The College also operates centers in Jacksonville and Lindale. TJC offers Associate in Arts, Associate in Applied Science and Associate of Arts in Teaching degrees, as well as tech prep and certificate programs. The college operated as part of the Tyler public school system from its inception in 1926 until 1945, the junior college district now includes the Tyler, Chapel Hill, Grand Saline, Lindale, Van, and Winona school districts. During the 2016-2017 schoolyear, TJC offered a degree in dental hygiene. Students can choose from approximately fifty groups to join, including a band, drill team. The independently operated Tyler Museum of Art is located on the main campus. Additionally, Wagstaff Gymnasium is home to the TJC Apache volleyball and basketball teams, co-ed dorms include Louise H. & Joseph Z. Ornelas Residential Complex, Wesley House, and Bateman Hall. Vaughn Hall and Hudnall Hall house women, halls for men include Holley Hall, Lewis Hall, Sledge Hall, Claridge Hall, and West Hall. Claridge and Sledge Hall houses members of athletic teams, shea Whigham, actor, portrayed Elias Eli Thompson in the HBO drama series Boardwalk Empire. Derick Armstrong, Canadian football wide receiver who plays for the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League John Harvey - award winning Canadian Football League player, bryan Hughes - Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Wood County since 2003. Charles R. Moore - Methodist minister and civil rights advocate, allen R. Morris - Emmy Award winning producer/director/writer, formerly with KLTV, frequent actor at Tyler Civic Theatre from 1979 to 1990. Davide Somma, Soccer player for Leeds United & South Africa, craig Tiley, CEO of Tennis Australia and Director of the Australian Open Byron M. Tunnel, Texas politician. Mike Easterner, General Manager, Fueled By Ramen/Roadrunner Records, Atlantic Recording Corp, new York City, Jimmy Butler, NBA Player for the Chicago Bulls Dom Dwyer, Soccer Player for Sporting Kansas City Chris Tomlin, Christian Singer Robert Pack, Denver Nuggets Daniel E
