Key dates in MC’s history

1819 – MC founded as the Southern and Western Theological Seminary

1825 – First class graduates from MC

1842 – “Maryville College” receives official charter

1845 – J.G. Wallace receives the College’s first printed diploma

1857 – Rev. John Joseph Robinson inaugurated as the second president of MC

1866 – MC reopened under the direction of Thomas Jefferson Lamar

1867 – MC’s first female students enroll

1868 – Classes move to present-day campus

1887 – Dr. Peter Mason Bartlett inaugurated as MC’s third president

1870 – Anderson Hall completed

1871 – Maryville College Alumni Association organized

1871 – Baldwin and Memorial residential halls completed

1875 – MC becomes the first college in Tennessee to award a bachelor’s degree to a woman, Mary Wilson

1876 – Crawford House completed

1876 – MC’s first baseball team organized

1877 – First February Meetings held

1880 – MC’s first African American alumnus, William H. Franklin, graduates

1881 – MC campus enlarged to 250 acres (including the College Woods)

1888 – Samuel Tyndale Wilson Center for Campus Ministry completed

1888 – MC’s first football team organized

1889 – Dr. Samuel Boardman becomes fourth president of MC

1890 – MC Athletic Association formed

1890 – Willard House completed

1891 – Orange and garnet adopted as school’s official colors

1898 – Bartlett Hall dedicated

1898 – Fayerweather Hall completed

1901 – Dr. Samuel Tyndale Wilson inaugurated as MC’s fifth president

1906 – Elizabeth Voorhees Chapel completed

1906 – Alexander House completed

1910 – Pearsons Hall completed

1910 – Ralph Max Lamar Memorial Hospital/International House completed

1910 – Carnegie Hall completed

1917 – The House in the Woods completed

1917 – Vesper Choir organized

1919 – MC’s centennial celebration

1922 – MC receives official accreditation the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.

1922 – Thaw Hall completed

1923 – Alumni Gym completed

1930 – Dr. Ralph Waldo Lloyd inaugurated as MC’s sixth president

1932 – MC approved by the Association of American Universities

1932 – Morningside/RT Lodge completed

1942 – MC elected as a liberal arts college member of the National Association of Schools of Music

1942 – MC elected an institutional member of the American Association of University Women

1947 – New curriculum, including “Special Studies” requirement, introduced

1950 – Fine Arts Center completed

1952 – Honaker Field completed

1954 – Samuel Tyndale Wilson Chapel completed

1954 – U.S. Supreme Court declared school segregation laws unconstitutional; MC resumes its former integration policy

1960 – Nancy Smith Wright, the first African-American student to graduate from MC since 1898, received her diploma

1961 – Dr. Joseph J. Copeland inaugurated as MC’s seventh president

1966 – Davis Hall completed

1966 – Gamble Hall completed

1966 – Copeland Hall completed

1968 – Sutton Science Center completed

1969 – MC’s sesquicentennial celebration

1977 – Dr. Wayne Anderson inaugurated as MC’s eighth president

1987 – Dr. Richard Ferrin inaugurated as MC’s ninth president

1993 – Dr. Gerald Gibson inaugurated as MC’s tenth president

1993 – Thornton Stadium completed

1994 – Cooper Athletic Center dedicated

1997 – Beeson Village completed and dedicated

2000 – Renovations completed on Bartlett Hall; building becomes student center

2003 – Lloyd Hall completed

2008 – Gibson Hall completed

2010 – Clayton Center for the Arts completed

2011 – Dr. William T. Bogart inaugurated as MC’s 11th president

2014 – Maryville College Works career preparation program launched

2016 – Dr. Mary Kay Sullivan named first female chairman of the Board of Directors

2015 – Comprehensive renovation of Anderson Hall completed

2017 – College announces receipt of $15 million from the estate of Dan ’40 and Elaine McGill

2020 – Dr. Bryan F. Coker inaugurated as MC’s 12th president