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Lon Morris College
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Lon Morris College is a private junior college located in Jacksonville, Texas, United States, and affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Lon Morris is an accredited two-year institute of higher learning, which provides instruction in the arts and sciences with a core curriculum emphasizing liberal arts. Lon Morris currently teaches approximately 432 students.[1]
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Founded in 1854 as the New Danville Masonic Female Academy near Kilgore, Lon Morris College is the oldest existing two-year college in Texas.[2] In 1873, the academy moved to Kilgore and became property of the Kilgore Methodist Church, changing its name to the Alexander Institute in honor of its president Isaac Alexander, an outstanding early Texas educator.[3]
The Texas Annual Conference acquired the Alexander Institute in 1875. Chartered on January 15, 1887, the Institute moved to Jacksonville in 1894, and to the present location in 1909. After R.A. (Lon) Morris of Pittsburg, Texas, gave his estate to the school, and with approval of the Texas Annual Conference, the school's name was changed once more, in 1924, to Lon Morris College.[4]
The only two-year Methodist college west of the Mississippi River, Lon Morris has held membership in the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools longer than any other two-year college in the Texas, and it is the only surviving pre-Civil War school in East Texas.[5]
Lon Morris College is widely known for its Theatre Arts Department, which boasts many successful alumni including:
- Sandy Duncan;
- Margo Martindale;
- Tommy Tune;
- Edwin Neal, an American actor, best known for his role in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974); and
- Alan Tudyk, an American stage, film, and television actor
Other notable Lon Morris alumni include:
- John Wesley Hardt, a retired American Bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1980;
- Johnny Horton (April 30, 1925 – November 5, 1960), an American country music singer;
- Neal McCoy, an award-winning American country music artist; and
- K.T. Oslin
- ^ Lon Morris College, Texas Mentor (XAP Corp. 1999-2006).[1]
- ^ Hudson, A., "Jacksonville," Handbook of Texas Online (Texas State Historical Association, June 6, 2001).[2]
- ^ Snodgrass, C., "Alexander, Isaac," Handbook of Texas Online (Texas State Historical Association, June 6, 2001).[3]
- ^ LMC History (Lon Morris College, 2004).[4]
- ^ LMC History, supra.
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