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Template:Seventh-day Adventism Southern Adventist University is a private Seventh-day Adventist university in Collegedale, Tennessee. It is owned and operated by the Southern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. It was founded in 1892 in Graysville, Tennessee, as Graysville Academy and was the first Adventist school in the southern U.S. Due to the need for additional space for expansion the school relocated in 1916 and was renamed Southern Junior College. In 1944, Southern began awarding baccalaureate degrees and was renamed Southern Missionary College. In 1996 the institution started conferring master's degrees and adopted its current name.

Southern Adventist University campus in 2025

Southern offers associate, baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral degrees.<ref name="USNews"/> The university and its programs are accredited by multiple organizations including the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Its Institute of Archaeology offers an undergraduate degree in biblical archaeology; Southern is one of only two schools which offer the degree. It is known for its emphasis on Adventist beliefs and conservative religious and social practices,<ref name=sptm08-07-02>Template:Cite news</ref> and is considered the most conservative of the Seventh-day Adventist schools in North America.<ref name="NAD-southern-most-conservative">Template:Cite web</ref> The college operates a radio station (WSMC-FM), a health food store and a wellness center. Enrollment was 3,053 students in 2010, its highest level to date.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

History

Southern's roots stem from the establishment of Graysville Academy in Graysville, Tennessee, in 1892,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> in a part of the South much affected by the American Civil War. The area saw the battle of Chickamauga and the Chattanooga campaign, and was the staging ground for Sherman's Atlanta campaign.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The academy was privately funded at first, with no financial support from the Adventist church.<ref name="pettibone">Pettibone, Dennis (1992) A Century of Challenge: The Story of Southern College 1892–1992, pp. 9–60</ref> In 1897 it was renamed the Southern Industrial School and then Southern Training School in 1901. The school moved to the community of Thatcher's Switch in 1916, renaming it Collegedale.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book </ref> In 1943, Kenneth A. Wright became president of the school.<ref>Template:Cite journalTemplate:Dead link</ref> During Wright's administration, Southern Junior College became accredited as a four-year college.<ref>Template:Cite journalTemplate:Dead link</ref> A new name, Southern Missionary College, was adopted in 1944, and Southern granted its first baccalaureate degrees two years later.<ref>Template:Cite journalTemplate:Dead link</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> When the school became a university in 1996, the trustees voted on a new name: Southern Adventist University.<ref>Template:Cite journalTemplate:Dead link</ref>

Graysville Academy, 1892–1897

Graysville Academy, 1895

The Graysville Seventh-day Adventist Church was organized on September 8, 1888, and by the fall of 1890, the members had dedicated a church building. R.M. Kilgore, former president of the Illinois Conference had been asked to supervise the church's work in the Southern United States. He had just moved to Graysville and was present for the church dedication.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> As the superintendent for the church's work in the South, Kilgore repeatedly advocated the establishment of a school.

Kilgore invited George W. Colcord (1843–1902),<ref>Template:Cite journalTemplate:Dead link</ref> to come to Graysville and establish a school. Colcord was the founder of Milton Academy, which is the forerunner of Walla Walla University.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The General Conference Education Secretary, W. W. Prescott, along with Kilgore and Colcord worked together to establish the school at Graysville. Colcord and his wife Ada began the school. The first term began in February, 1892, with 23 students. The second term began in September of that year. By January 1893 Colcord reported that 62 students were in attendance. By 1893 there were three full-time teachers and three part-time teachers. Prescott considered the positive attitude of the school's faculty, students and supporters to be indicators of the school's future success and good reason to start other such schools in the South.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>

During 1892, Colcord operated the school privately. Then, at the session of the Seventh-day Adventist General Conference held at Battle Creek, Michigan, February 17 to March 6, 1893, the church officially took over the school. This first school in the South inspired the session to recommend that other schools also be established.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>

In the Fall of 1894, Graysville Academy faced a crisis. Fourteen of the members of the Graysville Church were indicted for having violated the Tennessee Sunday law. This included Colcord, his nephew, I. C. Colcord, and M. C. Sturdevant, manager of the boys' dormitory.<ref>Template:Cite journalTemplate:Dead link</ref>

The church members found guilty refused to pay the fines, choosing to go to prison instead. The imprisonment of the school's leaders resulted in its immediate closing for the rest of the year. The students, some of whom were ready to graduate, returned to their homes.<ref>Template:Cite journalp.2</ref>

Southern Industrial School, 1897–1901

In November 1897, the district conference voted to change the school's name to Southern Industrial School. The name change reflected a change in the school's emphasis. Industries were established including a wagon and blacksmith shop, a broom shop, a printshop and a school farm. The farm grew peaches, pears and many types of berries and vegetables.<ref>Template:Cite journalTemplate:Dead link</ref>

Southern Training School, 1901–1916

The Southern Union Conference was organized in April 1901. Kilgore, the superintendent of the Southern District, known as District 2, was elected the first president of the Southern Union Conference. The headquarters was in Graysville. The General Conference arranged for the Southern Union to take over the operation of the Southern Industrial School. The property was transferred to the Southern Union. They renamed the school the Southern Training School. It offered 14 grades of instruction.<ref>Template:Cite journal p.18</ref>

Southern Junior College, 1916–1945

Relocation

Southern Junior College in 1942 on its site at Collegedale in the Tennessee River Valley

Eventually the Graysville school outgrew its Template:Convert site. Church leaders looked for a larger plot of land. They believed "that the only education worth while in these strenuous days is that practical kind which teaches the student to actually do with his hand the things he learns about in books."<ref name = "Wood" /> To provide for this practical concern, they found a larger property. Plans were made to relocate the college program to a Template:Convert farm<ref name = "Wood" >Template:Cite journalTemplate:Dead link</ref> at Thatcher's Switch east of Chattanooga. The move from Graysville to Thatcher's Switch involved moving most of the school's equipment, livestock, and implements to the new site fifty miles away. The school moved and opened in its new location by October, 1916. The community was soon renamed Collegedale and the school as Southern Junior College. The term training school had become associated with reform schools while at the same time the junior college designation had become a popular one.<ref>Template:Cite journalTemplate:Dead link</ref>

Graysville Academy continued on at the original site as a church and conference-sponsored secondary boarding academy until 1938.<ref>Template:Cite journalTemplate:Dead link</ref>

Pioneer years

In 1916, the school's property holdings totaled $32,000. Two years later, due mainly to the construction of additional buildings on campus, the school's holdings increased to $113,000. Many students earned their tuition by helping to construct these buildings. Southern was financially supported by two union conferences of the Church's North American administration. The school organized construction bees. Interested church members came from across the South to help in these bees.<ref name = "Wood" /><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

At first, the school taught only students in grades 1–12 with a total enrollment of 59 students. In 1918, three students were taking post-high school level classes. The total student enrollment at this time was 175.<ref>Template:CitationTemplate:Dead link</ref><ref>Template:CitationTemplate:Dead link</ref>

Southern Junior College served two union conferences of Seventh-day Adventists, the Southern and the Southeastern. Later these two would be reorganized into one, the Southern Union Conference. In 1920, Lynn H. Wood, the president of the college, presented a major report to meetings for both union conferences. He reviewed the events of the first four years at the Ooltewah location.<ref name = "Wood" />

According to Wood, enrollment grew quickly because of a tuition work program. Students of limited means realized they could get an education and improve themselves.<ref name = "Wood" /> This put a strain on housing. But the desire for an education motivated the students to cope with those early inadequate facilities, "Students have been willing to live in shacks and tents, to put up with all kinds of inconvenience, in order that they might receive the character development that the school had for them." Wood referred to these first few years as the "pioneer years." He wrote that the positive spiritual attitude of the students made these years the most enjoyable that one could wish for.<ref name = "Wood" />

The college built the girls' dormitory first. The girls moved in before it was finished, even before there was any heating, doors or chairs. They used "curtains for doors, sat upon their trunks for chairs — any way to get along."<ref name = "Wood" />

Faith community support

The building of the boys' dormitory began in the summer of 1918. The students helped build it, and, in doing so, many earned their way through school. Shortly after the beginning of the school year in 1918, a "Workers' Bee" took place. Church workers from all across the South and from church headquarters in Washington, D.C. came to the college to build the boys' dormitory. For two and a half weeks they worked and associated with the students. They succeeded in putting up most of the framework.<ref name = "Wood" />

Other help from the Adventist faith community included a $6,000 donation by the Southern Publishing Association for a water supply system and another "Working Bee" to build a large dairy barn, a blacksmith shop, and a corn crib. People interested in the college's success bought surrounding properties and donated them to the institution, more than doubling the school's area to close to Template:Convert. This allowed the school to protect itself from families moving so close that they hindered their young people attending from learning some independence, President Wood wrote. He encouraged families to send their young people to the school, and if the cost was too high for some of them, he advised that church leaders make sure they got the help they needed for their young people to attend and live in the dormitory.<ref name = "Wood"/>

Southern Missionary College, 1944–1982

Wright Hall, the administrative building of Southern Missionary College, was completed in 1967

In 1944, the Seventh Day Adventist General Conference Spring Council voted for Southern to become a four-year college. The enrollment that first year was the highest ever to date, 436 students. The theology, teaching and pre-nursing departments had the highest enrollments. Industries that helped students earn their tuition included a wood shop, a broom factory, a printing press, and a farm. The name Southern Missionary College was chosen at a combined meeting of the members of the college board, the union educational board, and the college faculty.<ref>Template:Cite journalTemplate:Dead link</ref>

Southern College of Seventh-day Adventists, 1982–1996

On July 1, 1982, the word "Missionary" was dropped from the school's name. The reported reasons for the change were that the general population reacted negatively to the term; foreign countries resisted accepting church workers who were from a "missionary" college; the name incorrectly identified the school as only a Bible college, rather than a fully accredited, four-year liberal arts institution; and, graduates found the name "missionary" made it more difficult for them to get a job. Southern was the last Adventist college in North America to retain "missionary" in its title. The others changed their names many years earlier.<ref>"SMC to change name" (1982), p. 23</ref>

In their official announcement of the name change, the Board of Trustees of Southern Missionary College explained that a shorter name would help popularize it. They also stated that, "The word 'Southern' has been associated with the College since its beginning—Southern Industrial School, Southern Training School, Southern Junior College, Southern Missionary College, and now Southern College."<ref>Template:Cite journalTemplate:Dead link</ref>

Early 1980s controversy

Southern College found itself drawn into a wider church controversies involving Desmond Ford who was dismissed from ministry in the Adventist church in 1980, and Walter Rae, and Ronald Numbers' book, The Prophetess of Health. It began after a visit to the campus by a leading Bible scholar and theologian of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Edward Heppenstall, on his understanding of the church's "investigative judgment" teaching, and who was also mentor to Desmond Ford.<ref>Knight, George R. A Search for Identity: the Development of Seventh-day Adventist Beliefs, Review and Herald Pub. Assoc. (2000), pp.171–175.</ref> Then grew when a teacher from the theology department made a comment that seemed to disagree with statements made by church pioneer Ellen G. White.<ref name="SpectrumReport">Template:Cite journal The teacher stated he was "aware of no scientific proof that masturbation caused some of the more extreme effects suggested by Ellen White in her book, A Solemn Appeal."</ref> The incident along with other concerns led to accusations that faculty at the school did not believe in White as a prophet and led to calls for their dismissal.<ref name="SpectrumReport"/> Southern President Frank Knittel and Board of Trustees member Tom Zwemer resigned, and<ref name="SpectrumReport"/> Jerry Gladson, a professor of Old Testament Studies at Southern, also left the school. His credentials as a minister of the church were not renewed.<ref name="jiforum"/><ref>"War of Cultures at Southern College" Adventist Today, November–December 1995, pp. 6–13. Retrieved 2011-11-09. Knittel, Gladson, et al., discuss the events of the 1980s.</ref>

Southern Adventist University, 2011

Southern Adventist University, 1996–present

In May 1996, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools granted approval for Southern to become an accredited Level III institution, allowing the school to confer master's degrees. By September of that year, the college's constituency approved the name change to Southern Adventist University. In 1996, attendance was 1600.<ref>Template:Cite journalTemplate:Dead link</ref> Since 1996, Southern has continued to grow and build, reaching a peak enrollment of 3,053 in 2010 (compared with 2,079 in 1980).<ref>Pettibone, D. (1992), last endpaper, in chart section "Events in School History"</ref>

Academics

Wright Hall at Southern Adventist University in 2015

The student-faculty ratio at Southern Adventist University is 16:1 and its most selected majors are biological and biomedical sciences; business, management, marketing, and related support services; education; and health professions and related clinical sciences.<ref name="USNews" /> Southern offers 81 undergraduate degrees, with sixty majors, thirty-eight minors and two one-year certificate programs. It also offers master's degrees in business, computer science, education, psychology, nursing, religion and social work.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The university is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and the Accrediting Association of Seventh-day Adventist Schools, Colleges, and Universities.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2009, the Princeton Review, an education services company, selected Southern as one of 141 institutions it listed in its "Best in the Southeast" section.<ref name="sptm08-07-02" /><ref name="wdef2009">Template:Citation</ref>

School of Nursing

Florida Hospital Hall houses the School of Nursing

The nursing program was instituted in 1934. Upon completion of the program students were able to transfer to Florida Sanitarium and Hospital, where they could earn a diploma in nursing.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 1963, Southern's President Rees announced that the school's nursing program had received its Bachelor of Science National League of Nursing accreditation.<ref>"SMC Nursing Accredited"Template:Dead link. Southern Tidings, March 13, 1963, p. 4</ref> In 2002, the master's program also received official accreditation.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Southern's School of Nursing has existed on the Collegedale campus since 1956.<ref>Herin, Mazie A. (July 10, 1957) "Nursing and College: Southern Missionary College Offers Both"Template:Dead link Southern Tidings, pp.11–12. Retrieved 2011-11-09.</ref><ref>(Summer 2002) "The School of Nursing receives international honor society charter induction" Columns, The Magazine of Southern Adventist University, p.26. Retrieved 2011-11-09.</ref>

In 2003, the school announced an accelerated program allowing registered nurses with an associate's degree to receive a Master of Science in Nursing. At this date approximately half of Southern's nursing graduate program were non-Adventist.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In December 2010, the college temporarily suspended a home health nursing program after two of its nursing students were accosted at gunpoint in Chattanooga. The school is considering a safer, more controlled environment for the program.<ref name=nursing>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2011, the university opened Florida Hospital Hall, a new building with twice the space of the former nursing building, to accommodate an expanding student base.<ref>Campbell, Hannah (January 5, 2011) Template:Cite web</ref>

Institute of Archaeology

The Institute of Archaeology is part of the School of Religion. It coordinates the archaeological programs at Southern through an undergraduate degree, an archeological museum,<ref name="Cooper">Cooper, Clint (February 23, 2008) "Wood Archaeological Museum at Southern Adventist University adds clay goddess figurine" Template:Webarchive Chattanooga Times Free Press. Retrieved 2011-05-31.</ref> the William G. Dever Research Library and its archaeological excavations and publications.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Southern is one of two schools in the U.S. where students can pursue an undergraduate degree in biblical archaeology.<ref name="Cooper"/> The Lynn H. Wood Archaeological Museum has a collection of nearly 600 artifacts, many of which were unearthed in Palestine between 1967 and 1975.<ref name="Cooper"/>

The current Institute Director, Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Archaeology Michael Hasel, studied for his doctorate under William G. Dever at the University of Arizona. In 2000,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Dever gave his artifact collection in loan to Hasel and Southern. This made the development of Southern's program possible. The artifacts, valued at $250,000, date from 3200 BC to 450 AD. The collection has an almost complete set of the many strains of pottery from this period which students can study.<ref name="Cooper"/> In 2008, Dever placed his personal library at Southern, along with 15,000 photographic slides of archaeological excavations.<ref name="Cooper"/>

School of Visual Art and Design

Wayne and Maria Hazen founded the School of Visual Art and Design in 1998. The film department produced Angel in Chains in 2003,<ref>Oliver, Ansel (August 5, 2003) Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Land, Gary (2005) Template:Cite book p.26. Accessed 2011-11-09.</ref> a film "based on a true story about acceptance and forgiveness."<ref>"Happenings" column (February 24, 2004) Template:Cite web</ref> In 2007, Southern released Secret of the Cave, a feature film which was awarded a Crystal Heart Award at the Heartland Film Festival in Indiana. The family-oriented feature was filmed in Ireland and was the first feature-length film produced at the university.<ref>Byrd, Alita (February 12, 2008) Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Herrington, Angie (September 7th, 2007) Template:Cite web</ref> The school offers degrees in graphic design, animation, film production and fine art.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

McKee Library

Page from Life of Abraham Lincoln by J. L. Scripps

The McKee Library is located on the campus and opened in 1970. Its collection of books and media comprises approximately 165,000 volumes on the shelves, 25,000 electronic books, subscriptions to more than 880 print and electronic periodicals and access to more than 19,000 electronic journals. The library is defined by the Thomas Memorial Collection, a major Civil War collection with more than 3,600 volumes concerning Lincoln and the Civil War, and authentic photos and newspapers. The Collection has two original copies of the only Lincoln biography ever read and approved by him, the Life of Abraham Lincoln by J. L. Scripps, and a section of his original marble sarcophagus.<ref>Template:Cite journalTemplate:Dead link</ref>

Ideology

Southern is known for its religious and social conservatism,<ref name=sptm08-07-02/> and it is widely regarded as the most conservative of denominationally owned Adventist colleges in North America.<ref name="NAD-southern-most-conservative"/> In 2001, Adventist noted theologian and scholar Raymond Cottrell, a "progressive Adventist",<ref>Template:Cite journal "Throughout his life Ray was a remarkable thought leader in our denomination. It is usual to be productive in one's prime years, but consider Ray's accomplishments both early and late in his long career. In his 30s, teaching Bible at PUC, he became one of the first Adventist theologians to join a scholarly religious society; and simultaneously, he cofounded the first Adventist Biblical research fellowship, an association that evolved into the current Biblical Research Institute at the General Conference. After formal retirement, in his 70s, Ray advocated the need for a judicial branch of church governance. In his 80s he argued for relative autonomy for the General Conference Divisions in our increasingly diverse world church. And then, just last year (2002), he courageously called for progress beyond our dated sanctuary doctrine. Was Ray right in all these progressive positions? I suggest that question misses the larger issue. The point is that Ray epitomized the spirit of Adventism and its fearless pioneers in conscientiously advocating what he saw as vital and true." p. 10. (emphasis added)</ref> wrote that Southern operated "an agency of Southern Bible belt obscurantism."<ref name="jiforum">Template:Cite web</ref>

In explaining why he placed his collection of artifacts and his personal library at Southern Adventist University, archaeologist William Dever said, "The major support for archaeology work in Israel and Jordan comes from conservative and evangelical circles where the Bible is still taken seriously and no one is more serious and committed about archaeological study in the Middle East than Adventists."<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Student life

Template:See also The Princeton Review describes Southern as a "religiously loving environment."<ref name=wdef2009/> Most forms of jewelry are not allowed on campus, other than engagement rings, and students may be fined for not complying with this policy.<ref>Template:Citation</ref> Southern is a dry campus,<ref name="al">Template:Cite magazine</ref> as the Adventist Church opposes the use of alcohol.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The university observes the Sabbath from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday and students are expected to refrain from secular activities during these hours.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>

Although Southern does not have fraternities or sororities,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="usnewsstudentlife"/> there are 40 clubs on campus,<ref name="usnewsstudentlife">Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> one of which is a chapter of the Adventist Forum, publisher of Spectrum Magazine.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The Southern Accent is a weekly student-run newspaper that has been the voice of Southern students since 1926 and gives information on events and outings and "hot issues that are being talked about on campus".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> There are 21 student-led ministries on campus and in the community and a Student Missions program.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Southern has more than Template:Convert of hiking/mountain biking trails used by students and local community members alike.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

There is a campus-wide internet network with all classrooms accessing the wireless network and a computer lab in each building with access to printing. Wireless printing is also accessible in the dormitories.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Dormitories

Thatcher Hall

Southern's dormitories are single gender although students can opt out of the dormitories during summer sessions or with permission from a dean. Upperclass and married students can receive exemptions from this policy.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The men's dormitory is Talge Hall and the women's dormitory is Thatcher Hall.<ref>Template:Cite web </ref> An accidental fire in Thatcher Hall in April 2005 killed one student and injured two others.<ref>"Fire Ruled Accidental In Which Southern Adventist Student Died" Template:Webarchive, The Chattanoogan, April 26, 2005. Retrieved 2011-11-09.</ref> The dormitories have also been used to shelter storm victims who needed short-term housing, such as after tornadoes in early 2011.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>

WSMC-FM radio station

Template:Main Southern owns and operates FM radio station WSMC which is almost completely staffed by students and the only classical music station in the Chattanooga area. In 2003, following technical problems that caused the station to keep dropping off the air, WSMC upgraded equipment to improve its reliability.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> It has been in operation since 1961 and is located on campus.<ref name="simms">Template:Citation</ref>

McKee Foods

Ruth McKee School of Business under construction

McKee Foods has its headquarters beside the campus and has been an important part of school history as one of the companies which have provided jobs within walking distance for students to fund their education. It was founded by a Southern alumnus and is the headquarters for Little Debbie, Sovex and Sunbelt products. McKee Foods is one of the largest employers in Hamilton County.<ref>City of Collegedale website Template:Webarchive Accessed 2011-06-01.</ref><ref>Collegedale Police Department Template:Webarchive Accessed 2011-06-01</ref> In 2023, Southern began construction on the $20 million Ruth McKee School of Business at the main entrance to campus. The complex is named after McKee Foods' co-founder.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

People

Principals, presidents

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Graysville Academy, 1892–1897
  • G. W. Colcord (1892–1895)
  • W. T. Bland (1896–1898)
Southern Industrial School, 1897-1901
  • Charles W. Irwin (1899–1900)
  • N. W. Lawrence (1901)
Southern Training School, 1901–1916
  • J. Ellis Tenney (1902–1905)
  • M. B. Van Kirk (1906–1911)
  • C. L. Stone (1912–1913)
  • Lynn H. Wood (1914)
  • A. N. Atteberry (1915)
Southern Junior College, 1917-1945
  • Leo F. Thiel (1916–1917)
  • Lynn H. Wood (1918–1921)
  • Leo F. Thiel (1922–1924)
  • H. H. Hamilton (1925)
  • Marion E. Cady (1926)
  • Henry J. Klooster (1927–1936)
  • John C. Thompson (1937–1941)
  • Denton E. Rebok (1942)
Southern Missionary College, 1946–1982
  • Kenneth A. Wright (1943–1954)
  • Thomas W. Walters (1955–1957)
  • Conard N. Rees (1958–1966)
  • Wilbert Schneider (1967–1970)
  • Frank A. Knittel (1971–1982)
Southern College of Seventh-day Adventists, 1983–1996
  • John Wagner (1983–1985)
Southern Adventist University, 1997–Present
  • Donald R. Sahly (1986–1997)<ref>Pettibone (1992). Dates of terms are from charts on front and back endpapers.</ref>
  • Gordon Bietz (1998–2016)
  • David Smith (2016–2021)
  • Ken Shaw (2021–Present)

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Notable alumni

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