Smyrna "First Sunday" Lecture: 'History of KSU'

FIRST SUNDAY LECTURE

"History of Kennesaw State University"
Sunday, March 2, 2014
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Smyrna Public Library, Meeting Room

Speaker: Thomas Allan Scott, Professor Emeritus, Kennesaw State University

Thomas Allan Scott, author of the much-praised “Cobb County, Georgia and the Origins of the Suburban South,” (2003), will tell us about his newest work “Kennesaw State University: The First Fifty Years, 1963-2013,” which appeared last year to mark the 50th anniversary of the premier educational institution in North Georgia. Dr. Scott retired from KSU in 2011 after 43 teaching history there. He was a witness and participant in much of KSU’s fascinating history. As journalist-historian Joe Kirby wrote in a recent review of Professor Scott’s history, “the future college was plunked down in a north Cobb corn field as part of a political compromise years before anyone knew the busiest interstate in the country would one day run past its front door. Today, KSU ranks as the third largest college in the Georgia university system, with an enrollment of some 25,000 students.

The "First Sunday" lecture series is held in the Smyrna Public Library Meeting Room and is sponsored by the Friends of Smyrna Library.