1960

No precedents for the President's wife; Mrs. Rushing will set college traditions.

Priscilla Doctor is all set to be a pioneer; the first Seminole girl from Dania Reservation to enroll at Junior College of Broward County when classes start in September.

Grady Drake is building a college library from scratch.

Texan charges into college job (President Rushes to Build Jr. College in Four Months).

Personalized education is the key to a successful junior college.

Mrs. Emery Authier starts College after 38 years and plans to major in a foreign language and has hopes of teaching in an elementary school.

Because of the rapid growth of the college during the 1960s and 1970s, groundbreaking was a common occurrence. In this picture, from left to right, trustees George Mayer, Jules J. Polachek, Judson A. Samuels, and Sheldon Schlesinger do the spadework.

Dr. Elzie Lauderdale, a Mississippian, was BCC's first dean of instruction and helped establish the emphasis on academic excellence. When he called Mildred Bailey Mullikin in May 1960 to recruit her to head the drama department at the college, Mullikin's mother took the call. "Who is Dr. Lauderdale in Fort Lauderdale?" she asked her daughter. Dr. Lauderdale encouraged Mullikin and her mother to visit Fort Lauderdale. "Needless to say," Mullikin wrote years later, "I fell head over heels in love with Fort Lauderdale."

With 28 faculty members, the college opened to its first class of 701 students at the Naval Air Station Junior High buildings on the western edge of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. Classes there were conducted from 1960 to 1963.

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